* Posts by Triggerfish

2451 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Feb 2010

Oh, shoppin’ HELL: I’m in the supermarket of the DAMNED

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Re: Waitrose FTW

Aldi staff used to beat EPOS software.

I worked for a company years ago who tried to sell EPOS software to them. They lined a cashier up against the software saleman and he was beaten hands down by the Aldi cashier. Aldi also paid their staff way more than the other supermarkets did per hour, (dont know if they still do).

Profit healthy, sales up, 4,000 staff face axe. Cisco CEO, here's your pay doubled to $21m

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Amazing doublespeak

I mean on the one hand "Were getting rid of you because we aren't making enough" and on the other "I'm awarding myself a huge payrise because we have made enough", all from the same financials for the year.

'Bet Lynch' types BANNED from zoo for upsetting not-so-wildlife

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Re: Chessington Marketing Dept. Plays a Blinder

There was a guy who tested the theory that sharks were attracted to bright colours (see yum yum yellow for WWII life-jackets) by diving in a clown suit, with chain-mail on underneath.

It seems they like bright colours, or they really hate clowns.

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Hold on I have to issues with your Paragraph

1. The animals are not happy though. Why do you think so many captive breeding programs fail? The animals know they are safe and no longer feel a need to reproduce?

Which likely by definition means they are less stressed, although I'd argue that there's all sorts of factors that effect breeding programs - some animals need stress, some don't some need the right temps all sorts of things.

2. Saying that 25 acres is plenty of room is ridiculous. That's trying to impose Human views onto animals and that just doesn't work.

If you can't impose human views on animals doesn't that negate point 1 about the animals being happy or not anyway?

Biggest shame is that we are likely to be needing zoos to keep wild populations away from extinction

Korean stealth-scraper plans will turn 450 metre tower INVISIBLE

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Re: What I would like to know

Maybe its to hide from Godzilla

OK, so we paid a bill late, but did BT have to do this?

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Re: How to make a big company pay their debts on time

Nice idea, in reality though you just piss off you're big customers who then go to your rivals, Big companies have small companies over a barrel in these situations especially if its a lot of your sales.

iPhone 5S: Fanbois, your prints are safe from the NSA, claim infosec bods

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Re: Boring

Nope I was never fingerprinted or retinal scanned when I went on holiday at the beginning of this year.

Headmaster calls cops, tries to dash pupil's uni dreams - over a BLOG

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Re: Truth or consequences

Your comment about the crossing the line is so true.

I was bullied and was caught by a teacher pasting one of my bullies who decided to push me without his usual back up. In fact I was so gone at that point I looked at the teacher who had entered the room and then turned back and hit him a few more times before stopping and basically standing there not giving a fuck.

I was quite willing at that point to take any punishment in fact it was at the point I felt it might stop it or give me an excuse to out my problem, in a school that had a don't grass culture.

Kudos though to the math teacher though who I'm pretty sure had guessed at the causes me being a mild geeky pupil, and who just calmly asked me if I had finished and then said well "both of you write 500 words on why you think fighting's doesn't solve everything". I probably should have been way more punished considering the lovely cathartic kicking I had given this guy and the state he was in.

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Lack of education by the head

"even said that there is an inherent risk that every government is corrupt"

So doesnt that mean that this is putting his thoughts along simialr lines of people such as, Tacitus, Plutarch, Jefferson, Sagan, Nietzche, Bernard Shaw, Lord Acton etc etc?

Seriously is this head an idiot? Some of the greatest minds around have made comments and addressed issues such as this, (not saying the kid is one of them btw), personally I'd be quite worried about the lack of general education and knowledge in the school head.

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Cue the

obligatory Pink Floyd song.

Holiday HELL: Pourquoi, monsieur, why is there no merdique Wi-Fi here?

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Re: What Holiday? Leave the internet at home next time....

Not necessarily.

I was in Thailand earlier this year, it was quite handy being able to sit in my hammock and do a quick surf of the web. Do some ID of things I had seen on a dive, look up ferry times for an island hop, check out some recommended places to wander across to, stuff like that.

It didn't detract from my holiday to laze in my hammock for an hour or so doing this, and it didn't mean I wasn't keeping myself plenty occupied during the rest of the days or evenings.

