Posts by ian 22

Re: Uh oh....

Gaia wants to kills us all!

Re: Who really believes the mirror tale anymore?

WTF? Lockheed didn't make Hubbel's mirror! That was Perkin-Elmer. With such a name (sorry, Elmer Fudd) what could have been expected?

Re: It is all about the case

Not all about the buttocks? Surely those with more curvaceous glutea maxima will cause greater damage to their maxiphones.

Re: Last gasps of the battleship

@Destroy All Monsters

"Why not stay home in that case?"

That is a question best put to the likes of Messrs. Bliar, Bush, and Cheney.

Re: Welcome to the wireless world

That's right, I had forgotten! Apple murdered the floppy- in cold blood! Bastards. Now they're sharpening their knives for thumb drives. Will no one stop them? Will we be forced into a wireless world of unwanted convenience?

Everything is becoming disembodied and flying into the clouds, like an Escher engraving.

Re: 0.8AU or 0.8 Light Years?

There would be no confusion if the author had used standard units of length, in this case, bendy buses.

Re: Sex when drunk

The article seems to say beer goggles come off after one ... er... gets off.

Re: any intelligent life more than 100 light years away...

Intelligent Humans? I think we flatter ourselves. The Dolphins know better.

Re: It aint just fakes.

@the other Ian

Would you accept a Paris knockoff? The real one is currently out of stock.

PS: bubble wrap is extra.

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."

Shredding will do nicely though.

Re: Je suis Charlie...

@Swiss Anton: laugh if you like. *I* have the body of a Greek god- the fat one.

Re: New-Age Flim-Flam!

While I'd like to be supportive of this effort, it looks shocking.

Re: jail time

It seems the Supreme Court has ruled corporations are people, if so, banging one up would be quite entertaining. In this case the phrase 'criminal enterprize' is redundant.

Re: No Problem

Bah. Neither Elvis nor Bigfoot are reliable sources. You should've looked it up on Wikipedia instead. Far more reliable. Joseph Stalin told me so.

Re: reducing energy consumption

Reducing birth rates is one half of the equation. The other half is reducing the number of existing humans. Mother Nature could easily take care of that in the way she usually does with populations that outgrow their resources: disease, famine, and conflict.

Re: More sites to be blocked?

Yes, this's bestiality at its worst, and must be banned. Wait aren't seals beasts, and so bestiality is normal to them?

This is all too complicated for me.

Re: why are they looking for outside investment for this?

But can I use it to make bacon sarnies?

Re: I have to say...

Cue obligatory paranoid "it's all done in a photographer's studio" comments in... 5, 4, 3, ...

Re: So what's next?

In Mexico, no game between the national university (UNAM) and traditional rival Politecnico was complete without the traditional firing of small ballistic missiles at one another's stands.

Given the world's current state, today the missiles would likely be Qassams or RPG-7s.

Re: Wait, Alan Turing was a Victorian now?

And Turing was destroyed by Victorian laws.

Re: Oil subsidies...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/energysource/2012/04/25/the-surprising-reason-that-oil-subsidies-persist-even-liberals-love-them/

For those who do not believe petroleum is subsidized in America, the above link offers a contrary (and more informed) view.

Re: hmmm

The article does state Western Australian laws and legal procedures apply to the unnamed perpetrator. Do you think he'll (gender assumption here) be deported to America?

Re: while it may look cheesy

To paraphrase the "any technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable to magic" quote, any technology sufficiently weird is indistinguishable to crazy. The Japanese do the best weird

Re: Congratulations India.

Please define launch costs. Fuel, hardware, ground control, communications, launch facilities, tracking, etc?

If the all-inclusive cost is so little, are you implying $60 million were expended on a 13kg payload? Or are there other expenses involved?

No, I am not an accountant! Merely pedantic.

Aye, beer goggles are less spendy and more fun.

Re: About time...

Speaking of skewed demographics, what is the incidence of luekaemia in the general population? Does the lovely air quality in the region not affect it? I suspect a bit of hexane in the factory air is not the worst of their problems.

Re: siri et al

You must learn Klingon. I've found Klingon is 100% compatible with Siri AND whatever the other "voice recognition" system is called.

One major problem is translating between Klingon and English. "Release" is most closely translated as "software has battled its way to tactical supremacy". Etc. Perhaps not the most convenient use of voice recog.

Re: Living Computer Museum- Seattle

No punched card, I've seen more than enough of them. However I was surprised to see someone still produces them, the last of the buggy-whip makers. Who uses punched cards now?

Re: I'd buy that for a Dollar!

The video seems to indicate a loose connexion, possibly indicating fragile, gaudy tat.

Sorry, I'll continue to use my completely non-autonomous Miele.

Re: Sorry...

Bulldust? Don't you mean "drone droppings"?

Re: Sock gnomes

@Mycho: due to conservation of mass, the socks become hangers. No need for alternate universes. Occam's Razor shaves clean.