I would like to drop all these people on a desert island, along with a genuine bank note printing press with all the necessary power, paper and inks, and nothing else - and say, "Okay boys, go for it ... "
I would like to drop all these people on a desert island... with nothing at all.
Thanks guys. And thank you for allowing my rant. I hope if I have the money to take the 45 minute flight to Austrailia one day . At $5 000 000 a go it needs to come down in price a bit. No idea how many it could take. If 500 it looks possible. Not in my lifetime I'm sure. Bob Parkinson. I must ask Pippa if she knows him.
Money people. I am much more in love with my nothing special speakers.
The Chineese have a Thorium reactor I believe. Many problems I'm sure. I have a hunch it will be the least bad way of making power. It will give fussion the time it needs. My old Boss Emerick Chrak ( Mason ) was selling video to Harwell. He got very interested in fussion. Mr M had never settled in life except to learn 21 langauges, 7 to a high standard. His war work was building bridges and stuff he didn't talk about ( or I don't ). He was very concerned when Jet came along that the project was slipping away. Here is the very strange part. Although the German side spoke English they did not understand " The English". Mr M had spent 7 years doing mechanical engineering in Praha before qualifying and was called by the Italians ( Fiat ) Dr Engineer. Mr M swotted up on fussion and insisted he workled as translator. As far as Mr M was concerned he won the project for the UK. The Germans said they had not realised how advanced Zeta was. In the words of the Germans it would mean loosing 20 years of work not to place it in Oxfordshire. That's stupid and that's the truth. The war left Mr M very fragile, The Soviets gave him a very hard time. He out dressed any of the Mob and had blue tinted glasses, suits always from Italy when he visited the boss of Fiat . Hypertac connectors were his baby. Speedometers also and magnetic clutches ( Fiat were interested ). At my job interview we were going to build a pipe organ. It never happened. A man I knew in Tournai Belgium built exactly the one in mind. Semi digital using 8 bit to work solenoids. He was a Jesuit who taught himself digital electronics aged 80 ! He did not speak English which was a surprise for a Jesuit. In my wedding book Mr M wrote the formula for Fussion and said it was the hope he gave us for the worlds future. My friend in Switzerland asked what is the point of the LHC. I answered it will build the skills we need for fussion. I suspect in time the LHC will be seen as all the right things for all the wrong reasons. I suspect it's prime reason to be isn't known even to most who work there. I am 100 % confident in this way it will be a failiure. It will supply more questions than answers. To be specific I feel the Quantum stuff will frustate any attempt to make a clear picture. It will be no good to say if it is alive or not . It will act as if it is. And that will be bad news. We will then see random events still have causality, they still are random. Linearity is reaching it's limits which neatly gets back to subject.
Money people. I am much more in love with my nothing special speakers.
The Chineese have a Thorium reactor I believe. Many problems I'm sure. I have a hunch it will be the least bad way of making power. It will give fussion the time it needs. My old Boss Emerick Chrak ( Mason ) was selling video to Harwell. He got very interested in fussion. Mr M had never settled in life except to learn 21 langauges, 7 to a high standard. His war work was building bridges and stuff he didn't talk about ( or I don't ). He was very concerned when Jet came along that the project was slipping away. Here is the very strange part. Although the German side spoke English they did not understand " The English". Mr M had spent 7 years doing mechanical engineering in Praha before qualifying and was called by the Italians ( Fiat ) Dr Engineer. Mr M swotted up on fussion and insisted he workled as translator. As far as Mr M was concerned he won the project for the UK. The Germans said they had not realised how advanced Zeta was. In the words of the Germans it would mean loosing 20 years of work not to place it in Oxfordshire. That's stupid and that's the truth. The war left Mr M very fragile, The Soviets gave him a very hard time. He out dressed any of the Mob and had blue tinted glasses, suits always from Italy when he visited the boss of Fiat . Hypertac connectors were his baby. Speedometers also and magnetic clutches ( Fiat were interested ). At my job interview we were going to build a pipe organ. It never happened. A man I knew in Tournai Belgium built exactly the one in mind. Semi digital using 8 bit to work solenoids. He was a Jesuit who taught himself digital electronics aged 80 ! He did not speak English which was a surprise for a Jesuit. In my wedding book Mr M wrote the formula for Fussion and said it was the hope he gave us for the worlds future. My friend in Switzerland asked what is the point of the LHC. I answered it will build the skills we need for fussion. I suspect in time the LHC will be seen as all the right things for all the wrong reasons. I suspect it's prime reason to be isn't known even to most who work there. I am 100 % confident in this way it will be a failiure. It will supply more questions than answers. To be specific I feel the Quantum stuff will frustate any attempt to make a clear picture. It will be no good to say if it is alive or not . It will act as if it is. And that will be bad news. We will then see random events still have causality, they still are random. Linearity is reaching it's limits which neatly gets back to subject.
