Posts by I. Aproveofitspendingonspecificprojects

Re: Sounds a bit desperate?

I just looked up a 40 watt system:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsNsM4HDx-c

The one I was thinking about from a previous search a few months ago was about the size of a very large hand torch. And far more powerful.

It wouldn't take much ingenuity to rig one of these things up in a van or a car boot, firing it through a hole or a car lamp. Since that is what a some snipers are or were already doing in Iraq and Afghanistan, just using ordinary rifles, I wonder why there are only 11 a day being used successfully. And only on aircraft.

Or you could spend several hours on the phone to Rupert Murder at premium rates to get a free Sky thing. I forget what it was. Couldn't have been a free view thingummy could it??

Ah the good old days. How I remember them I can't tell.

(Someone remind me.)

Learning these days

"To school kids these days, learning means copying and pasting from Wikipedia."

Which makes learning these days just like learning in the good old days except that few people would ever find out where people like JR Oppenheimer really came from in the good old days. Or ever get a chance to cross reference anyone's list of immigrants. And I mean EVER.

If you grew up in the McCarthy era, everything was in black and white, just like TV. Everything you learned would be right except your spelling.

Trouble with the curve

What are El Reg arsessments of curvarseture?

(Why don't we have any Clint icons?)

They have got money to burn.

Don't you know anything?

Re: Wrong analogy

Ah well at least we don't have to wory about all the civilian drones prolifigating these days. What we think we have to lose is already gorn.

One hundred grand?

Sounds to me like you are dyed in the wool bloody sheep staying there @ £75,000 per year rent plus utilities amounting to a total of more than £100,000 per year..

What you should do is use one year's rent to buy 100 acres of farmland adjacent a motorway junction/theme park; get the theme park to cough up the cost of moving you and invite hoards of RPG fans to come and help you rebuild.

I'm sure tea and buns along with the chance of playing Enigma 2 weeks a year would get you a full calendar of paying guests eager to build you a right home from home.

I'm pretty sure we could win this war if you pulled your fingers out.

We almost won the last one.

Just don't let any fat drunken midgets give half of Europe to the Russians this time.

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"Personally, I'd rather suck shit through an oily rag than give that bunch of tossers a penny"

It isn't the bunch that are tossers, just an evil cadre. What you might do rather than suck shit is hold a beltacnutinnagobweek bus party and go somewhere useful to stage the games.

I get the impression some of the "bunch" might join in.

But you forgot to add

"So it's pretty much like the USAF's definition of surgical strike or collateral damage" with a liberal penchant for friendly fire.

LOL

When the Mounties conspired with the USSS to kidnap a Canadian Ambassador?

You canuck be serious, eh?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Watkins_%28Canadian_diplomat%29

Not true

"Every tax payer should have access to *any and all* research which is even partially funded by the tax payer or any public body (such as an organisation claiming charitable status)."

...doesn't go far enough. Publically funded products should be free to all funders. This includes charts and other services. Which would kick the Thatcher out of a lot of agencies damaged by her grasping little clause.

The rest of your post is silly, unless you intend to have restitution made for the land grab that was Thatcherism. Best of luck with that.

Damned Americana

I used to think I was alone in this use of the term. "Data is" sounds so much more natural than "data are".

Since common usage can make a term accepted, I don't see why uncommon usage can't. So if enough advocates persist in whatever, it makes it English and should prevent all the spoilt liitle unEnglish gits getting upset and very unEnglish about things.

"It can detect speeding. Average speed cameras do exist that record number plates and the time taken to get from one camera to another. This claim could be true."

Knowing the time it takes to get from A to B wouldn't make it a clear breach of the law without some other levels of proof added.

So that means..

No money in it then no money in it now?

Print coma to suit.

I'm OK

My doctor uses Windows so I can rely on being able to access it all without too much difficulty.

Well you Can ave r al!

They own the bridge and most of the road

What is the definition of a troll?

