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Ed P
Guest
On 4/3/2023 11:13 AM, SteveW wrote:
They forgot to put in a new floppy disc in the computer that reads them.
They forgot to put in a new floppy disc in the computer that reads them.
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Max Demian
Guest
On 02/04/2023 20:40, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
That\'s what the papers said when they misinterpreted the half life of
uranium and said that electricity would be too cheap to meter.
--
Max Demian
That\'s what the papers said when they misinterpreted the half life of
uranium and said that electricity would be too cheap to meter.
--
Max Demian
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rbowman
Guest
On Mon, 3 Apr 2023 12:03:29 -0400, Ed P wrote:
I may be one of the few people who never watched \'The X Files\' in its
heyday. I recently discovered it on FreeVee. Except for the cars many of
the plot lines are timeless but one episode where they use a floppy to
load malware to destroy an out of control AI gives it away.
I may be one of the few people who never watched \'The X Files\' in its
heyday. I recently discovered it on FreeVee. Except for the cars many of
the plot lines are timeless but one episode where they use a floppy to
load malware to destroy an out of control AI gives it away.
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Peeler
Guest
On 3 Apr 2023 19:23:22 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:
> I may be one of the few people who never watched \'The X Files\'
Oh, yes, we know, you ARE a exceptional person! You\'ve been doing nothing
but trying to convince everyone of it in these groups ...ever since you
appeared on the scene! LMAO
--
Yet more of the so very interesting senile blather by lowbrowwoman:
\"My family loaded me into a \'51 Chevy and drove from NY to Seattle and
back in \'52. I\'m alive. The Chevy had a painted steel dashboard with two
little hand prints worn down to the primer because I liked to stand up
and lean on it to see where we were going.\"
MID: <j2kuc1F3ejsU1@mid.individual.net>
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:
> I may be one of the few people who never watched \'The X Files\'
Oh, yes, we know, you ARE a exceptional person! You\'ve been doing nothing
but trying to convince everyone of it in these groups ...ever since you
appeared on the scene! LMAO
--
Yet more of the so very interesting senile blather by lowbrowwoman:
\"My family loaded me into a \'51 Chevy and drove from NY to Seattle and
back in \'52. I\'m alive. The Chevy had a painted steel dashboard with two
little hand prints worn down to the primer because I liked to stand up
and lean on it to see where we were going.\"
MID: <j2kuc1F3ejsU1@mid.individual.net>
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Ari Fin
Guest
Since when did we start using v for frequency? v is velocity, f is frequency, lambda is wavelength. Using v for frequency is pure insanity.
https://informasisiang.blogspot.com/2023/04/google-groups-karya-larry-page-dan.html
https://informasisiang.blogspot.com/2023/04/google-groups-karya-larry-page-dan.html
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SteveW
Guest
On 03/04/2023 17:03, Ed P wrote:
They have been receiving the readings remotely - I can see them on their
website, so I can\'t understand the multiple visits. There again, I have
had nothing but trouble with this company, since I was moved there and I
have now moved elsewhere.
They have been receiving the readings remotely - I can see them on their
website, so I can\'t understand the multiple visits. There again, I have
had nothing but trouble with this company, since I was moved there and I
have now moved elsewhere.
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alan_m
Guest
On 02/04/2023 15:21, John Larkin wrote:
Haven\'t UK pension funds also been forced to do the same over the past
decade or so?
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mailto : news {at} admac {dot} myzen {dot} co {dot} uk
Haven\'t UK pension funds also been forced to do the same over the past
decade or so?
--
mailto : news {at} admac {dot} myzen {dot} co {dot} uk
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Rod Speed
Guest
On Mon, 03 Apr 2023 19:47:47 +1000, Vir Campestris
<vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> wrote:
Not due to increased temperatures.
> which also has one of the worlds highest population growth rates.
<vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> wrote:
Not due to increased temperatures.
> which also has one of the worlds highest population growth rates.
