* Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

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It's been 230 years since British pirates robbed the US of the metric system

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Re: Godless heathens

In astronomy Pi would be 1, like c and G

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>I feel most Americans don't see Metric being used in the the U.S. because we don't need it.

Unless you are being shot by a 9mm while dealing a gram of something

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Re: a meter is 1/299,792,458ls

c is 1.8026 megafurlongs per microfortnight

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Re: Godless heathens

Eminently sensible. If you are creating a universe from scratch then have Pi be a nice integer

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Re: Metric for precision. Imperial for sharing

>Cake can only be sliced in powers of 2 (1/2, 1/4, 1/8) as God clearly intended.

Not in America - only a communist would share a cake

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Re: Gammon's

>And, of course, a country can leave the EU too if it choose to :-p

So an empire would be one where the imperial capital refuses to allow countries in the empire to leave?

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Godless heathens

The metric system isn't in the bible. A true American would only use cubits and talents

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Re: "forced to glide the aircraft, containing 69 souls"

It's even more offensive. It dates from the days on ships where certain of the souls didn't count as "human resources"

There is a memorial at a ship museum here which lists "x passengers, y crew - not including lascars"

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Re: NATO?

(yes, I know it's 0.3inch).

Even that isn't a standard. IIRC a 0.303 is smaller than a 7.62 (0.3) depending on how you measure the rifling

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Re: US Survey Foot

The difference is very small, you could just make the border line around states a little thicker and it would cancel out

Massive outage grounded US flights because someone accidentally deleted a file

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Re: NOTAM

>When God created Man, She was only joking.

It was an Alpha release to testing

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Re: I'm grateful!

Slightly concerned that "a contractor" could just delete a file, what if they could also add or change a file?

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Re: NOTAM

>God created man and woman. Democrats created all the other.

If G*d had meant us to fly he wouldn't have invented the FAA

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Re: "Why did it take three hours to twig the cause"

The machine that goes ping !

We rent this machine back from the company we sold it to , that way it comes out of monthly expenses and not the capital account

Rounds of applause

Tone deaf? Microsoft must have booked Sting for Davos because he's a good singer

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Re: Jeez, this is just cringeworthy!

It would have been funnier if it had been BAe or Lockheed-Martin execs - maybe next year

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26th Bond movie

An evil supervillian plans to blow up Davos, killing all the worlds plutocrats and finance ministers

Bond's mission is to make sure it all goes to plan

Google dumps 12,000 employees after project probe

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Re: Competition

Especially if you make somebody redundant claiming that you have no use for their particular skills

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Re: Competition

But do you have an impressive resume showing your history of doing nothing ?

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Re: 50% more staff in 3 years

Well there are all those new words to search for each year, it's all the fault of the liberal college-dictionary complex.

If we were sensible and got rid of words beginning with Q we could cut 1/26 of their workforce

Mentally scarred: Kenyan workers taught ChatGPT to recognize offensive text

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Re: If it was truly "intelligent"

So you just have somebody tag toxic content so that it can detect toxic content and exclude it from the training set?

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I certainly think US farm workers should earn Swiss wages

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Just get Oxbridge graduates

Back in the days of the video nasty scare, James Ferman (bbfc censor) claimed it was OK for him to watch this content because he was educated. It was only a problem for the masses

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No the magical abilities are based on maths.

Making sure that it hasn't learnt that people are nasty is based on pay "which is more than double the minimum wage in Kenya"

Bringing cakes into the office is killing your colleagues, says UK food watchdog boss

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Re: Passive smoking? Let's investigate

>"I have done a scientific study and despite using several different types of cakes in several different office locations, at no point did the cake move towards me"

Well obviously not while you're watching at them.

They only disapear when not being observed - like leftover pizza in the fridge

Intel casts doubt on Italy for chip factory location

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Airbus much ?

US sues Intel for receiving illegal state aid in Europe

University of Texas latest US school to ban TikTok

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Re: Texas has a university ?

> There is a constitutional requirement for a separation of church and state

Thank you, I'm only slightly familiar with the work of Hayek so I wasn't clear how making laws forcing women to cover their arms is fundamental to capitalism.

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Re: Texas has a university ?

