Posts by Rusty Nutts

I paid for it, that makes it mine. Doesn’t it? No – and it never did

Re: Dubbed Content

For the best ever sendup of dubbed translation, see Al Murray talking about the global financial system on youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HcB6ZrCLEY

NSFW or SFW depending on your job!

Lonestar plans to put datacenters in the Moon's lava tubes

Been there, done that (at least in fiction)

There was a 1961 short story by Hal Draper entitled 'MS Fnd in a Lbry'. It showed how increasing volumes of data would require increasing degrees of compression and larger storage, ending in a galaxy-sized file store. Eventually the access keys were lost and so was the civilisation. Could come a lot sooner, it seems to me.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Fnd_in_a_Lbry

The Human Genome Project will tell us who to support at Eurovision

Re: At LGLethal, re: baby tax.

Seeing mention of "Gerber" always brings back the memory of a friend who entered a slogan competition found next to his daily crossword puzzle in the newspaper many years ago. He was invited to complete the sentence "I use Gerber Baby Foods because....", and duly sent off his entry.

He later received a reply from Gerber stating "Thanks for your entry. You will understand that it cannot be accepted as a winner, but the office staff would like to express how much entertainment it gave us in the office."

"I use Gerber Baby Foods because there's a shade to match every carpet."