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Pulls on tinfoil hat.
Evidence suggests that Ms Bribiesca has put 2 and 2 together and come up with the square root of 16, the following are all facts.Robbery is a Bass player. bass players are part of a rhythm section which includes drummers. Drummers use cymbals, Paiste makes cymbals.
Not enough?
Ok .
Rob is robbery's real name, Bob is short for Rob which is short for Robert. Bob Roberts is the name of a film in which a character called Brickley Paiste, a democratic senator played by Gore Vidal.
QED, init? -
Ah, I love the smell of net stats in the morning.
Russell's paradox
It might be assumed that, for any formal criterion, a set exists whose members are those objects (and only those objects) that satisfy the criterion; but this assumption is disproved by a set containing exactly the sets that are not members of themselves. If such a set qualifies as a member of itself, it would contradict its own definition as a set containing sets that are not members of themselves. On the other hand, if such a set is not a member of itself, it would qualify as a member of itself by the same definition. This contradiction is Russell's paradoxOn the other hand it may have something to do with dynamic IP addresses. eh.
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Knowlegde Bro is Ian Wishart in disguise?
Ouch!
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But. Back on point, as it were.
I doubt if any of us are surprised by the premise of Keith's article, do we remember the Wok/ Freeview story in T' Erald. Geeez. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the tech ed at T' Erald thought Wolfram Alpha was a space station but the rest of the tech world were,l largely, at a loss to know what Alpha really was. Much as Stephen Wolfram is a wonderfully badly dressed brain on legs (as God intended scientist to be) I think he is still barking up the wrong tree in regards to his curated database concept. As what he has done with financial and meteorological data, live analysis, could be done at a tier above the database to evaluate data sources and, eventually, eliminate the need for human curation and that would be, well, quite interesting to watch. -
global warming is caused by the sun interacting with a few other things, a major one being the composition of the earth's atmosphere.
Even Bigger SIGH...
The major one being the GLOBE.
Now, if you were refering to atmospheric warming i would agree but considering that the mass of the Earth is 5.9742x10^24 kg and the mass of its atmosphere is 5.1441x10^18 kg then, well... need I say more? -
In theory, you should be able to ask a computer about global warming, and it will find that it is caused by greenhouse gases,
Sigh...
If it did I would suggest that you re-boot and if it still gives you that answer you should re-format your hard drive and install an operating system that doesn't rely on The Herald for answers.
Global warming is caused by the sun. End of story. -
It is with great regret that I have to inform you that I have been made redundant.
This is where it all began.
May I ntroduce to you the real Knowledge Bro and his Web Interface.
Coming to a screen near you on Tuesday if all goes well.
Happy viewing, neary three hours all up but fascinating. -
One point that Melissa Lee overlooked in her inane illustration of the "advantage" of dividing a suburb with a surface mounted motorway. Not only would it shield the law abiding peoples of Mount Albert from the marauding hoards of Mount Roskill and points south it would also preclude the kids from popping over to Grannies place after school whilst you were still at work.
If I remember correctly there was a similar outcry over the closing of a pedestrian underpass to protect the God fearing innocents of Howick or somewhere equally perfect. -
Auckland Projections here is the Video
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I actually have no big worries about the second amendment, the right to bare arms. The reason for that amendment was to keep the Govt. in check, ie. "Don't fuck with us, we got guns." It makes governments think twice before messing with peoples basic rights and allows the people to defend against an occupying force.
Well, that's the theory anyway but as with most theories of social behaviour it falls very short of being true. Americans have been stripped of many of their rights in the name of the Govt. "protecting" them from an invented enemy, whether that enemy be terrorism or drugs makes little difference.
The trouble with laws that protect the general populous from deviant behaviour is that deviance is an artificially constructed premise, a label. The term "you have nothing to worry about unless you are a criminal" hold no water when laws can be changed for the benefit of those who are already privileged and demonise those who are struggling to survive the oppression of the elite or the paranoid followers of a populist political party.
Knee jerk reactions to events such as this can lead to unintended consequences that far outweigh the benefits to society as a whole, this we have seen time and time again.
If you are one of those that think "It could never happen here" just remember your "lifetime" driving licence. A small step on the slippery road to the thin end of the wedge.
I love the smell of mixed metaphors in the morning.