Saturday, 18 December 2010
Wednesday, 8 December 2010
Important link
Keep clicking until it vanishes in a hail of kiddie porn or terrorism charges ;)
http://sowhyiswikileaksagoodthingagain.com/
http://sowhyiswikileaksagoodthingagain.com/
Tuesday, 7 December 2010
Monday, 6 December 2010
Monday, 29 November 2010
Teachers Get (as in git)
I have had an idea seeded in the ruins of my mind, that I may be able to teach the great unwashed a thing or two about the making of tunes with machines.
So at some point in the near future, I will post an article here which attempts to explain some aspect of electronic music......probably, but not definitely, how synths work and which controls to grab.
The purpose of doing it here is simple.......I doubt many of my 7 or so readers could decode SMPTE EBU MIDI IA LA PDM AWM or whatever......perfect test material.
If you guys come out of this going "we'll it's little dark, so I'll open the cuttoff, and a bit fat so I'll add a teeny spot of res, and it's very stale so a touch of lfo with a slight delay"....I've won.
(one day I may also do an article on how to get a good noise from a Korg M1 without hitting it or dropping it or sawing it)
So at some point in the near future, I will post an article here which attempts to explain some aspect of electronic music......probably, but not definitely, how synths work and which controls to grab.
The purpose of doing it here is simple.......I doubt many of my 7 or so readers could decode SMPTE EBU MIDI IA LA PDM AWM or whatever......perfect test material.
If you guys come out of this going "we'll it's little dark, so I'll open the cuttoff, and a bit fat so I'll add a teeny spot of res, and it's very stale so a touch of lfo with a slight delay"....I've won.
(one day I may also do an article on how to get a good noise from a Korg M1 without hitting it or dropping it or sawing it)
Sunday, 28 November 2010
Cake
See, when you deal with this boghopper, the cake isn't a lie. three new (to you) tunes up on sound cloud (over there >>>> ) as a reward for you reading my ravings.
Course, it may well be that you find the cake taste like crap (Dungdee cake?)....but it's the thought that counts, and it's free LoL
PS VicoJam will be removed soon to make way for other things, grab it now if you want it.
Course, it may well be that you find the cake taste like crap (Dungdee cake?)....but it's the thought that counts, and it's free LoL
PS VicoJam will be removed soon to make way for other things, grab it now if you want it.
As Promised "And another fuckin thing"
Yes, missed a few things.
Why is it so easy to sell people this crap........well it's easy.....people are arrogant fucks by and large......they actually find it entirely easy to believe than the mighty Mankind can destroy this world at his whim.....LOL. Seriously, it's that age old religious belief that we somehow "matter", and are "important", both entirely fantasies of our own minds......we could let all our bombs off tomorrow, let all our imaginary diseases and nerve toxins loose. In the scheme of things....massive pain in the cock for 99% of life on the rock.....pretty fuckin good times for the other 1%....a billion years hence, Earth will be doing just fine.....it's just that "booohoo, we wont be there, nor will all the little fluffy things we cherish now"....Big deal, by that stage...gone anyway.....we've been this basic creature for what 200,000 years or so? Yeah we'll still be here looking just the same in 5 million of 500 million or a billion years.....howling mad notions (that ruin so much otherwise perfectly sensible sci-fi).
Dear Humanity: kindly get the fuck over yourself, DNA is the dominant lifeform of this planet, you are merely one of it's vessels, pull your head out of your arse and just enjoy yourself, cos you really don't matter.
And why will it be so hard to get rid of?
Cos there are now hundreds of thousands of people who work in the "climate change industry", who are, bizarrely enough, the people we rely on to tell us how fucked we are by it. So, you're a glob...sorry climate change, researcher, and you find irrefutable evidence that the whole thing is a gigantic mistake......do you report it as normal and wait for your office to be shut down? Think your boss will like that? What about your colleagues.
Sadly the madness is here to stay.
And just an aside.....why is it that people only care about cute things that are harmless........ Go around slaughtering baby seals, or kittens and you're a cunt.....we'll pump all sorts of efforts in Pandas who are doing their level best to go extinct, and whales, and anything nice.
Smallpox on the other hand, another perfectly entitled lifeform, no different from any other.....fuckin genocide, last examples kept in maximum security storage.....not saying that's a bad thing, just saying humans are hypocritical scum is all.
Ooooh but look at the weather we're having, it's most extreme EVER.
Ok, you see that word "ever", sharpen it, salt it, coat with fresh chillis and stick it up your cunt, down yer cockeye, whatever you fucking like. Ever......my septic ringpiece! We have reliable weather data going back what....100 years....even if you're the kind of dribbling, sisterfucking inbreed who thinks the world is 6000years old....100 years is NOT a statistically relevant sample of data......given that the ruddy thing is about a million times older than that...see my point. And when you look back into the mists, there are all manner or extreme weather events reported....which are passed off as fanciful tales. Again.......just cos we're about to notice now doesn't change anything.
LOL...which reminds me....people who have had their minds fucked by all this CC drivel don't even see their own doublethink.
The BBC did a series recently called "Coast", oddly enough, about the coastline. In several of the episodes....we travel around the coast, and have it pointed out how, this town that's 15 miles inland had a harbour and a coast until 1908, or how 5000 years ago, this bit of beach was actually landlocked, some 50 miles from the ocean.....and they gone on and on and on repeatedly about how "coast IS change"....then 2 mins later, come to some bit of wetland or something and start freaking out about what a disaster it will be if we don't protect it from the changing coastline, which is a brand new thing caused by man.....they practically say the two opposing views in the same breath.....it demonstrates the extent to which minds are fucked.
And one last thing for now.
What finally made me crack about all this shite was hearing global....sorry climate change (we must follow our newspeak guides) held as SOLELY AND ENTIRELY responsible for declining fish stocks around the UK,
fuck off, fuck off, and once again FUCK RIGHT OFF AND DIE OF SOMETHING PAINFUL.
Yup...the sea....which as we know, has remain precisely the same temperature all round the world, since the dawn of time....has possibly gotten a teeny bit warmer for the first time ever, and that made all the fish stop fucking....it is IN NO WAY related to the floating holocausts (and yes, I DO use the word in the full knowledge of the horror it evokes in terms of human suffering) called trawlers that decimate the seabed daily, and whine about there being no fish....sink them all...pass out rods....at least the fish you eat will have a fighting chance, and die humanely instead of being slowly suffocating in a crush again thousands of his fellows and any other life foolish enough no to swim like fuck when the cod-end looms).
This is why we need to nip this shit in the bud....because some fucktard will pump millions into studying this instead of spending that money to pay the trawlermen a fair wage to stay in port for two years, which given the way fish fuck, is PLENTY of time to get a recovery going (already been done in small areas with herring and cod, it's not fantasy unlike, warm water gives fish droopydick).
Why is it so easy to sell people this crap........well it's easy.....people are arrogant fucks by and large......they actually find it entirely easy to believe than the mighty Mankind can destroy this world at his whim.....LOL. Seriously, it's that age old religious belief that we somehow "matter", and are "important", both entirely fantasies of our own minds......we could let all our bombs off tomorrow, let all our imaginary diseases and nerve toxins loose. In the scheme of things....massive pain in the cock for 99% of life on the rock.....pretty fuckin good times for the other 1%....a billion years hence, Earth will be doing just fine.....it's just that "booohoo, we wont be there, nor will all the little fluffy things we cherish now"....Big deal, by that stage...gone anyway.....we've been this basic creature for what 200,000 years or so? Yeah we'll still be here looking just the same in 5 million of 500 million or a billion years.....howling mad notions (that ruin so much otherwise perfectly sensible sci-fi).
Dear Humanity: kindly get the fuck over yourself, DNA is the dominant lifeform of this planet, you are merely one of it's vessels, pull your head out of your arse and just enjoy yourself, cos you really don't matter.
And why will it be so hard to get rid of?
Cos there are now hundreds of thousands of people who work in the "climate change industry", who are, bizarrely enough, the people we rely on to tell us how fucked we are by it. So, you're a glob...sorry climate change, researcher, and you find irrefutable evidence that the whole thing is a gigantic mistake......do you report it as normal and wait for your office to be shut down? Think your boss will like that? What about your colleagues.
Sadly the madness is here to stay.
And just an aside.....why is it that people only care about cute things that are harmless........ Go around slaughtering baby seals, or kittens and you're a cunt.....we'll pump all sorts of efforts in Pandas who are doing their level best to go extinct, and whales, and anything nice.
Smallpox on the other hand, another perfectly entitled lifeform, no different from any other.....fuckin genocide, last examples kept in maximum security storage.....not saying that's a bad thing, just saying humans are hypocritical scum is all.
Ooooh but look at the weather we're having, it's most extreme EVER.
Ok, you see that word "ever", sharpen it, salt it, coat with fresh chillis and stick it up your cunt, down yer cockeye, whatever you fucking like. Ever......my septic ringpiece! We have reliable weather data going back what....100 years....even if you're the kind of dribbling, sisterfucking inbreed who thinks the world is 6000years old....100 years is NOT a statistically relevant sample of data......given that the ruddy thing is about a million times older than that...see my point. And when you look back into the mists, there are all manner or extreme weather events reported....which are passed off as fanciful tales. Again.......just cos we're about to notice now doesn't change anything.
LOL...which reminds me....people who have had their minds fucked by all this CC drivel don't even see their own doublethink.
The BBC did a series recently called "Coast", oddly enough, about the coastline. In several of the episodes....we travel around the coast, and have it pointed out how, this town that's 15 miles inland had a harbour and a coast until 1908, or how 5000 years ago, this bit of beach was actually landlocked, some 50 miles from the ocean.....and they gone on and on and on repeatedly about how "coast IS change"....then 2 mins later, come to some bit of wetland or something and start freaking out about what a disaster it will be if we don't protect it from the changing coastline, which is a brand new thing caused by man.....they practically say the two opposing views in the same breath.....it demonstrates the extent to which minds are fucked.
And one last thing for now.
What finally made me crack about all this shite was hearing global....sorry climate change (we must follow our newspeak guides) held as SOLELY AND ENTIRELY responsible for declining fish stocks around the UK,
fuck off, fuck off, and once again FUCK RIGHT OFF AND DIE OF SOMETHING PAINFUL.
Yup...the sea....which as we know, has remain precisely the same temperature all round the world, since the dawn of time....has possibly gotten a teeny bit warmer for the first time ever, and that made all the fish stop fucking....it is IN NO WAY related to the floating holocausts (and yes, I DO use the word in the full knowledge of the horror it evokes in terms of human suffering) called trawlers that decimate the seabed daily, and whine about there being no fish....sink them all...pass out rods....at least the fish you eat will have a fighting chance, and die humanely instead of being slowly suffocating in a crush again thousands of his fellows and any other life foolish enough no to swim like fuck when the cod-end looms).
This is why we need to nip this shit in the bud....because some fucktard will pump millions into studying this instead of spending that money to pay the trawlermen a fair wage to stay in port for two years, which given the way fish fuck, is PLENTY of time to get a recovery going (already been done in small areas with herring and cod, it's not fantasy unlike, warm water gives fish droopydick).
Saturday, 27 November 2010
Never mind that!!!!!!!!!!!
I just seen an ad for scientology over there>>>>>>
All religions are wankers, if they're a religion, they're wankers, if they're not a religion, they're still pretty much wankers.
Now....let's teach adsense about what's acceptable...
scientology
cult
christianity
scam
thieves
banned
ourtlawed
That should give it a few keywords to chew on!
In the meantime, I can do without their money.
cunts.
I'm off to see how I tell this stupid thing to serve up ads for basses, cheap drugs, prostitutes and other wholesome things......
All religions are wankers, if they're a religion, they're wankers, if they're not a religion, they're still pretty much wankers.
Now....let's teach adsense about what's acceptable...
scientology
cult
christianity
scam
thieves
banned
ourtlawed
That should give it a few keywords to chew on!
In the meantime, I can do without their money.
cunts.
I'm off to see how I tell this stupid thing to serve up ads for basses, cheap drugs, prostitutes and other wholesome things......
The great Climate Change distraction.
Having just seen the poor victims of Pakistan's floods characterised as victims of the evil RangRover, the time has come for a vent,
First: "Global Warming" (as it was called before the earth stated to cool again in 1998, whence it became "climate change"), was hyped up and bandied around the world first by whom?
Friends of the Earth?
Nope
Greenpeace?
Nope
WWF?
Nope
Could it be the evil witchbitch we all know and hate as Maggie Thatcher.
Could be
(you are, at this point, permitted 1 (one) mental rendition of the Hong Kong Phooey theme)
.....waits.....
Right, so why was The Thatch suddenly taking time of from raping the UK and creating UK(PLC) in it's place?
She wasn't. Thatch had two big plans going on (well she had many, but these two are the ones we need to focus on). Plan A. destroy trade union power and stop all the common fuckers having any kind of a say in whether or not their employer has to use lube when he arse rapes them. Plan B. Build lots of Nuclear power plants (not because, done properly they are the cleanest and best source of power currently available), but because she wanted to have lots of raw materials to send to Selafield to makes lots of Plutonium that she could sell to all and sundry.
