Posts by A Nonny Moose

How much?!

€5000?! You'll not see penny one from me you slags!

Still, interesting concept, here's hoping for a more reasonably priced consumer version in the next decade.

Additional Option Suggestions

How about a "Don't rape me" option too?

Been there, done that

Got the cheque from the water company. Didn't think to go to the local papers about it though.

In my case I just wrote a letter to the local council roads department explaining what happened and got a reply saying to fill in the included form.

Filled in the form (in triplicate) and sent it in. It was then sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public enquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters. Then I finally got a letter from the water company with a cheque for the cost of two new alloys and two new tyres.

Phone reviews

I hope you'll be leaving directions to the Post Box and fruit market for whoever will be taking over the phone reviews, otherwise we'll have nothing to compare the cameras with

No luck catching them orbits then?

Seems like an expensive way of not going anywhere to me.

"The actual cost to Tinder-owner Match is only going to be $25 multiplied by the number of old folk who bother to apply for it. It could reach $5.75m if all estimated 230,000 users that are entitled to the payment apply, but on average only five per cent of class action users actually hear about or bother, so it will likely cost the biz less than $300,000."

Gee, if only there was some way to disseminate such useful information, like say by some kind of online tech news outlet. Nah, crazy idea.

Seriously though, I'm over 30, I'm on Tinder, how do I get my 25 buck-a-roos?

Hey, where's my £10k?

I left Crapita several months ago (best thing I ever did), for free! If I'd have known that they would have paid me ten grand to leave I would have done it a lot sooner!

Rules for thee, but not for me

"He described VAT paid to the company by its suppliers but not yet due to HMRC as "an interest-free loan" from the taxman"

I could say the same thing about my student loan payments, that HMRC are happy to hang on to for a year, earning interest for them and costing it for me, before passing on to the SLC.

United States of Cardassia

In cases like this, the US "Justice" System reminds me a lot of the Cardassian system.

"DUKAT: How barbaric. On Cardassia, the verdict is always known before the trial begins. And it's always the same.

SISKO: In that case, why bother with a trial at all?

DUKAT: Because the people demand it. They enjoy watching justice triumph over evil every time. They find it comforting."

He's right y'know

He's right, this whole mess is entirely the fault of one individual, and that individual is:

Rick Smith

"Why is this so F’ing hard?"

Yes, why is this so F'ing hard? Shirley it should be that Spotify pays the record label/artist and then the record label/artist pays the songwriter and whoever else they have to. But then that's far too simple a solution and doesn't involve enough lawyers skimming off the top.

Please Please Please

Add a removable battery and waterproofing and you can replace my Galaxy S5. Please.

"Though the doctor could give advice that might be able to help in situations such as a heart attack."

Yes, it's "Dial 999 and get to a bloody hospital"

Travis 2.0

Hopefully it involves a complete rewrite, and not just a series of patches on the buggy base code

Nice Jetty you've got there

Just don't let Sub-Lieutenant Phillips anywhere near it.

Sub-head correction

"When's't bin man coming?"

Books schmooks

They're showing re-runs of MacGyver on the telly, that's teaching me how to make explosives out of pretty much anything!

Sample 9 – plexiglass at window-thickness

Hmm, if your space windows are on fire, you're having a bad day. But at least the fire won't be your problem for very long.

Beam me up, Scotty

Yes, well, this is all very nice, but let's get to the really important question:

How much closer are we to getting Star Trek style Transporters?