Posts by Rich 11

Re: Sounds like a job for...

Please don't swear like that. I can put up with terms like frigging felching bollock-fucked motherfister, but not that.

Re: My guess, he's lucky to be alive

Drop rule 4. You're not helping anyone there.

Re: I don't understand the diagram

So why the gigantically-disproportioned tail ?

Artists like doing impressions. Especially when they get Monet for it.

Re: Surely

they may be closer than you think!

"Are they now, Ted?"

Re: OCD

Were they thinking?

I expect several of them have a snout in the trough. Sorry, beg your pardon, I mean a vested interest in the success of improving justice and transparency for all.

No app necessary

The only things I ever do with a freezer are put food in and take food out.

Once you've ran out of frozen food you can also leave the freezer door open and heat the house.

I've been known to paint the toilet bowl with partially-digested cheese. One day I hope to sell it to MOMA and retire on the proceeds.

Re: How would that form?

Binary stars can be as far as a light year apart. Our nearest neighbour, Alpha Centauri, is a trinary system consisting of two close binaries (varying between 11-25 AU apart) with a wide binary (Proxima Centauri) orbiting about 130,000 AU away from them.

Re: Complete and utter waste of money unless you want to spy on people

Yeah, but their leccy costs will be covered by the extra trade, since the lights and fruit machines would have been on regardless. Putting pint prices up would just drive people to the pub not putting prices up.

Re: Ah... but the government has a "get out of deep crap" free clause

Then again, after all the government crap of late, my paranoia could be off the chart.

My paranoia levels relaxed quite a bit after John Bolton had his falling-out with the Chump-in-Chief.

Re: GDPR

What, you mean we're going to be a rule-taker? NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! Boris and Nigel lied to me *sob*

Because apparently the only thing we care about anymore is money.

FTFY.

Re: Amazon 'Black Friday Deals'

They're handy for nailing strong magnets together.

Re: Isn't Google trying to buy Fitbit?

Soon followed by 'all your pacemakers are belong to us'.

Re: The Art of Programming Robots

It'd just reboot and run another flex cycle before crashing and rebooting again. Your client would end up with thighs like tractors.

Re: My scripts are not Y2.1K compliant

The high point of professionalism is for someone whose grandparents probably haven't yet been born to see your code still running in 81 years' time, against all rational expectation, and marvel that the author was far-sighted enough to ensure that they wouldn't be creating problems for their successors even when half a century in the grave.

Re: Green?

It doesn't help that more of us* are fat bastards who need more room to get in and out.

*Speaking for a friend.

Re: Saint Isidore of Seville

You forgot to say that removing or replacing the cover also requires a blood sacrifice via one of the sharp edges.

We never used to subsidise news or entertainment before the broadcasting age

Tell that to the Romans, who provided the Acta Diurna and gladiatorial games to the public for free. (For different reasons and by different means, but the end result was the same.)

Re: Why obsolete?

I think it was more a case of the sorting offices in Central London being closed. Moving them out to the perimeter allowed larger and more modern ones to be built and gave improved access to the rest of the country, both via the rail network and by road. The lorry engines would have been more energy efficient doing 60mph on a motorway rather than chugging at 12-30mph across town.

It's all Donald Trump deep fakes and ain't no one want to see that.

Except for Donald Trump. "Hey, who's that handsome guy, the one with the great tan and the bigly hands? What a stud!"

Re: Eh?

Personally I think I'd be comforted by being able to hear that the life support systems were still ticking over.

"Readily see" includes moving it, or moving something aside to see what's behind it. Not so easy with a packed fridge.

Re: Really?

Wasn't it the Conservatives that introduced and repeatedly raised the minimum wage?

No, it wasn't. The minimum wage was introduced in 1998, with the Tories voting against it and screaming that it would be the death of business. When virtually no effect was seen on business or inflation (except for more people having more money to spend, which is usually good for business rather than most of it staying in the hands of the few, who tend to squirrel it away offshore or buy another luxury yacht), the Tories confined themselves to voting against minimum wage increases. Consequently it fell behind what was considered to be a living wage and was topped up by working tax credits. When the Tories finally got into power they realised they had to raise the minimum wage to be able to cut the social security bill, so they made a song and dance about wanting to pay the living wage and finally stopped complaining about the minimum wage being increased. Miraculously, though, the minimum wage has stayed about a pound an hour behind the living wage for the last nine years.

Re: Rebranding

Ta. Just put a gram in the post for me.