Posts by Snorlax

Re: Huawei

"Jeremy Bentham (“Anarchical Fallacies”, 1843)"

The concept of human rights is somewhat different today than it was in the mid-19th century.

Back then it was still cool to own brown people and and commit genocide in your overseas colonies.

Save the Bentham quotes for Students Union quiz night...

Re: 41 good, 44 bad?

"I'm heavily remain but what does this have to do with the point to which you're apparently responding?"

The point to which I was "apparently" responding to, before you came along, is J J Carter's comment about Ireland receiving a "grant". Ireland also pays in more than it gets out...so why shouldn't it get EU assistance to secure an external EU border?

As for The UK being a net contributor? Big deal, do you want a medal? How much money has the UK paid to the EU since the Brexit vote?

It agreed with the EU that it would meet its budgetary commitments until 2020, but so far seems determined not to pay...

Re: Drone boy back on the meths again

Can’t join EFTA without allowing freedom of movement. And the racists don’t want that, remember?

Re: Drone boy back on the meths again

”The TL:DR on Shankar's latest word salad is to have a single market with Ireland which overlaps the EU single market and follows its rules etc.”

Nope, not gonna happen. Individual EU member states are forbidden from having their own trade deals outside the bloc.

If that guy implied that’s what the UK is hoping for, he must be smoking crack.

Re: Wishful thinking does not make good policy

The EU is sympathetic to Ireland’s problem re. the border as it relates to the Good Friday Agreement, but they have also made it clear that it will be Ireland’s responsibility to control an external EU border.

No Irish politician will want to be remembered as the one who brought back partition, but all the wishy-washy kumbaya aspirational guff they’re spouting about ensuring borders are unseen wont matter if an epidemic of smuggling breaks out after Brexit (and you can be guaranteed it will...).

Fun times ahead.

Re: Didn't you read the article?

“Nobody expects the British Inquisition!”

Re: This is the same 'think tank'

People like that Babadook impersonator Rees-Mogg don’t give a crap about stuff like that. He migrated his money to Ireland already:

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/financial-services/rees-mogg-declares-himself-fan-of-irish-investment-regime-1.3822113

Re: Back in the distant past, before I worked for HP...

”Back in (pre-split) HP days we had stationery cupboards, guarded by admins (remember them?) well stocked with notepads, pens etc.”

I remember one admin in our office some time back who would go and retrieve whatever you needed from the locked stationery cupboard.

If she was busy, she’d give you the key but woe betide you if you took more pens or Tipp-Ex than you told her you were going to take... She knew exactly how much of everything was in that cupboard.

Things went downhill when she stopped buying Bic pens for those horrible Niceday things. Company shut down about six months later.

Don't try this at h-ohm.

Re: Best outcome for Assange™

"One solution to the whole mess is for the UK to give him multiple life sentences on those charges, at which point he's never getting out anyway."

It costs £23k per year to keep someone in prison. Why should UK taxpayers pay to keep him locked up?

Do the world a favour and stick the sad little coward on the next plane to Guantanamo.

Re: Still SHIPping

Urban legend. I hate to be the one who says "Citation please", but hey..

Citation please.

Re: Great business plan

"Replace an excellent outdated OS that's full of security holes with a bunch of crap ..."

There, fixed that for ya...

Re: Hardware requirements

"Get them onto Linux (you haven't seen the folk I deal with)"

lol, Linux. Right, that's nearly as barmy as the people suggesting ReactOS as a solution.

POS software is by and large written for Windows. Nobody's gonna rewrite for Linux and WINE is fine for playing games or doing a bit of Photoshop, but I wouldn't run a business on it.

Linux might be fine for your nan's computer, but a retail business needs to be able to rely on support.

If the tills go titsup on a Saturday afternoon, you can't log onto an Ubuntu support forum in the hope that some well-intentioned nerd is gonna help you.

Re: Hardware requirements

"Tried installing Windows 10 on your average run-of-the-mill laptop with HDD?"

Yeah I have as a matter of fact.

What you neglected to notice is that I was talking about POS terminals, not laptops.

I've not worked with a POS terminal since about 2012 that came with a HDD installed. They use SSDs as they're generally powered on 24/7 and don't write much to disk locally.

And even if they did use spinning disks, it would still be cheaper to upgrade to SSD and migrate to Windows 10 IoT than chuck the lot in the skip and buy new gear.

Re: UK oversenstive

"So the Crown cannot give Gibraltar away to, I dunno, Morocco, say, without giving Spain first refusal. It doesn't seem to say anything about changing the status of Gibraltar while maintaining Crown proprietorship."

Yeah but the UK can't stick to commitments it made to the EU in recent years, never mind commitments it made 300 years ago...

Re: Want to take good pics ?

Want to take good pics ?

Then buy a DSLR or mirrorless, don't use a mobile phone.

Ever hear the saying "The best camera is the one that's with you"?

Re: Not really someone to hire

I never tire of reminding people that IBM played a big role in the Holocaust, conducting censuses and helping those trains to the concentration camps run on time...

Re: what if you're multiracial ?

Mixed blood degenerates?

My father in law still uses terms like half-caste... So much casual racism.

Re: More Questions

I seem to recall his IP was leaked as a result of the CAPTCHA setup he was using on his server. Once the cops knew where the server was, DPR was screwed.