katzke

Comment Threads

• Charlie Stross commented on Car boot sale
  We're having a really bad spam attack this morning (about fifty in twelve hours). Measures have been taken to hopefully automate the spam-junking process....
• scentofviolets commented on Car boot sale
  2016: Current fad electronic devices. ipods. ipads. iphones. kindles. books. Many plasma TVs from What's the state of the art on LCD vs plasma screen TV's these days? I went with the plasma option when I bought a new set about five or six years ago because - I admit it - I watch sports from time to time and even the better LCD models had pixel artifacts that made the ball look like a comet when it had any appreciable motion. I'm not in the market for a new TV yet (the old one lasted almost fifteen years and...
• Greg. Tingey commented on Car boot sale
  D. Brown @ 159 You read wrongly then. Churchill, though back in a minoir government role had no connection with Brit Foreign policy in the aftermath od WWI. Try "Sykes-Picot" treaty" instead ..... And, of course, as long as islamic "Kalifah" militants are still around we are still figting WWII, and for the same reasons. jboss @ 160: "After the war, it dawned to many, many people (quite simultaneously), that there is no such thing as a natural or universal order." Well, they were and are wrong - the laws of Physics still work. What you and they mean were...
• Greg. Tingey commented on Car boot sale
  jboss @ 165 Not as far out as you thought, in a funny way. Because of the vast social changes, and the vague beginnings of a popular understanding that Newtonian Physics was not the whole answer - i.e. 20 years after Special Relativity, and the years of the Slovay conferences ... A lot of half-educated "arty" types claimed to "think" that science was breaking down as well. Which resulted in some very very silly ideas indeed - and this sort of semi-mystical bollocks is, unfortunately, still with us....
• scentofviolets commented on Car boot sale
  Anyway while were were figuring out what was real and what was ancient history I discovered some interesting abandoned gear. A rectifier unit sized about 10" x 10" by 8". It looks to be pre 1970s at least. Another blast from the past: tube testers. In my part of the country a lot of places had them, the Ben Franklin stores as well as specialty shops like Radio Shack. And - of course - the output was all analogue except for two lights, a green one for definitely "good", a red one for the indisputably bad....