Posts by Gilbert Wham

@ Arif Rashid

Don't suppose you'd care to say *which* one, would you? Just so's we could be sure not to use them...

Pot kettle black

"Just to enlighten you, ad nauseum means something that has been continuing 'to the point of nausea'" Er, it's 'ad nauseam'...

Edumacashunal

"Even the average Yankee knows how ugly things get down there (even more with that recent Blood Diamond movie)" -Too funny.

Well...

...'What' and 'Where' are taken care of, Sinister Google Projects dept. already knows 'Who'; the question now is why?

'We all have same facts just different suppositions'(sic)

Yes, you may indeed have a different take on the matter. You're wrong though.

@ Graham Dawsom

"My point was that this limited scope compares very favourably with our own situation, meaning that it's a little hypocritical of us to criticise them without first criticising our own government for carrying on much wider reaching operations for a hell of a lot longer."

Yes, but the fact that our country's 'security' services do it to *us* doesn't make it any less bad that other countries' do it to *their* citizens does it?

The fact that we both have a bunch of nutjobs in charge of our respective nations who quite happily do deeply unpleasant things doesn't make it a case of 'pot, kettle, black' for anyone who says they don't like a particular group doing it(having a bunch of nutjobs in charge doesn't really differentiate you from anyone in particular though).

Moreover, it seems you are somewhat disgruntled by said state apparatus here in Englishland, so why take issue with someone sympathising with others in a similar predicament?

The world most definitely needs...

... More Zeppelins! There is nothing *nothing* Ii would like more than a huge, flying, Art Deco Gin Palace.

The problem is...

...that no matter how much whizz-bang technology DARPA et al invest in on behalf of their more active brethren, they will still end up being repulsed in their misadventures by a bunch of malnourished guerillas armed with not much more than Kalashnikovs, pointy sticks and an ardent dislike of the US.

Apropos these 'endorphin highs' of which exercise-deviates speak; when are they going to be synthesised and supplied to me in handy pre-packaged syrettes? Sounds like it would really shave off the rough edges of a monday morning. Especially as winter looms...

@ Deep Joy:

"Perhaps if my debit card emitted a tailored advertising jingle every time I paid for something...."

For fuck's sake, don't go giving them ideas...

The answer is...

Zeppelins! Bollocks to this airplane malarkey.

Thats all very well, but...

...the time to worry is when the aerial killbots organise *themselves*.

re the pentagon:"Actually, the five sides of the Pentagon has no relation to the number of services in the Department of Defense but was rather due to the shape of the original plot of land it would be located on"

Horse pucky. It is that shape in order to contain Nyarlothotep, as any fule kno.

Well,

It's always useful to have a landline so you can ring your own mobile when you inevitably misplace it...

nirvana...

"As for not getting a lawyer, could it be because he couldn't find one in his area who's unscrupulous enough to take the case?"

Then we should find out where he lives and all move there, as truly it is paradise itself...

@ Ralph B:

You'll just have to wait for the prequels. Which co-star a school janitor with an 'amusing' accent...

An Anagram of The Artist Formerly Known As Prince:

Is Foreskin Chewer Rants Importantly. That is all.

^^@ Ha Ha

Are you suggesting that NZ plod spend their time feeling sheep? Surely not...

As has been pointed out...

...there's bugger-all wrong with Ford engines. ESPECIALLY a 427 cammer. I dunno about the Porsche engine/VW analogy though, whilst it would increase response times, I am inclined to think control issues would rear their ugly heads...

Dude, wait. What?

"idea that landowners would be able to find holes in coverage, and thus charge operators extra where they knew an additional site was needed"

Sooooooo, identifying an area where what you have for sale is scarce and then pricing it accordingly is bad now is it? Well, for Tmobile, anyway. As I have less than a fiver on me, will I be able to use this same argument to obtain 2 lobsters and a bottle of wine on the way home, d'you think?

Oh, fo god's sake...

EVERY time this boondoggle is reported someone says 'well just put mirrors on it'. See above: won't work. Chances are, you wouldn't need any putative countermeasures beyond waiting for the bloody thing to fall out of the sky anyway. If it's ever capable of doing anything more than changing the channel on your TV that is. Possibly it will be ready in time to be mounted on a Moller flying car...

You could...