I've used the desert island hypothetical to try to get people to think about the origin of individual rights, as you start from one person and then add people. This is in an effort to get them to ponder the proliferation of so many more things being declared as "rights".
But I guess this talk is too close to "politics" so I will shut up.
Ha! Nigel, Don't let any of these guys run your money - maybe they were pulling your leg....
Money is practical metaphysics: Money is a name, numbers and promises. These are all metaphysical things, which you can slice and dice any way you want, (but if you're in the money business you'll get in trouble if you do that).
Money is not wealth: Wealth is the ability people have to do stuff. Most folk make the mistake of measuring wealth using only money. In no particular order, here are some of the wealthiest countries: China, Finland, USA, Germany, Britain, S. Korea, India....
Distribution of wealth and money is politics and we can't talk about that on this site for good reasons.
All economics is footnotes to Adam Smith, who was a very good philospher.
I did get what the money man was saying. If we believe his idea we are all safe. If we stop believing we have reality as a substitute. This needs there to be fewer people and more proven reserves. If the energy required for space travel was more favourable mining on the Moon and Mars would be possible.
I was saying to someone yesterday that I have to help various bosses dream up imaginative ways of saying what they make is worth the money. In my heart I wish the price did it for me. Then as I told this lady my boss will quote it back at me as a fact. OK it is a fact as long as the reasons why it is poor value is conviently made less important. I did hear once this and thought it valid. A man comes home from a trip and knows he is in trouble with his wife. He buys her favourite perfume to say sorry. He and she know in the strictest sense it is not good value. However if cheaper it would have no value. It isn't expensive enough to cause a financial crisis also.
I said to my boss if he wants to be truely rich he should sell at the lowest price he can. He says this would be crazy. On this I know I am right. He will also be rich in the spiritual way as then he puts making the product available to many as his priority. He thinks I am bonkers, as someone who understands maths a little I am not. The Toshiba Laptop I bought for £179 although a year behind in spec is fantastic. It even looks very solid ( hinges ). The way I sold it to myself is " It is a Landrover Defender", what I didn't want was a shopping car computer. 500 MB, so what, 1TB won't be enough to make a vast difference. RAM is OK also. 5 years ago it would have been unavailable at nearly any price. Windows 8, least said the better. actually 8 is not bad. 7, I am using now I prefer. XP I really like.
I was saying to someone yesterday that I have to help various bosses dream up imaginative ways of saying what they make is worth the money. In my heart I wish the price did it for me. Then as I told this lady my boss will quote it back at me as a fact. OK it is a fact as long as the reasons why it is poor value is conviently made less important. I did hear once this and thought it valid. A man comes home from a trip and knows he is in trouble with his wife. He buys her favourite perfume to say sorry. He and she know in the strictest sense it is not good value. However if cheaper it would have no value. It isn't expensive enough to cause a financial crisis also.
