Posts by Aladdin Sane

Re: Continuity of workload

I came here to mention the Dreadnought class, but in my heart I knew it would have been said already.

Re: "......the mine had closed."

If there's a minicomputer still down there it's likely been underwater for quite some time. There's a reason mines need to be pumped.

Also, South Crofty has an incredibly heartrending piece of graffiti -

'CORNISH LADS ARE FISHERMEN AND CORNISH LADS ARE MINERS TOO BUT WHEN THE FISH AND TIN ARE GONE WHAT ARE THE CORNISH BOYS TO DO?'

The story goes that the graffiti was being written along the wall outside of South Crofty Mine when a policeman came around the corner. Having taken it all in, he apparently turned and walked away and left them to finish the job.

The games actually turned a profit. The problem is they took up the manpower that could've been used preventing the current shitshow.

Brave of you to assume the border checks are working

Re: Wrong

pay £2.50 to stream another half an hour of affirmations made especially for *you*

Cheaper than ladies of negotiable affection.

Or so I've been told.

Re: "...local radio hams to dig themselves out from their cellars..."

I assume you sit in the lotus position and say "Ohm"?

Re: To be fair...

Gravity's a myth, the Earth sucks.

Re: Who's going to pay for this?

Sell off the naming rights: "The Miller Light Hubble. The only instrument powerful enough to detect the alcohol in our beer."

Re: How is this a new threat?

Of course they don't ask for Playstation cards. They ask for XBox as it's an American company.

Link

Reference decision

15 September 2022: The CMA has referred the anticipated acquisition by Microsoft Corporation of Activision Blizzard, Inc. for an in-depth investigation, on the basis that, on the information currently available to it, it is or may be the case that this Merger may be expected to result in a substantial lessening of competition within a market or markets in the United Kingdom.

Re: Payroll, not automation...

Testing radar in harbour can lead to FLKs.

Everybody and their mums is packin' round here.

Re: Well certainly putting the "bin" in binance then

“And then Jack chopped down what was the world's last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass charges already mentioned, and all the giant's children didn't have a daddy anymore. But he got away with it and lived happily ever after, without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done...which proves that you can be excused for just about anything if you are a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions.”

― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

Re: All saved then

Considering the litany of AML failure fines it's paid, it doesn't have a good reputation.

News articles are saying HSBC is going to invest £2 billion in capital and then there'll be a 1-2(ish) year project to integrate systems etc, along with layoffs and some gentle asset stripping.

Re: One rule for them, another for the rest of us.

Every time a new home secretary is appointed, they're led by senior civil servants into a dark room where they're shown the entirety of their and their family's browsing history*. There's something about that department that turns them into swivel eyed loons.

*Idea ripped off from Bill Hicks.

It's a real Mickey Mouse job.

Re: Digital Cash..

I'm not sure what The One Show has to do with this.

Re: >>convince other editors<<

You misunderstand. They're a nuclear state, AND they're massive tools. Ironically, they wish to block sites featuring massive tools.

Re: Oops

Splitscreen GoldenEye

Re: Lies, Damned Lies, and yet more Marketing Lies

Not lies, just...bullshit.

Re: This system will work perfectly...

You got a problem with Canada gooses then you got a problem with me and I suggest you let that one marinate.

Re: Blind person's perspective

Obligatory xkcd.

Re: Let it slide

Just divide the year into 1000ths.

Hail the Emperor.

Re: I hope it was only the WiFi

No mention that it was work devices, so I'm guessing that their personal devices were being affected. It does mention that it was the Grand Fromage's personal fondleslab.

They didn't say which 29th August.

Re: Not enough range.

smuggling firewood

My new favourite euphemism.

Re: Responsibilities sought?

They're now the head of bogs and drains.

Maybe, but if there's to be a 10th gen, this long term bet could pay off very well.

Re: Daft

clean coal power stations

No such thing.

Re: Lessons?

Are you saying Intel poured their cruelty, their malice and their will to dominate all life into the i486?

Maybe it was 15 very smalls?

Re: 40K daily active users?

513k daily active

Red swingline stapler.

And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because I told, I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time, then, then I'm, I'm quitting, I'm going to quit. And, and I told Don too, because they've moved my desk four times already this year, and I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were merry, but then, they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn't bind up as much, and I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler and it's not okay because if they take my stapler then I'll set the building on fire...

Re: Westminster at work

Once the SA80 had been played with by the boys at H&K and the A2 variant produced, it became one of the best in the world.