Imagine her delight when some minor research (remember at the time, the same people who are predicting we'll all catch fire, were predicting we were sliding back into the depths of the ice age) suggested that burning fossil fuels would cause the end of the world.
So Thatch funded further research (and remember here people when the Govt funds research, it finds the "right" answer, or it vanishes). And saw that it was publicised (no doubt she also discussed it with Ronnie Ray-gun in between mouthfuls of his cock). It was one more string in her bow to shoot the unions down with, the National Union of Mineworkers, being her nemesis. So policy was that we build more nuke stations (and part of the rationale for this came from the govt.-funded GW research of course), and shut down the mines because they were already unprofitable and clearly had no future at all once everyone got away from coal fired things. One of the amusing things is of course that while committees studying mines and reactors were being force fed this crap.....anyone involved in the big cash cow that is the North Sea....not a whisper LOL.
Here endeth the history lesson.
And WHY is the whole thing so evil?
Well, it's like this.....CC is being used as a cudgel, all around the developing world. The basic way of it is this......in the developed world, we have cash hanging out of our arses, having built massive economies on fossil fuel energy and exploitation of poorer nations.Yet alternative energy programs in the developed world, are few, far between, and still considered silly hippy pipe dreams. At the VERY SAME TIME, nations in Africa, Asia, maybe even one or two in South America and the Carribean, are all beginning to want to expand their industrial base and (heaven forbid) do something about the quality of life of their citizens. This is particularly a vital thing in Africa, because a few highly developed, affluent nations (that aren't still largely run by congenital racists) would do wonders to stimulate growth and prosperity in their neighbours....which for some of them might merely mean not having to worry about where their next meal is coming from.
But when the govt. of $DEVELOPING_AFRICAN_NATION scrapes together the money for a programme of new power stations, some western arsehole, swoops in, on his private 4 engined jet to tell him he can't have those power stations, because they upset baby polar bears, and that instead they have to build some daft, not quite ready, alternative energy scheme costing 20x as much.[1]. The result is that $DEVELOPING_AFRICAN_NATION gives their entire power station budget to $HUGE_CORPORATION and gets a crappy little solar plant that knocks out 10MW instead of 30GW they would have gotten from coal (which BTW, they are most likely sitting on shitloads of......but Whitey will be wanting that sooner or later). So rather effectively bankrupting them AND keeping them in the late 19th century a bit longer.
For those of you who couldn't give a llama's fanny for Mr J. Foreigner, you're getting it up the bum too.
Enviro taxes, moronic enviro laws, none of them REALLY doing that much good, but all of them reducing the quality of your life just that little bit (and of course, almost all of them have financial get-outs so they only affect us muppets).
And worse is the crime against the human consciousness. To The Great Unwashed, The Environment=Climate Change, end of. Every single other consideration regarding our species' impact on it's environment is totally sidelined. Ask someone about the mercury levels in top tier marine predators, or the inadequate disposal of toxic waste, and they are likely to tell you they've cut their "carbon footprint" by waking to work 2 days a week and switching to energy saving bulbs.[2] They think that it's all the same bloody thing. It's a fabulous piece of social engineering....instead of "the man", having to fend off masses of environmental concerns from the populace, they simply put their weight behind one, largely unimportant issue and use it to drive all other such matters from people's heads.
For the love of all that's sane.....ask 10 people in the street to name a pollutant and 7 will probably say CO2 (after a joke about their spouse's flatulence of course). People.....have your minuscule little brains ever encountered the phrase "carbon based lifeform"? Cos see....you, are MADE of CO2....most of the carbon in your body comes from CO2 ingested by plants, and the animals that ate them....you even extract some directly from the air.....but on net....you produce about 8.5 tons of the stuff in your life time.....remember that little stat for the next time some moron is giving you a half arsed lecture......"if I could save 8 tons of CO2, would that be a good thing you'd go along with?" when they say yes, hand them a cutthroat razor and show the best way to open a vein.
Why am I so sure it's a scam?
Well, for this first barrage of rationality, let's assume that everything we are told about anthropogenic carbon dioxide is completely true.
Why then are people coming on the TV and saying "oooooooh, don't leave your TV on stand by" But NEVER "skip ONE shower this week"?????????
Cos you see....one ten minute shower consumes as much electricity as a TV on standby (and bear in mind that an LCD TV is lighting an LED and keeping a 5v trickle running through the power button and the remote sensor, a CRT television also takes in trickle charge to keep it's HT system energised, but this is minimal, in the order of 1-5W) on standby for a couple of years.
So my advice to you would be to stink next weekend, and run all your shit on standby for the next couple of years.
Why would I say that?
Why would "the tv" say otherwise?
Why not tell people the really effective ways of saving CO2 emissions (skiping baths and showers, putting a jumper on instead of running the heating all day, simple, HIGHLY effective stuff like that).
Easy: If you keep your TV/Hi-Fi/computer, whatever on stand by.....it will live longer, you will need to replace it less (which funny enough is a massive benefit to the environment, because making TV's emits all sorts of shit, which includes CO2, and things which are ACTUAL toxins). Electricity is not a gentle energy, when you physically switch circuits on and off....spikes happen, components run outside tolerance, all sorts of stress is placed on the guts. You don't even need me to tell you this....think back through your life......of all the electrical, and particularly electronic (or partly electronic) devices that have died on you. How many just stopped for no reason in the middle of doing their thing (hairdryers don't count) and how many went wrong as you switched them on (or when you switched them off, but you wouldn't know till next time you try to turn it on). The advice to always use the standby mode if available used to be fairly standard across all manner of consumer advice sources.....now....sssshhhh you're costing us money!
So, instead of giving advice that would actually help, they advise meaningless placebos that make people feel they are good people, and make sure those good people need a regular supply of replacement TV's and hi-fi's.
Instead of saying "don't use concrete for your patio, because 1 ton of that shit emits more CO2 in manufacture than a RangeRover shits out in a year (and then some!)"....they say "take that old jacket out of your boot, dragging those unnecessary 4KG around with you is killing baby seals AND costing you money.
WANK!
Essentially.
If you want to believe this crap....then believe it and act accordingly, the situation we have now is misinformational brain washing bordering on fucking mind control, so pervasive is the message and the meaningless advice that accompanies it.
And now the generosity ends.....cos you know what...I aint buying the basic fucking premise of the whole thing.
Oh very good says you, linking variations in the planet's main source of heat with variations in the planet's temperature.....but you;re leaving CO2 out completely....WE'VE seen the graph that shows perfect correlation between CO2, and temperature, the one Mr Gore showed us.
You mean this one?
Now, let's actually LOOK at the graph without some smarmy yank politician with a MASSIVE vested interest (he owns carbon offset firms....you give them money, they tell you they;ll plant trees or some shit, which means you get to emit X amount of carbon dioxide, guilt free....just like Penn and Teller said, it's like the old papal indulgences, give the pope some gold, get one free rape pass (obviously you need to join his little cult for the lifetime pass)....but I have no doubt Mr Gore is sincere.....after all he has made vast tax deductable payments to carbon offset companies.....surprisingly enough...the ones he owns himself, so he obviously believes in them LOL).
Yes, the graph shows CO2 and temp tracking quite nicely.[4 EDIT]
Before we go any further....experiment time (there will be another experiment later).
Take a bottle of fizzy water or coca cola or any carbonated liquid, gently pour it into a pan and heat it until it's sort of body temperature, then allow to cool and drink it.....not so bubbly is it?
Warm water can hold less gas in solution than cold (the converse of solids).
Now take another look at the graph with the bullshit wiped off your glasses.....which line moves first?
Oh, look.....the world gets warmer THEN the CO2 in the atmosphere goes up...I can't imagine why that would be....if only there were a simple experiment that could be performed at home that would shed some light on it.
Oh and since 1998......global temps have been falling (that's why they don't call it global warming any more, too easy to call bullshit on it.....call it climate change and you can blame every single thing that happens on it).....but CO2 output has been going up. The best the CC scammers can do with that is to "adjust" the figures, but only the ones from 98 onwards, the ones that don't fit the theory.
Which brings me to my next point.
It's Not science.
We're going to do this by means of rollplay.
Science:
"Our theory said that by now a certain thing should have happened."
"But it hasn't"
"Yes, we know, we've found some new information"
"does our theory, adjusted for this new information, explain why the certain thing hasn't happened?"
If "Yes"
Then "We shall continue with the current theory, adjusted for the new information, but proceed with extreme caution, as there may be yet further unknowns that could affect it's validity"
If "No"
Then "The theory is more or less fucked, back to the drawing board".
Religion:
"our holyman/holybook/holytree/holygoat/holytoastie said that by now a certain thing should have happened"
"But it hasn't"
"Yes we know, there has been a new revelation, given to me by our lord in my bedchambers last night"
"does this new revelation explain why the certain thing did not happen"
"no, it was basically just the same thing, but we've spent a great deal of time interpreting of it and see that the exact same certain thing will happen as predicted.....but not for 8 years, so you have to keep bringing your offerings and so on for at least that long, by which time I will have ascended"
Climate Change:
"Our theory says that by now a certain thing should have happened"
"But it hasn't"
"Yes we know, we have much better data now than we had when we came up with the theory"
"And does our theory altered to account for the better data explain why the certain thing hasn't happened"
"Errrm no, not even close"
"We should just bin the theory and start over then"
"Well, yes, but our jobs are "certain thing prevention operatives", if we say we don't know why it hasn't happened, or that some of our data suggests it might not happen...we're fired. But if I do some clever sums on some bits of the data, but not the ones that already fit, I can change the prediction of the theory so that the certain thing, will happen in maybe 12-15 years time......so we need to get funding for at least that long.....then the next guys can explain why it hasn't happened then....err I mean......if it hasn't of course".
Now which of the first two, does the third sound most like.
The thing I had in mind was London and most of East Anglia disappearing under the English Channel....was supposed to happen by 1999.....then 2005....it's now 2010 and they are still there.....and it's now predicted for 2020. I should say "people don't you know flim flam when you see it"....but there's enough cars outside the churches to answer me before I need ask,
I remember someone on some "news" show actually having the balls to say it was all because of the Thames surge barrier (good trick protecting marshes 100 miles up the coast LOL).
And here is experiment two.
We're going to see what affect the (completely natural, and normal) melting of polar sea ice has on sea level.
Take a pint glass (any glass will do, but if you're reading this, your cupboards, like mine are probably full of stolen pint pots) and add half a dozen ice cubes.
Now fill it with water until the surface tension is giving you a convex meniscus on top (water sitting above edge of glass).
Now fuck off.
Come back in a few hours.
How much water has spilled, and what has happened to the level in the glass.
Answer: none, and stayed more or less the same.
Anything that's floating displaces a volume of the liquid equal to it's mass. So the floating ice in the glass, and in the ocean already pushes the sea level up by the same amount as if it would melt and join the water....it floats, because water is a freak compound that goes into expansion briefly as it approaches freezing. This isn't Hawking, folks, this is fucking Archimedes!!!! as in before that palestinian hippy got nailed to a tree!
Melting of ice on land WILL affect sea level.....big fucking deal....the Earth is not meant to HAVE ice caps.....ice caps are the core definition of the term "ice age", we are IN an "ice age" because there are ice caps.....their melting is good, natural and wonderful.....as long as, instead of having concerts that blame it all on cars, we move people away from low lying areas, start land reclaimation projects etc......but we can't because we wont allow the people worst at risk to build the infrastructure needed.....because we keep telling them if they don't build it, the floods wont come. ARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!
And let's just take a quick look at how much CO2 man produces, and it's place in the greenhouse effect ( I once asked 3 passionately enviro-mentalist mates to explain the GhE to me.....not a fucking clue, and there they are telling other people who to live their lives based on it....they are the new religiotards, I'm telling yous!).
Took a while to even find that picture....if you search for for "sources of greenhouse gasses" you get 100 pictures of that little 0.28% from the REAL figures blown up into the whole circle...showing how 26% comes from fossil fuels and so on....not a single mention that the whole lot amount to roughly 1 300th of the amount of greenhouse agents in the atmosphere.
The green band BTW includes not only biologically generated CO2, but also methane and other complex carbon based compounds which have the exact same effect on light. As a note, I went to look for how much Co2 it was estimated that the wee eruption in iceland earlier this year produced. The data I found was that it produced 150000 to 300000 tons per day. This came from an pro-CC site and was hailed as proving volcanos were not the big bad wolf that sensible folk know them to be. ....it was producing as much CO2 as a medium sized European country....nothing at all really. Except it's not the only volcano active, there are dozens if not hundreds of geologically active sites around the world day in and day out, many of them much larger than that little firecracker in Iceland....largely forgotten about because they don't suddenly erput under glaciers and turn their entire output into ash that blows into air corridors inhabited by numpty airlines more concerned about their maintenance budgets than safety. And never mind that......what about flood eruptions that would be on the order of 100 million times the ferocity of the unpronounceable Icelandic squib.....how come there's ANY life after those things kicked off(EDIT: IF atmospheric CO2 is such a hot-houser)?
