Posts by Scroticus Canis 855 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Aug 2012
Pretty useless I would hazard. If it can't spot a thousand tonnes of hot nuclear sub at a few hundred metres down then the chances of spotting a hundred tonnes of cold spread out aircraft bits at a thousand and plus metres deep are pretty slim.
Paris doesn't look amused either.
Of course. There is a chance the plod could be shot at if he went after proper criminals rather than the soft targets of the law abiding native Brit they prefer nowadays.
Whole thing is a waste of time when you can get a Makarov from a 'transient' East European gangster nearly as easily as a bag of skunk down the local pub.
There is oxygen being produced in the various CNO (carbon nitrogen oxygen) reaction cycles in the sun but most gets consumed soon after formation (it is a cycle).
There is also the triple-alpha process producing carbon which can be hit by another alpha particle to produce stable oxygen 16. Again not a lot as yet but this does not get re-consumed and is an end product but won't be released until Sol's end days.
Think that molecular hydrogen is the most likely commonest molecule in the universe, bloody massive clouds of it floating around out there, more than has been incorporated in the stars or planets we can see.
Every proton, neutron and most electrons in the solar system are damned near as old as time itself!
Uppies anyway.
It's quire obvious that the 'is' refers to the fact of a single suggestion rather than a single datum. I personally use 'is' when the data represents a single set, 'this set' is much smother English than 'these set'.
A mob is made up from numerous individuals but you refer to it as 'a mob', 'the mob is unruly', etc... 'These mob' just sounds like some foreign person with an English pronunciation problem.
Well Al Gore would be a good starting point with an ex-pres and ex-pm as follow ons.
While the vast majority of the current human overpopulation is from the current and previously undeveloped parts of the planet, the plight of the whales was primarily caused by the USA and Europe a century or two ago, Japan didn't really figure back then.
Admittedly the current Japanese and Norwegian governments intransigence on commercial whaling can only be based on hubris overriding civilised decency, they really should know better. Lobby your representatives to introduce a whaling import duty on their products, we could get lucky and change their mindsets. My boycott hasn't had much impact to date.
Well being an island didn't do us (UK) any harm, then we had to dig the bloody chunnel and the rest is history (or the rewriting of it). Pah!
At lest in the US they will be allowed a decent powered vacuum cleaner to collect the pieces if Lohan has the miss fortune to do a Beagle. Soon we won't be able to buy anything with more suck than an old smoker (mea culpa) after 10 cough 5 flights of stairs by Brussels diktat. Pah again!
If you think snakes don't have teeth try getting your hand free from a constrictor's bite. They are not poisonous but have a load of bloody sharp teeth all pointing backwards. As for T. Rex being able to pick it's teeth with it fore limbs they don't reach that high they are so short. That's why the least favourite T . Rex sing song is "If your happy and you know it clap your ....Oh bugger"
Given the US's recent decision that it has free access to data stored anywhere in the world by any US corporation will the Chinese authorities be happy with a US judicial order to disclose the data? Don't think so myself.
Also, how long before 'our' data ends up being stored there for reasons of cost, efficiency, etc..? Eish!
Unless it has been repealed while I wasn't looking, you can be charged with conspiracy to do something and it doesn't have to be an illegal thing! Up to 99 years clink time.
So this 'perp' could be charged with conspiring to provide access to the sites.
Remember the guy who got bird for digging up a cricket pitch (or poring oil on it) during a test match as a form of protest? He was charged with conspiring to trespass, found guilty and got 5 years (IIRC). Trespass was not at the time a criminal act of itself in the UK.
The BT Home Hub 3 I am lumbered with reboots itself "randomly" or drops the ADSL connection before re-establishing it at a lower speed on a daily basis (only occasional periods of 4 day connectivity). It's really bloody annoying when halfway through a secure transaction. Strangely started to happen after BT pushed the new firmware onto it back in March and that was done while I was busy.
Or fire an unguided rocket northwards or eastwards and points in between. Just surprised the Gaza mob hasn't hit the Palestinians in the east yet.
Hamas certainly like hiding amongst their own women and children for the propaganda when civilians are hurt by Israel targeting them. Real humanitarians who also carefully select just military targets in Israel - NOT.
No I didn't. They joined to give the Inland Revenue the dreaded HM prefix. Crown agents do not need warrants to search or just about anything else they chose to do, they also cannot be sued. The plods often took HM C&E officers on raids to provide the warrant-less search tactic..... But you knew that anyway.
This latest idea though is starting to make it all look very very scary for the average citizen. Time to stock up on the Vaseline people.
What's the point though if you have a real multitasking device that supports useful thing like tabs and being able to search for text.
Any way the trackpad gives you the benefits of touch screen ease and doesn't get the screen greased up (unless you sneeze violently or cough as your swallowing a well masticated bacon butty gob full).
First time I heard the term it was associated with the Gay community, no vaginas involved.
Way back (pre-AIDS) some satirical rag (name gone Alzheimer's way) had a front cover headlined 'Ticka ticka Tumex' with a picture of a fist and forearm, wearing a watch, with brown stuff to mid-forearm. No prizes for guessing what the associated article was about. Damned near brought tears to my eyes.
Paris? Well you never know, might be a 'big girl'.
It was widely accepted a decade or two ago that the Yucatan impact was just the 'final straw', as the global environment was fairly sick due to large scale persistent volcanism. Nice to see Edinburgh University catching up, should get up-to-date in the next few decades at this rate. Watch this space for 'Birds Evolved From Theropods' breaking headline in a decade or two.
Light is electro-magnetic in nature and both fields are needed to create a photon, as the electric field rises the magnetic field collapses and vice versa, the field are at right-angles to each other. This produces a 3D wave effect as the respective fields change from positive to negative polarity thus regenerating each other (like they are playing leapfrog with each other) and propagating through the medium. So each individual photon while being made from waves looks like a 3D particle. That's why it seems to behave as both.
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