Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Hill Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.misc Subject: Re: ARM embedded stuff Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:48:18 +0000 (GMT) Organization: timil.com Lines: 35 Message-ID: <5263fc7d46tim@invalid.org.uk> References: <865aef74-a979-47ac-b2b7-8a15f268c55b@15g2000vbq.googlegroups.com> <43c5f05d52.davehigton@dsl.pipex.com> <5727415e52.graham@durain.demon.co.uk> <525e430d8dsee.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> <525e538292Spambin@argonet.co.uk> <525f550c10dave@davenoise.co.uk> <52603c527abbailey@argonet.co.uk> <526050b373dave@davenoise.cco.uk> <5262ef4df6Spambin@argonet.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: GqAcIUbqh27oTTI3Dt5hJw.user.speranza.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Pluto/3.04c (RISC-OS/5.16) NewsHound/v1.50-32 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.sys.acorn.misc:3713 In article <5262ef4df6Spambin@argonet.co.uk>, Stuart wrote: > In article , Rick Murray > wrote: > > Really, that the fzzzzzt! meter went up a billionth of a percentage > > point isn't something I'm going to lose sleep over. > My eldest daughter is a radiotherapy technician at our local hospital, > degree in physics, Masters in medical physics, she was > appalled/outraged/laughing her socks off at the amount of fuss being > made. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk0WzCtF0yY (Not the Nine O'Clock News - Windscale Flakes) ISTR the concern about contaminated sheep in the uk is their direct ingestion of fallout which had settled on the hillside and the radioactive particulate matter entering the foodchain, not 'simply' the radiation from it. I don't fancy eating a cocktail of unstable isotopes. According to the Independent, Scotland is free of fallout now. (Sorry, this really is a HORRIBLE ad-laden web site, Flash-free browsing recommended, e.g. NetSurf.) http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/scottish-sheep-farms-finally-free-of-chernobyl-fallout-2020059.html -- Tim Hill of timil.com . . . * supports TFT & shares in cheaper ethical telecoms http://tjrh.eu/phone * has a genuine & spam-proof address for Usenet http://www.invalid.org.uk/ * accepts incoming email: substitute postmaster@ for tim@ ... "If we do meet again, why, we shall smile; if not,why then this parting was well made" Jul Caesar, Act v, Sc.1