What would Professor Gangreen say?
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Posts by Fungus Bob
1347 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Jun 2014
Must-have sports tech: No, not an Apple Watch, a TOMATO GOB-STUFF BOT
Dutch MEP slams 'cowboy practices' of GCHQ 'n' pals following Gemalto allegations
El Reg chefs whip up Post-Pub Noshographic
Obama turns back on spooks: 'I'm on the side of strong encryption'
It's not easy being Green. But WHY insist we knit our own ties?
Tuesday 17th February 2015 03:46 GMT
Calm down, Alfred
I did read the article. TW may have made some token acknowledgment regarding non-monetary rewards but denies the validity of that idea throughout the entire article, especially the second and seventeenth paragraphs. If he spends more virtual ink poo-pooing the concept than not, he missed the point.
Monday 16th February 2015 16:30 GMT
Re: Missing the point....
Exactly. Tim completeley miises the fact that self sufficiency is it's own reward. He misses it because this reward completely defies any sort of monetary quantification while it is easy to count the costs involved in doing things for yourself. My wife, daughter and I are trying to grow all of our own veggies in our 40 ft. wide suburban back yard. Did we spend thousands ( over a couple of years) to save hundreds (every year)? Yes. Is that foolish? Considering that my wife really doesn't want to work outside the home, I hate mowing the lawn and that we feel that letting even a modest back yard be nothing more than a dog toilet is a waste in a world with an ever-growing population, no. A side benefit is the return of bumblebees. The downside is that we also have voles now, but that gives the dog something to do.
Reg hacks (and rest of 'Frisco) in LinkedIn measles contagion scare
Friday 13th February 2015 20:42 GMT
Re: Rubella and birth defects
"All you self-centered, selfish, stupid creeps that don't want to "risk" immunization (yes - it is your choice): just move out to the middle of a REALLY big desert, so you don't put the rest of us at risk."
If you've been immunized, there is no problem for you. Unless immunization doesn't work, which makes the whole argument pointless.
SWINGBELLIES! Take heed AGAIN: Booze shortens your life
NERDS KICK PUPPY 'bot in brutal attack
Official: Single people need to LOWER their EXPECTATIONS
Smartphones don’t dumb you down, they DUMB you UP
NASA: Check out this TWIRLY SPACE DWARF – and NEVER moan about our budget
SWELLING moons of ice dwarf Pluto snapped by NASA spy-probe
Wanted: Brit Facebook and Twitter trolls for counter-jihad psyops
Twin Adam Sandlers shake El Reg's movie unwatchablathon team
Windows is TAKING the TABLET market... what's left of it, anyway
Bankruptcy could see RadioShack close doors for good – report
Look out - it's a Goober! Google's über-Uber robo apptaxi ploy
Tuesday 3rd February 2015 21:27 GMT
Re: pave the way for mass sales
Not necessarily, personal vehicle ownership has the following drawbacks:
Costs for purchase, maintenance and insurance.
Takes up space in the garage that could be better used for watching pornos.
If it ain't in a garage, then its a hassle to move off the street whenever a snow emergency* is declared.
All that crap for something that spends most of its time not being used vs. hiring a Johnny Cab any time of day whenever you need one...
I'd take the Johnny Cab.
*for the Britons, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_emergency
Oh, lordy! 'I do not begin to understand the dark cloud. LEGISLATE NOW'
Does Big Tech hire white boys ahead of more skilled black people and/or women?
FCC will vote to cut off 41 million broadband users this Thursday*
YOU. Your women are mine. Give them to me. I want to sell them
Never mind those touch apps, full Office 2016 is coming this year
Friday 23rd January 2015 20:09 GMT
Re: My new Office wishlist
"quite a few people who use Office for a living would be quite happy if it still looked like it did in 2005 and not get metamorphosed into some childish disaster area every year, just to satisfy the whims of a deranged moron"
It is official, Microsoft is a kink in the Hose of Progress...
Let the downvotes begin.
Is it humanly possible to watch Gigli and Battlefield Earth back-to-back?
Verizon posts WANTED poster for copper rustlers
Windows 10: The Microsoft rule-o-three holds, THIS time it's looking DECENT
FIVE Things (NOT 10: these are REAL) from the WINDOWS 10 event
Facebook worth more than Portugal? Hell, it's worth a LOT more than THAT
SCREW you, GLASSHOLES! Microsoft unveils HoloLens
Microsoft will give away Windows 10 FREE - for ONE year
Penguin high-flyers: Andrew Tridgell on the Linux autopilot
‘Whatever happened to Vladimir Putin?’ and other crap New Year prophesies
Monday 19th January 2015 17:08 GMT
Re: rare (but sensible) reasoning on Y2K
Still, even if we did absolutely nothing to prepare for Y2k, it wouldn't have been The End Of Civilization that the loonier bits of the population were worrying about. The Banks and utility companies would have figured out rather quickly that we can't all have become multi-gazillionaires with century old unpaid bills overnight. The lights would have stayed on and the water would still be running. As for the other issues with PCs and embedded systems, if Sony can have their network trashed and honestly say it won't affect their bottom line... OK, they may be lying there, nevermind.
It is also worth remembering that people really did go overboard with the whole "Y2k compliance" thing - I had the joy and wonder of being in a customer site in the Tianjin TEDA in December of 1999 and could not help but notice the Y2k compliant stickers on hand tools and friggin microscopes!
Go Canada: Now ILLEGAL to auto-update software without 'consent'
Post-pub nosh neckfiller: 1.5 MILLION SCOVILLE masala omelette
Saturday 17th January 2015 01:05 GMT
Re: Only half the story
"The best exit strategy in these situations is to put a pack of baby wipes in the fridge the night before, and bring them with you for your morning crap."
You haven't really had The Screamers until you've had to plant your ass in a snowbank to extinguish the burn.
Don't ask how I know - there is a restraining order.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
