Posts by Luther Blissett
1104 posts • joined Friday 6th July 2007 18:15 GMT
Posted in Energy crisis over - for 250 years?
Royal Academy of Engineering
I'm looking at this thinking how many oxymorons are there in there?
Oh yes, nice to know about the gas too.
hehe, Wooly Bullies
One two one two three four.
Dab told Eddy about a thing she saw.
Had two big aerials and a wooly flaw.
Wooly bullyies, wooly bullies.
Wooly bullies, wooly bullies, wooly bullies.
Eddy told Dab, "Let's don't take no chance.
Let's not be £70m, don't come here for finance."
Wooly bullies, wooly bullies
Wooly bullies, wooly bullies, wooly bullies.
Dab told Eddy, "That's the thing to do.
Need someone really to pull the wool over yo' eyes"."
Wooly bullyies, wooly bullies.
Wooly bullies, wooly bullies, wooly bullies.
Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby so why don't you kill me?
Wouldn't it be simpler by far
to simply wheel out Big Brother?
UR-gently calling amanfromMars
>> "...some systems have been spontaneously uninstalling malware from themselves..."
Computers have developed the intelligence to create cargo cults? Who would have gaussed?
But
neither is as hot as in Paris.
// umbrella, for Singing in the Rain
OMFlyingSpaghettiMonster!
We are doomed!! It's going to be the Mother of Carrington Event!!! Run for the hills!!!!
Then all your common goodies are belong to US, sorry wrong, to the UNO.
Posted in Nokia talks Pure typographic cobblers
Cultural determinants of metaphor
I think Lester means that Nokia have really screwed the pooch with this one.
I can do that
Method is to use a magnetic field to create charge separation and when the potential difference is large enough to overcome the dielectric, you send it to a pointy thing, and Bob's your uncle.
Posted in Apple iPad 2
Who could have guessed
that 1024x768 screens would hang in so long past their FOAD date?
May I be the first?
To welcome our Old Headless Chicken Overlords?
"the possibility that infected images had been installed"
I would read this as It getting IT's retaliation in - and its side of the story out - first, just in case EuroPlod is getting involved.
'Tis a terrible thing - Brazilian horses with the clap. So I hear.
Thanks for your vote
But I take offence at your allusion to the miniscule size of my bucket. The message was in fact in the title, so you needn't have even have read the comment, as it failed to compute for you. So here it is again:
Si02 + Si02 = Fe2O3 + 0
Don't complain about the lack of subscripts, ok
Posted in Brian May stands up for Welsh badgers
What I would expect
Is not necessarily what you would expect from the facts you cite. I would say your general problem is to explain why there are both cows and badgers after millions of years of evolution. Your more specific problem is explaining why the global incidence of TB has increased as a result of cessation of badger culling in the UK. You need to recognize the specific attribute of the pathogen, namely its pleomorphism, which make the general problem of health in people as well as animals quite a lot more intractable than you deduce to be the case from a couple of maps.
Mars was Enlightened: sigh and sigh, then fee
Q: Rust never sleeps, is that Y (not element 39) there is so much of it, rather then socialism?
A: No (not element 102), nothing to do with social science. Observe the mass of iron in (not element 49) the periodic table. What is the element with half its mass? It's the one with the IT angle, and there's a lot of it about too (not helium)
Q: So how?
A: Electricity - transmutation of elements
Q: O (not element 8), when?
A: When there were gods on Mt Olympus. Literally.
Posted in European parliament loves the Tobin tax
Begging to differ also, but not rent-seeking
The EU is only trying to pull the fast one that it has watched the Fed and Wall St investment banks, albeit not the Mafia, getting away with for a long time. A generalized Tobin tax would be parasitical in skimming off other people's labour - a rather champagne socialst notion.
It is worth observing, as a counter to both Tobin's and anti-Tobin arguments, what happened in the PRC after the Big Liquidity Freeze. The value of derivatives sold fell about 90% - yet there was no Tobin tax. The PRC simply asked the Wall St missionaries flogging them to insert a line to the effect that the boys back home on Wall St would guarantee them.
A free market implies a free flow of information. Easy enough to hear what the bloke two stalls away is selling his bananas for. But OTC derivatives are more accurately back-alley after-closing-time deals. Have the regulatory authorities considered publishing details of all these?
One might as well ask what are bears going to do when the trees are all cut down? But the answer is easy (if not calculated to fill bears with glee) - use the bulls' field.
Low life scum
But many Luther Blissetts make light work
And while you're at it, why not arrest the Magistrate also?
http://www.wirralglobe.co.uk/news/8894423.UPDATED__Protestors_storm_court_and__arrest__judge_in_chaotic_scenes/
"the red-faced BAA supremo"
Can't be on meths with his salary. He'll be still full of Xmas cheer then.
Posted in O2 boots up boobies blocker
"O2 outsources its age filters to Bango"
Naturally. Any other entity would lack credibility. With O2 management, that is. The name says it all in our postmodern feudalist society.
you tap the end
taking care to point it away from your feet.
Posted in Scientists crack spotless Sun mystery
Page 2
Is where they independently validate the model.
It may be some time.
Bringing it all back home
Requires a reentry vehicle. In these enLightning times it could be collecting sundry sprites and elves. Which would make a change from pixie dust. But I think not.
May all their subroutines be reentrant too.
LaeMing > It isn't rocket surgery
Thnx for that well-mixed metaphor.
DM not increasing its circulation for nothing
What make you think Daily Maul readers capable of discussing the concept and ramifications of a 'higgs boson fail'?
Shilling for the United Depredations Organization
Spare a penny for the little guy?
Anyone?
