Posts by Bebu 2075 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Jun 2022
our CEO who types in ... lots of Times New Roman, bold fonts
No Comic sans? Only seemed like a clown then?
Curiously a very long ago I knew a chap who used MS Comic Sans as the default typeface for plain text as it made it easier for him to read his email (in his opinion.) Although to be honest he had to deal with more than his fair share of clowns and the generally clueless.
implement a bubble sort let alone any algorithm more complex.
If AI is slurping its coding skills from the unwashed of the internet then among the correct implementations of any non trivial algorithm there are also oodles more not so correct implementations to poison the well.
I would be extremely impressed if I were to give an AI assistant a (formal) specification and it were to return the algorithm(s) used, an implementation with a (formal) proof of correctness with respect to the specification.
I would dearly love to be extremely impressed in such a fashion (and in this life.)
If a satellite operator didn't have facilities in any PRC controlled territory but in neighbouring nations (say Taiwan for maximum provocation) then there would be few sanctions and little leverage that the PRC could apply to the operator. I imagine it might be quite difficult to detect clandestine client terminals. Especially if the terminals could be reduced to the size of a large cellphone.
Of course if you were caught using such an unapproved service your chestnuts would be well and truly in the fire but generally if you are detected doing anything that offends the sensibilities of the Party irrespective of any absence of overt illegality you will receive an invitation to a byo testicle shish kebab party.
Oh bother, so no streaming any of that indecent filth by A.A. Milne then. I always thought that getting ones head stuck up the honey pot was was pretty thinly veiled!
If the jar fits wear it. :)
I suspect it was the resemblance of the Grand Poohbah of Cathay to the sticky pawed bear in E H Shephard's original illustrations that has drawn the ire of the middle kingdom. Quite a few of Shephard's illustrations could be used to draw political parallels. Pooh aloft holding a balloon surrounded by angry bees is an obvious one but Pooh plummeting headfirst from a tree has to be favourite.
I suppose screening Blood and Honey in the PRC is also out of the question?
make a wheelbarrow
I was also thinking this recalling seeing very old photographs of soldiers using wheelbarrows carrying artillary shells - might have been WW1 in Europe but I think probably the incursions of Imperial Japan into Manchuria and China or their 1905 war with Imperial Russia.
The chinese wheelbarrow with its central wheel placement has higher load capacity and superior handling.
The Imperial Japanese troops invading colonial Malaya (British) used bicycles which can carry respectable loads in panniers and in baskets over the front and rear wheels and can optionally take advantage of existing made roads for greater speed.
That intersected with a thought just before I read that. :)
With moderate short term memory loss the idea might not be so odd. As it is I suspect many of us already use google/bing/duck as an auxiliary memory.
The thought that struck me was if I depended on a device for pretty much the entirety of my memory (short,medium,long term) I would pretty much have ceased to be [me] but just some coprocessor for the device to "experience" those memories - real or hallucinatory. Even the experience of the normal passing of time would vanish - if the device replayed the memories in reverse order you would not be any the wiser.
Even if MS do permit users to turn off the recall feature I would be concerned to what extent the base Windows [11?] has been instrumented to allow recall to work and whether those hooks could be hijacked by other clandestine surveillance software.
Goes without saying that I don't use Windows (or have any need to) but if recall gets any traction I can see desktop Linux distros offering something similar - another addition to systemd's already vast estate? :(
this story over one Arse Technical was that Mira Murati couldn't face even the vaguest possibility of spending the better (worse) part of a decade sharing a facility with Elizabeth Holmes. For heaven's sake the prospect of tens years in the forced company of that decidely brain dead bunny boiler....
Theranos' greatest crime wasn't that it defrauded investors but rather that it deprived very powerful and, in their minds, important people of a minuscule part their certainly equally ill-gotten fortunes.
While OpenAI almost certainly hasn't broken any US laws that apply to normal people (so far), if the whole operation falls well short of the over spruiked benefits, as it very likely will, then the special offense of depriving the powerful and important will necessarily require fairly long terms of imprisionment for someone. Mira and the other refugees have decided they don't want to be that someone.
go to ArsTechnica forums for comparison with El Reg.
Absolute dovnwote-fest in my experience.
Yup. Arse Technical forums / fora are pit bull fights in comparison with the expected attendant red neckery.
The Phoronix forum also has its moments for posts whose one eyedness that makes Polyphemus appear positively binocular.
