Posts by John Smith 19

"The loose cannons of modern diplomacy"

Indeed.

If you were commanding an alien fleet in Earth orbit would feel any inclination to show mercy towards our species?

Or would you just begin the wholesale extermination?

"if you wanted a character to put people off voting for ANYTHING...Bozza the Clown"

Wot, don't you feel deep affection for his good natured hearty bluffness and general joie de vivre*?*

As for his Europhile credentials I'd suggest you check the stories he filed when he was the Telegraphs corespondent in Brussels, and how many of them were actually true.

In any case as Bozza learned in prep school one is either de-bagging the first years and shoving them down the toilet or one is being de-bagged etc.

So when the Conservative back benches form their lynch mob to hunt down those responsible for "Crimes Against Brexit" you can bet his reaction will be more "J'accuse*" than "Mea culpa*" :-(

*Apologies for offending any Leave voters by "talking foreign."

"except where they have delusionally over inflated options* of themselves."

That should have read

"except where they have delusionally over inflated opinions of themselves."

*Unless of course there is a futures market in peoples views of public figures that I don't know about. In which case I'd short Davis and go each way on Bozzer and Moggie.

Re: Talk about throwing fat on the fire

Nonsense.

He's just "Big boned."

"Nobody abroad will ever take him seriously, why some Brits do it, is a bit beyond me,"

Simple.

He's

a)A committed (well as committed as a journalist turned politician can be) Brexiteer and

b)A potential candidate for the next Conservative leader.

Outside the Cabinet he's not muzzled in any way from blatantly campaigning for the Leaders job (although he'd still need to call a General Election to be actually elected by the British people. And we all know how well that worked out for May) and generally b**ching about the whole process.

This way it's a case "Alright smart*** you've talked big about how much you want the UK to leave, you can start contributing to making it happen."

This usually is an effective management tactic for Ahole managers except where they have delusionally over inflated options of themselves.

Re: "Schmidt is Bill Gates II" ?

And I've been downvoted.

Someone with a touch of APD feeling a bit discriminated against perhaps?

"Schmidt is Bill Gates II" ?

Somehow he'll always be just "Creepy Eric" to me....

But in Corporate America where "Antisocial Personality Disorder" is a synonym for "Fast track promotion" or "Entrepreneur" the odds on bet is he won't be replaced by anything more human.

"Our best and brightest held down, while..biggest takers..leeches are held up as.."special""

The cognitive disconnect is strong in this one.

"So if the aliens want to have a go at running things, let 'em. "

Wasn't that the whole point of Brexit, that slightly more than 1/2 of the people who voted though they were already run by aliens and didn't want to be run by aliens?

Or something.

I tried to ask some British people I know who voted Leave why they did it but but the strings of words that came out with bore no connection any objective reality I could recognize.

"$22 Million Zimbabwe dollars have been deposited to your account, as promised!"

And that's why contracts with the USG are a 1000 pages long.

Re: Eh? Three thousand quid for a 13" laptop!?

But is it made by Microsoft?

Is it called "Surface?"

This is for people who want to make a statement about what they do, how they do it and whose hardware they trust to help them do it.

I'll leave others to say exactly what statement those people think they are making, and what others think it says about them.

I suspect the two are not the same.

"GDPR will happen irrespective of Brexit, this is essential to maintain the UK's Adequacy

What an interesting use of words.

"Adequacy."

As in "Just about makes a passing grade, if they try."

Three cheers for Blighty. Hip, hip....

" like to be able to quickly glance at a message coming in, or a call waiting. "

Umm.

The lights on the front can be customized for whatever.

I'd expect you can set them up for caller on hold, text, IM

Wheather you can flag individual numbers as "High Priority" PHB/Dealer/BF/GF/Legal married partner, is another matter.

Re: Needs a camera as standard. For scanning receipts for expenses.

Actually I've long dreamed of something with a line scanner built into the spine for general document digitization.

Still waiting....

Re: Want one!End of.

Still time to make a contribution for 299 or 399 for actual phone connectivity.

Keep in mind the Psion was not actually a phone to begin with.

"There is one billion on a bunch of drones guarding Wales?"

True but it must be paid in order to guard Blighty from the every present danger of the Taliban Cymru*

The price of eternal vigilance is.....steep.

*No it's true. They do exist. Honest. What else can explains all those Watchkeeper crashes?

@JagPatel3

You aren't, by any chance, doing a PhD in the history of MoD procurement?

Otherwise you write like a civil servant who's been trained as an accountant.

"So, where is the money going?"

AH but what you forget is that France does not have the "benefit" of a one-stop-shop-do-absolutely-everything "National Champion" like BAe systems.

Instead they have the far more wasteful system of multiple individual companies who still compete for the work.

Except it seems competition, even minimal competition, does lower prices.

"Use everything you can to collect data on the masses, never delete anyting you have collected."

That certainly the policy of the senior civil servants in the HO.

Wheather or not this sock-puppet knows (or wants to know) it.