Posts by Vordicae 23 publicly visible posts • joined 17 May 2012
I Utterly Disagree with the closing editorial !
There I said it, positive discrimination is still discrimination, boys and girls.
Just because one has not had his leg blown off in active duty does not make their contribution any more or less deserving.
and while the radar boys claims of keeping the skies safe might be a bit melodramatic I honestly can sympathise
having sat for 6-months in Bosnian communication blackholes and wondered how the hell to get some entertainment going.
Outside of "Going to the Pub!"
So ..ummm.. when are the tickets going on sale ?
As the big day draws nearer I bet a few (approx 7.37) punters / readers would spend an afternoon in the dismal weather.
I myself can only afford the cheapseats, but ... how much green are we talking here ?
... oh and is there a surcharge for soggy sarnies and cold weak tea from a pre WWII urn ?
What is it about the Human relationship with computers ?
They are by design, meant to enhance our lives and make things quicker and somehow less beurocratic ..
and yet, at every stage all they manage to do is cause grief and frustration ....
plot twist : or is it human error that foils the robots perfect planning ?
you be the judge
Hi, My name is Tim and I'm calling from a MASSIVE litigation firm called PRENDA..
we hear that you potentially have been using "Rhetrollical' business practices
consider this polite little note as notice to cease and send us an S.A.E with blank cheque made out to "for teh Lulz"
otherwise, we will pursue this matter throught the judicial system until the end of time*
We appreciate you moneys in this matter
Love and kisses,
Tim
xxx
*time being finite, that means till next tuesday at 4.37 pm ...
so weighing up the options :
Coal mines ? no one wants to go back there !
Nuclear. no one wants to wait that long
Fusion : no one will be alive by then !
Green / renewables : uses more power to build and maintain than is produced
Fracking : "May" cause your water taps to spit fire across the room !!
YES !!.. me and my kids can't wait for that shizzle
Everything in life has a level of risk, even breathing, or so I'm told, let's just TRY something rather than constantly talking around in circles and doing Nothing !
And you can get Cancer from breathing "Fresh" air
and every mutt on the street is a horrific child chewing monstrosity that should be muzzled
and you can catch AIDS of the ear, by listening to arseholes
Sensationalist headline, is sensationalist, until we actually do "something" we are doomed to sit round the table twiddling our fingers and doing Nothing while granny freezes her arse off in midwinter without fuel.
TL;DR Nothing in this world or the next is perfect or without risk ! ... minimising the risk is good enough for me ! and yes I live near a fracking site
I.T. is seen as an insurance policy by those in upper management (and one they want to pay as Little as possible for)
and those who I.T. have to serve, they are envisioned as the guardian of the gates to computer paradise.
You just can't win !
there's no budget for remote security means that the end users get told "No Remote Access!"
I.T. are just middlemen passing the bad message that magament don't have the comprehension for.
viewed from all angles as worse than salesmen
Was the "Lucky Escapee" hovering behind you as you typed this dross ? rubbing his hands in glee as you described his mad scrabble for survival? rubbing your P45 on the back of your neck gently while you thought desperately for a story to meet todays deadline ?
I usually like some of your stuff, but -> 0.5/10 Could do better !
I presume that is part of the COSH design
a single cell is made of a rigid material with an inner membrane like a sac. filled with Helium.
to take on mass, the helium is sucked in and compressed, with outside air (outside the protective sac) filling the space ... thus negating helium loss and also avoiding a vacuum in the cell, also the incoming air adding more mass.
I imagine that'd be a scary ass noise, hundreds of vents hissing out air on ascent ... :)
the Central body vs various state bodies is a typically difficult subject to argue.
if you take your new idea to a central body and it is denied then you have ZERO business,
or you get ALL the business ... risky concept unless you are 100% sure of winning.
taking it to 50 separate bodies can be mroe expensive but you only need to set the precedent once and then your business model grows.
Quoted " The argument we have here is the same as for many other things - a minority misuse something, so we should ban it for everyone. In short, banning guns is a form of censorship."
This is the single line of defence of every NRA member it seems
"I'm Perfectly normal, so you have no right to take my HUGE Armory (US sp) of guns away from me"
and
"if you try to take me guns, the constitution says I can legally shoot you !"
someone mentioned it above, they read the constitution and it's amendments and took the parts that they thought applied to them.
Logical, but 100% not Right
if you can get a Barometric measuring stick attached ??
are you going to be able to receive live remote telemetry ?
if so ... cutting out as many middlemen as possible would be a remote electronic trigger ?
it worked real well for the guys attempting to blow up a big rock hurtling to earth in a documentry I saw a while back ! I think Bruce Willis was the presenter on it .. if memory serves !
if you do decide to strap-on a Droid phone to LOHAN as she gently ascends to the point at which her cherry pops...
I look forward to her oxygen deprived tweets ~! might make for happier reading than the ... other ... Lohan ! .. or maybe make more sense at least.
is the rate of ascent a calculable figure ? if you can't get the right baromentric trigger.. then a combined barometric that lights a fuse (or a timer I suppose if you prefer new fangled gadgets) that should coincide with the correct altitude?
or even a ground based trigger ... (Bagsy volounteering to press BRB (Big Red Button)) when a remote sensor reads the correct altitude ?
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