Posts by Sarah Balfour

Re: Dog Roll

WTF would anyone DV THAT…?! And evidently an AC too cowardly to even post as an AC! C'mon, let's 'ave ya! Stop disrespecting the recently deceased!

I've tried Mercury…

…only on, iOS, I'll grant you, but it irritates; the small tab limit is frustrating (only around 20, if memory serves), and the dev's complete inability to offer any kind of support (I recall having an issue with bookmarked pages refusing to remain bookmarked, sent an email never heard back). Got sick of it crashing every 5ns too. Deleted it about a week after I bought it (£3, as I recall). Hasn't been updated in months, either.

Quite honestly, I really don't think the developer give a shit. Tried Photon, which looked promising, but it's completely unintuitive, and I can't for the life of me figure out bookmarking. It also has this irritating habit of refreshing the page if you switch apps for longer than 5 mins, meaning you have to continually scroll back to where you were, not good for those of us with CTS. It's also one of those offering pseudo-Flash, so I'm slightly concerned about security (hey, if Android can get pwned…). That cost £3, too; I did get a response when I emailed the dev re bookmarks, but it was obvious they'd not bothered to actually READ my question, as they simply told me to do exactly what I'd told THEM I couldn't. Gave up.

Reluctantly back using Chrome (unless anyone has any better suggestions…?)

Exactly what I was about to say…

I believe the peregrine is the only one to breed in cities, though, very useful for controlling aerial vermin.

Reg, 'falcon' is a genus, NOT a species, do yer fecking research, FFS!

I used to be a member of the RSPB, until I learnt it was IN FAVOUR of fracking.

Re: Wipeout!

You'll be waiting a while, Apple doesn't appear to make laptops anymore, just fashion accessories for the 'more bling than zing' generation.

I'm not sure about autocracy but arrogance, certainly; yes, I know Apple has always been arrogant to a certain extent, but remember when their USP was their upgradability…? I don't WANT a glorified iPad that I'll have to replace in a couple of years, I want a functioning machine, with ports, and a 3.5mm jack socket, and MagSafe.

My biggest issue, though, is environmental - how much of what's in there is easily recyclable, and how much is toxic - or potentially toxic…? Jobs used to be keen to stress Apple's green cred, and got pretty litigious when Greenpeace suggested otherwise (no, I'm not a fan of Greenpeace, either).

Seems that, at Apple, only one Cook is needed to spoil the soup; I'd like to see him gone, which is why I'm hoping the Watch (love to see 'em attempt to trademark THAT!) and the new MB(P)s will be abject failures, maybe give the Board the excuse they need, though I don't think they've got the guts to oust him.

And now, I must kip. G'night, fellow hominids…

Re: cool music - can anyone identify it ??

Propellerheads - yes, seriously! - fucked if I can recall the track title, though - the imp that runs my cranial disorganiser has ether joined a union, and is striking, or is dead.

No, you ignorant arse, not money…

…SAFETY! Given the choice between Uber and a black cab, it's an absolute no-brainer, there's no fucking WAY I'd risk Uber; no, I'm not saying I'd be any safer in a black cab, but I know who the driver is, and I can scribble down his licence and registration details, which I make a point of doing because it makes me feel safer. That way, if he DOES turn out to be a serial sex offender - or worse - I've got summat to give the plod*.There's no way of checking if an Uber driver is who (s)he says they are.

*That said, I'm shit-scared of THEM, too (for VERY good reason).

Re: "legitimate medical practitioners"

All depends if they work for the NHS or not, if they do they're quacks, whose sole concern is not your health, but the profits of their Big Pharma overlords.

There's an app for that…

Seriously - http://www.app-ease.net. Not been updated since last May, though.

Re: Dumpster diving, yes or no?

Probably not, but it'll get you arrested. Nicking stuff shops have chucked out is still theft, apparently. I've been cautioned - and fined - for it a couple of times. How's it still their property if they've chucked it in a dumpster…?! It's wasteful! The homeless are routinely arrested for taking food from bins - hunger is a crime. I fucking hate this fucking country!

Even though it's in a good cause, I won't be buying it, the fact the page show is a recipe for Saag Aloo puts paid to any hopes of it containing any healthy high-fat/low-carb palaeo stuff.

My food bill comes to FAR more than £10pw, simply because, thanks to the NHS's war on anything remotely healthy, the cost of everything is astronomical. My meat alone costs £50.

Re: 10 years...

I can only HOPE that comment about home taping killing music was made in jest. Wanna know what's killing music…? The RIAA. The Big Four Labels. Stupid litigation. Simon Cowell. Didn't Bow Wow Wow release a PRO taping track - penned by Malcolm McLaren, their manager at the time, I believe - called summat like C30/C45/C60 -Go!…? I seem to recall the late Mr. Ravenscroft having a few choice words about the BPI, most of 'em.four letters in length and beginning with 'f'.