I believe it is a myth about creatures that live underbridges and either eat passers by or charge them for allowng them to use said bridge. And a search engine being a bridge...

Not that I have any objections to any of it.

It all seems to be toddling along nicely as far as I can see.

WTF?

"It is worth noting that just as society as moved on from the gallows and now considers such methods barbaric and uncivilized."

The reason that we no longer have a death penalty is that we no longer trust the police or the legal system. As for barbaric and uncivilised, I think killing certain types of people would be a boon to civilisations everywhere.

Did we have a free vote on whether or not we keep the death penalty?

I think I might have remembered a referendum on that. We had it decided for us by people that some on here besides myself, hold in very low regard.

I am sorry the man jumped. It was described as a fall but by the sound of the comments and the fact it is getting a low level of constabulation, the plod are not suspicious. I'm sorry anyone is so upset they feel "down" never mind act on the feeling. It is sad but you can't ever tell when people are suicidal until they are suicidal. Them's the breaks.

It is a high pressure world and getting worse.

What Sony they did 10 years ago bizarre bubble.

The problem is that as with the BBC fiasco and various other large corporation failures; once a big enough company fails, it fails in every direction immediately. It's something like a gravity wave, it is not linear and it not snippable. It either gets worse or it gets taken over by a larger concern that just wants to strip it of the one or two assets not burned by the previous owners.

I can't recall (off-hand) any ever getting back on its feet. (Of course, there must be some.) I believe it's because of the way capitalism works. It would take an essay to describe the processes and each different type of company would have its own method of decay, a mixture of market forces, returned investment and falling demand.

So... errrmmm....

Is it a museum for sheep farts?

Or what?

If it ain't Apple would he bother?

Maybe someone from Apple might take it over so they could grab anything not copyright. Writing on valves or some such?

Wrinkly enamel paint?

Got it:

Cobwebs for debugging.

I'm pretty sure that hasn't ever been copyright

So how in heaven's name can they spend £100 million?

Have you never heard of the Dr Who Screen Of Death?

RTFAs. They have this yellow screen painted into the scenery so that everyone is familiar with the backdrop; then, when it is alright on the night, they will all be pleased as punch.

Or if it all goes tit's up, they just fire the scriptwriters/think it is supposed to look like that.

Re: "advertisers feel their reputation is in danger"

I think I prefer to be annoyed by politicians on you tube than the advertisers there. But I can see the point you are trying to make. Both are a collossal waste of time and energy.

a "Tony Blair" note

But we are getting a Winston Churchill one. He was Hitler's greatest general until the USA stepped in and put a stop to it.

Then he gave Eastern Europe to Stalin instead of insisting the Russians removed him before negotiating with them.

Then he rewrote history giving himself the smiley face and finally pulling the chain on the Generals he shit.

Then he gets to be the famous war hero lauded in every civilised country and America.

Then he gets to be on a bank note.

Then uh... where was I?

Oh Tony Blair... yes... errr.

Worrabourim?

Great war leader yes. No crimes against humanity trial has ever proved different.

Deserved every bit of troll abuse he got.

What's his address?

Re: Priorities

"14 million is the average wealth of a US senator, so there's one solution right there"

You mean bump one off?

Why not more?

We have a bout 300 odd MPs we could throw in if you wanted spare change.

Re: Mass Surveillance... the difficult bit.

elected representatives of the people should be held responsible for protecting the privacy of the people.

I can't help feeling it is all smoke and mirrors to detract from the fact they already had all the information they needed to prevent or attempt to prevent the attack on the twin towers. It's a very elaborate plan, gone downhill in a slippery handbasket due the weight of the fools onboard increasing exponentially.

Nobody got done for the ineffective use of information prior to the attack and nobody got done any more seriously after the attack on Pearl Harbour than Lieutenant Kermit A. Tyler who told the radar operators who warned of the imminent attack not to worry about it. (He ended the war a lieutenant

a lieutenant colonel .)

Re: BSA statistics

Noby ha many fair tial.