Posts by Sir Runcible Spoon 5770 publicly visible posts • joined 29 May 2007
After reading about Cumberbatchs' apology the other day I decided to have a look around for the list of words that I'm not supposed to use.
Guess, what..there doesn't appear to be one.
This is actually quite clever, because people who are constantly watching what they say (just in case it might offend) are effectively already mind-controlled.
Control the language and you control the scope of thought processes.
It actually tells you in the article.
Only certain companies are in a position to tender for such large contracts. All of these companies deal in quantity over quality. The more complex the customer system, the more time they can bill - why would they recommend improvements if it reduces their income?
If the client has 5 systems all doing the same thing and all the owners think it should be done by theirs, then you have inter-departmental rivalries, not to mention huge overlap in responsibilities.
The vendors have a stake in deploying as much kit as possible, because a 4 year support contract plus licenses will cost more than the kit itself (a lot more).
In the end though, what it all boils down to is that there is no ONE person who is in charge and responsible for the delivery (from within HMRC) and all the decisions are made by committee and consist of bean-counters and sales reps without an ounce of real-world experience of deploying large scale enterprise projects.
I will happily give HMRC some free advice: Hire someone from the Internet world who has experience of deploying large scale infrastructure and reconciling existing systems (plus a large dollop of live critical system migration). Put them in charge of ALL IT decisions that could reduce complexity and overlap - regardless of what the department heads say. Last, but not least, pay them a lot of money to do the job properly and the authority to make decisions stick. This way they will save you vastly more than the project is costing us. Please.
Cuban up-cycling is legendary, given their lack of resources.
You can bet that someone has come up with some novel designs to make it all hang together - it might be worth a field-trip just to see if they have come up with a concept that could be applied to work in the Enterprise arena.
We must send our four fastest ships, one in each direction. Super planets are always lurking around Sol at this time of the galactic rotation.
However, have you considered that they might not want to be part of the Solar System? After all, it was Sol that (r)ejected them* in the fire swamp early days?
*Possibly.
"Hey Brian, I've got a new sound system. We were playing around with it last night and we recorded 8-bit full-polarization data from two orthogonal linear feeds per beam, with 1024 frequency channels over 400 MHz of bandwidth, from 1182 to 1582 MHz, and 64-μs time resolution.
It sounded like that time we put the cat through the mangle when it was wet"
"Maybe he made the first one with free will and intelligence but like a dodgy photocopier the later copies have faded and blurred."
I think the story is that the first man was ejected from Eden and so lost all his priveledges (like a 1000 year life-span etc.). Honestly, you couldn't make it up....or could you?
"You are right. As reported, the basis of the experiment is fatally flawed. It is critically important to work with a figure that each person considers to be minor..."
^This.
If the poorer participants were offered 1c out of $1, then they might exhibit the same behaviour.
My in-laws are always trying to give us money (of the £10-100 variety) and since they are pensioners they don't realise that the amount of money isn't significant enough to us to help much, but is of vastly more use to them. We don't want to refuse because they are so generous and we don't want to hurt their feelings, but I have told them that if they do want to show appreciation for something we do by giving us money, then nothing worth more than a tenner (otherwise we will just buy something they need that they haven't bought with the money and give it right back to them :) )
Similarly, a millionaire associate started having money troubles because most of it was tied up in assets - there was no amount I could raise that would make a dent in his economic commitments, we are just on different levels.
How much would you get out of bed and clean a filthy toilet for (say it takes an hour)?
Some people would do that for £10, others wouldn't do it if you paid them £1000. It all depends where your expectations are on the economic spectrum.
You know the year in Saudi is 1436 don't you?
Have a pint, because that's what all the Saudi's were doing (ok it was whisky) on the plane from Jeddha to Heathrow, whilst their wives were in the toilets changing into skimpy outfits.
Can't say I blame them mind, but it did come as a bit of a shock after spending two months out there.
Thanks for that enlightening insight into the ever deepening corruption of our political system.
I can't think why radicals from a backwards culture think we are all corrupt. Until they wise-up, the public will always be in the firing line from both sides.
So, did they delete any documents or not?
Did any of the CIA operatives who access the computers discuss any of what they found with anyone else that could potentially influence the investigation?
The findings of this report are pure bullshit if you ask me. I'm sure Cameron will be asking for some tips whilst he is over there.
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