I wouldn't have missed it much either though I'd have just read a book, and I definitely wouldn't have answered an email from work that was work related.

'But we like 1 Direction!' Rock gods The Who fend off teen Twitter hate mob

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To be fair

I remember as a kid there was an awful lot of shit in the charts then that did well as well. "I should be so lucky" for example. Even then it seemed an awful lot of the good music rarely made it in to the top of the charts.

ULTIMATE cuppa contenders prepare to go mug-to-mug

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Re: Background

For an alternative you can always try some of the stuff from Armen Rotch.

http://armenrotch.blogspot.co.uk/

Bill Gates's barbed comments pop Google's broadband balloons

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Re: Intelligence! @ Phlip

Doxycycline is not a cure.

Its a prophylatic - its works to prevent you from catching it but you have to dose yourself with it all of the time when you are in a malaria infested area, Malarones another one, they can both have pretty bad side effects as well. Can't remember which ones the worst (think its Doxy) but they can be really bad, friend of mine has malaria because they ended up stopping taking the stuff because it was fucking em up so bad whilst they were on it.

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Re: Intelligence!

While I see where you are coming from.

I think you don't really show much knowledge of why people are being affected by malaria and why its such a killer in poor countries.

For example

Its alright knowing what causes it but affording mosquito nets and being able to eradicate issues such as stagnant water to prevent it aren't that easy in some of these areas.

Likewise knowing that prophylactics are available is all well and good, but that's a lot of cash for someone whose poor to dose themselves with all of the time. (Plus some pretty unpleasant side effects - especially in the older type ones).

Brits give thumbs-up to shale gas slurping in university-run poll

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Re: Gross stupidity

I have to agree with you and have an upvote. I consider myself an environmentalist and reasonably well informed, and sensible enough to want to analyse the evidence first. Problem is there's a heck of a lot of people who don't and just have a knee jerk reaction or think that because someone works for an environmental lobby group of some sort they are such paragons of virtue that they will definitely and everything written must be the truth, ironically whilst usually assuring us the other side will definitely be biased because they have an agenda.

Samsung brings back clamshell phones with added Android

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Great idea

Clamshells are so much more convenient if you don't take to much care of your stuff.

My V3 used to be in my pocket all the time, and that included plenty of wandering round like a bum in different countries with it just shoved in shorts, admittedly the outside looked like it had been used for ballistic testing for small arms fire at the end with loads of nicks and dints, but I never had to care about it. The thing lasted being mistreated from being bought when it first came out at a stupid price, to last year.

I was a little upset when it died.

Now doing the same stuff I find myself always worrying about keys and coins in my pocket whenever I put my smart phone away.

What heat wave? Pay still frozen over for 70 per cent at Capita ITS

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You have to be a huge twat

to be a Capita boss.

(ah cant be bothered to justify why its all there in the article)

The FLOATING mobile phone shop on the edge of the Internet

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Re-using nails

That does not surprise me at all, its always struck me when in SEA that they are very thrifty about stuff like that. I don't know if its cultural because the areas used to be really poor but to me its seems something we lack in a way.

Why not re-use the nails rather than discard them just pay to have slightly shinier ones to use?

You see the re-use of items a lot, I've stayed in places that have basically been built from collected scrap and actually look pretty nice, I've been to all you can eat buffets that will charge you extra if you fill your plate and don't eat it all (but don't care if you make multiple visits) its the waste of food they find objectionable.

It makes them rather nifty at building things from what we would often regard as crap of landfill as well, in a Heath Robinson engineering sort of way.

1953: How Quatermass switched Britons from TV royalty to TV sci-fi

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Nice one nan & parents

Dr Who was never scary for me because you thought Quatermass and the pit, and Sapphire and Steel*, and Hammer house of horror was not only suitable but must have viewing for a young child.

Then again giving me The Rats, The Shining and Cujo to read when about 12 or 13 probably didn't help either. :)

*which El Reg you should also do an article on.

Paypal makes man 1000x as rich as the ENTIRE HUMAN RACE

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Re: Are you telling me...

There's a few more places that play it than that such as South Pacific islands, Japan even competes in the Rugby world cup, so not all former colonies after all.

