wild_eep

The word is to describe people who, when faced with environmental problems and some proposed tech or regulatory solutions that will help a lot but will cause some inconvenience, do this:

declare that the PROBLEM is really SOMETHING ELSE and that we are all being comprehensively DUPED by the SANDAL-WEARING THOUGHT POLICE and produce a whole lot of their own imaginary or confused SCIENTIFIC FACTS which they emphasise liberally with CAPITALS

surely this breed needs its own word. What's it to be?

Is there a feed reader which will keep popping up a warning until I read the item?

thanks

I'm doing this talk from a full, verbatim paper notes.

Question is, what's the best font to use for ease of reading from the lectern?

thanks

So: two horrible old tower blocks are scheduled for demolition. They have been picking at them for months and all that's left is the concrete skeleton.

Today I noticed that round each pillar or load bearing bit of wall are wrapped things like black plastic bin liners. There are bits of blue string attached to some of them.

Are they setting it up for a big bang?

It seems odd because there's no special security, just the normal halfarsed perimeter fencing with pictures of non-existent dogs. Can they leave the place full of explosives like that? or is this some earlier, intermediate non-bangy step?

and why does yahoo eat my questions? grrr

...what exactly am i supposed to do with it?

gimme the basics please, i'm lost here...

("drink it" won't get any points, sorry)

In layman's terms

in laymans' terms

in laymens''ss's terms

where the hecking heck does the apostrophe go?

an explanation in layman/men/s/'s/s' would be nice

thanks

I need:

- a phone

- Satnav

- email via an MS Exchange server

which is the phone for me?

It will be a contract phone; I'm currently with Voda

I need the best coverage i can get

Thanks!

I have a 4-20mA analogue signal which is looped through three instruments already. When I add a fourth, there's a small risk the sender will be looking at a total circuit resistance that's greater than the spec.

What will happen? Will it just saturate at some level below 20mA, or will it go off calibration right through the range?

As yet, I haven't determined if the signal is loop powered or not. What will be the effect if it is? or isn't?

Thanks!

They called me. I told them they were breaking the law by making cold calls to someone registered with the Telephone Preference Service. They said "don't get cheeky with me" and hung up.

Nice!

Have you had more luck with them, perchance?

St Emillion, Sainsbury's

Yum. I don't know how much it cost (Mrs Eep bought it) but I reckon it cost a lot less than it tastes.

local regs won't let me put up a dish...

and what happens if you unlock an iPhone and shove in a Vodafone contract SIM?

It just sits there, looking a bit like kazaa but without the adverts. Where do I go?

It's out of copyright, so it must be out there somewhere! Would prefer in English, s'il vous plaît...

RS485 lines need biasing resistors at some point in the network. None of the devices I'm using seem to have this.

Is there a nice neat module that I can bolt onto a DIN rail that does this, or do I have to have fiddly resistors knocking about inside panels?

I've searched everywhere, and can find nothing that does this.

Help!