Posts by Naughtyhorse
1669 posts • joined Thursday 21st January 2010 12:39 GMT
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Re: Any rope is the problem
the answer to that is easy....
He didnt think it out that far.
must be a VB programmer :-)
News Just In.....
MySpace more than a bit pissed off not to be invited to the prism party :-D
Is it really worse that out collective privates are getting flashed to the US Govt. (a small part of which is nominally trying to make their world a better place) than our collective privates being flashed to the highest bidder AKA the intarwebs business model? - not a spy or terist, so find it hard to be shocked, upset, or even that interested.
Re: "What happens, once lift 1 and 2 have reached their destination..."
yeah - cos taking 6 lifts to get to the 123rd floor is what the modern skyscraper is all about.
while you are waiting maybe you's like to hear my pitch for a confectionery based hot beverage maker......
Re: If you have evidence, take it to HMRC
given that google have claimed that the people in the uk weren't involved in sales OR development.... what the fuck were they doing?
Re: Blimey...
Ah pubes... I remember them!
back in the ol days before teh intertubes
Re: The real problem is...
couple of points....
40%-50%... ARE YOU FUCKING INSANE???
10%-15% at most. Sadly making it dependent on academic success results in the massive over representation of public schools - their grades are by and large, better.... which is kinda the problem you are complaining about.
And another thing, having every tom dick and harry do meeja studies for 3 years was a wizard wheeze conjured up by John fecking Major's gang of reprobates. Prime reason being, if they were at uni, then wouldn't be counted as out of work. (the primary motivator of the major years was massaging the figures)
A degree is a conditional good (neener-neener if you will) it's worth absolutely fuck all if everyone has one. Which was something that was utterly lost on 'the boy who ran away from the circus to join a firm of accountants' AND his successor who though the privileged life he lead was his just deserts, and because god loved him (and had a special job for him in the middle east) No matter how egalitarian it sounds we cant all be in the top 10%
Re: Load of bollocks
did you miss school the day they explained the meaning of the word provisional?
Re: heads need to roll
Orly?
how many bankers got sacked after they too our economy to Monte Carlo and put it all on red?
pedant
"I'm a conspiracy scientist. I posit a hypothesis then design experiments to prove it.
"I'm a conspiracy nut. I posit a hypothesis then design experiments to prove it.
fixed it for you
or
"I'm a conspiracy scientist. I posit a hypothesis then design experiments to TEST it.
fixed it for you
can't have it both ways.
and!
non-partisan oversight.
errr good luck with that!
Re: Cut out the middleman.
The true genius here is that he manage to run himself over...
not so sure, if a no-mark fuckwit like brian... er wossname (frantic googling & wikki-ing later) ahem Harvey can do it, you have to ask yourself... when did said shyster last eat a jacket potato?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_17
Re: Total awareness
but hey, they get to keep all their guns!
cos thats what's _really_ important if you want to be free
apparently
Re: Musk obviously has staff to pay his bills and thus never actually sees them ...
"@Naughtyhorse - you seem to be majoring in stupid yourself, and providing no evidence to the contrary. The difference in power draw between peak and off peak is well documented at over 50,000MWh, using 1/3rd of that for 8 hours per day (overnight, off peak) would be enough to drive over 30% of the cars in the country."
Cept of course you cant determine when people will run out of juice (it's kinda the point of the whole article, you know if you read the words!) so by your measure when your tesla goes flat, you have to park up until around 23:00 then fill up with off peak amps. What a cool idea! CONGRATS etc etc you just made noddy cars an even worse idea!
"DC power lines have been in use since the 1930's when the Swedes worked out how to do what Edison couldn't. There's nothing new or magical about them, we use them to transfer power between France and the UK, and between the UK and Ireland."
DC power lines have been in use since considerably before 1930 - by roughly 50 years! yes we use them to control transfer of power internationally - but (read my post) it is only economic if you are transferring MASSIVE amounts of power from 1 point to one other point - or interconnecting 2 grids that fun at different frequencies, or are not in phase and cannot be practically synchronised. Not from 1 point to many (you have to build a lot of substations) for DC this is vastly more expensive than AC. you can't charge a car at transmission voltages (due to insulation issues), and you cant efficiently transmit at charging voltages (due to I squared R issues - z0 may be lower, but it aint zero) so you need to 'transform' voltages - for this you need a transformer :-), sadly they only work with AC, so you take your transmission level DC, chop it to AC (you use a ton of REALLY expensive thyristors to do this) transform the ac down to a charging voltage, and rectify that (admittedly using cheaper thyristors this time - just a few tens of thousands of dollars) and you add in a shedload of reactive compensation to deal with all the narsty harmonics this generates. (this is what we had to do in Qatar when i built one of these a few years back - so just maybe i might have the vaguest inkling as to what i am on about)
"Feeding power back in to the grid is also a well known technology, it is used by owners of PV panels for example. The idea of EV drivers setting an amount of power they can afford to return to the grid and getting a higher rate for that is far from fanciful."