Ad man: Mozilla 'radicals' and 'extremists' want to wreck internet economy

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Re: No Cookies Please, We're British

Apart from the third party cookies you may need for your shopping cart. I would have thought the blocking of tracking cookies does a favour for the small business. These sort of things strike me as the realm of the companies that can afford big marketing departments and talk of things like metrics. Not some little online shop.

Nice one Mozilla your helping the small business stay competitive.

Oi, jobless yoofs: Upload a witty video bio if you wanna find work

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Before the video even started

I saw the shirt and thought "no fucking way".

Tickle my balls, stroke my button and blow the fluff from my crack

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Re: Them were the days..

While trying to clear up the mess of a terrible ERP implementation at a company, the MD used to get me to come and copy files across for him from the network to his laptop. since the files he wanted always came from the same place I wrote a little batch file to do it and save me the bother.

He still used to call me in to do it, when I asked why his answer was, "If I have to bother learning about this stuff, why should I hire you?"

Boffins build telescopic contact lenses to battle blindness

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Re: Holy s**t

@ I aint spartacus.

Its a practice, could remove contacts lenses after nights out clubbing getting seriously twisted, it becomes automatic. Likewise putting them in I once you do it a few times you learn the muscle memory you don't need a mirror.

Hell i once removed the contact lenses with no bother and I was wrecked enough that I was laying in bed thinking I was going to get lucky with the missus, before I realised I had been stroking my own leg for 5 minutes.

@Ed yep done that. :)

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Re: Glad to see (sort of)...

My soft contacts stay on underwater when diving on those occasions I have had to remove a mask, I would think hard lenses would not.

However as the poster above says if you do, its worth taking them out on deco times or when you are back on shore and giving them a good rinse, there's loads of bacteria in see water especially tropical waters. (Same reason you shouldn't dive with open wounds if you dive a lot).

REVEALED: Google's GINORMOUS £650m London Choc Factory

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Re: It looks like a 60s council office.

I have to agree I thought that pic was of what they were going to knock down to make space for something nicer.

Google says it paid TOO MUCH tax, wants $83.5m refund

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Re: Unbelievable!

@AC 15:00

While I'll agree that the is some issues with some of our laws and the actions of some of our police. I think you'll find we'd be considerable more fucked if with lived in a society without laws or people to protect the others from the worst elements of our society..

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Re: Unbelievable!

" I'll take moral arguments, once someone shows me a credible argument that paying tax is a moral responsibility, and not purely a legal one."

Infrastructure?

Protection of the populace with laws and enforcement?

NASA to flip ion engine's 'OFF' switch after brilliant 5.5 year burn

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Re: >It is really too bad the politicians keep undercutting NASA's budget.

Its worth doing both. As much as doing the hard science experiments is useful, and unmanned missions teach us much. Surely one day we ourselves want to reach for the stars .

Sean Parker: 'My fairy-tale wedding harmed no trees'

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impact assessment

If nobody could tell you whether the creek had fish in it or not, then I call bullshit on the fact you did a proper impact assessment.

Throwing arms let humans rise above poo-flinging apes to play cricket

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Re: Nah...

All of the above movements does seem to imply a superiority from our whole bodies physiology. Thinking of throwing and martial arts moves powers really delivered from us being able to get all the muscles to work in a co-ordination with each other, whether its a whipping action or coming of the back foot I've seen lightly built people deliver real powerful kicks and punches in comparison with weightlifting types who don't train on getting that synergy.

Wasn't there also some research that said that human muscle strength is inhibited to give us better muscular control? Which I would think makes all the difference on fine control for a throw, or snapping out a punch with the hand eye co-ordination to hit where you intend on the target.

Chimps wouldn't seem to have the hips to use some of the kinetic actions we use, or the fine muscle control to hit a target with an accurate punch. Admittedly a chimps more likely to just run at you screaming and bite you with its canines or tear your arm off and hit you with it, so having the brains to think a pointy stick and tactics would be handy has got to be some help as well.

Angry punters slip contract shackles in T-Mobile crystal ball bill rumpus

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Re: I'm giving up

Aaah that sounds like Orange, I once moved my number across to them, they kept the contract going on the number it had replaced as well.

Course they didn't tell me that no apparently a major communications company has no means of working out how to contact one of their customers on their phones, it was far easier to send a bailiff round 3 yrs later.

Also major telecoms companies should not have their complaints department only reachable by PO Box.