This forum is gentlemen's club in comparison ...
For some value of gentle or indeed gentleman but I suspect a sufficient number of the Vulturati are from the side of the Pond where "taking the piss" is too great a temptation and whose sense of humour ranges well beyond the mere slapstick even to that of the gallows.
Blind: "Why are you here today?"
Sans Culotte: "They said there are men in there who know how to make [lots] of money."
"On July 14, 1789 the Bastille contained only seven inmates: four common counterfeiters, two mentally ill men, and a count who had been imprisoned at the request of his family."
Today four crypto bros, a pair of AI tech bros and a Karen from the astronaut program.
There were very few cities until mass transit became a thing.
Imperial Rome was a pretty decent approximation to a metropolis as was later Byzantium / Constantinople. The empire was littered with what could unashamedly be called cities - to the point, I suspect, that in decline was in a sense "over urbanised" with the concomitant lower birth rate and higher literacy and educational attainment. (Sound familiar?)
Depending on what is meant by "mass transit" I don't think these classical cities could be said to offer anything in the modern sense. The Roman system of roads and the security and freedom of movement afforded to travellers within the empire, whether by road or water, did lead to a large movement of people following economic opportunities to Rome and even to rather provincial towns like Pompeii where a surprising number of non native residents have been identified.
The cities of China and the rest of Asia from a few millennia ago would have been even more spectacular.
Why cities evolved on all inhabited continents is not entirely clear - there are clear counterexamples to every simple hypothesis - but fairly clearly fulfills some human need and appears inevitable when a reliable food surplus and some need or opportunity for specialisation arises. Farmsteads become settlements become villages become towns become cities.
The distinguishing feature of true cities is more likely its potable water supply and its sewers (I assume ancient Rome had its own Joseph Bazalgette but the Cloaca Maxima almost pre-dates Rome itself.)
you're just a brainwashed American who refuses to look outside their border.
Both barrels there I think. :))
Horrifyingly true in many cases: Mrs Kravitz§: "What border? There's a border? Did you hear that Abner?"
I suspect the first many Septics ever experience, or even know, of the outer world is when their sorry arses are hauled off to various god forsaken parts by their Uncle Sam.
I can only assume the (below) average MAGA & Trump supporter rationalizes their southern border as a type of permeable portal into some netherworld through which pour the hordes undocumented immigrants of peculiar dietary preferences. Those borders with Canada as a quasi state boundary onto Federal reservations restraining the pre-colonial and pre-revolutionary remanents that haven't adopted Webster's and even speak French*.
§ too young to recognise the character, too young to be here. :)
* to be fair I am not sure all francophones would own Québécois.
The layoff (reduction in force) you have when you are not having a layoff.
Looks like all of the megatech players in the global corporate cassino have placed the entirety of their chips on the AI position of a single spin of the roulette wheel.
I guess like other infections these firms have passed their log phase of growth and have been in their stationary phase with AI being the toxin (credulously ingested as nutrient) to precipitate their inevitable death phase and ultimate dissolution back into the environment. (We can only hope.)
* for anti-antipodians (podians?) see Claytons
In light of the recent Telegram shenanigans in France and ominous nonsense from Australia's domestic security agency and echoed by the national government I would be thinking running a tor onion service just to broker peer to peer encrypted messenger communication between parties might be de rigueur in future and running the peers on Tails OS.
How much would I trust the Tor network or services? Probably no more than I than absolutely necessary and then only in extremis.
born with a well developed survival instinct.
Simon is slipping. By now I would have thought he would have installed concealed cameras covering all approaches to his lair (office), his back and his role transition device(s) as well displaying the cameras' images in a window on his screen.
I imagine if he doesn't reevaluate his notion of what constitutes fine or at least healthy dining he might be facing an unanticipated role transition in the no too distant future which might not be too tragic if he were keen on barbecues.
Classic:
"Really?" Matthew says, impressed. "That first step's probably a big one."
(Unusually prescient for a blighter of his water.)
of what that must have appeared like to onlookers. :)
When I think of the number of times I was consulted by staff and students on issues outside of my actual responsibilities (and far from the expected competencies of the role) and have responded with "that rings a bell" and motionlessly, silently scouring my memory for something I had read or seen then responding with an answer or "you didn't change...?" I was fortunate not to receive a visit from the Inquisition*.
