Posts by jake 26662 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Jun 2007
Congress already impeached him. The Senate chose to acquit him. Thus neatly proving that all three corners of power are a travesty (it remains to be seen if the silly little girl just appointed will include the Supreme Court in that group ... ).
"In the US the president can only pardon you if you have a conviction."
Absolutely incorrect.
The canonical example is Ford granting Nixon a full and unconditional pardon for any crimes that he might have committed against the United States as president, before he was even charged with said crimes. You can read Proclamation 4311 for yourself here.
To be fair, the lame-ass duck Idiot-in-Chief has been quite a bit less mouthy than he has been over the last four years. And soon he'll be silent, to all intents and purposes. Even the press is going to drop his drivel, most likely faster than they did Nixon's. The senile old git is officially irrelevant. Thankfully.
... is going to bail before he gets fired. The only question is why wait until the last possible second ... I'll bet he's getting paid by the hour. Always screwing the taxpayer out of every nickle that he can.
Don't go away mad, Idjiot "Tweety" Pai, just go away.
Sadly, the fucker is going to retire to a lifetime of payoffs from a very thankful industry. There really ought to be a law ...
... found it faster and easier to use Netware, MS-DOS 3.3 with WordStar, dBase III+ and Lotus on an airgapped 25 year old network than it was to use the latest offerings from Redmond. I finally converted them over to a Slackware based solution[0][1] ... Their final year of using the legacy system brought them a tick over 1.5 million in sales, in 2015 US dollars. Not too bad for a small mom&pop family business!
[0] It was becoming quite spendy to get parts ...
[1] Yes, they required a little hand-holding at first, as would be expected, but now they have been using it for half a decade support calls are nonexistent. As in none at all for at least the last three years. Try to emulate THAT with your "more modern" Windows/Web/Cloud solution!
"Sadly, Bork remains a visual-only delight for the time being so we can't share the bloops, bleeps or flatulating emitted by Windows as things go wrong."
Please do NOT implement this, El Reg. Most of us have already heard a lifetime's worth of the myriad "Windows is caving in again" cacophony. Some of us have managed to extricate ourselves from the audio assault. Why inflict it upon us unnecessarily?
Obviously the library had multiple options to expand (FRS) into, and chose the one at the top of the list. Presumably this is yet another example of Microsoft code lending a helping hand ... and the user(s) just blindly accepting it without proofreading.
"NCSA Motif was better than IE"
That's NCSA Mosaic, which had been out of development[0] for three years by 2000. It was still better than IE, though :-)
Yes, Mosaic used the Motif widgets, and often ran under the Motif GUI. Easy mistake to make, I'm sure I've done the same. Have a beer.
[0] Well ... kinda out of development. It's baaaaaack, sort of ... It's kind of fun to play with, but can be frustrating for folks entirely too attached to our modern world. It builds and seems to run just fine on Slackware.
That was the Merlin Tonto, a rebadged ICL OPD (One Per Desk). Basically a Sinclare QL (big brother of your favorite Speccy), without the 8049 peripheral controller but with a POTS communications system grafted onto it. They were built by ICL, and sold by BT. In Oz it was known as the Telecom Australia Computerphone.
The name Merlin seems to have come from the same place as BT's Merlin M4000 line (rebadged Logica VTS-2300 Kennet), although they are in no way related hardware wise. No relation at all to the contemporary AT&T Merlin systems.
Tonto was short for "The Outstanding New Telecoms Opportunity".
All the above was early/mid 1980s.
Note that this has nothing to with the mid-1970s TONTO, The Original New Timbral Orchestra, which is an entirely different subject, and some would say much more interesting.
I've heard this on and off over the years, and it never sounded quite right to me ... so I finally looked it up. Turns out that it's only half plausible (that is to say, not at all). Ford's "Escort" brand name debuted in 1955, and the magazine about a quarter century later. Ford's "Fiesta" brand debuted in 1976, the magazine about a decade earlier.
Note that I don't have a dog in this race, never having purchased any of them ... why bother when one can usually find one or another stuffed into a local hedgerow.
The estate agent who sold me the first house I owned in England was all excited to show me the newly remodeled kitchen, complete with breakfast nook & built-in dinette set ... It was written that way in their advertising, too. Ugly piece of shit; at least a dozen naugas must have died to upholster it. Was the first thing I ripped out.
Doesn't go, doesn't run, knackered, fucked ... Your friendly neighborhood mechanic will understand regardless, so who's quibbling?
"also we get american tv so understand slang in both directions."
Would it surprise you that likewise, us Yanks get British TV, and thus have a decent knowledge of British slang? I'll bet it would REALLY surprise you to learn that the BBC makes a hell of a lot of money selling advertising space on the Yank airwaves (That's right, Dr. Who with commercials on BBC America. Lovely, eh? Thank gawd/ess for MythTV.) ... and I'll bet further it would surprise you even more to learn that more Yanks have seen British programming than Brits.
"I do not see that as an advantage for any company that is serious about making money."
Indeed. Today it would seem that companies aren't all that interested in making their investors a long-term profit, rather they are interested in baffling their investors with bullshit buzzwords.
It's there, but seeing as there are no tool marks or real symmetry, it was most likely wind-carved and is thus just a natural random pattern in the rock. You can see things like this eroded into rocks all over the world, and indeed on the Moon, Mars, and in other places.
Don't worry, pareidolia is considered to be a normal human tendency.
HOWEVER, that is not to say that the face-like image is not part of the reason the thing was erected in that spot in the first place. I personally hope the person(s) responsible owns up to the reason and/or meaning behind the thing, but I'm not holding my breath.
Ever fire one? I have. Far too much vibration for this kind of job. Probably too much recoil, too (a single .22 lr cartridge doesn't have much kick by itself, but try firing ~200 of them in under a tenth of a second). For the intended use of this critter, select fire ("safe", single shot, 2 or 3 rounds, or full-auto) makes more sense.
Any more than 50 rounds adds weight and is most likely superfluous. Remember, it'll never be used against anything resembling armor.
That's not a drum, it's a pan.
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