Posts by Chris G

Re: Hazarding a guess here

I had friends based on Upper Heyford and Mildenhall in the '80s, a few like my friends would mix with the locals but many never left the base and would have cheerfully removed the locals to a much greater distance.

Xenophobia seems to be a national trait

Re: I was born in Islington

The best thing about Islington is, it's over 1300 Km from me.

When I lived in South London, I used to have to go up through Islington regularly, as far as I know some of the potholes had been in the roads since the sixties and are likely still there.

Re: Why is it...

I think you'll find all of those toys are in crates and boxes in the garages of boot fair sellers, along with the plastic troll things and McDoodoo's kids meal toys.

Re: What happens in the boonies

At one time I had over 80 birds, including Buff Orpingtons and Wyandottes, they produced fantastic eggs but most people seemed to prefer to buy anaemic eggs from the supermarket instead of my fresh free-range eggs.

In the end I did a deal with the shop.in the village run by a Sikh family, they had a key, collected the eggs and sold them then gave me credit against my groceries and beer.

Townies are weird.

Re: This will be fun to watch...

Generally in order to be considered treasonous one must have committed an act against a country, monarch, organisation or person to whom they owe allegiance.

Since Assange is not an American citizen he can't by the usual definition of the word be charged with treason against the US,unless at some stage he has sworn allegiance to it.

Re: government spooks

Do the part timers get paid the same as the TA? If so that would explain a lot about failure to recruit enough people.

@ David Shaw

Your 5 star general was clearly a master of the deadly art of Llap Goch, the perfect art for jeremies to study.

Penny Mordor is a lot scarier than Jeremy, she believes everything she says, even when kt is self contradictory rubbish.

I can't find it at the moment but I will look for the article I read and post a link later if I find it.

Edit; look for ' Google tracks offline purchasing, at Business Insider'

Re: Fox in the Hen House

Medical monitoring is for when you are in hospital, a panic button round your neck would be better in the house than a surveillance system for the insurance company's benefit.

Either way, ambulances increasingly fail to get to emergencies in time and the insurance don't want you to reach the hospital anyway.

Re: International law plays no role, US Imperial law is all that matters in this fracas

America considers itself exceptional, Trump considers himself more exceptional so he can do things thst are huugely exceptional.

Re: LOL

I assume you have relatives in Ankh Morpork?

Re: UK Space Agency cracks open its wallet...

One would think the wallet cracking would be aimed at the Sabre project to support it more and to keep it in house. The latest tests were done in the states and I am sure the test data will have been recorded, copied and perused for subsequent use.

It's not as if the UK gov' won't spend money, just not on really useful things.

Re: The only surprise is...

It's not only the yanks, most mining companies from all over the world including civilised Canada and French Nestle have appalling track records for low or no morality and ethics.

One good example would be Union Carbide at Bhopal in India, now Dow owns the problem and over thirty years on still refuses to clean the site which is still incredibly toxic, although money was paid, most of it never reached the victims.

To complete the circuit we need to implant a positive terminal in the skull, the negative will be inserted,.........

Re: Brain Dead Trump Forgets . . .

There are sources of rare earths in Afghanistan but the CIA are too busy growing opium there to develop mining.

There efforts being made to develop alternative sources closer to home but it's a slow business with environmental concerns.

Re: This article....

Enough with the tortured puns already!

Beehive for a bit.

Re: You know who else isn't acting in Americas best interest?

I would be very interested in an explanation and description of what the jaffa had done for Putin lately.

Is thid action against Huawei going to significantly increase Russia's world smart phone sales?

Trump has had two years to begin paying back for his election support from Russia and from where I sit he appears to be an ungrateful sod.

Whether or not you like either one of them, it doesn't look like they're buddies so give it a rest on that one.

My opinion is Trump got in because some of the movers and groovers could see someone they could manipulate to improve their fortunes.

Arguably, Hilary gavehim the most help simply by being so toxic.

Re: Geostationary?

This launch was one of a total of 35, so I guess it's global.

As I said in a conversation yesterday, making a note of sho buys what immediately after one of Trump's spats could be very informative, a bit of insider trading based on his 'political' decisions must be hard to resist for some.

Re: Grit

Never seen the film, not even sure I have heard of it.

I did know however that one or two 'nauts had been test pilots.