* of course no one expects the (Spanish) Inquisition
Most network printers have an IPP service which I would wonder whether the code was CUPS derived.
In environments where the "inside" is scarcely less grubby* than the unwashed internet these vulnerabilities are a bit more serious.
* think (but not exclusively) University (College) networks.
regulators
I recall from my youth a respiratory physiology lecture where the lecturer was involved in WW2 frogmen (UK) operations where rebreathing equipment was used, presumably for the lack of bubbles and range, but apparently were rather dangerous since the CO2 is removed and diver isn't warned when his O2 is running low and could lose consciousness.
I imagine a similar arrangement sans oxygen, using cheap soda lime, plastic container, some plastic tubing with a (recycled?) oxygen mask could be equally lethal with the advantage everything except perhaps the last can be purchased from any hardware store.
A kit could be offered on the internet which would literally be "just add water."
Standing back it seems surreal that a very small part of this world engages in so much hand wringing about preventing people leaving this life while the rest of the planet expends most its time just to keep a toehold on existence in the face of disease, starvation and war (three of the four horsemen.)
I assume afterwards she was put in the picture.
I imagine the caring vocations have always understood this.
One of Pratchett's witches, probably Granny (Esmeralda) Weatherwax, put it best by describing her role as easing your arrival into the world and to easing your departure from it.
Given most of us end up in a suitably sized wooden box before disposal, I would have thought the sensible approach might be to design the coffin to be airtight and with a viewing window in the coffin's lid.
Philip Nitschke also known in AU as Dr Death has been on a life mission to end life a little bit earlier which has in the past brought him no end of trouble.
I think most AU jurisdictions do now, but only recently, permit assisted dying for which we can thank Philip Nitschke in part.
AU is notorious for its lethal wildlife so you might believe actually staying alive would be a more of an issue. ;)
restricting the data sharing to benefit recipient's accounts as I would have thought if you had a little cash earner on the side you wouldn't let your hard earned anywhere near a bank. If it weren't a cash earner another account, possibly offshore (especially an internet business), under an alias would fly under this radar.
I don't suppose Starmer and co. would be interested in a well tested Robodebt system from Australia's equivalent organisation. Surplus sale price. ;)
I am reminded of Tom Stoppard's (radio) play Albert's Bridge where the management of the Clufton Bridge implemented a "reduction in force" of the four painters who could paint the bridge in two years, to a single painter (Albert) on the basis that the new silvery paint lasted eight years while the existing brown paint lasted only two years. The four painters had just finished and were ready to start again. ;)
"Its obvious to people in IT, but the people who deployed these things were chemical engineers."
I don't know about the US but in AU I recall chemical engineering students in the mid 1970s using computers to monitor and control physical and chemical processes - this at a time when the great unwashed wouldn't have known a computer even if it were dropped on them with a flashing sign displaying "Computer."
So I suspect the selection of device and subsequent connectivity choices weren't made by chemical engineers.
Twenty+ years ago, sad to say, the main culprits in attempting to put anything and everything on the internet were from IT (excepting the paranoid BOFH and the rare security minded bird.) Daft then, dangerously insane now.
Most of these monitoring devices could communicate over wet string but certainly don't require 10Gb ethernet so the resources for dedicated disconnected networks for this stuff aren't a great ask as they could run over a single wire pair and not even require the complexity of tcp.
I would guess tike a lot of monitoring kit the basic device is fairly simple consisting of one or more physical sensors with some integrated microelectronics to produce digital output. The problem starts when these devices are integrated with a single board computer (with networking) and rather than just organising the sensors' output and communicating the data to upstream monitoring systems some genius thinks "wouldn't it be great if we ran a full OS and web server on the device and allow remote (re)configuration of the system and sensors' parameters?" [Hint: No it wouldn't.]
I was sort of thinking that too.
More of: if the systems are working and logically would continue to work and the problem was with the lack of hardware components, that the cheapest solution could be to (re)start manufacturing these antiques. You could probably automate much of the manufacturing with modern robotics.
I supposed even the displays are CRT so vacuum tubes aren't too far from the truth.
The purely imaginary picture I have of these control centres is a scene from a steampunk graphic novel or the move Bazil. That movie perhaps prophetic.
that Ms Ellison might be the smartest of that crew.
Amongst the USD 11 billions who would have noticed a few millions inconspicuously squirrelled away?
