Posts by Rattus Rattus

Re: So what?

YouTube has ads? Huh.

Re: when are we...

Don't know where he expected to carry that in a Hornet cockpit, anyway.

If you're willing to forgo the removeable battery, you can get most of what you're looking for in the Xiaomi Mi A1 for about £180. I just moved from my old S5 to the Xiaomi and am pretty pleased with it.

Re: Stamp it out.

Spotted the German?

Re: @bombastic bob

And so they should. It's shiitake mushroom.

Re: Why so greedy????

Fraudulent? Yes, if they can get away with it. Criminal? Well, not if you can buy enough politicians to make it legal.

Re: My personal OS is ...

What have they done to deserve being saddled with a console?

Re: How good is the cars anticipation?

With all these comments about small children, I want to know who all these parents are that (A) fail to teach their kids basic road safety; and (B) allow their kids anywhere remotely near a road without holding their hands until they're old enough to have learned?

I'm frankly pretty fed up with the calls to wrap the whole world in cotton wool because some parents are too stupid to actually parent.

If they're well designed they shouldn't. I have a transport card, my work door card, and a bank card all in my wallet together and I just swipe the whole wallet over over the relevant sensor. The sensor reads the card it's looking for and ignores the others.

@Arctic Fox

Faux News

Re: God you luddites are boring

My PC even cold boots in about a quarter the time my phone does, thanks to a nice fast SSD. And then once the phone is booted I have to wait some more while it initialises things and faffs about with memory. I could start my desktop, read the email, reply, and shut down in less time than it would take just to start my phone and open the email on it. All with the comfort of a proper keyboard, too. No, a phone is what you use for emergency access when you're away from your real computer.

Re: two days to travel from Los Angeles, CA to San Antonio, TX by road

Try visiting Australia then. My state is bigger than Alaska and Texas combined, and takes two days to drive across the short way. Three to four days to travel its length.

Re: license to have children

That's not such a bad idea, TBH. I would get behind it.

re: Ballmer

You know, I miss Steve Ballmer. After a few years of Satellite Nutella I'm starting to think the sweaty one wasn't so bad.

Re: Open the window?

My hovercraft is full of eels!

Her name is Alberta, she lives in Vancouver!

Re: Wanting without paying

"Every tax payer wants certain services to exist and wants them paid for by the other tax payers"

On a national level, with a sovereign currency, that's not really how tax works. Tax isn't raised to pay for government spending although it's often framed that way, the government owns the currency and mints and can spend as much as they like. Government spends money into existence. Tax is a mechanism to remove money from circulation so spending new money into existence doesn't cause too much inflation. This is why a government budget is not like a business or household budget and should not be managed like one.

Non-sovereign governments, however, such as states and cities, do have to raise the money they spend in one way or another. This includes taxes, fines, fees, duties, and direct grants from the national government.

Re: ElReg: so educational

Named after the insect - "white ants," better known as termites. 'Cos they're fairly ant shaped, and they're, well, white.

Re: Aged Parent

So he already understands lookup tables!

Re: Portable gold

"when he decided that protecting the UK's triple-A rating was more important than investing in industry and in training"

Funny, Australia is in the same position for the same reasons. This is looking less like accident and more like a deliberate choice.

Re: Firing up

Stars can shine

People can try

But that's about it

(Apologies to Dan Salvato)

Re: direct entry from interplanetary cruise

Just like my Kerbal missions. Atmospheres make everything so much easier!

Re: You can make some people believe anything if you dumb it down enough

True. For example, that "trickle down" economics works, or that tax breaks for the wealthy create jobs, or that America is the "land of the free".

Re: Too much Daily Mail for my liking

Yep, as soon as someone starts on the "think of the kiddies!" drivel these days I automatically take the whole text only half as seriously, and usually start looking for the hidden motive.

Re: Market distortion

For completely optional resources they are. For necessities they are not.

90% of the [construction] cost of an FTTH network

...and 10,000% of the ongoing maintenance costs.

Re: Alien? Unlikely

Great. So aliens exist, but it turns out they're Vogons.

No

Console is not an option.

Re: I ain't Spartacus

The only true doughnut is the cinnamon-dusted ring (shaddup). All those iced or jam-filled... things are mere cakes and no doughnut at all!

Re: Most of the appeal of GoT

"Most of the appeal of GoT is the scheming and intrigue, lifted from European history. Until the most recent series, the fantasy elements have sat on the periphery"

Which I guess is why it turned out boring as shite and I ended up dumping it after a couple of seasons. No I don't care who's screwing who or whose family has a ten generations old rivalry with another. I want magic blowing shit up and dragons setting fire to things.