Posts by Swarthy

Re: Prosecutor is an criminal asshole

Can someone call Belmarsh and have 'em shut down Julian's WiFi? He's starting to annoy.

Re: Indeed

Ergot would be more closely linked to LSD(lysergic acid diethylamide), as ergoline has a lysergic acid base.

Re: Or in the words of older Scottish Farmers

I kinda' have to argue with ya' there, jake.

I grew up in a rural community (in the southern US), but rather dis-like the rural mindset; so all of my understanding of farming and farm equipment was via osmosis. The only tractor brand I knew of until my late teens was John Deere. They are not quite to the "Band-Aid" level of brand dilution, probably only because "tractor" is easier to say than "John Deere", but you don't see any red tractors in the community I grew up in - they are all JD green. And also, how are you supposed to show up your neighbor if they can argue that because of the brand (and being "furrin") your nicer tractor isn't as good as theirs - you have to get the same brand, one model better, to show that you are better than they are.

So, yeah, JD is kinda' the default, and word-of-mouth and community pressure is free advertising.

Re: Eggman

Ku Ku Kachoo!

Re: That's nothing !

HTTP Response: 418 I am a teapot.

Re: Wow!

I wanted to come here and add a few; it was a bitters pill to swallow to see that Jude had gotten almost all of them. But I am of stout heart, and think I can draught at yeast a few additional puns.

I believe her point is that it is mostly done by the women. She could have worded it better, rather than "unpaid" she could have said "unbalanced". If both parents are working, why is the mom expected to do the school run, cook, clean, etc.

There are exceptions, but societally, we tend to expect a working mother to do all of the work of a stay-at-home mom, and the father has little societal pressure to pick up any of the slack.

That is the point that Mrs. Gates was trying to make.

Re: Why show the country of origin on your spy equipment?

A blaspheme like that risks your sole!

Re: can be compelled to disclose information that the government already knows

"If you already know it, YOU enter the passcode!"

Re: Handrails

Copper and silver are both well-known for their anti-microbial properties. I didn't know that it had to do with conductivity, but I could see free-flowing electrons throwing off ion balances for single-cell organisms.

Re: Thinking about it...it's a tough one

Nah, I'm thinking you can blame them. As I learned from Root Cause Analysis, it is Management's (ergo, the Company's) fault.

Even if, as in this case, it was a rogue employee, who hired him and gave him that access? Management. Who crapped on his morale to the point where it seemed to him that it was worth prison to damage the company? Management.

Even if it was just one instance of correcting undesirable behaviour, they hired someone that would flip their shit at one disciplinary action; thus it's their fault.

The causes for something like this are in hiring, training, and/or working environment; and management controls all of those.

That is why long-standing law and precedent holds corporations liable for the actions of their employees.

Re: Again, no compensation for victims ?

Well, they've levied the fines. It remains to be seen if they will actually collect.

Re: Whaaat?

Damn.

Re: LBJ would be proud

"Vote Early and Often for the candidate of your choice!"

Re: Firearms and Alcohol

One of my favorite Heinlein quotes: "Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss."

Betteridge's Law of Headlines: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

Oh, that was Baaaad.

Re: Faecesbook.

Zuckerburg's not the devil, he's just a very naughty boy.

Re: On the one hand

Minamina

Re: Here's my contribution...

Brought to you by the grocer.

Re: I'm not buying it

You wouldn't be subsidising a weapons system, the military would will be subsidising your gaming system.

While £10k is a lot of consumer money, it isn't a drop in the bucket compared to military (especially US Military) spend. And money is not the whole of the investment: the army will test, develop extensions, and request features for the AR systems they use. These bug-fixes and features (or watered-down versions thereof) will make their way into consumer products, and the military will have paid for all of the R&D; lowering the price you, as a consumer, will end up paying.