Am I saying we should do nothing to work on our fossil fuel use?
Well, there's one point nobody seems to mention...well they mention it....then somehow can't make the leap....
The shit is running out!
It'll all be gone soon.
It will be gone before it's happened in terms of geological time. A billion years from now, this period in history will be a little layer of soot almost too thin to measure ;)
So in addition to there being not a lot to worry about really, we should still be looking at alternative energy sources as a matter of sever bloody urgency.
Biofuels are often lauded as a solution....
Pro: Carbon Neutral (if you give a fuck)....the currently growing crop will absorb slightly more CO2 than the combustion of the previous crop produces (please note, this is before some arsehole works out some way to pointlessly enhance it with a hugely energy wasteful process).
Pro: Most existing fossil fuel technologies can be adapted to suit with a hammer.
Con: It does nothing to eliminate all the other byproducts of combustion.....some of which actually are harmful, unlike CO2.
Con: The use of land for the production of biofuel crops, is already pushing food crops off the land and causing food prices to rise, and it's worst in the places than can least afford it of course.
For MY money, the solution is state run Nuclear Fission plants. Fusion will work eventually, gets closer all the time, and it WILL be the answer to our energy problems[3]...sea water in....power and oxygen out, and the only mess will be the reactor itself which will be soaked in protons it doesn't need and be a bit radioactive in the milder end of the scale.
Which brings me back to Fission....
"ooooh it makes the world more radioactive"
No, it doesn't, it makes the world LESS radioactive, that's where we get the heat from FFS!! We dig really radioactive shit out of the ground, encourage it to do it's thing faster (the "thing" that all radioactive substances like to do is decay into something more stable, and therefore less radioactive), then put some less radioactive stuff in the ground. The problems seem to involve, the moving of the stuff, where the stuff ends up, and idiots doing stupid shit in the power plant itself. Solution....build plants nearer to uranium deposits, and where this is not possible, stop trying to make a profit on the transport of poisons (which is why I specify state run plants). Even if you have to transport the stuff about....at least sort the waste problem out in a manner that makes some sense....wherever you dig the fuel up.......scatter the waste back there in the same concentrations as the original ores...what you will effectively have done, is clean the place up a bit!
"ooooh it's not safe, it blows up and there's a big mushroom, I've seen it on TV!".
Errm No, it's quite safe if you don't cock about with it. On a daily basis a nuclear plant emits.....water vapour.....the coal plant next door releases fuck knows what all day every day (but because people understand smoke...but the word radiation goes right over their heads and into their panic glands.....light is radiation.....heat is radiation....music is radiation FOR FUXAKE!). Trouble is, people fuck up, which is where the problems start, but let's deal with them shall we.....
"ooooh they leak"
Yes they do, but they leak radiation that was already in one place, into another place, nothing more.
"oooooh but 3 mile island, we don't even KNOW how many people that killed"
Yes, 3 mile island is the result of putting people who were taught creation in science class, not RE, in charge of an atomic reactor...it was a compound fuckup, and The Worst accident that can happen in a functional reactor. "we still don't know how many were killed" are weasel words for "we cannot solidly attribute a single death to this"...think about it....if Bush had said "we still don't know how many Americans were in that $TARGET", you'd NEVER swallow it without seeing bodies and proof the CIA didn't leave them there.
"oooh Chernobyl"
Unsafe data
Chernobyl was NOT a real atomic reactor on the day of the accident....almost all it's safety systems were offline on purpose too.....some were never meant to even have an offline mode, they were basically rendered offline with hammers and axes and saws....all so that moscow could have them perform an output enhancing test.....politicians fucking with science...always bad (and why, even if I advocate state control of fission to prevent profiteering causing trouble....it's probably best if it's not a totalitarian sate). No reactor on Earth could have done what Chernobyl did, it should be considered a deliberate act.....and it caused the worst accident it's possible for a reactor to have....the one that SHOULD have caused the infamous "China Syndrome" where super heated fuel rods fall right through the planet (in the notional scenario, from the US to china)...in defiance of all laws of physics, but it makes a good story. Actually...big nasty cloud of radiation, lots of unbelievably brave men dead, and a couple of two headed goats were born (the actual aftermath data is largely gibberish with any you see being completely slewed one way or the other....one lot says it's the fluffiest spot on earth, the other lot claim we all died in 1986 and don't realise it yet...all balls!.)
"oooh but Hiroshima"
Fuck off, Reactor | Bomb there is no relation between a reactor and a bomb, except that if you fuck with your reactor you can make it make bomb fuel. Nothing that you can do to a reactor will make it go off like an A-bomb (unless you build a huge A-bomb trigger mechanism round the pile and use teleport to remove the moderators at the exact moment you trigger the mechanism...even then I wouldn't give a tramp's pubes for your chances.)
Nuclear power, of any type, electrolysing water, into oxygen and hydrogen....hydrogen power cars and planes, with oxygen blowers instead of turbos (we'll have a lot of it LOL). A clean economy. I Thank You.
I've cooked my mind and wandered a bit.....there will most likely be a follow up in the form of "and another fucking thing!!!!" when I read this back (after hitting publish first.....I never second guess my madness until i've let it loose....or grammar check it), and realise I've left some point out.
I'm not saying don't look after your planet my friends, I'm saying make sure you're not making yourself live worse off, while doing no good whatsoever, when there are so many more genuine environmental issues that you are being distracted from with this racist white man's cash cow.
[1]Incidentally, this has a double benefit to whitey....because he's letting the developing nations pick up the R+D tab, the scale setup tab, and the manufacturing infrastructure tab, for technology he KNOWS he WILL need sooner or later.....talk about Win/Win if you're a white, soulless, suited wankstain on the duvet of the universe, kinda Lose/Lose if you're some non-pink geezer worrying about whether his kids are gonna have running water and food in their bellies. This is of course utterly backwards to how it should be.
[2] Expect to see a change in these over the coming years....now that everyone is using them (because they ARE a good idea), they makers will panic because they realise they've sold us all something that lasts 10-20 times longer than before. Expect them to become much cheaper and break a lot sooner in the coming years.
If you doubt me on this.....ask yourself where all the giant LED xmas tree light sets that were on sale 3-4 years ago have gone....easy "oh, fuck we're selling something they only need to buy once!!!!"...the ones I see now all have something that resembles an LED but is clearly no manufactured to the same standard as they usually are....so they fail more....so you need to buy more.
[3] Except....some cunts, in You Know Where....have "worked out" that the deuterium and tritium (isotopes of hydrogen) readily available in sea water, aren't just quite good enough (or monetizable), as they will result in reactor wall linings getting a bit radioactive quicker. THEY would prefer we use helium3 and they best source according to them,.....the moon. I am all for the exploration of the moon, and all for exploiting it's wealth, because I'd much rather they made a total fuck up of a lifeless ball of rock, than this beautiful green ball of rock.....but not if it means turning what could be the final answer to mankind's needs, into the next power economy!! (NB reactors running on isotopic hydrogen, produce helium 3....so what's the problem with compound seawater reactors, or hydrogen reactors used as main industrial units, and He3 units used where clenliness is more important.
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It also shows the kind of cycle that it doesn't take an advanced knowledge of Fourier analysis to spot, or where on that natural cycle we are now.
First: "Global Warming" (as it was called before the earth stated to cool again in 1998, whence it became "climate change"), was hyped up and bandied around the world first by whom?
Friends of the Earth?
Nope
Greenpeace?
Nope
WWF?
Nope
Could it be the evil witchbitch we all know and hate as Maggie Thatcher.
Could be
(you are, at this point, permitted 1 (one) mental rendition of the Hong Kong Phooey theme)
.....waits.....
Right, so why was The Thatch suddenly taking time of from raping the UK and creating UK(PLC) in it's place?
She wasn't. Thatch had two big plans going on (well she had many, but these two are the ones we need to focus on). Plan A. destroy trade union power and stop all the common fuckers having any kind of a say in whether or not their employer has to use lube when he arse rapes them. Plan B. Build lots of Nuclear power plants (not because, done properly they are the cleanest and best source of power currently available), but because she wanted to have lots of raw materials to send to Selafield to makes lots of Plutonium that she could sell to all and sundry.
Imagine her delight when some minor research (remember at the time, the same people who are predicting we'll all catch fire, were predicting we were sliding back into the depths of the ice age) suggested that burning fossil fuels would cause the end of the world.
So Thatch funded further research (and remember here people when the Govt funds research, it finds the "right" answer, or it vanishes). And saw that it was publicised (no doubt she also discussed it with Ronnie Ray-gun in between mouthfuls of his cock). It was one more string in her bow to shoot the unions down with, the National Union of Mineworkers, being her nemesis. So policy was that we build more nuke stations (and part of the rationale for this came from the govt.-funded GW research of course), and shut down the mines because they were already unprofitable and clearly had no future at all once everyone got away from coal fired things. One of the amusing things is of course that while committees studying mines and reactors were being force fed this crap.....anyone involved in the big cash cow that is the North Sea....not a whisper LOL.
Here endeth the history lesson.
And WHY is the whole thing so evil?
Well, it's like this.....CC is being used as a cudgel, all around the developing world. The basic way of it is this......in the developed world, we have cash hanging out of our arses, having built massive economies on fossil fuel energy and exploitation of poorer nations.Yet alternative energy programs in the developed world, are few, far between, and still considered silly hippy pipe dreams. At the VERY SAME TIME, nations in Africa, Asia, maybe even one or two in South America and the Carribean, are all beginning to want to expand their industrial base and (heaven forbid) do something about the quality of life of their citizens. This is particularly a vital thing in Africa, because a few highly developed, affluent nations (that aren't still largely run by congenital racists) would do wonders to stimulate growth and prosperity in their neighbours....which for some of them might merely mean not having to worry about where their next meal is coming from.
But when the govt. of $DEVELOPING_AFRICAN_NATION scrapes together the money for a programme of new power stations, some western arsehole, swoops in, on his private 4 engined jet to tell him he can't have those power stations, because they upset baby polar bears, and that instead they have to build some daft, not quite ready, alternative energy scheme costing 20x as much.[1]. The result is that $DEVELOPING_AFRICAN_NATION gives their entire power station budget to $HUGE_CORPORATION and gets a crappy little solar plant that knocks out 10MW instead of 30GW they would have gotten from coal (which BTW, they are most likely sitting on shitloads of......but Whitey will be wanting that sooner or later). So rather effectively bankrupting them AND keeping them in the late 19th century a bit longer.
For those of you who couldn't give a llama's fanny for Mr J. Foreigner, you're getting it up the bum too.
Enviro taxes, moronic enviro laws, none of them REALLY doing that much good, but all of them reducing the quality of your life just that little bit (and of course, almost all of them have financial get-outs so they only affect us muppets).
And worse is the crime against the human consciousness. To The Great Unwashed, The Environment=Climate Change, end of. Every single other consideration regarding our species' impact on it's environment is totally sidelined. Ask someone about the mercury levels in top tier marine predators, or the inadequate disposal of toxic waste, and they are likely to tell you they've cut their "carbon footprint" by waking to work 2 days a week and switching to energy saving bulbs.[2] They think that it's all the same bloody thing. It's a fabulous piece of social engineering....instead of "the man", having to fend off masses of environmental concerns from the populace, they simply put their weight behind one, largely unimportant issue and use it to drive all other such matters from people's heads.
For the love of all that's sane.....ask 10 people in the street to name a pollutant and 7 will probably say CO2 (after a joke about their spouse's flatulence of course). People.....have your minuscule little brains ever encountered the phrase "carbon based lifeform"? Cos see....you, are MADE of CO2....most of the carbon in your body comes from CO2 ingested by plants, and the animals that ate them....you even extract some directly from the air.....but on net....you produce about 8.5 tons of the stuff in your life time.....remember that little stat for the next time some moron is giving you a half arsed lecture......"if I could save 8 tons of CO2, would that be a good thing you'd go along with?" when they say yes, hand them a cutthroat razor and show the best way to open a vein.
Why am I so sure it's a scam?
Well, for this first barrage of rationality, let's assume that everything we are told about anthropogenic carbon dioxide is completely true.
Why then are people coming on the TV and saying "oooooooh, don't leave your TV on stand by" But NEVER "skip ONE shower this week"?????????
Cos you see....one ten minute shower consumes as much electricity as a TV on standby (and bear in mind that an LCD TV is lighting an LED and keeping a 5v trickle running through the power button and the remote sensor, a CRT television also takes in trickle charge to keep it's HT system energised, but this is minimal, in the order of 1-5W) on standby for a couple of years.
So my advice to you would be to stink next weekend, and run all your shit on standby for the next couple of years.
Why would I say that?
Why would "the tv" say otherwise?
Why not tell people the really effective ways of saving CO2 emissions (skiping baths and showers, putting a jumper on instead of running the heating all day, simple, HIGHLY effective stuff like that).
