Posts by Swarthy

Unless, of course, only 10% of females were promoted....

Re: Calculations

There is an article on Basic Income that includes numbers. Published right here on El Reg, even.

Re: Does it work for people who don't wear T-shirts only?

If you move directly from the drier to folded/hanging, Ironing is not really necessary, unless you desire sharp creases.

When I were a lad, I would "iron" dress shirts by dampening a sleeve and throwing it in the drier - it came out with no wrinkles, suitable for wearing.

Re: Voter turnout has a liberal bias

Or, as I hope - More people will turn up to vote for the "lesser of two evils" and see that there is a third option. They may not know who this guy is, but "He can't be any worse than TweedleDumb and TweedleDumber". And someone who is not party to the partisan race to the bottom may stand a chance. Or at least screw things up enough that the election goes to the House, as no candidate has the Electoral Votes required to win. - And the House can't pick anyone worse than the current line up of Punch and Judy.

Re: hang on...

Yahoo! isn't saying that they had to comply - just that by complying, they broke no laws.

Kind of like when the school-yard bully demands another kid's lunch money, but the kid counter-offers the names and schedules of all of their friends, and how much money each has on him. The kid hasn't broken any rules/laws, but is still a pathetic rat.

Yahoo is a pathetic rat, and the other ones are saying that the bully hasn't approached them yet. Google is saying they'd take the beating, and the others are saying that they'd get a teacher.

Re: No option for Katie Hopkins?

Being on the wrong side of the pond, I had to look up this person who seems to be more reviled than Trump and May (at least in this thread). I saw an article of hers in the Daily Mail; while bad, that doesn't completely explain the vitriol. Then I read the article (well, maybe 1/2-2/3 of it).

Ye Tap-dancing Gods! That woman is a psychopath.

Re: Enterprising pub

Better than one of the Mexican joints near me - it's got a Rattata nest.

Re: "...cost of around $200K per passenger."

"Space between Earth and Mars is going to be littered with human corpses. ...Yuck."

Nah, they'll hold 'em on the ship to Mars - that's too good of a fertilizer to let it go to waste.

Only sometimes?

Yep. Othertimes, even narrowly missing destruction won't make 'em part with the money: "We were safe, without spending all of that"; and then when the destruction is not averted: "You let us down, you ruined us, why would we give you more money?!"

Re: heroin and methamphetamine

Why not just Ride the Dragon?

Re: "the fire retardants in the modern car ABS do not fire retard"

Go easy on him... he's Florida Man.

US Expectations

Well, they can expect that the other country will back off, but they may well be disappointed (and should be).

As my father taught me: "You can expect in one hand, and expectorate in the other - see which one fills up first."

Re: But...

Similarly picky about watch bands (for different reasons) here. A leather band on my wrist will last about six months before it basically rots off. Stainless steel is good for 18-24 (depending on the steel) before it has corroded, pitted and crumbled into uselessness.

I am also hard on crystals, so I don't imagine I'll be doing a smart watch anytime soon - Unless they come out with one with a replaceable crystal and a titanium band.

Re: Shorely we wouldn't coast all the way?

Third question: How big would those fuel tanks have to be?

Re: But..

It's turtles, all the way down.

"Report your family and friends - Win Fabulous Prizes!"

Re: Hmmm...

Thanks. Do you know anything about the lay of the land in Shannon/Limerick?

Re: Real programmers

https://xkcd.com/378/

Re: Sir

From what I've picked up from British media (including Attack the Block and Ali G) I would guess that the native loose grasp of grammar is more than doubled for US English.

However, from how it read in the article, the errors were not consistent with the errors of a non-native speaker. Most non-native errors arise from transliteration of thought (IE if you speak Russian as a native, and you think in Russian; your English sentences will follow Russian structure and, perhaps, Russian idiom). The errors that were analyzed did not conform to one particular set, and also used US idiomatic speech, but with errors introduced to seem like a foreign operation.

Theory: the verbiage was generated by a US speaker who tried to use "Russian" dialog from US movies to misdirect attention. To a USAian this means it is Russian, but to one who studies language it is very much not.

Given the second part of your handle

You should understand that MS gives all of there users a choice - Hobson's choice