Apparently the turf is 'swimming' back here in Clare. Bogsnorkelling could be the biggest tourist attraction if the Cliffts of More€ fell into the sea.

Lads this site is way better than politics.ie, the Pin , boards, the Forum for the New American re-Colonistation of Planet Earth.us put together.

Don't we all need a quiet corner to think about things a bit deeper and ask questions and not be told you're stupid? (you wouldn't be told you're stupid on any of those sites above either in fairness).

I'd like one fifth of the whole drive of Machine Nation to be about processes and machinery pure and simple and how these things affect politics. Don't machines affect politics at all? Take milk for example - remember how there used to be only milk and cream and now there are seventeen different milks (including coffee flavoured milk - yum yum). Didn't the EU introduce legislation to get the milk and the creams seperated properly and now we have cream that is perfectly seperated from the milk using good crafty machines... Then God bless the machine which got that cream into the aerosol can ... others wouldn't agree but that's me.

And paper and recycling - I was thinking about this today too - shouldn't there be less and less need for chopping down trees because shouldn't the used and read newspaper just be sent back to Tony O'Reilly and he rubs all the print out and puts on the new stuff and sends it back? It wouldn't be an entirely closed system where the use of trees gets bypassed but the number of trees should drastically be reduced ...

That kind of thing.

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Didn't the EU introduce legislation to get the milk and the creams seperated properly and now we have cream that is perfectly seperated from the milk using good crafty machines... Then God bless the machine which got that cream into the aerosol can ... others wouldn't agree but that's me.

Indeed that is you, your Audiness, but I beg to suggest that it's not actually cream in the can in the first place - or the second place, because it's just badly made silly string and not cream at all.

Back when the weather is good I had a lot of trouble with cream that hadn't been separated properly. My poor sister (who only passed her driving test last week on the fourteenth attempt and who can't cook) was devastated to watch the cream I instructed her to whip turn from cream to butter and watery milk through no fault of her own. And that doesn't work in a strawberry roulade.

In other words, Audi, there are consequences when the machines don't do their jobs properly. Nasty consequences.

Do we have a machines forum, O God of Machine Things?

Good afternoon Nietzsche'sposterchild ..

Given your name, Nietsche'sposterchild, here's a Viennese coffee for you. You're very welcome to Machine Nation.

Our Charter is there in the Welcome Forum.

Hey guys!

Thanks for the coffee.

Nietzsche'sposterchild wrote:

Hey guys!

Thanks for the coffee.

Do you drink much of it? There's a nice filter coffee in Aldi which is chape and tasty. It'll need stocking up on for the coming financial apocalypse when people are going to feel like royalty if they manage to get a job in Aldi ..

Right. That's your first post out of the way and you'll find that your ranking will change quickly, but rather unpredictably.

Would you be a philosophy poster? Our Thinking thread could do with pulling back on topic...

Yeah. I dabble here or there. I'll go take a look.

Stíofán, floatingingalway, Nietzsche'sposterchild, tá se d'onóir agam a chuir fáilte roimh daoibh go Náisiún Máisín. Go cinnte, beidh sibh suimiúl, spreagúil agus eirimiúl mar phostaerí agus shaoránaigh seo. Céad Míle Fáilte go Náisiún Máisin!

Machine Nation is a learning community devoted to discovering the politics of machinery and the machinery of politics. It aims to understand on a profound level the driving forces behind the economy, environment, technology, culture and society at large. In this endeavour to understand we in Machine Nation pride ourself on the ability to maintain a friendly and cordial discourse. If you find that this is in any way lacking, I recommend you contact any of the Global Moderators to rectify the situation.

Anois, tá sé in am do chéad chupán tae mar shaoránaigh seo...



Arís, céad míle fáilte cách!

A big hello to TheGeniusOfCork and to GusherING who arrived today. At this time of the evening some of us like to have some tay and some squirty can cream and jam. Apologies for the good weather of my imagination.

Glad to be here.

c.arian wrote:

Glad to be here.

Glad to have you.

Thanks

Can anyone tell me why electret appears under me name and/or what it means.

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

Stíofán, floatingingalway, Nietzsche'sposterchild, tá se d'onóir agam a chuir fáilte roimh daoibh go Náisiún Máisín. Go cinnte, beidh sibh suimiúl, spreagúil agus eirimiúl mar phostaerí agus shaoránaigh seo. Céad Míle Fáilte go Náisiún Máisin!

Machine Nation is a learning community devoted to discovering the politics of machinery and the machinery of politics. It aims to understand on a profound level the driving forces behind the economy, environment, technology, culture and society at large. In this endeavour to understand we in Machine Nation pride ourself on the ability to maintain a friendly and cordial discourse. If you find that this is in any way lacking, I recommend you contact any of the Global Moderators to rectify the situation.

Anois, tá sé in am do chéad chupán tae mar shaoránaigh seo...



Arís, céad míle fáilte cách!

I extend these greetings to another wave of wonderful new members. c.arian, GusherING, TheGeniusofCork, fáilte go Náisiún Máisín.

Why has it n now changed to pi, this is driving me crazy, can anyone help.

c.arian wrote:

Why has it ow changed to pi, this is driving me crazy, can anyone help.

They're your rankings. Pi almost equals three and AGTC has four letters in it and so on. You'll be in many different rankings here, my new compatriot.

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

c.arian wrote:

Why has it ow changed to pi, this is driving me crazy, can anyone help.

They're your rankings. Pi almost equals three and AGTC has four letters in it and so on. You'll be in many different rankings here, my new compatriot.

Many thanks AT.

c.arian wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

c.arian wrote:

Why has it ow changed to pi, this is driving me crazy, can anyone help.

They're your rankings. Pi almost equals three and AGTC has four letters in it and so on. You'll be in many different rankings here, my new compatriot.

Many thanks AT.

You're welcome. The rankings are rather idiosyncratic here and are far more Byzantine than the comparatively direct Member-Politico-Senior Politico-P.ie addict rankings on P.ie.

Nice to see you c.arian. Chocolate cake to go with your tea.

Our charter is in the Site Dev forum.

Cheers.

That looks deliciously decadent cactus.

Scientists working on cure for digital rust?

Moving the Matrix

TheGeniusOfCork wrote:

AuditorGeneral wrote:

Neil - the guy they keep referring to in the Matrix

UCG, early nineties, computer science?

Inserting a period of silence between the collapse of the zero state and the dynamism which precedes the emergence of the of the unity state, helps to smooth the transition in digital systems, thereby preventing digital rust.

I seee.... Bit early for taking a sup this hour of the morning, no? Now, whatever you are on there is a place for it, namely somewhere here -
https://machinenation.forumakers.com/places-f1/

There is a wide variety of places there to choose from and I suggest you use The Sibín Reoite Bar where conversations are meant to be bizarre. I'm not about to open a Padded Cell or Lunatic Asylum in there yet alongside The Verandah and the *ahem* Defenestration Chamber, so please have a shot at it in the Sibín Reoite Ice Bar for the moment will you??

There is a time and place for science, maths and there is a time for politics ...

A cup of tea for you, 2000miles ?

You're very welcome here. Hope you enjoy posting.

Our Charter is in the Site Dev and Ed forum. The Ard Taoiseach will be along soon to give you the formal oration.

Cheers.