Posts by Sir Runcible Spoon

Re: Bail terms

If he'd applied for asylum before he *knew* he was going to be extradited, he would have had time to make the application, return home for his curfew and await their decision - so the bail conditions did not prevent him from applying for aslyum.

He has conducted himself in a very unbecoming manner which will make most people lose whatever faith they might have had in him - especially the people who ponied up his bail.

It looks like he has played himself just enough rope to hang himself.

Re: "Vast complexity"

"An expired cert"

I read that as an expired cat!

Still, if they've run out of cheese, the mice will be running everywhere and if they've only got one cat (the rest are all in India) then I'm not surprised it's probably dead from extertion.

Re: Senior Manglement

Unless the cleaners have been in and needed the socket for their vacuum cleaner :)

Re: Don't fuck with leprechauns...

ummm...you have :)

Re: "the insufferable atmosphere in any Apple shop"

"By designating their sales staff 'geniuses', Apple are differentiating them from the sort of staff found in Dixons or Currys- a necessary step, even if the method is cringe inducing."

Thanks for reminding me of the little game we used to play in Dixons at Moorgate - looking at some shiny kit like a spider in it's web. Eventually (+- 30 seconds) we would be approached by our intended victim - previous victims would obtain a suitable vantage point from which to view the ensuing carnage.

We would patiently allow the 'expert' to present the shiny kit with as much BS as they could muster. Once we felt the seam was played out we would then tear into every one of their preposterous(sp?) musings, they would usually go very red and their colleagues would be heard tittering in the background.

The store manager eventually asked us to stop after a few months and about 20 victims, but most of the people we 'scalped' considered what we did a right of passage and all in good fun.

Well, it made the lunch-times pass a bit quicker at any rate.

Re: Sir

Ah, fair enough. BTW Englandshire isn't a real place :)

I know it isn't really particularly technical but it does get around the block with other ISP's so I would expect it to work with BT's

Re: Sir

Sigh..

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Get it yet? No, I'm not talking about a reptile house in the North of Englandshire just to get to TPB.

Re: Sir

If you had read the comments on the previous article, you would know that it is, in fact, a work-around.

The clue is in the header.

Sir

I believe the bootnote asked us not to do that Mystic :)

Re: Sir

faily daily

damn this air-con

Re: Sir

"The current economic climate makes people feel they have to go the extra yards to keep their job"

A situation made worse by colleagues who buckle under the pressure - it makes anyone who stands up for themselves a target - which is clearly wrong. People need to grow a backbone*

If you are worried that you are being bullied out of a job because you won't perform these extra duties, make a faily record of your conversations - time, who with and general context - plus how the conversation made you feel. One or two won't make a difference, but if you have a couple of months worth of information and you get sacked for what you feel is pressure to work without recompense then you will stand a much better chance at the unfair dismissal tribunal.

People need to take a defensive stance against this kind of pressure otherwise they will end up in an early grave - and don't expect the company to be sympathetic either.

*Easy for me to say because I don't have kids and work contracts rather than permie jobs - but then again I did lose a job (and quite a bit of health) over a matter of principle so I am qualified to have an opinion at least.

Re: So Google has not learned from Microsoft?

Manhole covers - is it so they can't fall into their own hole?

Re: @Nigel

I didn't say it, the current Queen-bitch-of-the-Universe said it.

Re: Filthy, lying, cheating....

"Time to make manifestos legally binding."

Politics is the biggest area where there is no requirement that the practicitions be fit for purpose.

I reckon they should have to pass a morality test, general awareness test etc. before being allowed to even run for public office.

Working in a bank I have to pass loads of tests to prove that I know what constitutes bribery and corruption etc. so that I can spot it and report it - the general message being that it isn't acceptable. Isn't it about time we forced our SERVANTS to some level of standards?

Re: The only explanation

Ministers come and go, the agenda remains.

@Nigel

"VPN to overseas ISP in secrecy-friendly jurisdiction, anyone? "

I saw this on BBC news this morning and SHE (the devl) has said that whilst it's trivially easy to circumvent, anyone doing so is obviously a criminal.

Using encryption/TOR etc will become a criminal act pretty soon I reckon.

Re: Townley Grammar School For Girls

"Grammar Schools is outdated because you actually have to deliver some academic results ?"

Are you referring to the term 'Grammar Schools' or the Grammer Schools themselves?

If the latter, then my pedantic-grammar-Nazi-irony meter just blew up :)

Re: What about...

"Just the general level of discussion can be very dismissive of Women and aggressive towards them"

Only when they also happen to be Home Secretaries.