Posts by Chris G

Re: Earl grey or english breakfast?

My wife does a fair job of sealing our drains with cold oil from the frying pan liberally mixed with coffee grounds, though less so since my last 'foaming at the mouth' admonition.

Re: Gun control?

"Make the ammo expensive and accountable"

You mean like having a pandemic so all the SHTF crazies buy up all the common calbres (much of it online so accountable to a point). Many of those crazies seem to be showing up at a lot of demos, I am amazed that all that firepower hasn't gone loonytoons yet.

Still, it's not over yet.....

Re: "Our failure was not for lack of trying"

Exactly what I came here t say.

A serious lack of market research, and pre-planning.

I wonder if they had thought of using a business plan?

Let's just hope she doesn't buy her way into the White House next, another failed business person would be too much.

Re: Conspiracies you say?

Biosafety.

If it does bring anything back, hopefully it will have similar qualities to the stuff in Evolution, the planet could do with some evolving.

Oddly , Play that funky music was on my radio stream yesterday.

Re: El Reg becoming political now ?

I think it rates as very newsworthy for a tech publication to report on the failed promises from a world class tech company and the POTUS, to construct a huge bigly factory, gain billions in potential subsidies and then not only fail to deliver but keep making promises that are clearly never going to happen.

You may be unhappy about the reporting, think hiw unhappy those in Wisconsin are.

Re: Pardon the silly question...

Bare tools are fine for DIYers but pro's often have several tools on the go at any one time so end up needing to buy extra batteries at a premium price and then find they need to buy extra chargers. Bare tools professionally is a marketing ploy. One make at least, does sell a charger for several batteries at once though.

@osakajin

The trouble is the dividing line between government and megacorps is almost invisible now.

Between lobbying and interdependence via contracts and essential services that gov's now depend on to function, the mega corps have a huge influence on how government works and seemingly a fair amount of say.

Re: become like Australia

A mostly parched, empty desert?

At least Australia has vast natural resources and good barby weather (most of the time).

Perhaps Boris would like to import some Oz wildlife to keep as pets at No 10?

Re: Alternate reality

In the village in North Kent where I used to keep my horses, a lovely old housein the village was bought by a green welly type. Within a year he was complaining about the neighbouring farm that in one form or another had been there for centuries.

It went to court where the Welly merchant had more money and possibly friends, the court rulings made it impossible to operate the farm profitably so my mate went out of business abd sold up. Nobody in the village woukd speak to the green welly arsehole andvthe pybs wouldn't serve him, so after fecking up the livelihood of a family and upsetting a whole village, the idiot sold up qnd left.

I wush himband his snotty family nothing but ill luck and dreams of savage cockerels.

Re: I am disapoint

From the looks of things, the 'Lego™' launch tower is only a proof of concept going by the building materials and wheel barrows in the garden.

I wonder how you go about the application for planning permission for a Saturn V launch tower?

So based on what I gleaned from the video, the NHS is fragmented into so many different body, organisations and systems, that there are probably 20-30 managers, administrative and support staff for every doctor and nurse or qualified medical practitioner.

It looks as though the whole thing needs to be nuked from above and started from scratch. Of course that would not be too good for anyone who is currently unwell.

A clusterfuck wrapped in a disaster falling down a money hole!

Re: Two Ways

India is talking about self sufficiency not stupidity, no one country has the resources to be totally inward looking. Even the US had to buy titanium from the Soviet Union during the cold war to build it's SR71s.

The Legal languages of India are Hindi and English, most official documents and reports from parliament are printed in those two languages as are the majority of research papers, the High Court uses legal English.

The three top languages in India are only spoken by about a third of the population, the rest speak their own regional/ethnic languages and often one or more others so the government is unlikely to alienate a significant portion of it's population.

Re: The WHOLE council?

Probably don't want to pay much for a decent infoerc guy or even advice because it's not something shiny to show off.

This sounds as though it could just as easily be an in house faux pas as an attack.

Re: Sexually offensive...

'Allo darlin' would you like to see my alliums?

Re: No, they don't.

So these companies will regard the end of the pandemic as bad for business.

Does that mean they will push the anti-vaxxer narrative or will they look for other ways to encourage us all to continue social distancing.

Even if the vaccines don't work, the pandemic is not going to last forever.

I don't relish a world run by a few online companies like Amazon, FB, Uber and Sainsbury's online, none of them are particularly sociable and the more of a monopoly they are, the less sociable they become

Re: FSM?

Forsooth, 'tis a testament to the all encompassing power of his Noodly Holiness!

All bow to the Great Cosmic Pasta!

Re: Those raising issue at the outrage.

@Shadow Systems

My eyesight is good for my age and I can't see anything remotely NSFW unless a pic if a ballerina putting a shoe on is now considered risque.

Mind you, I can't see what any of the fuss is about either, my impression is that ad implies that anyone no matter what their current work is, can consider retraining to work in IT.

I don't get the Faux Outrage™, or the outrage about the faux outrage, I guess it's a quiet day with not enough to be angry about.

All this getting angry over nothing makes me angry!

Re: "a viable digital fiat currency"

" All those who want to re-introduce gold based monetary values."

That would include a lot of governments who are buying gold or repatriating their gold from other countries, though the UK doesn't have much since Brown sold most of it off at knock down prices for no real gain.

Re: Commuting

Just wait for some boss or beancounter who wants to reduce your pay based on less travelling time because ' that was a consideration' in calculating your pay and now you are at home.

The other thing that came up in a conversation recently, was a friend whose bosses are paranoid about staff proving that they working the hours they say rather than, I don't know, watching the Telly tubbies with the kids or something.

How long before a boss wants video surveillance in your home work space, or a tracking anklet?

WFH will not ultimately be any more or less of a blessing than going in to work, everything boils down to the beancounter's First law of acquisition, maximising profit.

Re: Unions

Umm, the 3 day week and the brown outs were an attempt by the government to deal with the oil crisis at the time and was not brought about by union actions, though they were screwing up plenty of other things at the time.

I still have the petrol coupons we were issued as a small business.

Re: Cellmate

I meant both but couldn't think of a clever way to write it succinctly.

Penal incarceration implies a fairly different type of cellmate that I have no wish to enter.

Re: Toy inside?

I think that was Kinder eggs that were banned; Cadbury's creme eggs are creme all the way through, although including a toy in that would certainly be a choking hazard.

Re: Using Siri to interact with 3rd party apps

I have Google assistant disabled along with a fair number of other googly items so the the only home my phones can call to is mine.

Re: It's Always....

I bet there are more than a few cleaners who learn enough in the wee hours while cleaning, to blackmail their way from the lad in the post room, all the way up to the CEO.

In fact, I wonder how many CEOs started out as cleaners?

Re: "Fake story about a colony of humans living trapped underneath elevators"

Underneath elevators; mostly grease, crisp packets, coffee containers, fag ends, fag packets and even condoms and assorted dead vermin, I would prefer to live under a few other things before opting for an elevator.

A mate of mine was a lift engineer in the city a few years back.

I bet that decision has reduced his life insurance premium.

I wonder if Boeing have considered using rocket science?

Re: C'mon Zuck!

It looks as though Zuck wants the site to 'Sleep with the phishers'.

Re: This feels proportionate

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism is running a campaign in the UK looking into similar cases, some far worse for the victim with little or penalty for the perpetrator. Often they are let off without so much as a caution.

Re: Send the politicians first

Only to planets that need serious terraforming, they can form committees and discussion groups for as long as they like while the rest of us go to the good planets that have usable biospheres and no fecked up politics.