So I'm out of here.
Thanks for all the fish Maru
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Andrew Crystall wrote:
It seems to me that the free market does a poor job in this regard;
It seems to me the government does a poor job in this regard. I don't
want a bunch of politicians deciding which drugs to spend my money on.
I'm perfectly capable of deciding for myself.
Well,
I demand to have some booze!
10 points to anyone who can determine which movie that comes from.
Curtis.
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On 30/09/2008, at 6:24 PM, Curtis Burisch wrote:
I demand to have some booze!
10 points to anyone who can determine which movie that comes from.
Withnail and I, you terrible c**t.
So, can you construct a Camberwell Carrot? Do you cover yourself in Deep
Heat
10,000 bucks would make a difference -- an extra $1000 a month for 10 months
would almost certainly ease the situation. The problem is not the debt
itself, but the increased cost of servicing that debt that has resulted from
higher interest rates.
Curtis
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Zimbabwe dollars?
That's about ZWD$2,000 in today's money, or ZWD$20,000,000,000,000,000
(twenty quadrillion dollars) as it would have been had the currency not been
devalued twice, chopping off 13 zeros in the process.
Regards,
Curtis.
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One of my friends thinks my concept work on reducing the cost of
materials transport by sub orbital rocket and multi GW propulsion
laser would not cause me any trouble even if I went on a lecture tour
about it in China. Others think I would be arrested and jailed for
Two sides to this.
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Charlie Bell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
You've hit on something that's both profound and irrelevant.
The universe is stranger than we can imagine :)
C
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On Sun, 21 Sep 2008, Julia Thompson wrote:
i'm not ashamed to admit that i make lots of mistakes. does that make
me an idiot? that's how i learn...
Well, if that's how you *learn*, you're still open to learning, and if
someone is open to learning, they are, IMO, *not* an idiot.
Insanity:
On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Julia Thompson wrote:
i'm not ashamed to admit that i make lots of mistakes. does that
make me an idiot? that's how i learn...
Well, if that's how you *learn*, you're still open to learning, and
if someone is open to learning, they are, IMO, *not* an idiot.
Don't you mean Arrr!!
Happy 'Talk-Like-A-Pirate' day!
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Zimbabwe inflation rate is around 810% **per month**
!
c
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I was just checking
I can't speak for other members of the list's silent majority.
I, for one, see another news article on some cult or its members run
amok,yawn, and hit Delete.
I second that lack of emotion.
c
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I'm not sure what that change of direction is, House Of Suns reads just
like all his others. Is the idea that it is more character focussed? I
didn't see any evidence of this.
I really loved House of Suns!!
c
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On Tue, 5 Aug
, Curtis Burisch wrote:
Reality is an illusion. Lunchtime, doubly so.
Sorry: Time is an illusion. Lunchtime, doubly so. If you want to be
precise.
Charlie.
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To me, what you have said is like saying that those killed on 9/11 in the
WTC died from greed, since they were there to work.
Isn't that the obvious conclusion?!!!???
Curtis
Blatant Troll Maru :)
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I'm a little skeptical on this. There have been so many rosy forecasts over
the years for fusion, and they never seem to pan out.
Fusion is 30 years away, and always will be.
I'm well aware of this statement, and it's held true so far -- but to date
people have focused on tokamak fusion devices,
I am not optimistic that this will be done. If this or some other
really huge supply of primary energy is not found, we are going to be
in for some nasty times. The other way the energy crisis will be
solved is for the world population to fall to about a billion.
so we face either a
In what way, specifically?
It's an unstable situation, implying change. One way or another it will
sort itself out.
If we run out of energy, it will be a global catastrophe where billions die.
We will adapt to the new conditions. Stabilization achieved.
If we find a new source of energy, the
Bah. When I tried to watch it, it said 'Video no longer available'.
When I went to the site today, it said proudly 'Exclusively on iTunes' !!!
Seems I'll never get to see this. Which is a shame :(
c
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On 22/07/2008, at 8:15 PM, Curtis Burisch wrote:
Bah. When I tried to watch it, it said 'Video no longer available'.
When I went to the site today, it said proudly 'Exclusively on iTunes'
!!!
Seems I'll never get to see this. Which is a shame :(
There are avis floating about. If you
You might not be aware, but the constant annoying security warnings in Vista
are nothing more than 'security theatre' -- i.e. they make you feel safer,
without actually doing anything meaningful. Vista is no more secure because
of these annoying prompts -- coders with malicious intent just work
If this can happen in an advanced European country how many thousands of
sex-slave basements must there be in a backward country like the USA?