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Peeler
Guest
On Tue, 04 Apr 2023 16:39:24 +1000, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:
<FLUSH the abnormal trolling senile cretin\'s latest trollshit unread>
--
Bill Wright addressing senile Ozzie cretin Rodent Speed:
\"Well you make up a lot of stuff and it\'s total bollocks most of it.\"
MID: <pj2b07$1rvs$2@gioia.aioe.org>
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:
<FLUSH the abnormal trolling senile cretin\'s latest trollshit unread>
--
Bill Wright addressing senile Ozzie cretin Rodent Speed:
\"Well you make up a lot of stuff and it\'s total bollocks most of it.\"
MID: <pj2b07$1rvs$2@gioia.aioe.org>
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Anthony William Sloman
Guest
On Tuesday, April 4, 2023 at 4:39:37â¯PM UTC+10, Rod Speed wrote:
What makes you think that? The increased temperature of the of the ocean surface means that 10% more water vapour evaporates off it, which delivers 10% more energy into weather systems when it condenses as rain. More energetic weather systems move water further, and the effect on local rainfall isn\'t easy to predict.
Overall, there\'s 10% more of it, but it does always fall where it used to.
--
Bill Sloman, Sydney
What makes you think that? The increased temperature of the of the ocean surface means that 10% more water vapour evaporates off it, which delivers 10% more energy into weather systems when it condenses as rain. More energetic weather systems move water further, and the effect on local rainfall isn\'t easy to predict.
Overall, there\'s 10% more of it, but it does always fall where it used to.
--
Bill Sloman, Sydney
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The Natural Philosopher
Guest
On 03/04/2023 18:12, Max Demian wrote:
nothing to do with its half life.
That was an off the cuff remark about nuclear *fusion*.
Just because you have bought into the the Russian oil industries scare
tactics about nuclear power, and their agents on government have tried
to destroy the industry doesn\'t mean that treated not as a political
football, green bogey man and general object of deliberate
misinformation, nuclear power subjected to careful cost and risk benefit
analysis, to render it no more than one or two orders of magnitude safer
than wind energy solar panels hydrogen storage and so on, should not be
produced at around one tenth the costs of any alternative.
Which is what they are of course, afraid of.
--
Itâs easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
Mark Twain
No, That wasnt what they said and it wasn\'t about uranium and had
nothing to do with its half life.
That was an off the cuff remark about nuclear *fusion*.
Just because you have bought into the the Russian oil industries scare
tactics about nuclear power, and their agents on government have tried
to destroy the industry doesn\'t mean that treated not as a political
football, green bogey man and general object of deliberate
misinformation, nuclear power subjected to careful cost and risk benefit
analysis, to render it no more than one or two orders of magnitude safer
than wind energy solar panels hydrogen storage and so on, should not be
produced at around one tenth the costs of any alternative.
Which is what they are of course, afraid of.
--
Itâs easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
Mark Twain
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The Natural Philosopher
Guest
On 04/04/2023 07:11, alan_m wrote:
bond scam.
Blair made a fortune out of borrowing to the max, buying property,
dropping interest rates and cleaning up in the ensuing house price boom
--
\"And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch\".
Gospel of St. Mathew 15:14
The BofE and the PM and treasury are effectively insider traders on the
bond scam.
Blair made a fortune out of borrowing to the max, buying property,
dropping interest rates and cleaning up in the ensuing house price boom
--
\"And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch\".
Gospel of St. Mathew 15:14
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Bev
Guest
On Tue, 04 Apr 2023 12:19:55 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Apart from yourself (and I\'m not even sure about that), is there anyone
who isn\'t out to get you one way or another?
Apart from yourself (and I\'m not even sure about that), is there anyone
who isn\'t out to get you one way or another?
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The Natural Philosopher
Guest
On 04/04/2023 13:10, Bev wrote:
trying to inform *you*.
Remember I worked with city boys for a short while. I understand how
they routinely break the spirit of the law and inside trade, pump and
dump and hype up stocks all to fleece the slower witted of enough to
make themselves feel rich and superior, but not enough to get caught.
Mostly.
So when the treasurer of cambridge county council got caught with his
pants down investing in icelandic banks, I was aware of what was in the
air from at least 18months earlier.
I will let a real character who shall remain nameless, explain,
\"Take General Motors bonds. GM is busted, Its technically insolvent, it
ought to be wound up and it\'s bonds paid 5c on the dollar but they are
rated A1. Why? . Because the cunts at Moodies have realised that no US
government will let GM go down and throw tens of thousands or democrat
voting workers out of a job. So GMN gets a bung. Or te sub prime thing.
