Posts by Steve Barnes
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The "ban" on using cellphones at petrol stations is unsupportable by any amount of evidence and testing.
There is anecdatal evidence of cars blowing up at petrol stations because women stick the nozzle in the tank, get back in the car to do make-up, make phone calls and generally wriggle about in their sheer nylon get-ups on valure seats making megawatts of static. They then trot off to remove the nozzle and.. BOOM...
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BFM National?
You have to somehow get your hands on a frequency, and then be able to transmit.
In the end, it's way more effective to just be on the internet.Whatever happened to the Sky TV option, I seem to remember it being discussed when I were there. Now, of course, there's Freeview too.
Damn, I miss it when I'm up North communing with the Cordylines an' I get so sick of the music I hear people playing in their houses, it's so... so.. Rocky pretendy dancy wanky eighties shite most of the time. These people NEED BFM to save their musical souls.
I reckon BFM should go global and bring us all world peace. -
Indecent Publications Tribunal...
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Not this guy I hope.
IPT
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Aha!!!
But.
Patents can become just more bits of paper that get traded, the same way that junk bonds and CDO's were in the good old days.
I'm sure private equity investment vehicles do due diligence and have teams of experts on board to accurately asses the value of such delights as complex patents. Just like they had experts on board to asses the value of those leveraged deals done over lunch in, say, Fanny Mae's canteen. The point is I suppose. Does the system still encourage innovation or is it becoming just another aspect of big global business?. -
Didja catch the bit right at the very end?
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For those of you that don't understand Proportional Representation...
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(almost as though other mass entertainment - and especially that which can have an electronic platform - is the way they intend the future to be.)
Well it does make sense from their point of view. All they have to do now is monetize the web which is what the ACTA thing is all about.
It could work out well, as long as you write what they want to sell. Have you given any thought about a "The Jews weren't slaves when they left Egypt, they were the accountants that built the pyramids and buggerd of with the prophet" sort of novel?. That could go down a storm. -
apparently IP address means Intellectual Property address! with the UK's new Digital Economy, Bill.
Who is this Bill? Is it the same Bill who sent me this?
1. A bicycle can't stand alone; it is two tired.
2. A will is a dead giveaway.
3. Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
4. A backward poet writes inverse.
5. A chicken crossing the road: poultry in motion.
6. When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.
7. The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine was fully recovered.
8. You are stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.
9. He broke into song because he couldn't find the key.
10. A calendar's days are numbered.
11. A boiled egg is hard to beat.
12. He had a photographic memory which was never developed.
13. The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.
14. Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.
15. When you've seen one shopping centre you've seen a mall.
16. If you jump off a Paris bridge, you are in Seine.
17. When she saw her first strands of grey hair, she thought she'd dye.
18. Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses.
19. Acupuncture: a jab well done.
20. Marathon runners with bad shoes suffer the agony of de feet.
21. The roundest knight at king Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.
22. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian.
23. She was only a whisky maker, but he loved her still.
24. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class because it was a weapon of math disruption.
25. No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.
26. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.
27. Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.
28. A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.
29. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
30. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me.
31. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab centre said: 'Keep off the Grass.'
32. A small boy swallowed some coins and was taken to a hospital.
When his grandmother telephoned to ask how he was, a
nurse said, 'No change yet.'Well, at least I spared you the large blue comic sans font and the centre justified text.
Oh yeah. Sorry Ian, you know what I'm like with commas.
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Actually, that's not quite true. There was that guy that invented cat's eyes. Who passed away leaving a fortune worth, almost, £193,500, he could have almost bought a reasonably sized flat in Peckham for that.