Easy: If you keep your TV/Hi-Fi/computer, whatever on stand by.....it will live longer, you will need to replace it less (which funny enough is a massive benefit to the environment, because making TV's emits all sorts of shit, which includes CO2, and things which are ACTUAL toxins). Electricity is not a gentle energy, when you physically switch circuits on and off....spikes happen, components run outside tolerance, all sorts of stress is placed on the guts. You don't even need me to tell you this....think back through your life......of all the electrical, and particularly electronic (or partly electronic) devices that have died on you. How many just stopped for no reason in the middle of doing their thing (hairdryers don't count) and how many went wrong as you switched them on (or when you switched them off, but you wouldn't know till next time you try to turn it on). The advice to always use the standby mode if available used to be fairly standard across all manner of consumer advice sources.....now....sssshhhh you're costing us money!
So, instead of giving advice that would actually help, they advise meaningless placebos that make people feel they are good people, and make sure those good people need a regular supply of replacement TV's and hi-fi's.
Instead of saying "don't use concrete for your patio, because 1 ton of that shit emits more CO2 in manufacture than a RangeRover shits out in a year (and then some!)"....they say "take that old jacket out of your boot, dragging those unnecessary 4KG around with you is killing baby seals AND costing you money.
WANK!
Essentially.
If you want to believe this crap....then believe it and act accordingly, the situation we have now is misinformational brain washing bordering on fucking mind control, so pervasive is the message and the meaningless advice that accompanies it.
And now the generosity ends.....cos you know what...I aint buying the basic fucking premise of the whole thing.
Oh very good says you, linking variations in the planet's main source of heat with variations in the planet's temperature.....but you;re leaving CO2 out completely....WE'VE seen the graph that shows perfect correlation between CO2, and temperature, the one Mr Gore showed us.
You mean this one?
Now, let's actually LOOK at the graph without some smarmy yank politician with a MASSIVE vested interest (he owns carbon offset firms....you give them money, they tell you they;ll plant trees or some shit, which means you get to emit X amount of carbon dioxide, guilt free....just like Penn and Teller said, it's like the old papal indulgences, give the pope some gold, get one free rape pass (obviously you need to join his little cult for the lifetime pass)....but I have no doubt Mr Gore is sincere.....after all he has made vast tax deductable payments to carbon offset companies.....surprisingly enough...the ones he owns himself, so he obviously believes in them LOL).
Yes, the graph shows CO2 and temp tracking quite nicely.[4 EDIT]
Before we go any further....experiment time (there will be another experiment later).
Take a bottle of fizzy water or coca cola or any carbonated liquid, gently pour it into a pan and heat it until it's sort of body temperature, then allow to cool and drink it.....not so bubbly is it?
Warm water can hold less gas in solution than cold (the converse of solids).
Now take another look at the graph with the bullshit wiped off your glasses.....which line moves first?
Oh, look.....the world gets warmer THEN the CO2 in the atmosphere goes up...I can't imagine why that would be....if only there were a simple experiment that could be performed at home that would shed some light on it.
Oh and since 1998......global temps have been falling (that's why they don't call it global warming any more, too easy to call bullshit on it.....call it climate change and you can blame every single thing that happens on it).....but CO2 output has been going up. The best the CC scammers can do with that is to "adjust" the figures, but only the ones from 98 onwards, the ones that don't fit the theory.
Which brings me to my next point.
It's Not science.
We're going to do this by means of rollplay.
Science:
"Our theory said that by now a certain thing should have happened."
"But it hasn't"
"Yes, we know, we've found some new information"
"does our theory, adjusted for this new information, explain why the certain thing hasn't happened?"
If "Yes"
Then "We shall continue with the current theory, adjusted for the new information, but proceed with extreme caution, as there may be yet further unknowns that could affect it's validity"
If "No"
Then "The theory is more or less fucked, back to the drawing board".
Religion:
"our holyman/holybook/holytree/holygoat/holytoastie said that by now a certain thing should have happened"
"But it hasn't"
"Yes we know, there has been a new revelation, given to me by our lord in my bedchambers last night"
"does this new revelation explain why the certain thing did not happen"
"no, it was basically just the same thing, but we've spent a great deal of time interpreting of it and see that the exact same certain thing will happen as predicted.....but not for 8 years, so you have to keep bringing your offerings and so on for at least that long, by which time I will have ascended"
Climate Change:
"Our theory says that by now a certain thing should have happened"
"But it hasn't"
"Yes we know, we have much better data now than we had when we came up with the theory"
"And does our theory altered to account for the better data explain why the certain thing hasn't happened"
"Errrm no, not even close"
"We should just bin the theory and start over then"
"Well, yes, but our jobs are "certain thing prevention operatives", if we say we don't know why it hasn't happened, or that some of our data suggests it might not happen...we're fired. But if I do some clever sums on some bits of the data, but not the ones that already fit, I can change the prediction of the theory so that the certain thing, will happen in maybe 12-15 years time......so we need to get funding for at least that long.....then the next guys can explain why it hasn't happened then....err I mean......if it hasn't of course".
Now which of the first two, does the third sound most like.
The thing I had in mind was London and most of East Anglia disappearing under the English Channel....was supposed to happen by 1999.....then 2005....it's now 2010 and they are still there.....and it's now predicted for 2020. I should say "people don't you know flim flam when you see it"....but there's enough cars outside the churches to answer me before I need ask,
I remember someone on some "news" show actually having the balls to say it was all because of the Thames surge barrier (good trick protecting marshes 100 miles up the coast LOL).
And here is experiment two.
We're going to see what affect the (completely natural, and normal) melting of polar sea ice has on sea level.
Take a pint glass (any glass will do, but if you're reading this, your cupboards, like mine are probably full of stolen pint pots) and add half a dozen ice cubes.
Now fill it with water until the surface tension is giving you a convex meniscus on top (water sitting above edge of glass).
Now fuck off.
Come back in a few hours.
How much water has spilled, and what has happened to the level in the glass.
Answer: none, and stayed more or less the same.
Anything that's floating displaces a volume of the liquid equal to it's mass. So the floating ice in the glass, and in the ocean already pushes the sea level up by the same amount as if it would melt and join the water....it floats, because water is a freak compound that goes into expansion briefly as it approaches freezing. This isn't Hawking, folks, this is fucking Archimedes!!!! as in before that palestinian hippy got nailed to a tree!
Melting of ice on land WILL affect sea level.....big fucking deal....the Earth is not meant to HAVE ice caps.....ice caps are the core definition of the term "ice age", we are IN an "ice age" because there are ice caps.....their melting is good, natural and wonderful.....as long as, instead of having concerts that blame it all on cars, we move people away from low lying areas, start land reclaimation projects etc......but we can't because we wont allow the people worst at risk to build the infrastructure needed.....because we keep telling them if they don't build it, the floods wont come. ARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!
And let's just take a quick look at how much CO2 man produces, and it's place in the greenhouse effect ( I once asked 3 passionately enviro-mentalist mates to explain the GhE to me.....not a fucking clue, and there they are telling other people who to live their lives based on it....they are the new religiotards, I'm telling yous!).
Took a while to even find that picture....if you search for for "sources of greenhouse gasses" you get 100 pictures of that little 0.28% from the REAL figures blown up into the whole circle...showing how 26% comes from fossil fuels and so on....not a single mention that the whole lot amount to roughly 1 300th of the amount of greenhouse agents in the atmosphere.
The green band BTW includes not only biologically generated CO2, but also methane and other complex carbon based compounds which have the exact same effect on light. As a note, I went to look for how much Co2 it was estimated that the wee eruption in iceland earlier this year produced. The data I found was that it produced 150000 to 300000 tons per day. This came from an pro-CC site and was hailed as proving volcanos were not the big bad wolf that sensible folk know them to be. ....it was producing as much CO2 as a medium sized European country....nothing at all really. Except it's not the only volcano active, there are dozens if not hundreds of geologically active sites around the world day in and day out, many of them much larger than that little firecracker in Iceland....largely forgotten about because they don't suddenly erput under glaciers and turn their entire output into ash that blows into air corridors inhabited by numpty airlines more concerned about their maintenance budgets than safety. And never mind that......what about flood eruptions that would be on the order of 100 million times the ferocity of the unpronounceable Icelandic squib.....how come there's ANY life after those things kicked off(EDIT: IF atmospheric CO2 is such a hot-houser)?
Am I saying we should do nothing to work on our fossil fuel use?
Well, there's one point nobody seems to mention...well they mention it....then somehow can't make the leap....
The shit is running out!
It'll all be gone soon.
It will be gone before it's happened in terms of geological time. A billion years from now, this period in history will be a little layer of soot almost too thin to measure ;)
So in addition to there being not a lot to worry about really, we should still be looking at alternative energy sources as a matter of sever bloody urgency.
Biofuels are often lauded as a solution....
Pro: Carbon Neutral (if you give a fuck)....the currently growing crop will absorb slightly more CO2 than the combustion of the previous crop produces (please note, this is before some arsehole works out some way to pointlessly enhance it with a hugely energy wasteful process).
Pro: Most existing fossil fuel technologies can be adapted to suit with a hammer.
Con: It does nothing to eliminate all the other byproducts of combustion.....some of which actually are harmful, unlike CO2.
Con: The use of land for the production of biofuel crops, is already pushing food crops off the land and causing food prices to rise, and it's worst in the places than can least afford it of course.
For MY money, the solution is state run Nuclear Fission plants. Fusion will work eventually, gets closer all the time, and it WILL be the answer to our energy problems[3]...sea water in....power and oxygen out, and the only mess will be the reactor itself which will be soaked in protons it doesn't need and be a bit radioactive in the milder end of the scale.
Which brings me back to Fission....
"ooooh it makes the world more radioactive"
No, it doesn't, it makes the world LESS radioactive, that's where we get the heat from FFS!! We dig really radioactive shit out of the ground, encourage it to do it's thing faster (the "thing" that all radioactive substances like to do is decay into something more stable, and therefore less radioactive), then put some less radioactive stuff in the ground. The problems seem to involve, the moving of the stuff, where the stuff ends up, and idiots doing stupid shit in the power plant itself. Solution....build plants nearer to uranium deposits, and where this is not possible, stop trying to make a profit on the transport of poisons (which is why I specify state run plants). Even if you have to transport the stuff about....at least sort the waste problem out in a manner that makes some sense....wherever you dig the fuel up.......scatter the waste back there in the same concentrations as the original ores...what you will effectively have done, is clean the place up a bit!
"ooooh it's not safe, it blows up and there's a big mushroom, I've seen it on TV!".
Errm No, it's quite safe if you don't cock about with it. On a daily basis a nuclear plant emits.....water vapour.....the coal plant next door releases fuck knows what all day every day (but because people understand smoke...but the word radiation goes right over their heads and into their panic glands.....light is radiation.....heat is radiation....music is radiation FOR FUXAKE!). Trouble is, people fuck up, which is where the problems start, but let's deal with them shall we.....
"ooooh they leak"
Yes they do, but they leak radiation that was already in one place, into another place, nothing more.
"oooooh but 3 mile island, we don't even KNOW how many people that killed"
Yes, 3 mile island is the result of putting people who were taught creation in science class, not RE, in charge of an atomic reactor...it was a compound fuckup, and The Worst accident that can happen in a functional reactor. "we still don't know how many were killed" are weasel words for "we cannot solidly attribute a single death to this"...think about it....if Bush had said "we still don't know how many Americans were in that $TARGET", you'd NEVER swallow it without seeing bodies and proof the CIA didn't leave them there.
"oooh Chernobyl"
Unsafe data
Chernobyl was NOT a real atomic reactor on the day of the accident....almost all it's safety systems were offline on purpose too.....some were never meant to even have an offline mode, they were basically rendered offline with hammers and axes and saws....all so that moscow could have them perform an output enhancing test.....politicians fucking with science...always bad (and why, even if I advocate state control of fission to prevent profiteering causing trouble....it's probably best if it's not a totalitarian sate). No reactor on Earth could have done what Chernobyl did, it should be considered a deliberate act.....and it caused the worst accident it's possible for a reactor to have....the one that SHOULD have caused the infamous "China Syndrome" where super heated fuel rods fall right through the planet (in the notional scenario, from the US to china)...in defiance of all laws of physics, but it makes a good story. Actually...big nasty cloud of radiation, lots of unbelievably brave men dead, and a couple of two headed goats were born (the actual aftermath data is largely gibberish with any you see being completely slewed one way or the other....one lot says it's the fluffiest spot on earth, the other lot claim we all died in 1986 and don't realise it yet...all balls!.)
"oooh but Hiroshima"
Fuck off, Reactor | Bomb there is no relation between a reactor and a bomb, except that if you fuck with your reactor you can make it make bomb fuel. Nothing that you can do to a reactor will make it go off like an A-bomb (unless you build a huge A-bomb trigger mechanism round the pile and use teleport to remove the moderators at the exact moment you trigger the mechanism...even then I wouldn't give a tramp's pubes for your chances.)
Nuclear power, of any type, electrolysing water, into oxygen and hydrogen....hydrogen power cars and planes, with oxygen blowers instead of turbos (we'll have a lot of it LOL). A clean economy. I Thank You.