That's exactly my point. Worldwide there must be thousans of undiscovered
basements.
c
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I had heard about this from a recent post on, I forget -- either el reg or
Slashdot. Nowhere was there an implication that it was fake. It's possible
this _particular_ url is fake, but there certainly is a real one floating
about, whether it's this one or not. Personally I think it's a truly great
but what would happen to the excess women?
Isn't that where the polygamists come into the equation?
:D lol
Rgds
c
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A: None of the above, because they all contribute to world hunger. Ethanol
manufactured from atmosphere processing plants powered by solar energy is
the correct answer.
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which is better for ethanol; sugar cane, corn, switch grass, soy or
hemp?~)
Malt and hops...
Drink it, don't burn it.
Hey, I like this guy! I like they way he thinks!
Rgds
C
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What about algae the produce large amounts of complex hydrocarbons
per unit
of input sunlight, as the syn biology proposal I mentioned would do.
Granted, it's a tough job as Charlie pointed out, but the price of
equipment for synthetic biology is falling faster than Moore's
lawso
http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/tamir/archive/2008/04/28/computer-languag
es-and-facial-hair-take-two.aspx
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Excellent, excellent article posted on Slashdot today:
http://www.herecomeseverybody.org/2008/04/looking-for-the-mouse.html
Clay Shirky has been giving talks on his book Here Comes Everybody - his
masterpiece, per Cory Doctorow - and BoingBoing picks up one of
Printers can operate either in EPS mode (Encapsulated Postscript) or you can
write an image directly to them. In EPS mode the printer decides what font
to use, and in image mode the computer itself generates the bitmaps from its
own fonts.
(HPs will use PCL, Page Control Language, which is
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 1:15 AM, Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
it is probably OK for me to say that
the best/most cost-effective PDF output I've obtained comes free via
the Preview button on every Mac OS X print dialog, and works in
every application, not just Office.
I use PDFCreator,
Reality check.
Coal power is about 0.04 cents / kWh
I'm in the solar biz. The reality is:
Orbital stations are operational for 100% of the time. Earthbound stations
are operational at most 50% of the time (because of the day/night cycle).
But orbital stations cost a LOT more to get going. This
What else is like this... endless upgrades to convince people that
their
perfectly good old product is obsolete?
The one that really gets me is razor blades.
Does anyone really need 5 blades vibrated by a small motor to shave?
Is the new Gillette FusionPower Phenom with 5 blades and onboard
It _is_ an improvement, if you give it a chance. Where over the years
the Menus became nearly non-sensical containers of cruft (what was the
difference between the old Edit menu and Tools or Insert?
schnipp
I'm a software engineer, and I hate the new ribbon interface -- yet it's
pervasive:
to
shit on Gilette for that.
c
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Curtis Burisch wrote
they thinking? (MS Office 2007)
On 24 Apr 2008, at 19:31, Curtis Burisch wrote:
Yah well I'm as I said an IT pro, so the beardy look doesn't quite
cut it.
Much as I'd love to live on pemmican in the appalacians for the rest
of my
life, things just aren't that simple. So go figure. Clean shaven
Coal power is about 0.04 cents / kWh
Whoops. That was supposed to be 4 cents / kWh.
I also neglected to mention the following stats that may be of interest:
Power in earth orbit: 1300 W/m^2
Power at earth surface: 1000 W/m^2
Regards,
Curtis.
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In the past few days, since I've become aware of this site, I've been
reading it avidly - with horror. No idea who funds these guys, but it's
clear they're not the good guys. Check it out if you dare :
http://www.junkscience.com/
Their beliefs are primarily centred around
There have been between two- and three-hundred new sf novels
published in English every year since the seventies, and probably the
sixties when the paperback boom began. SF as a recognisable genre has
been published since the nineteenth century with Wells and Verne. SF
magazines began in
Interesting premise, reasonably executed. What makes it stand out are
the long long (long) takes, 4 and 5 minute action sequences done with
steadycam. Great stuff.
I noticed that take, and rewound to watch it no less than 3 times. Great
cameraman there, great teamwork in a LARGE cast, and
Anyway, I hate it when someone criticizes my favorite shows, so I guess I
should have known better.
I have to disagree with William's response in the strongest possible terms
-- not your response, Olin (what an unusual and wonderful name!)
I have read almost all science fiction ever published,
The first one only came out today in the UK! They are doing a bunch
of films, aren't they? Is it one for each main character?
Oh, don't you have internet in UK? I'm in SA, saw the movie about a month
ago :)
Didn't know they were doing one per character, but I suppose it makes sense.
Saw the
That was not disappointing.
Best televised sci-fi series EVER. Ok, so there were a couple of slow points
in the plotline. But I can't wait for the rest of the series. And the movie.