Yes I worked in Texas, we were trying to open an office there. But we made metrology equipment with LASERS and the office was in a business park near the airport - so we were blocked for several years because LASER + airport + foreigners = terrorist

And although this was post 9/11 it was pre MAGA so state politics hadn't gone full Taliban

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Texas has a university ?

All studies either agree with the bible and so are unnecessary or disagree with the bible and so are heretical

Or am I being unfair? Is that Florida ?

FTX audit finds $415m in crypto mysteriously vanished

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>How is he even permitted to use a computer and the internet as part of his bail conditions?

They didn't even make him do a pinkie-swear ?

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But how is Area 51, Hunter Biden's laptop and Hillary's emails involved ?

Punch-drunk Apple Watch called 15 cops to a boxing workout when it heard 'shots'

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re: problem with using sensors to try to work out if one is in peril or not

We used to have lone worker alarms which trigger if you lie immobile for long enough

But we also had meetings with PowerPoint

Twitter 2.0 signal boosts Taliban 2.0 through Blue subscriptions

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Re: "While AK-47-totting.."

So you can tote a tote bag and tote a tote gun

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Re: It's the end of civilisation as we know it!

It might make some areas of the financial industry rather less efficient:

Rings bell

Hear ye, Hear Ye

News has just been received that the potentate of the far colonies over the ocean hath (6 months ago) declared that ye interest rate on US treasury bonds shall be increased

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Re: "While AK-47-totting.."

I wonder, does one 'tote' anything other than a gun ?

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Re: Kudos to the BBC for self-labelling its state affiliation

The Saudis kicked in a big chunk of the loans to Musk to buy Twitter.

Significant investors in Twitter get access to their customer data for "marketing purposes"

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Re: Erm

>Taking money off the head chopping Taliban is no different to taking money off our head chopping Saudi friends.

There is a very significant difference between accepting $20 for a check mark on Twitter and $20Bn to fund buying Twitter

Biden seeks out Dutch support for blockade on Chinese chip industry

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Re: Bullies

But at least the USA has been staunchly supporting its European allies and not imposing arbitrary trade embargoes to pander to political sentiments

UK Online Safety law threatens Big Tech bosses with jail

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Re: Somewhere in London, an MI5 man is crying into his beer

Well if MI5 was used against the evil communist CCCP supporting NUM back in the day

Surely it's in the national interest that they are given the powers to fight against the (checks notes) Putin supporting nurses

Microsoft axes 10,000, already breaking bad news to staff

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Microsoft used to have a strict stack ranking.

The bottom X % of each group were fired - leading to managers hiring sacrificial goats every review season in order to keep their whole team

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A few years ago a tech company making lay offs signalled imminent bankruptcy and so a declining share price.

Now it's a fashion leading to lower costs and so higher stock price.

They will hire more new employees at lower rates and then pay through the nose for a few key people they accidentally let go. But in the short term it offsets any bad earnings numbers for last quarter

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Re: 11'000 Managers fired

That's nearly the whole team in charge of changing the start button for each new version

Wyoming's would-be ban on sale of electric vehicles veers off road

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Re: Pollutor pays

Unless you bring them inside during the summer

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Re: Pollutor pays

>How exactly do you wear out a solar panel?

The fill up with sunlight which has to be emptied out. Fortunately thus can now be used to refill the smiles of breakfast TV hosts

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Re: Just a symptom...

We send $350bn to Washington let's fund the rural America instead ?

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Re: Just a symptom...

Same here we have an "agricultural land reserve" (definitely not a green belt to restrict housing) because what would happen if we couldn't import food?

Of course we don't have any tractor factories or fertilizer plants in the reserve and most of the farms are greenhouses for flowers so it's not clear how strategic it is.

Will 2023 be the year of dynamite disinfo deepfakes, cooked up by rogue states?

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Re: Enemy States?

To paraphrase a certain Mr M Ali, ain't no People's Liberation Army man ever stop and searched me

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The beta test wasn't good

The text to speech was crap and the text read like a concussed amfM1.

The rendering of the character graphic was pitiful - he looked like a kids first attempt at blender with the weird stance and crazy skin color.

IBM top brass accused again of using mainframes to prop up Watson, cloud sales

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Re: z-Mainframe-z RULE!

Pah these electrical computing engines will never catch on, punch cards is where the reliable profit is

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