Posts by Lars

Re: Defence is a white elephant

"The cases of Russians attacking someone first by comparison will be less than the fingers of one hand in the last 1000 years.".

If you are British I assume you know British history well but "foreign" history not at all. Russia attacked Sweden 1808 and took half the country, the part called Finland now. Finland again was attacked twice during the last war starting in 1939. Then again one has to remember that war was a sport among Kings and Tsars earlier, To quote the Wiki - "From 1551 to 1700, Russia grew 35,000 km2 (about the size of the Netherlands) per year.".

Super powers become superpowers for fairy obvious reasons and it's a bit hard to find any exceptions and that goes for Britain too.

Not sure about your point actually and I agree with part of it although I must ask you about which Russian capital you are referring to.

But on the more serious topic, scrap Trident it's worthless.

Re: slower than molasses

"I lean toward Opera.". There is also Vivaldi to consider.

Re: Now just imagine ...

Yes no problem, just take part in financing it as before and everything is forgiven.

Regards

pp, Junker

Tusk

PS. No freetards allowed

"Emirate must screw the hell of pricing out of Airbus.".

I can hear your voice, but I wouldn't be too worried (and why should I) as it is also true that Airbus is also fully aware of what other choices the Emitate has and has not.

I am not concerned when business does business with business, both Airbus and the Emirate will shake hands with a smile for good reasons.

I am more concerned when hapless politicians to business with business and even more so when not so hapless politicians do business with business for their own good, sitting at the same time on both sides of the table, smiling.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/business/airbus-a380-emirates.html?&moduleDetail=section-news-0&action=click&contentCollection=Europe&region=Footer&module=MoreInSection&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&pgtype=article

Re: Shameful

@Voland's right hand.

Yes Minister, I liked it too, but lets not forget that at times there is a difference between facts and fiction. And if there is a time to ponder about it, it's about right now.

Re: Finland rolls out bread made from crushed crickets

@jake, Yes I know I have to try it, and indeed it's mental. Goes for dog too they claim, far away in some countries.

People who have tried it say it's like bread (not referring to the dog).

There is also a new protein product called "Pulled Oats" that seems to interest people.

http://goldandgreenfoods.com/

"Veggie" people seem to like it a lot.

Re: Brexiting mermaid

"Danish cable has interesting route. Bypassing the usual suspect...".

Certainly not a Brexit believer but it's simply faster and cheaper to pull a cable direct to Denmark than first to the UK, across the country and across the sea to Denmark, nor is it anything new,

Re: 1000 jobs tranferred

"how long before slavery is just another tool to enhance shareholder value?".

Just wait for Brexit. Icon just for polite I am.

Re: Energy supply, water, transport, telecoms and public health

I think you are a bit mixed up.

Re: Loyal Commenter

"since you never are in possession of all the facts you should never make a decision".

Funny that, you have all the facts, even the Americans have the facts. see the Rand corp.

https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR2200.html

"Key Findings

The economic analysis shows that the UK will be economically worse-off outside of the EU under most plausible scenarios. The key question for the UK is how much worse-off it will be post-Brexit.

The option of leaving the EU with no deal and entering World Trade Organization (WTO) rules would lead to the greatest economic losses for the UK. This would reduce future GDP by around five per cent over ten years, which is a loss of $140 billion.

Under WTO rules, the EU would also lose out economically, but nowhere near the same proportion as the UK — about 0.7 per cent of its overall GDP, which is $97 billion.".

Brexit was built on lies and dreams, perhaps on alternative facts. And there you go with a two party system where both parties are more concerned by the next election than the well being of the people.

Two idiots at the helm, "in the name of the people". What is there to expect but unicorns.

Re: Ee, bah, eck etc

@Pompous Git

"wheat, barley, or rye".

According to on the Wiki, "mustamakkara" black sausage what we have in Finland.

"Mustamakkara (literally black sausage) is a type of Finnish blood sausage traditionally eaten with lingonberry jam. It is nowadays available in many stores across Finland, but is held in the position of local delicacy and speciality of Tampere. Mustamakkara is at its best when bought and eaten fresh at market stalls, to which it is delivered hot in styrofoam boxes from the factories directly after baking. A typical practice of reheating the sausage is to just fry it in a pan.