I imagine a Keyser Söze like figure from The Usual Suspects who as Roger Verbal Kint convinced the authorities of his minor, or insignificant role.
A good story but realistically I imagine they were all actually just a bunch of incompetent dumb arses, and hers being the prettiest she got off lightly.
I have to be grateful for more than 35 years that by choice and good fortune of having SFA to do with Windows and the rest of MS circus. My soul mustn't have been too shabby in previous lives.
I assume the admins running WSUS on disconnected networks dodged the clownstrike fiasco.
I am guessing the demographics of Windows admins are trending to younger less technically knowlegable and more focused on Microsoft's cloud based offerings. More clerk than technologist - roles which unfortunately AI can probably fill with fewer even less skilled people. Basically the future is enshitified MS platform management - a cesspit of crap security, crap reliability, crap recovery, crap accountability and crap performance. A veritable clogged cloaca maxima.
Looks like an inverted plastic crate,(the kind in which prepackaged bread is delivered to supermarkets), with a drone hiding under it. ;)
Still an excellent practical exercise for student engineers to apply their knowledge of control theory. From the flowchart in the video with the boxes with functions of (s) also tests their knowledge of Laplace transforms too. :)
I noticed in the video the platform rose slightly when unloaded and dropped slightly when loaded but importantly didn't oscillate so I assume critically damped (or something equivalent.) I guess the limited extra thrust available from and response time of the drone's rotors determine how fast the platform can react to such disturbances. In futuristic movies the platform wouldn't move. :)
In terms of originality and utility the common garden variety wheelbarrow takes a lot beating. Ancient China took the wheelbarrow to a higher level again.* :)
* See how to downsize a transport network: the chinese wheelbarrow for pictures.
The accompanying legend gives ip is defined as the interest rate presumably annual but i isn't defined.
I assume it's the interest rate over period between payments roughly ip/number-of-payments-per-year.
The example of 1p per second for a year at 10% pa could be calculated as a continuous compounding.
When we had a mortgage I was curious how the time to repayment was related to the interest and repayments. The TVM for a mortgage is a simple recurrence becoming a sums of geometric series.
Turns out (to my thinking) the time to full repayment is mostly dependant on the ratio between the repayment amount and the interest accrued in between repayments which is understandable. eg ratio = 1, PMT = PV.(1+i) ie Interest only. Once the ratio is around 2.0 things start to move. ;)
A new platinum sponsor for Wine?
Huawei's proprietary microkernel would be interesting to examine - Huawei must believe it's performance is reasonably decent. Still I wouldn't be entirely sure that it hadn't been half inched from somewhere else. :)
Good luck recreating people without also storing the genome of all the bacteria and viruses
I was thinking that you would also need instructions on the synthesis of the non nucleic acid, mostly peptide, components of cells involved in transcription (DNA->mRNA) and translation (mRNA->peptide) just to bootstrap. Without even contemplating chromosomal structures and mitochondrial DNA.
I suspect alien lifeforms based on entirely different chemistries given this record without a living example of our nucleic acid/aminoacid biochemistry would be completely flummoxed.
Personally I would hope this exhibit is labelled NOT Mostly Harmless
See The Monster* - A. E. van Vogt (1948)
* aka Resurrection
>Also, WTF is "broiled"?
'merkan for 'grilled'
I think it might have also been pre-WW2 pommie. I recall some cookbook from around that era that referred to broiling which I had to look up (pre internet.) Possibly Constance Spry and Rosemary Hume's The Constance Spry Cookery Book - had to research Aga stoves too. :)
In AU smoke alarms are compulsory in all rentals (tested at least yearly), when building or selling a dwelling and all dwellings by 2027 . Photoelectic, Wired-in (battery backed) and linked. In the last twenty years smoke alarms have probably saved a lot of lives. It's smoke inhalations that gets you before broiling or roasting. :(
some of the not entirely clueless in these organisations asked of this class of application whether is it was entirely wise to implicitly trust a security vendor's binaries which was basically shoving it's wifepleaser into the belly of the various kernels running on all your systems.
If you were fortunate it was eBPF but often an unaudit-ed/-able kmod (Linux.)
To add insult to injury systems might have the pleasure of more than one vendor's offerings (eg CloudStrike/Falcon & Mandiant/FireEye.)
I pretty much considered this stuff one enormous Trojan Horse which had been dragged behind the defensive walls of the City.
