Posts by 's water music

>>"Doesn’t that mean they’ve already won?"

That is always the most potent argument

In rhetorical terms it is just another think of the childrun emotive flourish. It is only superficially attractive if matches your own opinions or predjudices. This issue is too important not to deploy mostly logos and ethos in the argument

Re: Some verse

upvoted because knob jokes and limericks ought both to be encouraged in these parts

Re: "Specially modified truck"

Seriously? There's no way that thing is going to get airborne, not with all those people in it.

I assume it "transforms" into a more aerodynamic configuration before it takes off

Word wars

... the least bloody kind...

you've not played scrabble with my wife then

Re: Way to go Andrew!

FarceBooK

I'm no great FB fan, but I see what you did there

sigh

Might as well just have a inanimate stela/pylon/obelisk and save on the cost of the clock needing maintenance.

Filling it with stars doesn't come cheap though

Re: Schoolyard

It does seem strange to use a language based argument in a country with multiple official languages

Indeed, I would have thought a proles won't all understand English argument would fly better in most Anglophone countries than in the low countries.

if you switch off access to people who don't have MTPAS you might leave someone at the top of a burning building or under collapsed rubble with no means of communicating.

Wait, if it isn't live tweeted it isn't really happening no? So does that mean the punter is ok now or not? If not, perhaps nomophobia will distract them from worrying about impending death.

SMART objectives

the same staff who will now be ignorant of products in 3 completely separate markets

So at least they are developing their human captital. Put a date on it and the manager responsible could be in for a performance related bonus.

Trebles all round

Re: Mass Emails

[ooon storm]

Shirley people don't send OOONs to anyone other than the sender, who deserved it?

Re: 0.3 of a plane?

.3 is not a third.

Well if you are welding three bits together it is probably close enough. Maybe lose one row of seats or something?

Re: Errrr

El Reg hasn't accidentally fallen for the tweet old content as if it were new trick has it?

To be fair they did churn the press release when it was fresh too.

Re: This means that people like Mr Hook ... effectively got set free.

Assuming you're referring to Abu Hamza al-Masri...

I think the PP is conflating his Abu Qatada al-Filistinis (bff of UK home secretaries and acquitted by Jordanian courts) with his Abu Hamza al-Masris (he of the prosthetic hook hands)

Re: They Don't Like it Up 'Em!

All we need now is for Cameron to call for "A major, and I mean MAJOR leafleting campaign" and it'll be game over.

I get that you think that a leaflet campaign is just so much bullshit but I really believe that it is the right thing to do

Re: I miss the Fail Whale

Mmmmust tweet.... must tweet... must tweet.... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGH!

Must... post... snark in social media thread. Protesting too much?

<cue recursive thread meltdown>

Re: HMRC

You do realize that if they have enough expenses to actually write off 100% of their earnings they aren't making any money, right?

That depends on the extent to which expenditure which the conslutant would have made anyway in a personal capacity can be re-categorised as an allowable expense. Personally I am just as much of a tight-arse with the company's money as with my own

very easy to steal the login credentials used for this site by that particular AC.

I'm gonna remember that for next time* I post something dumb here.

*i.e. most times

Re: yeah, that'll work..

Whilst I agree with your point for the most part there is some intersection between the set of people likely to comply with registration and the set of idiots likely to fly in restricted airspace or otherwise recklessly so the terrorists won't register argument is not fatal to the general principle of attempting to regulate drone use

Re: Depressing.

Sometimes I wonder if part of the political process should include screening for psychopathy.

I think that the proportion of non-psychopaths that get through is so low already that adding screening would barely make any difference

Re: Am i stupid? or am I smart?

Indeed. I had a gig at a company with lots of uk call centres recently. Some sites where quite pleasant with "wind down" leisure facilities and others were like a custody suite because the staff would vandalise anything that wasn't hardened. Treat your staff like arseholes and they'll rise to the challenge

Re: Common sense

all that does is give you a nice circle centred on your house.

Only if you centre a privacy zone on your house and then only if you cycle enough different routes to and from your house to enable the zone's centre to be triangulated.

Re: Dewix Intelligence Overlords

Maggie... I am fairly sure she was not New Labour

Well I heard that she told New Labour that she was its dad before cutting off its hand

Re: Our new infrastructure is organised thus...

I have a lock on my front door but that doesn't make it a good idea to publish an inventory of my house contents.

I think the OP's point was that neither would it be a good idea to pass such an inventory to a third party and ask them not to tell anyone what was in it

gravy

Let's hope that come the last day for digital 'returns', that HRMC has enough bandwidth / processing power to cope with the traditional surge

I started off hoping they don't spend the next 15 years spunking 100 times any projected savings on systems that never come close to being fit for use and end up costing another 50% more to walk away from at the termination of the contract but then I thought that was unrealistic so now I am just hoping that I get a piece of that pie myself.

Re: Disingenuous little f*ckers

So MS are lying: you can only get the storage back by bending giving over your private information.

Imagine what would go wrong if MS got their hands on your Windows Live account details.

a pedant rights*

Except the best...

Good advice for work. I certainly do. Always keep the best in reserve.

*Muphry

Re: More Apple screens?

Maybe Apple owners have a greater likelihood of trying to procure a repair rather than living with it or replacing the device. My impression is that there is a higher expectation of after sales service from Apple for whatever reason

Re: So, can I now slow down a Google car..

.. by taking a leak against it (when it's stationary, of course) ?

It won't slow down by much though

Re: Because, very clearly, Mr. Trump, you do not

Will Trump bring Sarah Palin back ... and perhaps retrieve Dan Quayle...

Well he could use more intellectuals to bring some gravitas to his campaign

Re: Why do people pay these people

date line rant

Is that a mobile site issue? Dateline is right next to the byline under the irritating stock image illustration as well as in the URL