* Posts by duncan wood

10 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Jan 2008

Landlord sues tenant over moldy Tweet

duncan wood
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Universal

Of course it's not confined to America

http://www.badscience.net/2009/07/we-are-more-possible-than-you-can-powerfully-imagine/

Farmers furious at EU's sheep-chip scheme

duncan wood

Bolus

If you get it to the rumen from the bitter end then it's going to be very easy to catch the sheep afterwards, the other end would be rather less fatal.

London stab murder rate entirely normal, says top stats prof

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@stu-AC

Which would make Somalia safer than London. Your perception's even worse than your grammar.

Man arrested in Indymedia animal extremism probe

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Universal

You could post all their details but most of us have no more time for Redwatch or their Ilk than we do for the ALF. So if you're going to do unto others as you would have done unto you it would appear that you agree with them.

Red rag, meet bull: The software resilience gamble

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@stu-AC

Every car ever built is made from bits that are "about the right size", it's called tolerancing, you do it to every single bit & then work out wheter or not it's likely that all the bits will still fit together. The Japanese dominated by working out which expensive bits didn't need close tolerances & which cheap bits did

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Spelling resilience

A resilient spell checker might be usefull for addresses a well :-)

Ex-Sun chief to fight Davis in '42 days' by-election

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Sound Quality

@Darren B

Umm UKIP voted with Brown.

Organised crime law crushes animal rights duo

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Not very Complicated

If you've ever lived or worked next to somewhere disliked by the animal rights lobby then it could be a very broad line & it's still obvious which side of it a significant minority of them are on.

Fixing the UK's DAB disaster

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Sound Quality

Given the only FM station I can receive where there's an audible difference in sound quality on a decent receiver is Radio 3 & that's hardly the most popular radio station in the country then it seems unlikely that the quality is preventing people buying DAB.

& the Pure Highway has better reception than any FM station everywhere I've driven recently.

Sparks fly over electric shock dealing Dell laptop

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Not Just Dell

This Vaio does it as well.