Posts by Alpha Tony 261 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Jun 2009
It absolutely doesn't need garlic. I lived for a while in Spain and I I got addicted to these things. I tried experimenting with adding other things - garlic, chopped bacon, various herbs, but really it is gilding the lily. A well cooked tortilla doesn't need any other ingredients.
They're not the best thing to try to cook while a bit drunk though, as you end up with olive oil all over your kitchen!
'Religion is no excuse for being a barbarian better suited to the Middle Ages'
Actually that is exactly what religion is. A barbaric anachronism.
Any movement or organization that discourages critical thinking and encourages mindless subservience is a thing that should be consigned to the dustbin of history.
'"Green" = "vegan"...? FFS get a grip.'
Despite her confrontational tone, I would say she has a point. She said that she used to be a supporter of the Greens, but found that as a carnivore she was marginalised within the movement, which seems entirely possible to me. I am also broadly supportive of environmental issues, but I am an unapologetic meat eater (to paraphrase the NRA : 'I'll give you my bacon when you pry it from my cold, dead hands!') and it seems that a lot of environmentalists consider these things incompatible. They seem to lose interest in hearing your views on renewable energy after you order the veal.
If you shop around for £120 you can get a second hand playstation 3 and a load of games on Ebay.
The games are still much better than anything you can play on this, the PS3 can act as a media server plus it has a blu ray player. I agree with the original poster - Why on earth would you spend £120 to play phone games on your TV?
I seem to remember there was a bug in the BBC B version of Elite that you could use to farm credits. From memory, I think it was something to do with selling your beam lasers, where it gave you the cash but did not remove them.. or something like that - My memory is a little hazy as it was a long time ago!
I'm inclined to agree. They keep calling it 'The War on Terror'... Well in that case any time one of these fuckwits wants to spend billions of pounds of our money and further curtail our already limited personal freedoms to protect us from something less likely to kill us than choking on a peanut, then they should be shot for 'cowardice in the face of the enemy'.
I haven't been much into religious texts in nearly 15 years, but the Bible caught my eye last year. I really liked the way that the conflicting messages that you get from collecting a bunch of disparate folk tales together and then shoehorning a flimsy narrative over the top can be mistaken for wisdom. Kind of like a Dan Brown novel.
" I'm still not convinced there's a real market for these things. "
We all said the same about the i-pad and now everyone and their cat seems to have a tablet.
We even have one in the house (in a drawer, still boxed, as the girlfriend got it as a freebie and we still can't see the point!), so I'm going to reserve judgement here... Apple seem to be masters at generating markets where none seems to exist.
'Evidence was also tendered to the effect that the answers to Bravo's query included suggestions about swamps and reservoirs being fine places to hide a roommate.'
Investigators say that it is unfortunately highly unlikely they will find the body, as attempting to find the location of the swamps and reservoirs on Apple maps has so far proved impossible,
You're changing the emphasis here. I didn't say that I was 'going around constantly saying "That big_D guy was arrested for murder"', I specifically said when people mentioned his/her name. Upon discussing an individual it is surely entirely natural to mention the most news-worthy thing that you know about them. Provided I stuck to the unembellished facts you wouldn't have a leg to stand on claiming defamation.
As I implied in my later post, if I knew something more interesting about them then that would likely be my conversational gambit, but as I don't they are stuck with this. The same principle applies with Google.
It shouldn't be the first thing that pops into my head every time someone mentions your name in a pub either, as I'm sure you are a fascinating and well-rounded individual and you almost certainly didn't do it anyway.
The thing is though, it is the most interesting thing I know about you, so that is what immediately comes to mind when someone says your name. It's the same with Google, and while it might be nice for you were that not the case, I fail to see how they can possibly be legally compelled to censor their results to hide information that is in the public domain, for your comfort.
So... Say we live in the same town where you had been arrested for murder and released without charge and any time anyone mentions your name I say 'I know that big_D fella - He was arrested for murder'. Legally I am totally entitled to do that because I am not slandering you, I am just reporting the truth. Why should it be any different for Google?
Not necessarily. Driving around near a country border can cause your phone to roam back and forth between cell towers on either side, which could be interpreted as repeatedly crossing the border and for people that live near the border this would be going on all the time.
Borders in Europe are completely porous anyway, so people that live near one may well legitimately cross it lots of times a day anyway..
Not true - the original three star wars movies WERE special and so was Firefly, but the problem is you can't go back. Any sequel (to either) will lack the same zeitgeist. The actors have moved on, the audience have moved on, the writers have moved on. Any second season of Firefly would be inferior to the original and so would inevitably be disappointing and no Star Wars sequel will ever live up to those original three movies. We need to accept that.
Well perhaps if they employed some skilled DJs to actually mix the tracks together in a creative and imaginative way they would still have a unique selling point.
If a user can just stick a load of tracks together in the same order and get a comparable experience then frankly they aren't really offering much and they deserve to lose the business.
'What about UKIP'
I have just read through the document you linked to and I must say it was pretty much in-line with what I would expect from our very own 'UK tea party'.
Their policy seems to be:
1) Question whether climate change is man-made at all
2) State that as China/India/The US won't reduce emissions why should we.
3) Blame the EU for everything that they can.
4) Blame the government for anything else.
5) Suggest Shale Gas and fracking as the solution to all of our problems.
What a complete crock of right-wing twaddle.
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