JHomes

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• Commented on Announcement time!
  "I LIKE that my microwave has programed settings for various things without me having to look them up." I doubt that anybody here would object to such being available. Less happy if that was the only way to set power...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  "Aotearoa had crazed antivaxxers roaming the streets yelling at people and starting fights" Including (I am not making this up) some waving pro-Trump banners, and apparently claiming that Trump, who is neither a citizen of nor resident in Aotearoa (and...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  "Willyfest-A Musical Parody." And have they thought about how some people might read that? JHomes...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  Greg, Dropbox is not part of MicroShaft. "How trustworthy & safe is it? " My experience is OK, and I've not heard different. However sensible precautions: Anything that's critical it not be compromised (such as your password database) apply your...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  "if only someone had imagined it." And that, if I understand the historians correctly, was what the Romans were absolutely useless at. JHomes...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  "In Aotearoa the equivalent is a place name that is possibly taking the piss:" I would consider a more fitting equivalent to be Shag Point, which yes I have been to. Note for those unfamiliar with our birdlife, a shag...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  "Then one of the rounds of consolidating production of products meant that we get our bars from Australia" The quality had gone into free fall long before that. I think it started shortly after the Cadbury firm had been bought...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  "cadbury-chocolate-experience-would-be-a-tasmanian-tourism-game-changer/" I must be getting old. I can remember the days many years ago when Cadbury's produced good chocolate. JHomes...
• Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
  "in Australia and most other countries that retired politicians can't go to work for big businesses at big salaries?" Oh, it happens from time to time. But in Aotearoa at least the number of businesses big enough to make such...
• Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
  "Putin has gotta start doing the math at some point" Oh, Putin has done the math, at least the bit that he cares about. The calculations suggest that, following any outcome other than "Ukraine ceases to exist", his life expectancy...
• Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
  "who recognize the remaining 900 plus Moriori as New Zealand’s second indigenous people" Yeah, I over-simplified a bit. It's been pretty well established that the Moriori are the descendants of a group of Maori who fled to the Chathams after...
• Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
  "I knew that the Maori did horrible things to the Moriori," Be careful there, Greg. A small group of Maori warriors did horrible things to the Moriori, but blaming Maori in general for it is about as fair and as...
• Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
  "Riding motorcycles teaches one to be a far better road user than anybody that never has that experience." If I am reading the various posters correctly, that is the primary point, with the removal of those who refuse to learn...
• Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
  "in Linebarger/Corwainer Smith" I think it's pretty obvious that that is precisely what H is referring to, even if he misremembered the spelling. JHomes...
• Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
  " Instead you're trying to persuade them to do something they deliberately avoid doing because they don't like it." Indeed. But your postings on the topic read very much as saying that converting vegetables into mush is not merely your...
• Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
  "Boil until it's limp" is the stereotypical way of English cooking, though…< My wife, who as a girl suffered under many, many, English school dinners, assures me that the stereotype is firmly grounded in fact. JHomes...
• Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
  "I have the impression that a large factor in being able to budget (after actually knowing how do it) is being handle to handle delayed gratification." Or believing that delayed gratification is even a thing. Some people will have learned,...
• Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
  "It occurs to me that Tolkien's Middle Earth ran on the principle of enshittification." Tolkien would have detested the word, but made public statements in agreement with the principle. JHomes...
• Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
  "A public health care system helps a lot too, but living within your means is important." If you don't have a public health system, then there is the real possibility that living withing your means is just some crazy dream;...
• Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
  "problem is, forcing BODs to set minimum timeframe of stock options to 10Y keeps failing " Not least, due to CXOs getting the bulk of their recompense as stock options, sometimes for tax reasons, sometimes just because. They would rather...
• Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
  "Someone just reminded me that forced birth states often fail to support pregnant people or babies after birth." You mis-spelled "almost invariably". JHomes...
• Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
  "Alcohol is easy to make" and very hard to suppress. I suspect that how hard or easy it is to suppress should someone want to (for good reasons or bad) will play a major part in what gets used. JHomes...
• Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
  waldo, My wife sends her thanks, that is quite relevant to some stuff she's working on. JHomes...
• Commented on The coming storm
  One wonders what would happen if other, non-Muslim, students took to kneeling on their blazers for five minutes or so during the lunch break, and contemplating the lesson just taken or the latest football results, or any such matter. JHomes...
• Commented on The coming storm
  "So actually the oil companies don't need to be fretting about anything, if only they weren't stupid." AIUI, it's not so much that they are stupid, but that they are buried under perverse incentives. As is usual in the set...
• Commented on The coming storm
  "All renewables need is a good mix of power sources..." and a world-wide grid. The problems with setting up such a grid may be more political than technical/engineering, but there are a few technical or engineering issues, and some of...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Season of Skulls
  Cheese. Here in Aotearoa, the big problem with mass-produced cheese is that it's sold, and usually consumed, far too young. My late mother-in-law, so I am told, once left a block of mousetrap in the back of the fridge for...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Season of Skulls
  " It wasn't always the nearest coasts, sometimes it was isolated coasts thousands of miles away." Now this, I can speak to, having heard presentations from professional geologists on the topic. First, when the glaciers go, the land, relieved of...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Season of Skulls
  And having posted that, it has just occurred to me that the bulk water usually doesn't move at wave speeds anyway. Mostly, in a wave, it just bounces up and down in place. So, a lot of unknowns. JHomes...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Season of Skulls
  "So at most the water has to move no more than 20,000 km. Assuming the water is moving at ordinary wave speeds, it can cover that distance in 400-2,000 hours, or 17-83 days-ish." I think you've left something out. The...