Posts by Uncle Slacky

Re: A selection of suggestions

There's a long tradition of the Doc "reusing" faces he's met before.

Osborn's Law applies

Variables Won't; Constants Aren't.

Re: No Surprise

Speaking of executive orders, how come they were bad when Obama was making them but suddenly OK now?

Re: Here is the thing you need to watch out for: meta data collection

"Americans afford the unique historical example of a people which has passed directly from a condition of barbarism to one of decadence without an intervening period of civilization."

Re: Food is not only sustenance

Used to drive past their factory every morning - suffice to say the smell is enough to put you off them for life. Not for nothing are they generally referred to as "nasty pasties".

Gimme a Philps any day!

Re: Roger Shawyer

There's some background here which seems pretty accurate from what I know of him from other sources. It may have been lifted from an earlier version of his Wikipedia page:

http://alchetron.com/Roger-Shawyer-410658-W

Re: The Protector...

It *was* the name of the ship in Galaxy Quest, though.

Re: We have one

And Futurama: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE0sddhCIdE

Re: Bigging Up

I asked some Americans of my acquaintance why they let their employer access/monitor/put stuff on their personal phones - if mine wanted that, I'd tell them to buy me a phone for the purpose or get lost (in fact, they'd have to, as I only have a dumbphone). Apparently that kind of response doesn't fly in "at-will employment" USA.

Re: Mission Accomplished

I wonder if future historians will pinpoint today (9/11 for the RoW, in more ways than one) as the start of the decline of the American Empire?

Myself, I think the rot set in quite some time ago.

Re: US prices?

European prices are higher too.

Scribus?

Not tried it myself but it's available on Windows.

https://www.scribus.net/

Golden syrup too

Golden syrup is a waste byproduct of the sugar refining process. From the wiki:

"Originally, golden syrup was a product made at the white sugar refinery from the recovered mother liquor (recovered molasses) "washed" of the raw sugar crystals in the process of creating white sugar. This liquor is generally known as refiners return syrup. Today most golden syrups are produced by a specialist manufacturer by inverting half the refiners return syrup to fructose and glucose and blending it back again; this ensures the product remains liquid and will never crystallize again."

Re: Fu Who?

They still supply Airbus with all their corporate laptops.

Re: I'm holding out for USB-D

No doubt it'll be running systemd too...

Did they let you keep your stapler?

Re: "We've reached out to Google to ask "

"Reach(ing) out" seems very common in Leftpondia - dunno what's wrong with "called" or "phoned" or even "contacted" though. It's another of those "burgled" versus "burglarized" things, I guess...

Re: I wouldn't worry

Yes, it's called Muphry's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law

It's like goldy or bronzy, just with iron...

Re: Futurama

Watch out for electrogonorrhea - the noisy killer!

Re: So, immigration was perfect BEFORE 1973 ?

What about Dr Bunsen Honeydew?