Re: rubbish
"to balance those 15 minute calls when the average call duration is of 1.5 minute there must have been a bunch lasting negative 13 minutes..."
Only numerically speaking, Mr Scientist.
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The anti-handiman demons. They hover over a home improvement or repair job in swarms, waiting for just the right comedic moment to infest the equipment and, for actual example, make the chain on a chainsaw come off the bar at maximum wellie even though it was in perfect adjustment and had plenty of oil. Anti-handiman demons are what cause everyone on the planet to sever the cord of their own hedge trimmer (which has driven everyone to replace corded tools with battery-powered equivalents, allowing the prospect of a simple recharge burning down one's house).
I known them well. Google The Occasional Stevie and feel my pain.
Yes I see your point.
Now let's prosecute all the Volkswagen owners for operating a vehicle in contravention to the emissions laws. You can't tell me they didn't know that their computers were jiggered and if they didn't they should rtfm and serves 'em right.
What?
They may have downloaded the files (and fuck them for doing that) but since the very first mention of the installer in these pages I used a registry update prined in the comments to shut down the nagware and haven't seen it since.
I dunno why others don't follow suit. There are plenty of sources for how to do it out there.
None of the really cool stuff is, though.
Because, you know, liquid helium.
I vivdly remember the announcement of the affordable CD drive being trumped by IBM who said they had one that could store data at seven times the density of that one's capacity, so yah boo sux.
Downside? Liquid helium or didn't work at all.
Point of information Mr Chairman:
A candidate cannot really have a running mate until they are a presidential candidate.
What Ted Cruz was doing was saying that CF would be his running mate when he got enough delegates to derail the public choice and grab the nomination by insider back-room dealing with the delegates themselves.
The irony here is manyfold, starting with Ted Cruz's insistance that he is not a Washington Insider yet he knows well and good how to steal the nomination from the (bewilderingly dim) people's choice using the inside workings of his party machine.
A good portion of America sees this for what it is: high comedy and desparation.
The last time someone accused me of threatening them in an email I agreed to a phone conferece with me, the accuser and our bosses to appologise.
The meeing was cancelled when it became apparent to my boss that:
a) I expected the other person to appologise for accusing me of threatening them
2) I intended to ask the other person's supervisor to get the poor sod some professional help.
The final nail in the meeting-coffin was when I produced the unredacted message from my "sent" folder and challenged both supervisors to show me exactly where I had made any sort of threat to anyone whatsoever.
Says the person hiding behind the ac monicker. Nice one.
Sorry mate, gallows humour is a fact of life. Your outrage is misplaced as are your tales of sad old people.
Where I live we've lost a few young people to being run down by trains on grade crossings. Crossings are protected by barriers that come down about fifteen seconds before the train arrives. Trains sound an earsplitting ait horn with THREE blasts as they approach. And yet the smartphone phuckwits still get mown down.
This is in no way, shape or form the fault of anyone but the squishee.
And of course the bill for the cleanup and the lawsuits and the therapy for the engineer and the organ collection team and police units on site (who are the ones I feel sorry for) goes to the taxpayer.
So no. I don't think I'll take your misplaced rage-induced advice. I'm not the one needs my head examining. That treatment should be given to anyone who survives the inevitable result of their own brainless behaviour.
I'm on record here and elsewhere in my belief that there should be laws against people owning portable electronics that are more intelligent than they themselves are. This nonsense just strengthens my position.
The comments are in general witty and I would point out that it ain't the ones making fun who are ultimately responsible for you not feeling like anything for dinner after you finish your shift. What exactly do you expect the driver who hits some stupid idiot without the brains god gave a cowpat to do anyway? Other than get into therapy for the inevitable mental trauma, that is.
We have train drivers here who have been at the throttle when a drunk or depressed moron has swan dived in front of the train, and who are never going to get back behind the throttle even after months of therapy because how many times can you watch someone burst six inches from your face?
Stick the blame where it belongs fot fuck's sake: with the phone phuckwit.
If Cruze were serious about engaging in mortal Thunderdome combat with Trump for the Republican nomination he'd fight crazy by upping the ante.
Yes, I'm talking Sarah Palin, the nuclear opition of crazy politics. I doubt she'd know the diffence between Ted and Don so grabbing her allegiance would be as simple as asking her to do that voodoo that she does so well.
Naturally this would not result in an electable ticket but what the hell.
"The ascending balloon will encounter charged particles that will eventually counteract the be-staticed cats, causing them to lose charge and fall off."
Which is why you use ebonite and not amber when selecting your cat-charging rod. More attention to the lab notes is indicated and certainly more time cranking the Wimshurst machine. A little time with a balloon, a cat, and a common or garden gold leaf electroscope would seem to be in order too.
And lets not forget the cork ball apparatus.
Less reliance on assumption and more on the behaviour of one's balls when excited by the Van Der Graaf Generator would stand every young lad in good stead.
So, the taxpayers were fined, really.
What about PC Fuckwit, (The Spousebeater's Friend)? Fined? Desk duty? Demotion? Sacked? Reassigned to Craggy Island?
I've often wondered whether the answer to these Blue Wall cases might not be to sue the relevant police pension fund in some way. Once the Boys in Blue understand that for every baddun they stand behind their own bottom line takes a potential smack in the hurtybits the urge to persuade the badduns to come forward would be overpowering.
As soon as it became clear that the complaint was being made against a fellow copper the story not only made more sense, it became one more in a set of depressingly similar "band of brothers" spousal domestic dispute stories.
Can the lawyer be called up before the bar? Stupid question: they are the very worst "wall of silence" offenders, closing ranks tighter than doctors do when one of their own is shown to possess above average levels of moral blindness and culpable malpractice.
Spouses of cops should have some other way of accessing the laws supposedly that protect them than the very buggers posing the problem and their boozer buddies.
What a bloody disgrace.
Perhaps if the FBI lawyers hadn't been so distracted trying to set precedent with the high-profile iPhone cracking case they could have spotted this obvious uckfup in the making.
And while having no sympathy for pedophile scum, there's a small discrepancy in the FBI's expectations (200 000) and their haul (1300). Again.
As for the judge, it is unrealistic to expect a human being to have pinpoint knowledge of all laws, and we do not know what the FBI representative(s) said to justify the warrant. Disappointing that it didn't occur to the judge to question jurisdiction, but ultimately the blame for this sits in the FBI's court from my seat in the stands.
Years ago I had a boss who asked how long it would take me to do a complex task.
"Three days."
"What if I said you only had two?"
"It would still take three days of me working through lunch, taking no breaks, staying late and working when I get home. This isn't Star Trek and I don't inflate my estimates so I can pull a "Scotty". You say you need this badly, I take you at your word. It would be helpful if you would take me at mine."
That was the end of that particular stupidity.