Posts by peter 45

Ever been to a mercury factory?

I suppose you would imagine people in white suits and breathing masks working behind glassed off areas. Well you would be wrong. Mercury runs down open channels , no masks etc. The difference is that there is adequate ventilation. Chronic exposure to mercury vapours happens in two ways. 1. concentrating the vapour by boiling it. 2. at room temperatures, prolongued exposure over many years. Yes it is toxic, and no, you do not want to injest it or inhale it and minimising the long term exposure of it is a good thing, but please do not go down the scare story of 'one breath and you are dead' routine.

hmmmmmm

One might conclude he suspect collusion between the security services and customs to try to pin anything on anyone associated, and he expected to be stopped, and damn me he was right.

Re..Re

Or Beaujolais even

Do you know nothing about mass market consumer products?

I heard a Motorola production manager dismiss a 150000 unit run with the dismissive remark that it was hardly worth getting out of bed for. They counted a normal batch run on a single line for a single product between 400000-500000 units.

1/4 mil units per day? easy peasy.

Hurrah

the DVLA seems to be a large bureaucracy, which spend most of its time thinking up new means of raising money, which it needs to pay for the large bureaucracy which has built up in order to manage these new ways of raising money.

endangerment vs no risk

Quite how he can be charged with reckless endangerment when the airline issued a statement saying that there was no danger to the passengers.

Wonder if his lawyer knows?

Aircraft transfers.....and refueling

You are forgiven for coming to the logical and sensible conclusion that for transfers you sould not need to go through immigration, but you would be wrong. You do need to go through immigration for transfers.....or even no more than a flight refueling.

Last time I went to New Zealand we had a refueling stop in the the good old landofthefreeandbrave, and queued for 2 hours to be fingerprinted and photo'd through the single immigration officer into the special holding area about 50m from the aircraft. The second the last person in the queue was 'immigrated', we then queued up to processed back onto the same aircraft.. Whole process took hours. That was just annoying, but it was compounded by the most rude self important arrogant Immigration officer i have ever witnessed.

I have never been back to America, never want to, and I insist that any flight I take for work or holidays do not go anywhere near there, and now they want to charge me!

\icon of the fire that needs to be lit under their arrogant stupid asses\

It is not difficult

Why would anything else be needed other than a letter being sent to each Licenced establishment informing them that they are updating the Acceptable Forms of ID list to include Military ID. You might even think they could even send a specimen picture so each Publican knows what one looks like. Tie that up with your database of Licencees with a mail merge aaaaaaand Print. Your job is done

How is that not sensible, easy, pragmatic and totally foolproof? Oh wait. Council workers spending your money efficiently. Never mind.

<icon of your cash going up in smoke>

Tosh

Yes they have. There are many hundreds of studies covering thousands of experiments going back over decades that show and direct measureable correlation between smoking and cancer. Testing did not just finish in the 1950s either, but continued throughout the 70s 80 and into the 90s. May even be studies going on today for all I know, but i found references up to 1995 within 2 minutes of googling. Its not that hard.

You are probably correct in trying to re-do the testing, but not because they might not find a correlation, but because of the moral difficulty of doing testing that is known will kill you. Subjecting thousands more people (or Beagles) to further testing which, at best, will only conform what is known to an even greater degree of accuracy just will not get past the approvals process.

probably better

Probably better at it than the 'expert' Government Lawyers.

Would they?

Mr Plod "where do you live"

Me "Not telling you"

Mr Plod "Why not?"

Me "Legally I don't have to"

Mr Plod " In that case I am arresting you for behaving suspisiously"

Me "What was suspicious about my behaviour"

Mr Plod "Refusing to give me your name and address"

Unlimited?

So if I warranty your car for unlimited mileage but limit it to 1000 miles or one week in the small print you won't complain then? I just happen to have a car for sale. Grin

Or offer you an all you can eat buffet but state in the small print that all you can eat is actually two potatos you won't complain then? I just happen to be opening a resturant. Please pay me a visit.

Or offer you a lifetime warranty on your toaster and define lifetime as one day, you will not be coming back to me after two days?

Or...or...or

The only thing here that us unlimited is the creative marketing speak that can offer you something and actually give you exactly the opposite, and think that is perfectly fine. Have you actually considered that these companys are deliberatly putting in stuff like this and relying on everyone except the most savvy not to understand. It is called Confusion Marketing. Look it up.

Overpriced? I should say so

1. USB cable priced at £9.99, whilst Tescos had the identical for £1.29.. HDMI cable at Tescos £1.97, but at PC World .....wait for it......£9.99.

2. SCART cables costing 3 x the Freeview box (but they were Monster cables...say no more)

3. PC case (including PSU) £5 cheaper than the identical PSU without PC case.

So dangerous it may kill you eventually...if you live that long

"we don't feckin' *know* yet what will happen to someone who uses a mobile phone at length on a daily basis for the majority of their life"

...and if it takes the majority of my life for something (maybe) to happen, then the risk that something will happen is so utterly small then it is just not worth worrying about. Even if it does happen, i will be at the end of my life anyway.

I'm with you on this one

I can just heat the chatter in the MS meeting rooms

"Oh oh oh....I know...Instead of fixing the problem, or blaiming the people exploiting the problem, or blaiming the people who allowed the problem to exist, lets blaim the person who pointed out the problem, who we ignored and who had to take it public to even get an acknowlegement the problem exists."

Who pays?

"That would be the companies they were planning to sell access to"

And where do these companies get the money from to pay for this access. That would be by passing on the charges to their Customers. And who would have been their Customers? Oh yeh. That would be us then.

Not forgetting the 17.5 VAT charge that goes straight out of our pockets...and not forgetting the income tax we would have paid in order to pay for these access charges....and not forgetting the corporation tax that gets paid by these companies who make a profit from charging these access charges.......and so on.

I'm just going for a lie down.

No wonder they regarded this scam as a nice little earner for the Government coffers.

All together now........

You know, I had a similar experience. I heard the same noises coming out of the radio when my drill was switched on. I no longer have a drill. I also saw strange patterns on my telly when the fridge compressor motor kicked in. I no longer have a fridge. When I held my radio near my computer, there was strange hissing noises. I no longer have a computer....

Oh. Wait