Posts by Michael Dunn

@ Grease Monkey

Don´t forget, also, that you _MUST NOT_ silence the ads on TV, nor FF over them on recordings!

Re: Brooks is FOUND innocent @Red Bren

You get my upvote for that "unless", a point I have repeatedly had to make to commentards who say "until."

Re: Nobody will take the rap @dan1980

And don't forget the "Lessons have been learnt" mantra

Re: Entire article fails to mention the other factor... @Nick Ryan

" I'll be buggered if I know how to use a slide rule either." Poor chap! I got my first one at age 11 - celluloid glued to paper glued to wood. Necessary for School Certificate Physics and Chemistry.

Plastic eventually took over, and I've still got a Faber Castell I used much later.: folded dual scale (so 10" was effectvely 20") with reciprocal scale in the centre of the slide, sin, cos, tan scales on the back (not to mention the bibulous shin, cosh, and tanh), and a little KW to HP coversion offset on he cursor..

Who needs a calclator?

Yes, I know, some Japanese whizz-kid with a soroban (abacus) can do it faster!

Re: Industrial scale

"Urine from farm animals ..." My first job after leaving school in 1950 was as a technician in a pharmaceutical company development research lab.After settling i, I was given the task of synthesising a number of androgens. Considerable literature research was necessary to find suitable methods. I was amazed at the fact that in those days a major source of steroids and hormones entering aademic and industrial laboratories for investigation was pregnant mares' urine.

Re: Back and forth@AC

I remember this book well; read in early '50's. Also remember the furore it caused and the accusations that boffins had closed minds.

What happened to Adamski?

And then, later, we had the Von Daenniken oeuvre.

Re: ICO are worthless

The enforced dismissals is the clincher; responsibility doesn't stop at the clerk/office worker actually making the mistake, they have supervisors and setters of security policy.

A local authority justt laughs at a fine: therre are plenty of taxpayers! Start sacking officers and managers, and you could 'concentrate their minds.'

@ Nigel 11

It's when they issue official denials of official denials it gets interesting.

Re: 1st thing created @ a3aan

And get the explosion on the word "Light" in Haydn's Creation!

Re: Get in Early @Tom 38

"A cab cabal" Love it!

@Blane Bramble

WS3.3? How effete! I remember in WS 1 having to hex-edit a few bytes near the end of the program to determine which (dot-matrix) printer it would output to.

Re: Stop this nonsense forthwith, saith the icon @frank ly

"Then those external sources download their own Javascript, etc. and have their own pointers to further external sources."

As Pope wrote:

So naturalists observe the flea

Hath smaller fleas that on him prey.

Or in the vernacular:

Little fleas have smaller fleas upon their backs to bite 'em.

Smaller fleas have smaller fleas abd so ad infinitum.

Re: @Capita @Douglas83

There's probably some rule at work here, just as in court, a jury is not allowed to know of a defendant's previous convictions.

@ Chris Miller

"The amount of magma in the rig is << 1 cubic millimetre."

Still burn a good sized hole in a safety-spec lens, and the material behind it!

Re: Not Harmless @Wizrd1

You wrote: "But then, a delivery system that is destroyed when done is a good delivery system."

What about the Fe/Ti nanotubes? They could clog up your arteries really seriously!

Re: Not as worrying as... @ Kevin Johnston

I recall that when I was in the army, each sheet had "WD Property" printed next to the perforations. That was fairly nclose to the Izal standard, as well.

There was also a requirement that one had to have two sheets in one's fully packed 'small pack' at all times.

Re: not a tongue twister @ Sir Digalot

Ah! Spoonerisms! The Thais mentally carry on spoonerising everything you say to them, so you have to be quite careful when speaking to avoid certain combinations of words and there are actually rules laid down for writing poetry which stipulate sets of words which cannot be used in combination.

You cannot say "The teacher is ill." you have to phrase it as "The teacher is not well." The first form will automatically be spoonerised into "crab's penis."

There are some nice ones in English, however. "After our hymn: 'The shoving leopard' a meeting will be halled in the hell below the Church."

Re: Why a hexagon?

I seem to recall that Buckminster Fuller was largely into hexagons (hexaga?) when devising geodesic spheres - (hex-penta-hex-penta....). tensegrity at work.

Re: Wouldn't a vacuum be better? Uncle Slacky

Naturally!