Posts by Amorous Cowherder

AGE OF REASON by Thomas Paine

Science has principles and those principles are in nature and always have been, they may not be obvious but they are there to be found when we're ready to find them. Man nor God invented these scientific principles, they are simply an aspect of the nature of the vast universe.

He wrote that in 1793, when you could still get a severe beating for being an atheist.

Paine also wrote that God must be a complete moron if the best he could come up was that out of the entire universe he sent his only son to planet Earth to get beaten up, mocked and executed just for the benefit of making his presence felt!

Re: DES was broken way back.

"SO THIS IS NOT NEW NEWS YOU ALL NEED TO WALK UP!"

I do "walk up", I do about 5 miles before breakfast and about 5 miles through-out the day as I don't trust lifts and escalators!

What a crock of shit!

I have just over 350GB of music, all dumped from CDs to 320Kb MP3s, stuff from Beethoven, through Rush, Motorhead, right up to full on Cannibal Corpse death metal and black metal's Arcturus and Emperor. I still go out and see young bands in clubs, despite being old enough to be their Dad most of the time!

Stop all this fecking bullshit about "modern music being shite", it's not! There are a lot of very good young bands in the fringe music genres that are very heavily influenced by older bands and artists. I can only speak on behalf of my favourite genre Metal but I see so many young bands who are open about the influences from the older acts from Rush, Iron Maiden, Motorhead, Saxon, Judas Priest, Metallica, Anthrax, Cannibal Corpse, Slayer. I've heard bands from China, Russia, Argentina, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, the UK, US and from all over Europe that can do a mean Judas Priest cover one minute then shred like thrash demons the next.

About 10 years ago I got very disillusioned about where my music was going, until a mate of mine forced me out and off my arse back to the clubs where I'd spent my youth listening to late 80's thrash and death metal bands. As a pair of old gits we've found so much great music from going out and finding new music being played by kids with nothing but passion to drive them, you know you're getting the real deal not some sliced and diced label cooked nonsense. I've been to gigs where the band have had their parents standing by the bar because they're not allowed to be in the venue without supervision! They played their nuts off for a couple of quid that barely paid for Dad to run them to the gig but by Christ they made it worthwhile and hopefully picked up a few new fans.

I've been to band websites where the band have said you can download the album for free but if you could spare a few quid it would be appreciated, so I listened to one track and if I like it rather than take the piss I paid up a fiver for the album so they know all the hard work is worthwhile.

There is music out there, lots of great music and I'm proud that my couple of quid on the door of some club might not pay for anything tangible in terms of petrol or strings for the bands, it does at least let them know that there are people out here who do care for young bands and want to see them keep the music alive and hopefully that will spur them on.

Re: "most likely be configured to perform boring, tricky tasks like parking"

"Volvo have recently shown off a car which will drop the humans off at the entrance to a multi-storey car park, then drive in and find itself an empty space."

' Now everyone remember where we p....oh right. Ermmm...right you go with John and Lisa and I'll go with Claire, we'll meet back here in an hour if you can't find it, everyone got everyone else's number? '

Car parks of tomorrow full of lost souls endless searching for their cars, while their cars keep moving around!

Re: That's because men are men in Russia

I have a Samsung so I couldn't care much about Apple, what I do care about is us having customer choice.

Everyone cheering this as a victory over Apple, well today's underdog quickly becomes tomorrow's hated monopoly.

Re: Perspective, please

Because VISA et al, a private companies that offer to sell ( get that word? ) you a service. You want to use VISA services, you pay them a "kickback" fee for being able to be paid quickly and easily. As a customer of a company, the company ( VISA ) have every right to refuse to sell or offer you their services.

Same as if I go in the local TESCO, it's private property, private company they have every right to refuse to me service and can if they like have me ejected for tresspass if they feel so inclined. It would be bad PR if I've done nothing wrong but they have every right to do it.

