he had to keep prodding the bear.
Maybe eagle?
Russia is the Bear usually,
Sort of Cross-totemic animal confusion.
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I was waiting for someone to note that...
I was thinking, no wonder they kicked him out, if he's let his standards go.
Or maybe the look is to prove there were no sexscapades at the embassy (I'm certainly convinced, looking like that).
He's been in semi-hermitage for nearly a decade, bound to have affected the mind.
I think they'd rather take ROFL back.
Rolling on the Floor Laughing???
or did you mean R. "Plaster of Paris"???
I still enjoy the Goodies Scatty Safari
There's long games of political manouvering
Then there's the sort of thing like Brexit or other impasses that actually involve compromise and long periods in rooms with people you might not care for, not, like or annoy the hell out of you on principal.
I think a lot of them spend too many months basking in their accomplishment of getting elected and a sense of their own importance, and expect to be sitting at a desk fawned over while they sign things and end up dithering while they collect a huge salary (and gifts from contacts in business) and push paper around your desk (and usually off the desk into the bin when no ones looking) when it becomes apparent the work doesn't involve 'changing the world with a hand gesture and (what their PR person has settled on as) the best photogenic smile they are capable of.
Those are the questions the legal system should focus on. Criminal law should be all about the victim. The perpetrator... is just so much meat, to be used however possible to recover money to compensate the victims.
I was mentioned on the Beeb that he'd ploughed a lot of hid profit back into more advertising, so I guess the Ad networks now have a lot of it as well.
What's wrong with nano?
Some of us learned our trade on 2nd hand minicomputers at polytechnics with no budget for extras. Pico was all we had.
In terms of four yorkshiremen luxury, it should be emacs, vim, nano, ed, butterflies, not nano, emacs, vim, ed, butterflies.
Try programming on a Bull GCOS env, nothing but a line editor and TEX
Granted, if you enter Chromium vs Chrome in a web search, you do get some pretty top level examples of the difference, from the color of the icons to the fact that chromium is used to make chrome plating.
There would be no benefit to Ms from including Chrome, stuffing a version of Chromium with their own extra crap may be of benefit to them.
Google adds extra video codecs and other ease of use inducements to Chrome to encourage it's use over Chromium, but then, aside from ChromeOS and Android, they have to bait for an install unless OEMS bundle it with their machines for them.
I wonder what, if any MS will offer to encourage the use of it's new frankenbrowser.
Hence the 'right to be forgotten' putting the onus on the search engines, and not the host of the content.
Actually the point of 'right to be forgotten' was to target news items from X years ago popping up on idle searches, contrary to many countries laws on spent convictions.
It was not intended to expunge information from old news archives.
Nothing ever makes the DUP happy,
Look at any photo of them, sour faced lot, the muscles having relaxed into a dour scowl out of sheer habit...
Anyway, aren't there enough 'peace walls' in N.I without turning Belfast into post-war Berlin?
As they say here, 'Wind yer' neck in'
Brexit or remain is cross party, not a party lines thing
If you look at the recent parliament votes on options, a small percentage of tories are voting pro-europe, and a much smaller percentage of labour are voting pro-leave.
Not really enough to declare it truly cross-party, the SNP are a largish block, but they aren't crossing lines.
The negotiating team should have been cross party
British politics with first past the post and minority gorverments propped up by nutter parties doesn't really have the that sort of thing in it's lexicon
We've heard of 'cross-party talks' in N.I. But it's more 'cross' than 'talk' and generally means not talking for several years...
While I agree that 50% isn't the "vast majority" I do think it's high enough to say that HMRC don't know what they're doing.
It's either they have only half a clue, or it's the Jam side up/down Toast test, and there's no guiding intelligence but blind chance.
May as well get the casting bones out to decide...
Well that's a little obvious
Possibly it just spews positive IBM cheerleader ra ra at the user and then measures the returning waves of cringe and cynical hardening like radar.
Could also measure the drying out of the spirit like drying and cracking wood as staff cross the threshold on monday morning.
Linux, the operating so good they have trouble giving it away for free.
I'm going to put it down to similar mentality to vaccines, climate change etc.
Granted, though, 'Linux wasn't ready for mainstream desktop use until well after Windows had achieved a certain hegemony, and once the weight of popular applications was firmly in the Windows side, it's been at a disadvantage.
But mostly, because, with the cost reduced for bulk OEM purchases, Windows IS given away for free, and has been aggressively marketed for decades.
Now that there's been a shift to online apps, there's becoming less and less reason to find yourself stuck on Windows.
