Given the Copyright status of the book, it’s important that we explore options to increase its accessibility in a way that doesn’t violate the law ...
... Burn the book. For real.
Of course, before we land hard on the whole web3 space ... for a reminder that real life can be equally mind numbingly torturous then you just need to watch the Apprentice and the whiffy the toothbrush episode -
And if that doesn't get you to a point of "we are doomed as a species" then simply read into the EC's latest attempt to redefine a fossil fuel as green - theguardian.com/world/2022/jan…
and then cap it off by watching "Don't look up" - netflix.com/gb/title/81252… - which embeds that wonderful realisation during the film that it is not a satirical commentary on politics but a realistic documentary of the future.
Which in itself is wondeful because the fundamental problem (of which there were many) with Mike Judge's Idiocracy - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy - is an assumption that we actually survive that long.
Still, at least "Don't look up" keeps to the spirit of ...
... that most vile of all films where VC's escape to luxurious spaceships whilst cutesy robots cover up the horror that has befallen everyone else. The unspeakable evil that is Wall-E
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X : You don't agree with agile?
Me : Eh? What? I agree with using appropriate methods based upon context.
X : Context of what?
Me : Context of the components of a project.
X : I'm not sure I understand.
Me : Ok. take your systems diagram ...
... turn it into a map by focusing on the user need, building the chain of components and asking how evolved is this component ...
... now realise that as things evolve their characteristics change which is why different methods have strengths in different contexts ...
X : What did you think about Boris' apology?
Me : Don't blame the sweet and tender hooligan,
hooligan,
because he'll never, never, never, never, never, never do it again
not until the next time.
X : You don't believe him?
Me : Which bit of Dominic Grieve's warning (former chair of the intelligence and security committee) did you not listen to before voting in this party which lacks any integrity whatsoever?
X : They could replace him!
Me : Unless the two leadership candidates presented to the members are @theresa_may and @TomTugendhat then I'm not sure how things get better.
Lazy web ... recommendations (and not) for a thermal camera you've used, as an add-on to an android phone, for determining insulation heat loss in a home.
FLIR One Pro - £240
But, need a new Phone with USB TOGO ... (ulefone power amor 14) - £170
£410 for thermal imaging.
My current electricity bill (heating, cooking, lighting plus everything) is about minus £500 with the feed in tariff. But I know I'm still leaking heat.
Choices, choices ... £410 is a lot of money but on the upside I get a new phone, on the downside I don't need one and that's a waste of energy.
Ah, whatsapp ... maybe I'll strike lucky in my village of engineers and someone has a thermal camera that I can borrow.
Open cheque book for developers with risks and costs transferred to consumers with future promises on savings ... makes PFI look like a great deal. As Sir Ian Byatt said on Thames Tunnel "paid out every penny in excessive dividends and left Londoners to pick up the bill" ->
1) yes, we need more nuclear. 2) yes, we could do with rebuilding some monopoly funded by consumers (aka tax payers) to do this. Let's call it the CEGB. 3) no, we don't need some half cocked financial instrument pushed through at a time where people are worried about bills.
I particularly dislike the whole "With global gas prices at record highs, we need to " ... what's the first thing they teach you on basic security training about scams? They seek to create pressure, an urgent need, for you to follow their path.
The whole "let omicron rip through the population" style argument starts to make a bit more sense if the play is a delta and other variant replacement by a more contagious but milder omicron which conveys wider immunity.
Except ,,, Deadly Omicron should not be called mild, warns WHO - bbc.co.uk/news/world-599… ... maybe not such a good idea after all.
What exactly was wrong with going for zero covid? I never understood why we didn't adopt that approach rather than pursue a path to endemic.
Maybe it's just me but I love the honesty in Matt Damon's advert on the future of Cryptoland and how misfortune favours those without privilege - "Earth will become a third world planet, everyone is hustling in some way to just get by" -
Obviously, it's very visionary because it's discussiing version 3.0 or crytpo3 because as we all know version 2.0 is an island -
- wth version 1.0 being a somewhat lame online experience.
Personally, I would have pushed it further and talked about Cryptoland 4.0 or Crypto4 where all future descendants of silicon valley VCs live on starships whilst the rest of the earth has undergone genocide but that was the plot of a truly vile film known as Wall-E