I've cooked my mind and wandered a bit.....there will most likely be a follow up in the form of "and another fucking thing!!!!" when I read this back (after hitting publish first.....I never second guess my madness until i've let it loose....or grammar check it), and realise I've left some point out.
I'm not saying don't look after your planet my friends, I'm saying make sure you're not making yourself live worse off, while doing no good whatsoever, when there are so many more genuine environmental issues that you are being distracted from with this racist white man's cash cow.
[1]Incidentally, this has a double benefit to whitey....because he's letting the developing nations pick up the R+D tab, the scale setup tab, and the manufacturing infrastructure tab, for technology he KNOWS he WILL need sooner or later.....talk about Win/Win if you're a white, soulless, suited wankstain on the duvet of the universe, kinda Lose/Lose if you're some non-pink geezer worrying about whether his kids are gonna have running water and food in their bellies. This is of course utterly backwards to how it should be.
[2] Expect to see a change in these over the coming years....now that everyone is using them (because they ARE a good idea), they makers will panic because they realise they've sold us all something that lasts 10-20 times longer than before. Expect them to become much cheaper and break a lot sooner in the coming years.
If you doubt me on this.....ask yourself where all the giant LED xmas tree light sets that were on sale 3-4 years ago have gone....easy "oh, fuck we're selling something they only need to buy once!!!!"...the ones I see now all have something that resembles an LED but is clearly no manufactured to the same standard as they usually are....so they fail more....so you need to buy more.
[3] Except....some cunts, in You Know Where....have "worked out" that the deuterium and tritium (isotopes of hydrogen) readily available in sea water, aren't just quite good enough (or monetizable), as they will result in reactor wall linings getting a bit radioactive quicker. THEY would prefer we use helium3 and they best source according to them,.....the moon. I am all for the exploration of the moon, and all for exploiting it's wealth, because I'd much rather they made a total fuck up of a lifeless ball of rock, than this beautiful green ball of rock.....but not if it means turning what could be the final answer to mankind's needs, into the next power economy!! (NB reactors running on isotopic hydrogen, produce helium 3....so what's the problem with compound seawater reactors, or hydrogen reactors used as main industrial units, and He3 units used where clenliness is more important.
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It also shows the kind of cycle that it doesn't take an advanced knowledge of Fourier analysis to spot, or where on that natural cycle we are now.
Wednesday, 24 November 2010
Minor note:
Someone said I had courage to go through this pain/pill crap.
A 7 year old, who's old enough to understand that cancer will stop them seeing 10 but goes to school and plays with their friends, that's courage
A guy who walks into a burning building to save a stranger, again, that is courage.
What I have on my side is not noble human bravery....nope...I've got genetically ingrained proddy stubbornness....I may have managed to ditch the fairy tales and the sectarian hatred of people who believe the fuckin fairy's wand was an inch longer than my lot do...or some thing......but wanker-mindedness? That's cellular, I'm stuck with that.
SO please remember, not brave....just pig headed, not a hero, just a cunt.
Hey it works for me!!??!!
( I DESPERATELY wish I had the time and energy to embed a little soundclip of Nyder (Davros' bitch basically), saying "your views are not important"....just to illustrate my point)
A 7 year old, who's old enough to understand that cancer will stop them seeing 10 but goes to school and plays with their friends, that's courage
A guy who walks into a burning building to save a stranger, again, that is courage.
What I have on my side is not noble human bravery....nope...I've got genetically ingrained proddy stubbornness....I may have managed to ditch the fairy tales and the sectarian hatred of people who believe the fuckin fairy's wand was an inch longer than my lot do...or some thing......but wanker-mindedness? That's cellular, I'm stuck with that.
SO please remember, not brave....just pig headed, not a hero, just a cunt.
Hey it works for me!!??!!
( I DESPERATELY wish I had the time and energy to embed a little soundclip of Nyder (Davros' bitch basically), saying "your views are not important"....just to illustrate my point)
In a world of Fail, we take such Wins as we can.
Today has been, by my standards, made of win (by normal human standards, probably not)
Today's Wins:
(note, it'll be yesterday, by the time I post this tomorrow, which is today)
1. Replacement steering wheel arrives (albeit it's an xmas pressie and if ever I see money again I'll pay a share of it cos it's EXCESSIVELY expensive for what is after all, just a flash joystick. Logitech G27...supposedly TWICE as powerful as my sick G25.....which, honestly, I would not recommend fucking about with as it is (or letting kids near it, it's easily enough to break a wee wrist if it got caught the wrong way)...so I'm not sure I'll be exploring the upper reaches of it's force feedback effects......except maybe once, to remind myself that even a half arsed approximation of the sensations through just the wheel of an F1 car is enough to exhaust me in a lap or two, never mind experiencing the G loads (and terror of course....it doesn't hurt much when I crash...not to say that damage has not been caused in crashes both to me, and anything not nailed to whatever the wheel is clamped to). So come xmas morning I shall be failing to drive in yet better levels of realism.
2. Made laptop go. Despite the untimely demise of it's screen, my laptop lives again, sort of. Basically, removed (and I mean removed, not cro-barred off in my usual manner) the entire rear assembly, disconnected the inverter board, the wifi antenna, the vga cable (such odd and beautifully engineered connections on all of these). The Wifi is no loss because it's a fuckin bonkers "winmodem" job, it's a rejiggered bluetooth radio or something, because it needs to pre-load firmware every time it powers on, which is always a massive giveaway that somebody is making something cheap do a more expensive thing's job......(in the days of dialup, if your modem was inside your PC, it was basically a sound card with complex, slow and mental drivers...often with forced firmware uploads (or even fucking transloads from rom to ram :banghead: ). Up shot is that any such device works the same way in Linux as in windows.....you need to install drivers instead of the OS just dealing with it like it's meant to....trouble is you have to pry the firmware out of the windows driver and then tell Linux to ram the firmware down the bastard's throat the moment the kernel finishes loading the driver module.....not only is this Archaic, I mean really...despite what Mr Balmer tells you...us penguinistas haven't had to go bollock deep into the guts of the thing since before windows XP was patched to a half usable standard, except for the WHACKIEST of hardware.
(Speaking of which.....check out Table 1 down the bottom, and tell me you don't think Linux is WAY cooler than Faildows!) And it's not worth it, because this card, in any OS, basically fucks our network, my brother who has a degree, an MSCE AND is Cisco certified....hasn't a clue what it does, the best theory being that it sends out a burst of "Godzilla packets", and evertything just says "fuck it". SO...fundamentally, the loss of the internal wireless is no tradgedy.
The remains of the lapper were then connected to a little 17" Dell monitor I had lying about.....works rather well......can leave monitor on little table, and lift the computer (essentially just a heavy keyboard now) onto my lap. This means that when I'm not playing flash games (flash and flash programmers are unspeakably shite that it litterally takes my 3.5GHz quad core machine to run then acceptably...the laptop however, while it can eat up CPU demanding bastards like Cubase, can barely run, for example, fishville.), I can sit on my fat ringpiece on the sofa and still piss the internet off. I even have the screen set up so that if I happen to be half watching something on telly, I can look at the 17" right in front of me, and it more or less sets into the lower right corner of the main 32" screen, from my point of view, couldn't have planned it better.....I like it as a set up.....means I can "watch" all those "how they do shit" shows on Discovery, and so on, and do something more productive (for me.....more irritating for humanity at large no doubt) until something I don't know comes along that's worth my attention.
So I was on a roll.
3. Next up.....sick hard disc with lots of important TV I need to see on it. A spot of delicate work required here (a fair portion of persons who have seen my "delicate work" would read this, if they could be arsed, and sharply draw breath then say "ah" or possible "oh", or maybe even "oh dear, that's unfortunate, I wonder what the final bill and casualty list will be").......removed control board from dead drive and swapped with board from sister drive. Now boys and girls, let this be a lesson unto thee......if the fat, half blind, drug addled paddy fuckwitt with ten thumbs on two left hands can do this.....nobody has any excuse other than being a pussy!!!!!!
The good news is that the transplant went really really easily....the bad news is that it's not the controller that's failed.....with a new board in place the symptoms remained the same. Which means I am left with 3 alternative.....
1. Just bin the thing and re-download anything that isn't backed up.
2. Wait until I have a few hundred quid, then send it to data recovery place in Belfast.
3. Follow Youtube instructions on how to exchange platters between drives. This will have to wait until donor drive can be fully backed up.
Still......quite a winful day for anyone.....by my current standards it was like winning Monaco with 7 cylinders and a front left puncture.
Table-1
steve@hal9000 ~ $ ssh guz
Last login: Wed Nov 24 00:14:42 GMT 2010 from hal9000.lan.campbell-multimedia.co.uk on pts/0
steve@guzunda ~ $ cd /usr/src/linux
steve@guzunda /usr/src/linux $ grep -C 2 -r -i "fuck" *
Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl-
Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl- <para>
Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl: If you don't see why, please stay the fuck away from my code.
Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl- </para>
Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl- </sect2>
--
arch/parisc/kernel/sys_parisc.c-}
arch/parisc/kernel/sys_parisc.c-
arch/parisc/kernel/sys_parisc.c:/* Fucking broken ABI */
arch/parisc/kernel/sys_parisc.c-
arch/parisc/kernel/sys_parisc.c-#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
--
arch/sparc/kernel/head_32.S-
arch/sparc/kernel/head_32.S-sun4m_init:
arch/sparc/kernel/head_32.S: /* XXX Fucking Cypress... */
arch/sparc/kernel/head_32.S- lda [%g0] ASI_M_MMUREGS, %g5
arch/sparc/kernel/head_32.S- srl %g5, 28, %g4
--
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k7.c-
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k7.c-/*
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k7.c: * Some Athlon laptops have really fucked PST tables.
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k7.c- * A BIOS update is all that can save them.
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k7.c- * Mention this, and disable cpufreq.
--
arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-setup.c-
arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-setup.c- /* Init the INDY HPC I/O controller. Need to call this before
arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-setup.c: * fucking with the memory controller because it needs to know the
arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-setup.c- * boardID and whether this is a Guiness or a FullHouse machine.
arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-setup.c- */
--
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c-
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- /*
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c: * IOC3 is fucked fucked beyond believe ... Don't even give the
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- * generic PCI code a chance to look at it for real ...
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- */
--
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c-
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- /*
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c: * IOC3 is fucked fucked beyond believe ... Don't even give the
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- * generic PCI code a chance to look at the wrong register.
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- */
--
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c-
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- /*
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c: * IOC3 is fucked fucked beyond believe ... Don't try to access
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- * anything but 32-bit words ...
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- */
--
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c-
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- /*
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c: * IOC3 is fucked fucked beyond believe ... Don't even give the
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- * generic PCI code a chance to look at it for real ...
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- */
--
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c-
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- /*
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c: * IOC3 is fucked fucked beyond believe ... Don't even give the
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- * generic PCI code a chance to look at the wrong register.
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- */
--
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c-
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- /*
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c: * IOC3 is fucked fucked beyond believe ... Don't try to access
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- * anything but 32-bit words ...
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- */
--
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c-
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- /*
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c: * IOC3 is fucked fucked beyond believe ... Don't even give the
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- * generic PCI code a chance to look at it for real ...
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- */
--
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c-
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- /*
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c: * IOC3 is fucked fucked beyond believe ... Don't even give the
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- * generic PCI code a chance to touch the wrong register.
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- */
--
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c-
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- /*
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c: * IOC3 is fucked fucked beyond believe ... Don't try to access
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- * anything but 32-bit words ...
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- */
--
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c-
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- /*
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c: * IOC3 is fucked fucked beyond believe ... Don't even give the
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- * generic PCI code a chance to look at it for real ...
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- */
--
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c-
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- /*
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c: * IOC3 is fucked fucked beyond believe ... Don't even give the
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- * generic PCI code a chance to touch the wrong register.
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- */
--
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c-
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- /*
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c: * IOC3 is fucked fucked beyond believe ... Don't try to access
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- * anything but 32-bit words ...
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- */
--
arch/m68k/include/asm/sun3ints.h-extern volatile unsigned char* sun3_intreg;
arch/m68k/include/asm/sun3ints.h-
arch/m68k/include/asm/sun3ints.h:/* master list of VME vectors -- don't fuck with this */
arch/m68k/include/asm/sun3ints.h-#define SUN3_VEC_FLOPPY (IRQ_USER+0)
arch/m68k/include/asm/sun3ints.h-#define SUN3_VEC_VMESCSI0 (IRQ_USER+0)
--
drivers/media/video/bt819.c- 0x13, 0x20, /* 0x13 Vertial Scaling msb 0x00
drivers/media/video/bt819.c- chroma comb OFF, line drop scaling, interlace scaling
drivers/media/video/bt819.c: BUG? Why does turning the chroma comb on fuck up color?
drivers/media/video/bt819.c- Bug in the bt819 stepping on my board?
drivers/media/video/bt819.c- */
--
drivers/net/sunhme.c-}
drivers/net/sunhme.c-
drivers/net/sunhme.c:/* Only Sun can take such nice parts and fuck up the programming interface
drivers/net/sunhme.c- * like this. Good job guys...
drivers/net/sunhme.c- */
--
drivers/net/sunhme.c- }
drivers/net/sunhme.c-
drivers/net/sunhme.c: /* This card is _fucking_ hot... */
drivers/net/sunhme.c- skb->csum = csum_unfold(~(__force __sum16)htons(csum));
drivers/net/sunhme.c- skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_COMPLETE;
--
drivers/ide/cmd640.c- * of IDE interfaces using the CMD Technologies 0640 IDE interface chip.
drivers/ide/cmd640.c- *
drivers/ide/cmd640.c: * These chips are basically fucked by design, and getting this driver
drivers/ide/cmd640.c- * to work on every motherboard design that uses this screwed chip seems
drivers/ide/cmd640.c- * bloody well impossible. However, we're still trying.