El Reg rocket squad poised to select Ultimate Cuppa teabag

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Re: A nice mug o' rosie

I agree on Liptons the scourge of holiday breakfasts.

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Re: I'd like to know

They don't use hot enough water. Lukewarm water, teabag looking sad, disappointment every time.

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Re: Twinings Everyday for an office situation

Haven't been to morrisons for ages, but they used to sell an own brand assam in gold boxes that was excellent.

Ferocious fungus imperils future of British gin and tonic

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Re: Excellent article! Props to the author.

I have to say you can tell the difference with tonic, they all have their flavours.

Badger bloodbath brouhaha brings 'bodge' bumpkin bank burgle bluster

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Growing up in a town or city does not mean you have no clue about the countryside or wildlife either, after all I'm not congratulating the country folk on working out this newfangled internet thing.

Young blokes blinded by video-game addiction: THE FACTS

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Re: Actually ...

Hmmn my mate teaches at risk yoofs, I think there's better reasons than them playing video games for not arming them.

Thanks, NSA: Amazon sales of Orwell's 1984 rise 9,500%

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Re: People are so F'en dumb

You're right AC people should educate themselves.

Lets start with looking at history.

Previous surveillance societies how did they start?

How did they stay in power?

Why did they come to power?

Did they start out evil?

How did most of them turn out huh?

Author Iain (M) Banks falls to cancer at 59

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I lent a friend

my copy of Consider Phlebas, he never used to read books couldn't get into them, but I persuaded him to try it. That one book turned him into an avid reader. I can't think of any better example of the talent of Iain Banks than that.

The Reg's best-looking reader reveals list of jobs for the beautiful

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Re: WTF....?

Actually I have a friend who does this and apart from the fact its sales. It sounds a really interesting job, they have to know and practice performing different types of surgery related to their job, have been in theater seeing things like the da vinci machine being used, and have to know and do a whole host of other quite geeky stuff.

It also pays quite well.

Reseller Computacenter LITERALLY smokes out squatters from offices

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Re: Boo @AC 14:19

A lot of LHA's do not allow direct payments to Landlords, I'm surprised yours does as I thought it was national legislation.

Word to the wise , make sure all of your tenants have ticked the box allowing you to see what's happening with their bens' account.

YES, Xbox One DOES need internet, DOES restrict game trading

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Re: Microsoft: "We're always listening to our customers"

Listening is different from caring about what they say.

Nicked unencrypted PC with 6,000 bank details lands council fat fine

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Re: I did not cost the council one penny

Everyone comments about how much it costs the tax payer, and they're right but its not going to make a difference that sort of culture seems endemic in councils.

I've worked in a few and it always seems to me that a large percentage of the wastage money wise with a council is because its not earned just given so no one is as accountable. If you went to your boss in a private company and had to explain how you were pissing money up the wall because of x,y,z and that you wasn't doing anything about it, how long do you reckon you'd last?

Yet I have worked for council departments who don't even bother finding out the x,y,z let alone try and fix it or have to explain it.

Working for the council really made me resent paying my council tax - not because I don't think we should contribute to society I do, but because if I do I don't want it being sodding wasted by idiots.*

*Apparently commenting this to your boss whilst working for the council shows a bad attitude.

Facebook's Sean Parker fined $2.5m for tasteless eco-trashing wedding

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Re: @Paul 185 - why all the Sean Parker bashing?

If you turn up to an environmentally protected area, that has endangered species in it and think fuck it lets get some bulldozers in so I can be totally indulgent to my own whims, without once caring about any possible impact. You should expect people will talk about you like you're a wanker.

Ex-Microsoft man plans brand of consumer marijuana 'fine cigars'

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Re: Whooaah dude, this is heavy!

True and people drink drive, maybe we should ban booze and mobile phones.

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Re: Whooaah dude, this is heavy!

Erm no legalising drugs wont make that any different, you have laws against driving with perfectly legal alcohol don't you? Why not the same with weed.

China denies hacking claims, says it doesn’t need US tech

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Re: US tech, and server logs

Doh, my ability to detect sarcasm was hampered by ability at drinking wine first.

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Re: US tech, and server logs

Hold on am I getting this right to see your website someone needs to post their ip, to an address they can only see on your website. Hows that work?