Posts by Alan Mackenzie17 posts • joined Tuesday 11th November 2008 18:59 GMT
On the contrary, the Earth's tides, generated by the Moon (and Sun), are causing the Moon gradually to move away from the Earth. It's being pulled much the same way as a rope is, when swung around ones head.
"We don't the forums to turn nasty and uncivil." is missing the word "want". Please fix it!
That's a square, 21 x 21 tiles, with one left over. I wonder how that fits in. Hmm.
Or, maybe the tiles are "rectangular" with an array of 26 x 17 tiles.
Seems wierd.
Sheet music goes out of copyright 70 years after the composer's death. There are some exceptional rules about "scholarly editions" in some places (Germany), but basically, 70 years and that's it. After that time you may photocopy even recent editions. If you want to play a Mahler symphony, download the parts from http://imslp.org/.
I'm sorry Mr/s. Cornz, but you could hardly be more wrong on just about everything you've written.
The diabetic herself decides, from day to day, even from hour to hour, how much insulin to inject/pump. This varies around an "ideal" dose, and depends massively on what is eaten, degree of exercise, degree of stress, etc. The amount of variation can easily be as much as 50%, or even more whilst suffering an infectious disease.
The doctor does NOT decide how much insulin should be given, except by giving individual guidelines.
The whole idea of an insulin pump is for a diabetic to be able to adjust the dose of insulin easily and rapidly, and to give boosts just before (or after) meals.
I sincerely hope you never have cause to discover these things for yourself.
For crying out loud! Please don't say "digital" when you mean "online". CDs are digital too, remember.
For an analog recorded medium, you have to go back to records or cassette tapes. These media, for some reason, don't appear in your graphs.
You do banking with 150 tabs open? Is that wise?
Hopefully not with MS's browser!
I didn't know a gang of Macs could shred disk images. You learn something new every day.
Threaded messages could be several thousand back from your current head.
Don't really understand what all this fuss is about - mutt has had the simple key sequences "ot" (sort threaded) and "or" (sort by order of arrival) for decades. With this you do "or", put the cursor on the pertinent message, then "ot" to see it in its thread.
Is this Google monstrosity something you have to configure rather than a runtime toggle? Yuck!
... unlike Eurostar's electric trains. :-)
The real reason for this new card system is that the old Oyster system, based on an NXP chip, has been cracked open, and there's no pearl inside. Sooner or later they'll have to replace the flawed Oyster with something new.
Actually, PPP sounds like the way your modem talks with your ISP. You know, modems - remember them?
How about actually deciding what the problem is before trying to fix it? This son of an almond has, for want of intelligence, decided the problem is "piracy", i.e. illicit file copying. Surely the actual problem is songwriters and musicians not getting a fair return for their efforts?
So, what's the best way for artists to be paid better? Impose a license fee on internet use, something like Britain's (former) radio licence and (current) TV licence. This would entitle each Internet user to download copyright files freely. Somewhere between £10 and £200 a year would surely be OK. You divide this up amongst the artists by sampling the Internet, measuring how much of each song/video/.... is circulating the wires.
Yes, this would be costly and perhaps a bit unfair. But it's got to better, and cheaper than the authoritarian punitive measures proposed by the current copyright holders.
This thing's absolutely barmy, stark raving mad.
Quite aside from the philosophical question as to what degree of control discontent creators (YUCK!) should retain over their readers listeners and viewers, this just won't fly.
There are two workable ways to go:
(i) You keep a log of EVERYTHING downloaded by each internet connection and send a bill for everything which was copyright to the downloader; or
(ii) You make an "internet license" obligatory, much as a TV license is, and divide the money collected amongst the composers, performers, film makers etc.
The British government would clearly love (i). Everybody else would accept (ii). Really, how difficult can that be to implement when people start behaving like adults? People managed it when radio came in.
"This is plainly possible - the sun and all the other stars run on self-sustaining fusion reactions - but achieving it using human technology has had top boffins stumped for decades."
The power output of the sun is less than a microwatt per kilogram of "fuel". In fact, the reaction inside the Sun's core is such a damp squib that it takes several thousand million years before needing refuelling. This is clearly inadequate for a fusion power station.
It would probably be better if the nuclear technologists first built another sun as a proof of concept before going on to the much higher temperatures and pressures which will be required by a terrestrial fusion power station.
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
