Posts by Naughtyhorse

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by that i take it you mean - they are just like every other bloody luddite moron cyclist.

theres stupid then there's dumb then there's that post

100 yr old tech?

wtf???

when did you last see an airliner covered in doped linen?

valve radio sets? (okay pushing the 100 year thing a bit - say 2 beans tins on a string)

rotary Internal combustion engines?

of course its conservative, when it goes wrong people die 500 at a time, which never looks good in the press. But the tech is cutting edge.

Issues about RFI, or even alternators in GA aircraft are driven by safety not some inherent luddite-ism.

/rant

reliable, well designed??

So i gues you are talking about apple corps, the beatles company???

iPhone 4 anyone

iPod shuffle

thought so.

apples interfaces look slick, their hardware is overpriced tat

Nulab?

okay so when did john major lead Nulab??

cos i'm sure that he was the dickhead responsible fo staring the 50% of kids should go to uni debacle.

which anyone with a brain could see would lead to disaster

especially as the tories had spent a good few years well and truly fucking up the school system by then. - the rise of the meeeja studies \modern english BA was inevetable.

Then come the workers revolt of '97 (whaaa!) reversing the ludicrous position looked too much like voting against apple pie and mom for Nulab to countanance. Uni was a middle class preserve and Nulab were oh so middle class, there endeth the debate.

Apart from that, way to go, though there is an arguement that runs that as a grad with a proper degree in a proper subject, from a proper college I earn a hell of a lot more than the arts grad that flips my burgers, ergo i pay more tax anyway. Not to mention the fact that i am coming closer to fulfilling some sort un spoken of quid pro quo deal with 'society' along the lines of 'they pay for me to go to school, I make society a (infitesimally marginal) better place to live.

surely a better plan would be to sell all the useless feckless arts grads for medical experiments? see a return for societies investment, and the beagles/bunnies/monkees/rats/ released from research would enhance out kudos as a nation of animal lovers.

I guess i'll have to go elsewhere to get a burger then, but it's a small price to pay.

whatever, loads of stuff needs paying for, and it is only fair that a larger share of the burden land on those more able to carry it (comrades)- which is a bit of a surprising message from a tory govt

intesting times indeed

lol

hmmmm...

okay so you work for uncle sam,

we get it

you're in IT,

we get it

you know shit about security

we ge it

you want to scapegoat a man with a debilitating mental condition, who it is widley understood was only in your wide open system looking for info about UFO.

get the fuck out of here

dickwad

swap arsnic...

for cocaine, or dare i say nicotiene...

ooooh now there a thought -best keep it a thought thogh coke and philip morris could take out a hit on me without a second thought.

the trouble with the adam smith quote is that it's bollocks.

people in the real world do do things for the greater good. The other plank for this philosophy is the game theory thing - you know the behavioural theory developed by a paranoid schitzophrenic while he was off on one.

FFS indeed.

nothing wrong with capitalism in it's place but it's place aint as our moral compass. cos thats when the wheels fell off.

lolz

it;s rude to mock the hard of thinking. But as i read the article i thought this guy is unable to string a sentance together as

a> he lacks english as a frist language.

b> he's clearly a retard.

even for a kidde this one is almost to good to be true.

ah bless

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jeez vic i sure hope you dont get cancer in the next few years...

actually on reflection i hope you never get it. :-)

while public sector waste is very real. the crap that it's wasted on is the pet projects of senior management, and they will be insulated from the effects of the cuts. The cuts will devastate frontline services.

And as for the people pointing out that it was a labour govenment that got us in the ca-ca in the first place - i beg to differ. we havent had a labour govenment in this country since '79. and THAT'S why we are in the shite.

the economy didnt tank because of all the schools and hospitals that got built, it tanked because some twat in the city took the economy to monte carlo and put it all on red, aided and abeited by balir and brown. Just how can that be attributed to a genuine labour movement?

New labour was just a bunch of middle class tossers thinking they were morally superior to greedy grasping capitalist tories because they professed to have sympathy with the working man. They weren't they were just arrogant.

I' match your fail and raise you another

1W of laser light will do plenty of damage to all manner of things, admittedly it would be even more narsty if it was UV, but still.

take a lok on youtube for the fun and games that can be had with conventional high power pointers, plenty of sparks and flames.

bootnote i still bear the scars acros my torso that came about when being a little less than careful with a 5W co2 medical laserm which was not a pleasant experience.

bit more complex

the car's MPG is not part of the calcs. but it is banded on what you can claim, I think it's about 45p a mile for he first 10k miles then 30p thereafter. Which I think averages to 40p/m (cant be arsed to work it out) but fuel costs have at least doubled since the rate was last changed. which feels a bit like I'm gettign screwed, but then again I still get about twice my petrol costs in mileage, so I cant really grumble, and the other costs of wear and tear, insurance servicing etc are somewhat moot, as if I didnt get the mileage, I'd still run a car... which would need servicing insurance tax etc

also the rules re: company cars have changed a lot too in the same time period.

confusing gov website fails to explain it clearly here.

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/manuals/eimanual/eim31200.htm

bollocks

looking 'aty' what he did...

MP's mis-claiming is stealing

end your internal dialogue, you are wrong.

it's just there is one law for the rest of us schmucks.

and another for our political overlords.

and it fucking stinks.

There is a whole other debate about sexuality, for which I feel a great degree of sympathy for him -although the 30%? who think it's wrong to be gay. (elsewhere in this thread) almost certainly thing being a 'lib dem' is wrong too, so thats not really a defence.

It does seem that this whole gay angle to the story is something that has been rolled out by the spin doctors to try to mitigate the misdeed.

The whole 'repaying' over claimed monies is bollocks too

And I'm not singling him out IMHO (lol) 100's of the theving bastards should be in the dock. I claim expenses as part of my job, and the rule is; if i dont have receipts, or can't otherwise demonstrate that an expense was incurred i don't claim it. I have no problem with that. but i fail to see why anyone else should have a different arrangement. ESPECIALLY when I am footing the bill.

fair point

and even that <ahem> victory is dubious. (hehehe george dubious bush!)

but isnt the justification for all them loonies in the boonies armed to the teeth, their second ammendment right to bear arms based on the idea that the people stay tooled up so if the government gets up to any hanky panky their tenure can be terminated, with extreme predjudice?

So where was the NRA when ther very purpose thet exist for came into being?

tragic.

discrete components?

really?

with no basis othert than my own prejudice, i'd strongly suspect not.....

and after a visit to wiki (whaddy mean unreliable) aparrently not

the cray 1 was the first cray using IC's.

the power/heat generated by even a little transistor is vast by comparason with the admittedly crude IC's of the day.

Plus (also a bit of a punt) I'd say things like thermal drift and hFE variations would be far less of an issue with IC's