The Waspsnest

A new idea from Greece – the negative salary where you pay to have a job.

Wasp — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:51:46 +0000

The details of the EU driven raping of Greece to save the European banks reveal some interesting consequences as in this from ZeroHedge :

Salary cutbacks (called “unified payroll”) for contract workers at the public sector set to be finalized today. Cuts to be valid retroactively since november 2011. Expected result: Up to 64.000 people will work without salary this month, or even be asked to return money. Amongst them 21.000 teachers, 13.000 municipal employees and 30.000 civil servants.

Don’t you just love governments who resort to retrospective legislation?

Nothing like that could happen here surely?

Well, the UK already has a track record in changing the law after the event – it just hasn’t been used on a wide scale … yet …

People power in one picture.

Wasp — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:16:43 +0000

A very simple idea which the masses ought to wake up to … if only they could drag themselves away from the TV for a minute or two …

Thanks to Rego!

“Police investigating innapropriate comments” … it’s enough to make you weep …

Wasp — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 05:17:26 +0000

I really do wonder what the hell this country is turning into sometimes …

“Inappropriate comments” left on a Facebook tribute site for dead a Norfolk teenager are being investigated by police.
Maisie Baxter, 13, was found dead at her home in Trowse, near Norwich, at about 17:50 GMT on Saturday.
Norfolk Police are looking into comments left on a page in memory of the teenager, after they received several complaints from the public.
There are not thought to be suspicious circumstances surrounding her death.
A spokeswoman for Norfolk Police said officers from the force’s Vulnerable People Directorate were looking to take action under the Communications Act if appropriate.
“Officers remind social media users that this tribute page was set up in memory and any language or pictures which are not in keeping with this aim may cause offence and upset to the victim’s family and friends,” she said.

I wonder if the terms “privacy settings” and “restrict comments to friends” were even mentioned to the complainers who, incidentally, were not even members of the family in the first place (they seem to have actually amended the settings now after the horse is halfway up the paddock).

And, what the hell is a “vulnerable people directorate”?

Anyway, we then get this shite :

Editors urged to help tackle online hate crime
News websites will be asked to do more to address potential hate crime, as part of plans for a more “integrated” English society.
The government’s strategy says a more integrated society is central to tackling extremism.
It wants to promote “core values” but favours helping local groups to take the lead over government intervention.
But the Runnymede Trust race equality think tank said it was an “ill-advised reversion to assimilationist policy”.
Among its plans to tackle extremism and intolerance, the Department for Communities and Local Government says it will improve its understanding “of the new threat of online hate crime”.

I naively thought that a lot of this bollocks would get brushed away when Labour got the boot but we seem to just get layer upon layer regardless of who is in power.

Imperial March like you never heard it before – this is utterly amazing …

Wasp — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:23:50 +0000

Take one Faraday cage jumpsuit and a few million volt, modulated Tesla Coil and you get this downright awesome rendition of Imperial March – the sound here is all from the spark modulation :
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Damn … I really need to look into the larger versions as that looks like damned good fun – makes my own half million volt version look puny (and yes I did make one once and got a raging ozone headache the first time I had it working).

You can read more about this amazing machine and their live performances here.

Here is a clip from a live Tesla coil show with House of the Rising Sun – melody on the dual Tesla coils and somewhat cheesy backing track but still damned impressive :
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Finally, a clip from Eindhoven University with their Tesla coil providing the guitar part of Metallica’s Fade to Black :
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HUGE hat tip to Liisa in Estonia for the first video link