Posts by Aladdin Sane

Re: Not the real world

Upvoted just for "Krypton factor".

Re: There's a denominator and we demand to see it.

For proper accuracy, it should be per 1000 hours worked.

Re: This:

Unless you're an MP, the government takes a rather dim view of anybody lying to parliament .

Are those the discussions that involve rubber gloves?

Re: This explains why I've been waiting 3 years for a rebate

In a century? Have you not heard of Milliway's?

Re: JEDI Cloud?!?

I can see it now:

Pentagon to Larry Ellison: You are on this Council, but we do not grant you the rank of Master.

Re: But

It may be in the south west of Great Britain, but it's still north of The Lizard.

And nothing tops clotted cream, you heathen.

Re: But

But only because Half Life 3 still hasn't been released.

"does not make sense ... just using the older stages to explore the landing envelope"

So it does make sense. Also, article says "could be reused", not "would".

Re: "Other (complete details) ________"

I'd vote for Little Bobby Tables every damn time.

That's just because of the lowest bid contractor cleaners.

Re: regressive evolutionary step towards goldfish

This is El Reg. The custom here is for things to be taken behind the shed and shot.

The inclination of the orbits is quite different, so unlikely to actually intersect with Mars' orbit any time soon.

Re: My Dad...

Double clicks on everything. Every. Fucking. Thing.

Re: The bane of my profesional existance

Those linebreaks are making me twitch.

Re: At 6ft8

I would prefer a jab to knock me out shove me in a box, load me into cargo and unpack me and wake me up the other end.

Have you tried pissing off the US government?

Re: Don't get it - It's like a competition to see who has the most stupid.

Love is a burning thing

And it makes a fiery ring.

Re: Moments like that let you know if...

One way of thinking about is that you'd just had $9,600 of training. If they had've let you go, somebody else would've got the benefit of that experience.

Re: VAT threshold

How many of the smaller sellers are the same person with multiple accounts?

Re: @Tabor

I believe there's a bit in Good Morning Vietnam about that.

Re: 'Server depressed, needs Prozac'

Does it have terrible pain in all the diodes down its left hand side?