Posts by Aldous

Re: Costs

The 91.7Bn was the overall cost of rebuild from the Tsunami, 230k of which went into promoting the tower for tourism.

Re: "Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think." – Ayn Rand

your joking right? you think all insurance (car,health, orbital vehicles) goes into a big pot?

its not free money but orbital insurance is payed by everyone launching, your car insurance has nothing to do with it. you only ay for it if you need launch insurance so unless your car is a tricked out delorean this ain't going to cost you a penny (ok maybe further down the line it cost's an added penny to your sky bill but you know what i mean)

Re: Dark fibre?

"Stop breaking copyrights, 1 p0rn stream is enough, no one can tweet a load of bullshite that fast, or update twatface with shite that fast.

For the majority, its a waste of time. Only the saddest of the saddos need shite but fast."

and while we are at it why do we need more then 640k ram. damn freetard saddo's with their futureproofing i remember when we had 14.4k modems and we loved it, the internet was much better in those days none of that yootub or bookface rubbish.

most commericial jets don't have windows in the floor. some light aircraft and helicopters do as this provides a vital view when landing /taxing. commercial jet cockpits can easily be hit from head on as they only flare right before touch down, rest of the time the cockpit ios visible from the front

Re: Iran

But those are our kind of repressive civilian beating states(who have also backed off Israel, coincidence eh?) not the scruffy muslim kind. what next sell iran some eurofighters to replace their F-14's! pish posh!

Re: If the solar panels capture more energy than they need

if you think china is a communist country you really are a swivel eyed loon (i love that phrase kudos commentards). China is as communist as the National Socialists (Hi Godwin) were Socialist i.e in name only.

don't believe me? no free healthcare for all (kind of a main pillar of a communist state ), crap education and an urban rich (and likewise very poor rural).

As for rare earths these are covered by the reg before they arn't that rare its just china is one of the few places willing to process them (and the associated toxic sludge) at the cheapest price. you could process them in the good ol USA but they would likely cost ten times as much as you couldn't just dump the toxic slurry in any old landfill/river/school playing ground (adjust according to size of brown envelope given to the local Chinese apparatchik). So it gets done in China due to market forces, wait that there be some good ol capitalism in action. USA, USA, USA!

Re: A radical new idea

strange that i get my news from the beeb which i pay for, IT side from reg and others which are ad supported so pay with my eye balls. why should everyone pay for an industry that won't modernize? should there be (another) tax on petrol to pay for horse and buggy operators? what about a big tax on TV to make up for the loss of radio audience?

boo hoo your golden days are behind you, do you think IBM would still be in business if they demanded everyone making these new fangled electronic computers pay them for continuing to manufacture mechanical ones? modernise or die off

Re: Best news evar!

nope 99% of people don't give a damn and look at you like a luddite (try telling people why you don't have a GPS unit in phone/fondle slab) and the 1% that care are written off as paranoid whackjobs. would only effect corperates if data protection laws or similar made them otherwise everyone will be too busy cooing over the shinys

Re: Take the old shuttles out of the Museum

as much as i love the shuttles they were gimped from the start by US air force requirements (which is why they are stubby wings and not lifting body). It may not seem it but the shuttle retirement is not as bad as it seems, it's directed some pork away from the traditional huge aerospace companies and put it into the hands of SpaceX (say what you like about elon but he is passionate) and Sierra Nevada Corporation's dream chaser (although only a 50% fund can't have boeing go cold turkey on all that pork).

Those two combined with the chinese "threat" may be enough to give us a shuttle mk2 much better suited and free of the government back biting and requirement creep that a NASA made mk2 would create. that is what i am hoping anyway (dream chaser looks particularly cool and seem's ideal to partner to a SpaceX cheaper launch platform)

Re: Why can't they do an A4-sized e-ink Kindle?

problem with the dx is it treats pdf's as images (don't know if calibre cure this only seen reviews) i wanted one for PDF's but after researching went for a tablet instead. if you do go for a tablet it is essential to get one with an IPS screen they ar eperfect for pdfs and use the small kindle for everything else.

i went for an onda vi40 dual core 9.7 inch IPS. it has the same screen as the iPad 2 and performs similar and to top it all off is cheaper then a kindle dx.

Re: 30 min = 6 answers?

more like he had to wait while his team vetted which questions to answer, check his responses to ensure they offended no sector of the voting populace etc hence why one of the questions answered was about beer and not foreign policy (other than restating the party line) more details on the economy (other then yeah it sucks but we are trying) etc.

no different to a press conference where they tell the press which segments are off limits on pain of restricted access. still suppose its better then blair and his "interviews" that had a full committee approved script

Re: ownership of all Class A addresses should be re-evaluated and then re-distributed.

you dirty communist baby eater!

Re: Finding work for all three might be a problem.

yeah but they couldn't let china in they would copy all of the good technology, that they make in factories in china by chinese people usign chinese materials. yes sir we kept them damn commies away from our technology!

Re: Daft twats

yeah its almost like selling something without batterys, that never happens...

and don't get me started on those fscking suitcase makers. just bought a new one and imagine my suprise when i arrived at the hotel,opened it and there was nothing inside! how dare they sell something like that expecting me to add to it. everyone elses had stuff inside yet i payed for mine and it was empty, thieving gits.

Re: Some responsibility on the game developer

whats strange is how these people can go on ignoring the bodys signals. i.e needing to pee/eat/drink. sure we have all lost a couple of hours thinking "i'm thirsty i should get a drink but one more turn/level/round first" but 40 hours of dehydration/hunger/ cramping up? and all this for what? a few extra bits of loot that would have still been just as likely to drop if you took a 5 min bathroom break every few hours?

Re: how else are you going to send your CV

but then how can they trace you via email address to your facebook/twitter/furriesfor911truth forums etc

Re: The odds are...

or you make money taking advantage of free bets/sign up offers. gambling is gambling online or otherwise but the problem here is the US has such stupid laws (gambling is wrong unless its vegas/atlantic city/indian reservation). this leaves a lot of companies registering in costa rica, dutch Antilles (or whatever it is now) and other places with very little oversight (often members of supervisory boards own the gambling outfits they license, this is especially true with online indian casino's). this leaves them operating semi legally and leaves gamblers even more open to being ripped off

Now compare this to the likes of the bookies here such as betfair, WH all licensed, all above board and some even publically traded on the LSE (complete with the oversight that requires). People will gamble all making it illegal does is hand the money to scammers like this lot and lets people be taken advantage of.