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New comment by stormdennis in "The Promised LAN"

stormdennis — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 07:49:47 +0000

When I was a kid we threw out our old B&W tv. I wanted to smash the CRT but had heard that they could explode so from a distance I fired several .22 bullets at the screen. They had no effect. IIRC the screen wasn't damaged at all? I can hardly believe what I'm writing but it was true

New comment by stormdennis in "Countries across the world see food price shocks from climate extremes"

stormdennis — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 08:28:57 +0000

Yes, with the 'can' in canola being the first 3 letters of Canada. They though up the name as they reckoned the name rapeseed was problematic from a marketing point of view. I've heard that like all oils that require extensive processing canola/rapeseed oil is not good for you as it contains the wrong sort of fatty acids as a result of that processing. Olive oil, lard, butter, coconut and ghee are all far healthier.

New comment by stormdennis in "Road resurfacing during the daytime without stopping traffic [video]"

stormdennis — Tue, 07 May 2024 16:21:30 +0000

Where I live it goes crazy with road works when it's coming to the end of the year with the council trying to spend the unused budget rather than lose it.

New comment by stormdennis in "My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)"

stormdennis — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 21:01:56 +0000

My sister is far far richer and more successful than I am. She once told me that every night the last thing she'd do was to make a mental list of things to do tomorrow. That was it. Nothing written down.

New comment by stormdennis in "Dave Mills has died"

stormdennis — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 14:21:52 +0000

here's that page

https://www.ntpsec.org/FAQ.html

New comment by stormdennis in "Veritasium: The SAT Question Everyone Got Wrong [video]"

stormdennis — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 11:35:27 +0000

I don't revolve once every 24 hrs, the earth does.

New comment by stormdennis in "Eclipse: The Demo that Sold 3D to Nintendo"

stormdennis — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 11:03:34 +0000

Is there any way to get rid of the banner that moves with you as you scroll down the page?

New comment by stormdennis in "US warship and multiple commercial ships attacked in the Red Sea"

stormdennis — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 12:40:41 +0000

I've read books on it. The 2 million Arabs are the descendants of the 20% of Palestinians who were internally rather than externally displaced, ie the ethnic cleansing was only 80% effective.

New comment by stormdennis in "US warship and multiple commercial ships attacked in the Red Sea"

stormdennis — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 09:33:32 +0000

The antisemite slur now, is it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_Dalet

New comment by stormdennis in "US warship and multiple commercial ships attacked in the Red Sea"

stormdennis — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 09:06:47 +0000

Aah, the Palestinians never existed argument, the successor to the long discredited land without people for a people with land one and just as derisory. The actual tragedy here is that Western Powers facilitated settler colonisation to create a Jewish State which by definition required the expulsion of the people already living there. Further, the Zionists never had any intention of sticking to the share of Palestine "gifted" to them by the the UN. They had prepared detailed plans for the ethnic cleansing of all of Palestine. The only reason they didn't take the West Bank in 1948 was that there, they were up against the British-trained Arab Legion.

New comment by stormdennis in "US warship and multiple commercial ships attacked in the Red Sea"

stormdennis — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 19:26:28 +0000

That'll be because it hasn't become a free pass for that. Happy to help.

New comment by stormdennis in "US warship and multiple commercial ships attacked in the Red Sea"

stormdennis — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 19:18:04 +0000

You need to brush up on your facts as well as your timelines and stop parroting Zionist slogans. Jews formed a very small proportion of the Palestine in the 19th century. It was also never a "British" territory as such. Britain simply had the League Of Nations mandate to prepare it for independence, elections etc. The locals were supposed to have a say in which Great Power was given the mandate and they most certainly didn't want it to be Britain, being aware of the 1917 Balfour Declaration. Britain, in cahoots with France, brushed all that aside at the time to get the mandate and have the aims of the Balfour Declaration incorporated into the mandate. Britain's goal was to have a Jewish client state in a sea of Arabs to guard the Suez Canal, the passage to its Indian Empire. For that reason no elections were ever held as Balfour stated that Britain wasn't going to even pretend to consult the native population, let alone give them a real say, while Churchill was happy to see an inferior civilisation replaced by a superior one. During the mandate period the proportion of Jews rose from a few percent to almost a third, against the wishes of the indigenous population. This finally resulted in a uprising by the Arabs in the 1936 to 1939 period which was brutally suppressed by Britain and its Jewish armed militias leaving the Arabs rudderless. After the war the Jews, being aware of the weakness of the Arabs couldn't wait for the British to depart, to the extent of waging a terrorist war against their former patrons to hurry them up. Finally the Arabs (Palestinians) having no diaspora to lobby for them in the West were done up like a kipper at the UN.

New comment by stormdennis in "US warship and multiple commercial ships attacked in the Red Sea"

stormdennis — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 18:03:15 +0000

Iran isn't Arab and anyway what gives America the right to decide who rules where?

New comment by stormdennis in "US warship and multiple commercial ships attacked in the Red Sea"

stormdennis — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 17:56:08 +0000

Western meddling in the ME is the cause of much/most of the instability there, not least Britain's enabling of the settler colonisation of Palestine by European Jews. Today America is supplying the munitions for Israel to indiscriminately bomb the people earlier displaced by that colonisation. Yes, thanks a bunch America.

New comment by stormdennis in "Remembering the Crystal Radio (2020)"

stormdennis — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 09:12:06 +0000

I'm utterly useless but had a crystal set as a kid that worked, main thing was having a decent aerial. I got such a kick out of it even though I could only get one station.

New comment by stormdennis in "The Best Timed Shot in TV History (Probably)"

stormdennis — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 10:22:56 +0000

I used to love watching James Burke's Connections on tv as a kid. So much so that when years later I saw his book, Connections in a second hand bookshop I bought it and it sits in arm's length from where I am sitting now, unread. Just checked now and it's copyrighted 1978, this edition published 1979.

New comment by stormdennis in "Throw away your first draft of your code"

stormdennis — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 20:20:56 +0000

Not on this scale but it has happened to me on a few occasions that I've lost several hours work for some reason (including no autosaves).

After the initial despair I know from experience I need to quickly try and recreate what I've lost while it's fresh in my mind.

It takes much much less time and I always feel that I've done a cleaner job second time around.

At times like that has occurred that this is the way to do it but I've never been able to bring myself to adopt this as policy.

New comment by stormdennis in "Amazon requires services on Fire TV to give it 30% of ad impressions or revenue"

stormdennis — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 17:46:36 +0000

Arrrr me hearty!

New comment by stormdennis in "What Happened to Jai Alai? (2013)"

stormdennis — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 09:18:35 +0000

Football was everywhere (e.g. calcio in Italy) The English codified rules for it but that doesn't mean Aussie rules or Gaelic Football are derivitives of the English game.

New comment by stormdennis in "What Happened to Jai Alai? (2013)"

stormdennis — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 09:15:47 +0000

I'd like to know what happened to Squash. Up until the mid 90s or so it was really popular. Then it seemed like everyone stopped playing and courts closed left right and centre