--
drivers/watchdog/shwdt.c- * Whoever came up with the RSTCSR semantics must've been smoking
drivers/watchdog/shwdt.c- * some of the good stuff, since in addition to the WTCSR/WTCNT write
drivers/watchdog/shwdt.c: * brain-damage, it's managed to fuck things up one step further..
drivers/watchdog/shwdt.c- *
drivers/watchdog/shwdt.c- * If we need to clear the WOVF bit, the upper byte has to be 0xa5..
--
drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c-
drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c- /* Register the notifier if/when the first device type is
drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c: registered, to prevent the link/init ordering from fucking
drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c- us over. */
drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c- if (!blktrans_notifier.list.next)
--
drivers/scsi/qlogicpti.h-#define EXECUTION_TIMEOUT_RESET 0x8006
drivers/scsi/qlogicpti.h-
drivers/scsi/qlogicpti.h:/* Am I fucking pedantic or what? */
drivers/scsi/qlogicpti.h-struct Entry_header {
drivers/scsi/qlogicpti.h-#ifdef __BIG_ENDIAN
--
fs/xfs/xfs_btree.h- case XFS_BTNUM_BMAP: __XFS_BTREE_STATS_INC(bmbt, stat); break; \
fs/xfs/xfs_btree.h- case XFS_BTNUM_INO: __XFS_BTREE_STATS_INC(ibt, stat); break; \
fs/xfs/xfs_btree.h: case XFS_BTNUM_MAX: ASSERT(0); /* fucking gcc */ ; break; \
fs/xfs/xfs_btree.h- } \
fs/xfs/xfs_btree.h-} while (0)
--
fs/xfs/xfs_btree.h- case XFS_BTNUM_BMAP: __XFS_BTREE_STATS_ADD(bmbt, stat, val); break; \
fs/xfs/xfs_btree.h- case XFS_BTNUM_INO: __XFS_BTREE_STATS_ADD(ibt, stat, val); break; \
fs/xfs/xfs_btree.h: case XFS_BTNUM_MAX: ASSERT(0); /* fucking gcc */ ; break; \
fs/xfs/xfs_btree.h- } \
fs/xfs/xfs_btree.h-} while (0)
--
fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c- /* We found an entry in the idr with the right wd, but it's
fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c- * not the entry we were told to remove. eparis seriously
fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c: * fucked up somewhere. */
fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c- WARN_ON(1);
fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c- ientry->wd = -1;
--
lib/vsprintf.c-/* vsprintf.c -- Lars Wirzenius & Linus Torvalds. */
lib/vsprintf.c-/*
lib/vsprintf.c: * Wirzenius wrote this portably, Torvalds fucked it up :-)
lib/vsprintf.c- */
lib/vsprintf.c-
--
net/core/skbuff.c- struct sk_buff *skb2;
net/core/skbuff.c-
net/core/skbuff.c: /* Fuck, we are miserable poor guys... */
net/core/skbuff.c- if (ntail == 0)
net/core/skbuff.c- skb2 = skb_copy(skb1, GFP_ATOMIC);
--
net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat_snmp_basic.c-/*
net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat_snmp_basic.c- * Parse and mangle SNMP message according to mapping.
net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat_snmp_basic.c: * (And this is the fucking 'basic' method).
net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat_snmp_basic.c- */
net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat_snmp_basic.c-static int snmp_parse_mangle(unsigned char *msg,
--
sound/oss/opl3.c-
sound/oss/opl3.c- /*
sound/oss/opl3.c: * What the fuck is going on here? We leave junk in the beginning
sound/oss/opl3.c- * of ins and then check the field pretty close to that beginning?
sound/oss/opl3.c- */
That's from the Linux kernel source code, I love these bitter miserable people :D
I've even learned a thing or two about programming (which years of books and teachers more or less failed to do, unless we're talking about programming using MIDI, in which case....fucking bring it, I AM yer actual man), while reading mental documentation before.
And with that....I must reprint this here.........
From the README that accompanies a print spooler flummy called Gnome (an apple-y looking desktop for various 'nixen) Cups (Common Unix Print Server....oddly enough a print spooler and driver layer) Manager (lets you click stuff to make things change.....welllllll we're talking about printers, so to be honest it lets you idly click shit for ten mins....then responds to all the clicks at once or just core dumps)
Once upon a time there was a printer who lived in the woods. He was a
lonely printer, because nobody knew how to configure him. He hoped
and hoped for someone to play with.
One day, the wind passed by the printer's cottage. "Whoosh," said the
wind. The printer became excited. Maybe the wind would be his
friend!
"Will you be my friend?" the printer asked.
"Whoosh," said the wind.
"What does that mean?" asked the printer.
"Whoosh," said the wind, and with that it was gone.
The printer was confused. He spent the rest of the day thinking and
jamming paper (for that is what little printers do when they are
confused).
The next day a storm came. The rain came pouring down, darkening the
morning sky and destroying the printer's garden. The little printer
was upset. "Why are you being so mean to me?" he asked.
"Pitter Patter, Pitter Patter," said the rain.
"Will you be my friend?" the printer asked shyly.
"Pitter Patter, Pitter Patter," said the rain, and then it left and
the sun came out.
The printer was sad. He spent the rest of the day inside, sobbing and
blinking lights cryptically (for that is what little printers do when
they are sad).
Then one day, a little girl stumbled into the printer's clearing in
the woods. The printer looked at this curious sight. He didn't know
what to think.
The little girl looked up at him. "Will you be my friend?" she asked.
"Yes," said the printer.
"What is your name?" asked the little girl.
"HP 4100TN", replied the printer.
"My name is gnome-cups-manager" said the little girl.
The printer was happy. He spent the rest of the day playing games and
printing documents, for that is what little printers do when they are
happy.
Today's Wins:
(note, it'll be yesterday, by the time I post this tomorrow, which is today)
1. Replacement steering wheel arrives (albeit it's an xmas pressie and if ever I see money again I'll pay a share of it cos it's EXCESSIVELY expensive for what is after all, just a flash joystick. Logitech G27...supposedly TWICE as powerful as my sick G25.....which, honestly, I would not recommend fucking about with as it is (or letting kids near it, it's easily enough to break a wee wrist if it got caught the wrong way)...so I'm not sure I'll be exploring the upper reaches of it's force feedback effects......except maybe once, to remind myself that even a half arsed approximation of the sensations through just the wheel of an F1 car is enough to exhaust me in a lap or two, never mind experiencing the G loads (and terror of course....it doesn't hurt much when I crash...not to say that damage has not been caused in crashes both to me, and anything not nailed to whatever the wheel is clamped to). So come xmas morning I shall be failing to drive in yet better levels of realism.
2. Made laptop go. Despite the untimely demise of it's screen, my laptop lives again, sort of. Basically, removed (and I mean removed, not cro-barred off in my usual manner) the entire rear assembly, disconnected the inverter board, the wifi antenna, the vga cable (such odd and beautifully engineered connections on all of these). The Wifi is no loss because it's a fuckin bonkers "winmodem" job, it's a rejiggered bluetooth radio or something, because it needs to pre-load firmware every time it powers on, which is always a massive giveaway that somebody is making something cheap do a more expensive thing's job......(in the days of dialup, if your modem was inside your PC, it was basically a sound card with complex, slow and mental drivers...often with forced firmware uploads (or even fucking transloads from rom to ram :banghead: ). Up shot is that any such device works the same way in Linux as in windows.....you need to install drivers instead of the OS just dealing with it like it's meant to....trouble is you have to pry the firmware out of the windows driver and then tell Linux to ram the firmware down the bastard's throat the moment the kernel finishes loading the driver module.....not only is this Archaic, I mean really...despite what Mr Balmer tells you...us penguinistas haven't had to go bollock deep into the guts of the thing since before windows XP was patched to a half usable standard, except for the WHACKIEST of hardware.
(Speaking of which.....check out Table 1 down the bottom, and tell me you don't think Linux is WAY cooler than Faildows!) And it's not worth it, because this card, in any OS, basically fucks our network, my brother who has a degree, an MSCE AND is Cisco certified....hasn't a clue what it does, the best theory being that it sends out a burst of "Godzilla packets", and evertything just says "fuck it". SO...fundamentally, the loss of the internal wireless is no tradgedy.
The remains of the lapper were then connected to a little 17" Dell monitor I had lying about.....works rather well......can leave monitor on little table, and lift the computer (essentially just a heavy keyboard now) onto my lap. This means that when I'm not playing flash games (flash and flash programmers are unspeakably shite that it litterally takes my 3.5GHz quad core machine to run then acceptably...the laptop however, while it can eat up CPU demanding bastards like Cubase, can barely run, for example, fishville.), I can sit on my fat ringpiece on the sofa and still piss the internet off. I even have the screen set up so that if I happen to be half watching something on telly, I can look at the 17" right in front of me, and it more or less sets into the lower right corner of the main 32" screen, from my point of view, couldn't have planned it better.....I like it as a set up.....means I can "watch" all those "how they do shit" shows on Discovery, and so on, and do something more productive (for me.....more irritating for humanity at large no doubt) until something I don't know comes along that's worth my attention.
So I was on a roll.
3. Next up.....sick hard disc with lots of important TV I need to see on it. A spot of delicate work required here (a fair portion of persons who have seen my "delicate work" would read this, if they could be arsed, and sharply draw breath then say "ah" or possible "oh", or maybe even "oh dear, that's unfortunate, I wonder what the final bill and casualty list will be").......removed control board from dead drive and swapped with board from sister drive. Now boys and girls, let this be a lesson unto thee......if the fat, half blind, drug addled paddy fuckwitt with ten thumbs on two left hands can do this.....nobody has any excuse other than being a pussy!!!!!!
The good news is that the transplant went really really easily....the bad news is that it's not the controller that's failed.....with a new board in place the symptoms remained the same. Which means I am left with 3 alternative.....
1. Just bin the thing and re-download anything that isn't backed up.
2. Wait until I have a few hundred quid, then send it to data recovery place in Belfast.
3. Follow Youtube instructions on how to exchange platters between drives. This will have to wait until donor drive can be fully backed up.
Still......quite a winful day for anyone.....by my current standards it was like winning Monaco with 7 cylinders and a front left puncture.
Table-1
steve@hal9000 ~ $ ssh guz
Last login: Wed Nov 24 00:14:42 GMT 2010 from hal9000.lan.campbell-multimedia.co.uk on pts/0
steve@guzunda ~ $ cd /usr/src/linux
steve@guzunda /usr/src/linux $ grep -C 2 -r -i "fuck" *
Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl-
Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl- <para>
Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl: If you don't see why, please stay the fuck away from my code.
Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl- </para>
Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl- </sect2>
--
arch/parisc/kernel/sys_parisc.c-}
arch/parisc/kernel/sys_parisc.c-
arch/parisc/kernel/sys_parisc.c:/* Fucking broken ABI */
arch/parisc/kernel/sys_parisc.c-
arch/parisc/kernel/sys_parisc.c-#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
--
arch/sparc/kernel/head_32.S-
arch/sparc/kernel/head_32.S-sun4m_init:
arch/sparc/kernel/head_32.S: /* XXX Fucking Cypress... */
arch/sparc/kernel/head_32.S- lda [%g0] ASI_M_MMUREGS, %g5
arch/sparc/kernel/head_32.S- srl %g5, 28, %g4
--
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k7.c-
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k7.c-/*
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k7.c: * Some Athlon laptops have really fucked PST tables.
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k7.c- * A BIOS update is all that can save them.
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k7.c- * Mention this, and disable cpufreq.
--
arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-setup.c-
arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-setup.c- /* Init the INDY HPC I/O controller. Need to call this before
arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-setup.c: * fucking with the memory controller because it needs to know the
arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-setup.c- * boardID and whether this is a Guiness or a FullHouse machine.
arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-setup.c- */
--
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c-
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- /*
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c: * IOC3 is fucked fucked beyond believe ... Don't even give the
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- * generic PCI code a chance to look at it for real ...
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- */
--
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c-
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- /*
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c: * IOC3 is fucked fucked beyond believe ... Don't even give the
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- * generic PCI code a chance to look at the wrong register.
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- */
--
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c-
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- /*
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c: * IOC3 is fucked fucked beyond believe ... Don't try to access
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- * anything but 32-bit words ...
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- */
--
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c-
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- /*
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c: * IOC3 is fucked fucked beyond believe ... Don't even give the
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- * generic PCI code a chance to look at it for real ...
