Look at this article on Hybrid Water Power. It gives advice on how to more than double the mileage you get from your fuel using plain water and a simple bit of kit.
Is it a scam or not? My mind tells me it is. The format of the site, the fact I’ve not heard of it before and it sounds too good to be true.
On the other hand, was that not we said about using vegetable oil? The science actually makes sense and sounds more reasonable than many things we take for granted every day.
I won’t be spending any money on it but I’ll be watching out in the papers for feedback from those that have.
Just in case you were unclear about our governments intentions watch this.
As you can see we have no chance whatsover stopping someone taking these kinds of explosives through the laughable security at our airports. Luckily so far it has been nutters and.. err… more nutters. Those who have hurt themselves more than us.
Now think to yourself how is taking everyones fingerprints and making us strip and walk through intrusive systems going to stop someone smuggling on a bit of powder and a little fluid. Remember the explosive in the video was only a drop not the full mixture. You got the answer yet? Sure you have, it isn’t for that. It’s for control.
Now before you get worried just relax and remember two things. You are more likely to be killed by Plod than terrorists (although you may consider that something to worry about) and these explosives are not easy to make in a bathtub. So it is unlikely our home grown nutters will ever manage to make them so you will have to wait until they get organised.
You remember all those boring pages of legal text we all ignore when we install a software product.
Well think of them when you read this article about, laughably, a battery charger by Energizer.
Now, first of all why would something that plugs into a USB port purely to charge batteries ever need software? It is so we get a nice app showing the battery states. Although I bet they have nice LEDs on the unit showing the state of the batteries already. We geeks like our toys and buttons.
Secondly, why is this sort of shit not illegal? It is a con job pure and simple, everything I want to do is illegal why should these big corporations get away with it? They make these pop up acceptance boxes so long and boring so that nobody can read them without falling asleep. They may then claim that they told us and we just couldn’t be bothered reading which makes it our fault.
At least when Sony were doing it I could get my own back. They have many games and films I could copy once their DRM was stripped as a form of revenege. You may think it is childish but that is what I am. But here all I can do is not buy Energizer. Unless I just nick a few batteries from the local store but it’s just not the same as it punishes a third party.
I like the LAMP development platform. It’s cheap and very powerful although in corporations everything seems to be heading .NET.
I taught myself PHP from a book a while ago. I was an Oracle DBA at one point so the MySQL was easy. So I wrote a few utilities for my home Intranet and a Portfolio management tool for work. I find coding relaxing when I don’t have deadlines to meet so I have been enjoying building some internal sites for my own use. Call me weird.
However, I decided to have a go at a mailing list manager. All went OK until I decided to put an inline logo at the top of the EMails as an afterthought. Boy what a problem that is. I can’t get it to work properly. It displays the logo fine but underneath it is the filename of the file and it is clickable as well. Not like the ones I get when I am sent them.
Anyone now how to do this in PHP. Here is my simple test code.
$mail_logo = ‘Porn.jpg’;
$to = ‘LordT@MyDomain.com’;
$subject = ‘EMail with header’;
You would think tax codes were the easiest thing in the world to work out. You get a tax free allowance and everything else is taxed at exorbitant %. Of course they can’t even get the basics right and many are finding they are being screwed around by an unaccountable behemoth at their expense. Tightening the grip and making sure that they squeeze as much as they can from everyone means that they err on the side of caution, their caution.
Now considering how much we spend on IT systems in government you would think they would get the basics right. They send you a tax form addressed to you at your address and in the 22nd century you would think you would have to complete your name address, NI number, DoB and a million and one other field on the form that you have completed many times. I still get notices from old insurers when my insurance is due with quotes made out to me while multimillion pound computer upgrades don’t have a clue what my DoB is.
Of course it will never change. The government thinks we should fill in these forms and anything else it demands we do without complaint. If we don’t we get the lowest tax code you can think of or you get an astronomical tax bill which you have to fill in other forms to get sorted. All calling their offices and paying for the privilege.
Now when you look at the DWP systems, they are just as bad, the best bit is the number of forms you need to complete to get what you have been paying for decades and then they screw it up. No comeback, no apology but the much vaunted safety net is lying flat on the floor. Again you have to spend money on getting it fixed, money you can’t get back.
While Joseph Stack who flew his plane into the IRS building in Austin Texas obviously was a bit further down the path of pissed off than most of us. I can’t see it any better over here and people like him will only get more effective in their frustration and once someone starts others follow. Pity it will be the poor DWP and HMRC staff who get it and not the people that actually cause it, those lying thieving politicians, but such is life.
Not fat women but large feathered creatures. We have a few on the planet already, particularly the Emu, and they can be farmed for meat like sheep, pigs and cows.
However here we have found the DNA from larger birds that were around tens of thousands of years ago when creatures were much much bigger.
When are we going to create a live Jurassic Park with DNA from these types of animals and look at farming them. They could very well survive in areas where current livestock can’t, they could be more efficient at converting greenery to meat, they could very well be a source of new medicines or even just simply tasty to eat.
Controlled lab conditions should be OK and we don’t let them out into the wild until we are 100% sure that we can eat them.
Our scientists are introducing a foreign insect species into the UK ecosystem to combat a foreign plant introduced into the UK ecosystem. The insect is a psyllid called Aphalara itadori.
Even though there are *cough* safeguards in place to prevent escape which seem to rely on chemically nuking the site if an escape is suspect how they can monitor all these itty bitty creatures on a 24 hour basis is beyond me. No mention of making them sterile or having liitle monitoring tags around their ankles. The winds we have here could blow them miles away from their curfew sites and into the wild. Hell, they will probably get lost when being couriered to their new home.
Some times policies have the words unintended consequences stamped on them. This is one of those times.
ID cards are still slowly being rolled out by the Stasi. The level is so low that everyone thinks they have been stopped but that is not so.
So knowing that there are some out there, the fact it is government run, and that everything the government does falls apart and fails, I’m sure it doesn’t surprise you to find out that the government has no idea how many have been obtained fraudulently. Read here.
Of course they will find out slowly when people such as yourself who don’t have one, want one or will get one unless it is forced upon us, apply and find someone already used your name, ran up a £1M bill and several criminal records and left you with the bill. All made possible by the state.
I know that EMail delivery is not guaranteed. Occasionally things go missing or are claimed to go missing anyway, and we wonder. Today, I received a failure to deliver message and I just couldn’t remember sending it. It must be important though because I just don’t send junk mail.
On investigation to find out when I sent it I found this.
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From: Mail Delivery System
To: xxxxx@xxxxx.co.uk
Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender
This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.
A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
blah blah blah then
for gi@xxxxxx.com; Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:56:18 +0100
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Just short of two years. I sure hope it wasn’t urgent.
How can you tell what is a scam?
Look at this article on Hybrid Water Power. It gives advice on how to more than double the mileage you get from your fuel using plain water and a simple bit of kit.
Is it a scam or not? My mind tells me it is. The format of the site, the fact I’ve not heard of it before and it sounds too good to be true.
On the other hand, was that not we said about using vegetable oil? The science actually makes sense and sounds more reasonable than many things we take for granted every day.
I won’t be spending any money on it but I’ll be watching out in the papers for feedback from those that have.