Where's the IT angle?
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"The sensation that you feel as you lay back and close your eyes is totally different, like floating on a cloud."
Or, more accurately, like sitting on a plastic chair that's floating on a cloud.
"Permanent magnets can also help back, muscular problems and headaches, so our furniture not only looks good - it may make you feel good too."
But kiss goodbye to your wristwatch, and probably your TV & loudspeakers while you're at it.
No prizes for guessing which other company prompted this move:
"Today, the market is increasingly dominated by one player who is consolidating its dominance through acquisition."
"This combination [MS & Yahoo!] enables synergies related to scale economics of the advertising platform where today there is only one competitor at scale."
I don't find the delivery particularly convincing. Much like his cinematic performances, come to think of it. So he is either a) acting, and he knows it's all bullshit, or b) genuinely insincere as a human, and yet believes every word. Whichever it is, he sucks at it.
There is ABSOLUELY NO SUBSTANCE in this presentation. Not one iota. It's pure hype, designed to get credulous fools to think "Wow! I want to know more about this!"
"Certainly, Sir or Madman. The Secrets of the Universe can be yours for a small monthly stipend, payable for the remainder of your pusillanimous existence. Plus, you will receive this attractive carriage clock with no obligation to buy, etc etc..."
The more you find out about Scientology, the less you seem to know.
In addition to scaring the bejeesus out of enemy combatants, couldn't this flying dustbin be used on the next generation of missions to Mars? Stick a bigger fan on it to compensate for the thinner atmosphere and away you go. It's got to be quicker than rolling those super-slow-mo golf carts around the planet. Real-time piloting might be a bit tricky, of course, with a round-trip signal time of 10 minutes or more...
One detail The Register omits: Staniaszek works in an oilfield, i.e. the geographical centre of nowhere at all. Reuters spoke to his father:
"He's working in the field sometimes, alone, in the shack. What to do? Drink vodka or go on the Internet?" Staniaszek senior told Reuters on Thursday from Calgary, Alberta.
"Now it's $85,000 and nobody told him," he said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN1322682220071213
It's a shame, how I carried on at school. I think back to the way I treated some kids and I'm surprised they didn't kick me to death.
All the same, I bumped into one of my victims the other day, and he's turned out good-looking, successful, fabulously wealthy, and is fending off the advances of the hottest chicks in town.
I, OTOH, am now a complete dork, sell insurance, and couldn't get laid at a hooker convention.
So, kids, keep it real and don't use bullying as an excuse to commit horrendous crimes against humanity, like selling the odd spam-distributing botnet.
Here's the awful truth, ladies & germs. Although you and I know otherwise, beer is a luxury commodity in the market, unlike petrol, whose price can sometimes come down when the cost of raw materials (i.e. crude) drops.
Your pint will likely stay above £4, even if we have a blazing hot summer next year and every oasthouse from here to Gravesend is overflowing with hops; or even if the Aussies discover a huge bauxite reserve in the outback, and aluminium cans become as cheap as chips.
Those swine in the breweries will be laughing all the way to the bank as they trouser the massive margins yielded by the price hike. Us poor saps on the wrong side of the bar will still fork over the dough come what may.
You know it to be true.
Common misconception: the hydrogen in the Hindenburg caused the fire. A nine-year-old UCLA press release will relieve you of your ignorance on this subject:
http://www.seas.ucla.edu/hsseas/releases/blimp.htm
For the impatient, it turns out that the doping compound used on the Hindenburg's canvas included iron oxide, cellulose acetate and aluminum powder -- remarkably similar to the contents of the space shuttle's Solid Rocket Boosters. A static charge which built up as the vessel crossed the Atlantic was earthed when it moored, apart from a panel which was electrically isolated from its neighbours. The resultant potential difference caused an electrical arc, igniting the compound.
This is essentially why the ill-fated airship did not burn with a squeaky pop.
That's a rather strange effect. I suppose it must be because the moon's surface is brighter at the top-left of the image, which the brain interprets to mean the illumination is coming from that angle. In fact, it is coming from bottom right. It's only when that bright patch moves out of view that the image resolves itself.
Weird.
"Dr" Zahi Hawass has got a fucking cheek. Anyone watching that gorefest "Golden Mummy Tomb Opening - Live!" on Channel 5 a couple of years back would have seen him chucking human remains (bits of mummy) over his shoulder in a frantic scrabble for treasure.
Western Archaeologists weren't much better behaved at the beginning of the last century, but they could be forgiven for "not knowing any different". Hawass has no such excuse.