Posts by Anonymous IV 818 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Apr 2011
"Luckily for the Prickett Morgan household, we had just finished up watching several episodes of The IT Crowd over Netflix just before the storm hit."
Have you considered the possibility that this extremely rash and almost incomprehensible act may well have CAUSED this devastating storm?
I wonder whether the original author is familiar with [b]The Cloud of Unknowing[/b]", "[i]an anonymous work of Christian mysticism written in Middle English in the latter half of the 14th century.[/i]"?
All the cloudy woffle of its proponents makes me think how prescient was the medieval author in choosing that title.
Lots of interestingly-speculative calculations about how long it would take to move oodles of data across several interfaces locally.
But no calculation of how long it might take to move, say, 15PB of data into the cloud across the average ADSL2+ (or even fibre) link? Is it in the order of years? Lifetimes? Millennia?
Possibly the author got bored with the subject in the last few paragraphs, and thought he'd try to sneak in a bit of nonsense?
If we're really going to get pedantic (we are! we are!) then there are very few TLAs (3-letter acronyms) but a preponderance of TLIs (3-letter initialisms). An acronym has to be a meaningful word (like CAT, DOG, etc), so most of the 26^3 possibilities are necessarily initialisms.
And no, I'm not going to finish with the usual deeply-infuriating concluding phrase, "There, sorted it for you"...
How about getting the nuclear power stations, rather than heating up water to produce steam, to drive enormous "fans" sited in front of wind-turbine farms? Then you have all the kudos of green wind-driven energy and the reliability of nuclear generation together in one package.
"And - this is what you are getting at - articles which many commentards use as platforms for ad homs against the authors.
I will not countenance anyone attacking our staff. It really is very simple - kick the ball not the player."
Not at all - I have no real idea why this author has chosen to go non-commentable. It's just a noticeable difference from all the other authors.
For heaven's sake, he can't be ALL bad, for he likes Verity Stob!
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