Disappointed I WILL be when it all ends :(
On another note, I also loved Futurama. There's a second Futurama
I loved that movie, I've seen it many times. Anyhoo --
1. April Fools -- in my experience, this has always been strictly an
until-midday affair. Fun, but come 12pm midday you come clean and apologise
:) (where necessary :D )
2. Zimbabwe. I'm from Zim, originally -- so the whole election thing
Thought you chaps might be amused to see an article that appeared in
November 1968 in Modern Mechanix. The predictions are partially right, but
sadly we missed out on our 250 MPH cars and domed cities.
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/03/24/what-will-life-be-like-in-the-year
-2008/
c
Apple has no antitrust issues because unlike Microsoft Apple has not
been convicted in a court of law for illegally abusing a monopoly
position and therefore has had no legal sanctions placed on its
corporate behaviour. Additionally Apple isn't a monopoly anyway so
even accusing it of
Personally I don't like Apples, or fruit in general. I'm a meat and
potatoes
man.
That sounds like a very unhealthy diet which will affect your mental
and physical well-being in both the short and long term.
That was just a figure of speech. I'm mostly vegetarian -- but I honestly
don't
... did I mention that as a result of the airwaves being filled with crap
like 'Lost', I haven't owned a TV for about five years?
Curtis.
Garbage in garbage out Maru
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On 20 Mar 2008, at 16:53, Curtis Burisch wrote:
... did I mention that as a result of the airwaves being filled with
crap
like 'Lost', I haven't owned a TV for about five years?
You mean you've missed _Battlestar Galactica_, _Dexter_ and _Gossip
Girl_?
Nope. Well, I've never heard
For not posting about the monstrous evil of religion lately. I've been
distracted by the new iPhone SDK (which is very nice) and thinking of
what sort of software to create with it that lots of other people
haven't also thought of :-)
Hah!
Wayne wrote:
Has the list discussed what it will take to colonise the solar system in
the past or is that too almost on topic?
I'm pretty new here too ... I haven't seen anything of this kind of
conversation. But maybe sci-fi has moved on a bit beyond merely banal
spaceflight -- perhaps the
It's tetrahydrocannabinol!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrahydrocannabinol
c
History is dope Maru
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I thought you might like to know of the full-text copy of Aldous Huxley's
The Doors of Perception is online at
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/doors.htm
Hth,
C
One thing leads to another Maru.
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Lance A. Brown said:
The point of shooting the satellite was to disrupt the fuel storage. If
the satellite came down in one piece, there is a chance the hydrazine
fuel on board would survive to reach the surface. If it impacts on
land, you get nasty poisonous gas cloud.
If the missile did
If you think black helicopters are a-comin-a-gitcha, you
ain't seen nothin' yet: Think black flying saucers.
Which make a lot more sense for alien invaders to use than ones which
glow bright green . . .
Black is way more cool. Ever seen a pink ufo?? Hah! Thought not!
Even worse than the tobacco industry, no?
Aye. (re: Ethyl)
Hmm, no parallels to global warming and certain
researchers either... The possible link between crime
and lead levels is intriguing; articles on lead's
harmful effects particularly WRT children have been
posted previously, so I won't
Deborah, it came through ok the first time :)
Good research. But tonight I was reading a very interesting article on the
use of lead additives to petrol in the USA, and I thought there were some
very interesting parallels with the whole DDT issue. Damn interesting site,
too, with great articles.
Dan M: wrote:
3) Are you interested in discussing what I just quoted and will requote:
The third is a discussion of the case at hand: if we (as I think we do)
agree that improving the lives of the poorer among us at least _a_
worthwhile goal, has Wal-Mart done more to aid or more to harm those
Dan, I live in Africa. I lived in Zimbabwe for more than half my life.
There's no denying that Malaria is a big problem. But DDT is definitely NOT
the answer.
Other preventative measures are cheaper, and far less damaging. Wikipedia
again:
The relative effectiveness of IRS (with DDT or
Charlie said:
Oh look - change of topic:
Muahahahahhahahaahaaa!!!
Regards
Curtis
Can't pull the wool over this one's eyes Maru :P
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IANAC, but I don't think that organic necessarily means from life,
but means chemicals based on Carbon.
Organic usually means related to life. The word Organic is also used to
describe a branch of chemistry which deals with carbon-related compounds.
(Coal is made of complex organics, Diamond is a
Better idea - remove tax exemptions and other special benefits for
religions and quasi-religious organistions, with the exception of
charitable ventures (which must be purely charitable subsidiaries of
or wholly separate ventures).
And only those over twenty-one should be allowed access to
Hmmm.
This looks like a random post by an inspired but misguided soul, who will
never actually bring his 'experimental course' to any real students...
I quote, Please feel free to add other topics and suggestions, and add your
name below as a teacher or student interested in this
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