Posts by myhandler 290 posts • joined 8 Jan 2014
I remember a boy at school making one for some A level. I saw it working, track was only about 30 feet and 'train' was maybe 18" long. As you can tell it was long time ago - pre-metrication. Yes it was a school with exceptional facilites and teachers but I wonder what the guy did, spend 50 years watching as no one got it to the mass market?
I used to have a plug in for Firefox that forced "verbatim" on every bloody search.
But who knows why it got deactivated and no longer works.
So I have to carefully decide what phrases to put in quotes, or click Tools > All Results > Verbatim - drives me mad, what a lunatic waste of time.
The bastards don't give a flying fart for their users.
I read on another forum, from a Russian uaing a VPN, that they have a shortage of paper - they still like to print lots. Till receipts, official docs, but there's a loo roll shortage too.
But they can't quickly convert to plastic payment - they buy in the credit card plastic and card chips. Lots of the population lack smart phones - but those that do have them dislike QR codes as part of their anti vax beliefs. Not enough CCTV cameras either.
They didn't think to build up a central warehouse of server stuff, hard drives, what have you.
Then they manage this on a region by region basis and the regulations are different between them.
The buck (rouble) needs to stop with that disgusting cretin at the top.
If you're looking to reprint it, can't you add a statement that you're looking for the descendants etc etc and then make sure you don't spend the profits for 10 years? Or are you hoping to build a TV series around it?
Why would someone downvote you? Off topic? Oh no, quelle desastre.
As a long term user of web search there's vastly more garbage in search results than there used to be. Plenty of you here must have noticed that.
Some of that may be down to Google's algorithm but mostly that garbage gets views, views make money so they make more garbage.
Half the rabid sentiment on the net is designed just for clicks and likes.
It's a self full dumbing shit machine that is consuming us.
Yep - I had a claims adjustment guy, phoning from Liverpool when I live in London, saying " Now we've inspected your lovely motor all you need to do is approve this..."
You'd think I had a flash Jag or a Beemer, nope.
Nothing to link him to the insuracne company either.
There'll be a short section of tube that opens to the air like a tube train station. I will work like an spaceship airlock. Then maybe plenty of sub sections that can each be isolated if there's a problem, the locks open and close automatically if a train approaches.
I can't believe your comment - how do you think railways manage to avoid collisions? Ok it fails sometimes but not often.
Getting 28 pods in and out is easy to automate - look at the food industry programmes on TV, e.g. Ocado warehouses, where everything is on automated lines.
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