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Big Bertha Thing balloon
Big Bertha Thing balloon
Cosmic Ray Series Possible Real World System Constructs http://www.bigberthathing.com/balloon.html 7K Web Page Astrophysics net ring access site Newsgroup Reviews including sci.optics The "Monstre" Balloon From the book The Ingoldsby Legends by the Rev. Richard H. Barham Published by Richard Edward King, 88 Curtain Road, London E.C. Inscribed;- Barbara Death From Aunt Emma March 6th 1921 (C) Copyright Tony Lance 1999 Distribute complete and free of charge to comply. Big Bertha Thing welfare 29th April 1999 Operations Manager, The Benefits Agency, Dear Sirs, Further to your letter of 28th April 1999, regarding a list of questions, on the possibility of my working at all. I will attempt to answer your questions, in order as listed in your letter. 1.I am not working, I am just pottering arround on the internet. I last registered for course work with the Open University in 1997. This would have involved 6 hours work per week. I could only manage half-an-hour per day, so totally failed to do the work or complete the course. Not even one homework assignment was completed. In August 1997, I bought a second hand computer for 150 pounds sterling, and was given free access to the Open University computer along local telephone lines at a call charge of 1p per minute. Since that time, I managed to build up a body of correspondence, within the limits of half-an-hour per day mental or physical work. In January 1999, this correspondence was transfered by me to my web site; www.bertha.ndirect.co.uk(since disabled.) I have to pay 14 pounds and 9p per month for this site. 2.Nobody suggested it, it just happened. 3.My doctor does not know that I have a web site. 4.See answer 1 for description of my activities. No job is being done, so no job description exists. 5.No employer exists or payments have been recieved. 6.I can think straight for half-an-hour per day. The rest of the time is spent pottering arround. I can do one side of A4 paper of mathematics or computer work per day. 7.On any day free of a major shopping expedition, I can do half-an-hour of original work and about an hour of copy typing at non-typist speeds. 8.My principle interest is a 50 year scientific project, which was started 30 years ago. If I could spend 48 hours per week doing it I would. However half-an-hour work and an hour pottering, seems to be all I can manage and at that not every day of the week. Due to my condition, I asked Mrs. Pam S...., a fellow Open University student to be the project archivist for my work on the Open University computer. She agreed and kept the archive of the correspondence which is now on my web site. This is both an unusual request and an unusually generous service to a fellow student on incapacity benefit. 9.Zero income for as far as the eye can see. 10.Not applicable, zero wages or income. 11.August 1997 and is ongoing. I trust that the above will put the internet feeding frenzy of the newspaper hype into some perspective. Tony Lance +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From: Tony Lance Newsgroups: swnet.sci.astro,sci.space.policy Subject: Big Bertha Thing redoubt Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 18:37:41 +0100 Big Bertha Thing liberty Milton (1644) from The Liberty of Unlicensed Printing What should ye do then, should ye suppress all this flowery crop of knowledge and new light sprung up and yet springing daily in this city? Should ye set an oligarchy of twenty engrossers over it, to bring a famine upon our minds again, when we shall know nothing but what is measured to us by their bushell? Believe it, Lords and Commons! they who counsel you to such a suppression, do as good as bid ye suppress yourselves; and I will soon show how. If it be desired to know the immediate cause of all this free writing and free speaking, there cannot be assigned a truer than your own mild, and free, and humane government: it is the liberty, Lords and Commons, which your own valorous and happy counsels have purchased us; liberty, which is the nurse of all great wits; this is that which hath rarified and enlightened our spirits like the influence of heaven; this is that which hath enfranchised, enlarged, and lifted up our apprehensions degrees above themselves. Ye cannot make us now less capable, less knowing, less eagerly pursuing of the truth, unless ye first make yourselves, that made us so, less the lovers, less the founders of our true liberty. We can grow ignorant again, brutish, formal, slavish, as ye found us; but you then must first become that which ye cannot be, oppressive, arbitrary, and tyrannous, as they were from whom ye have freed us. That our hearts are now more capacious, our thoughts more erected to the search and expectations of greatest and exactest things, is the issue of your own virtue propagated in us; ye cannot suppress that, unless ye reinforce an abrogated and merciless law, that fathers may despatch at will their own children. And who shall then stick closest to ye, and excite others? not he who takes up arms for coat and conduct, and his four nobles of Danegeld. Although I dispraise not the defence of just immunities, yet love my peace better, if that were all. Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely, according to conscience, above all liberties. |
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