But owing to a point above, the LED Sticky thing doesn't have to BE a bomb. It could just house a transmitter. It is the carrot, and the bomb is in a trashcan on the other side of the street. Having made remote control devices for cars in the past, this is not at all unreasonable, especially if the only thing it needs to do is trigger a switch.
Did they go over the line? Absolutely, but had they not, it might have given others ideas of a weakness.
That said, I can't think of anyone who would have though of advertising a bomb before this (Excepting, of course, Gigli), but there's always a first time...:-D
But the silliest feature of all was that if you wanted your
company accounts represented as a piece of music, it could do
that as well. Well, I thought it was silly. The corporate world
went bananas over it."
Reg regarded him solemnly from over a piece of carrot poised
delicately on his fork in front of him, but did not interrupt.
"You see, any aspect of a piece of music can be expressed as a
sequence or pattern of numbers," enthused Richard. "Numbers
can express the pitch of notes, the length of notes, patterns of
pitches and lengths. . "
"You mean tunes," said Reg. The carrot had not moved yet.
Richard grinned.
"Tunes would be a very good word for it. I must remember
that."
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective agency.:-D
Ummm, so about that second law of thermodynamics.
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But owing to a point above, the LED Sticky thing doesn't have to BE a bomb. It could just house a transmitter. It is the carrot, and the bomb is in a trashcan on the other side of the street. Having made remote control devices for cars in the past, this is not at all unreasonable, especially if the only thing it needs to do is trigger a switch.
:-D
Did they go over the line? Absolutely, but had they not, it might have given others ideas of a weakness.
That said, I can't think of anyone who would have though of advertising a bomb before this (Excepting, of course, Gigli), but there's always a first time...
I like to think i'm an 8 track. After my brain passes four thnigs, it goes KaChunk! :-D
But the silliest feature of all was that if you wanted your company accounts represented as a piece of music, it could do that as well. Well, I thought it was silly. The corporate world went bananas over it." Reg regarded him solemnly from over a piece of carrot poised delicately on his fork in front of him, but did not interrupt. "You see, any aspect of a piece of music can be expressed as a sequence or pattern of numbers," enthused Richard. "Numbers can express the pitch of notes, the length of notes, patterns of pitches and lengths. . " "You mean tunes," said Reg. The carrot had not moved yet. Richard grinned. "Tunes would be a very good word for it. I must remember that." Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective agency. :-D
It's a real bitch, ain't it?
You better believe it. i is for wusses.