fat people could be an important source of sustainable energy in the future - especially when oil becomes harder to extract. we just need to get the crematoria hooked up to the power infrastructure.
scott was a typesetter, who was trying to invent a machine which 'wrote down' language as it was being spoken, in its natural form - it was all about stenography rather than phonography. there was a lot of wrangling going on at the time about whether or not the squiggles on phonographs were actually a written language (in germany, a court ruled that they indeed were, and so subject to similar copyright laws). it's nice that we can get sound out of these inscriptions (i wonder if anyone will try it with a manometric flame capsule photograph), but it still doesn't really detract from what edison did, or pre-date him in any practical sense.
fear not. long posts are good because they at least get stuff aired. i'm a bit of a fan of this site because of its scattergun approach - but the natural casualty with this kind of thing is the broader context within which things happen - often clicking on the link doesn't give you that either. neatorama do seem to be daily mail fans (there was a post from the mail about muslim immigrants, 'harems' and multiple benefits payments recently which was full of the joys of spring as you'd imagine) and this exposes problems with this kind of format. who are non-u.k residents to know where the mail's coming from? this issue will only grow as print gets smaller and online gets bigger - people simply don't have the time to dig through all the crap.
@Paul M - 'thank you, you are the voice of reason. I was attempting to formulate a response similar to yours.'
having been to china, but not the u.s, i wouldn't necessarily be in position to reply. this all rather misses the point though doesn't it? that being stuff happens in china which is rather more pressing than cat welfare. 'the chinese are horrible to their animals' is another racist stereotype that regularly gets quoted as fact regardless of the truth or otherwise, and gets reinforced by stupid language like 'death camps' - the sort of unhelpful hyperbole regularly trotted out by the animal rights lobbies. by the way, according to the 'voice of reason', all the bad stuff perpetrated by the u.s apparently makes anything bad happening in china less bad. that's not reason, that's daft - especially since on closer examination the comparisons are mostly facile. and i stand by my comments on the cakes as well.
it's often the case that no one person invents something. the 'big man' theory of history, patents (which, by the way everybody are a COMMERCIAL concern, not scientific), and peoples' desire for simplicity all feed into this. the wiki on meucci is contradictory, saying that both he and bell were either fraudulent, or first... as the wiki on 'invention of the telephone says: 'The modern telephone is the result of work done by many people, all worthy of recognition of their contributions to the field.'. it's the same with television, the lightbulb, cinema, radio, electricity...
i think this is the least of the many problems going on with china at the moment...mass executions, organ harvesting, occupying tibet, supporting the sudanese government, supporting the burmese government, supporting the north korean government, no free speech, restricted net access, no democracy, kidnapping of male children due to the 'one child' policy, mass abortion of female fetuses because of the same, extreme rural poverty, desertification (thousands of square km a year), pollution, rising inflation, eczema, headaches, split ends, bad cakes (it's true), earthquakes, monssons and flooding. they are, in my experience, unceasingly optimistic, hospitable and friendly people. unless you're a cat.
it's also the best known rewinder of tape cassettes. apart from take decks. but it's difficult to write down phone numbers on an envelope with a tape deck.
i was going to rant about this, but it seems to have been felled and hollowed out sometime during WW2, when the attitude to these thing was perhaps a little different. i still find the idea of cutting down a 2100 year old tree pretty sick though...
the gaia theory is disputed because it's easy to make 'theory of everything' claims, and hard to disprove them. it's a product of it's time, when 'holistic' thinking was becoming all the rage (it's now commonplace for the 'h' word to crop up in all sorts of ridiculous places). he's an old bad tempered man who has turned misanthropic because it doesn't matter to him any more.
i'd rather listen to mayer hillman any day. he may be nearly as extreme but at least he proposes some solutions. 'do more of what you want'. spoken like a true old white european male who's done scant else but that i shouldn't wonder. lovelock should just shut up, frankly.
i think she killed herself after all of her first editions ended up bent.
there was a lot of wrangling going on at the time about whether or not the squiggles on phonographs were actually a written language (in germany, a court ruled that they indeed were, and so subject to similar copyright laws). it's nice that we can get sound out of these inscriptions (i wonder if anyone will try it with a manometric flame capsule photograph), but it still doesn't really detract from what edison did, or pre-date him in any practical sense.
fear not. long posts are good because they at least get stuff aired. i'm a bit of a fan of this site because of its scattergun approach - but the natural casualty with this kind of thing is the broader context within which things happen - often clicking on the link doesn't give you that either. neatorama do seem to be daily mail fans (there was a post from the mail about muslim immigrants, 'harems' and multiple benefits payments recently which was full of the joys of spring as you'd imagine) and this exposes problems with this kind of format. who are non-u.k residents to know where the mail's coming from? this issue will only grow as print gets smaller and online gets bigger - people simply don't have the time to dig through all the crap.
good luck with the move to china...
having been to china, but not the u.s, i wouldn't necessarily be in position to reply. this all rather misses the point though doesn't it? that being stuff happens in china which is rather more pressing than cat welfare. 'the chinese are horrible to their animals' is another racist stereotype that regularly gets quoted as fact regardless of the truth or otherwise, and gets reinforced by stupid language like 'death camps' - the sort of unhelpful hyperbole regularly trotted out by the animal rights lobbies. by the way, according to the 'voice of reason', all the bad stuff perpetrated by the u.s apparently makes anything bad happening in china less bad. that's not reason, that's daft - especially since on closer examination the comparisons are mostly facile. and i stand by my comments on the cakes as well.
sorry to be so un-neat kids.
i'd rather listen to mayer hillman any day. he may be nearly as extreme but at least he proposes some solutions. 'do more of what you want'. spoken like a true old white european male who's done scant else but that i shouldn't wonder. lovelock should just shut up, frankly.