Posts by Teiwaz 4136 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Oct 2011
And suggest 'lashings of' Ginger Beer Wine - hot preferably...
Relatively cheap....and ginger! You'll be up chasing wife, significant other or Nurses * around in no
time...
* not recommended, but you can still think about doing it, (at least presently).
They want to increase slurp beyond perceived reality?
The first thing to realize about parallel universes, the Guide says, is that they are not parallel.
It is also important to realize that they are not, strictly speaking, universes either, but it is easiest if you try and realize that a little later, after you've realized that everything you've realized up to that moment is not true.
The reason they are not universes is that any given universe is not actually a thing as such, but is just a way of looking at what is generally known as the WSOGMM, or Whole Sort of General Mish Mash. The Whole Sort of General Mish Mash doesn't actually exist either, but it is just the sum total of all the different ways there would be of looking at it if it did.
Mostly Harmless by Douglass Adams (his dark phase)
There's probably nothing in those boxes but penguins....
icon : there's penguins in the boxes, guaranteed....OSS and metaphorical.
Incidentally course bookings are now open on my new methodology.
Basically agile ('cause its a dynamic name that catches the eye), it's been under the waterfall for three straight days and is purified and steeped in eastern stoicism.
Now, stepping out, it's skin all glisitening, ready to revolutionise your development strategy.
Meet the 'Nubile' Method - Agile but more sexy....
Call my me a cynic, but anybody who is experienced enough to understand their users, will know they will simple ask "is that Chinese?"..
An actual walkthrough meeting might actually end in a re-enactment of the famous scene from 'Scanners'.*
* If they paid attention, which they wouldn't, I generally notice a sad look in their eyes, with a handl carefully and slowly going to a phone to call psychiatric services (or a cleric).
The name would imply the latter, but assuming it comes with a slab of cash to promote cultural events, giving that cash to the city with the worst culture would make more sense.
Of course it's the latter, we all had a good laugh when Glasgow got it (was it the nineties at some point?). Even the Glaswegians thought it was funny...
The EU actually did us a huge favour. If they had not spoken up the government and candidate cities would have continued to pour money down the drain in pursuit of a unachievable goal.
The UK government must have known this...
Aren't a lot of them former lawyers / solicitors and general experts in law and civic matters....
Seriously can't have not realised and failed to inform the potential candidate cities some time ago.
RecDep department of the Ministry of Truth under the wise leadership of its directors Tony Bliar and Gerhard Shroeder
Oh, please...
So the US propaganda strategy of parking every injustice that can be conceived of the last opposite number PM/Pres has firmly sidled up in the UK....
Honestly, ever Politician for the last thirty odd years has been solemnly acting out the rememberance Sunday every year while also blindly assembling the building blocks of the next 3rd Reich in the name of one scapegoat or another.
Having a monument to remember something which must not be forgotten is no use if you've forgotten what you were supposed to remember...
Do the Germans really need a load of monuments all over the place, or do they remember, given more than half the country has had less time to forget....
With Clinton we all die in WW3
You must be in denial of liking trump if you think that was at all likely, unless Putin kicked up a fuss as he didn't manage to get the US to play its' joker' in the this worldwide game of it's a knockout....
Clinton was just another career stump-up for the endless round of global political chess. She was the latest in a run of likely pawns that got to the far edge of the board and got the chance to be 'queen' or in this case, president.
Just like the Earth, 'Mostly Harmless'
Might have been nice for the US to get over the first black president and first woman president during the opening decades of the 21st Century, get it over with.
Instead, the US has ended with 'screaming Lord' Snapcase.
Politicians and BBC media shouldn't get upset when people find a way to game the system (and unfortunately vote for something ridiculous), when that same system has been used to game the people for so long.
Oh, please...
If the masses thought they'd be offered something 'someone' at the top doesn't want they are even more deluded.
I despair that the voting public has that much awareness. History in the UK since the 70's has been Red to blue to red and back to blue, with a blue yellow, the blue. Incomprehensibly the yellow was blamed for that governments failures, when they were the minor partners, and blue was chosen again...
I'm channeling Prof. Farnsworth at this point...
What they really need over there is some kind of third or fourth party. I think what they also need is a way to reduce the influence of "big money" on who is actually chosen as candidates.
What every country needs is more than a binary choice. And governments that realistically represent the breakdown of the voting.
It would stimulate debate to more than name-calling their opposite number. Make it harder and more expensive for special interest groups to buy the result they wanted, prevent poorly thought out and half-assed or downright illegal legislation and probably a few other advantages.
The only downside is a goverment that can't reach decisions quickly - all to the good IMO for that amount of quickly rushed through nonsense in the last couple of decades.
