The trick in reptile studies is to pay attention to the real world, and then see what turns up in the lizard Oz, or has instead been disappeared to the cornfield, or perhaps taken to a gravel pit and disposed of in a tidy, thoughtful way ...
This one, spotted in a 'live' Graudian record, seems to have hit the gravel pit ...
Clearly the reptiles didn't see any yardage in it, because yarns about diabolical threatening furriners were nowhere to be seen at the top of the digital edition this day ...
Instead simpleton "here no conflict of interest" Simon seems to have taken permanent residence in the highly desired extreme far right 'top of the digital world ma' slot in the digital edition. There was the usual support for the genocide, and the usual genociding of Giles, while down below Dame Slap was wasting precious time on an already disappeared Josh, and the only reason to note that mention of Malware getting the chop was the way it segued into the infallible Pope of the day ...
Still giving after all these years, his NBN triumph still celebrated around the land, but all was not lost in other areas, because down below the fold "Ned" had important things to natter about ...
"Ned" was a clear winner, what with Monsieur Dupont blathering about ramping up defences, when it seems the best defence is to tell Kiwis to piss off, and as for Scottie's talk of foreign students, where's a good groaning about furriners when it's needed... so "Ned" it was, solving the 'nuking the country to save the world' debate ...
Take that 'toon how you will ...
And so to a minor note ...the bromancer might have been expected to celebrate Nigel arriving to make plans for Nigel ...
Won't somebody hold his brolly ... but the bromancer had a more important job, putting the best spin he could on Hindu nationalism ...
The pond had missed his dose of patented brand of apocalyptic thinking ... and this effort saw a bounce back from his ordinary form in a piece on BHP ...
The pond felt a wave of depression coming over it, what with this the calm before the apocalyptic socialist storm ... though the pond didn't think that things were quite so bad as being a dissident in Russia, with Cathy Young noting a show trial in The Bulwark ... Russia: The Show (Trial) Must Go On ...
Young's piece ended with a couple of poems by Evgenia Berkovich, translated by Young, and so, just to make sure that the pond is banned in Russia ... what with there not being enough poetry in the pond (what's happened to Kez?)
how she covered her parts with her hand:
“Can we please have no blessings and no miracles,
and no cross at the end?
Or it could be a girl; isn’t it best that way?
Then a son-in-law, grandkids—a whole pack . . .”
But the angel just stands like a tree: you can’t get to him.
He’s a courier, a foreigner; what do you expect?
“It’s not a doll! he’ll be born as a real baby!
Our little Issy, or someone’s Hassan—
every single body you’ve turned into meat for battles
used to be somebody’s soft and warm little son.
Take away your papers; take them, I’m not signing them.
I won’t register; I’ll give birth in a barn!
You want wars, at Kosovo, Chudovo? (2) Keep fighting them;
while I live, I won’t let my boy come to harm.”
“Calm down,” they tell her, “please stop shouting, young lady.
It’s all decided without you ahead of time.
Tomorrow, start saving up loaves—they’ll need to be ready,
and start distilling water to use for wine.
Mom, it’s out of your hands, no matter how great your parenting:
In time, Judas plays the rat; Herod, the boss.”
By the way, God also wanted a girl, apparently.
But he’s just the dad. What to do but
send his sweet boy to the cross?
(2) The location of the medieval Russian “Battle on the Ice” against Teutonic knights.
(This battle was featured in Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky, with the film's wiki referring to the frozen lake as Lake Chudskoe. Eisenstein had as many problems as Shostakovich did with Stalinist persecution of the arts, and naturally, Vlad the sociopath is a full blown Stalinist)
The pond is always moved at by the sight of dissidents standing up to to sociopathic warmongers.
And no matter what Mein Gott scribbles, there are other reasons for optimism. Hadn't an elderly gent shown that there was an endless future of marital joy available to all?
And on that inspiring note, too quickly forgotten by the reptiles, the pond can end the day's proceedings ...
GB - before that ‘thread’ from two days back unravels - thank you for the reminisce about early ‘ADP’. Yes - ‘computer’ was readily represented by large reels of tape - which still contain data and programming that could be of great use to all kinds of professions now, if only there were people available who were inclined to, and adept at, accessing that material.
ReplyDeleteI have the occasional coffee with a friend from high school days, who joined the ‘PMG’ in ’59 as trainee technician, but was one of that breed who lived electronics, and was soon setting up connections of the kind you mention.
All drawn from the taxpayer purse. Fortunately, at each step in the technology, there were designers who would happily put as much potential capacity as they could into every part of the system and leave it to the next crop of researchers to develop actual applications.
My own early experience, through CSIRO, was with versions of the ‘Cyber’ series around ‘67, but we were two levels of access removed from the actual machines, so, for all we knew in practice, they could have been driven by moonbeams.
More than two generations ago, Chad; and showing how progress comes from doing the very best you can with the technology you have, then learning from that how to improve the technology.
DeleteBut who's ever heard of 'leased lines' these days ? And we have come a long way since the early days of 'IBM and the Seven Dwarfs'. I can still recall getting a look into the Bureau of Stats computer room and the 'huge mainframes' the Bureau then used for its statistics gathering and processing - my alzheimered old brain doesn't recall what brand they were. Probably were one of 'the Bunch' - Burroughs, UNIVAC, NCR, Control Data Corporation (CDC), and Honeywell.
