Posts by Mr Grumpy!

Amazon's ad-hoc Ring, Echo mesh network can mooch off your neighbors' Wi-Fi if needed – and it's opt-out

I got one of these emails... Apoplectic with rage would describe my condition. It might have been to do with Amazons delivery people refusing to wear a face mask and declining to keep their distance when they turned up to take away a return I had. But hey ho, why bottle it up.

2 sets of Amazon chat bots told me that I was mistaken, it was spam, etc and Amazon didn't send that email. After I pointed out that it came from Amazon servers, and had a valid amazon DKIM signature I finally got a supervisor who confirmed it was an amazon email and he was very sorry I'd been sent this US only email.

I did elicit a promise that they wouldn't automatically opt me in when the UK receives this abomination. That's probably not a promise I'll hold my breath for...

Now it gets serious: Fracking could RUIN BEER

Don't Panic! Lager is NOT BEER! Drink Ale!

Is that really a problem? The best Ales (And no, lager doesn't qualify) are made with pretty crap water... Lets be honest, that's why it was invented in the first place. Because it comes form the times that the only SAFE drink was one that had been boiled.

Frack Away I Say!

Skewing statistics: Booze, money and sex

A SMALL CORRECTION

While I'm not forced to drink alcohol, and can enjoy it any time I like, I disagree with your statement that we are not forced to consume tobacco products... You see when I drink, I'm pretty careful to pour the liquid down my own throat, and not spray it round the room liberally, thereby giving everyone in range a bit.

However smoking just isn't the same. is it. But you're a smoker, so I wouldn't have expected you to see that. For some reason smokers seem to believe against all the evidence that there's some invisible barrier around the smoker that stops non-smokers like myself having to breath in the foul emanations of your particular perversion. But the truth is, there isn't. Just like smoking around children doesn't somehow have a ring of magic keeping their lungs clear.

So yes, I agree. Hang them all. But hang the smokers with them, those foul breeds that stand outside the doorways of offices, forcing me to breath their second hand emanations of death just to get into the office.

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Forget solar panels, it's time for rooftop slime-tanks

Artificial Trees...

So what's wrong with REAL trees as carbon sequestration units?

1. Real trees use carbon from the atmosphere to grow & make wood.

2. The carbon used this way is presented in a good form for transport

3. You can re-use the carbon (Burning it) as wood or charcoal. Or furniture.

If you really want to remove the carbon 'permanently' from the atmosphere, cut the bloody tree down and put the wood underground in old coal mines.

Or is that too simple for some people?