Bah!
What a bunch of mealy-mouthed, victim-blaming gits post to this forum sometimes.
My sympathies are with those who for reasons that have nothing to do with their performance of their duties are now confronted with poverty.
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No, that doesn't follow. Less government (in your terms) usually means less access to drinkable water, breathable air, affordable, well, anything really. At least, historically it has meant that in the USA. The oligarchs who run big businesses have historically gouged the ordinary "folks" (a term certain types of well-bought and paid for politician uses that they think makes them seem more like you'n'me but actually makes them look smarmy and is a dead giveaway for who's pockets are lining their own) until the outcry has threatened to reach Red October levels, at which point some savvy politico steps up to the plate and engineers an "enough is enough" Hail Mary pass and saves the day.
I was particularly impressed by how certain types of politicians kept a straight face while claiming in public that a more expensive, less inclusive "replacement" for the ACA was actually better as it offered people "more freedom".
"It's bad enough having to stare at the same old poster ads for travel cases, incontinence pants and erectile dysfunction while you have a slash. Now I'm going to be forced to watch a video of all three while drying off."
Another use for Duct Tape, the universal fix-it.
Can also be used to fix a leaking tank, improvise cushioned seating, replace missing hinges and provide a method of holding the door closed when the lock has been "misplaced".
Always carry a reel when you go to the bog, in the bag with your industrial strength antiseptic spray with bleach, emergency soap, emergency bog paper, emergency paper towels and basic emergency plumbing tools (collapsible plunger, Stilson's self-adjusting pliers, universal flap valve kit etc).
Yeah, I remember these stories, along with the elaborate, cruiser-wrecking "rescues" the NY police forces enacted.
I always found myself asking "Why didn't anyone suggest turning off the ignition?" but then realized that in some cars that can cause the steering lock to be engaged (some cars have the "aux power" key position AFTER the "lock steering" one - something which should have been fixed by engineers or by law years ago).
Superdeluxemobiles have a push-button ignition switch so that is no longer a concern (or is it? I dunno).
Fees paid to professional organisations both in the UK and America go towards all sorts of things besides coffee and donuts for the admin staff.
I'd talk about lobbying efforts and legal work to defend the rights and roles of the membership but I'd be wasting my breath.
I mean, how do you think old boy's get networked FFS?
" Every country I've been to has its own tipping etiquette."
And in every one you'll hear an Englishman complaining loudly about the raping of his wallet.
"Secondly, despite all its warts, the UK is still a democracy."
One in which about 50% of the electorate is arsed enough to vote on any given issue.
"saying that your voice can't infuence anything is just plain ridiculous." (sic)
I didn't say that, you did.
"As far as the article 50 is concerned, it ain't over until the fat lady sings. "
Who's in denial now?
a) Per capita? Since most of the English people I've met are tighter than a crab* I doubt this is a worthwhile statistic. It's the intent that matters, not the forcible removal of tax monies sans polling for opinion of the taxpayers.
2) You can't cite the EU to support a UKcentric point any more. You are in denial of article 50 mate.
* before you scream and leap, ask yourself the last time an Englishman DIDN'T complain loudly about tipping when abroad, even when they aren't themselves abroad. Many examples exist in these very comment pages. **
** I am English. I cringe whenever I'm in a restaurant with an outraged Englishman defending the sanctity of his wallet against the rapacious waitresses of Aulde New Yorke and their unreasonable "demands". I also worked in the restaurant biz in the UK, which is why I don't any more. The true humour in English jokes about the tight-fistedness of the Scots is in the unrecognized irony. If you want to see something frighteningly funny, say "free bar" in the hearing of some Englishmen and watch the fun. Just don't be the poor sods behind the bar.
Two passports.
This is what the UK Consulate suggested back in the late 70s/Early 80s when travelling in Africa, since seeing the wrong stamp in you passport could get you shot at some borders.
They also gave you a list of at which borders to show which passport. You didn't want to get this wrong either.
Doubt it. Static linked Cobol systems just work. They get blamed for all sorts of problems, but if you track those problems far enough you'll find a stalled RFP to toss the baby out with the bathwater.
Besides, Cobol isn't about databases. Databases of the same despised era are CODASYL compliant, a slightly different thing.
Turns out you need to know a bit more about the Cobol stuff before you rewrite it. There was an awful mess back in the first George Bush era when a bunch of new financial software was put in place of some older nasty Cobol stuff and it transpired that the bright young things didn't bother to understand what they were tossing out.
This is a widespread issue of course, and undoubtedly the reason so many corporations are decidely unhappy at the thought of replacing applications that work for the dodgy world of hackable buggy replacement systems.
Nope, I don't do Cobol any more, but I have years of experince with it and could make a decent living doing so should the need arise. I'm also unafraid of computer language grammars that don't resemble Cobol and have a number of them under my belt.
