Posts by Doctor Syntax

To be fair, it's probably easier than plugging it into a USB A socket.

Would you really trust him with hot fat?

Re: household name DIY product

"There is always an alternative and they are often cheaper."

For one thing, you're not expected to pay for their ads.

It's not necessarily rich people. It's a pension fund. I'm not familiar with DeKalb County but I doubt the County employees are rich. It's like Pascal said, they made the wrong type of investment for a pension fund and, assuming they're still holding the stock, are now doubling down by suing themselves. Any time you see these reports of stockholders suing a company just remember that the company is the company of stockholders. Its money is their money. All they can get is their own money and they'll have to pay both sets of lawyers for their days in court.

Re: Goodbye

Less of a dream machine, more of a nightmare.

Re: "Our partnership with each of our customers is built on trust"

Trust is very easily monetised and when it's exhausted with any particular customer the Barnum principle will still be working.

Re: Measure twice, cut once.

And have some spares, just in case.

Re: fast-growing plantations such as in Brazil

Yup. That was one of the remarks led me to wonder about the whole report. Others included not that much harvested wood going into timber because some of it goes into paper making. AFAIK timber for paper making is a fast grown crop, cultivated specifically for the purpose on a regular cropping cycle. Another was mention of allowing part of the crop to rot and part to be burned for energy. Leaving brash - the material that can't be used - to be recycled by natural means is actually good for the environment; it's part of the forest ecosystem and supports a lot of species which would be lost if the felled areas were completely cleared. Burning small wood for energy replaces some need for fossil fuel.

Re: Elliott

I doubt many people in the UK were aware of it. I wouldn't have either if it hadn't been due to there being several such sites within a few miles of where I live and having had a cousin in law who worked at a couple of them.

Re: Greenwash

"Burning vegetables still puts C02 into the atmosphere."

It puts into the atmosphere the CO2 that was taken out by the growing vegetables. That's a net zero at that level. However transport and processing have to be considered so if they used fossil fuels there's addition of some CO2 as a second order effect. If this is genuine waste then it's not a case of plants being grown for fuel. However destroying forest to grow cash-crops, even where those cash-crops are food, is a concern.

Re: Exponentially ridiculous

You've got to sympathise with him. It must get very confusing finding that you're the only man marching in step.

Re: "the civil aviation sector of terrorist Russia"

"a sociopathic, kleptomaniacal dictator"

And once you've stolen pretty well everything avaiable in your own country all that's left for you is to try to steal another country.

Re: That last sentence speaks volumes, Kerr is a conspiracy nutjob:

It's also a very effective way of drawing the attention of those you really shouldn't want to find out about your shortcomings.

Re: How was it basically the VPs fault?

"She was using the IT equipment provided in the proper way"

Not really. Note this sentence from TFA: "When she got up to leave, she did not log out of her computer or save her work."

And obviously π = e.

QED

Re: Mismash

"Now, when I actually got into the branch, super helpful and everything resolved in around 15 mins not including waiting around the same time."

This was an HSBC branch? Don't mention the location or they'll close it PDQ for not meeting corporate standards.

Re: They would absolutely test it nowadays.

"that is literally a part of what the beta channel is for"

That may be the case with Microsoft. What it should be for is to ensure that the development and integration testing has been done properly. In fact, it's arguable that that's the role of the alpha testers. There should be relatively few issues making their way through to the beta testers.