Posts by Jason Bloomberg

Re: 500,000lb

500,000 packets of sugar means nothing to me.

Thinking of it as carrying 25,000 Tesco carrier bags with ten 1kg packs of sugar in each may help.

The one with the long receipt hanging out the pocket ->

Re: Well at least

Same thing for me every time. It's like they think you are planning a shoplift rather than browsing or working out if it's worth paying for. It doesn't help when having asked if they can help they don't have a clue when asked about something.

Re: Fag packet calculation time...

more and more people are charging at home using energy they have produced themselves.

That may be true but it's still only a small minority. I'm not against solar power but I live in an old house which doesn't have the roof timbers to support solar panels without a lot of expense, and if fitted would face the wrong way.

I don't have a driveway or garage so can't get a cable to a vehicle. I'm not even guaranteed a parking space outside my house. Many people live in flats, apartments, tower blocks, often with no close parking, so have it even worse than I do.

And when the inevitable happens, one forgets to charge or thought there was more charge than there is, it's not simply a case of getting a lift to the nearest petrol station, filling the can, and being on your way ten minutes later.

As far as I can see it's just not practical for the majority of people in the UK even if they love the idea.

Ah, the potential joys of keeping cold-call scammers on the line while getting enough voice data to set them up for a damned hard swatting.

Translation " we need to work out how we can tax cryptocurrencies, and if we can't how we can stifle it's use"...

Did anyone think that wouldn't be the reaction to something intended to bypass the 'official and approved means and ways of doing things'?

The probe into crypto-currencies should be fairly short. It funds terrorism, it aid paedos, drug dealers, ne'er do wells, it enables money laundering other than by the rich and elite, and it keeps transactions away from our prying eyes and money-grabbing hands.

Unless they can come up with 'it's what we need to make post-brexit Britain great' I think we can all guess what the conclusion will be; 'It's okay so long as it's regulated, so long as we have a back door into the blockchain, have the right hashtags'.

Re: Friendly atmosphere?

there can only be ONE EXPLANATION

Two if you wish to consider local Martians giving it a regular service.

Re: @ Halcin

If a business wants to trade with a client in another country the product/service must meet the regs of the country. FFS this is easy. Doesnt matter if the country is US, India, China, Small island in the middle of nowhere or even the freakin EU. To trade the business must be compliant. The Business not the whole freakin country.

You are right, but if my business has to trade with the EU and incurs regulatory and tariff costs in doing that I am at a commercial disadvantage to competing businesses who have less costs in only having to meet local regulations.

I can't afford to lose the EU half of my business and I can't compete with the local competition for my other half. Fuck it. I'll close the business down, retire early. Let brexiteers and the dole office worry about all the people that puts out work.

Re: Cynical budgets

And we are apparently setting sail to rattle some sabres with China. It seems to me Williamson is just another playground bully spoiling for a fight. Which probably makes him the darling of NATO which has been angling for a conflict with Russia for a while now.

Re: Oh no

The exact problem with the referendum as we are now seeing that both sides told numerous lies about what would happen

That did not really matter. At the time it was an advisory referendum. The public were simply being asked which way they leant and then the grown-ups in parliament [sic] would sort the mess out.

The result was expected to be 'remain' and then it could all be forgotten about, the agitating Kippers within the Conservative party pushed into a back room. 'Leave' could be dealt with by using that as leverage on the EU to get some favours and the plebs would be quelled, the majority happy with the outcome. That's the plan Boris was originally proposing.

But then the advisory referendum got taken as if a legally binding referendum. Brixiteers claimed it was The Will Of The People (TM) and pushed aside all notions of representative democracy. May went along with that nonsense having seen a chance to hijack the result for her own ends.

So that 'we would prefer to leave - would prefer to stay' vote has now become an absolute 'we must leave, and that means truly leaving, out of the EU, out of the customs union, filling the channel tunnel with concrete, setting fire to France, redrawing maps with EU member states marked as evil incarnate. Except Hungary and Poland as we quite like their mix of fascism and racism'.

No one asked what people wanted after we had left the EU. It wasn't necessary because it was an advisory referendum; that could be sorted out later. The problem now is there's no agreement on where we are heading, or might be heading, or where the people want us to be heading. Brexiteers and May are each pretending that people voted for what they intend to deliver. That's the real problem.

NASA, no concept of archiving

I don't see where the evidence is to draw such a conclusion. NASA has so far merely said it's going to require some effort since things have moved on.

Whenever someone comes in with an 'about this project from a decade ago' request; there's inevitably an ensuing hunt to find the documentation, the software, and where that might have been archived.

That all takes time and not unreasonably. I would give NASA the benefit of the doubt until they have identified what they have got and what they haven't.

There was no need for the horny toad to do this.

I am wondering how many successes he expected to get. And how many he actually got.

It wouldn't be the first route I'd choose if I were planning to take the bishop out for a bashing.

Re: They have totally lost it

We handed them all our census data so we may as well hand them all the rest.

Re: Store is a Verb

There's a shop near me which claims to be a warehouse. It also claims to sell carphones though I haven't seen one of those for a few decades.

but judas can fuck off.

"Oi! I did nuffin'. It was those bastards down at the Gethsemane Chronicle spinning it like it was all my fault. I wasn't even in the country at the time. I come back, find I'm dead, apparently, I'm hated by everyone, and not a sign of those thirty pieces of silver I am meant to have earned.

"And meanwhile there's some geezer calling himself Pontiff pushing out relics and saints like there's no tomorrow. "It's all kosher", he says. Sure; Happy Hannukah.

" It's the last time I vote to leave the Roman Empire. Fuck Rexit."

Re: The Next Stage

Turf the roof and plant a hedgerow above the guttering. Not only will it not be detected for what it is but an automatically generated cheque for the additional hedgerow should soon arrive in the post.