Posts by John Farrell
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I've noticed a surprising level of engagement by conservative denizens of New Zealand messageboards, with Trump's election. From their reaction, you would think they were Americans. Few seem to have considered side effects for New Zealand in "making America Great Again."
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Smarter than the average mark....
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"BLP reports that it can obtain megawatts of power from the plasmas under study. It’s difficult to imagine the kind of measurement error that could account for such results. It would be a remarkably elaborate fraud".
If there's money in it, frauds can be elaborate. I read a report of a "perpetual motion machine" promoter who gave remarkably convincing demonstrations. After he died, his workshop was found to be extensively plumbed for compressed air - all the piping was hidden. There was a large compressor in the basement.
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Moonshot thinking? "Let's head off doubts about our product by associating it with a success, something that no one would question".
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It looks like "baffle them with bullshit" to me.
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Geography fail at The Herald
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Picaresque? Pitcairnesque? The Herald again....
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Hard News: The fake news problem, in reply to Rich Lock,
Boy, have they signed up for the big one!
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Hard News: The fake news problem, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Ammonium nitrate, Ian.
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I was involved in the electronics industry (when we had one). The only locally sourced components we used were printed circuit boards....and they were made from an imported substrate.
