Posts by allthecoolshortnamesweretaken

Re: "disgruntled investors" ?

For all I know I might be one without knowing it, so to speak.

Where does VC money come from? At least some of it comes, directly or indirectly, from institutional investors. So there is the the possibility that a fraction of the money that went into the Juicero came from my pension fund or life insurance etc. Without any way for me to know, let alone a way to influence it.

Re: Want/need?

I see your lightbulb and raise you one salt shaker with bluetooth and Alexa integration.

Re: "We must disrupt to exist."

Military logic is to real logic what military music is to real music.

Re: And it will get worse before it starts to recover.

Isn't that what LBJ said about the war in Vietnam?

Re: It seems his staff are only inflating the bubble.

Just like what you'd expect from your garden variety banana republic dictator.

"I see your statement, and raise you a driving goldfish."

This is actually about the level autonomous driving has achieved yet.

Being chauffeured by a goldfish with an alcohol content in it's bood above the driving limit.

Re: It's A Shame

Denmark has good form on non-random people building improbable contraptions and taking the proper care and consideration:

Copenhagen Suborbitals

Re: Arrested for murder of the Swedish journalist

"Seen real live naked women without airbrushing and photoshop."

Really? What's it like???

Re: Pictures

Why does it seem to have outer doors for torpedo tubes, though?

(Paging Skip Tyler.)

Re: What's sixze got to do with it?

"While her theoretical crush depth is given as "400m-500m", this seems a tad optimistic. Proper naval submarines tend to operate at these levels, and the 18-metre Nautilus is far smaller than those."

A DSRV is much smaller than any sub with a combat role, but can dive much, much deeper.

And I'd go as far as calling it a proper naval submarine.

Re: A threat?

The W54 used in the M-388 "Davy Crockett" weighed in at 23 kg. And that was 1950ies technology (W54s were manufactured from 1961 until early 1962, around 400 of them).

Just sayin'.

Re: the sort of precautions you would take if you were being parachuted into [..] France in 1941

You'll need to step up your game. At least to 1960ies standards.

"Survival kit contents check. In them you'll find:

- One forty-five caliber automatic

- Two boxes of ammunition

- Four days' concentrated emergency rations

- One drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine,

vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills

- One miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible

- One hundred dollars in rubles

- One hundred dollars in gold

- Nine packs of chewing gum

- One issue of prophylactics

- Three lipsticks

- Three pair of nylon stockings.

Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff."

Re: FedEx routing "errors" are common

They are probably using advanced AI systems...

Re: Whilst we're on the subject of food stuff from Morrisons.

"Their meat is also very good as they own their own abbatoirs."

I hear their abbatoirs are also quite outstanding; I understand they were designed by one Mr Wiggins, of Ironsides & Malone.

"So there's a size limit after which the cheese-like substance in the middle will hit the critical threshold and achieve fusion."

This is actually how the civilisation on the Moon was wiped out.