Fuck the likes of the aptly named Robin Thicke, et al, most,talented musicians are actually PRO 'piracy', and many encourage it as they see it as fighting back against the increasing greed of many labels. When Trent Reznor noticeced that his label at the time (I forget the label and the title of the LP - and I call myself a NIN fan… ) saw that his label was flogging whatever album it was for almost three times the price in Oz than in the US, he ordered his Aussie fans to go and download it.

Then there was a ska/punk project called Bomb The Music Industry!, founded by Jeff Rosenthal and members of NOFX, Mustard Plug, Reel Big Fish, Pennywise, etc, whose message was pro-piracy. Then there's Fat Mike Burkett who's spent years and thousands of dollars in litigation AGAINST the RIAA, as it kept adding his label, Fat Wreck Chords, to its roster, by hoping he'd overlook it if they simply kept on spelling it creatively (Fat Reck Cords, Fat Records, Phat Records, Fat Reck Khords…). He's even paid the fines of those convicted of stealing FWC's music.

Finally System Of A Down released an LP entitled 'Steal This Album!'

And who DIDN'T tape JP…?! Everyone I knew back then did. We all taped songs off the radio, too - I don't recall (too many) bands complaining, any exposure's good. Plenty complained about the BPI, as I recall.

'Piracy' isn't killing music; the music industry is killing itself by CLAIMING piracy is killing music and lobbing sueballs at all and sundry. Most of the stuff I'm into is definitely underground and bands frequently offer whole LPs for download. The music industry seems determined to make creativity, individuality and personal copyright illegal.

Okay, rant over. Gonna try kipping again now.

Re: Where

No it ain't! Not whilst I'm still around! I'll think of summat to lower the tone/intellect, promise!

Re: 10 years old

@Richard Crossley I'd not worry about it, evidently someone's spilt a couple of fanbois' pints. They'll probably down-vote this, too.

Here have a couple of up-votes to (slightly) redress the balance.

Re: remember the scientific recommendation on Cannabis?

Yeah, that's coz the bosses at CRUK, who are also employed by Big Pharma, handed Gordie a couple of paper bags full of used 50s. David Nutt got kicked out for DARING to voice his own expert opinion. Y'see, the government's drugs advisory panel is misnomered - it does NOT exist to advise the government on drugs, it exists to AGREE with the government on drugs. David Nutt was kicked off because he made the, entirely factual, statement that "More people are killed falling off horses annually than by ecstasy". Gordie didn't like that.

You MUST remember, folks that cancer research UK DOES NOT want weed legalised and will stop at nothing to ensure it isn't.

Re: Resale Value - not a lot

Neither. Quiche Richards.

Re: Meanwhile, in associated news

Obviously not getting enough of that Big Pharma pie. That app's sole purpose is to identify how many more people the NHS can poison.

If you DO decide to use it, just remember: the HIGHER your cholesterol, the LOWER your risk. Unless you want to be on a cocktail of dozens of pills, suffer a decreased quality of life, almost certain dementia and probably an early grave, you'll ignore the actual result.

And if the quack tries to force 'em on you, politely, but firmly, decline. I believe statins were responsible for the death of my dad's best mate, shame I can't ever prove it…

Re: It's Over for Democracy

Erm, last I checked democracies don't tend to have unelected heads of state. This is still an aristocracy. You want democracy, become a republican and start campaigning to get the cunts kicked out!

"Vive La Révolution! Vive La République! Liberté! Égalité! Fraternité!'

Re: I sincerely hope

And I sincerely hope it ISN'T. The NHS needs repurposing, it's not fit for anything as it is. I don't trust any of these 'studies', as they're likely to have been financed by pharmaceutical companies with a vested interest.

And as for cancer cures, there's only one cure for many forms of cancer, which has been proven by INDEPENDENT research, as well as anecdotal evidence. It causes no proven adverse health events, and results are seen quickly; of course, thanks to lobbying by the UK's leading cancer 'charity', it's also still illegal.

So, folks, if you've ever fundraised for CRUK, or donated, please be aware of where most of that money is going - the prevention of the legalisation of a safe, effective and reliable cure for many cancers which are currently incurable. In fact, so determined is CRUK that it should remain illegal, that every time legalisation is up for debate, it publishes the same well-worn bullshit in the Right-wing rags, knowing the people who read them treat them like some kind of sacred text and, if you've got letters after your name, and you claim to hold the title of 'Dr', you can pretty much be assured they'll lap up every single word you say so, if you make claims that not only does cannabis not CURE cancer, but smoking it increases your chances of developing lung cancer up to twenty-fold over tobacco, then by fuck it must be true - he's a DOCTOR, FFS! Fuck the fact he could have bought his doctorate off eBay for £20!

Now, at the risk of sounding like some kind of Tea Party nutter, I AM going to go down the 'won't somebody think of the CHILDREN…?!' path, because that's my main motivation for continual campaigning for full legalisation. Many kids whose deaths are attributed to cancer actually succumb to the effects of chemo and or radiotherapy which their small bodies simply cannot handle; every dose is a game of Russian roulette, because you simply don't know if this could be the one-dose-too-many. You are subjecting a (very) small person to lethal poisons and lethal doses of radiation, which are in no way discriminatory, they'll destroy whatever they happen to come into contact with; CBD DOES discriminate, and ONLY destroys the cancerous tissue and leaves healthy tissue alone.

