Posts by touchwood

Fukushima situation as of Wednesday

“It ain’t what you don’t know that counts. It’s what you know that ain’t so.” (Will Rogers)

Well done Lewis! It's so refreshing to get non-FUD info from the Media!

It would be nice if all the naysayers educated themselves by reading this:

http://www.hiroshimasyndrome.com/fukushima-accident-updates.html

But then, living in UK generates an awful lot of negativity, dunnit?

Army's £114m battle-comms net not up to Afghan demands

Cormorant

Doth not ye Cormorant hath a stone within it's gullet to stop eating ye fish?? Methinks there be also a similar stone herein, nay??

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Windows 7 versus Snow Leopard — The poison taste test

Win 7#

To Win 7 #

"By Anonymous Coward Posted Thursday 3rd September 2009 04:35 GMT

I'm on the verge of installing Ubuntu on my home and work machines, and even though her laptop is now usable with Win7, my wife is adamant that her next machine will be a Mac."

Verily so, in thine household thine Vixen hath chosen, 'Her Pussy' OS? Nicely done! Not based on ye poofed-up 'LongHorn?'

How great marketing from MS! 'LongHorn' attracteth males, nay?

Yet, Thine wifey, preferreth a good, silken, 'Pussy OS,' nay ye Long of Horn??

be, methinks, ye hath some placating to perform, nay??

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Apple tried to quash Sunday Times' Jobs profile

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA

"Stay hungry,......... stay Foolish!"

Brit firm stops anti-tank warheads with cloth

Interesting

Many years ago I was involved in developing an indoor firing range wherein the firing cubicle had to survive sideways, pointblank fire without penetration into the adjacent cubicle and zero splashback. Ammo extended to 762/556/solid shotgun projectiles. We tried all sorts of packing into the booth walls that were @ 5 inches thick. Sand; kevlar; steel-plate; sandwiches of wood/steel etc, all to no avail. As a last resort we dived into a 'rag-bag' full of quite thin, clean, cloth cleaning rags. We packed these rags between the sandwiches of alternate steel plate (@ 2mm thick) and 5mm thick plywood, with most of the rags loosely packed in the centre sandwich. The bloody thing worked!! No splashback, no penetration! The rags appeared to absorb the projectile by spreading out at impact in some weird fashion. Sadly, we never got the Contract. Can quite believe this stuff!