For the record, yes it reeks of pressure from some "globalised" higher authority who are trying to get VISA to do their dirty work rather than come out in the open and get these services shut down, if that's their ultimate goal.

Re: Cardington

I've been inside, one of my many geeky claims to fame! ( No there is no alien technology inside, well not that we saw. )

When I was a cub-scout with the Shortstown pack back in the early 1980's. There was only about 15 of us and we got shown around the hangers for about 2 hours one evening. They had a full size 3 bedroom house built inside for testing fire alarms or something or other and it still looked absolutely tiny inside the huge hangers. They also showed us all the barrage/weather balloons and the new breed of airships they were working on at the time. Very cool for us kids who lived in the shadow of those hangers for many years.

Re: Er...

Threat to world peace? Nah, but I bet there are some IT techs and their managers in DPRK that are absolutely cacking bricks right now at the thought of spending the next 10 years down the salt mines!

Re: Bottom line? Pay fscking attention!

Good for you, it's good to see a nice story of success in life.

If I've learned one thing in life, nothing is certain. Life has more curved balls than a Yankees game. Balance is the key to life, save and invest, make a nest egg but not so much that you don't enjoy life and suffer in the hopes of reaching a goal that may never come. My Mum and Dad worked their arses off for years, got themselves some good pensions. My Mum retired when she was 60 and my Dad when we was 62. 18 months later my Mum tripped, broke her leg, blood clot to the brain and dead inside 12 hours. My Dad utterly devastated with the loss of my Mum, all the retirement plans gone in an instant, they had so little time to enjoy their retirement.

Life is like that...

Re: Surprise!

"The article doesn't state that this exploit is limited to chrome on windows, though it most certainly won't work on my Mac. (Because chrome isn't available for it.)"

Oh yeah? Strange as I when I wander along to the official Chrome download link via Safari it seems to recognise my Hackintosh box and offers me the latest version of Chrome of OSX!

Re: Too bloody right!

"put a watermark on it if you want to hoard it, you image miser!"

I see, it's the victim's fault. You mean like the classic, "She shouldn't have worn that short skirt!" defence?

Re: They're a real danger

The sort who think TV shows with gun violence are OK, especially reports showing kids of 8 down the local gun club blowing holes in targets, but show a nipple ( male or female! ) or a naked arse crack and someone blows a fuse and next thing there's a debate in the country's parliament about filth being shown to minors!

Re: Not yet

I have a rooted Wii games on a USB HDD so the kids don't wreck the DVDs ( kids and DVD discs, don't mix very well! ) I never even bothered looking to see what emus were about, stick Wii/MAME on my list of things to do for a quiet Saturday afternoon!

Re: @ MacDiamond Gang Clothes? Seriously?

We had been stupid enough to leave the old satnav ring on the windscreen in our old car, needless to say it got done. Funny thing was the scumbags raked through the glovebox they nicked..

SatNav stem

SatNav 12v cable

And...a 15 year old pair binoculors in a PVC pouch that looked exactly the right size for the TomTom unit! We never left the SatNav in the car, only took it out on days out or holidays.

Would have loved to have been there when they opened up that little bag and found a knackered old pair of bins worth about £1.50!

"Give me a fair alternative..."

Excuse me?! iTunes, 70p for an MP3 track ain't exactly daylight robbery and believe it or not people do actually like to be paid for working! You're not paying for the film or the music, you're paying for the hard work that's gone into making it. So if a mechanic fixes your car, would you say, "Fuck you, I ain't paying!" and drive off?

Re: Baby steps

Yep, next thing fine-art photo websites with male and female nudes, that includes the Royal Photographic Society showcase pages, DeviantArt, 1x.com, all perfectly valid photography art sites but some prude with the blocking app on their PC at UK Gov HQ will no doubt deem the merest hint of a naked body to be porn and that's that!

Going to be just like the US, your kids can see all the beatings and shootings ( no blood of course! ) they like on pre-9pm TV but one flash of an inner-thigh or a nipple at any time, anywhere and all hell breaks lose!