Posts by Triggerfish

Re: Oh so true...

You're right and lets not forget if I install itunes on windows I'll never complain about any other program being shit and buggy in comparison.

Re: Management

To be fair my manager never micromanaged me they preferred to micromanage the team members below, fail to tell me of the changes and then berate me for not being fecking pyschic.

Re: Who cares about Emma Watson?

A degree from an Ivy league university, delivering speeches to the UN and being worth 60 million by the age of twenty four, is disappointing? Your daughter must be in for a tough time.

Re: Dear Rupert

Nah don't ban it.

Its useful, whenever I have doubts about something I read stuff from Murdoch and the daily mail, then just choose a reciprocal heading from them and my morals are back on track.

@ anon

So you would have no trouble about a bunch of people now tracking you down, releasing your address, pics of your kids etc etc now, since you have put a comment on the public web?

Re: Alas...

It must be hard working out populations of species because the distances some creatures travel.

For example they thought there was more bluefin tuna about, then found out the Japanese stock and the American stock they were counting were of the same school they just moved round more than expected.

Great whites etc have been shown to travel literally thousands of miles to mate, and we still don't know where they and a lot of other animals go to once they leave the nearness of our coastlines.

I don't think scientists are making up stock estimates to get grant money though.

There is a lot of evidence of over fishing or habitat loss for marine life, after all.

The Thais sell a lot of stingray skin, the rays are also used for foodstuff (we do as well we call it skate), and also leather (which is really tough I have a shagreen leather wallet that's in its twentieth year and the leather just doesnt wear down), but more recently the pressures of this industry are starting to have a negative impact. The other problem especially with sharks that I have seen in places like Thailand is they often catch little ones for eating along with the big ones (takes about 7 years for a shark to mature enough to mate, you see a little three foot shark on a stand somewhere its like catching and keeping undersized catch), and they don't discriminate on what type it is let alone worry about its CITES standard, (not that CITES means much anyway I could take you to markets where you can pick up all manner of endangered species in a lot of SEA cities).

I haven't read any of his books, but Tom Clancy put his name behind the Netforce books, if that's what he thinks good writing is he accords as much respect as Dan Brown.

Re: Something forgotten

I have to say after having a nose inside even a cheaper quality timepiece (TAG) I was quite impressed with how well it was put together.

Re: Cyber attack?

I guess it would be off putting to get up one morning look out your window and find the collected armed forces of several countries parked on your front lawn.

Re: Can someone please explain to a non techy bod like me

they change the people peddling on the dynamos.

Even all those years ago there was probably some poor sod was being told why its so important that all the clay pots match in style and shade of ochre.

Re: The U.S. should move to chip-and-PIN anyway...

I have been given the impression that there is some more fundamental security problems than that at the meat end. Someone who has just emigrated over there has told me he has been asked in many stores and restaurants if he is actually a legal immigrant.

However they have been quite happily accepting his wife's card without checking, at one place even going so far as to call an ex 6'3'' rugby player Mrs XXXX during the transaction.

Depending on the source its said that between a quarter to a third of our MP's are private landlords who have bought through buy to let schemes.

Re: Why?

Because someone at military industrial complex marketing convinced them that ICBM was just so passe, and that hypervelocity kill weapon was what all the cool kids are saying/ playing with now.

Yep see a similar sort of thing in parts of SEA with WiFi. Just a card with log in details, most ever had to do was ask.

Re: Western morality

Actually Hitler was not elected by popular vote, he lost the election but a lot of politicking and then another dodgy election consolidated his power.

Follow that with some nice propaganda and a populace that was cowed into not saying to much against the Nazis and you really had a dictatorship.

Frankly the situation is screwed because you have to many hawks in power on both sides, there's some over there that seem to hate so much that there is never going to be peace unless they lose power on both sides.

Problem is it would have to be simultaneous, if its not then one sides hawks are going to end up causing the political weakening of the other sides doves who would be seen as weak when facing the other countries aggressive pursuit of their agendas.

They're both feeding off each other.

@Ivan 4

I would argue that the right wingers who think we should go over and bomb the wogs till they behave probably haven't helped the situation either.

Re: What are your plans to respond to an asteroid impact?

1. Please take up the position of "on all fours".

2. Find a loved one or if they are not available a colleague to do the same.

3. Make them take up the same position but to the side of you and facing in the opposite direction.

4. You can now kiss each others arse goodbye.

Re: No real surprise, really

It's always swordfish, works with every secret society as well.

Re: Scam?

You sometimes need to be honest to be a criminal.

I think one of the best things we could do would be to reintroduce some sort of home economics back into school, teach people some cooking, some budgeting, how credit works etc.

Re: On the matter of the public's right to know. (They don't!)

FACT: "Signing" as in 'throwing a gang sign means you are in a gang. There are pictures of the kid throwing gang signs all over the media.

No being a gang member means you are in a gang.

Plenty of kids do stuff like through gang signs because its cool or whatever it does not mean they are in a gang.

Re: An alternative viewpoint is...

Seriously there's lots of normal people doing jobs in London who are underpaid and living in shitty areas and getting screwed by the politicians and bankers as any Northern town you want to balance a chip on your shoulder in.

You need to sort out your prejudices.

Re: Wikipedia Rules

Teas still an army requirement now.

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/the-british-perfected-the-art-of-brewing-tea-inside-an-armored-vehicle-1cc012f3ee54

You guys have my sympathies, I have only had back pain from pulling muscles etc but I would say,

while you fight for a good chair, can I also add fight for a good mattress. I've worked for people who have owned bedding factories and got a chance to try out different mattresses. After years of being a student and sleeping on any old bed and then a cheap bed after graduating it was bit of a revelation sleeping on a new mattress that suited me, all the little aches and pains that you stopped noticing just disappeared.

It makes sense you spend a fair bit of time each day in bed and its when your body truly wants to let all the muscles relax.

Re: So it's OK to copy a series of photographs...

Actually just burn it to a DVD, and write on it something like "worth a watch", that'll do wont it?

Surely global population and pollution levels were a bit different as well.