Posts by blueprint

From landslide to buried alive: Why 2017 election forecasts weren't wrong

Rubbish. The polls - quite specifically and unabashedly - try to guess what the vote will be. You don't need a mathematics degree followed by a doctorate in statistics to know that almost all of them got it comically wrong.

GM crops are good for you and the planet, reckon boffins

Re: Gene escape

Well just to take one of many examples fish genes don't "naturally" get into plant genes, so they couldn't get released into the environment by selective breeding.

You don't think that's a difference?

Re: When electricity was first introduced....

Maybe people just want to have a choice, and not have something stuffed down their throats by an unholy alliance of government and big business?

The whole problem could be solved completely fairly by the Americans simply not objecting to GM foods being labelled as such. Now why do you think they don't want that?

Re: Well DUH

What, people were breeding plants for thousands of years in a way that incorporated fish genes into the plant DNA? Amazing! How did they manage to get a salmon to hump a corn cob?

Their funding comes mainly through the US government, which probably not coincidentally believes (or more likely is told to believe) that global warming is real and GM crops are safe.

SHOCK!

Institution funded mainly by the American government whose members themselves are funded mainly by multinational companies like Monsanto is in favour of GM crops!

Of course the Americans could just not object to other countries putting labels on GM food indentifying it as such, so that the people can decide if they want it or not? Funny that they're dead set against that for some strange reason...

It's the FALKLANDS SYNDROME! Fukushima MELTDOWN to cause '10,000 Chernobyls' in South Atlantic

Oh dear

Sadly this is an all too believable example of the kind of hilariously transparent right-wing nonsense that the Register churns out on a daily basis, the lunacy of which is only even close to being matched by the Torygraph.

'Turn to nuclear power to save planetary ecology from renewable BLIGHT'

Re: How convenient...

People never think these things through. Do the sums.

Wind, solar etc. are decreasing in price. By the time Hinckley C comes online they'll all be cheaper, and that's not even taking into account Hinckley C's built-in yearly inflation hike.

How convenient...

to miss out the main problem with nuclear - the ridiculously high costs.

See e.g. Hinkley C, and Sellafield or whatever they call it these days.

Apple, Beats and fools with money who trust celeb endorsements

"Now I gather Neil Young proposes to re-release his archive recordings on Pono. Again, one has to ask, where is he going to get the missing bandwidth from? Will a Pono download of an early Neil Young track at an astronomical data rate carry any more information or sound any better than the CD did?"

An early Neil Young track will presumably have been recorded on high quality tape. As will presumably a late Neil Young track. Do you seriously think that he was sitting there with his band huddled round some equipment that feeds into a CD recorder?

Maggie Thatcher: The Iron Lady who saved us from drab Post Office mobes

She considered her greatest achievment to be New Labour.

I close the case for the prosecution.

Gov report: Actually, evil City traders DIDN'T cause the banking crash

Re: blah

Oh of course not, it's not their fault you see, it's all just been ever-so-concisely explained for your benefit in this wonderful article.

They're not to blame at all for the fact that they're all insolvent, so it's up to the Government to step in and keep them all afloat with taxpayer money so that they can keep the bonus gravy train rolling.

I fail to see how any reasonable taxpaying citizen can not see the fairness of this point of view.

If you believe this tripe you'll believe anything.

Feeling poor? WHO took all your money? NOT capitalist bastards?

Re: Execuive Pay...

Correct. But in the case of this author it wouldn't do to break down the statistics to disprove one's own argument.

bollocks indeed

"But like any experts, all of you can tell when someone on the public stage is spouting bollocks."

And I can also tell when someone is spouting it online. As someone above said, superb trolling as per. If your agenda wasn't so depressingly transparent it might even be slightly amusing.

New nuclear fuel source would power human race until 5000AD

Re: When global warming deniers spruik nuclear power breakthroughs...

It's a personal agenda being driven by the author, quite possibly due to funding from the nuclear fission "industry". I say "industry" because it actually wouldn't exist without government subsidies, it's never been commercially viable. Nuclear fission is currently more or less dead in the West as we now have more than enough fissile material for our nuclear weapons, the main reason nuclear fission reactors were developed in the first place.

You should stick with physicists experienced in nuclear fission or radiobiologists who've studied the effects of radiation on the human body for your information on this subject, because unlike Mr. Page, they know what they're talking about.

Story is irrelevant - just the usual chance for the author to give his snide take on Fukushima

Here is something about Fukushima on the other hand which is coming from a scientific and engineering perspective rather than from a defensive Pavlovian reaction to anything even slightly critical of the nuclear fission "industry" :

http://www.cringely.com/2012/05/24/the-next-japanese-nuclear-accident-its-inevitable-will-be-even-worse/

'Sacrifice another goat!: iCloud is Apple's biggest failure before Google

Works fine for me.

Not had any problems with iCloud at all. The neverending torture that is trying to make sense of the Android 'Operating System' however...

Microsoft's Surface plan means the world belongs to Android now

Wishful thinking yet again

Blah blah blah, we do Android, but all the money's in iOS at the moment, so Android's somehow got to win out in the long run... please!

Pitiful, surely you can get somebody a bit more even-handed than this without the vested interests to do the opinion pieces?

How Apple won the West (and lost the world)

Usual load of rubbish and wishful thinking

While Apple and their 3rd party app developers cream of all the profits there will always be people sniping in the background, willing their pet crapola open source hobby horse to magically win some bigger than yours contest with iPhone/iPad/iWhatever and hopefully make them some money in the process.

Missing the point, the very fact that it is the people with little money to spare who are the ones buying either Android or something else equally half-baked means that there's no chance of making a killing on the back of e.g. Android marketshare. The spare money floating around just isn't there, it's with the premium brand, in this case Apple's iWhatever.

Painters wrap Forth Bridge job after 121 years

Like...

Like using taxpayers money to keep the banks afloat...

Like bailing out Greece...

Google+ is an identity service, Schmidt says

What an evil, creepy company Google is

The sooner Apple bring out a search engine the better, I'd prefer to have nothing at all to do with a company that's got this mindset.

The real reason Google bought Motorola

And we wonder why the UK economy is Donald Ducked?

"For example, they've paid an entire £8m in UK corporation tax on revenues of some £6bn from 2004 to 2010."

Answer right there. The little people pay the taxes, the big people don't have to.

Google's Moto move spells iPhone doom

Wishful thinking

It's always better when comment and analysis is given by someone without a vested interest in one side of the argument. This isn't an insightfully constructed piece about Android and iPhone, Google and Apple, and the patent wars, it's simply wishful thinking.

Good news: A meltdown would kill fewer than we thought

Not proven until it actually happens in reality

Not reassuring at all, hypothetical models are simply that - hypothetical.

Getronics sharpens chopper, eyes 2,500 of its people

Greed

Only €462m profit? Fire everybody, bollocks to social responsibility!

'There's too much climate change denial on the BBC'

BBC bashing seems to be in vogue

Amazing the amount of BBC bashing that's going on at the moment. Especially from the Conservatives and their press lackeys, who seem to think that one of the most conservative institutions in the UK is in fact a hotbed of lefty radicalism.

How any organisation that foists something as lamentable as The Archers on us can be considered left-wing is beyond me.