Okay, we'll ignore the protection issues this raises, like the UK regulator :-), plus it really would take me too long to explain. take it from me it is a VERY BAD THING! something we will all get to appreciate in a few years time, when network availability drops through the floor. due to the massive drop in fault tolerance introduced into the system.
Yes it is entirely technically possible to do this, if ill advised, given the assumptions on load flow that underpin all current (lol i made a pun!) protection schemes. What is so outrageously stupid about this suggestion is;
current and foreseeably projected EV projects are all on a knife edge regarding the amount of per stored in the batteries. The idea that people in any significant numbers will have sufficient quantities of power to consider returning any to the grid is laughable. And you know those uber expensive dc-dc substations i told you about - you just made them a shitload more expensive (metering CT's and comms equipment).
technically when the price of gas goes up a cent overnight, i could go down to the gas station and sell the petrol out of my tank back to them, and make a tidy profit!
now i wonder why THAT never happens?
Re: Musk obviously has staff to pay his bills and thus never actually sees them ...
"EVs can also feed power back to the grid at peak demand, gaining their owners cash"
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!
that is the single stupidest thing i have ever read anywhere!
Re: Musk obviously has staff to pay his bills and thus never actually sees them ...
" there is currently enough capacity for a significant percentage of vehicles to be electric powered."
CONGRATULATIONS
that is the second stupidest thing i have ever read!
(I'm beginning to see a pattern emerge here)
Re: Musk obviously has staff to pay his bills and thus never actually sees them ...
" There's also the possibility with the new lines to shift to DC transmission which results in less power loss."
CONGRATS
No3!
perhaps i should have got to the end of the comment before posting!
DC is exactly what you DON'T want fot this sort of application. HVDC is _just_ economic if you have 1 line over 100km long with no tee offs moving a shitload of power. The substations are enormously expensive to build, and while Z0 is quite a bit lower (not that Z0 strictly applies to a DC line) the subs still cost 10's of millions, and you cant really get away from that. Hell even edison worked that one out.... eventually.
Re: A pedant writes... <--- perfect!
"while ducking the overwhelming criticism and deleting many others"
So a follower of the Orlowski school of.... bein a dick
you wouldn't have thought it possible but I like him less!
Re: Threat to International Stability
Drones go on joyrides more often than people think...
cos the uplink is important - isn't that kinda the point - no need of an uplink.
in my naivete i imagine there would be some protocol by which it would make itself safe in the event of a BSOD in the controller.
Re: Dont they already exist..and not just cruise..cluster bomb
good job they are illegal - it would be awful if they were ever deployed!
especially if the people responsible refused to acknowledge international law.
Doh!!
Re: or wedding party, or village in Gaza
Surely the point is that the kind of poor decision making that lies at the heart of wedding party/blue on blue attacks is pretty much always down to a bad choice made quickly by a gung ho kid high on adrenalin. Seems pretty reasonable to me - from a tactical standpoint;
planes better than infantry - less casualties (our guys... of course), less collateral damage.
drones better than planes - likely much less casualties (again, our guys), even less collateral damage.
totally autonomous airstrikes - no casualties, no collateral damage (potentially)
Of course giving the fuckwit at the end of pennsylvania avenue a way to distract his 300 million serfs with a big bang in someplace they have never heard of with absolutely NO downside....
Big Mistake.
Re: Really, Brittian...I mean REALLY?!?
sadly may was elected.
we have no one to blame but..... all those fuckwits that voted tory.
Which is the same deal as your side of the pond. being a right(left!) thinking man in the US must be incredibly frustrating. At least this side it's easier to laugh at them (thx Jon Stewart little Stevey Colbert and all... oh and bill o'realy! 'fuckwit in chief' at fox). At least demographics are on the side of reason over there. not so here im afraid.
Calm Down Dear!
After the drubbing they got from ukip in the recent council elections, the tories said they needed a more effective strategy to deal with them in future.
Welcome to the future.
Re: Police state
lol
don't try and reason with the troll.
(strongly suspect 'witnessed' in this case means saw it on telly)
Re: LOL!
dunno,
but i wish they could drop it a bit harder
Re: Won't be able to post hate comments
freedom of speech as a right
ability to spell optional
Re: Won't be able to post hate comments
here now!
you leave adobe's portable document format alone!
bubble everyones arse
I dont think it's meaningless i think it's pejorative.
isnt someone in a bubble removed from reality? (I think this is what they are suggesting their service does - clumsy much?)
yeah?? well you know what you can do with that insurance policy.
shove it up your own bubble. dickhead.
(that said id use them in a shot before i consign an ex mobe to fecking mazumba!) the name is bad enough but that grimacing spaz in the old ads.....uuuugggh! muthaaaaa! where's me dried frog pills?)
Rules are the Rules
The umpire is always right, even if he(she)'s wrong.
He's the final arbiter. line judges and hawkeye exist to assist him, he can choose to ignore or accept that advice.
guy getting thrashed 6-1 6-4 6-3 needs to stop being such a big baby and take up a sport he's good at.
Re: 70's TV?
Cool your boots man!
That! is _not_ a camberwell carrot!
quote;
Danny: The joint I am about to roll requires a craftsman that can utilise up to twelve skins. It is called a Camberwell Carrot.
