100 reasons I'm better than you

A catalogue of the 100 reasons that I'm better than the readers of this. Maybe I won't be better than each of you for every reason, but I'm sure there'll be at least one reason why I'm specifically better than YOU

19 October, 2005

11. You believed Freakonomics when you read it.

'Nuff said. Well, actually, I'll attend to this properly forthwith. Busy with some vital statistics right now.

Anyhow: there

13 October, 2005

10. I know the difference between good radiation and bad radiation

It's quite important to know this, but it's a secret that many government agencies and shadowy organisations have tried to cover up over the years, so I'll whisper it really quietly.




THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE. IT'S JUST RADIATION, DUMBASS



Radiation isn't something that you can attach normative properties to. It's the same thing, regardless of whether it was spewed out by the sun four minutes ago, or oozing through a cracked shield on a Magnox.
(OK, there are differences between alpha and beta particles, and gamma rays, but there isn't a good kind of alpha particle and a bad kind too)
And the same goes for a lot of other stuff, no matter how you might like to believe otherwise. You can drown in 6 inches of Evian just as easily as six inches of dirty bathwater.

Now pay attention at the back. If you're going to start ranting about how bad irradiated food is, because of the radiation, then you clearly think there's this bad radiation out there. In point of fact, there isn't. Irradiating food to kill the bacteria is probably bad, but not of itself; it's more the trouble that when the kit's installed at the abbatoir or the meat warehouse or wherever, they probably get the YTS kid to put down his broom and operate it, rather than maintain the damn thing properly.