Posts by Cardinal

Re: Responsibility

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"Like the OP points out, there needs to be some consequences for carelessness".

Ditto for poor spelling, especially where the error is as clear as the noose on your face :-)

@whoseyourdaddy

Reminds me of an American Civil War quote from "The People's Almanac" - True Last Words Section - many years ago.

A Union General leaped onto the trench parapet and walked up and down exhorting his men to yet greater efforts.

"General Sir", called his adjutant - "please get down - the enemy are firing at you!"

"Firing at me are they - Well damn them, let them fire - They couldn't hit a barn door from th___"

"Virus be d.....??? perhaps?

People still use cheques in the 21st century?

Of course - viz 'cheques and balances'.

@Pangasinan Philippines

I saw a TV programme in the UK fairly recently (pre-corona) which followed the actions of a police anti-drug squad in the poorer areas of one or two Philippine cities, though I can't now remember which cities. Might have been just about a particular police chief. What I DID notice however was how very crowded, and with many narrow lanes and alleys, some of those poorer neighbourhoods were.

Strikes me now that if this virus gets loose in those areas, then control of it is going to be VERY difficult indeed.

It presumably will help in times like this that you currently have a President like Duterte with a strong authoritarian bias.

Clouds and silver linings? - Depending on your politics perhaps.

p.s. Must be nice to have full fibre internet - I only have access to full fibre branflakes alas.

Re: Oh, great

I believe FOI is shorthand for 'AFOID answering'.

Re: How do we combat this?

@Hairy Scary

"Mr Farmer, who is registered blind and has suffered two strokes, said he had thought he was being attacked by thugs."

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Well of course LOTS of crims put on shades and tap their way along the street using a white painted samurai sword.

Easy mistake to make ...innit...

Could have been right about the thugs though....

Re: That's not unreasonable

Well, you could have an evildoers launch getting pretty close to a loaded tanker, in, for example, the Straits of Hormuz. Lots of places around the world where sea room is rather confined and traffic is heavy, including the English Channel, the Bosphorus, Suez and Panama Canals, not to mention navigable rivers like the Elbe, Weser, Rhine, Mississippi etc.

How about a drone?

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Re: Plane quarantine

I remember back in the day, that prior to landing in Oz (or before disembarking), stewardesses holding an aerosol can in each hand would march down the plane aisles from fore to aft spraying above the heads of the seated passengers. Can't remember why (probably to protect agriculture), but wonder if there may be something similar planned for possible Corona laden cabin air before the doors are opened?

You definitely felt like a pretty unwelcome plague carrier anyway as the clouds of whateveritwas fell silently upon you as you tried to hold your breath.

Re: Weinberg’s Law applies

"it seems that the end of the world is neigh."

So THAT'S why all the long faces eh?

Re: Forced Entry? Break-In?

@Psmo

"a locked door that just needed a jiggle to bypass"

Is that you Raffles?

T.I.T. Security

But if you store your gold-pressed latinum (data) in Credit Suisse (or similar bank vaults) rather than, e.g. 'T.I.T. Security' (Trotter's Independent Traders), then you can surely, and legally, expect that your bars of latinum are indeed being stored in their very highly secure vault system, rather than being passed to Del-Boy Trotter and stored under a carpet in his garden shed?

That is obviously why you go to Credit Suisse in the first place.

You place it with them due to their name, and under the natural (and implied) assumption that THEY will physically store it.

You don't expect, or require, that they have to list all of the myriad places where they will NOT store your latinum/data.

@mark l 2

"Give it a visual and smell check first to see if there is any signs of it going bad."

And they try to tell you that colds aren't fatal eh?

Re: My voice is my passport

Yesh, thish shertainly ish the real Jamesh Bond shpeaking Mish Moneypenny! Are you taking the pish?

Re: Abort Abort Abort!

@silks

Lets just leave Brexit out of it eh?

Re: No problem

(Has Bob changed his name or are there two shouty idiots on here?)

The style does seem familiar doesn't it?

Re: When will this hit Apple?

@Shooter

Sweet!

@Alister

"Some of us, however, have a more balanced view."

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About Assange? - On these pages?

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You forgot the 'Joke' icon.

Re: Comments from the Author

@Pascal Monett

"Any idea what the accuracy is at an altitude of 50 meters over a packed football stadium ?"

I think the authorities would probably drop the drone idea when the winning Cup Final goal was scored in the last minute of extra time - and the hovering armed drone slaughtered the whole crowd .

@Chris G

"Pai must be getting a good slice of corporate pie when he finishes his current job."

Pai-As-You-Go?