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Posted: 28 Mar 2008, 13:10
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/threa ... =1&sid=1#7You actually took the time on another alt character to flame the person you claim to be, who you really aren't? It might well be time to step away for a breath of fresh air if your trolling becomes this complicated.
I can just imagine this guy on some panel or engineering standards board as the "business rep":The grid is a system of fibre-optic cables and modern routing centres that mean movies and entire music catalogues can be downloaded in seconds, not hours
Home of the internet? Oi vey, this kind of hyperbole always gets nerds worked up, why do they insist on using it?devised by scientists at Cern, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, and home of the internet...
Hey, this, um... thing, or something... might be... a particle accelerator, I don't know. It can do all this neat stuff, and it probably won't cost much, we're not really sure, it's not real yet, and it's not even being made here, but in a country with high population density. Maybe....a particle accelerator, could also transmit holographic images and provide high-definition video telephony for the price of a local call.
I once said that I could really go a burger at Hungry Jack's because I had "a hunger that just can't be beat", but that don't make me a leading figure on fast food.Physics professor David Britton from Glasgow University, a leading figure on the grid, told The Times that it "could revolutionise society".
Translation: "I can't think of how this can help us right now.""With this kind of computing power, future generations will have the ability to collaborate and communicate in ways older people like me cannot even imagine," he said.
"The internet... is... is not a big truck. It's... it's a series of tubes. You can't just dump something on the internet. My staff... sent me.... internet on tuesday... and it didn't arrive until today..."Ian Bird, project leader for the grid, said people would be able to store gigabytes of information on the internet.
The Australian is about as good as we can get in WA too >.>Alleycat wrote:It's those little gems from the Australian news that keeps me going every day.
This article was total class. This journalist is someone who would make a great role model for any young aspiring bullshitter.