Non-party MPs often give much need breadth of opinion, but they are rarely given any offices within the government, and often voted in on one particular bug-bear issue in their constituency.
Unfortunately humans are intensely tribal, and will often latch onto one group of the other over some issue, decision or merely out of boredom, and most just don't have the interest to delve very deeply into politics and prefer nice simple decisions.
I thought the intention was to just fence off the entire nation like the worlds most low brow gated cul-de-sac.
Yes, Britain, with it's huge number of CCTV cameras, 24 hour surveillance and increasing collection of arbitrary rules just to get a few 'contestants out' - it's the largest Big Brother set in the Universe.
The Huge heads from Rick and Morty will be gathering any day now....
I'd buy a electronic parrot that randomly insulted guest to the house....
The Pirate Captains Pal (tm)
Smart, Connected (that's clearly what 'smart' means),
- gratis, update every day with new swear words (a special seasonal one at xmas)
- enter your d.o.b to our 'anonymised' (yeah, we don't know what that means) db and you'll get a special swear word on your birthday....
- Slightly offensive virtual assistant, with Amazon echo - like capabilities (TBD).
Think of the children ? Of course; imagine the education value of at least two new words added to their vocabulary a day, that's better results than many schools....
Got one. My advice is to have a cup of tea and a Jaffa Cake.
After that, I might choose to mutter something rude about Google.
have a Jaffa Cake Now, there's sage advice if I ever heard it.,,,
Any advice on how to avoid the subsequent memory blackout after which you often find you've scoffed the entire packet short of one (sometimes two)
That'd at least be worthy of a Weight Watchers award...
However every component of a games PC costs about the same as a console, so cash / backward compatibility isnt a valid argument , you could easily buy a new console every time one comes out ( keeping the old ones + games for retro) and still be paying far less than keeping a "rig" up to date.
Sort of. Old consoles often die eventually though, while the price of the an increasingly hard to get replacement often rises (and they are no newer).
I switched to console gaming late 90's when every new PC game seemed to need some new hardware (N64, Dreamcast, Ps2, Xbox&360. Almost twenty years later, I see the advantages of consoles over PC has faded, and I'd be switching back if I still had the inclination or time to game anymore.
Bit of nostalgia in an emulator every few weeks is all I have time for these days.
Very true. Which is why Chairman May is so determined that its influence should be removed.,
So maybe five years down the line we can look forward to some stiff disapproval and sniffs from the EU direction, followed by some attempt at sanctions from an EU nation who want the UK out of the running on some trade or other...?
Twenty years or so on, when some rabid nutjob or nutjob party gets control due to the poorly thought out laws being enacted today, the UK will be the next North Korea....
I've had enough, seriously. Anything *anything* is better that the current batch of shit-for-brains.
Be careful of what you wish for... very careful indeed. Lately, all government officials (not just in the UK) are shit-for-brains. If history runs it's course, the next batch will be equally bad or worse.
Yes, but if we speed up the turnover of the generational batches, maybe we'll speed up evolution!!!
Igor, fetch my rubber waders and the cattle impregnation syringe, I'm going in...for democracy and Science...
The government is not doing enough to prevent Brits being defrauded by £10bn per year, according to a spending watchdog report.
Surely the bill for the numerous failures is greater than that...
And you don't get to 'blame any failure on the 'previous goverment' if you've also gone out and repeated it...
This carbon double entry bookkeeping malarky has really damaged legitimate climate science.
It's conning the public, it's allowing the deniers another argument foothold, as flimsy as it is the creationist 'half and eye' nonsense.
Zathros can never have anything nice...
People love stories about scientists and engineers taking the stuffing out of of marketing types. Well maybe marketing doesn't like those stories so much.
The plump, the smug and the self-satisfied....
Put the stuffing back in again, it's coming up to Xmas....*
* For the humourless, the pedant and other chartered accountants. I in know way approve or endorse of canibalism BTW. ...but if the ovens on already, and I'm a bit peckish....
I've got a solution... send in our conservative government. Theresa May and her crack team of expert negotiators will settle it for Amazon, Google AND Apple. They'll come up with a simple, fair and equitable solution that'll keep everyone happy. It'll mean future decades of happiness for everyone.
They'll only claim they're getting everything they want out of the negotiations right up to halfway through Questions in the House when it'll eventually come out they sold out the entire country for a free poggle from Amazon and a reseller contract to hoke the last of Britains infrastructure exclusively through Amazon and Google are getting the souls of the entire population and their children and childrens children for eternity....
At least they didn't tie the rhyme to Last Christmas, by Wham...
Tis the season an all that....