People are buying subprime shit that will NEVER get oaid back even if
the interest is paid, and that\'s unlikely and they are packaging them
WITH AN INSURANCE policy against default, to make a product that Moodies
again rates A1 - its the only way to get the liabilitiyty off their
hands, and so the insurance companies have taken the risk instead,
except the amount of risk THEY have taken on means that despite THEIR A1
ratings, their only hope is that they will be bailed out by the taxpayer
because they are \'too big to faill\' like GM.\"
\"And who now owns all this worthless paper?\"
\"well Icelandic banks for a start, and they are rated A1 so loads of
fund managers and council treasurers just pick one or two of the top 5
rated investments that are on a list they get given\"
That was the background as well as more or less open discussion in parts
of the Financial times at the time the while thing blew up, and I asked
on Usenet why on earth a Cambridge council treasurer had not been aware
of what most of the financial community and anyone who read the FT was
aware of, that Icelandic banks were up queer street.
The response from a councillor was so appalling I have never forgfotten it.
\"He is far *too busy* to read the FT\"
Jesus H CHRIST.
I am tempted to say like my erstwhile contact \'the public deserve to be
fleeced for being such unmitigated plebs and total cunts\'
But I am not made that way.
But in your case I will make an exception.
Blair gamed the system and was guilty of *de facto if not *de jure*
insider trading.
Perhaps it was in Cherie\'s name or some armslength company, but knowing
the fiscal policy for the next 5 years is a great way to make money out
of privileged insider information.
I am sorry if your naive and childish view of the world does not
encompass the fact that its full of psychopaths, kiddy fiddlers,
rapists, arrogant greedy cunts, and complete and utter numpties who
should never be in charge of anyone\'s money ever, all of whom find
natural homes in the City and in Politics.
Where they employ ArtTarts of the first order of whoredom to create
glossy little booklets explaining how and why you should put your trust
and your money in their hands.
--
âPeople believe certain stories because everyone important tells them,
and people tell those stories because everyone important believes them.
Indeed, when a conventional wisdom is at its fullest strength, oneâs
agreement with that conventional wisdom becomes almost a litmus test of
oneâs suitability to be taken seriously.â
Paul Krugman
Its not me who is being got. I understand what is going on. I am merely
trying to inform *you*.
Remember I worked with city boys for a short while. I understand how
they routinely break the spirit of the law and inside trade, pump and
dump and hype up stocks all to fleece the slower witted of enough to
make themselves feel rich and superior, but not enough to get caught.
Mostly.
So when the treasurer of cambridge county council got caught with his
pants down investing in icelandic banks, I was aware of what was in the
air from at least 18months earlier.
I will let a real character who shall remain nameless, explain,
\"Take General Motors bonds. GM is busted, Its technically insolvent, it
ought to be wound up and it\'s bonds paid 5c on the dollar but they are
rated A1. Why? . Because the cunts at Moodies have realised that no US
government will let GM go down and throw tens of thousands or democrat
voting workers out of a job. So GMN gets a bung. Or te sub prime thing.
People are buying subprime shit that will NEVER get oaid back even if
the interest is paid, and that\'s unlikely and they are packaging them
WITH AN INSURANCE policy against default, to make a product that Moodies
again rates A1 - its the only way to get the liabilitiyty off their
hands, and so the insurance companies have taken the risk instead,
except the amount of risk THEY have taken on means that despite THEIR A1
ratings, their only hope is that they will be bailed out by the taxpayer
because they are \'too big to faill\' like GM.\"
\"And who now owns all this worthless paper?\"
\"well Icelandic banks for a start, and they are rated A1 so loads of
fund managers and council treasurers just pick one or two of the top 5
rated investments that are on a list they get given\"
That was the background as well as more or less open discussion in parts
of the Financial times at the time the while thing blew up, and I asked
on Usenet why on earth a Cambridge council treasurer had not been aware
of what most of the financial community and anyone who read the FT was
aware of, that Icelandic banks were up queer street.
The response from a councillor was so appalling I have never forgfotten it.
\"He is far *too busy* to read the FT\"
Jesus H CHRIST.
I am tempted to say like my erstwhile contact \'the public deserve to be
fleeced for being such unmitigated plebs and total cunts\'
But I am not made that way.
But in your case I will make an exception.
Blair gamed the system and was guilty of *de facto if not *de jure*
insider trading.
Perhaps it was in Cherie\'s name or some armslength company, but knowing
the fiscal policy for the next 5 years is a great way to make money out
of privileged insider information.
