tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15037609.post1767018286776132147..comments2023-10-01T16:53:17.274+01:00Comments on Cicero's Songs: Academic StalinismCicerohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02090838836212624633noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15037609.post-64914751151002681732007-01-31T09:58:00.000+00:002007-01-31T09:58:00.000+00:00CCTV X-Rays?
Don't worry about the *health* impli...CCTV X-Rays?<br /><br />Don't worry about the *health* implications, they're not X-Rays, they're terahertz, so they don't have the health implications of X-rays. The BBC are a bit thick, though, so their article on them calls them X-rays throughout. <br /><br />X-rays have wavelengths of 10 to 0.01 nanometers, these have wavelengths of ten to one millimetres. So, that's only a million times out. Well done, BBC. <br /><br />Privacy issues on the other hand - well, they see through clothing. <br /><br />QinetiQ make them:<br /><br />http://www.qinetiq.com/home_us/case_studies/case_studies_homeland_security/millimeter_wave_imager.htmlAverageEarthmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05755828772649628563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15037609.post-91621296859577494672007-01-30T16:32:00.001+00:002007-01-30T16:32:00.001+00:00BTW...
CCTV X-Rays? That's a new one on me. More ...BTW...<br /><br />CCTV X-Rays? That's a new one on me. More information, please!Liberal Polemichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05002372579024659424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15037609.post-47563512523064099552007-01-30T16:32:00.000+00:002007-01-30T16:32:00.000+00:00"At least we can role back the state from the Univ..."At least we can role back the state from the Universities- can't we?"<br /><br />Such optimism in one "of a certain age"!<br /><br />Since Thatcher replaced the University Grants Commission with a funding body managed by bureaucrats and broke the link between local universities and local funding, Universities have effectively been another nationalised industry.<br /><br />Evidence of what might have been survives only in Buckingham, where a rump of right wing academics survives by selling post-graduate degrees, free from the shackles of statist conformism.Liberal Polemichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05002372579024659424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15037609.post-13876292273959617462007-01-30T14:38:00.000+00:002007-01-30T14:38:00.000+00:00It must have been hell for you, both sides filled ...It must have been hell for you, both sides filled with certainty and loathing.<br /><br />Thomas Paine gave us your 'best line' in 'Common Sense' if I recall well.Etzel Panglosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03406597168530012673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15037609.post-78581970327489366812007-01-30T12:53:00.000+00:002007-01-30T12:53:00.000+00:00People at my school were warned not to apply for K...People at my school were warned not to apply for King's College Cambridge as they don't like middle class people there (I had a friend who got in, but perhaps because that was because she's Russian...)<br /><br />Amusingly one summer they redecorated the bar without telling the students to remove the red walls and perennial hammer and sickle. The reason: To avoid upsetting any Tory students.<br /><br />Kings was a very silly place - they wouldn't wear gowns because they're a symbol of the upper classes or something... and refused to have May Balls as well.<br />And of course, they loved rent striking.Tristanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15395992764678278326noreply@blogger.com