Yeah we've got a British know it all little sh.t like this presenter called
Marcus Brigstock.
I guess the show is just a 'vehicle' for him.
One day a guest should hit him - see how much comedy he can get out of that.
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From: Jed Rothwell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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What I mean is, although he entered into the show and knew full well the
style of the show it is no way to speak to a CEO. It's disrespectful and he
couldn't get a word in edgeways. His dry humour was swamped out by the
baying crowd (canned laughter?) and he gave as good as he got sometimes. I
Furthermore what he was saying about the Volt and short journeys is sound.
It has nothing to do with endorsement (or not) of the global warming
hypothesis but the price of oil and the statistics of car usage - regular
short journeys.
That kind of bending what people say, trying to put words in
Gosh Remi,
That's what happens when the universities remove the study of the classics
in school. Ole Willie Shakespeare would say... who da thunk it.
Richard
Remi wrote,
That kind of bending what people say, trying to put words in mouths I just
cannot stand.
Oh, or you mean like Robespierre's terror or Stalinist show trials, some
mouthy cleric and a baying crowd declared an enemy of the people?
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From: R C Macaulay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 20 September 2008 13:50
To: vortex-l@eskimo.com
Subject: Re: [Vo]:Colbert
Remi Cornwall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yeah we've got a British know it all little sh.t like this presenter called
Marcus Brigstock.
I guess the show is just a 'vehicle' for him.
It is all an act. This is a comedy show. Colbert is pretending to be a
right-wing blowhard. In fact, he is
No, no, no Jed. The interviewee is one of those shock-left-social
commentators-comedians. I think *Lutz* came across alright.
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From: Jed Rothwell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 20 September 2008 14:19
To: vortex-l@eskimo.com
Subject: Re: [Vo]:Colbert interviews Lutz
Interesting insight on the importance of the tinkerer and his resources.
[think: the Homebrew Computer Club and similar idea-seeders: perhaps even
Vortex on occasion]
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/13/science/13make.html?_r=2pagewanted=1sq=maker%20faire%20st=csescp=1oref=slogin
Also
Here is a question which seems to be a no-brainer at first glance.
Lets say you have a battery pack capable of giving a light automobile a 40 mile
range, like the Chevy Volt - using an electric 100+ kW electric motor.
Poser: is there any conceivable advantage in NOT using the electric motor as
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2971637/Sixth-Hitchhikers-Guide-to-be-published.html
New Hitchhiker's book seven years after death of Douglas Adams
A children's writer has been commissioned to write the first new
instalment to the best-selling Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series
since the
Howdy Jones,
Back in the 1960's I sat across from man owned a 500 million control valve
mfg business. He was in his 70's at the time.. He allowed he started it from
scratch and now the leading mfg in it's category. I remarked that he should
take some of the 500 mil , plus 5 of his brightest
At the left middle of:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O68Xop-WpM
there is a very lively black object that moves in circles. It
appears to have a shadow. A cropped image of the object is shown in
the middle of the png below. Is it my imagination or does this object
appear to be on a
Yes moving on from the comments of Jones and Tex the biggest problem is NIH
(not invented here).
I say if you have a massively subsidized state sector, then big business
doesn't want to know because surely the best and brightest are already on
the case with our tax money.
Big physics has skewed
Education is important but being scholarly doesn't well correlate to being
innovative. Too many people make this mistake.
Inventors are typically lazy and eclectic. By switching off in class and not
doing prep they tend to half learn things and come up with their own
systems. It is a very male
Remi, you need to take into account what works. If telling the truth
and being objective and rational got a person elected, more
politicians would have these qualities. If the people voting were
educated and rational, better leaders would be elected. The present
system is the result of a
Remi,
Let's have a game of listing people:
Edison (single child)
Tesla (driven, focused, bachelor)
Einstein (probably mild autism)
The Wright Brothers (technical knowhow)
Dirac (very intense)
But then Feynman, Heisenberg very gregarious.
Freeman Dyson said of Feynman that he was
Ed,
But when comes the point when you know you're probably right on something
and then start sacrificing principles? Take man-made global warming, is it
not better to quietly and constructively keep pushing the arguments and look
for new technology?
The field has become infested with
You sure? Tesla was a very good student and analytical.
Feynman started out as an electrical engineer (1 year at MIT) before
switching over. As a boy he used to fix radios and was very good a safe
cracking when on the Manhattan project.
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From: Jones Beene
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