Posts by Rich 11

Re: pro-Buffy flame war.

But the show itself was a reboot of the (failed) movie.

The TV series was the sequel to Whedon's original script for the film. The film dropped or changed much of what he'd originally envisioned.

Re: Usual alarmism bullshit regarding radiation

Those same people, if they were also concerned about fire risk, would likely be horrified to hear that they'd bought americium-241 and installed it in their kitchen. And let's not scare them further by telling them the brutal truth about the bananas they give to their kids...

Re: And the content has not improved since then.

Pfft. Limestone and a copper chisel.

Re: ZpulNg

the DM serves at least one function of usefulness

Dirtying your anus?

Re: Stuck in a and trap

Somebody would have to explain the lights in the sky to him first.

Re: Guaranteed delivery

"A letter lost in the post could be the difference between life and death," he said – which is perhaps a reference to various incidents where clinical correspondence went missing.

An email lost to a patient's Gmail spam filter could be the difference between life and death too.

Re: 1984

He definitely wrote about poverty and homelessness in France and the UK. We know she wouldn't want to hear about any of that goddamn socialist caring nonsense.

Re: Doctor Who

"Hey, Mike! Mike, have you seen that science program from England on the TV, you know, the one set in a box they've made yuger on the inside?"

"No, Mr President. That show promotes diversity. It is from the Devil, and Mother and I will have no truck with it."

"Well listen, Mike, I think I've got the solution to all our problems. We promised better healthcare, didn't we, and to protect people from illegal immigrants, and everyone's in favour of expanding the military, aren't they? They love my Space Force."

"What are you getting at, Mr President?"

"It's simple, Mike. We use the technology the English used, and put people's brains in robots: no more health problems for anyone. An armoured body, so no-one will be stabbed in their beds by the illegals. And those robot guys really know how to march, so they'll fit right in with the military. I bet they know how to fly spaceships too. Yeah, it'll be great. It's my greatest idea yet, even among all my greatest ideas!"

"You never cease to amaze me, Mr President..."

Re: I can never understand anything the guy says

French is a beautiful language. Finnish is a beautiful language. Lisp is the equivalent of Hungarian as spoken by a Valley girl with a railroad spike through her tongue while doing a bad impersonation of Donald Trump.

(I admit I may be presenting a few minor biases here.)

I have no idea what any of that means. Am I officially old?

Re: Office archeology

....and a 3/4 used tube of personal lube.

Haven't you listed enough items already? You just had to slip that one in.

Re: Ah, capitalism at its best

used by perverts who actually like Google or (shudder) Bing, and there are only two of them (one each).

Aaahh, that's sweet. Perhaps they'll get together one day and have little perverts.

Re: Um, guys, only 1 month left

Good point. I'll go sharpen my axe.

Re: Easy solution!

The web is fast and fluid.

Well, I would say 'faster and fluid-ish'. There's always going to be something slowing the experience down. We just might not be quite sure what the next thing will be yet.

Re: What Fun

Is that where all the methanol went?

Re: It doesn't leverage a single thing

We'll need extra ferries in the Irish Sea to move the blocks to the M20. But that's OK, I know someone who has a mate who knows where to find a few and how to drive them.

Re: Accident waiting to happen

NO! I meant to say I promise I won't laugh.

Oh dear me, how did that go so terribly wrong? And what were all you up-voters thinking, you evil, evil people!

You could make a deluxe version for sale at triple the cost just by lining the brolly with tinfoil.

what a normal profit margin would be on this.

A knighthood for services to enterprise, usually.

Re: Well ...

Pig-ignorant or troll? It's so hard to tell. But either one is a sad statement about humanity.

At just 600 cubic inches I think it's highly unlikely that they will do anything but burn up in the planet's atmosphere, even one as thin as that of Mars.

Re: I said that!

which means 99.9% of electrcity came from fossil or nuclear sources.

Last year the government published a report suggesting that tidal power could provide 20% of the UK's energy needs, steady and predictable. The government has rightly funded a lot of research which has made the UK the world leader in tidal power innovation, but has shown little interest investing in successful trial projects to turn them into industrially-useful generating plants. Consequently researchers and tidal engineering companies are heading abroad.

You'd like to think the government would be able to figure out a way for this work to become a lasting functional benefit to the country, but they seem too bogged down in That Other Matter.

Re: Winter drawers on

When it gets astoundingly ignorant, it's yet another climate change denier.

Re: And so the feminist dream inches closer!

Evolution as a theory does not appear to have any predictive capability.

In the early 1950s Alexander Fleming predicted the risk of increased antibiotic resistance, caused by evolutionary pressure arising from a widespread mis-application of antibiotics.

Fortunately human rights issues would go to ECHR, which will still be available in April.

Yet quite a few Tories have talked about limiting or removing the HRA, which means that we'll be back to the pre-1998 days of rights cases taking seven years to get to the ECHR rather than the current two years.

Fortunately the way things are going over Brexit is seems very unlikely that the Tories will see a sufficiently comfortable majority in Parliament for a decade or two. Silver lining and all that.

Re: Header pic

Then the bottle will need a few good whacks to break, which it will, usually uselessly short at the neck.

That's why you should twist the bottle as you hit it against the sharp edge. Didn't they teach you that at school?

I'm not saying I went to a rough school, but the teachers used to break out the riot gear whenever they planned a raid on the smokers in the loos. And one chemistry lesson came to an abrupt end when the Bomb Squad rolled in.

Re: RE: Alister

but programs that used the direct approach to drive the speaker bypassed the Windows media controls

Some speaker drivers for Windows 3 hadn't heard of multi-tasking, so if you set the Windows 'OK', 'Alert' and other sounds to be an audio clip of James Brown singing a refrain of 'I feel good' you could freeze the PC for 16 seconds almost every time the poor soon-to-be-demented user clicked a mouse button. Or so I'm told.

Re: How does one decline to be scanned?

It certainly would make a point. Theresa May is the UK Prime Minister; Teresa May is a US porn star.

Re: Money well spent

Obviously a joke? I can't agree with that. I've seen too many people claim that the Nazis were socialists, without them ever bothering to look up the reason why the word stayed in the name (though they shut up fast when you tell them they must also believe that all those Soviet-era nations who had 'Democratic People's Republic' in their name must have been well-functioning democracies).

Re: Taking Back Control!

So anyone wandering across the border is liable to be picked up by immigration services sooner or later.

Didn't the government announce a plan, a year or so ago, to recruit volunteers to help staff the UK Border Agency and the Immigration Enforcement division? That's a pretty big admission that the service is already underfunded.