Posts by Beau

Re: It's funny, isn't it?

Maybe we have been fed so much nonsense about gods, and told so many fairy tails, for so long, that we are all now somehow dependent upon a degree of superstition in our lives?

Re: Is there something in the coffee?

Life on Mars?

Well, possibly.

Life in the coffee we get?

Not a bats chance in hell!

Re: You'll fit right in

"Germans lack a sense of humour!" No they don't!!

Mind you, it is different to everyone else's.

Re: The energy cost?

"Would it not be much easier, cheaper and quicker simply to build a small proportion of the nuclear power generators that would be needed here on Earth."

Yes, yes, yes, but totally impossible. You must try to understand, nuclear power is not green, however many problems it might help us to solve.

Re: A few points for you all.....

Exactly the same from here.

Re: Approval?

I'm not so sure, remember China is BIG and is controlled by a single huge, centralised bureaucratic system.

I wonder, just how much do they actuality do know, about what is going on at ground level.

Re: It truly was a geek paradise

I used to go up to town regularly by train, back in the 60s and 70s just to shop in Tottenham Court Road.

It was the most marvellous geeks paradise, with shops full of new and second hand electronic equipment of every sort.

Ha, those were the day but sadly, all good things must come to an end.

Re: At long bloody last...

In Belgium "Green" is definitely a popular and powerful religion.

The result is, any politicians who want any chance of getting elected, now have to be fully paid up members of the "Green Church." Their policies are often quite amazing, but not always amusing.

Re: Basic electronic theroy class:- week 1.

I said (BASIC, THINK OF IT AS) not that it is the same!

Re: People who've been around the block a few times...

"Is that why OAP's are constantly scammed by confidence tricksters and cowboy builders?"

NO, some of the people who have lived long enough to be OAPs. haven't ever been out of their own street, never mind around the block once or twice. People born pre. WW2. do have a problem, I know, one lives with us!

Re: Gun ownership.

Actually all the criminals were shipped to Australia, the US only got the the bible bashing loonies.

I know, it's so unfair that the US got such a bad deal!

Re: What's fascinating about this

(and the need for dark matter goes away.)

About bloody time too, the sooner we get rid of this magical dark matter, that can't be detected what soever, the better.

Except to balance our accepted theory of the universe, nothing else in astronomy or sub atomic theory, supports it's existence. Either the missing mass is out there in good old fashioned mass somewhere, or our theory of the universe is wrong!

Re: at least they are trying

Simply because, if no one had ever dreamed of living in a mud hut, we would still be living in caves. Even when the first huts collapsed when it rained, which they probably did, they managed eventually to get it right.

"That is what we call progress"

Re: When your opponent has nuclear weapons.....

What a good idea, we should all be paying €5,000 or more for a nice little GPS. properly built to military specifications.

Re: Single balloon elevated

A "T" shaped truss is spot on! Just use the 3 ends as suspension points, triangles are more stable anyway, then decide which way up to mount the truss.

To reduce spin, a tail something like that of a kite's would help. Due to the ascent their is bound to be air flowing downwards with some horizontal vector to it.

Re: They obviously didn't understand 'caveat emptor'

Yes, their Tech Boys must have known all about the problems they would cause to GPS. But the problem in the end was, C² simply underestimated the amount of political donations required to get away with it.

Bullshit

The weather has been "COMPLETELY NORMAL of late." It just keeps changing in unexpected ways as it always has, since the atmosphere of earth first formed.

Tut, tut

"Naa, the resistance of the wire depends on the width"

Actually, the resistance of the wire depends on the area of its cross section, otherwise you are correct.

No, no, Mycho

"If you have nothing to hide you've never had an ex?"

If you have nothing to hide you've never had a wife?

No

About the same for most work, but certainly a bloody site cheaper!

Dump Firefox ?

That must be a typo error, surely you meant dump McAfee!

McAfee is after all, only an expensive load of resource hungry rubbish, packed into a very nice looking box.

Ha, ha, ha!

All very well in the work environment, but clearly you do not have a wife and teenagers using machines at home!

Don't you start worrying about that!

"Who in their right mind would put their private documents in the world's biggest snoopers & information resellers?"

Don't you start worrying about that, there are plenty of idiots in the world who will!

I agree, but just remember!

Just because they are dirty shit-bags, that doesn't mean they are stupid!!

You are right!

But you might at least try a little harder, and get your quote right!

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose

By any other name would smell as sweet."