Posts by Teiwaz 4136 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Oct 2011
So did corporations request a box for this blather or was the 'mission statement' an organic response to an unprovoked and incomprehensible box on the form they felt compelled to fill in a way they felt was coherent?
These never read like the professional coherence of a collective of the sane, but this one is a new low.
This what Disney did with fair tails. They plucked them from public domain.
Fair Tales - Now that sounds like a Disney title.
They do try and claim ownership of any story they've done an interpretation of - but there are other (animated) versions of almost every animated disney movie - some made before, many after - they do tend to get eclipsed by the big budget marketing disney machine though.
Road Runner, Bugs, Daffy and Popeye - Aren't Disney though, and you didn't mention Woody Woodpecker - I just find ole' Woody a bit too Joe Pesci, but I laughed as a small kid but was always disappointed after about 8 years old.
Disney are the Microsoft of the entertainment world, they got in when there was nothing else to compete with, leveraged what little they had well, to exploit what little they had into more than it seemed.
Their output from the early years hasn't aged well in comparison with Warner Bros.
I don't even think Disney regards Mickey as entertaining anymore, they've not used him for decades, but they're stuck with him as an identifiable mascot.
M-I-C-K-E-Y. . .
I'm 54 years old, and that reference is before my time. Thanks for that -- it's almost like being carded at a bar again! But I'm worried a bit about El Reg's apparent demographics.
Bloody hell, where'd you grow up?
Ok, I'm about ten years younger than you, but I can remember that tune from when it was just incomprehensible background noise the big kids danced around to back when tank top sweaters were popular.
isn't refusing future service within Grsecurity's rights since any business can refuse future service to anyone for any reason?
Well...supposedly, but when the 'reason' is some form of religious fundamentalism or other prejudice then the business is on legally shaky ground.
Linus Torvalds, who oversees the Linux kernel, has called Grsecurity's patches "garbage."
Well he would say that, wouldn't he. Saying that Grsecurity's patches are good would be one hell of an admission of the poor state of the generic kernel. It's not as is the CVE list of Linux has zero entries, so there's certainly something for someone else's patch set to do.
Linus only seems to launch these 'nuclear' descriptions around when he's all 'riled up' - I think the chances of him getting politic for marketing drama are unlikely.
I totally agree on its potential usefulness. However....
The paranoia is just the result of Microsofts track record of ramming any and almost every potentially invasive piece of technology down users throats.
We're all expecting this useful tech to suddenly be installed whether needed or not, whether requested or not, and to be suddenly reactivated upon system updates for no discernible or documented reason, while the results of its usage are piped back to the mothership 'to help perfect and provide feedback on usage'.
It's not all bad news, but we really cannot afford to be complacent; as the aphorism goes: for wicked (and stupid) people to flourish it only requires good (and wise) people to do nothing.
That is the bad news. The UK has been sliding into the stupid and blinkered world view since the 80's or 90's - it's going to slide further and nastier before the boat rights itself or sinks.
Still not as bad as things were this time a century ago - so that to be thankful for...
Yes, it's so much more difficult to bend or ignore the law when you either don't have a cop or a politician in your pocket or you're not sure your bought and paid for authority will return the favour.
It's all very Cosa Nostra really.
They know full well they can do what they like as the Western Governments will moan and complain and bleat, but be unable to act due to public opinion concerns or unwilling due to generous donations...
Meanwhile China will just kick them in the wallet where it hurts.
Well, I wouldn't pay high prices for a hotel room where the cups were chained to the wall and there are bars on the windows even (and especially) if it were in the swanky part of town and had a fine art deco facade.
What is it with Ms these days, Professional version gets renamed Pro and is barely fit for Professionals, now the Student Edition gets renamed 'S' and gets upgraded to the swanky 'VIP Luxury Ringtone' role.
"I always go for the hand job."
I know there are bikini car washing services (allegedly, as not anywhere near where I've ever lived) - but how would that work?
Does someone get in the car with you?
Or is it some sort of pneumatic arm that gets fitted to the door like drive-in restaurant trays (a-la Flintstones).
Agreed - but don't tell them.
They might decide on neural interfaces instead - and while the gadget obsessed and the follow the herd people might jump at it - I'm not sure I want anything Google or MS have had a hand in inserted in my brain.
Wait, I am sure - definitely no way ever.
I've not heard anything much about it since last summer - I'm surprised it's still a big enough thing to worry about large crowds.
Surely the short attention span of the greater mass of the public has rendered the concern moot.
How many anal obsessive compulsive Pokemon freaks can choke up a Nature reserve/
What about the other amazons?
What about the rights of well endowed ladies, do they not get a look in?
Or the Greek ladies who amputated a mammary for better archery ability?
All this carp about some shop and a forest....are we people centric or not...?
Wait - the governments haven't weighed in with their stipulations yet...
Her Majestys government will certainly want to add it's own peculiar set of ethics to the list of directives (while ensuring itself is immune) - it'll probably make the added directives in Robocop 2* look sensible and well thought out.
*was it 2, or one of the later ones?
That lead me to believe I will suddenly be attractive to thousands of women once I spray their crap on my body ?
I was kind of wondering where you'd get thousands of womens crap - do you work in a sewage processing plant? What for anyway? Is it some sort of scent camoflage so you can creep about while they're undressing and they don't notice you?
(washing powder, fabric conditioner etc.) that was targeted at the increasing numbers of men - this involved both packaging changes and in the case of fabric conditioner - fragrance changes...
So I can look forward to 'new car smell' for fabric softener* then?
* Not that I ever buy fabric softener - my brother asked for some when he was visiting once and I asked him if he was a poof (yeah, it was a joke) - I'm single and just too cheap and minimalist to bother...
