Unthreaded
More automotive computerised larceny
DS3 (Citroen) diesel - additive pouch declared empty - when there's about 1/3 left in it after 130k miles - since it's "empty" - they simultaneously timed out the DPF too (another £250) - not blocked, flowing fine.
tomo
Bonus for Friday. Rather a good address on modelling energy costs by a senator from South Australia. The bit about CSIRO didn't know, so they hired consultants who also didn't know, but looked it up on the net: fit for Yes Minister.
robertswan
Mailman,
You have your expectations suitably low.
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Simply buying the air is too straightforward a scheme. What we need is a market with government appointed "independent" operator, and a regulator. Then we can all start buying and selling breathing certificates. True, some may asphyxiate, but some'll make a fortune.
tomo,
Considering how tolerant the CAN hardware standard is, and that it's just a pair of wires, even £14 seems a bit stiff for a connector. Big improvement on £240 though!
Quite like the idea of networking through barbed wire: YouTube's a bit jumpy; Buttercup must be scratching her rump again.
I'm not keen on the masons, but neither am I taken with thoughts of evil cabals scheming the downfall of the plebs. Bridgen's talk of the elites looking after themselves makes sense to me. It seemed a bit strange jumping from that to some secret society of men in aprons.
I have heard a rationale for freemasonry: that we only admit those who are fair and honest; this gives some assurance to would-be employers. That sounds fair enough, but is bound to be unstable. The unfair and dishonest will be forever trying to get in. I believe they've succeeded, and that was behind my mention of parasites.
Doesn't seem greatly different from other superficially noble institutions. Some pretty plump parasites sitting in once respected public offices.
As you say, Bridgen shows them up for what they are. Good on him. Like you, I wish him well.
While the wiring in this short video is amusing at a domestic scale, and the audio tells a poignant domestic story, it also works as a metaphor for what has been done to our national grids.
robertswan
Robert - connectors are crazy..... those "single pair Ethernet standard" connectors are well overpriced - especially since the standard, afaics isn't exactly weighed down with onerous impedance specs. It'd likely work over two 1km runs of barbed wire like Elastic Inc did with their (failed) DSL product...
I had a hunt over the last couple of weeks for a CAN bus connector adaptor for a Yanmar diesel engine .... oh, my £240 .... three automotive connectors which after ID-ing the Deutsch actuals I got in pigtailed mating pairs form from an automotive supplier for £14.
Andrew Bridgen - Freemasons come in different varieties, "good" and "bad" - I certainly woiuldn't discount any of his claims in that department - at all. The stitch-ups I've seen involving public bodies and professionally accredited assessors have made me default to suspicious, verging on paranoid. I know that the financials on some contracts I was involved in were settled The Lodge, to very deliberately do down non-members of the club - it's been happening forever.
I had to check the calendar
I hope Bridgen holds his seat - the party machines are gunning for hi d/t his heresy and upsetting a gravy train apple cart?.
tomo
They all really are just different sides of the same coin aren't they?
Mailman
tomo,
A full blast of the mind control ray left Biden right on his trend line of cognitive decline. Evil Russkies need to do more development.
Pretty sure Fibre-optics has both benefits and drawbacks. I think pure fibre and using POF for power delivery might be tricky for higher powered devices; a hybrid setup with a copper power bus and fibre control bus sharing one loom might offer the best of both worlds, not that my opinion matters. I doubt we'll ever see the *perfect* solution. There will be a competition of ideas. Something will evolve that's good enough. It's a familiar process.
Agree about connectors. Crazy how expensive some of them are, and I'm not convinced they're any better than some of the cheaper ones.
I well remember that Amp Hour — we discussed it a fair bit at the time (which is why I was confident you'd know about LIN bus).
Andrew Bridgen interview was well worth listening to. Painted a bleak picture, but it seemed grimly logical. The bit about the masons struck me as a non-sequitur. They were a force in Aus. back in the '60s and '70s, but have been in decline since then. My feeling is that the parasites have taken up membership with an eye to some very juicy real estate owned by the organisation. Perhaps the story's different elsewhere (or I might have it wrong about Aus.)
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If they're offended at the per-day charge, wait until they hear about the per-minute that's coming. I mean, it's about congestion, so the more time you spend there, the more you are to blame for the problem.
After that, it's on to the breathing tax.
Mailman,
Commiserations. I was going to offer some platitude that it won't be so bad — Tweedledum and Tweedledee — but it does seem that Tweedledee *will* be even worse (if only because the BBC want them so badly). Then again, who *would* you pick to run the place even if you had the whole cast of Alice in Wonderland to choose from?
Robert Swan
Jul 3, 2024 at 1:59 PM | Mailman
On the bright side we'll be able to watch youtube without constant Labour election ads.
DaveS
Brace yourselves people. With the impending Labour administration coming in just in time for the weekend we are going to have no end of self gratifying wan.king from the BBC. Probably best not to be drinking or eating around news hours for the next 4 or 5 days.
Mailman
Lots of stats understandably around this morning
Labour’s share of the vote is five points lower than Jeremy Corbyn’s supposedly humiliating defeat in 2017: in fact, it is the lowest share of the vote for any winning party ever.
h/t Mark Steyn
Starmer will have to be careful (he won't) - 6 months to a popular revolt? I can't believe the utter clot Miliband is now a minister - there's going to be some cosmic level twerp-ery.
Lammy to Kiev? ....... oh, dear....
We need a remake of Yes Minister.Robert
barbed wire networking - Elastic Inc. were brilliant - I tested out to 11km - unfortunately they were an upstart with no leverage with the Telcos.....