Posts by cynic56

Re: OOoooooK

Standard American practice.

Re: What's worse?

Does the 30 day rule apply to all crimes? I might take up bank robbery. If I get caught, I can keep trying for another 30 days. Even I might succeed in that time.

Re: Not in my back yard unless youtube is buffering

A piece of advice ...

If you intend misrepresenting facts to the point where even a Tory would be embarrassed, it really helps if you don't post a link which blows your argument to pieces.

Re: Unfair contracts

They just need to change it to "page one of none" and blame Microsoft Word. Simples!

Re: Even Outlook

5) Don't use 365.

Re: And use food delivery services where you can.

And its no good blaming people for overcrowding the Tube trains when they all knew the tube was at least 70% full the day before and at no stage in between did they demand EMPLOYERS close their offices and shops - and lets be really stupid and close half the stations and reduce the number of services. All the directives were aimed at little people - none at business.

If your boss says go in you probably have very little choice in the matter.

If they restricted travel earlier and more comprehensively and told businesses, shops and sports earlier then we wouldn't be in this mess. Until about two days ago their first and second thoughts were business and the economy, the rest was just platitudes.

NO JOINED-UP THINKING. NO LEADERSHIP AT ALL.

Re: FAA trusted Boeing to self verify

I tried a downvote, but that wasn't enough. You're an m*r*n with a distorted view of reality.

I don't know if you're half as good as you seem to think you are - but you sound like a complete arse anyway. Doubt many employers or colleagues would want to be with you for more than an hour anyway.

Re: Thankfully..

Is it wrong to call this AC a tw@t. I'd laugh if it wasn't enough to make you cry. The stupidity of people and their ability to delude themselves into believing everything they hear in their own self imposed Echo Chamber is staggering.

is there a particular problem with the mental health of employees on the Isle of Wight?

Or HS2

Re: Study philosophy!

I can't decide whether to upvote or downvote this. Mainly because I haven't got a clue what you're talking about. Sorry I'm so thick.

That's quite a significant asterisk there for a lot of people. Receipts are no problem as long as you have Camscanner too.

Baud ...

Presumably you have the same sense of relief about Germany not suffering from communism in the 1930s?

Re: Already carbon neutral

Twaddle (narrowly avoided an expletive). Don't believe anyone's carbon-neutral claims, especially a company earning 130 billion dollars a year - all of which is totally dependent on electricity consumption.

Absolute Cr*p! PCSOs are more like social workers. I've never heard of them giving anyone a hard time -EVER, and believe me, I am a very sympathetic audience. Now, if you want to talk about private parking enforcement wardens employed by the council, that's a whole different ball game.

Re: Sophos Anitvirus does kill Windows 10 1903 build laptops

In my experience Sophos never likes anything.

Re: "... a fear that, ironically, is now coming to pass"

@ I ain't sparttacus.

Hi. I'm a Nigerian Prince and I have a deal that a man of your intelligence may be interested in.

Re: Eh, it’s Mondelez.

MyffyW, have you actually tasted Cadbury's chocolate in the past few years? I agree that 20 years ago it was the best milk chocolate but consider it to be barely edible now, wouldn't even want it as a gift.

I used to work at Cadbury's in Bournville in the 70s and 80s. Happy days. Loved the smell of chocolate which fillewd the air for miles around.

Re: 32GB HP Monstruosities

That used to work for me twenty years ago on a 56 k line in 327x or VT51 mode. Sure as hell doesn't work now with the huge amount of sh*te that needs to flow down the pathetic Comms infrastructure of Third World United Kingdom.

Even at work, with much faster Comms, our cloudy world takes an eternity to open a browser or document or spreadsheet - and our laptops have a tidy spec. At home - don't even dream about it.

Diagnosis: 21st century is FUBAR. Despite technological advances, you can rely on government, greedy monopolies, management and obviously Microsoft to make you yearn for yesteryear.