The Clowns trike debacle was more of an accident akin to Odysseus dropping his joint and setting the wooden horse afire than the sack of the City.
In AU older phones like my Nokia 2.3 doesn't support 4G/VoLTE and won't work after October 2024 irrespective of its power connector. Fortunately I only ever used it for Google Maps (too heavy for the shirt pocket.)
I think the EU still requires 2G support so these phones should still work but for how long?
I would have thought a phased introduction would have been more rational eg all new models mandated USB-C, models introduced less than five years ago (say) can be resold with USB-B for the next five years and older models landfill. By 2030 all the older USB-B phones would be out of circulation.
reverse order than most other languages.
Example: why put the parameter type after the name, and the function return type after the function name?
The Pascal/Ada families of languages generally have the types after the parameters. eg
function add_one (i : integer) : integer; begin add_one := i+1; end
{ After 40 years I am guessing this Pascal is about right }
Algol 60 is probably the source of C's syntax.
the lowest common denominator (well, ok, maybe that'd be ed) text editor.
When you were stuck in single user mode on your Sun after rebooting with a muffed config file or boot file, ed was your salvation.
For those uninitiated to the mysteries of ed see Michael W Lucas' Ed Mastery Tilted Windmill Press. For those who are phobic seeing feminine third person pronouns etc he also offers the Manly McManface Edition for a few dollars more.
We seem to have a smörgåsbord of idiots and nutters on the job here.
Twain is often, probably wrongly, credited with but would have certainly agreed with:
"Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience."
"Never argue with an idiot, onlookers won't be able to tell the difference."
“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled."
Shaw probably wrote from personal experience:
"Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it."
11% to 27% to 21% in 3 years? I think counting might be part of the issue there.
The years being 2021, 2023 and 2024, I imagine increase from 11% to 27% during the two years 2021-22 was in part due to COVID - losing employment or taking earlier retirement, working from home, and having spare time during the restrictions of 2019-21.
The decrease from 27% to 21% might reflect return to office, increasing demands of work or better (more demanding) jobs, and the loss of the cohort of 65 yo (b. 1959) in 2024 weren't replaced with incoming 44 yo (b. 1979.)
For 0-25 yo the corresponding stats 25%, 12% and 10%. So the 26-45 (+66-99) yo numbers are 64%, 61% and 69%.
While these percentages are ratios it is curious the 26-45 yo (plus the superannuated :) ratios are pretty static. Generally this group are more disciplined than the youngsters but with the spark and creativity that age often blunts.
Absolute (raw) numbers might be more enlightening.
I suspect programming and computing, AI perhaps excepted, are not particular "sexy" for the cohorts < 25 yo. as I am guessing that the area doesn't pay all that well now and job security is non-existent. Most of IT (contrast computer science) is pretty dull and unchallenging for talented individuals who would find more rewarding and profitable uses for their time.
I suspect individuals who develop code for their own use or as peripheral aspect of their employment (where the employer has surrendered any interest in that code) will continue to dump their code on github etc with a CC0 or BSD or GPL-x licence so that any interested party can do pretty much anything with it (CC0, BSD) including maintaining it.
Large cornerstone projects like openssl probably can only continue in the long term with commercial funding or support. I don't know what proportion of the core Linux kernel developers are employed by firms using the Linux kernel in their businesses but is probably quite significant. If the proportion of volunteers on such projects decreases very much, the independence and freedom (libre) of the projects would be imperiled.
save yourself the time of schlepping over there
I always found leaving my office and ambling over the campus in the fresh air was an excellent way of clearing the cobwebs from the mind. Even having an office was a productivity booster - open plan was likely the least productive innovation* of the last century. I remember from someone's memoir of working at Bell Labs that each staff member had a separate office. How much of our world originated from there?
Schlepping sounds like something from the Ministry of Silly Walks but I suppose it's a West Coast thing.
Regarding this Amazon C-suite nong we can soon expect his requiring all staff to bring their own empty coke bottle to the office.
As for levelling the ranks history demonstrates the efficacy of the machine gun which this edict is.
Nonsense like this leaves you with only the personnel that have few choices but who are also rather unlikely to be the cream of the crop and certainly would be demoralised and unmotivated.
* AI is favourite for this century but early days still...
I imagine this limelight originates mostly from the necessary use of particular central servers rather than the particular phones or any modifications.