I am sorry if your naive and childish view of the world does not
encompass the fact that its full of psychopaths, kiddy fiddlers,
rapists, arrogant greedy cunts, and complete and utter numpties who
should never be in charge of anyone\'s money ever, all of whom find
natural homes in the City and in Politics.
Where they employ ArtTarts of the first order of whoredom to create
glossy little booklets explaining how and why you should put your trust
and your money in their hands.
--
âPeople believe certain stories because everyone important tells them,
and people tell those stories because everyone important believes them.
Indeed, when a conventional wisdom is at its fullest strength, oneâs
agreement with that conventional wisdom becomes almost a litmus test of
oneâs suitability to be taken seriously.â
Paul Krugman
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Bev
Guest
On Tue, 04 Apr 2023 17:09:37 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
<snip many lines of childish paddy>
Ahh, I see your meds are wearing off - did you enjoy your little rant?
<snip many lines of childish paddy>
Ahh, I see your meds are wearing off - did you enjoy your little rant?
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The Natural Philosopher
Guest
On 04/04/2023 17:38, Bev wrote:
Dint you have anything intelligent to contribute than a pathetic little
ad hominen?
I hope you invest ins a \'safe\' pension find that goes down and leaves
you wandering the streets
I am beginning to sympathise with politicians and bankers, you are all a
bunch of plebeian cunts who deserve to be relieved of your purses for
being so stupid, egotistical and trusting.
--
It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house
for the voice of the kingdom.
Jonathan Swift
Dint you have anything intelligent to contribute than a pathetic little
ad hominen?
I hope you invest ins a \'safe\' pension find that goes down and leaves
you wandering the streets
I am beginning to sympathise with politicians and bankers, you are all a
bunch of plebeian cunts who deserve to be relieved of your purses for
being so stupid, egotistical and trusting.
--
It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house
for the voice of the kingdom.
Jonathan Swift
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Andrew
Guest
On 02/04/2023 20:40, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Lizzie2 opened Windscale - \"Too cheap to meter\" (Just
ignore the cleanup and decommissioning costs)
Ah, yes, I seem to remember some historic programs when
Lizzie2 opened Windscale - \"Too cheap to meter\" (Just
ignore the cleanup and decommissioning costs)
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Andrew
Guest
On 02/04/2023 20:43, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
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Andrew
Guest
On 03/04/2023 16:47, rbowman wrote:
They have all got smart phones, and the fit and able ones are
all heading for North Africa, then Italy or Spain, then Calais,
then 4* hotel accommodation in the UK.
They have all got smart phones, and the fit and able ones are
all heading for North Africa, then Italy or Spain, then Calais,
then 4* hotel accommodation in the UK.
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Andrew
Guest
On 02/04/2023 17:38, John Larkin wrote:
New Zealand and Oz send their poorer quality (fatty) meat
for export to the PAcific Islands.
Tinned corned goat anyone ?. Great delicacy in Fiji and Tonga.
They also eat a lot of bread and bread-based fast foods, plus
high-carb basic foods grown locally. Being hot they don\'t need
to waste energy maintaining body heat so they put on weight
easily.
On Sun, 2 Apr 2023 16:37:44 +0100, Andrew <Andrew97d@btinternet.com
wrote:
On 18/03/2023 17:49, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
On 2023-03-18, alan_m <junk@admac.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
On 18/03/2023 15:02, micky wrote:
Having a smart meter means they no longer have to send meter readers, so
that saves a lot of money in the long run.
Using your argument about 15 minutes for a smart meter installation per
house not costing a lot the 30 seconds to read a meter once every 12
months
Prior to smart meters, ours were read once a month. The meter reader
had to trudge from house to house--they\'re about 40 meters apart on
my road, although it\'s twice that from my house to the one to the
south. Multiply that by 155 million customers in the U.S. It adds up.
America has an obesity \'problem\'. All that trudging means lots
of exercise for the meter readers
I think it\'s partly genetic. Some people didn\'t evolve with ice cream
and cheesecake and giant cheezy pizzas. Africans and Pacific Islanders
tend to blimp out on a junk-food diet.
New Zealand and Oz send their poorer quality (fatty) meat
for export to the PAcific Islands.
Tinned corned goat anyone ?. Great delicacy in Fiji and Tonga.
They also eat a lot of bread and bread-based fast foods, plus
high-carb basic foods grown locally. Being hot they don\'t need
to waste energy maintaining body heat so they put on weight
easily.