"corporatist-fascist"
the term would be vacuous unless once in a while the corporatist element subordinated to the fascist element. this seems as innocuous an opportunity as any to validate it, to an audience of fanbois too drunk on good cheer and beer to care.
Posted in NASA's Stardust braves cometary flak
Luther does science (for a change)
Method:
1. Take 1 Opera (sorry for the product placement)
2. Key Shft+'+ ' a few times
3. Pick up one wooden ruler, calibrated in mmmmm
4. Read length of scale bar. Record reading
5. Read diameter of crater. Record reading
Results:
Scale bar = 22mm +/-1mm
Crate = 5mm +/-0.5mm
Conclusion:
Windoze Notepad says crater is 45.454545454545454545454545454545m in diameter (not 150m)
Surmise: Is this why the new pictures are warm and fuzzy? Observe further: not a single occurrence of 'ice' in the whole item. Seriously, isn't this a falsification of the 'snowy dirtball' model of comets? "We saw a lot of new things that we didn't expect, and we'll be working hard to figure out what Tempel 1 is trying to tell us." Would that be hard as in maths, or hard as in rock?
Cash only?
And there was I thinking that Texas was just short of independence. Maybe they no longer think Big there.
Moving houses
You mistake the synecdoche for reality. I didn't read anything about the occupants of those addresses.
That said, can it be long before someone decides it worthwhile to "add value" by joining just such datasets with it?
Makes a difference?
Dunno if there are many one-handed construction workers or blacksmiths.
Actually I wouldn't worry too much if I were you, even if you have trouble keeping your extra leg in order. All the evidence is that the people that employers are really shit scared of are those with mental health problems.
Agenda at work: United Depredation Organization
> It said it was particularly interested in registration activities, environmental science issues, critical infrastructure and the built environment.
> The government said it hadn't committed much time to health, education, welfare and criminal justice-derived datasets, but added it was willing to consider suggestions on those areas too.
In other words, assets. Tangible physical assets. Big ones. Expensive ones.
Someone wants the UNO to have some information that could be very useful when a suitable crisis/opportunity arises. You, meanwhile, will be too busy saving the planet from plant food to notice.
A delicious irony to foster a mass distraction that is invisible and up the sky, when the real action is down on the ground and far bigger than the proverbial barn door.,
Not really about those people
More about raising the bar to keep the nu Google-killer out, wouldn't you say? There's many ways of being anti-trust - a history of IT, however brief, would probably exhibit most of them.
Posted in NASA snaps Sun in super STEREO
"spitting flares and clouds of plasma"
OMG is Wm Blake alive and well and living at NASA?
Blake was a noted naturist - you'd (almost) hardly expect him not to be, given his (more famous) aversion to dark, satanic mills. But I have to wonder whether Blake at NASA today might not have got a bit weary by now of this neverending cosmological voyeurism, the space-tourism-syndrome-by-proxy, the tedious enthusiasm to flaunt yet more holiday snaps of strange places away from boring old Gaia. He would recognize the oddness of being so blase about technology.
One needs some sort of explanation along those lines to account for the scant progress made in astronomy since satellites and telescope have multiplied data millions of times since Sputnik. The common IT confusion between data and information won't cut it, as astronomy is not (yet) software engineering. Why, one might ask, have so few theories been falsified by all that data?
Case in point: bottom picture. Source is not credited, so what I may be seeing is merely a processing artefact, but I see something axisymmetrical. Something like a planetary nebula, which more and more can be seen in detail to have axial symmetry. My question is: where is this predicted in Eddington's theory of stars?
I don't know about that
What about all those practising climate science religion? And has no-one ever encountered 'Christian Science'?
Of course, the whole story is a bad pun (which is why the Author hides behind Team Register). There are (at least) two different meanings of 'science' involved.
// Dunces caps all round.
Who knows what
"Experiment GF-1/1 was devoted to the generation of gravitational artificial waves in the upper layers of the atmosphere. The goal of experiment GF-1/2 was the creation of an artificial "dynamo-effect" in the ionosphere. Lastly, experiment GF-1/3 was to generate ionized signals with long waves."
Marble worktops and treasure islands (for the few)
Anyone found 'corruption' or 'malfeasance in public office' in their area?
Posted in Hubble squints at most distant galaxy
Even astronomers face the odd challenge and opportunity in good spirits
> a significant find for scientists aiming to explain how galaxies formed in the early universe.
That's a headache all right
From the Department of the bleeding...
to the Department of the merely Wet Behind the ears. Stop the press. Sorry, I'll do that again. Pause the download because
Damp days cause rain.
Free electrons?
Is that free as in a beer, or free as in speech? Or merely free as in free-fire zone?
Spot on, actually, but you were focussed on the micro picture
The real reason M/F "try and make COBOL relevant" is so that they themselves can hack next year's model of the full monty (and what an expensive monty it is, all told) using this year's nag. (Tis true, the M/F COBOL compiler has always been written in COBOL).
but not always
I suggest a better diagnostic is telling them the Barber of Seville paradox and selecting those with inferable radical brain activity.
Common laws for little fish
OTOH something is needed to catch the sharks. Like a RICO. Call it RIMIPO - Racketeering Inspired Malfeasance In Public Office.
Balanced
As in Bolshevist Broadcasting Caballers perhaps?
Not really ironic - only hyperreally
Assange is an excellent Weapon of Mass Distraction from the work Brooke has done. But of course you know what Brooke has done, don't you?
MP not the Red Queen
from Alice of course. Nor Genghis Khan for that matter.
Love nu labour lost (phnarr phnarr)*
C'mon. The general election is like so last year (almost). It's time to get over it.
(* not the sound of rug munching)
The Ice Cube was funded by... Barbados...?
Evidently a strategic investment decision.
