Posts by Some Beggar

@ken jay

Let's take this step by step.

"we know nothing of the way the universe works"

In a typical academic library, the journals on astronomy and cosmology will fill an entire floor and number into the tens of thousands of volumes and millions of articles.

"400 yrs ago the earth was flat"

Science has understood that the earth is approximately spherical for millenia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_Flat_Earth

"the periodic table was almost empty in 1970"

Only a handful of new elements have been added to the periodic table since 1970:

http://www.chemicalelements.com/show/dateofdiscovery.html

You are falling into the age-old trap of assuming that just because _you_ are ignorant about a subject, everybody else must be ignorant about it too. Take your 10p and use it to buy a Ladybird book from Oxfam as the first step on the road to enlightenment.

@Dangermouse

I have no idea why you think Gordon Brown is relevant, but precisely nothing in this paper questions any aspect of the settled science on global warming or the role of man-made CO2.

@Graham Wilson

"Take the Big-C for example."

Statistics on the incidence, treatment and fatality rates for the most common cancers are available in easily downloadable form from cancer.org

Take half an hour to browse them and then come back and apologise for your ignorance.

Did a nerd bully you at school? Or were you just rubbish at science? There is surely some simple reason for your raving paranoia about science and scientists.

@Goat Jam

The settling and later abandonment of Greenland had nothing to do with climate change. The name "green" was given by Erik the Red to encourage settlement - it was as inhospitable then as it is today. They sailed out, built some farms and churches, struggled for a while, then the trade routes fizzled out and they all went home again. It was a failed frontier enterprise and nothing more.

Read a history book.

@Cheese

Don't you stride in here with your facts and your reasonableness. This is the hyperbole and conspiracy theory room, you terrible spoilsport.

@Goat Jam

Oh bravo. You can cut and paste from green-agenda and use condescending ad hominem arguments. [slow hand clap]

"You are too young to remember the "Climate Cooling" crisis of the 1970's I'd wager."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling

"Does that pass for scientific evidence these days?"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_change

Allow me to save you some typing. Your next response will approximate this: "OMG LOLZORZ USING WIKIPEDIA AS A REFERENCE!!11eleven".

You're as predictable as Glasgow drizzle.

@Anonymous Conspiracy Theorist

If the CSIRO are part of some gravy train conspiracy then how did they publish the article that this piece refers to? Babbling nonsense.

@Daniel 4

There's no such offence as "jaywalking" in the UK. We trust adults to cross roads and we trust drivers to be aware of pedestrians.

The US has three times as many road fatalities per capita as the UK.

You might want to rethink your assumptions.

(we also teach children the difference between the contraction "you're" and the possessive pronoun "your" ... but that's probably not related to your inability to see pedestrians)

"write"

I suppose illiteracy is a pretty good reason to avoid online social networks.

I vote

that the author give lazygamer a cut of the fee for the original article.

What do you mean this isn't a democracy?

I read this twice

and all I could decipher was "I have no friends so social networking must be EVIL"

Processing wizardry.

If it is doing some whizzy post-processing, the review doesn't mention what it might be. It doesn't even mention what telly it was connected to for the test and what processing that might have been adding. Nor does it give any useful comparison with other kit beyond comparing the loading times with an unspecified Sony player.

This is a techie website. It shouldn't be too much to ask for reviews to contain the techie info. Sparkle and nuance are, in the nicest possible way, utterly meaningless.

Dear YoYO, would you like to buy some efficacious medicinal compound?

It costs £89 a bottle and it has been tapped against a high end (luxury?) bench. As you are clearly a connoisseur of such high end aqueous solutions, your decision making process will not be to simply compare the crude chemical composition with that of ordinary water. I'm sure lots of "those" people would be wondering why you'd pay a premium for what you could simply pour out of a tap. That represents true intelligence.

Sent from my Acme hover boots.

re: Top Gear

At least the Focus can be sensibly described as hardware. About half the current reghardware reviews are for Android and iOS apps.

I think Jim Coleman is underestimating his mum.

Managing ROMs on an Android device using something like the deviously named and super secret "ROM Manager" app is, if you will forgive the complicated technical terminology, a complete piece of piss.

Given that the app has been downloaded over 600000 times, and taking your figure of 99.999% who would "no way!!!" use such a tool, that suggests that the android userbase must be around ten times the population of the planet.

Cool.

Wait ... hang on ... perhaps you're just talking shite.