Re: Yeah, that happened.
Sorry, just enough, you are the one spouting rubbish. Hair dryers can easily muster the oomph to melt plastic.
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Dropped coffee in a brand new keyboard once. Ran it under the cold tap to the horror of all, then dismantled it and dried it with paper towel. The only sticky bit was the rubber sheet under the keycaps popped a couple of magnets and getting them back in place was tedious. Worked fine after for many years.
Why people think washing circuit boards is a terrible idea after they've been hosed in beverage is a mystery. Air drying is the mistake, as tap water is full of stuff that crystalizes out and can short tracks.
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There is prior art that goes back to the year Berners-Lee sat up, put down his teacup and said "hang on, I've had an idea".
The Unisys mainframe product that used to be called MAPPER and is now called I dunno what organizes OS2200 files and elements (not a unix-like system at all) into cabinets and drawers. Doesn't use a GUI because they weren't A Thing then.
" but in today's bat-shit crazy world, satire is not always obvious. "
There was a Tomorrow's World gag show back in the late 70s in whch "dehydrated water pills" were demonstrated with a rather nice allotment-style tap-onna-wooden-stake prop.
The next week it was reported that they'd had enquiries from interested companies about licensing the tecnology.
In 1984 I was walking in the murky upper concourse of the 14th street A/C/E line subway in Manhattan and spotted a poster glued to a girder holding up the road above. It read: If you can't read, call 1-800-Whatever-The-Number-Was.
Swear by Cthulhu's Tentacle Beard. I think I was about to be mugged but my hysterical laughter frightened everyone into retreating back into the shadows.
No thanks. I was brought up in the UK before it was unfashionable to admit we had a state religion.
Prayers in the morning every day, including the "extra" lines in the Lord's Prayer so we'd know we were English Protestants and not Roman Catholic or American Protestants.
And mandatory Religious Education once a week. The Haynes Manual was front and center.
And the play at Christmas. If only we'd been allowed to do an Ernie Wise on it.
And Easter concerts in the local church (including Mr Cooper melting down one time when someone sang "God Save Our Gracious Team" after the Scaffold made the line famous on Top of the Pops).
Nope. I don't need to read the Bible to keep Jehovah's Witnesses at bay, just like I don't need to read the Koran to "understand" Sharia Law enough to call it a bad idea. I just need to understand my own place in the Sun.
Well said, GBE.
In point of fact without any fat most meat is tasteless. The most delicious burgers I ever had were from a place called Fudruckers, but I stopped eating them after a barbecue flare of epic proportions almost set fire to my house when I opened the lid. Turns out they are very high in fat, making them a no-no in my case. Mouth-wateringly tasty but say "fare-thee-well" to thine eyebrows if you barbecue them.
I found a BK where they make everything using very fresh veggies. I'll drive the five miles out of my way some nights for a quick and delicious evening meal (which is not a belly burster and is devoid of any fried components if you forgo the fries, soda and the "go large" ritual).
So Hitler bumps into Goebbels and Goebbels says "How zey hangink?" and Hitler says "Terrible. I keep dreamink I'm a clock. I vake up each mornink mutterink tick tick tick" and Goebbles screams NEVER MIND! VE HAFF VAYS OF MAKINK YOU TOCK!"
Sean Spicer should have opened with that one.
I do, and I wear it on the side of my wrist so I can check it without tilting my wrist, moving my head or otherwise indicating that I'm finding what the boss says less than riveting. Also great when driving not to be taking qne hand off the wheel and rotating my head away from the road view. Yes our cars have clocks, but they are inaccurate and I don't need the aggravation of trying to figure out if the clock is telling me the time, the radio station or the last track the music-maker played.
I can also check my sideways watch in a cinema without blinding everyone sitting behind me like the phonetards do.
a) The Grand Old Man of British SF (Brian Aldiss) swears blind that Science Fiction starts with Mary Shelly writing Frankenstein. You'd need to read the first bit of The Billion/Trillion Year Spree to get the full argument.
2) For all the wifflewaffle about "exploring inner space" I see no mention of the film Seconds. So a star comes off Mr Skiffy Expert's cred.
Find a copy and watch to see why. Don't Wikispoil it for yourself.
Have to say I agree about not having fucktards yelling witless nothingness into thier phones while on a flight.
But I rarely fly any more. Dimwit bread and circuses "security" procedures that do nothing to secure the plane and yesterday's elloquent lesson in what rights a passenger actually has have pushed me into taking the long way if possible and driving.
As many bags as I like, with whatever I care to put in 'em, shoes on as long as I want them on and decent food along the way.
Where's the shouty, abusive one that has to be kept away from the users even at e-mail's length?
Or the one that hasn't figured out how to bathe?
Or the one who cannot fathom the hinge on the toilet seat?
Or the one that thinks people are fooled by his putting the coffee-pot back on the hotplate on a slant to "hide" the fact that he is dodging the "you take the last cup, you make a new pot" rule?
Messerschmidt ( edit: could have been Dornier) were developing one about the size of a Beechcraft Baron in the early 80s. It was featured on Tomorrow's World, had reverse delta wings and was supposed to be a replacment for expensive helicopters for North Sea oil rigs. Never thought it was feasible and never saw it operational.
Russian Ekranoplans are apparently a very noisy, bumpy and expensive way to travel anyway. What they offer is speed. The rooskies used the Caspian Sea Monster as a high-speed personnel carrier.
About as stealthy in use as Concorde taking off over your head, I'm led to believe.
I'll be interested to see the stories of people who butt-dialed their garage while on holiday in Spain and came home to find it ransacked, looted and burned out.
Honestly, it's like the IoT lovers never had their phone's camera turn on in their pocket and drain the batteries before the evening' ents required the hailing of a cab.