Most of my younger colleagues with still-shiny CS degrees get the shakes if asked to look at anything that doesn't look like C to the point that their shell scripting skills are appalling. Hell, there are a bunch of them who can't get puppet to work and they had a bleeding training course on the bugger.
What was the question?
Irrespectiveless of whether the email thing is anyone's fault, I'm agin it because I don't like the congressman's wikipedia page content.
According to it, he is a complete and utter bought-and-paid-for coalshill and has abused his office to bully those who dare to challenge his view that climate change is made up.
I could forgive that (a lie; I couldn't) but it also says he retweeted a Breitbart article denying climate change and though I've never read a Breitbart article, everyone but Fox News says they are bad and that's good enough for me.
LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP!
You need to re-read my post. I'm not using Flash. I would like to be able to use Java. You know, that most popular language in the world according to some (rather un-credible) citations.
I understand why the plug-ins are disabled. I just find it rather annoyingly ironic that Firefox, once a bastion of opinion on the subject of forcing choices on the user, should choose to lock out Java (with no way of unlocking it) but retain Flash (as "on" by default).
Well Firefox used to be my jack of all sites, but a recent upgrade forbade the use of the java plugin I absolutely must have for remote connecting to my workplace after hours citing "security concerns" (curiously it left the Flash plugin in place; gofigger), offering me no way to adjust that behavior Team Firefox made on my behalf, so now I have to use IE and the alternative Active X plugin.
WaytergoTeam Firefox!
Yes, I'm aware that a flatscreen TV is a tablet because the last pre-Xmas El Reg TV comparison fluff piece had the author frothing over idiotic digital computer specs and four- and five-starring each set on that basis before finishing with an offhand remark that the TV performance of each subject was dubious in some way.
This same thinking is how we end up with smart phones that can render a movie in 4k HD and play it with dolby 15.314159 surround-sound but can't let me hear a person calling from half a mile away in any intelligible way.
systemd
-free Devuan Linux hits version 1.0.0
The worst user experience I've personally had outside of a certain application software company's products from the mid nineties.
Bug ugly flat GUI interface with lousy color schemes. Makes my eyes water after a couple of hours wrestling with it.
Makes sharing documents with non-users a terrific pain in the fundament with it's "lets encode everything and require people to go to a website to get a key so they can read whatever it is" methodology.
Hogs bandwidth that isn't there.
And (All Together Now) requires a persistent internet connection.
All that, and the mail client can't provide a fraction of the features I get with thunderbird, which in turn means I cannot properly automate to deal with idiots who hijack mail threads without changing subject lines and therefore miss "important" things people write in the bewildering expectation that I will read their e-dribble in real-time.
"I suspect whoever in the PO specified the original platform, was an ex Mainframe person!"
Spoken like a true toy computer programmer.
We mainframe Cobol types have enjoyed the freedom of variable length records since, well, forever really. Comes from a backing store technology based on Magnetic Tape and adapted to johnny-come-lately drum and disc devices (which enforce a much less flexible space usage regimen on one).
No, I think (with as much evidence behind me as the "mainframe" poster had) that this will be found to be some C++ or Java twonk's bad thinking, possibly forced on them by the cheap minitat the clients have to run on. Didn't someone mention Windows NT?
I'll bet there are some floating point idiocies lurking in the shadows too. So few college grads seem to grasp the difference between FP and scaled decimal when it comes to doing money sums after the baby has been thrown out with the bathwater.
Still, never mind. It's not like anyone died is it? Oh, hang on ...
The Kodak point and shoot digital cameras were actually very good, with twice the internal memory of all of the other comparable products by other digital camera manufacturers. Mine started to get twitchy after someone dropped a harvey wallbanger all over it, and my wife killed one by leaving it on the driveway in a rainstorm and then reversing her car over it, but mine still works and she got a replacement.
Not sure why they failed, but bad product ain't the reason.
I think if you pry into the first quarter of the second century of Great Britain as an Empire nation you might also find some pretty nasty ideas on the subject too.
Young empires are built on agression. They mature into tolerance, then fall apart either through apathy or the inabililty of the infrastructure to deal with a wide-reaching catastrophe. Charlemagne died and his empire was pulled apart by his kids. Comms lag did for the Romans. In a way it did for us British too, though complacency was a big factor.
And though I live in the USA and will probably die here, I still harbour a secret wish that Britannia would find some way of rising ascendant again to become a world leader in some tangible way other than by weight of history, though how that can be acheived via Brexit is a bit of a puzzler I have to admit.
What "sensitive data"? You mean the manager's porn stash?
Why is everyone assuming with no facts in evidence that there was anything worthwhile on this machine to recover?
I have managers who get premium kit who are never allowed near anything worh stealing. Don't you?
The subtext I get from this tale, which has been edited I point out, is that there was nothing worth the trouble likely to be lurking in that lappy. It is also possible that the damage inflicted by the first "repair" also extended to the moving parts.