Posts by Teiwaz 4136 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Oct 2011
Prison? For setting light to a bonfire?
On Bonfire Night?
We're going to need some extra prisons....
He's got a point, but mainly for bonfire shenanigans in N.I. on the 12th. Three story bonfires situated often hairily close to local housing, being so close to a main road the occupants can feel the heat inside the car.
As long as you can keep the lower echelons under you blaming each other, then you are safe. And if you build in a tiny bit of hierarchy (eg. poor white men are better than non-white poor men, and all straight men are better than all gay men, and all men are better than all women, all white women are better than all non-white women, and so on and so on), then you get to watch them fight to get one inch higher on the hierarchy ladder, the one they foolishly think reaches all the way up to you.
Spot on, for the 19th-20th century.
I sense the cynicism is much strong here :)
Some asian mythologies tell how the world repeats a creation cycle every few thousand years. In IT, it's just the same thing only you don't have to wait as long for the next bright-eyed, optimistic deity to come along with another take on the same idea all over again.
Tom and Jerry or Foghorn Leghorn anyone ?
Required viewing when I was a kid, Tex Avery was a genius.
People are far too soft and sensitive these days and need to learn to laugh.
These days? When I was a kid, we had to endure Tom and Jerry kids* which was horrible. I was practically grown up by the time there was a backlash/return to form in cartoons (Animaniacs, Tiny Toons, Tazmania).
* Special hell reserved for those responsible, I hope.
I'd be inclined to support banning all political ads.
It's all gotten way passed informative (even in the UK) long ago and gotten down to 'whizzo butter' levels.
Might even out the field (especially in the US) where only the big 'corporate political parties' or the moneyed or those in bed with big business can afford to run.
Snooper's Charter should not be a "significant" obstacle to data protection negotiations with the European Union, the government has said.
But, surely that's not for the UK gov. alone to decide.
And since we'll likely be continuing to pay (perhaps a lesser fee to the EU) and for no decision making rights - it's not the UK's place to decide anything.
Though, as with all 'significant obstacles', money has been known to make the swelling go down...
found that they are enjoying a far more stable environment.
Urgh, I wish people wouldn't throw 'stable' around without thought. If they are using the 'Stable' branch of Debian, of course they are!!
Debian 'cooks' it's releases a Hell of a lot longer than Ubuntu, which pumps another out every six months on the dot.
I find Archlinux pretty danm stable, but the software gets updated daily, so it's not that stable.
used exploits created by and leaked from the US National Security Agency
Whoops!! No one for the west to blame but their own out of control agencies.....again....
Norks?
Clearly, brinksmanship at play. Too much heat generated by the magnifying glass pointed at the Russians, time to cool that one off a while...
At least when you give companies money directly they have some incentive not to totally screw you.
Not enough 'incentive' to resist the lure of customers usage data, given that the majority of their customer base neither know nor worry about it,, having been 'domesticated' to the regular 'milking' and by now regard it as a necessary part of the process of 'chewing the cud'.
Companies seem to regard the right to slurp customer data as part of the payment for their product, whether or not the 'customer' is charged or just amicable cattle lured into a paddock.
You forgot pumpkins - pretty sure they aren't celtic...if they were, there must have been a pumpkin famine in the 70's/80's in Ireland as I only ever saw them in Charlie Brown....
It's an 'underworld' festival - marking the retrograde cycle of the Wheel of the Year, which is generally associated with death and decay.
Edit: Wow - not even 30 seconds up and already the first downvote.
Granted, I'm often in dodgy taste. But I'm certain were one to post something like the solution reached in a legendary cafe in Rickmansworth (by a young woman named Fenchurch), you'd still garner at least one d/v from some threatened person.
I remember trying to learn in wooden shack classrooms, where you spent the first class of the morning with hands in armpits until the heaters warmed the place up a bit..
I'm also convinced the tech 'garage' startups of the last half century could never have happened as often anywhere else but somewhere with clement weather like California.
So while this trendy meeting room thing might last a bit in such locations round the globe (until some other novelty comes along) , I doubt it'll be much more of a temporary novelty anywhere else.
People in glass houses throwing stones.
Out of both companies, the resident of the glass house is most certainly the user. Whether nosey strangers can just peer in or actually poke at you with a sharp stick, the 'benefactor' of the domicile (whether paid or not) can most certainly check out your nethers....
Google and the 'free in return for slurp' were the foot in the door.
Then some companies found they could get away with getting paid for the product and also get the usage and other personal data like it's a 20% extra free deal.
Now it's just a free for all - Governments are all at it, the regulatory bodies are mostly laughable or toothless or both plus a few more shades of useless.
If the phone buying masses ever become data aware, they'll be sims and broken phone screens in the streets...
The easy way to do it is to let him keep his account, but then turn on the mute for every other user in the world.
Works for me...
But that wouldn't stop 'evangelists' from retweeting and 'news agencies' from publishing.
A southsea island could disappear beneath the waves in a 'Atlantis level' incident and I'd not be surprised if the event was joint top news item with Trumpetings.
But of cause, the search space can be massive, so not always successful. Though it should find simple bugs that are often overlooked
I remember Match Day (on the Comodore 64) - used to see the top half of the goalie halfway down the pitch rather often - hard to overlook that bug.
towards the end of secondary school I found Boxing and it changed my life
Yeesh, I only figured out the 'score' with schools toward the end as well - really wish I'd worked it out sooner.
I dunno, you might be a mild soul or from a civilised family and a quiet neighbourhood - but you still get dispatched to the jungle cross mini-prison for X number of years without a briefing on the roles or even a pamphlet.
I don't have kids either, but if I did, I'd be watching for signs of bullying and advise them of what I'd worked out earlier - 'cause my parents were oblivious - despite numerous signs.
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