Posts by Stork

I _hope_ you forgot /s

Re: Critical

That was done to our cooker by a qualified electrician in Denmark. It is common to have 3 phase sockets, and he swapped common and a phase.

Cooker heated extremely well, but the fan in the oven gave up and the light was blinding.

Re: Whoa whoa whoa

Not that governments have a wonderful track record.

Re: Advetising is grossly overestimated

I think there are very few offices in Denmark without a filter coffee maker installed. It’s one of the benefits that are expected.

Re: Second Life

How do they keep WWII planes flying then (legally)?

Re: Good... now keep going.

What puzzles me is that all these big names want to put money into crapto in the first place.

There is no good reason it should increase or even keep value.

You can say much the same about gold, but gold has thousands of years of track record.

Re: Me too.

My son had some spare time and is doing one of IBMs online courses. He’s 23

Re: Ban on what?

Absolutely. This is also why the exciting merchant banking was separated from dull retail banking. Unfortunately some legislators have been convinced to reduce this separation again

Re: new fitted benches had been installed over the shutoff valve

Reminds me of what my dad once said in frustration: son, never buy a house where you don’t know where the sewers are.

Re: Dyson peaked with the Ballbarrow

Those things have not made it to Portugal - have I been missing something? What the supposed advantage?

Re: 1.9MB floppies

Last I used a floppy was in 1999, the inside as a filter to observe the solar eclipse.

Re: My first flight

Ticket prices in real terms were different too

Re: Self Repair... but only if you have a new phone...

Instant unscheduled disassembly can work quite well, but I guess you would like to assemble it again?

Coordinating two incidents?

Re: Organised scam

Can’t you just strike “a dinner”?

Re: Are they allowed pursue other paid employment during that time?

Also, there is a higher proportion of young people in the informal sector, partly because it is difficult to become permanent with southern European employment protection

Re: I particularly Love the idea of “unmanned mode”

I was thinking “massive drone “ when I read it.

Unfortunately it was a dry year and the backup capacity are thermal stations in Denmark now running on - gas

Re: "The US doesn't like the EU".

If you like it or not, we are. Check the Finnish PM’s comment on defence yesterday.

Re: Also

Fair enough, it was a genuine question as I had not heard that claim before

Re: Contract clauses

At my IT job 20 years ago you were supposed to be in the office between 10 and 15, unless other agreements were made for the day. You then arranged yourself around that.

Re: 533 Million

I thought the same, it is €0.5 per user

Re: In the Navy

Perhaps the Navy SEALs? I think they were in Afghanistan which last I checked was rather far from the beach.

Re: Let it slide

Not quite. Portugal and the British islands are on WET, most of western and Central Europe on CET(Bornholm hour) and at least Finland and Greece on Eastern European time.

We should not have gone into the caves in the first place ( with due credit to HHGTTG)

Re: Burned through $12 billions, losses of billions, and will never make a positive ROI..

Do you think there is still a userbase when that happens?

Re: FTFY

I arrived in the UK in 1992. Negative equity was a thing.

Re: App Stores

I have watched test cricket, wonderful. Sitting in the sun getting slowly alcohol used…

That was then now it would be treated with anti-slip Teflon

Re: You get what you order

In defence of Ryanair (I know…), last spring their flights actually left as opposed to those of the competitors. We flew out of Bristol at the end of May and I think half the EasyJet flights were cancelled, none of Ryanair’s.

Don’t quite get the fuss about Columbus. There were Norse and possibly Irish who had been to America before. Most likely also Basque (they were fishing at the Newfoundland Banks in 14th century)and odds are the Portuguese had been to Brazil before the official date in 1500, check the winds at currents around equator.

Is it because he was first to publish?

In particular when the neighbouring governments state that they don’t feel bound by the agreement they signed months earlier