Posts by Rich 11

Re: Jacob Rees-Mogg in orbit

There are boar running free in the Forest and there is cider running free in the Forest drinking dens. No-one is safe on a Friday night!

Re: Your all missing the point.

You weren't actually expecting them to apply it to anything of their own which mattered, were you?

No, it's just Texas. Private citizens are supposed to do everything for themselves rather than contribute a couple of bucks a month each to some goddam socialist city drain-clearing squad. Next time the city floods, it'll be the fault of the people who get flooded for not cleaning their drains or not being able to afford to buy a geographically-advantageous house.

Re: "it was ignored"

By the way what is his Moscow address?

Just write 'Lubyanka Square' on your postcard and the Pochta will know which building you mean.

If it's not the hoi polloi, WHO is buying up the houses at the increased prices that the sellers are able to command?

Could the answer be anything to do with the proliferation of buy-to-let landlords, privatised housing associations and/or foreign millionaires investing their wealth in a burgeoning property market?

Just a guess.

Re: Reformed Character Alert !!! :)

You could also save electricity by buying microwave popcorn and leaving it on your windowsill to get nuked for free.

Flat Earth

Serious question: how to flat Earth people explain the Sun being above the horizon (or just visible) for some people and not for others

Apparently it's all a matter of perspective.

Re: Salary

Hang on, let me check my morals. Nope, I'm good where I'm at.

OK, so between us we've covered two of the three main motivators. That leaves patriotism, or given how Williamson will inevitably phrase his next try, outright jingoism.

Re: Pressure?

There's a pretty high probability that I helped pay for your education, and I don't want to think that my money was wasted on someone who ended up so selfish and small-minded.

Re: Time to grow up and grow a skin

that, is what true inequality looks like

Ah, yes, the true inequality is the inequality which you feel is wrong. Other views of inequality don't quite come up to scratch.

You seem to have overlooked the fact that the people we're talking about were born British citizens (well, subjects) with the right to travel, work and live anywhere in the British Empire. When that changed in 1973, what guarantee was there that everyone affected would hear about the change in UK law and get their paperwork sorted out? And even if they did hear, kids who arrived in the late 40s and early 50s would be adults with, generally, 5-20 years of work under their belts, with all the records that entails. Who would expect that 40 years later their right to live in the UK would be questioned?

Re: "Assuming May lasts that long and we don't have another General Election first."

If the DUP don't like the choice she has to make then the No 10 gardeners had better start planting fruit bushes so Corbyn will have something to make jam with.

Don't knock jam-making so readily. We're going to need all the jam we can produce to ensure the nation will thrive in the sunny uplands of post-Brexit international trade. Onward, makers and sellers, onward!

Re: Start the kids on Wumpus.

A lich lord.

Re: Both?

Some photons are microwave photons, some are not.

Perhaps the Department of Redundancy Department might not take issue with saying 'both photons and microwaves', but set theorists would laugh their tits off.

Re: Blockchain is the new XML

The boss would then tell you to finish it off without training or assistance

But if harassed sufficiently, he would eventually agree to shell out £40 for a couple of textbooks (while muttering 'I don't know why someone like you can't find all you need to know on the Internet' under his breath).

I know this, because I came across those books when I moved office earlier this year. Left the fuckers in the recycling waste.

Re: Does anybody else notice...

I live alone and don't talk to myself.

I live alone and do talk to myself.

Very occasionally, someone will answer.

Re: Number query

unless it is purely in reference to the epoch in which it is found

That's my reading of it.

Re: There is no data justification

successive governments of all persuasions have been and remain out of touch and incompetent.

Yet no matter who we vote for, the government still gets in.

And if this game was Two's Up, we've just been fucked by a pair of kangaroos.

Re: Maybe

Let's not forget that the lower tiers of former public servants now employed on rolling Crapita contracts have suffered from a reduction in salary and a worsening of terms of employment over the years, even in comparison to their former colleagues who have barely seen a pay rise since the imposition of austerity eight years ago. Not only is the taxpayer paying for poor results, but we're also obliged to top up the earnings of many of the increasingly lower paid through working tax credits and the like.

The system is screwed from beginning to end -- unless of course you're a Tory grandee with time and money to spend dabbling in the Stock Market to boost your wealth, in which case it's working wonderfully.

Re: The Elite and Super-Rich are busy planning for it:

Mini bottles of liquor or enough* vacuum-packed packets of spices to club a zombie to death with.

* Two birds, one stone.

Re: The fail ship has another stop?

"Windows users were surprised by a new update which surprisingly broke nothing important"

"Yet."

Re: @Rob. D.Whats the issue?

flush it down the gary glitter.

I can't decide whether that's the most apt piece of rhyming slang I've ever heard or whether I truly wish I'd never been reminded of the existence of that bastard.

Re: Are you sure they were servers?

Most servers have (at least) two power supplies

I'm going to guess that you were still in primary school back in 1992. Except for minicomputers I can't remember any standalone servers having more than one power socket, which is one of the reasons we switched to fully rack-mounted kit 15 years ago.

Re: what is wrong

But how to act on that belief... so far my favourite thing to do is called "hesitate"

Mine is called "procrastinate", simply because it takes longer to type.

Re: The Missing 5

Another triumph for the navigation system.

It wasn't the nav system's fault, not at all. The poor machines fell victim to the Barmouth Triangle, and are lost now to time and space.

I suppose there's a chance they'll be returned when the UFOs make contact, landing as scheduled at Aberystwyth Golf Club.