Posts by Dodgy Geezer

Re: Rule Britannia!

...Getting rid of the pound, more's the pity, will be the price of getting back into the EU to rebuild our economy...

What will we replace it with, then? Because the Euro is collapsing as we speak, and surely can't exist for much longer.

Re: Rule Britannia!

The computer that you're using at the moment is a British invention. As is the World-Wide Web...

Re: Rule Britannia!

...Once we return to being a small isolated island on the edge of a huge economic zone, instead of being a leading member of that huge economic zone, it'll be back to the glory days of the Empire....

Once we return to being a free independent island outside the smothering effects of a huge bureaucratic protectionist zone, instead of being the only member of that zone which was regularly outvoted and told what to do by the vested interests of France and Germany, it'll be back to the opportunities we enjoyed in the successful days of the Empire....

There. Fixed that for you....

Re: And I bet the bastards didn't fly economy either,

Are we working under the assumption that most Labour MPs keep coal in the bath and have to save up for a 1 week holiday in Blackpool?

I can assure you that the modern tranche of Labour MPs are as Establishment as the rest - lots of parties in Islington with celebs and holidays on the yacht in Tuscany....

Re: Rubbish disposal?

On the contrary. Rubbish is a time capsule for future archeologists...

Re: Maybe on the plus side ...

It was the late 1950s - early 60s. And it could have happened then, before the environmentalists got going....

Re: why subsidise private car development with public money

....Also "There is no such thing as society, only individual men and women" (I actually made myself listen to that speech after being told she didn't say that. Yes she did.)...

Well, she didn't say 'that'. What she actually said was:

..."They are casting their problems at society. And, you know, there's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look after themselves first. It is our duty to look after ourselves and then, also, to look after our neighbours."...

And what's wrong with that?

Re: ' Current industrial production of hydrogen gas'

...Are there any unbiased, layman-friendly explanations of the challenges kicking around?...

Unlikely. Due to its connection with renewable energy and the anti-CO2 brigade, hydrogen is now a political gas, and you won't get any valid balanced comments about it.

It will either be "there are hundreds of problems in even thinking about it", or "We know just how to do it, and want to bring out a prototype of a fully-working system - can we have a billion pound grant?"...

Re: @JDX - Here's a question... does the porn industry WANT to restrict underage access?

..Whether or not it harms the consumer, it is a matter of fact that porn is linked to abuse and trafficking.....

So is breathing.....

Re: Still at it

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”

― C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock: Essays on Theology (Making of Modern Theology)

I'm glad your conscience is clear...

Re: Double standards

...for example buying them a box of condoms at 16 for example when they probably wouldn't want to go into a shop and get their own,...

I can't think of anything more likely to put me off sex at 16 than the knowledge that I would be doing it with a condom contributed by my parents......

...Even more worrying was the fact that such films were available, in theory at least, to children of any age....

That is, all children of any age who could afford a video recorder at the today equivalent of several thousand pounds and provide a room with a TV to watch videos costing the modern equivalent of £50.

Won't somebody think of the rich kids who have their own houses....!!

Re: A Little Out Their

...Like old fashioned style where the parents pay attention to their kids and what they get up to...

When parents do this, their kids do better at life. So this is elitist, and should be banned....

Re: Newspeak

Macauley or Kipling would NEVER have written such an atrocious sentence.

But then, British schoolchildren have never been exposed to authors like these since the 1960s....

Re: Time to install a decent VPN

I'm pretty sure that, if the government create a need for VPN services, the market will respond with a wide set of new offerings...

Re: Call me crazy...

...block websites which are illegal in the UK like BDSM or female ejaculation regardless....

Surely the Free Speech activists are up in arms against this blatent attempt to block women from speaking?

Though I can't see why Business Development Sales and Marketing should be made illegal....

Re: Shonk company desperately tries to play catch-up to the big boys

...by any means possible. Corners are cut. Rules are bent. People look the other way. Other people die. Humanity in action....

There. Fixed that for you. Unless, of course, you think that the Soviet bloc and Venezuela don't have car accidents. Though, I admit, not being able to afford fuel can cut down the number of car journies...

Re: Shouldn't lidar work *better* in the dark?

Until I know what wavelength the Lidar was working on, I can't tell if black at visual wavelengths was also black to it. If the Lidar was working in IR, she should have shone out like a beacon....

Re: I'd wonder why the womàn pushing her bike started to cross at all, with a dirty great,

They do. The human with the right of way in that situation was in the car....

Re: LiDAR doesn't work in the dark? WTF?

Lidar uses pulsed light, usually ourside the range of human eye detection. If you want to know what a Lidar actually sees, look here:

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2000/1*mtA31F_lby5QCP8gYZQyTw.gif

Re: LiDAR doesn't work in the dark? WTF?

Tractors MAY ultimately reduce farm deaths, but will the lives they save be worth living? They WILL monopolize equipment haulage, milking farmers for money, making the super-rich richer, and stranding even more agricultural labourers in slums. They're a wet dream for accidentally-wealthy binge-drinking douchebags. Also, they're beyond Orwellian.

And don't get me started about building houses to live in rather than inhabiting nice dark caves....

Re: No problem with the abbey, big problem with the "justification"

...You may believe that it is vital. I just don't see what religion is going to bring to such an effort that will be of any use whatsoever for the scientists....

Religion brings you Christmas. Don't knock it...

Indeed. Contractors don't get paid....

Hardly a great mind. he believed in Climate Change.

Then again, Newton believed in Alchemy....

No need. Bacteria eat them.

Re: Good reasons not to extradite aplenty

It can be. Insanity is a good example - look at the M'Naghten Rules....

What a stupid comment!

Of course there is nowhere wher it is legal, but, depending on circumstances, there are many countries where a driver can be held not to be at fault for running over a pedestrian.

Not being at fault (and therefore receiving no penalty) is NOT THE SAME as 'legal'.....

Re: Didn't see that coming

Taking cyclists off the roads would save a lot more accidents. Cycling is a Victorian mode of transport – incredibly dangerous on modern roads, and should be confined to recreation and sport areas. Just like horse-riding….