I said to my boss if he wants to be truely rich he should sell at the lowest price he can. He says this would be crazy. On this I know I am right. He will also be rich in the spiritual way as then he puts making the product available to many as his priority. He thinks I am bonkers, as someone who understands maths a little I am not. The Toshiba Laptop I bought for £179 although a year behind in spec is fantastic. It even looks very solid ( hinges ). The way I sold it to myself is " It is a Landrover Defender", what I didn't want was a shopping car computer. 500 MB, so what, 1TB won't be enough to make a vast difference. RAM is OK also. 5 years ago it would have been unavailable at nearly any price. Windows 8, least said the better. actually 8 is not bad. 7, I am using now I prefer. XP I really like.
Mobil ticks a lot of boxes. The oil we choose came more from the Mobil spec ( circa SAE 30 if the spec is quoted that way ) . Esso research was at Abingdon and the boss was a hi fi nut, we got 4 hours of his time for nothing. He was so far ahead of us on what our next question would be that it was for the first time ever I was heard and understood when hi fi. What seems to be the big problem is that things added to oils for 100 kW + range and for use at > 1 bar are contaminants for a turntable bearings. Things get worse as a month or two passes as compounds form. I know the exact reasons but will not say too much. I looked at the old Russian spec I think MK8 oil. It also looks possible. It is not having things that count. Oil of this type is like lots of tadpoles. After a few minutes rotation they really are exactly what is required as they swim in the same direction. I would imagine Olive oil changed every month might be OK. These problems are well known by clock makers. The oils they use are usually too thin. The very best bearing you can have will be 80% allowing the oil to be the bearing key component. Most of what people think it corect is not. A bearing built that way if lucky might come to speed in 12 hours. I know as I had one made. The Garrard is a powerful design. If a LP12 I doubt the bearing would have ever come to speed. This bearing would have possibly been OK with Diesel as it's lubricant. This bearing was how people think perfection would be. 64 Rockwell C to LP12 spec and beautifully free runnning if dry. As an air bearing maybe. I have a nice book about oil. The tadpoles were the big deal. Synthetic oils less so a tadpole type. Alas I don't really know of a good one for our use. Rocol Ultraglide X5 was Verdier choice many owners say. I have doubts.
I juast referenced it, I am not advising it, besides, I use an oil from Germany specifically made (or so they say) for turntables, tonearms and such. It does look different from motor oil in both colour and appearent density.
And in truth, my TT needs a hell of lot less oiling than my car engine.
And in truth, my TT needs a hell of lot less oiling than my car engine.
I was guest of Renault F1 in V10 days. I had the telemetry to read. In the oil dept you would not know it not a standard car. The reason is simple. Most cars will be OK at about 1/2 bar or less as long as it doesn't drop to zero. To get 10 bar on a standard Eaton pump is easy. The engine is OK in every way so why not do it ? As the engine nears lifes end it will perhaps give it 20 000 miles of extra life as the white metal turns to brass.
During this experiance some very pretty girls questioned me. Mr Tardis ( yes ) warned me to not be fooled. They earn money getting facts. I asked Mr T if I could tell a few fibs? As I know possibly a bit more about oil than Mr T I bored for Britain on oil problems of F1 engines. All of it factual,but not specific. I bet somewhere this nonsese is woven into Folklaw now. I would have told them this run was without oil for example and was showing more power. I might then have said we can only do three laps like that, then work out the ideal bar of the pump. One asked what is that ideal presure ? I looked to Mr T, he shrugged as Frenchmen do. Same as your car I said. You could tell they didn't believe it. It was the only printable truth I told them although all was true in itself. If we were allowed Diesel I could make that come true.
During this experiance some very pretty girls questioned me. Mr Tardis ( yes ) warned me to not be fooled. They earn money getting facts. I asked Mr T if I could tell a few fibs? As I know possibly a bit more about oil than Mr T I bored for Britain on oil problems of F1 engines. All of it factual,but not specific. I bet somewhere this nonsese is woven into Folklaw now. I would have told them this run was without oil for example and was showing more power. I might then have said we can only do three laps like that, then work out the ideal bar of the pump. One asked what is that ideal presure ? I looked to Mr T, he shrugged as Frenchmen do. Same as your car I said. You could tell they didn't believe it. It was the only printable truth I told them although all was true in itself. If we were allowed Diesel I could make that come true.
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