At this point it's a close odds toss up whether the 'high suicide rate' at xmas isn't more related to the constant repeat of the shortlist of current 'in fashion' xmas pop absolutely every shop is playing.
If the pricetag is anywhere half a grand (sterling), it's not a netbook. IMO
Netbooks were great. I still use my 2010 Acer Aspire One - Aging Win XP install it came with a long faded memory.
These sound great. But if locked to Windows (whatever) or even Chrome or Android with patchy updates then forget it.
I want to be able to put a decent OS like Arch, Void or Slackware on it.
I think that's how it should be; we shouldn't let guilty people walk free just because the authorities are also guilty of some crime.
We definitely shouldn't be allowing illegal activity with the powers of authority go unchallenged either. Moreso - a petty thug is a petty thug, there will always be another, a state or government that runs roughshod without bounds to legality is a far more serious threat to everyone.
Doing so just replaces one thug for a worse one.
So it will all be legal on March 29, 2019; seems like "taking back control" means taking total control...
I wish I could say I was surprised...
A fair number of commentators mentioned 'Leaving EU and ECJ isn't the same thing'
And yet, here we are.... I rather think the ECJ was the primary target for some factions in the Political side of the exit camp from the start, aside from the deluded patriots, the schemers and the opportunists.
I double dare you m*therf*cker
I believe that what Kirk actually shouted at that motorist was "Double dumbass on you". But I'll grant that your version adds a certain edge to the dialogue that was somewhat lacking in Star Trek IV:The Voyage Home
I've not watched that movie in a decade, but I think part of it was Kirk considered himself more familiar with the period he found himself in, certainly more than Spock, but he didn't know how to use the 'colourful language' in the parlance of the time either....
The [even] more 'colourful language' is fine, but he'd have to get swearing wrong for the original joke to not be missed in the eagerness to get more sweary....
They'll shout whatever slogan and wave whatever banner you want to get support...
But the wildlife have no intention of spoiling the environment in which they thrive....
And your wild-card outsider will never get around to it, he likes the warm wet mud in the swamp, he's always liked it.
Leave means they have to negotiate you back and it they value me that much they will offer more than my new employer.
Some places I've worked view that strategy as akin to terrorism and will refuse to negotiate 'on principle' (I've never been convinced they knew 'a principle' if it raided their corporate HQ with a warrant).
Similar high handedness prevents companies from rehiring people, despite how valued they were, provided they were optimistic (or desperate) enough to reapply. Only in the heady air of upper management do people get to hop back in for some 'exciting new role'.
Seems to me they're cherry picking 'gender equality', and merely going after the high-paying, prestigious, cushy jobs.
Why IT if that is the case?
I've not found IT particularly cushy, prestigious or high paying...
Regarded as a slightly glorified semi-skilled clerk, in my experience, populated mostly by the socially stilted, worst type of geeky, even if they aren't on-call all night, sit playing games or mererly puttering on a computer almost 24/7, only ever get passionate about how much they hate company X/Y/Z.
I'm not surprised there's not many women want to be bothered with it.
It turns out the user has decided to see what would happen if he set every system color, scrollbar, menu, title bar, foreground, background and everything possible to black.
Maybe he thought his eyes responded to different wavelengths.
Or he was just very depressed.
Sorry, another HHGTTG reference
the most tasteless decade in the 20th century, from hideous polyester patterns to disco "music".
Wasn't most of that late in the 70's?
Any hoo, on the other hand, quite good Sci-fi movies, some rather good cop Tv shows (maybe Bob prefers TJ Hooker), Prog Rock and the early days of electronic music...
Compared to the 80's....it's 'woody' to 'tinny'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gwXJsWHupg
...oh, yes, rather a lot of Python too.
Am I the only person who buys shirts with pockets? I simply can't imagine carrying my phone where it's difficult to get at when I'm sitting on the bus/at the office/relaxing at home.
Judging by the size increases, If I were you, I'd invest in a papoose for your next slab sided baby....
2019: Close enough that they can convince gullible fools that it's plausible, but far enough off that by the time it comes around and their predictions don't pan out, everyone will have forgotten they said it.
And we all assumed the era of the charlatan soothsayers was long over....
No consequences for implementing an illegal law??
This clearly bullshit.
Such behaviour should be regarded equal to high treason.
If a landowner decided that trespassers would be treated contrary to the established law by holding them in a basement for a week, or even as in this case, collecting information on everyone who passes by his land on the offchance one might decide one day to violate his property he wouldn't get the luxury to shrug it off as a bureaucratic issue.
The Register 
Biting the hand that feeds IT
Copyright. All rights reserved © 1998–2024
