I don't hear drinky saying that with his gleeful Dr Evil voice, but rather with his that's-how-it-is voice.

(In other words, you've confused his description with a prescription.)

And if *that* had anything at all to do with what was actually being discussed, would you have bothered posting it?

She does seem to be rather hung up on the retribution angle of it, yeah.

WARNING: 1972 moment ahead.

Check me on this: wouldn't a POTS network be more resilient against EMP attacks?

Every winter during most of the 1990s, whenever it snowed, I'd read many, many numbers of announcements on my radio show from the phone company and various local officials requesting people to stay off the damn phones except for essential/emergency calls because everybody was ringing everybody else to ask if they'd heard about the schools or could they borrow some mittens or what have you and thereby paralysing the phone network across the whole county.

I too can just as easily quote you out of context and "prove" any humourless, asinine thing I want.

And--any kidding aside, Andy--I know a hell of a lot more about MPS than you might think, having spent nearly 15 years living with someone who has it.

Also, *I* know how to use punctuation and markup correctly. :P

I think it's heaps simpler not to fuck with the clocks, and to let people make their own decisions about bedtimes.

I am now utterly certain that you do not know my first wife.

Mine has one*, and that certainly doesn't seem to slow it down.

-----

*Yes, I actually just set up a new machine that has a 2.5" Samsung 840 EVO-0 SSD, and it rocks. OFF to kdm login screen in about 2 seconds.

I believe that I've not enjoyed a new piece of tech so thoroughly since microwave ovens first came out.

You're the one who is projecting and pretending to be other people, not me.

I *know* who I am, and I do not keep my entire self-image beholden to a single ridiculous "accomplishment" for decades on end. And, no, I am not a sockpuppet for Tom/Barbara Hudson, who joined a couple of years *after* I did, and whom you harassed to the point that s/he left the site rather than put up with you.

I actually use my Slashdot account, which, unlike yours, does not automatically post at -1 (which is why you quit using it). I've only the one account. I rarely if ever post AC. (Since I've some years' worth of excellent karma to draw on, I've no need to do so.)

Also, I don't waste my time and others' posting volumes of drivel on a subject about which no-one else gives a shit.

Are you ready to grow up now? Or at least get back on your meds?

Or do I need to ring your up mum and have another little talk with her about you?

You keep right on refuting arguments I didn't make. I'll get the popcorn.

Besides, what have you got against George Foreman? I kind of like him, myself--you can't say he's not an original

It's a grill. It cooks meat pretty well. And it carries a 3-year warranty.

I don't have a copy handy--wonder if it's even still in print--but I seem to recall it had something to do with being able to re-create the transportee's quantum states at the target, which caused the transportee simply to start existing there since his quantum states (and thus, he) no longer existed at the point of origin. Blish also said something to the effect that the explanation of direct matter-energy conversion "favoured by the media" was obviously infeasible, given the energies that would be involved.

(I actually used to know a fair bit about quantum mechanics, but have forgotten most of the necessary math. I know I probably can't do tensors any more to save my life. In any case, Blish's explanation seemed a lot more plausible to me at the time than any of the alternatives.)