Re: Oh the irony
I would have thought you could just get an off the shelf adapter to connect a 5 cone to a 6 rocket.
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I used to have a VW MkII camper - because it couldn't do anything interesting I could drive it all the way from the top of Scotland to Nr London and step out fresh as a daisy. Would have been nice to do 70 up hills and not the crawler lane but because it was so limited you couldn't get stressed about anything.
After a heavy session in a country pub we wandered over to a massive radio tower to see if we could climb it. Very heavily protected - apparently someone had bas jumped off it and they'd upgraded the security. We found this out the next night talking to someone in the pub who'd been working there and was very pleased we were too pissed to try the gate with he hadn't locked- why would you at 3 am? We were giggling round the perimeter trying to find an overhanging tree to fall out of.
came home and loads of complaints about very slow responses on an NT server. Then I realised I'd got bored after a couple of bottles of red and a whole round of Camembert and a pack of butter and two baguettes for lunch and had played with the Pipes 3d screensaver and obscene French wrap around textures for it. This of course used every last drop of cpu it could and it took me what seemed like lifetime to ISDN into the machine, kill the bloody screensaver and disable the bloody thing. Would very much have liked to have been sent back for some more Camembert - its the President stuff in the round wooden box that in the UK is fuck all like the stuff you get in France.
My mum used to muller the Telegraph crossword in less than ten minutes. As a science geek who gave up on word shit quickly I never really bothered with that sort of thing. Then one night after we'd had a few drinks when I was back from uni dad brought the paper back from work and I sat next and asked her what she was thinking as she did it. It seemed the compiler left very easy to spot clues which really stood out if you didnt really read the words. Once you;d spotted those that merely left the anagrams which are really tricky after half a bottle of Talisker. I cant remember the name of the compiler but I found his quite easy after that if I found a copy at reception at job interviews after that.
I worked down't pit for a while an there were first aid stations in various places and seconded the bloke who replaced the morphine in them. We'd barely got out of sight of one box when we heard it being cracked open and running back it had already been lifted! Never found out who it was but most of the miners found it utterly disgusting and the culprit would have needed a very large dose if discovered.
One place I worked got some new cheaper cleaners in and we had serious problems with static taking out everything left right and centre because they actually shampooed the carpets and removed the anti-static goop from them. You couldn't walk across a room and touch a door handle without swearing.
Its all part of a general accountancy short sightedness. Some things have to be paid for but some people are allowed to avoid it and think they are clever as a result. Its like out of town shopping - lower rates means they can charge less so the in town stuff suffers and those living in the town end up paying more in council tax than they saved out of town and have to pay fuel to get their because they saved 10p on their council tax and the bus service has gone so they have to pay few quid to drive to the out of town shops and lose a wheel in the pot hole they saved 10p on their council tax not fixing so that's another £50 and some serious wear on the suspension. Today I have to drive 20 mile to a town to get a plumbing part I used to be able to get a couple of miles away but the shop couldn't afford the council tax and rent and is now a dog charity shop so I'm paying tax to the landlord and extra fuel and car wear and tear because someone fell for voting for an idiot who promises to save them a fraction of that in council tax.
Back in the late 80s my next door neighbour ran a cleaning company. I cant remember the exact details but the government started subsidised low wages with benefits so he was able to rip off his workers and the clients and the government simultaneously. He became very rich very quickly and died when he upgraded his car too quickly. He seemed a decent bloke but was caught like a kid let lose in a candy store. I had many a drink with him and he was always of the opinion that if he didnt do it someone else would but he did feel a line had been crossed.
I'd imagine Covid has dozens of unique VOCs While it only has 15 genes as it is a virus when reproducing in our cells the replication frequently fails leaving segments of incompletely transcribed proteins and its very likely lots of these will be unique to covid. Its what the T cells use to chase it down within cells and prevent it reproducing.
The only useful pizza delivery system is pair of hands. We have a local chap who drives his wood fired oven around to various places (including my local pub/brewery) and I am now of the opinion that pizza is indeed a food and not something that resembles the box it came in. And the new wild garlic pesto is pretty dam cool too!
I have a friend who did an MBA in her thirties. First person I've met who came out if more educated than when they went in. I did wonder having a look at the course work for it and the PPE degree to see if there was something in their that can be used as a peaceful weapon that can reduce a country to complete imbeciles and then realised its already been done!
I remember it well. Where I worked at the time the only people who wouldnt have either laughed or sighed and carried on as normal were the bosses with no IT experience hired to prevent progress in IT at the time.
Never play pranks on people who dont at least have a chance of working out what's going on and that you know well enough so you aren't surprised they are 3rd Dan in something that meant you spent ten minutes laid out cold because they were so stressed by what was happening finding out you did it bypasses all their control circuits as an 'Its OK he'll find it funny' mate of mine found out even though we'd trued to dissuade him on moral grounds. Must say we were delighted to find out the victim was a 3rd Dan.
I think you missed the bit about them being rigid and bistable! If you punscture the inflation tubes it doesnt collapse.
Annoyed because I've been trying do do something with inflatable foam that goes rigid when it sets - this leapfrogs that to some degree - I'd like to see an geodesic greenhouse that comes in a suitcase though!
"suggesting that time and effort spent railing against social media companies is better spent on teaching and reinforcing the basics of police record-keeping and investigatory techniques." but that will only work if you pay the people in house enough to prevent them being poached by competing companies. I've worked in the public sector a few times and been amazed at the offers I got to basically not do my job any-more as it was interfering with their operations - which were mainly getting managers to sign contracts that were effectively ways of preventing the said managers having any control over their data.