robot_dave: April 2009 Archives

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By robot_dave on April 20, 2009 9:04 PM | Permalink | TrackBacks (0)

Water Supplies Department - My Account

Since water meters will not be read at intervals of exactly 121.64 days, the volume covered by each tier is adjusted on a pro-rata basis according to the actual number of days in the period between two meter readings. As such, a consumer who uses the same amount of water as another one but over a longer period of time will receive a lower water bill. dave: If the volume of water consumed is adjusted to match the observation period, why does the adjusted total match the observed total? WSD appear to be overcharging users who use more than 62 Cubic Metresof water per quarter.

(tags: hongkong government utilities)

By robot_dave on April 10, 2009 9:05 PM | Permalink | TrackBacks (0)

Conficker Eye Chart

(tags: security virus tools windows conficker)
Harvard’s masters of the apocalypse - Times Online

If Robespierre were to ascend from hell and seek out today’s guillotine fodder, he might start with a list of those with three incriminating initials beside their names: MBA. The Masters of Business Administration, that swollen class of jargon-spewing, value-destroying financiers and consultants have done more than any other group of people to create the economic misery we find ourselves in. (via: sideshow.me.uk)

(tags: economics education business mba ethics harvard)

By robot_dave on April 8, 2009 9:05 PM | Permalink | TrackBacks (0)

John Goekler: The Most Dangerous Person in the World?

According to the US Department of Health and Human Services, between 310,000 and 580,000 of us will commit suicide by cigarette this year. Another 260,000 to 470,000 will go in the ground due to poor diet and sedentary lifestyle. ... Deaths of Americans due to terrorist activities, according to the US State Department, have averaged less than 15 per year since 2002. And all of those occurred abroad. The majority were in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

(tags: security terrorism statistics reality)

By robot_dave on April 5, 2009 9:06 PM | Permalink | TrackBacks (0)

The Hong Kong Heritage Project - Our Home Our History - Sitemap

This site would be quite interesting if it wasn't completely contained in a flash animation, so you have to sit through the tedious opening animation every single time. Ironically, putting the whole thing in a flash file means that it can't be viewed on many devices, indexed by Google, or archived by the Internet Archive (archive.org), both of which defeat entire purpose of the site. Well done, incompetent web site designers and administrators!

(tags: hongkong flash history archive morons)

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