Posts by Mark 85

But then certain corporations and "advisors" wouldn't make some pretty big money off the elections.

Re: A place in history

Wish I could upvote this more than once. You've nailed the problem with the entire US space program. On second thought, it's not just the space program but just about every facet of life today.

Here in the States, since there isn't choice in broadband services. The majors had already cut things up into nice chunks for themselves. Now they're sucking up the content providers. This will lead to fragmented content such that if you want content from Company A and it's owned by a provider other than your own, you will be out of luck.

And yes, there will be political lines drawn that will only favor what the providers want you see. Same for news, etc.

We have been basically owned by the local broadband services with no choice or miserable options for a long time.

I thought they already offered to do that and there were no takers.

Re: I haz a disappoint

Now all we have to do is crowdfund a falcon 9 or three......

You'll need either a bigger rocket or a lot more of them. Probably both. The list is huge.

Re: He is all over the Internet now

Some would say that there's no such thing as "bad" publicity.

Re: Wrong type of wall

Since they mentioned classrooms it was most likely in some Uni building. Indoors with no insulation in the inside walls. Very few researcher ever venture out into the real world.

Re: The last tax didn't do any good.

The best thing that could happen to that city would be for all those big corporations to move to another city/state where idiots like these aren't in charge.

Move? To what city/state would you suggest? Is there any city/state that isn't run by idiots?

Re: Is it too late to get rid of the new TLDs

Not a bad idea except for the money angle. Dig deep and we find out why ICANN is fighting for the WhoIs and why they ignore the spam TLD's.

Re: Such innovation

True, but that's the hobbyist world. In the profit oriented world, they have to follow certain rules (not all the time but for this, yes). Once the regulators are satisfied, then the sky can be filled with wonderful drones doing deliveries and checking on the neighborhood for law enforcement, etc. without human intervention. Need I mention that having a meatsack monitoring every flight would cost money... err... profit?

Re: This underlines one more thing

Also used to fly to New York out of Bristol.

No idea why they dropped the route...

The answer is in your post... empty seats = less profit.

Re: The ongoing ruthless take backs.

It might have something to do with mineral rights. Not sure but I recall something from the 60's on this.

Re: ER, no, the court will be quite clear

Well thought argument, but who's going to file the suit? Not the TelComs... It'll probably happen once someone figures out how to fund the lawyers.

Re: Insurance?

Probably no insurance. Much like gambling tokens in a casino.

At some point will they stop spinning and emitting?

@Oliver Mayes

If only one of them had just paid the bill without looking we could all have retired, but no. We had to recall and reissue all those £1.3 billion invoices.

In today's world, the employees would have been laid off, the buildings closed, and manglement would have taken the money as a "bonus" and left the country.

Re: So the shit would hit the Fan

If it were ever to be discovered in the Future that Google had set up an Evil Twin as a separate Legal Entity to do the Dirty Work.

Why would you think that? Google did away with the "don't be evil" thing some years ago. And then, they say this: "And they are pretty good: be socially beneficial (the AI equivalent of 'Do no evil'?); don't introduce biases; be safe; respect privacy; be accountable; be scientific; limit abuse. " which isn't the way they're acting at the current time.

Re: Too little, too late for advertisers

And surely they need to know which articles are most popular with various demographics?

Simple solution: page hit count. Been done in the past by many.

Re: Non PC

I remember "Nuke the Whales"... made it all the way to Chitown...

And there were T-shirts with "Save the whales. Collect the whole set" on the front. On the back: "I"ll trade a sperm whale for blue whale."

Re: I would have done a full rant, but why waste the effort.

You'd have to work out a mechanism for it to drop the grenade and pull the pin.

Easy. Mount the grenade such that the mount holds the spoon and on release, the spoon is released. The pin only comes out before launch. By the way, if the ends of the pin are bent to preclude them accidentally falling out. Straighten the pin, and they come out easily.

Re: Towards Fully Inclusive

But one required ingredient is anchovies which are fish.. won't someone think of the fish!!!!

Re: Another false claim...

He didn't specify *what* he feels for customers, just assuring us that he totally does have feelings for them.

Probably the pain of not being able to be on the golf course without being bothered by phone calls, etc. Life is tough sometimes.

Re: I'm curious..

And Arlo strikes again. Have an upvote for the memory and for being closer to the truth than most of us realize.