Oh yes, them were the daze.
They were CDCs apparently, from a tender called in 1963.
DeleteHilarious laughter. Ned only ever talks gas.
ReplyDeleteNoodles Neddy: "The ban on nuclear is the act of a dumb nation that puts ideological prejudice before nationality." Butt, BG, but John Winston - the man whose wonderful government gave us the nuclear ban - had you forgotten ? - was the second greatest Prime Minister in Australian history (after the truly greatest Robert Gordon, that is).
ReplyDeleteHmmm: "We need two ingredients for life to start on a planet: dry land and (fresh) water. Strictly, the water doesn’t have to be fresh, but fresh water can only occur on dry land.
ReplyDeleteOnly with those two conditions met can you convert the building blocks of life, amino acids and nucleic acids into tangible bacterial life that heralds the start of the evolutionary cycle."
Half a billion yars earlier than we thought ? How can this be - we have a very famous book that tells us the Earth was only created about 6000 years ago, so that can't possibly be right, can it ?
https://theconversation.com/fresh-water-and-key-conditions-for-life-appeared-on-earth-half-a-billion-years-earlier-than-we-thought-228789
A News Corp is currently addressing the National Press Club on the need to regulate the terrible power and influence of social media companies. The hypocrisy is breathtaking.
ReplyDeleteTo their credit, a few of the (non-Reptile) journalists present are asking questions that touch on Rupert Inc’s own record in this regard.
For its sins, the pond watched proceedings. The hypocrisy was breathtaking, the point - a shakedown of Meta - barely concealed ...after all, if Google can be made to pay up, and AI be employed, why not target the hold outs, while - crocodile tears - still using their services, because it's just a cost of doing business. Let the Australian government boldly go first, while News Corp is right behind them, as its rags are every day ...
DeleteSpeaking of the reptiles and their ancient God-King, I wonder if there will ever be any acknowledgement of this:
ReplyDeleteAustralia to release special series of Bluey coins amid global success of ABC children’s show
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/jun/05/bluey-coins-royal-australian-mint-release-1-dollar
Oh, and while my ancient memory still records it: now that we've got "two new tv channels" (Nos 22 and 23), then apart from 'Would I Lie to You' switching to Ch 23, has anybody noticed any significant difference ?
DeleteAnnony: "News Corp is currently addressing the National Press Club". Which is just another Press Release.
ReplyDeletePress Release: Newscorpse feeds on itself and fellow travellers, causing malnourishment of the body politic.
Newscorpse just reacts to press releases (SMR's soon! Greens bad! Trump truth! Tim Tams good!) and then assume other newscorpse rag opinionistas are also writing press releases... "they found 80 slanted favourably to the brands."
Turtles all the way... Except "none were published by Australia’s national broadcaster, the ABC, or by the Guardian”
DP said; "It's a tricky line for "Ned" but he manages it in style. We need a debate about nuking the country, but the debate is a complete waste of time, because we need to gas the country ... and Ted needs to wake up to "Ned's" truth" - all from press releases and or vice a versa.... "Kite said news content generated by these media releases was part of the brands’ marketing strategies."
From:
"Of 86 articles across 31 Australian news outlets that the researchers identified were generated because of the fast food brands’ [party, warmonger, capital] press releases, they found 80 slanted favourably to the brands.
"Mail Online [The 4th Viscount Rothermere] produced the most articles of any news outlet with 20 items, followed by [Lord Rupert of Murdoch] news.com.au (16), the Courier Mail (8), the Daily Telegraph (6) and the Australian (4).
"The researchers said the “implied endorsement” raises public health concerns given the poor nutritional quality of the foods sold by the brands and that several of the outlets publishing the stories were among Australia’s most visited news sites.
"The researchers expressed concern about “press release journalism”, where reporters presented the preferred narrative of the organisations issuing the press releases. They said this “appeared to be the case for most of the news media items included in our study”.
"Kite said news content generated by these media releases was part of the brands’ marketing strategies. “They want journalists and news outlets to pick this up and run it favourably – and what our research shows is that they definitely get that.”
"The paper noted “while the news media items included in our study were published by many different news outlets, none were published by Australia’s national broadcaster, the ABC, or by the Guardian”.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jun/05/news-outlets-producing-covert-marketing-for-mcdonalds-kfc-and-dominos-study-finds
But Tim Tams are good ! They're just not much good for nutrition or health. But then we all remember just how good for us cigarettes were not so very long ago, don't we ? And who didn't run cigarette ads back then ... oh yeah, the ABC didn't.
DeleteNuke the next nuclear booster dp
ReplyDeleteRecord Solar Power in California Passes 100% of Power Demand
For 55 days in a row, electricity from solar, wind, and water (hydro) power exceeded 100% of power demand on California’s main grid for part of the day. Also, going back further, that has been achieved in 80 out of the last 87 days. That is since early March (International Women’s Day), late winter.
https://cleantechnica.com/2024/06/02/solar-passes-100-of-power-demand-in-california/
Well whaddaya know:
ReplyDelete"Victorian supreme court justice delivers judgment scathing of Dutton’s failure as a minister to disclose a crucial report during case."
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jun/05/peter-dutton-referred-national-security-watchdog-abdul-benbrika