Posts by Rich 11

We're absolute mugs working in the UK, especially those in web development it seems.

It seems I am only 40% as valued as they like to tell me I am at every staff development review.

Re: EU must be joking

We might still have had a car industry if it hadn't been nationalised.

Forty percent of the car industry was nationalised because the component companies were too small to survive on their own in the face of Japan's rise. When parts of British Leyland were demerged and privatised in the 1980s most went to the wall. The fractions which survived are now mostly in foreign ownership.

Re: Whilst I've toyed with the idea...

Also try to stand in traffic while waiting for the lights to change stuck behind some moron who has removed all the stuffing from their already anti-social exhaust (or removed the catalytic converter)

This is what potatoes were invented for.

(Don't worry about the moron spotting you inserting the potato -- they can't see shit through their tinted windows and they don't know what rear-view mirrors are for either.)

Re: Dover

They also wallowed like pigs.

If I remember correctly they couldn't be used in anything above a Force 5 wind. I went on a school trip to France in 1977, and we were shifted to the ferry because the hovercraft couldn't be taken out. We did get the hovercraft back, but the wind and waves were still high enough to throw everyone around. Not fun when a number of kids had spent their last francs on fizzy pop and sweets...

and decapitate dogs and small children.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

Re: Ground Ice

Sadly, despite having space technology, Vesta hadn't bothered with flavour technology...

Quite true. Despite not having eaten a Vesta curry since my very distant student days, your comment instantly brought to mind the sensation of the texture of Vesta beef and noodles, but absolutely no sensation of its taste.

Re: Logo

Also, where is the slot to put your shilling in?

Just be careful which lens you put your eye to.

The only way this government will ever make the Brexit process go any faster is to blunder off the cliff edge and accelerate under gravity.

It's going to hurt when we hit the rocks.

Re: Proof reading?

The quality of English in El Reg articles has gone seriously downhill in the last 12 months, did you sack all your proof readers or just not have any to begin with?

This sentence could do with a spot of proof-reading too.

Re: Closing scene of "The Ruling Class"

It's a very good film. Keep an eye out for the hearing prayers gag.

Re: Here's looking at you (Maybe)

And periodicity gives orbital distance, once the mass of the star has been estimated. Planetary mass can also be estimated based upon spectral shift. Some techniques are more useful and reliable when the ecliptic is edge on, others when it is closer to face on.

Re: Vehicle efficiency

I don't think anyone was claiming that something could be made 100% efficient, let alone beyond that.

Re: Get the medics to do it?

It was my inability to win at Operation which convinced me that I should not go into medicine, much to my mother's chagrin.

Look where I ended up.

Re: Fixes

It's simple that even a vice president can do it.

Only because he thought Siri was a real woman and he couldn't be trusted to be left alone in a room with her.

A Banksy artwork of Richard Branson's massive head.

Re: Where's the substance?

Not so easy if Mr/Mrs Redneski is in St. Petersburg.

So not the St Petersburg in Florida?

Re: Welcome

"Block war!"

Re: People who link global warming to sunspots are wankers

i.e. if the sun puts out MORE light+heat+other_radiation then it kinda tends to WARM the PLANET, ya know?

I expect Bob will be able to produce solid evidence that the sun has been putting out 'MORE light+heat+other_radiation', and also explain why the measured increase in greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere has a much less significant effect.

Re: "...18 to 24-year-olds..."

I've had over 70 already.

Greedy bastard.

Re: The chances of anything coming from Mars...

(+1 upvote for your obscure reference!)

Obscure?! The appearance of a Jeff Wayne quote is inevitable in the comments on any article about life on Mars.

And I wouldn't have it any other way.

We could threaten to send Boris

Can we just send Boris anyway? For as long as it takes. No rush. He can teach the sheep Latin while he's waiting. All of them. And then the penguins.

Re: Two Britains?

All politicians create their own alternative reality. It's their superpower.

There's no chance of them ever understanding what a TCP socket is. Can you imagine Amber Rudd doing the rounds of the Sunday politics shows, trying to explain one to the interviewer?

Re: Of course P≠NP....

That would have taken too long.

Re: Sorry to bother you

You forgot the advertising vid.

Re: Give them space, give them love.

Hallelujah, brother! (And I know you're a brother. Not just a brother in Christ, but a white brother. A brother who really gets it.)

Get your stopwatch. My five minutes of 'God bless Trump!' starts right here, right now.

Re: It looks like they were quite desparate to pin something on him, judging by the last paragraph:

When you are out on bail you are not allowed access to guns

It's America. In most states they have piss-easy access to guns, thanks to the sterling work of the wonderful NRA. If someone on bail decided to vanish, do you really think they couldn't also find a gun if they wanted to and had $250 spare?

Re: Slippery slope?

It has to be hate specifically directed at a person because of their ownership/association of a protected characteristic

Unfortunately that's considered as 'political correctness gorn maad' for the people who don't have enough mirror neurons to be able to put themselves in someone else's shoes.

Re: R V Jones

Thirded for 'Most Secret War'. It doesn't just shed light on the scientific and military problems, but also the deeply maddening political and bureaucratic power games being played out at that time.

Re: One thing is missing here..

we are trying to make a certain religion integrate into society that doesn't believe in our values

I too am sick of fundamentalist Christians killing doctors and firebombing women's clinics, of denying young people good sex education, of 'praying the gay away' and of claiming that their interpretation of what their favourite spirit in the sky wants is better than anyone else's interpretation of that or any other spirit in the sky's desires.

Re: Interesting stuff

and think that it is somehow codified, and it follows or should follow rules.

What are you, a Geneva Convention denier? Do you think war would be better without any possibility of any act ever being considered a war crime, perhaps?

Re: Excellent!

You're not mad. I have fond memories of Turbo Basic. I haven't touched it since 1988, but I'm sure I've still got the manuals and the 5.25" 360K disks in a box somewhere...

Re: Client support, we've heard about it

Some of the server guys even actually liked talking to humans for a bit :)

I don't believe you. Who threatened to take away their coffee machine and move their desks from the cubbyhole to an open-plan office?

Re: 1400?

Because we've got our own system of inefficiency, graft and pork barrels to sustain. Don't you ever read the news?