Posts by TheVogon

Re: Sounds familiar

I guess at least what they believe in is no less credible than most other religeons:

https://youtu.be/Bo97LdIHj74

"The less children brought up by religious nutters, the better."

And the fewer children, better still...

Re: Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath

"what primarily defines a cult has several aspects to it:"

So for instance the Catholic Church?

"24x7 Hypno-Toad"

And BattleStar Gallactica.

For the Scilons...

Re: Sounds familiar

Isnt it these guys that offer free gullibility tests near London railway stations?

"something you'll discover when you're trying to get Outlook to talk caldav or carddav. "

Quite true. But to be fair on Microsoft, its a paid for product designed to work primarily with Exchange and O365. However as it is modular and supports addins, there are lots of free 3rd party solutions. For instance:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/outlookcaldavsynchronizer/

And if you are trying to sync to gmail, Outlook can do that:

https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/see-your-google-calendar-in-outlook-c1dab514-0ad4-4811-824a-7d02c5e77126

Re: Win 10 Stupid Edition

"But this option puts all the dumb users default configuration into one that pushes them into Microsoft controlled revenue generators Bing and the store"

So just like Google and Apple then. But at least you can choose say no.

Re: All very well

"Permies generally COST about 40% more than they are PAID as a rule of thumb"

The actual cost of permanent staff is more like double what they are paid with training, holidays, sick pay, pension, bonus, recruitment fees, etc.

Re: No real commonality in the F35

"Someone (probably China) is going to build small and comparatively cheap drones that rely on kinetic kills"

So sort of like a guided missile type thing? Oh, wait, we already have those!

Re: How many countries (or parts of countries) has the US annexed recently?

"Pretty sure the US bought that chunk of wasteland from Russia."

A few decades more anthropomorphic global warming and it might be quite pleasant to visit. Rather like Scotland really.

Re: Mutually Assured Destruction - MAD

"I nearly gave you an upvote until I read THAT part. Seriously? You actually BELIEVE that?"

Yes it should read "in charge of the nuclear codes". There is no button as such.

Re: How many countries (or parts of countries) has the US annexed recently?

Gibraltar wasn't annexed. It was ceeded by treaty.

Re: STEM

"but if you are looking for specific skills, expertise & experience then I'm sorry but you're wrong."

Really, tell me a technology job that there isn't a market rate for where you could get someone?

"Limit 'undermines business confidence', groups tell UK.gov"

Translation : Having to pay market rates to attract talent undermines our executive bonus pool.

Re: I can see the argument for some teachers being armed...

"It would not make sense in the UK where even some of the police do not carry guns all the time!"

The vast majority of Police in the UK never carry guns. However those that do are properly trained and carry semi-precision weapons like Glocks, AMT Defenders, SIGs and Heckler and Kocks. Not some gung ho numpty with a colt pistol that shoots at tin cans in a firing range once a year like in the US.

See for instance:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Police.gun.1.london.arp.jpg

Re: awwww, poor precious snowflakes can't stand the heat

"At that point, one of the best options for the non-criminal victims of this process for personal protection is their own gun."

But statistics across several US based studies show it's not the best option. In fact it increases your risk of firearm related death.

"it does motivate the criminals to shift from personal crimes to non-personal crimes (crimes against unattended property where the chance of being shot by a victim is much much lower)."

Again the evidence shows otherwise. Criminals just tend to shoot first instead.

Re: I can see the argument for some teachers being armed...

"First of all the police cant be everywhere and most of the time we dont want them to be. So the time delay for the police can cost a number of lives already."

Every other industrialised country on the planet seems to have competent police that generally manage to look after their civilians when necessary. And the US as the one country that apparently doesn't has a way way higher rate of gun deaths. So clearly that's utter bollocks.

Re: awwww, poor precious snowflakes can't stand the heat

"I can see the argument for some teachers being armed if they are required to take basic firearm training and regularly have range hours."

Great until they shoot a few innocent bystanders whilst taking pot shots at a suspect. Or have a bad day and shoot up the place. It would be far more sensible to fix the underlying problem - easy access to guns. Particularly assault weapons that have no legitimate civilian use.

Re: That'll show 'em!

"actually, this kind of boycott/pressure is done by a HANDFUL OF PEOPLE"

Based on what evidence? I think you will find that there is a growing movement for gun control. Plenty of dead kids means that people have had enough.

And random CAPS reads like a newspaper for morons, so I can't be bothered to read through the rest of your lowbrow rant.

Re: That'll show 'em!

"but unfortunately Symantec withdrawing a discount to NRA members is irrelevant. "

Alone maybe. But many companies are doing the same, which reduces the benefits of being an NRA member. That and the general distain in which the circa 5 million members are held by much of the rest of the US population will hit their membership and therefore their funding and influence.

"You have a right to bare arms"

Surely wearing a T-shirt would do just fine?

Re: That'll show 'em!

"I await with trepidation your explanation as to how "consumers", "corporations", "profits" and "management" could possibly impact the NRA."

Because the NRA is directly funded by gun corporations. And consumers can vote with their feet.

Re: That'll show 'em!

Great news. The NRA is a front for gun companies and is largely responsible for the lack of gun control in the US. And therefore is also directly responsible for circa 1 million US civilian deaths by firearms.

" was partly an attempt to distance American English from English English"

from English. It's the original and needs no qualification.

Re: A thought.

"For desktop and workstation, Microsoft will also, it seems, be charging based on the number of cores and/or CPUs basis. The 4 core (not CPU) will be the base price desktop OS, while systems with more cores (or more than 1 CPU) will have to pay more for the workstation licence."

No, Microsoft are not charging by # cores for Windows 10. Only by CPU type.

What they have suggested is that you will need the Workstation Pro license for systems with Intel Xeon or AMD Opteron CPUs. These are server / workstation class CPUs so it makes sense.

Re: Consumer refers to who's paying

"Was a free upgrade from 7 an if you used assitive technology or whatever the name of the gadgets as the onscreen keyboard or the reader."

It was a free upgrade anyway. Assisted technology just had a later upgrade deadline. And the free upgrade still works!

Re: Consumer refers to who's paying

"Except they're not. They cost about £80. All the "free" deals went away a while back."

Free upgrade from a previously licensed Windows version still works. Even though it is supposed to have expired.