Posts by MyffyW

Re: Click and Collect

Unexpected operating system in bagging area

It's main danger is probably other ballistic-missile subs hiding in the Atlantic. I'm looking at you Le Triomphant

Re: One of the Mysteries of the Free Market...

InBev - and the firm hand on the scythe that is 3G Capital.

There is a special place in hell for those boys from Brazil.

I think 5' 5" curvy 40-somethings should be at the head of the queue.

Re: American neo-consrvative nonsense.

Evidence:

- every country where government does everything has turned out to be a lousy place to live.

- every country that actually lacks a government has turned out to be a lousy place to live.

- the small number of countries which have had government limited to guarding the coastlines, keeping the judiciary honest and delivering the mail have generally been the places people from the first two want to move to.

I'm a soft-left-liberal-libertarian-feminist if that helps orientate me on the riemann geometry of modern politics :-)

Re: Huh,

If it was Virgin trains that general dieselly-faeco-incontinance odour would have been far more offensive.

This is pretty much the only thing I'm now skilled at...

Re: What?

@AC remind me again which political party has the most members in the UK?

Re: *IX

Back in the early '90s there were HP Vectra PCs that came with a driver letting you flip between two sessions on top of MS-DOS. Which was fine, except they usually had to juggle whatever you ran within the 640K of conventional memory.

And they were an unedifying shade of beige.

Re: the main idea of a hostile takeover is surprise...

... and nice red uniforms

I'll come in again, our greatest weapons are ....

Re: How many kilowatts?

Well said @pen-y-gors - that's not just the Hefalump in the room, it's a Pandora's Box full of Woozles.

Re: *Standing, thunderous, rowdy ovation*

Dear PRC, I'm wearing my blue duffel coat and giving you my best hard stare.

Re: I've got two Trello accounts

Similarly embuggered and it wasn't immediately obvious how I could get my old account transferred to my new company email.

That said, since it's not AD integrated I do like the ability to give myself the job title "Disney Princess".

...let it go

Re: Seriously?

Last time my mate Neil moved an IBM (AS/400) he totalled the truck and the (mini-)Big Iron inside.

On the plus side he wasn't asked to do it again....

Re: Folding the thing away again

Indeed, although for preference I'd choose the one-inch-to-the-mile map of Manchester from the '60s which had all the Beeching lines marked with white "disused railway station" symbols.

I'll be on Warrington Bank Quay Low Level forever kissing nostalgia goodbye.

ICI ?

...yes, yes I know it's actually an "L" but for a brief moment my dyslexic brain thought former chemical giant Imperial Chemical Industries was alive and well.

Should have used '90s era Inmarsat

It would have been rather jolly to watch a trained eagle patiently get out an attache case and a compass, align to the requisite Clarke-orbit satellite and send a voice message for a few quid.

Rocks falling at 360 kilometers per hour?

That is rather fast, when acceleration due to gravity is only 3.8m per s squared.

Quick back-of-fluoxetine-packet calculation suggests:

In free fall (discounting thin martian atmosphere and any stubborn mountain goats) you'd cover 1.3Km before reaching that speed. I know they've got some tall mountains on Mars, but .... wow

Re: Leasing versus sales

I suppose you could always build a Dungeness "C" reactor and tell Musk to take his solar powered wizardry back to California.

Re: Aren't you thinking of

Oder vielleicht: Das Ring

Re: GOTCHA!

@Graham - thx hun, hope you enjoyed your roll on the floor

Ground control

"I think my spaceship knows which way to go"

- Sorry hun, that's just because you're at a Lagrange point

Re: That's MY business plan

In my mind (a strange and purple-pink land of liberal sentiment) it goes a bit like this:

Baby Boomer - born 1945 - 1960

Gen X - born 1960 - 1980

Gen Y / Millennial - born 1980 - 2000

Gen Z born 2000 - 2020

And Lord alone knows what we'll call the next batch of progeny....

what colour will the Lunar Penal Colony guards wear?

Denim blue, obviously, with a figure-hugging zip up the front so Officer McCullough can smuggle phone chargers in for Alex.

Keep your IT misfires away from my sweet principality, thank you very much.

- Offa's ambiguously-orientated damsel.

Re: "Outside the digital world, none of us would accept the proposition that"

I make a point of keeping my secrets inside a copy of On Liberty by John Stuart Mill, because the nit-wit populists don't appear to be capable of reading that.

Have they thought of getting Bruce Willis to do the drilling for them?

As a Chem Eng graduate I still recall with delight the Yellow Pages entry "Boring - see Civil Engineers"

Re: Europa

"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid you can't do that"

Re: It's an extremely lucrative way for organised crime to launder dirty money

And there was me thinking that all you had to do was to buy an East Manchester football club.

Re: the important thing

In such a taxonomy, first you have to start with "Airplane"

Also beware, you will eventually drop the "Jefferson" and end up wearing massive '80s shoulder pads singing "Nothing's gonna stop us now"

I, for one, welcome our hairspray rock overlords.

Lease <> PCP

PCP - you pay for the interest and maybe a bit of the principal, end up still owing half the cost of the car.

Lease - you pay a monthly fee, and sometimes a deposit of three months, and owe nothing and own nothing, usually with a restriction on number of miles.

"Car-as-a-service" would be more akin to a short term hire car, where you pay from day-to-day and end up getting blamed for a dent you swear blind you didn't cause.

Re: Maybe China should build them instead

I suspect China doesn't have to contend with quite the same regulatory and social environment as EDF.

Re: Extraterrestial Explanation?

If we're going for D I S C O references, I reckon Ensign Tilly got there first.

Never underestimate the resourcefulness of a fuller-figured red-head who's somewhere on the spectrum.

Electric supplier: "I've come to install your smart meter"

Me: Well it makes a change to "I'm here to fix the refrigerator". If we just cut to the poorly-stereotyped sexual innuendo can I keep my old Bakerlite one?

Re: There's cheap crap, and there is expensive crap.

I wonder how they got something so heavy in ahem .. "motion" ?

To quote the two Mrs Ws: "remind me again why I drink gin?"

Cellular modem on my daughter's iPhone broke - Apple just replaced whole phone (very efficiently I must say).