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- */
--
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c-
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- /*
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c: * IOC3 is fucked fucked beyond believe ... Don't even give the
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- * generic PCI code a chance to look at the wrong register.
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- */
--
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c-
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- /*
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c: * IOC3 is fucked fucked beyond believe ... Don't try to access
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- * anything but 32-bit words ...
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- */
--
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c-
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- /*
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c: * IOC3 is fucked fucked beyond believe ... Don't even give the
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- * generic PCI code a chance to look at it for real ...
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- */
--
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c-
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- /*
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c: * IOC3 is fucked fucked beyond believe ... Don't even give the
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- * generic PCI code a chance to touch the wrong register.
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- */
--
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c-
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- /*
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c: * IOC3 is fucked fucked beyond believe ... Don't try to access
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- * anything but 32-bit words ...
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- */
--
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c-
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- /*
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c: * IOC3 is fucked fucked beyond believe ... Don't even give the
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- * generic PCI code a chance to look at it for real ...
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- */
--
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c-
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- /*
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c: * IOC3 is fucked fucked beyond believe ... Don't even give the
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- * generic PCI code a chance to touch the wrong register.
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- */
--
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c-
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- /*
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c: * IOC3 is fucked fucked beyond believe ... Don't try to access
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- * anything but 32-bit words ...
arch/mips/pci/ops-bridge.c- */
--
arch/m68k/include/asm/sun3ints.h-extern volatile unsigned char* sun3_intreg;
arch/m68k/include/asm/sun3ints.h-
arch/m68k/include/asm/sun3ints.h:/* master list of VME vectors -- don't fuck with this */
arch/m68k/include/asm/sun3ints.h-#define SUN3_VEC_FLOPPY (IRQ_USER+0)
arch/m68k/include/asm/sun3ints.h-#define SUN3_VEC_VMESCSI0 (IRQ_USER+0)
--
drivers/media/video/bt819.c- 0x13, 0x20, /* 0x13 Vertial Scaling msb 0x00
drivers/media/video/bt819.c- chroma comb OFF, line drop scaling, interlace scaling
drivers/media/video/bt819.c: BUG? Why does turning the chroma comb on fuck up color?
drivers/media/video/bt819.c- Bug in the bt819 stepping on my board?
drivers/media/video/bt819.c- */
--
drivers/net/sunhme.c-}
drivers/net/sunhme.c-
drivers/net/sunhme.c:/* Only Sun can take such nice parts and fuck up the programming interface
drivers/net/sunhme.c- * like this. Good job guys...
drivers/net/sunhme.c- */
--
drivers/net/sunhme.c- }
drivers/net/sunhme.c-
drivers/net/sunhme.c: /* This card is _fucking_ hot... */
drivers/net/sunhme.c- skb->csum = csum_unfold(~(__force __sum16)htons(csum));
drivers/net/sunhme.c- skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_COMPLETE;
--
drivers/ide/cmd640.c- * of IDE interfaces using the CMD Technologies 0640 IDE interface chip.
drivers/ide/cmd640.c- *
drivers/ide/cmd640.c: * These chips are basically fucked by design, and getting this driver
drivers/ide/cmd640.c- * to work on every motherboard design that uses this screwed chip seems
drivers/ide/cmd640.c- * bloody well impossible. However, we're still trying.
--
drivers/watchdog/shwdt.c- * Whoever came up with the RSTCSR semantics must've been smoking
drivers/watchdog/shwdt.c- * some of the good stuff, since in addition to the WTCSR/WTCNT write
drivers/watchdog/shwdt.c: * brain-damage, it's managed to fuck things up one step further..
drivers/watchdog/shwdt.c- *
drivers/watchdog/shwdt.c- * If we need to clear the WOVF bit, the upper byte has to be 0xa5..
--
drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c-
drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c- /* Register the notifier if/when the first device type is
drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c: registered, to prevent the link/init ordering from fucking
drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c- us over. */
drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c- if (!blktrans_notifier.list.next)
--
drivers/scsi/qlogicpti.h-#define EXECUTION_TIMEOUT_RESET 0x8006
drivers/scsi/qlogicpti.h-
drivers/scsi/qlogicpti.h:/* Am I fucking pedantic or what? */
drivers/scsi/qlogicpti.h-struct Entry_header {
drivers/scsi/qlogicpti.h-#ifdef __BIG_ENDIAN
--
fs/xfs/xfs_btree.h- case XFS_BTNUM_BMAP: __XFS_BTREE_STATS_INC(bmbt, stat); break; \
fs/xfs/xfs_btree.h- case XFS_BTNUM_INO: __XFS_BTREE_STATS_INC(ibt, stat); break; \
fs/xfs/xfs_btree.h: case XFS_BTNUM_MAX: ASSERT(0); /* fucking gcc */ ; break; \
fs/xfs/xfs_btree.h- } \
fs/xfs/xfs_btree.h-} while (0)
--
fs/xfs/xfs_btree.h- case XFS_BTNUM_BMAP: __XFS_BTREE_STATS_ADD(bmbt, stat, val); break; \
fs/xfs/xfs_btree.h- case XFS_BTNUM_INO: __XFS_BTREE_STATS_ADD(ibt, stat, val); break; \
fs/xfs/xfs_btree.h: case XFS_BTNUM_MAX: ASSERT(0); /* fucking gcc */ ; break; \
fs/xfs/xfs_btree.h- } \
fs/xfs/xfs_btree.h-} while (0)
--
fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c- /* We found an entry in the idr with the right wd, but it's
fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c- * not the entry we were told to remove. eparis seriously
fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c: * fucked up somewhere. */
fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c- WARN_ON(1);
fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c- ientry->wd = -1;
--
lib/vsprintf.c-/* vsprintf.c -- Lars Wirzenius & Linus Torvalds. */
lib/vsprintf.c-/*
lib/vsprintf.c: * Wirzenius wrote this portably, Torvalds fucked it up :-)
lib/vsprintf.c- */
lib/vsprintf.c-
--
net/core/skbuff.c- struct sk_buff *skb2;
net/core/skbuff.c-
net/core/skbuff.c: /* Fuck, we are miserable poor guys... */
net/core/skbuff.c- if (ntail == 0)
net/core/skbuff.c- skb2 = skb_copy(skb1, GFP_ATOMIC);
--
net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat_snmp_basic.c-/*
net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat_snmp_basic.c- * Parse and mangle SNMP message according to mapping.
net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat_snmp_basic.c: * (And this is the fucking 'basic' method).
net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat_snmp_basic.c- */
net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat_snmp_basic.c-static int snmp_parse_mangle(unsigned char *msg,
--
sound/oss/opl3.c-
sound/oss/opl3.c- /*
sound/oss/opl3.c: * What the fuck is going on here? We leave junk in the beginning
sound/oss/opl3.c- * of ins and then check the field pretty close to that beginning?
sound/oss/opl3.c- */
That's from the Linux kernel source code, I love these bitter miserable people :D
I've even learned a thing or two about programming (which years of books and teachers more or less failed to do, unless we're talking about programming using MIDI, in which case....fucking bring it, I AM yer actual man), while reading mental documentation before.
And with that....I must reprint this here.........
From the README that accompanies a print spooler flummy called Gnome (an apple-y looking desktop for various 'nixen) Cups (Common Unix Print Server....oddly enough a print spooler and driver layer) Manager (lets you click stuff to make things change.....welllllll we're talking about printers, so to be honest it lets you idly click shit for ten mins....then responds to all the clicks at once or just core dumps)
Once upon a time there was a printer who lived in the woods. He was a
lonely printer, because nobody knew how to configure him. He hoped
and hoped for someone to play with.
One day, the wind passed by the printer's cottage. "Whoosh," said the
wind. The printer became excited. Maybe the wind would be his
friend!
"Will you be my friend?" the printer asked.
"Whoosh," said the wind.
"What does that mean?" asked the printer.
"Whoosh," said the wind, and with that it was gone.
The printer was confused. He spent the rest of the day thinking and
jamming paper (for that is what little printers do when they are
confused).
The next day a storm came. The rain came pouring down, darkening the
morning sky and destroying the printer's garden. The little printer
was upset. "Why are you being so mean to me?" he asked.
"Pitter Patter, Pitter Patter," said the rain.
"Will you be my friend?" the printer asked shyly.
"Pitter Patter, Pitter Patter," said the rain, and then it left and
the sun came out.
The printer was sad. He spent the rest of the day inside, sobbing and
blinking lights cryptically (for that is what little printers do when
they are sad).
Then one day, a little girl stumbled into the printer's clearing in
the woods. The printer looked at this curious sight. He didn't know
what to think.
The little girl looked up at him. "Will you be my friend?" she asked.
"Yes," said the printer.
"What is your name?" asked the little girl.
"HP 4100TN", replied the printer.
"My name is gnome-cups-manager" said the little girl.
The printer was happy. He spent the rest of the day playing games and
printing documents, for that is what little printers do when they are
happy.
Tuesday, 23 November 2010
tramad-lol
Ways of telling you've had enough.....
#27: Doing the daily gift rounds on Farmville becomes a geniune chore.
Ways of telling you may not have had enough......
#1 still really, really, REALLY sore.
Ways of telling you may have had too many......
#18 Every time you feel a little wave of tiredness, you think....."is that sleep, or am I passing out, and even if it IS sleep, is that such a good idea right now".
Now the 2nd and third of the above examples are interesting, because the dosage required to eliminate the condition detailed in WOTYMNHHE(#1), can FAR exceed the dosage which will bring on the state described under WOTYMHHTM(#18), and no amount of reassurance from the medical literature on the subject of the LD50 for Tramadol being a trough full of them (seriously apart from one case where there were obvious underlying problems, the LD50 is getting on for 40 (FORTY) with the LD90 being more like 80 (EIGHTY) pills.
The most I ever took in a 24 period was exactly 2x the prescribed dose, 16 pills, or 800mg, spread fairly evenly. I was still sore, but didn't feel like pushing my luck with any more.....the way I looked at it though was that 8 pills was for a normal 14-16 hour active day.....I was on a 30 hour stint, so 16 was hardly excessive (the last 6 hours before bed were spend normalising a little)....albeit that the 30 hour stint was caused by pain and tramadol in the first place.
Some interesting tramafactoids.......
It does funny things to your fun parts in high doses. You can be enjoying yourself, or indeed you and another can be enjoying yourselves, with everything functioning within expected tolerances......and then with ne'er a provocation nor warning, your bits go...."errrrm what was that, out the window, I swear I saw something, oh well never mind", and picks up....I dunno I suppose vaginas might read "Which Penis" or something, and penises probably read the Daily Mail.......and it's OVER, no questions asked, no debate, no redemption, I have had this confirmed by a female who claimed that one I gave her for back cramps interfered with her morning solo amusement in exactly the way I describe (she later went on to claim we were never in any way close....so I suppose it's OK to talk about it here if it's the sort of thing she tells any old casual acquaintance).....and even that it has destroyed passion of the with-another-actual-live-human kind.
It does nothing at ALL for toothache, somehow toothache has a path to the pain centres of the brain that good old T'dol doesn't know about.
It can also cause headaches cos it changes bloodflow.
When it first hits you, all your muscles go floppily doppily and if you've any sense you'll do any shiting you might have planned at this point, because within another hour to 90mins, most things that can have mild spastic failures do.....in other words, yer ringpiece is, if not exactly closed for business, certainly reluctant to open itself up to your needs.
The withdrawls from long periods of high doses are kinda annoying, agitation, depression (lol, like I can notice that above daily background) restlessness, and general shittyness.....but the really fucking odd bit is, even when you feel really REALLY shit....nothing in your brain says "mate, get some fuckin trammies down you big lad, they'l fix yer"......it originally took some logical thought to work out that there may be a reason why, after a ten day blood, puss, and opoid haze fest, when my sores calmed, I might suddenly feel like my world was ending right there and then for no reason I could discern....and thereafter it still takes me to sit down and think.......hang on....not had any of my little friends for two days, mayhaps that's why I'm so fucked up.....and whack two into me, then one later that day, then one maybe once or twice the next day, then fine. Given that I have a moderately addictive personality (only a short attention span keeps me out of real trouble there) this all seems WAY too easy and sort of civilised. I know it's an opOID rather than an opIATE, indicating it is a synthetic act-a-like compound.........but come on, can this be a 1% does of a heroin come down? I think not somehow.
Anyway, ballsacks to the lot of it (and medical science will be studying mine until the apes take over).
PLEASE don't tell me to try something else...I have, it didn't work, the only place to go from tramadol is whatever that bloke House is on, which I believe is another opoid, and we can all see who that works for him (the show was introduced to me as "he's too smart for everyone around him to keep up with, which makes him miserable, he's in constant agony which also makes him miserable, and he is off his fucking face on painkillers which makes him miserable, childish, evil and mental. Basically it's about you".). Or morphine......and given the aforementioned addictive personality, and given that a mate of mine recovered from a real cunt of a nasal tumor, only to tell me "cancer is a fucking doddle mate, cancer treatment however, sucks very badly" and then took well over a year to get off morphine.........in light of all that....I'm thinking I would like morphine WAY too much.
