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May. 12th, 2005
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May. 12th, 2005 12:37 amCentrifugal weapon could deliver stealth firepower
"Due to its extraordinary high rate of fire capability, it delivers its bullets 8.5 millimetres apart, thereby delivering more mass to the target than any other weapon."
DREAD indeed!
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"Due to its extraordinary high rate of fire capability, it delivers its bullets 8.5 millimetres apart, thereby delivering more mass to the target than any other weapon."
DREAD indeed!
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The British Computer Society gets the arse on about standards in british IT. Funnily enough, they rather think that they should be responsible for standardised accreditation.
I joined (which you had to pay for) the BCS in '95, when, on the first year of my degree, I entered a programming competition for which membership was mandatory.
The only thing I remember about them was a small pile of junk mail I could well have lived without regarding the Y2K "bug".
Back in '95, they started the ball rolling by stating quite clearly (and regularly) that between then and 2000, there would be plenty of work in fixing the bug, so long as we could make sure we engendered enough fear in the market. Nice lads.
While I'll agree that there's a problem, as they state, in IT being central to much of business and life, and there's often a problem identifying a code legend from a lying shitbag, I don't really have much trust in these guys to create a solution.
I joined (which you had to pay for) the BCS in '95, when, on the first year of my degree, I entered a programming competition for which membership was mandatory.
The only thing I remember about them was a small pile of junk mail I could well have lived without regarding the Y2K "bug".
Back in '95, they started the ball rolling by stating quite clearly (and regularly) that between then and 2000, there would be plenty of work in fixing the bug, so long as we could make sure we engendered enough fear in the market. Nice lads.
While I'll agree that there's a problem, as they state, in IT being central to much of business and life, and there's often a problem identifying a code legend from a lying shitbag, I don't really have much trust in these guys to create a solution.
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May. 12th, 2005 10:39 pmthe delusional is no longer marginal AKA The Rapture Index
On Receiving Harvard Medical School's Global Environment Citizen Award by Bill Moyers On Wednesday, December 1, 2004, the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School presented its fourth annual Global Environment Citizen Award to Bill Moyers. In presenting the award, Meryl Streep, a member of the Center board, said, "Through resourceful, intrepid reportage and perceptive voices from the forward edge of the debate, Moyers has examined an environment under siege with the aim of engaging citizens." Here is the text of his response to Ms. Streep's presentation of the award...
Long. Good. Readnow. Thankyou.
On Receiving Harvard Medical School's Global Environment Citizen Award by Bill Moyers On Wednesday, December 1, 2004, the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School presented its fourth annual Global Environment Citizen Award to Bill Moyers. In presenting the award, Meryl Streep, a member of the Center board, said, "Through resourceful, intrepid reportage and perceptive voices from the forward edge of the debate, Moyers has examined an environment under siege with the aim of engaging citizens." Here is the text of his response to Ms. Streep's presentation of the award...
Long. Good. Readnow. Thankyou.