Posts by Triggerfish

Ha... you call that a pothole?

Well if we are going down that route, I used to live somewhere that after heavy rains I would have a slow drive round and check as potholes..... (ok chunks of road) deep and long enough to swallow a Toyota Hilux would often appear, usually at the bottom of steep roads with 90 degree bends.

Re: "Absolutely no one can make sense of the United States' infatuation with firearms."

" A well-armed populace employs its government instead of fearing it."

I would argue that fear of your government is often one of the reasons given for arming yourself.

I never understand the amount of comments about countries like the UK being disarmed by the government and now the government has all the power, it's like they really think we are lined up and sent off to camps for any dissent.

Re: I can make sense of it...

I actually genuinely think it's to do with cultural memes/ namshubs whatever. Americans have the usual ones carried over from Western Europe but on top they have acquired new ones, I'm gonna call them The cowboy (rugged individualist, gun on hip to protect homestead against bandits, way of the gun), the revolutionary (the government are oppressors, we can fight of the chains, militia, 2nd amendment etc) & possibly the Hollywood action hero (leap into action against some nefarious undefined bad guys).

I wonder if a lot of these sort of tropes in America are the reasons you guys seem to have so many problems with guns.

Re: I can make sense of it...

To be fair you see that sort of thing going on outside the average UK pub on a Friday night in town as well, often with a bit of self shirt ripping to show of the pecs as well.

Re: Urrmm...yeah, but....

I think it's less about open carry and making yourself not appear a target, and more about Hollywood and waiting for the moment you can be the hero.

Re: It's easy to take the piss...

No way I'd class as a sys admin, but having worked with a few techy types, I came to the conclusion all decent sys admins, techs, engineers end up having a moment at some point where they have buggered up something for some daft reason. The decent ones are those who learn from it.

I have certainly had my late night alone in the office moment of ooooh fuck, lets phone a friend and see if he can help me keep my job by morning.

Re: In a similar vein

Worked on a hell desk where a newbie was supposed to delete a folders contents in a credit card processing server running SCO, that was causing it to fall over. He was actually a few levels up in the directory when he typed rm *.*

@X7

Was that last line really necessary?

Re: I love it when the amateur art critics come out to play

I did ask an artist type what makes the difference between modern art and a 5 year olds painting? What makes it art rather than squiggles. Apparently what gives value to the painting/piece is the artist has attached a story to the painting giving it meaning, otherwise it would be a random painting that was just squiggles, (maybe pleasing to the eye squiggles but not say 50 million quids worth of squiggles). The use of Damien Hirst diamond encrusted skull was a good example, he thought it hilarious it had been created and called the for the Love of God after all the Criticism of his cow stuff.

Basically it seems to me a lot of modern art is like a joke where someone has to explain the punchline.

Re: I agree about the case...

I hardly pay much attenionon any phone review to how pretty the frosting of the glass backing is for example. I know the first thing I am doing with it is buying a case that will be pretty much covering all of it except the screen. I do not treat kit too nicely I expect it to be able to put up with my lifestyle to some degree, rather than me having to worry about breaking it. So I figure giving it a case is at least letting it have a fighting chance.

Re: This is one of my bugbears . . .

Have dropped the Z3 glass casing, covered with a reasonably thin nylon and TPU cover, couple of times including onto a tiled floor and paving, had no damage. I think randomness applies with dropping phones though it only has to land wrong and that's it.

Re: That's perspective for you.

Someone has to talk about comms because you learn and try and make it better the next time, there's probably medical journals talking about triage issues.

@Tom38

Next day waved on through, is not a good security cordon.

I take it you also avoid all roads, and do not drive then. What about doggies do you see them as a threat because 7000 people were attacked by them last year.

You really are giving up a lot of liberty for a small threat chance, its like going out and being scared of a metorite falling on your head when you are in a minefield.

Plus as many say the terrorist win by bringing the country to a standstill, can you imagine trying to get on the tube at rush hour if you search everybody? What a lovely target as well, a nice enclosed building to concentrate blast packed with bodies all queing and crowded, reckon a nail bomb and would do quite nicely in that situation, wouldn't even have to make an effort to sneak it through to a train or something, you could fill a nice 70 litre ricksack and look like a commuter, and all of your targets have nicely been concentrated in front of the safety barriers.

Anyway, it doesn't neccesarily work, guerilla units have managed to operate in countries that have full millitary occupations going on, there's whole aspects of that sort of asymetric warfare that cover not being exposed, using cell structures etc.

Tracking people and taking away their liberties for something that horrific as it is actually kills less people each year than beer is not a optimal solution, living in fear is what they want.

Re: Not only in the capital

Sort of but as far as I understand part of that creed is also because they are expecting their deity to turn up during the final battle, join them and prove their own little brand of religous lunacy was the correct religion, destroying all of those other religous people who decided to do a different version of the religion thing and obv destroying all of the godless infidels.

Part of me almost wants to see it, just to see the look on their faces when they realise it's all bollocks as a A10 strafes them and God doesn't turn up and block the bullets.

Re: Mankind Pwnd and Hope and Change Delivered with Alien Memes and Beings into Autonomous Means ‽ .

I sometimes wonder if a book will be written about an AI that rises from learning on forums and commenting until it becomes completly Turing,

I remember having to get a permission slip signed by my parents at age of 13 ish, to be allowed to have tickets for the adult library. Access was not as easy as the internet. Then again pretty sure any formulas for say explosives etc would actually have been accurate (but well thats what chemistry lessons are for anyway), whereas with the net you take your chances with the information you look up, and the amount of diligence you do researching it.

Re: "years of work and important documents"

Frankly it's what pays the wages for a lot of people here, don't blame someone for going to IT people for advice and not knowing they were shite at their job.

Re: This is nothing new

The town of Ugly's Womens Institute was named the Ugly Womens Institute, bit of a problem, to alleviate this it was changed to - The Womens Institute - Ugly Branch.

Also shout out to the town of Muff in Ireland and their scuba club, I'll leave you all to guess the name.

Re: @Clockworkseer

I swear I saw it on b3ta, but I am pretty sure another commentard who is on here visits there as well.

@Clockworkseer

I saw a commenter on another forum refer to it as a Twatdangle.

Re: This is why everyone thinks students are w*****s

So how do you know students did it, or do you work your conclusions backwards from bias?

Also the website crashed after news reports of the name as far as I know, could still be people cheating the system but I like to hope the whole of the UK heard the story and wen't yeah lets make sure that name wins.

Re: Beat me to it...

and me.

Re: It's called "being psychotic"

"Michael O'Hare (Babylon 5)"

I didn't know about that, thats a bit sad.

Re: Source: 'a 12g ground based robot that can pull 40N in shear force'

Well yes, I know you are not actually needing loads of force to push a car on a flat level plane etc, However the churlishness you made your point to overriding what frankly is bloody clever, the glue is probably the cleverest part tbh, along with not actually defining the size of the poodle or toddler made me feel like I could take the mickey a little.

Re: Obvious thought.

Yes for example I know which one I would prefer not to have jumping up and down on me.

Considering there is an ant colony spanning three continents I think the ants aren't doing to bad.

Re: I, for one,

I have to admit to being tempted in server rooms to occasionally show them a video of that bit from office space with the printers.

Re: Source: 'a 12g ground based robot that can pull 40N in shear force'

I'm pretty sure if you put a kid in a harness and tell him to pull the car, three things are going to happen.

1. He will look at you blankly he hasn't learnt to speak yet.

2. The car will stay still.

3. Child services might want to have a word.