Re: A worrying precedent?

All the sh*te the T*ries have dumped on us since 79 and you're still bothered by Blair's brief period of T*ries Lite. Never mind f*cking up whole communities and regions, destroying the infrastructure, giving away the nation's assets to their mates at discount prices, overpopulating the country to the point of breaking - all in the cause of cheap cheap labour, fubar of the entire housing sector, Brexit FFS, Brexit for the sole purpose of internal effing T*ry internal politics, Cameron, Osborne, The Witch, the needless deaths of thousands in The Falklands due to their own incompetent foreign policy, corporatism, homelessness, the surveillance state, stealing our pensions, corruption, control of the electorate by owning the media, endemic bigotry and racism.

Sorry, but anyone who can look at modern day UK and claim that the problems are due to w*nker Blair needs to take a serious look at their logic circuits.

Re: Misleading title

No. Not until you define 'dark'

Re: Java f'in script !

Upvote just for the double email address bit

Re: Doesn't matter

"This would have happened around the time the last labour government came to power, say 97."

Of course it would. Yawn.

Agreed with most of what you said, though.

Re: country & western singers

"the back doors of the lorry in front burst open, and hundreds of logs are flung out..."

Now it's getting much more complicated. Should it run over Beech before Ash, Horse Chestnut before Sycamore, Elm before Oak, on number 4 - the larch. I didn't even know these AI cars were qualified Dendrologists.

Re: A tiny step in the right direction

This argument is getting silly. Silly, silly, silly.The last recorded purchase of fuel at a Motorway service station was by Mr Arthur Tremlett in 1973. In his defence he stated that he was wearing the wrong glasses and misread the price.

Obviously I am excluding purchases by employees whose company car deal also includes free fuel (b*stards).

"whereas the UK system is concerned (supposedly) with finding the truth."

Glad you added "supposedly". Although it probably needed 24 point, bold, capitals, underlined with flashing lights and a brass band accompaniment. Truth and justice rarely encounter our legal system these days.

Re: 3D Printing reply

Upvote for the kisses. Don't get many kisses from El Reg - or anywhere else for that matter. After all, I am in IT.

Re: Prepare for...

Please tell me you are joking.

Re: Funny how everyone points at the Tories doing all kinds of shenanigans...

Why are you so fixated on him being Labour and, horror of horrors, a Bl**rite. You should be more concerned about whether this is a good thing or a bad thing. PS. since it attempts to constrain the power of the megacorps, it's a good thing.

How can I get used to the ribbon interface. They move everything around all the time. Most of the ribbon is full of sh*te I don't need and most of the stuff I want is missing or misplaced.

Grrrrrr!!!!!!!

Re: "Upgrading users should be able to ignore the viewer as before."

@LDS

How many upvotes can I give you? However many it is, it isn't enough.

Re: 95%? dubious..

As far as my ISP is concerned, I get up to 38Mbps fibre and they are happy to charge me more to upgrade to 76Mbps. In practice, I have never actually reached even 15Mbps. I am certain I am included in the 95%.

This is just a bare-faced lie by the Government and BT.

Re: How difficult is it really?

I take my hat off to you, except for omitting the 'joke' icon.

Many farmers are totally dependent on these and mass bankruptcies and suicides would follow because they are operating in a 'broken' system. We were going to put a stop to the madness of the CAP subsidies when we joined the Common Market in the seventies. Forty years on and we haven't even dented them.

It is almost inevitable that farm subsidies will INCREASE when we leave the EU. The Government will need to work out the replacement scheme, which will involve negotiating with the vested interests of the agricultural sector - and we all know how good the Government are at negotiating with vested interests - ask the Banking Industry or BT /Openretch or Train Operating companies .... or just about anybody.

Re: Foregone conclusion

It isn't how many operators you have. It's how they are motivated or controlled. One operator would be fine if Ofcom and their like had any balls.