Posts by Fungus Bob

Re: Outsourcing Is the worst thing to happen to this country

Outsourcing isn't the real problem. Individuals and small businesses outsource all the time when we do things like take our cars to mechanics or hire book keeping or housecleaning services - we would rather pay someone else to to the jobs that we lack the resources to do properly. Economists call this a Good Thing.

Offshoring is where it all goes in the crapper because Henry Ford was right when he realized that his employees were also his customers. This is true for every business, directly or indirectly, their employees are also their customers. Put another way, the economy does not create jobs, the economy *is* jobs so sending jobs far, far away shrinks the economy. Economists call this concept Utter Shit.

Fuck the economists.

Re: Excellent job folks

"how do they balance a stretcher on a bike?"

Duct tape.

Re: "The FTC takes a dim view of the use of fake profiles ..."

"So LinkedIn is next on the list?"

Nooooo, those are Real Profiles of Real Thinkfluencers, Amazing Brand Champions and Post Privacy Gurus...

Re: when it and Saturn became gravitationally excited

Only in Utah.

Re: But it needs to be "militarised"

"Why was a toilet seat being installed in (or on) a fighter plane?"

So the pilot could take a shit, DUH!

Re: I can see the point of such a law

Filling a single-malt Scotch bottle with homemade hooch would probably be considered fraud and be illegal anyway.

Re: by-line?

Remember, they're tryin' ta act all Perfeshinull and Groan-Up.

Re: Surprised?

Vista

Re: Secure Data Destruction

Considering the erasure method, Shirley you mean "data breech"...

Also, whoulda thunk Canadians would be gun crazy like us Mericans?

Same thing happened with New Orleans - it was once barely above sea level. If they were smart they'd have filled in the hole before rebuilding instead of rebuilding inside it after hurricane Katrina.

"> English is the only common language in many cases.

Yeah, if only there could be some possible lingua franca apart from English, eh?"

The only fair way to solve this is to make the official language of the EU something none of it's member countrys speak. Like gangsta rap.

Re: Misunderstood Moore's Law

"no guidance whatsoever about how to improve performance"

boner pills, 'nuff said.

It is a Zen Koan, grasshopper.

Re: Murphy's Rule of Personal Data

"Still, as someone's bound to point out, if you've got nothing to hide, what's the harm????"

Well, I don't look good naked anymore...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOgd9hitEAE

No such thing as a lousy BOFH.

Re: Killing TVs, a step too far

"What could the manufacturer possibly do to protect you from yourself in that scenario?"

They could sell you an Etch-A-Sketch instead of a TV pretending to be a phone.

Re: Products and services moved to Microsoft preferred use again

"Are there any other professional contact/collaboration organizations out there where subscribers are not jerked around by large corporate marketing interest only?"

You don't understand. The whole point of getting a job is to be jerked around by large corporate interests.

Re: voting 3rd party

"Look what's happened to EVERY third party candidate to appear since Ross Perot. Not one state and only token present in the absolute tally."

Perhaps not at the national level (yet) but at the state level Jesse Ventura was a third party candidate that actually became governor. He didn't do a bad job and it was soooo refreshing to see an elected official that wouldn't apologize or backtrack every time he stuck his foot in his mouth.

What would happen if every eligible voter in the US that was too disgusted with the whole system to vote would, instead, vote for any third party candidate instead of staying home?

Re: "The emergency rogue vulture hotline"

...and the dumpsters behind them.

Re: Why not try and burst it

To all the naysayers,

Popping the thing *would* give the astronauts the opportunity to say "It's been swell but the swelling's gone down".

Re: Do you have any tea?

Seems to be a perfectly reasonable question if this is anything to go by:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWDdd5KKhts

Re: @Dadmin

Who piddled in your Post Toasties?

Re: Rocky Horror and MS

When you think about it, Rocky Horror really was a lousy movie - it was so bad that it took the customers to fix it. Don't believe me? Try watching it at home without hordes of people dressed as the characters and without throwing toast at your TV or yelling "ASSHOLE" at the appropriate times. And the squirt guns, don't forget to not bring the squirt guns.

Microsoft products are much the same.

"Americans can't recognise sarcasm or irony."

Hey! I resemble that remark!!!