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Did anyone else look at the picture el Reg used to illustrate this article and get the urge to shout "ONE! STEP! BEYOND!"

Best bit

From the Irish Medical Journal article:

Conflict of Interest:

No conflicts of interest from any author

It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again

Sherlock icon because what did Shkreli think would happen?

Cheerio

Shamelessly stolen from someone on Twitter:

"If Carly Fiorina really wants to destroy Planned Parenthood, she should become its CEO"

Weasel words

"...do not reflect my actual views..." this fake apology bollox needs to stop. Why were you saying it if it didn't reflect your views? Are you in the habit of randomly suggesting your company engages in practices that you disagree with?

wanker

Prince has been a prick for years: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/14/prince_b3ta_dmca/

Stickers!

Stickers please. The Vulture, BOFH, SPB, all that good stuff.

What I don't get...

The whole point of Snapchat is to send nude pics, yes? There's really no other use case. So why in God's name did it need a look-up function? If you're not sure about a person's phone number or email, you probably shouldn't be sending them dick/tit pics. Even if the pic has a self-destruct function of dubious functionality.

Apple forward thinking

Apple have got this covered by making Safari so fecking useless that people automatically install and use a different browser.

That's acutally pretty tame...

There are some awesome/disturbing patches for US secret projects, as well as some hilarious unofficial morale patches. This book features a range, along with details of what some of the designs mean: http://www.mhpbooks.com/books/i-could-tell-you-but-then-you-would-have-to-be-destroyed-by-me/

and another thing...

"The characteristics of this type of job, the evidence shows increased risk of mental illness and physical illness."

Amazon sites aren't so much warehouses as holding pens for people with personality disorders, in my experience.

Good luck with that...

There's just (as in this week) been a major change of shift pattern for all the UK FCs. There used to be a mix of folk working 5x8 hour shifts and 4x10 hour shifts, with a night shift running Nov-Dec. Now everyone's on 4 10-hour shifts and there's a permanent night shift. The various overlap days are going to be chaos; we don't have the capacity to have that many people working at once, never mind canteen facilities and so on. It's virtually certain that temps are going to get sent home or called and told not to come in. We've already got a shite reputation locally as an employer, and it's going to get worse.

Haud me back

I've met some of our CS staff. You don't want to video call them.

It's a film star too

A wee bit of the Bond film "The World is Not Enough" was filmed up at Cruachan.

As someone else mentioned, the train station is a request stop, and the train up from Glasgow splits in two at Crianlarich so check you're in the correct carriage and make sure the ticket collector knows where you're going. IME the staff on the West Highland line are good at paying attention and helping out visitors. By the way, if you get to Cruachan by public transport or bicycle you get free entry.

some evidence would be nice

"Children are getting far more access to pornography than they used to, and it's not doing them any good at all."

[Citation needed]

What you wrote is commonly believed, but the evidence is sketchy to say the least.

what you did there, I saw it

"Standard Innovation saw an opening in this area"

I bet they did.

Regarding Murdoch

Rupert isn't the only choice for the real-life inspiration for Elliot Carver. There's Ted Turner for one, but more obviously Robert Maxwell. Tomorrow Never Dies even ends with M dictating a press release about Carver's death, saying that he fell from his luxury yacht.

Factor that in with Maxwell's rumoured links with Israeli spooks, and his arseholish behaviour (ripping off the Mirror Group pensions etc) and you've got a very solid base for a Bond villain.

Creative accounting

Even allowing for temp jobs, the figure quoted is almost certainly bollocks. When Amazon opened the site at Dunfermline last year the jobs created figure in the press release included all posts created in Scotland since the last announcement. Amazon announced 200 extra jobs for one site, of which 60-80 had already been created in the 18 months previous.

not a huge bacon sannie fan...

My preference is for a roll and slice (square sausage) and tattie scone, with onions and tomato sauce. Bonus points for a well-fired or Morton's roll that's pleasingly jaggy to the mouth.

Job 3:14

'with kings and counselors of the earth, who built for themselves places now lying in ruins,'

Mission: Impossible did it first. ;)

Igby Goes Down

Igby Goes Down. Not even the ohsopretty Claire Danes could save that one. I was chatting with my girlfriend ages back and she mentioned Igby Goes Down. I said I hadn't seen it- she pointed out that we'd watched it together. The film was so bad my mind had attempted to scab over the entire viewing experience.