Knocking the competition at every chance just is not a viable marketing plan.
When the bread on the shelf is barely fit to consume, it's only proper to remind shoppers it's not the the only product on offer.
And since we have yet to have brexit but instead every attempt to remain
Nope, every attempt by the DUP and the various mostly tory factions to have their way or else trying to hold eachother over a barrel have brought about the total total shameful shambles.
They've only served to strengthened and increasing remain sentiments.
the various brexit factions have only themselves to blame.
The interface on the self-checkouts at a store I frequent recently underwent a slight design change along the lines of why not hide buttons and tone down the userfriendly a little to delay people (maybe they'll spend more). Reminded me of watching a new Windows 8 user try to find the login button.
As if pressing the total is any clearer than making a little room for a button that says 'done'
Don't get me started on the stores that give you less room than Dave Listers Mimas acomodation to checkout and bag your purchases.
There are dozens of other higher profile celebs with far less savoury pasts who feel obliged to impart their notions of wisdom to the world. Perhaps Keiron could do a weekly hatchet column so that we can laugh at all of them.
I would like to second that.
Maybe that arse Russell Brand?
For one reason or another we've been forced onto this 1984 vibe, we might as well make use of the more cathartic 2 minute thing.
el'Reg - by royal appointment
By Royal disappointment after this article (which I couldn't agree more with).
Sixth in line now? (do we really need a six or more backups? If so, wouldn't it be better to keep them safely in a bunker somewhere underground in case of surprise nuclear strike, zombie outbreak or triffid meteor shower?).
“The rules governing the Internet allowed a generation of entrepreneurs to build services that changed the world and created a lot of value in people’s lives. It’s time to update these rules to define clear responsibilities for people, companies and governments going forward.”
It was mostly because there were no 'rules governing the internet' that failed to disallow a load of some good some bad ideas.
'Updating' and defining clear rules will ensure much fewer new disruptive ideas fruiting.
The Internet has had it's wild west days, but now, barring some new tech to change the ground, the territory has mostly been decided and the sheriffs are on patrol and cavalry is out shooting natives.
Every company needs more management and marketing. You can never have too many HR bods either.
Quite, it's the corporate equivalent of hiring more security. A company goes to far along that road (and it's a short drive these days) and it's the corporate equivalent to the Ministries for Peace, Plenty and Truth.
HPE and the Truth Squad is a good example, but they are so far down the road, they've parked up alongside the rundown 1920's farm of the crazies.
Of course we can! It's just that we consider it unsporting to do so by unleashing ordnance that might miss and fall on our neighbours' heads, so we don't.
I thought we'd already covered that getting a 'firing squad' out to 'pepper it with bullets'* on sight wouldn't likely work.
a) More likely to cause collateral damage than hit it.
b) The 'drone' was less reliably spotted less than 'Nessie'
* Or other macho gunhappy trite euphemisms
Twelve Engineers vs couple of hundred execs?
You could have stopped there, the location wouldn't matter - although I would like to do a film about a 'couple of hundred execs' at somewhere like Chicago Airport Marriott I think we'd have something like 'Falling Down' crossed with a snuff movie with a finale probably not dissimilar to Cannibal Holocaust and the 1984 Conservative Party Conference.
The Engineers in Hawaii, I imagine a touching 'Weird Science' crossed with Buffy 'Band Candy' episode.
I find it really odd that in such multi-million pound systems, rather than "switch this one off, then switch the new one on", there isn't a duplication of transaction data and then parallel feeding to both systems simultaneously, and a load-balancing in between that sends, say, 1% of their customers to the new platform to see how it works out.
That approach might work for some systems, but sounds like a huge operations overhead for a Bank. That 1% of data has to be processed same as the other 99%, and often updates and reporting have to delivered in a tight timeframe. Running two systems in parallel Live sounds like a potential for as much disaster.
Shadowing the current system by the new for a time, then switching over to the new as the Live system, and running the old as a fallback might be wiser, expensive, but wiser.
Can you get it to play RadioActivity?
That would not be as impressive as getting it to play morgenspaziergang
Scalextric announces takeover of Formula 1! Teams rush to hire top driving talent from kindergarten.
From what I remember of Scalextric, it took a little maturity in order to learn the optimum strategy was not just pull the trigger on the controller fully and keep it there.
...unless you enjoyed watching the toy fly off the track at the first bend and hit the wall (and what small child doesn't find that amusing for an exponential number of times more than an adult).
What am I say...? It'll be a roaring success. Like that movie, Death Race.