Mustamakkara is known to have been eaten as early as in the 17th century and was generally cooked over a small fire, in a hot cauldron or in an oven. Mustamakkara is made by mixing pork, pig blood, crushed rye and flour, "

But as always people use what they have available, be it oatmeal, wheat, barley, or rye if they do it themselves, which they don't these days.

And then there is "Verilätty" in Finish, "Blodplättar" in Swedish, according to the Wikipedia used only also in Norway which cannot be true as it's such a quick way of using the blood.

Of course "modern" people don't like to eat blood, which in a way, is a bit silly, as you will always eat blood too if you eat meat, no matter how you kill the animal.

On blood pancakes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blodpl%C3%A4ttar

Blodplättar, or blood pancakes (veriohukainen, verilätty or verilettu in Finnish), are a dish served in Finland, Sweden and Norway made of whipped blood and other ingredients. It is similar to black pudding, but is thinner and crispier.

Blodplättar may be fried in a frying pan. The pancakes are occasionally served with pork or reindeer meat.

In Swedish, the word may also be used to refer to blood platelets."

What else, my deity how much oat porridge one had to eat as a child, and now it would probably be all for the good to day too.

Re: Getting sovereignty back

Business and Enterprise Cttee: Brexit and the Automotive Industry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F3LZTJOzSA

People from the Automotive Industry, incl. Aston Martin explaining how it works.

Re: Self employed and BYOD

"And for some reason we've always been the most zealous implementors of every EU rule".

And the French are the very opposite. And to believe that you have to be British. It's quite a popular idea in more or less every EU country that we <inset country> stick to the rules while nobody else does it.

Repeating bullshit year after year is how it's done, nothing new under the stars.

Re: Back in the day.....

"What am I missing?"

Only your youth.

Re: Another quality delivery from HP!

"I've never had a laptop that didn't have a user-replaceable battery".

We have to pay more attention to what we buy, a lot more.

Re: To be fair...

@ Voland's right hand,

If you want to choose something about the topic and from that part of the world, choose quality like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGiz_qbViE0

Good music has no borders.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DFsF_0tfiM

Re: AMD not vulnerable

Sadly it doesn't seem to be "just" a microcode error that could be mended in the microcode.

As for 64bit, AMD was indeed ahead of Intel but one could also point out that 64bit processors were available years before that.

The Wiki on AMD 64bit:

"The original specification, created by AMD and released in 2000, has been implemented by AMD, Intel and VIA. The AMD K8 processor was the first to implement the architecture; this was the first significant addition to the x86 architecture designed by a company other than Intel. Intel was forced to follow suit and introduced a modified NetBurst family which was fully software-compatible with AMD's design and specification."

Ps AMD never copied Intel, the had tp do a "clean room" to do the microcode themselves.

Re: What's happened to the UK?

@Boris the Cockroach

"hence oddities like Paris keeps Berlin time".

Perhaps, in order not to show you lack of knowledge, you should look at how GMT works in Europe and why, like here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Mean_Time

My advice for Britain would be to join Central European Time, business would gain from it and the cows would hardly oppose it either.

As for the rest of your comment, hogwash that too, however, happy new year to everybody, regardless if at times we wake up on the wrong foot at times.

Life is so unfair at times too, look the French went for the metric system too.

And think about all those American states with neighbours who decide to take a different time zone must be annoying and all because of the cows.

"what's the point if it's not Apple".

That is the point.

Re: Haa Haa Haa

@ Hans 1

Referring to British MEP's I would claim you are rather unfair as Farage wasn't the only one and I am sure there was quality MEP's too.

But you know how it is, if in an elevator with say twenty people one is farting, everybody becomes a suspect and nobody is pleased.

Written with some experience on a Linux laptop.

Re: Any of these seem to work in this situation...

@ Marketing Hack

If you write "-misattributed" then the same probably goes for Lincoln too, not that it matters at all.

Some interesting stuff about it here:

http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/161924

Some good marketing stuff but also a claim "Its earliest use was in French in 1684 in Traité de la Vérité de la Religion Chrétienne,a work of apologetics by Jacques Abbadie, a French Protestant.

My theory, a work in progress, is that it was first used by a angry camel buyer in a used camel shop some three thousand years ago in the Middle East, something he got from a Chinaman but forgot about.

Re: Only the small fish?

"so who gets to decide who is "too objectionable" and who is not".

Quite simple, those who run and own Twitter.

Re: Not again...

"The Sun has no moons.". They are called planets for some odd reason.