Posts by Awil Onmearse

Re: "I don't know what the standard term for rape in sweden is "

"Sweden would not ship him to USA."

Why ever not? They ship people to Egypt to be tortured.

Re: Business as usual

"Eh? Who killed Fusilier Lee Rigby? Who blew up three underground trains and a bus?"

People well-known to - and in the sphere of influence of - MI5. Make of that what you will.

Re: 2 x Twats!

"The day after the referendum Alex Salmond said that the "No" voters were tricked. That's like calling them stupid."

A fair proportion might well be on the spectrum of gormless morons with an inexplicable hard-on for the British establishment - but no, what Salmond said is not like calling them stupid at all.

Another few years of being "governed" by these cunting inbreeds might yet determine the veracity of what he actually said, though.

Re: Just get rid of corporation tax

"so just tax people properly."

If corporations want to be legal persons, they can fucking pay tax like a person.

RTFA

"Er, no: RTFA. Authoritarian regimes don't like the individual asserting their rights."

Er No. You read your own article! Which "individual", pray tell, is in possession of the copyright to Anne Frank's diary?

Authoritarian regimes have no problem with corporations asserting their rights, being as they are a de facto arm of the state under those conditions.

Raging against copyright in perpetuity isn't irrational. conversely, gifting products that under infinite copyright, essentially have infinite value is as bloody irrational as it gets.

Re: "heh suppose my raising my 2010 marquis limiter from 110mph to 155mph"

"You do realise that 120kph is just above what is legal on any British dual carriageway?"

You do realise the Alvis Scorpion is a fucking tank?

Re: Outdated practices?

"On the other hand it leads to the situation where the 58 year old fart in the IT office is so incompetent...."

... according to generation after generation of pimply-faced, over-confident wankers who arrive waving their cocks around, are doomed to fail in exactly the same ways as each previous generation, and simultaneously dismiss the voice of experience as incompetence.

Re: It depends on who the criminals are

Sanford? Is that you?

Re: Awil Onmebiketogetbettersocial Life without too much fear....

Dude, one small town in Sweden called Södertälje took in more refugees from your Iraq misadventure then your entire miserable shithole of a country and it's northern neighbour combined.

Your ignorance on the well documented rise of fascism in Europe is par for the course for an ignoramus, I suppose.

"That way nothing new can ever be created without someone else getting a cut "

Quite. A creative economy based overwhelmingly on rent-seeking. No-one except perverse ideologues think this is actually a good thing.

Re: There are no other angles here

"Economics is an attempt to model markets. If the model doesn't fit then it is wrong but that doesn't mean that the market-derived price is wrong."

It's an attempt to model markets until it suddenly isn't. Then it decides it's an attempt to model all human behaviour through the lens of markets, along the way failing elementary "is-ought" tests of the sort that trashed objectivism 300 years before it was even conceived.

One can't prove that a true market-derived price is wrong for obvious reasons. However asserting that any individual market-derived price is correct in the absence of a mathematical proof - or worse that the market-value of something has any relation whatsoever to what actual humans value is what El-Reg would refer to as "trick-cycling"

Re: Do not eat

"There is no benefit whatsoever to websites to pay attention to it."

Did you read the article? The benefit to advertisers is that users won't disappear behind their own privacy tools.

I'd willingly pay for El Reg, but I usually have an adblocker on for 2 reasons: firstly the people serving the ads and tracking me *aren't* El Reg and could be peadoterrorist Nork spooks - or worse - an actual advertising company for all I know. Secondly, the ads served are invariably total bollocks.

Re: *Sigh*...

Sure, wasn't he already in the US, and the State dept refused a visa change that would allow his family to travel?

Dunno where he'd personally be safer from the Mossad murder-squads though, Tehran being a fucking risky place for nuclear scientists and the US being full of Israeli collaborators.

If you contract your economy by 25%, you lose 25% of your tax receipts, and trying to implement that saving structurally means stripping back the state by 25%. "The state" for these purposes being those dependent on it - the poor, pensioners, the unemployed. Exactly what has been inflicted on Greece 2010-2015 .

It's all very well Germany banging on about austerity as it continues to enjoy and exploit a massively undervalued Euro convenient for it's manufacturing-based economy and so never has to suffer it in any real sense, barring it's self-inflicted reunification costs.

In the UK over the last 5 years, Osborne *has* been spending and borrowing like a fucking madman, and his "austerity" moves are simply class-war spite.

Re: Unusable IT is grounds for striking?

"Oh wait, I'm not public sector or unionised, so I just have to fix it."

You're evidently not a actual user of your unusable IT, then. Must suck balls working for Accenture - sorry about that.

"valve (toob)" That's "tube", you boob. Or are you a newb?

A sceptic wary of a Septic phonetic? Woosh.

Re: Meh

Socialism? I'll have some of whatever you are smoking.

Greece has had an ostensibly socialist government for all of 6 months. So logically, this disaster has happened in it's entirety under an assortment of more-or-less authoritarian right-wing loonies, dictators and asset-stripping free-marketeers.

The risk of default was baked in to the rates of the original loans, right? so tough luck. If you have a problem with the "institutions" providing "socialism" to the reckless creditors by bailing them out and transferring the debt to the European taxpayer, write to your representative instead of spouting bitter shite.

Re: I still don't get it ... Ahmed Agiza and Muhammad al-Zery

"However, the mistreatment of those two individuals have absolutely nothing to do with Assange's legal situation."

Apart from showing the Swedish government and Säpo have no problem colluding to break their own laws on extradition, I suppose.

"How Assange has been treated is also a clear indication that his rights will not be violated."

You mean the public prosecutor and police colluding by leaking his name immediately to the press from the Police station the complainants were interviewed at - again in contravention of Swedish law?. Right.

Re: Drupal is

True, many shops go overboard with contrib and this leads to scalability problems, easily enough mitigated with appropriate use of query, object and page caches to relieve the DB.

Compared to some nameless commercial offerings, with DB schemas over-normalised to within an inch of their miserable lives, core Drupal at least is pretty fleet-of-foot.

Re: Too late was the cry

"The last thing the officer wants is the chance of taking out some poor bystander"

Semantics about choice of ammo is kinda redundant when the victim himself is some poor bystander.