Posts by Rich 11

Re: Tut, tut

During. It has a salutary effect on the witnesses.

Re: Curiosity 2: Nuclear Boogaloo

Curiosity -1: The Prequel

Re: Ironic

Made an earl? Excepting the royal family only three hereditary peerages have been created since 1964, none of them in the last 30 years. Turing predates that date (although the practice was already dying out before then), but Berners-Lee certainly doesn't.

Re: ICANN Will Regret Betraying Their Principles & Giving It To A Greasy Tradesman

There are some current Japanese companies which were founded in the 8th century.

Re: What on earth...?

It ain't over until the fat lady comes.

wee Nazis

Did the bigger ones get away?

Re: WTF?

Royal Stroke

Isn't that why Andy had to give up his former duties and go into internal exile?

Re: There's money to be made!

Why does the great golden panda (politician! and TV reality "star") keep pushing 19th century energy ("Clean" coal) rather than going for the money (and jobs) that can be made out of new forms of energy?

Because his backers make their money from fossil fuels, and anyway he's dead set on doing the opposite of anything Obama ever did.

Re: "Mythical deity"

It's all good fun until somebody gets hurt.

(Now I'm sounding like my Mum.)

if you say it like a word (like laser), that's an acronym. If you speak it letter by letter (like RSVP), that's an initialism.

Wasm isn't even a contraction (I'll leave it to the reader to identify both of the contractions in this sentence). Wasm is an elision (like gonna), of which contractions are but one subset.

Ragnarok?

Re: Super black

We should just spray all our cities with super black regardless. Especially the advertising hoardings.

Re: The Future of the Deal

it shouild not be concluded from this trade deal that Trump is a fool.

I'm trying to think who would benefit from a long, drawn-out trade war, given Trump famously stated (to mockery at the time) that trade wars are easy and quick to win. I suppose some of his most gullible followers might believe that's a quote manufactured by the deep-state LIEberal elite MSM news, but not enough of them to get him re-elected.

Re: Codenamed Fugu?

That's not a fish, it's an acronym.

I think it's pretty obvious what it stands for.

Re: And I quote...

But it has been ripped into a billion pieces. It's just that one of those pieces is still a star almost as massive as the binary pair from which it formed.

Re: Scope creep

I'd say ownership is the biggest problem, just as it is for some custom spreadsheets now. The first thing we hear of it is a phone call from a chirpy admin assistant. Don't get drawn in.

AA: "Hi, IT. Can you take over this app for us, please? Fred developed it but he left last week."

IT: "Who's Fred?" {Wrong answer}

IT: "No." *click* {Right answer}

Re: So what happens to the money?

It's Texas. The school probably got an email saying that unless they paid up Windows 7 was about to evolve into Windows 10.

Re: the Hubble variable

No wonder debugging the bloody thing is so difficult. Look how long it took to fix smallpox after that was introduced by the idiot who wrote the cattle domestication module.

Re: Yep.

You joke (and rightly so), but this is exactly what the bastard stupid flake wing of anti-vaxxers want to do: not give half of kids their MMR shots and see what happens in a country over five or ten years. To be fair, even some anti-vaxxers think this is a step too far.

Re: Inconsistent with Boeing values

Wouldn't they be safer with monkeys wearing clown makeup?

Just as long as the monkeys don't switch off the autopil… oh.

Re: Or Brooks, "It's good to be the king."

a pretty trashy thing to do though, no matter how you measure it.

And if that measurement is 'oats spread'?

Best just to stick to more objective assessments such as selfish, uncaring and untrustworthy.

Re: Phil the Toff

Are you sure his grandfather's name wasn't John?

Re: ...

We also need to be told what percentage of the precipitate ultimately passed through the bladder of Adolf Hitler.

Re: Boring.

If only this Hotel California included Susie the Bear...

Re: Does this mean....

If you miss the nagging you can always find one of the lower-rent porn sites promoting plenty of opportunities to upgrade Flash 'for a better video experience'.