Posts by Graham Dawson

I was under the impression his most widely celebrated role was Regarding Henry.

Re: The current plan does not matter

France and Germany can hint until they're blue in the face. Article 50 is quite explicit about how it is to be invoked. The government invokes it. Not the people, not the legislature, but the government.

Re: "supersonic fighter" @Steve Davies 3

No, transonic is when airflow around different parts of the aircraft are above, at, or slightly below the speed of sound. The dive is irrelevant.

Re: EURO 2016

They should make the rockets out of unobtanium, which would mean they wouldn't need an fuel at all to get airborne.

Re: "preventing free speech and internet security"

Another who confuses the us first amendment, protecting free speech from restriction by the state, with the natural right to free speech.

Re: Let the Bidding begin!

I have a button.

And the wobbly stack, too. Needs more struts.

Re: Try harder.

... it raises their reputation by comparing them to skiddies?

Re: Makes sense

Maybe he read about the leidenfrost effect and misunderstood the applications.

Re: Speed...

They use glue in a lot of cases these days, especially for keyhole surgery. My appendix scar is so light I often have trouble finding it.

Re: Missing DevOps

The wife told me once of a particular publication of a book, in Germany, that garnered some criticism as, around a third of the way through, our heroes sat down for a delicious meal of branded, canned soup.

The book was Sourcery, by Terry Pratchett.

With that in mind, I'd say that the practice of inserting adverts into unrelated text at arbitrary points has a worrying weight of precedent.

@redpawn Re: If cycling power doesn't work...

Technically they already did that, it's just that they dropped it in such a way that it missed.

@BurnT'offering Re: Says i don't want to bother shaving

There is this amazing new device called a "shower".

Re: Bunch of tosspots

I have already encountered people unironically describing themselves as "devout" pastafarians. People are starting to treat it as a legitimate set of beliefs and a religion, which I find amusing as all hell because they're exactly the sort of uncritical crowd-followers that the whole thing was originally created to mock.

Re: Apologies in advance to all Christians......

Not parasitism; the new roman coverts to Christianity retained their old holy days and customs for convenience, which is why there is a clear descent of the Pope (pontifex maximus, the civil administrator of the combined roman cults, was a title often held by the emperor), holy days such as saturnalia/Christmas, and the whole ecclesiastical hierarchy from the religious institutions of imperial Rome. Given those customs broadly match all across Europe it isn't surprising that local cultures would adopt a similar syncretism.

Re: Might be but...

Russia and Sweden do have a historically adversarial relationship, probably dating back to the days when Sweden held most of the Baltic coast. The Swedes developed a healthy paranoia about Russian designs on the scandinavian peninsula during the cold war and are still convinced that there are Russian submarines lurking off the coast, just waiting for the right moment to sink Stockholm and nuke Dalarna. The Russians, meanwhile, have long memories and are undoubtedly holding a grudge about the Swedish assault on st Petersburg.

Re: What Does That Leave?

BES and their secure communications suite.

Re: The plans are going to sound crazy

"His novel Transitions is sometimes M. Banks, sometimes plain Banks depending on where it was published."

that is oddly beautiful.

Re: fingers crossed

Is it me, or is the Reg once again neglecting to mention SpaceX's successful land, er, landing?

Re: $1.3 billion turnover but a loss of milions

Wow.

Re: Use quantum physics language for photons ...

That's because they aren't studying uses of polarisation, but using a polarised beam to study orbital angular momentum, which is not dependent on polarisation.

Nah, it'll be more like this.

Re: @John Brown - Scotland not only gaining independence...

It creates a precedent for the dismantlement of sovereign unions. If the UK leaves the EU, it's a lot harder for the government of the day to then turn around and say "but Scotland should stay in our union!" without some people perceiving their actions as hypocrisy.

Personally I'd argue quite strongly for Scotland to remain within an independent the UK, but I see no reason why they shouldn't be given another chance to vote on the matter at that point. At the very least there needs to be a fundamental reconsideration of how the UK is governed.

Re: All objections have been reviewed...

So, to clarify: you ignore everything that proves your assertions wrong, repeatedly declare your initial claim as if it were truth, and then wait for everyone to get bored and go home whereupon you declare yourself the winner.

Have you ever considered a career in politics?

Re: Which one is it?

Zip-ties on their limbs, duct-tape on the mouths to keep them quiet.

Not that I've spent any time thinking about things like this...

Re: @ A Ghost

TVL's own page clarifies it quite nicely.

"If you own or possess a television set without installing or using it as a TV receiver (e.g. you only use it to watch videos or DVDs, or as a monitor for a games console) then you don’t need a TV Licence."

Re: win32? in 2016? really???

It's amazing how you can manage to be more and more wrong with every sentence you write.

Re: Personally...

Bring back Gopher.

The protocol applies to lasers designed specifically as blinding weapons. These are laser pointers, not weapons; it's the same distinction as between a kitchen knife and a bayonet, or a nailgun and a pistol. Both can be used to cause harm but only one of each of the examples is designed for that purpose. The protocol doesn't apply to lasers which are designed to act as pointing devices. The wiki page even points out a number of military exceptions to the protocol.

Re: So basically, then ...

It's jake, what did you expect?

Re: News angle?

I think the conclusion to be drawn from this is that all computers are a bit site.

Re: Ruptured oxygen cylinders

"That's still small beer compared with a few litres of liquid oxygen. Want to see steel burn to white hot rust? Want to see diamonds on fire beneath the surface?"

And when the insurance claims start piling in, all these memories will be lost, like tears in rain.

Re: Looks as though it requires a high-wing aircraft configuration.

Perhaps if they had said "large passenger jets". Military cargo planes favour high wings for structural reasons - a high-wing craft can have a larger internal bay - and to mitigate the possibility of their engines ingesting a large portion of the landing strip at makeshift airfields.

Re: I think they meant

More reasons to shop at morrisons, I guess...