I'm not sure this type of offensive on maybe offensive stereotypes/archetypes is really helpful - we'll probably end up with even more dull corporate PC ads than we already have - the main issue is that advert makers are a tired and worn out lot of worn-path treading hacks that really couldn't be creative even if you put them on a high dosage of hallucinogens.
Better to apply strict entertainment standards to ads - if it's not creative enough - ban it...
"If Davison was "your" Doctor you were probably born around 1976, give or take 2 years either side."
Either I was a late bloomer or you are off by a year or two more - I was born '72 yet I remember Davison more strongly than Baker - and I actually liked Sylvester McCoy a lot more than Davison.
Romana in Paris schoolgirl outfit I do remember though - but not the plot of the episode much at all until a re-watch decades later - guessed in the first few minutes it was a Douglas Adams script without seeing the credits - it just seemed a familiar plot.
"What I really believe that the show needs is to keep the actress/actor for a bit longer than happens at the moment,"
It's never been more than a couple of seasons - Pertwee 5 seasons - Tom Baker 7 season - the rest all 3 apart from Colin Baker with only 2 (at least according to my collection).
It's probably why a lot of people remember Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker the best - a) the probably average age bracket (at least on elreg) and b) two long innings in a row.
If you are just a few years older than me - that would make them the ones you got used to as a kid.
My Dad could never get used to any other than William Hartnell - the Doctor should be a fusty old gentleman in his view and he never could get past that.
I slightly remember Tom Baker (I do recall my fist crush on both Leela (skimpy outfit at 7O'clock and Romana - aaah!)
I'm no firmly my Dad's age when I found out about his Doctor prejudice - and I feel the same way about a woman in the role.
Mind you - I don't think I've seen Dr Who since Capaldi took over - It's not just age or sex prejudice you have to get over these days - it's recent high-profile roles of the top-names they're getting to fill the role of late - not that Peter Davidson and the like were unknowns, but...
Hum, to have the clear unfettered unexpectations of childhood again....
"What is dangerous though is declaring it porn free & safe for kids. Because that will never be true."
- Possibly the best solution would be to create a mini-web and bar children from the adult web - probably not workable than any other - but the gov can claim denial of responsibility to as they shouldn't have been on it - to lazy ass-non-supervising parents.
Never said it wasn't workable - but it does have the distinct advantage that the rest of us tax-paying adults are left unbothered by bureaucatic creep and creeps.
As to the barring bit - it needn't be any more than what some bookshops used to do for the adult section - kids could wander in - and frequently did - but were firmly ejected when discovered.
Seriously - this facist security guard verification/token etc. crap is so creepy.
At least this way they'd keep their heads down if they did.
Hahahahahahahahahahaaaa
- Seriously maniacal laughter - and to actually type it....'right leaning moderates' - I've honestly no idea what kind of frothing lunatic votes Brexit then bemoans any sensible liberal policies (I know the liberals are flawed - it's a flawed system) - I know the Eu is flawed too - but Brexit won't fixit, and won't fix the UK either. 'right leaning moderates' - I do apologies, it's probably not the right term - but you've obviously voted con or the anti-eu offshoot party - so right leaning - and you occasionally post sense on thereg - so I hedged 'moderate'.
And what's the pseudo conservative Blair got to do with it - you're argument smells like the American view - always blame the last opposite incumbent as long as it's republic/democrat or con/lab) - Blair was more conservative than left wing - and quite frankly seemingly pressed from the same mould that was used to manufacture David Cameron (and Even Nick Clegg) - useless twats that lot that sold us all out a long time ago..(probably around the time they stood for whatever SU post they sprouted from) .Blair and the Euro in the UK ??? That decision was pre-millenium - it's almost tabloid frothing paranoia...that he'd managed to take the UK into the euro during his stint as PM.
Honestly, what part of my comment even hinted that I would be or have ever voted labour. 'Sold our country' Blair wanted to be President. Nope I don't buy it - you talk like an American...
Stop moaning you whinger - you won - you get May and Brexit and Porn controls and all the other baggage that came with that make Britain great mindset. You want a hands-off government - you don't vote in the screaming loonies waving flags.
Stop blaming and take responsibility - my conscience is clear - I didn't vote con - but I'm stuck with the decisions your type made 'cause you thought you could get a euro free Britain and keep the moderate sanity we're barely clinging to when all you've done is loosen the leash on the moronic collection of inbred mostly public-school morons in whitehall - It sickened me that you have the temerity to blame the liberal party over their EU stance - if only you'd looked at the small print on the election promises of who you did vote for - but I suppose you never read past 'leave the EU'
They convinced you most of the issues that grind on you could be traced back to one source and got permission to get rid of it - at least this time around an innocent minority hasn't been directly target from the get-go by uniformed thugs - yet.
Perhaps I am delusional - but I'd rather be thinking outside the asylum than be manipulated like you obviously are.
I think it's a shame many right leaning moderates got brainwashed by popularist rhetoric into voting for a nationalistic agenda thinking a facist police state in some form was not far behind.
I'd say you got what you deserved, but we're all suffering...
At some point you've got to ask yourself which do you want freedom from Europe or Freedom from an overbearing nutter-state bordering banana-republic head up its own arse monarchy still over-concerned over the 'permissive society' - and they'll not be another 60's for a few more decades.
Political satire utilising pornographic imagery goes back several hundred years.
Plenty of examples of 18th century people lampooning their 'betters' by including them in pornographic images.
Then photography was invented.
"it's photography, hard photography."
- Robbie Coltrane (as Police Chief) in Comic Strip Presents... Dirty Movie.
Britain has a what now?
Ah, the proud era of the classic british porn industry - steam powered - all coming out of the ears of the classic British conservative prude (the steam - not the porn - but stranger things).
All I can think of per example is Razzle and it's sometimes more tasteful ilk.
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