Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

It was a long time ago, he's probably still on usenet

Re: Um, not sure if he's thought this through

Problem is taking morality lessons from Iron age shepherds

Re: Well that's embarrassing

With the result that 'stay away from the cycle scheme, it causes legal problems' will now become standard corporate lawyer advice.

>Eratosthenes of Cyrene

I think we've all had enough of experts - and european ones at that

Re: Serial Taps

Similar one with a machine that would regularly lose line feeds to the printer resulting in reports with everything printed ontop of itself.

Solution was to set the line feed to 1/64 of a line and send 64 of them, nobody notices if your line spacing is out by 1.2%

Re: One Per Desk

They also showed up in bingo places in the late 80s early 90s unning a nationwide bif prize bingo game

Re: Single point of failure

The beancounters suggested that they record the - 1 channel and play it back an hour later = a big saving in production ciata

Hijab time

Although a black guy in a guy fawkes mask would probably cause it to explode

Re: Have they never heard?

Could also affect insider trading.

By buying/selling shares I am excising my free speech

Re: Have they never heard?

Waiting for the first corporation to claim it's getting married to get round the ftc objecting to a merger.

Although this should prevent any startup less than 18 years old being screwed by Oracle

Re: City On the Move

Even the Germans couldn't be persuaded to bomb Sheffield.

They did bomb attercliffe for 5years causing thousands of pounds of improvements

Re: Something seems wonky in that sentence

>Complete disregard for humanity...

An improvement on active hatred of humanity that Blunket's council aimed for

Re: City On the Move

The important part is to blame the government, and then any member of the peoples front of Judea in the local council

Sheffield is the perfect example of why you shouldn't let politicians run things

Inept would be a massive improvement on what it was 20-30 years ago

But after the government adopted the leaf as the new currency the only way to combat inflation s to cut down all the trees.

Re: Ideal

>What chance a has a rocket got of staying upright long enough

The rocket will launch underground up through a circular beach house. The lack of palm trees means there is no need for them to retract for horizontal launches

I saw a documentary on it while I was a kid

Cut off trade with your largest trading partner to prevent the economy overheating.

Mind if I use that line?

D Cummings

Re: Let's hope West Midlands Police learns something useful

It refers to a small number of convictions where the West Midlands Serious Crime squad obtained a false confession from somebody after their arrest

This was strictly against their normal policing procedure - which was to write a confession first and then arrest somebody of the appropriate colour later

Re: Do you know someone that owns a knife?

>Do you know someone that owns a knife?

Except this is more like, do you know anyone who has some iron ore

Re: Let's hope West Midlands Police learns something useful

>applicants to be plods can be rejected for doing too well on a test

That's why they don't have Border Collies as police dogs

The MoD plod have German Shepherds because one of the team has to have an IQ > 60

While 30years ago under Thatcher they were well paid/funded and models of community engagement and cultural sensitivity

Not just any member of the PLA. Their security was so good that only Hugh, Pugh, Barnet McGrew and Cuthbert were good enough - it kept Dibble and Grub out.