The thing is, Big Pharma isn't interested in curing ANYTHING - if people are truly healthy, it's not gonna be raking in the massive profits it does from its chemo poisons and toxic radiation. A 3-year-old struggling against AML isn't a PERSON, they're merely a cash cow to be milked dry. If cannabis was legalised, Big Pharma would lose BILLIONS, because patenting nature is nigh-on-impossible. CRUK is simply the lobbying arm of Big Pharma UK, disguised as a charity. If it's slogan - Together We'll Beat Cancer. Sooner - was to ring any way true, it'd be lobbying FOR cannabis legalisation, NOT AGAINST IT!

I expect this'll get down-voted from here to Uranus and back, because you must NEVER speak ill of the NHS - and speaking ill of CRUK…?! UNFORGIVABLE! But I know the truth in that which I speak, whether you want to believe it or not - that's entirely your prerogative.

Here, have a down-vote…

Although, I've not seen you around these parts before, so I may have been a tad hasty, but I do have a VERY SHORT (read nonexistent) fuse when it comes to people taking umbrage on behalf of others. Are YOU a scientist…?! No…?! Then quit all this pseudo-affrontery (that OUGHT to be a word, dammit!). This is The Register, not New Scientist, you appear to have mistaken it for a serious news site.

You won't find much - if any - support for your viewpoint here. Don't like it…? Don't read it.

Trouble is, that's only going to work for ~50% of the population…

What about females - and androgynes…?

Re: Write to your MP & MEP?

My MP is Dom Grieve. I KNOW how much use writing to the cunt'll be.

Small town England; no fucking point attempting to buck the status quo here. I'm living with the enemy, and there's no fucking escape. Most days I'm in too much pain to even THINK straight. Everything I'm FOR, they're AGAINST.

Can we have some kinda mass drive to get weed legalised…? It's honestly the only thing that's gonna help me now. I can't recall the last time I actually SLEPT at night (or at any other time, come to that). It's even more exhausting when you've people on your case 24/7, constantly nagging you about petty shit - stuff that, in the scale of things, is so mind-numbingly trivial, that it doesn't even warrant a mention. Unless you're my mother. I need to be able to do stuff MY WAY,; I have reasons for mistrusting and distrusting the NHS, not least because most of what it espouses is utter tripe, but due to the way I have been treated (which my parents would say, if I told them, was entirely MY fault for "not conforming to the accepted standards of behaviour and carrying on" - I can hear the bitch saying those exact words as I type).

THEY destroyed me; they are the reason that, as a chronological 40-something-year-old, I'm about as adult as your average 3-year-old. They have never - and will never - accept this, as far as they're concerned, they're perfect. As one Richard Ashcroft once opined "I was born a little damaged, man, look what they made…" (and things have to be REALLY bad for me to admit I even used to listen to him!).

I've seen the interior of every nuthouse and every cop shop in every major - and not so major - city, from Newquay to Newcastle, Dover to Dumfries. Mother's had the quack try to risperidone me - fuck that shit; that's perfectly okay, it can't be at all dangerous because it's LEGAL (I have pointed out that it's only legal when prescribed), it's a MEDICINE, not a drug, because it's LEGAL. I made the mistake once of pointing out that they're both hardened drug addicts (my father gets through a bottle of wine a night, and my mother drinks at least 6 standard-sized mugs of coffee daily, and that both caffeine and ethanol are far more dangerous and damaging than anything currently prohibited). Perhaps if we began referring to it as 'trimethylxanthine', people would begin to see it differently (I've only ever seen it referred to as such in ingredients lists on bottles of snake oil diet pills).

Ah well, they'll be up soon. Let another day of ceaseless bullying commence. I SWEAR I'm gonna end up doing 'em in, my mother at least. How DO you deal with minds that closed…?! Don't think I even need mention what bog rolls they read.

If only the nation's foremost andlost eminent authority on controlled substances didn't have the unfortunate name of 'Nutt' - my father would have an absolute FIELD DAY with that! Anyone who challenges perceived wisdom is a "fucking crackpot".

Okay, show's over, you can return to whatever you were doing now…

Look what most people have done by my age…

Re: Damn good show.

Hate to ruin a YPM quote, but 'principal', Shirley…?

I worked on subs once… I had a Saturday job in the local sarnie shop.

They ain't gonna get any better, trust me - and will probably get FAR worse, especially as it's Friday.

FFS!

We didn't evolve FROM apes, we share a common ancestor, the line diverged several million years ago (can't be arsed to look up dates).

Had we evolved from apes, as the fundies would say "Why's there still monkeys…?"

Re: It had to come

It is…?! The planet only has 24 time-zones. Where the fuck are you - Jupiter…?!

Re: @Chris G: Moist

Can we stop.using 'moist'…? I have a severe aversion to it; 'damp', 'sightly wet', anything but the 'M-word'. I feel slightly, erm, 'M-my' myself now…

I've not been able to read Discworld since 'Making Money'…