Would like to hear your experiences.
In fact, would somebody wave ONCE in a WHILE, please?....an empty post, a burp, anything a web-robot can't be blamed on.
Yer all cunts but i love you.
New Friends
I made a new net friend today, another passionate user of the grey matter, and a septic too, I'm always pleased to see seppos walking on the hind legs and doing joined up thinking, it makes me think I might not die in a religiously inspired nuclear holocaust.
Anyway, I meet many new folks on t'internet, what made this odd was that my Ex(cellent)-GF put on to one of her crazy mates (and anyone that can stomach her craziness is gonna be OK with mine, and likewise in reverse), and then it was one if his mates that I basically dived on to make funnies at cos she said something that vaguely appealed to me about some species of nasty arsehole or other.....again...not that odd. But the thing is, after my really upsetting morning, I was feeling a bit hyper anyway, AND being sore as fuck had eaten all the tramadol my guts could hold.....which is basically like a fuckin nitro injector on my brain. My doctor actually finds me deeply amusing in this respect, he says tramadol knock most people flat out.....but it's when I've none, or only one or two that I crash and burn because of A. the infection fighting going on, and B. the several days of tramadol fuelled wakefulness that has gone before. My doctor BTW is the only NON arsehole in the sorry tale of how come I'm not fixed yet.
So basically, I ranted and raved for like 3 hours at this poor innocent, who seemed to take it rather well, especially since I found her personal circumstances so amusing (I mean, an atheist with Jewish and Muslim blood....can you imagine family gatherings.....from the tv comes "and today in Jeruselem......" and it gets accidentally knocked off it's stand, and the cats come back out from under the chairs.)
But people say first impressions last, I can't imagine I cut any less of a mental figure online than in person with a gutful of my little helpers, albeit the hair's not in evidence ( I'm having a bad hair life, what can I say).
Anyway, she's way better read and cultured than me, so I really have to try to keep the cunt count fairly low, and minimise mouth foaming for a day or two.
Bloody hell, sounds like I wanna marry her LOL ( think someone already got there), but it was just so weird to launch into someone at full steam for so long when an hour previous we'd never interacted.
Well OK, not quite full steam.....I dunno if I'll ever manager that through a keyboard....can't jump about and wave my arms.
And talking so much shite about everything OTHER than the shitiness of being me just now kinda completed my climb out of near suicidal depression this morning. I started the journey myself by cleverly steering my brain away from giving up on life, to giving up on giving a fuck....seemed to work....I mean I'm in agony, and I am SO SO SO fucked on pills....but apart from those imeadiate annoyances, monkey's giving is at an ALL time low.
Like the beautiful song says..."the world explodes and I'm absolutely immune".
Anyway, back to bakebook to see if there are any more internet crazies who want to make friends.
Anyway, I meet many new folks on t'internet, what made this odd was that my Ex(cellent)-GF put on to one of her crazy mates (and anyone that can stomach her craziness is gonna be OK with mine, and likewise in reverse), and then it was one if his mates that I basically dived on to make funnies at cos she said something that vaguely appealed to me about some species of nasty arsehole or other.....again...not that odd. But the thing is, after my really upsetting morning, I was feeling a bit hyper anyway, AND being sore as fuck had eaten all the tramadol my guts could hold.....which is basically like a fuckin nitro injector on my brain. My doctor actually finds me deeply amusing in this respect, he says tramadol knock most people flat out.....but it's when I've none, or only one or two that I crash and burn because of A. the infection fighting going on, and B. the several days of tramadol fuelled wakefulness that has gone before. My doctor BTW is the only NON arsehole in the sorry tale of how come I'm not fixed yet.
So basically, I ranted and raved for like 3 hours at this poor innocent, who seemed to take it rather well, especially since I found her personal circumstances so amusing (I mean, an atheist with Jewish and Muslim blood....can you imagine family gatherings.....from the tv comes "and today in Jeruselem......" and it gets accidentally knocked off it's stand, and the cats come back out from under the chairs.)
But people say first impressions last, I can't imagine I cut any less of a mental figure online than in person with a gutful of my little helpers, albeit the hair's not in evidence ( I'm having a bad hair life, what can I say).
Anyway, she's way better read and cultured than me, so I really have to try to keep the cunt count fairly low, and minimise mouth foaming for a day or two.
Bloody hell, sounds like I wanna marry her LOL ( think someone already got there), but it was just so weird to launch into someone at full steam for so long when an hour previous we'd never interacted.
Well OK, not quite full steam.....I dunno if I'll ever manager that through a keyboard....can't jump about and wave my arms.
And talking so much shite about everything OTHER than the shitiness of being me just now kinda completed my climb out of near suicidal depression this morning. I started the journey myself by cleverly steering my brain away from giving up on life, to giving up on giving a fuck....seemed to work....I mean I'm in agony, and I am SO SO SO fucked on pills....but apart from those imeadiate annoyances, monkey's giving is at an ALL time low.
Like the beautiful song says..."the world explodes and I'm absolutely immune".
Anyway, back to bakebook to see if there are any more internet crazies who want to make friends.
Monday, 22 November 2010
Of physics, metaphysics and general thought experimentation.
Dear hearts, today has been a bad day for me. However instead of boring you with my ongoing war with my ex employer and the great powers of the dole (at least today I found out that it IS company policy to bum rape staff for as long as possible after they leave), and detailing just how much blood my body appears to feel it doesn't need and the number and variety of places it has found to dump it......I have decided to pose some thinking experimental type stuff at you.
Heisenberg.
Smart motherfucker of the highest order (and not the bloke with the cat, that was Erwin Schrodinger, and it too was a thought experiment, no cats were harmed!), he postulated what became known as "uncertainty principle".
What this basically says is.....you cannot tell what an electron is doing and where it is at the same time. This is because if you measure it's speed you change it's direction and position, and if you measure it's position, you change it's speed. NOTE: If you then factor in old Erwin's Cat it gets weirder even than that.....the electron's not there UNTIL you measure it.....but for the purposes of this discussion this is not to be considered.
What does this mean....well for one thing it means the transporter system in Star Trek is fucked.
They therefore cleverly came up with "heisenberg compensators" which you may occasionally hear referred to in the show.....In an interview Michael Okuda, one of the design boffins on Trek, said that someone rang him once to ask how the Heisenberg compensators worked, his reply was "just fine thank you".
Anyway, Heisenberg was only interested in that fucked up sub atomic quantum world, but surprisingly the idea that it's impossible to measure something, translates remarkably well to our big fat macro world....for example.....
Placing a thermometer in a cup of coffee.....cools the coffee!
Weighing something will cause atoms of it to slough off on the scale changing it's mass.
Even a police LIDAR speed gun affects it's own result....the pressure of the photons striking the car will slow it down.
In terms of things where it doesn't apply?
I had thought, measuring length by means of an adjacent ruler at the same temperature as the object (assuming we could ever really know that). However, my smart arse of a brother (the real brains of the outfit, sadly some bits are made of shit though), pointed out that the presence of the mass of the ruler will warp local spacetime affecting the result.
That leaves only, video analysis, where speed and perhaps size can be determine by "metameasurement", ie performing the measurement on analogous data captured entirely passively, as in a tv camera at distance.....of course such methods are not very accurate which kinda misses the point.
I would be interested to hear comments, suggestions, refutations, whatever.
Bring it on science bitches.
Heisenberg.
Smart motherfucker of the highest order (and not the bloke with the cat, that was Erwin Schrodinger, and it too was a thought experiment, no cats were harmed!), he postulated what became known as "uncertainty principle".
What this basically says is.....you cannot tell what an electron is doing and where it is at the same time. This is because if you measure it's speed you change it's direction and position, and if you measure it's position, you change it's speed. NOTE: If you then factor in old Erwin's Cat it gets weirder even than that.....the electron's not there UNTIL you measure it.....but for the purposes of this discussion this is not to be considered.
What does this mean....well for one thing it means the transporter system in Star Trek is fucked.
They therefore cleverly came up with "heisenberg compensators" which you may occasionally hear referred to in the show.....In an interview Michael Okuda, one of the design boffins on Trek, said that someone rang him once to ask how the Heisenberg compensators worked, his reply was "just fine thank you".
Anyway, Heisenberg was only interested in that fucked up sub atomic quantum world, but surprisingly the idea that it's impossible to measure something, translates remarkably well to our big fat macro world....for example.....
Placing a thermometer in a cup of coffee.....cools the coffee!
Weighing something will cause atoms of it to slough off on the scale changing it's mass.
Even a police LIDAR speed gun affects it's own result....the pressure of the photons striking the car will slow it down.
In terms of things where it doesn't apply?
I had thought, measuring length by means of an adjacent ruler at the same temperature as the object (assuming we could ever really know that). However, my smart arse of a brother (the real brains of the outfit, sadly some bits are made of shit though), pointed out that the presence of the mass of the ruler will warp local spacetime affecting the result.
That leaves only, video analysis, where speed and perhaps size can be determine by "metameasurement", ie performing the measurement on analogous data captured entirely passively, as in a tv camera at distance.....of course such methods are not very accurate which kinda misses the point.
I would be interested to hear comments, suggestions, refutations, whatever.
Bring it on science bitches.
Friday, 19 November 2010
WOOT!
I now have the soundcloud thingymajigger happening over thonder >>>>>>>>
If there's anything you like, go to the page proper and download it, because space is limited and I will have to rotate tracks in and out of it.
If there's anything you like, go to the page proper and download it, because space is limited and I will have to rotate tracks in and out of it.
That rising feeling.....
I get the distinct impression that I've not seen the last of my most recent dose of tramadol......turning very green here.
Also getting sore again.....not at ALL fair, I got maybe 4 days when my every second wasn't about sore, or fucked up or about to turn inside out.
And here I go again.
Hopefully it wont get so bad so quick as to prevent me getting up to see little sis and family over the weekend, but hope and me fell out a long time ago.
I must away now, lest I empty myself upon the keyboard.
Also getting sore again.....not at ALL fair, I got maybe 4 days when my every second wasn't about sore, or fucked up or about to turn inside out.
And here I go again.
Hopefully it wont get so bad so quick as to prevent me getting up to see little sis and family over the weekend, but hope and me fell out a long time ago.
I must away now, lest I empty myself upon the keyboard.
The girls
Meet Bassie and Naked Bassie.
Bassie is an active, 24 fretted, Bass Collection (no actual model designation on her anywhere though). Bassie weighs less than most properly made guitars, in fact she really weighs about the same as a £75 Strat copy. This suits me because there are lots of really great ways to fuck yourself up with a bass without having to resort to compressed vertebrae (ask Hooky, he has three that are FUCKED at the top of his spine.....80% to do with the way the daft sod plays, but still partly to do with the fact the LIGHTEST bass he has, by a fuckload of a margin, is a Yamaha, and they can grow pretty heavy).
Naked Bassie (formerly just "Bassie") is a passive Aria SLB II, purchsed by me in 1993 for £150. I promptly stripped her ugly red paint, to show her gorgeous russian ply construction off to the world (and thank fuck, it WAS paint....anyone who's ever tried to strip an instrument with an expoxy coat on it will be nodding along in relief here.....for those who haven't had that pleasure, let's just say that Nitromorse, applied hot, blanketed against the skin and left for 12 hours, didn't even take the SHINE off it!!!!....if you did the same thing on a car body, it'd be half way through the metal when you came back! ).
When the BC was purchased, her frets were removed (hence her "naked"ness).
Naked Bassie weights a little more than Bassie, but is still insanely light for a bass. Currently her setup is all over the place.....I destrung and cleaned her a couple of weeks ago, and ever since have been becoming increasing convinced that half her bridge saddles had, over the last 4 years (whence Bassie arrived), been set by virtue of being poked about while the strings were on and tuned......so as soon as the strings came off, they all went back to where they were actually set for.....the result is that her intonation AND action are all well weird.......getting buzzes around the 5th trench-where-a-fret-used-to-be...on the A string which is already a bit high looking.....I see a long day's patience being needed soon.....until then I will just suffer it. She also BADLY needs me to take 3 mins to open her backplate and fix her output Jack's ring arm and retention sleeve.....been fucked for about 10 years, don't expect I'll fix it any time soon though.
The only reason the socket is so buggered, is because the rest of the bass is built like a brick shitehouse......my party piece used to be to unhook the strap, fling the bass vertically upwards, in a horizontal attitude with a fair bit of backspin, and walk off stage "under" it...being gone by the time it landed with THE most impressive noise....later when retrieved, it would be found that she was still in absolutely perfect concert tuning. One night, not enough backspin and it came down face fitst, with a really heavy reinforced plastic jack plug about 4" long sticking out......didn't like it one bit.
She has really heavy strings, which I bought for the BC, and HATED on it....reverting to lights within about 2 weeks ( ultra lights are GREAT fun.....but you can forget playing anything dubby or otherwise hefty with them)...they work quite well on the fretless though :D
Worth pointing out that the BC has NO such tricks.
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