I can envisage encrypting peer-to-peer messaging app using MMS as the transport that in principle could be installed on any phone. Modifying the firmware and phone app to implement strong encryption for voice calls when requested wouldn't be too obvious to eavesdroppers I would have thought.
Just not amenable to being a subscription service.
The usual problem of the parties mutually and securely authenticating remains. Perhaps when the parties meet they could use NFC to exchange certificates (and pass on the certs of other trusted parties - web of trust. ;)
Fortunately the prospective market is not noted for its deep thinkers so I don't imagine their use of this technology is ever going to be an insurmountable obstacle to law enforcement.
I could imagine undercover plod flogging modified Nokia 3310 "feature" phone in a limited edition Semtex casing to the underworld as a secure phone. ;)
I am not sure it is the pointer arithmetic that doesn't translate but rather the primitive concept of pointers.
My suspicion is the primary source of trouble is C's arrays not being first class objects with the consequent ambiguity between a pointer to an object and a pointer to an array of the same object type.
Modula-2's conformant arrays was the sort of thing that would have been nice in C89 but, even at that time, I guessed it would have broken too much existing code.
C's type casting is often inpenetrable even to the veteran and coupled with concurrent pointer arithmetic is invariably beyond anyone's ken.
Every time I fire up LibreOffice to read some gratuitously .docx encoded text document I am reminded that forty years ago most similar documents were written on mechanical or electric typewriters in single mono typeface. Even during the next two decades documents, especially email, weren't embellished with too much more.
Wordprocessors originally were small and pretty basic and to be honest were about as fully featured as the majority of user could ever use.
Now over 95% Word's or LibreOffice's capabilities are unused or unknown to the majority of users (moi included.)
As for spreadsheets - those using them shouldn't, those who should... should know better.
Surprising what you could do on a CP/M-80 machine with a subset C compiler and some unix like tools. With a C translation of a modified SWTP fmt program I wrote and printed a fair number of text documents. (Still use groff -mom ;)
I am hoping "small" will stage a "comeback."
I don't know what the current Plan9 kernel source runs to, but I would be surprised if it were a million lines. Kernels don't need to be monolithic or humongous but like most software just better designed.
"Antisemitism is an irrational hatred of Jews. Disgust at the Israelli government is not antisemitism - otherwise there are a lot of antisemitic Jews out there both inside & outside of Israel."
And in many parts eg Australia you are not permitted to distinguish between Judaism and Zionism although to be fair the local Jewry don't either.
As an outsider I see one as a political ideology, the other a tribal religion.
Expressing rational disdain for an ideology is normally permitted in the western liberal tradition except in this peculiar case.
It would be a typically russian cockup for their Z emblazoned tanks to have pulled up 2000km short of their nominated target.
Sadly the à propos "For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind" KJV Hosea 8:7
I think if I were a career advisor today I would be recommending the trades as a more profitable and secure option to your aspiring young lad or lady.
With hindsight I would have been in a far better situation today if had trained as an instrument fitter or industrial electrician and certainly plumbing would have been a lot more lucretive.
As one of Douglas Adam's transdimensional white mice (HHGTTG) facing a similar dilemma opined "on the other hand just taking the money and running, then I for one could do with the exercise.”
I was just thinking being a godawful poet might be a sought after skill in a post AI world as every man and his dog with the assistance of ChatGPT could produce very passable verse (perhaps not for a Vogon nor Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings*. ) Perhaps then being very bad at something will be very good... pretty much like C-suite manglement today.
* a specimen The dead swans lay in the stagnant pool./ They lay. They rotted. They turned/Around occasionally./ Bits of flesh dropped off them from/ Time to time.:And sank into the pool's mire./ They also smelt a great deal.
If we're talking about Musk, he doesn't. BS (physics), BA (economics)
Ah from undergraduate days - Bull Shit and Bugger All. ;)
Still do they teach veggie physics in ZA? I cannot get my head around this fool actually understanding Newtonian mechanics let alone Schrödinger's (cat or equations.)
Er, I thought both shooters were Republican-registered and/or past Trump voters?
I was just observing a few days ago that Trump had a lot more to fear from the fellow nut jobs in his own camp who might be tempted by the "fame" of bagging a controversial ex-president over their unquestioning support for their victim, than from the fewer unhinged of other side of politics.
Fortunately for him it appears the demented or deranged are invariably incompetent.
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