...see it as brand reinforcement. Presumably, after a couple of visits to pages full of annoying pop-ups and banner ads, you'd make damn sure you spelt the URL right. Anyway, it's better than phishing, which would probably be a more lucrative use of, say, barckays.com, or other fat-fingered mistakes.

Re Above

A state-funded JarJar Binks would have been more sensible than the Iraq caper, surely?

Hang on a minute...

... If, as has been pointed out above, TorrentSpy have no servers in the US, and no registered offices/staff etc., can they not just tell the US courts to fuck off?

upside-downternet

@ brian miller: which can, most likely, be rectified by pressing alt-up arrow.Bugs the shit out of your co-workers. Try it.

And...

...who, exactly, pays a moments notice to a wailing car alarm?

A Coconut Boost...

...is not as good as a Star Bar. Neither, for that matter, is a Peanut Boost.

Me either

Shame it seems to mainly sell nike tshirts and, strangely, rather a large quantity of cisco routers...

Dude, wait. What?

"Right, so what we do is sell everyone's details to double-glazing firms, then force them all to work a 60-hour week." For realz? This is not going to get them elected is it? Of course, it's marginally less insane than the ID card boondoggle, which would do pretty much the same thing, but it really isn't going to help, is it now?

Being as this is the council we're talking about...

...My bet is, that it will automatically shut ALL the machines off at noon, and power them up again at midnight. Except for weekends, when they will be on 48 hours straight. Except for the payroll dept., obviously...

Well, yes,

This happens to you IF, and only IF, you are daft enough to try and obtain a foreign bride over the internet...

The Fact...

...That someone further up this thread described fuming Dr Who fans as 'too cool for school' has to be the funniest thing I have read all day. Anyway, the Tate woman is a passing fad. The REAL problem is Tennant. Fuck, he is awful.

?Fascists?

Someone (or a corporation) choosing not to trade in a particular item anymore is not 'fascism' by any stretch. You are still (unfortunately) all still able to purchase these items through other channels, yes? Well, then.

Yes, But...

fanboys tend to be, well, boys.

Give It Time.

What's the betting that as soon as Stevie J feels he's in a position to freeze the big players out, iTunes becomes a label in its own right?

he says she says

Blame Apple. It'll make for far better flamebait than calling a bunch of market analysts names.

Why not?

Install Pelton wheels in all urinals? Hook 'em up to dynamos and away you go. You'd want to enclose them, of course. wouldn't want any backsplash.

How much would you pay?

NOT to have, say, Anne Widdecombe shake her mimsy at you?

How Difficult?

"Just how difficult is it to create a PGP'd "virtual" drive to store this data?"

Have you ever worked for the gummint? If so, have you ever tried to suggest anything remotely sensible to your superiors? "Why don't we do (n) instead of (x,y,z)? It would be easier and take half the time."

They look at you like you've got two heads.

Best. Excuse. Ever.

"whre is it? Errrrrrrr, iiiiits, on a spaceship! Yes, that's right, left it on the spaceship. Sorry, can't get it back now."

If only I could get away with using it...

re "Typically leftist with half (or less) of the facts..."

These would be the facts backed up with links above, as opposed to the 'facts' espoused in a mashup of an old movie on YouTube then.

So how do the researchers know that the individuals were guessing?

Presumably as it wasn't always the same people stating that they felt something when the transmitter happened to be on. Otherwise, there would have been a different result, no?

Can anyone say...

...birdstrike? Or, 'stupid, pointless boondoggle'?

Good Question

"after all, who elected Blair?"

Murdoch?

Well...

"US wants trucks mounted with frikkin' laser beams"

Don't we all?

Thus is bloody ludicrous

Isn't the bitrate on internet 'radio' streaming extremely low? Surely anyone with the savvy to use streamripping software is more likely to torrent their pirated mp3s at a higher bitrate? For god's sake, half the stuff on the public trackers is at least 192kbs. I only speak as a well-informed observer, obviously...

Reminds me of...

...the old military aphorism; 'Always remember, your weapon was made by the lowest bidder'. Applies everywhere else, too by the looks of it.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Rather alarming precedent to be set, no? If traffic can be blocked to stop Deadly Warez Piratez!!11one! or Teh Terroristz!!(o noes!), how far away are we from the Great Firewall of Europe? All to make sure we are safe of course.

Good work there!

Way to make your kid resent you! Top marks.