JHomes

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• Commented on I should blog more, but ...
  "If they were writing an article about you, it wouldn't mention "Greg Tingey, allotment gardener", you'd be "Greg Tingey (104), allotment gardener"." I believe that OGH has explained this, as being protection against being sued by every other allotment gardener...
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  SpeakerToManagers, your link is broken. JHomes....
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  "each of those 'UK pounds of gold' is indeed lighter... missing 2/3s" But that's OK. Gold is "intrinsically valuable", which means that it is close to worthless, except that people think that it's valuable, which makes it so as long...
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  "The great thing is that today we don't have to learn assembly language and huge wodges of detail about the exact environment the program will run in." Yup. As a now retired professional, I have come to appreciate the view...
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  "ANYONE stupid enough to go anywhere even near "White Island" needs their head examined " Oh, it's not all that dangerous at Alert Level 1. We've been there, on a trip run by GNS, and they made it very clear...
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  " if they haven't got an RJ-45 socket, that's their problem." Might I politely suggest that, given the configuration of many recent machines, it would be a courtesy to your guests to have a USB to Ethernet adapter available if...
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  "Does any of you know a magic system that works like that?" I have not read any of the MacDonald/Doyle Mageworld books, but I understand that magic there works something like that. One thought I have had is that human...
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  According to the BBC report above, the gun was in his carry-on luggage, and that is NOT legal where he comes from (or just about anywhere else). JHomes...
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  "I think that's an unreasonable demand" So do I, and so I think does Rocketpjs. "and it comes across as blaming individual men" Not to me it doesn't, and I doubt it is what was intended. Pointing out that a...
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  "I think he's responding to Rocketpjs, not me." You're right. My apologies. I still think he's seeing a claim of stupidity that isn't actually there. If it were there, then of course he would be right to call it out....
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  "He's focussed on how stupid this whole large group of men are as individuals." I don't see "stupid". I see "Lacking the teaching, role models, mentors, and social support needed to come up with attitudes and behaviour fit for purpose."...
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  "You're conflating culture with individuals in the same problematic way" Actually, Moz, I think you may be misreading Robert. In my reading of his comment and yours, you seem pretty much on the same page. JHomes...
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  '"NZ's" Great Leap Backwards' I presume you are taking about the General Election. There's not one simple answer, but I think a big part of it was that while in power Labour promised a lot more than they delivered on,...
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  "the Ghost of Howard Past is having dinner with the Infernal Minion that is Dutton Present," Ah, yes. Peter Dutton, the Minister in Charge of sending Australian criminals (but I repeat myself) to Aotearoa. Fortunately, there is no real prospect...
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  "I have long been bemused that cooking is not even science, but chemistry most definitely is." AIUI cooking is just applying heat to things that will be improved thereby, with a few extras added in, and near enough is good...
• Commented on Do my Laundry
  "who is Officer Green" Already answered above, comment 291 and preceding. JHomes...
• Commented on Pushing it back
  Adding, of course, you then have to wonder what happened to the traces of the masters' society. While there are possible answers, it is all very unlikely. JHomes...
• Commented on Pushing it back
  "Where would social pressures like that come from?" While I don't think it very likely, I can think of one possibility. The society is descended from slaves, whose masters wiped themselves out in internecine warfare or the like, but while...
• Commented on A fistful of tropes
  "I am looking for a word meaning the same thing as frivolous, but with overtones of bad faith, malice & corruption." In a legal context, "vexatious" is the usual term. How well that would carry over to the context you...
• Commented on Do my Laundry
  "Who or What was "Agent Green" of the Nazgul? Remind me again which book they showed up in?" Officer Green shows up in The Apocalypse Codex when Angleton and the SA have a virtual meeting with the Nazgul. He appears...
• Commented on Do my Laundry
  "I'm less inclined to give Exxon executives a pass, because they had clear reports from their own scientists, and chose to hide and obfuscate the evidence to protect the bottom line." And that is a real difference. Other people could...
• Commented on A fistful of tropes
  "Wouldn’t the universe be a fun place if you could make the distance to your destination contract just by going really, really fast?" From the viewpoint of the people on the ship, that's exactly what happens. And their viewpoint is...
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  "Shoggoth Gap and the necromantic cold war? Presumably a reference to the Fulda Gap," I read it as a reference to the infamous "Missile Gap" (Oh, noes, they have more missiles than us do) of the late 1960s, IIRC, parodied...
• Commented on Do my Laundry
  "Polydactylism in cats isn't necessarily significant. There are thumbs and there are opposable thumbs," I am reliably informed that some polydactyl cats do have (sort of) opposable thumbs, although whether they have the reach and strength to operate can openers...
• Commented on A fistful of tropes
  I'm going to have to bow out. My session keeps timing out. Probably not at Charlie's end. JHomes...
• Commented on A fistful of tropes
  "Neither of them forbid FTL via mechanisms such as 'space warps' or ansibles, because those are simply outside the relativity model." So you have ditched relativity. Why not admit it? JHomes...
• Commented on A fistful of tropes
  "Still, if you're writing FICTION you can have FTL travel with or without as it pleases you." Applause. Just please don't pretend that it's the real world as we currently know it. JHomes...
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  "As I have posted several times before, that is NOT true; it's a provably false dogma of the Church of Relativity. Relativity, causality, UNCONSTRAINED FTL, pick two is correct." As you have done several times before, you ignore that Relativity...
• Commented on Pass or Fail
  "Then what happens to the naked singularity?" My personal opinion, FWIW, is that singularities are nature's way of telling you your theory is broken. To explain what is actually going on in this case, you need quantum gravity, and my...
• Commented on Pass or Fail
  "Theodore Beale" Yes, that's him. JHomes...