Posts by W.S. Burroughs

Rufus - full on!

Beauty is in the eye... at least they won't get lice. Nor do they steal your car or pee in the lift, so leave the little super-shaggers alone, I say.

What would happen if someone stuck p16 into a defanged retrovirus as delivery mechanism? This is probably naive - for one thing the gene might need to be in the right place to be expressed usefully, but that seems like just another technical challenge. Can we look forwards to the day when kids get their anti-cancer shot around the same time as their MMR, etc. jabs. Any gene genies out there care to illuminate?

Bizarre life-forms?

So that's where good ol' George Dubya is these days.

Paranomioid

A silly, immature response to a painful situation by silly, immature politicos who aren't doing any of the hurting. & I wonder how they know the remote controls came from Blighty - all of Maplin's stock is far-east manufactured. We stopped making stuff during La Tatch's rein to concentrate on banking - that was a stroke of genius, wasn't it.

Pyro, because fire made it good.

Archos - approach with caution

I have a 605 Wifi (4GB). When I bought it I really wanted to like the product, but little by little Archos managed to chip away at my love, until now I barely use the thing & will never again buy an Archos product.

Briefly: The hardware & especially the software are always in beta & never quite work. Technical support are grossly incompetent & rather rude, eg. send a bug report & get a message back saying 'Yeah, we know' - & they still haven't fixed the bugs. & a few months before shipping a new range, all maintainance of the previous models will cease - learn to love those bugs 'cos you'll be stuck with them for ever.

In my dealings with Archos I was made to feel that I really didn't matter. I realise that to a big, mass-market company individual customers don't count for much, but you never actually tell them that.

More FUD

'lack of legislation' ? But there is clear legislation prohibiting impersonating a police officer.

These unelected, officious, politically-motivated gits will continue to demand more & more powers, that is the nature of unimpeded bureaucracies who have forgotten the moral basis of their existance, they grow like tumors.

Enough! Go catch some burglers & remember who you work for.

A matter of potential concern...

that camera wielding peadophile-terrorists will hijack the LHC & bombard the Palace of Westminster with strangelets. The government must act now to stamp out this menace!

Or we could just spend our time dealing with disease, hunger & ignorance.

Plus ca change

It would be naive to consider just the legal case. This is a very well established technique in a game of control. MI5/The Branch have been expertly turning over the abodes of naughty radicals since forever. The trick is to leave just enough out of place so the target knows they've had a visit.

If you're going to protest for what you believe, be ready to be strong because, as the Chinese say, the nail that stands up gets hammered flat.

The Shadows...

Hmmm, while I'm often up for a good ol' conspiracy theory, during shooting the 'Geeerl' it looks like sun was overhead & they used fill flash, otherwise her face would have been in shadow. Still, I expect we'll be seeing her again.