Marwood: It's impossible to use twelve papers on one joint.
Danny: It is impossible to roll a Camberwell Carrot with anything less.
Withnail: Who says it's a Camberwell Carrot?
Danny: I do. I invented it in Camberwell and it looks like a carrot.
so nothing to do with veg at all.
Re: I'm on a nostalgia trip...
hmmm
arrow??
brings the term 'harbles' and 'sucked' irresistibly to mind.
The first few eps had some good choreography, but that male lead, (either pronunciation is apposite) whoever he was - had me cheering for the bad guys by ep 03.
Re: Sci-fi is at a dead end...
Ahh German! the language of love!
Is it just my conditioning, or is he steering the ship with a big red todger?
Re: Chicken, Meet Egg.
"It is one of those cases where it's a good idea on paper"
turns out to be shite in reality.
it's an electric car FFS!
all true....
but in my world
6,000,000,000 is in fact more than 1,700,000,000
which kinda suggests (and this is putting it patronisingly mildly) that 'Ford made most of their profit from making cars'
"I want to put you in a nice powerful electric car and then see you make that same statement after spending a little while doing not much else except drawing big black circles on the tarmac. They've got a higher power to weight than internal combustion engines and virtually zero noise."
True, and after about 20 minutes of that when the batteries in the tesla are as flat a witches tit, you can hop into my lambo, do exactly the same - but with a _much_ better soundtrack, for an hour or two, then take it off the track, down to the pub for lunch and then home, passing the tesla, still doing tiny donuts - cos the extension lead is so short!
not a tesla salesman by any chance?
didn't think so
Re: The Liberator - a bargain
Given that this one is already prone to exploding in the hand, one with 1/2 as much material in it.....
yeah thats altogether possible!
lol
Re: "tax resident nowhere in the world"
you paid tax while at school??
good lad
err no
BOLLOCKS!
like HS2 (which will only start years after the recession has finished).
so all the apple execs can get from london to brum quicker, which it the part you clearly fail to get - not all benefits show up easily on a speadsheet
Doh! you went and fucked it up!
" because the tax laws had good intentions."
How extraordinarily naive! the tax code is the way it is because big corp paid the gov for it to be that way. The only conceivable reason for anyone to create such a complex system is so 'clever accountants' can game it.
Re: Why do people get upset at Apple for this?
'you should bitch at congress, parliament, the IRS, or whoever makes the rules...'
and why exactly do you think this is all happening (at last)?
Re: Make doubly sure you...
well it is supposed to be a _secret_ bunker :-D
p.s. I live in Colchester and thought it was round here someplace!
Re: Totally Meaningless Study
but all god botherers are known to be credulous fuckwits ergo the study was irrelevant.
Re: Proof? I could go on and on, and on.
I daresay you will....
you'll still be dead wrong tho
Re: Is it so easy?
The same way you can choose to buy something from France if it is cheaper and you live in the UK.
try doing that with a truck load of fags - see how far you get.
Re: Is it so easy?
The answer to most of your questions is:
you get an expert in to advise. And obey the law!
The answer to your last is;
don't be so effing thick, the uk gov is not responsible for collecting taxes for other countries
Re: Where will video conferencing be by the time HS2 is actually working
Cant have double deckers - the bridges are too low
Cant extend platforms - more expensive that HS2
You clearly dont use VC regularly, you would not be so oblivious to it's shortcomings if you did.
Dear god man! are you insane???
"put your thumb in your mouth and never draw the connection between poor transport and poor economic growth."
you are aware of where that thumb has been the last 50 years!
most unhygienic!
Re: Is Tim London based?
I think i know who you are!
and you are only pissed off cos it goes past your house!
Re: It will only work to move people around the UK if the tickets are cheap!
The current cost and capacity issues on our network are entirely due to clever. clever economists 'rationalising' the spend on rail for the last 50 years ( i.e. spend fuck all - having put a major road builder in charge of the network rationalisation in the 50's leaving us a seriously fucked up network to begin with)
other countries in europe have taken the view that they need to have a rail network, so fuck the cost and build a good un (it's a bizarre non-thatcherite idea, but there are benefits that cannot be easily expressed in a ledger! the very idea!!). So in classic british style we have a rail system that is both utterly shite to use, and heinously expensive at the same time. Which (if you are in the road building business) it a pretty neat trick!
Au-pair in a tank...
Any mishap involving an au pair driving a tank is surely going to fall into the category of someone elses problem - to wit, to poor blokes who's cars she is trying to parallel park between.
Re: Eadon's theory of Techie "Waves" - TWO types
oaf alert
jacard looms were digital devices! you goon!
either there is an 'ole, or there aint an 'ole - 2 states. binary
Re: Eadon's theory of Techie "Waves" - TWO types
man those non M$ spell checkers really suck eedun :-)
Non Neumann perchance (also needs to be after valves)
brattain shockley, and... the other one invented theTranstistor whether it was silicon, gemanium, gallium arsenide - dont make much difference, hell even if it was a fet or a bjt is too fine for what you are trying to do
