Recent content by Hennofletch

In the UK its compulsory for 5 to 11 year olds in primary school. After that your on your own. Having said that the school swimming lessons are more, "Throw 'em in, if they float they pass".

Save the Stranger every time. If they did turn out to be Hitler I'd chuck him back in myself. And saving the stranger isn't about society's pressure or brainwashing, its about how I couldn't sleep at night if I left them to die. Off Topic: Lot of Escapists need to get some swim practice...

Man V Food is great. Top Gear, QI and HIGNFY. I love how programs now make reference to their reruns on Dave. It's a great fourth wall break.

Robots like this are only autonomous in their movement, path-finding, navigation and resupply needs. Any actual 'fighting' would be 100% human controlled, just like drones we use today. There is a risk of the unit being hacked and turned on its own, but I would hope we have the best firewalls on...

My problem with whale wars isn't so much what they stand for, but how the idiot who is 'Captain' treats his crew. He clearly values whales over people, and often puts his people in danger because he hasn't been trained properly. Your crew lives are in your hands, you don't piss that up the...

"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so...

My favorite: That's kinda the point there, bub. I think Wiki may have over estimated the Intelligence of some of its users. Still if it helps raise awareness among those with a double figure IQ then it works.

Movie: Bad Boys 2 TV Show: Castle Video Game: Battlefield Bad Company Food: Risotto Book: Tom Clancy's Rainbow 6

Don't worry, apparently sanity isn't contagious.

*Rolls up sleeves and wades in* Okay just to stop the America hate from some people on this board, I'm from the UK. There I said it, they say that's the first step to recovery. In the UK we have armed police officers but they are in the minority. As guns are not as common here, the bulk of...

Cops are justified. I feel really bad for the officers that had to kill him, right decision or not that's got to suck. I don't think tasers would be the right response, correct me if I'm wrong but in the escalation of force model doesn't: 'The treat of Deadly force' = Use Deadly Force. Too...

Of course they can be better but no company will invest money in an area that has no return. Until the consumer votes with their wallet and only buys games with a compelling story, you get the same old same old. Vote with your feet folks.

Just to make life easier I'll link the wiki page = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem I apologise if i explained poorly, I'm just an interested ignoramus. I first learnt about this at the royal institution Christmas lectures in the nineties. Some damn good stuff on them.

All right ya had to get nit picky. Its something like a 99.999999% statistically that two people in a sample of 366 share the same birthday. Its about the statistical probability not the likelihood. Never confuse the two. As for the rest if your sample is 57 the probability is 99%, and 50%...

The Monty Hall Paradox - Suppose you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1 [but the door is not opened], and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. He then says to...