Posts by CrazyOldCatMan 6355 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Oct 2015
but Trump won the elections
Err.. I think you'll find he didn't. He lost the popular vote but the (unelected) U.S. Electoral College chose him anyway..
(There was recently both an Only Connect *and* University Challenge question using the few US Presidents that got elected by the College despite losing the popular vote)
Socialism and Communism have proven themselves to be brutal, dystopian, totalitarian systems of government
As have many right-wing governments - many of them supported by the US..
Hint: It's not the political system that's at fault - it's the people ruling. Power corrupts and all that..
There was no way to do this without either breaking the Good Friday agreement or else damaging the Union that the Conservative and Unionist Party stands for
And this is the fundamental issue for the Tory Party - in order to kowtow to the fanatical Brexiteers (most of whom appear to be stuck in the 17th - or at best the 18th - centuries) they now have to cause a rupture of the Union - one of the fundamental things their party stands for.
And let's face it, post-Brexit, the liklihood of Scotland voting for independance goes up markedly. Especially as one of the critical reasons for the sececcionists losting the vote last time was that they wouldn't be part of the EU if they left the UK..
I have a tiny smidgeon of sympathy for May - she's pretty much in an impossible situation wherre anything she does is pretty much going to be blocked by one segment of Parliament or other..
Then I remember that she got herself into this situation by calling a snap election that she didn't need to and eroding her majority to the extent that she needed to be propped up by buying support from a bunch of throwbacks from Norn Iron.
Bed <--> Lie.
But the biggest market for Cornish fishermen is the European Union
And the ones I've seen quoted are hoping that fishing quotas will be removed post-Brexit.
Newsflash - The won't. Otherwise, in ten years time, we won't have any fish left. The UK is going to have to co-operate with the EU on fishing - otherwise we'll be back in the pre-quota world where fishing catches were getting smaller and smaller because all the pre-breeding stock is being caught and eaten.
In short - the sea doesn't care about borders - and neither do fish.
infighting withing the Tory party has inflicted on the nation
And Labour isn't much better - since quite a few of their MP's are from areas that voted Leave, they don't have the bottle to stand up and be counted.
Corbyn would generate a lot of votes in currently-Tory area that voted Remain by calling for either an end to Brexit or a Peoples Vote.
This is the future of the current party in control
And, sadly, the same thing is happening all over the world, in all political spectra. The demagogues are taking over where truth isn't important - all that is important is the masses believing what comes out of your mouth (and voting for you)
Why do we bother with a Parliament of morons?
Ohh - I know this one!
Because we elect people who haven't ever had a real job[1] in their lives? Who have spent all their 'working' life in a political/social bubble and never, ever have had to do something real?
[1] IE - not politics/banking/legal.
I'd ALWAYS have to PAY for it, and people who ARE LAZY would RECEIVE IT.
You sir are an abomination. Did you ever stop to think in your smug world that maybe, just maybe the people without are without not because they are lazy but because people like you refuse to do your Christian duty to help the poor? You are so caught up in your refusal to acknowledge anyone else that you can't see that maybe, just maybe, people like you are part of the problem?
For once in your life take a good look in a mirror and examine yourself. And not in a "I'm OK Jack" way.
So let's please have more people with expertise, but let's stop selecting them on the basis of bogus qualifications that signify nothing of value.
[Wild applause].
Sadly, in order to make the case for someone to be employed or promoted, HR departments mostly want to go for the safe option and that's to require them to have qualifications of some sort. It's very rare that an IT-person-with-a-clue is allowed to both write the job spec *and* be part of the interview process.
in-house IT security-aware
And lets also say it here - just becuase someone has a "security qualification" doesn't mean that they are any good at actually doing IT security - it just means they have a qualification..
Much like the much-despised MCSE[1] - all it proves is that someone has regurgitated their crammed training during an exam.
[1] Must Call Someone Experienced..
drunkenly weaved
"Wove" is (I believe) the past tense of "To Weave". Just like "shone" is the past tense for "to shine" and not "shined".
What is it with the lack of ability with the past tense[1]? I mean, in my day they didn't particularly teach English grammar at school and I still managed to work it all out!
Kids today eh?
[1] Something that, I suspect, the Americans have infected us with - it's something I first saw in US-based self-published authors..
kids' nappies, they needed no encouragement or specific dietary additions to produce a contents which warranted full HAZMAT protocols
Never having had (or wanted) kids I can't confirm - however, in the cat world, the equivalent is your moggie eating either shrews or house martins.
Both a *violent* emetics. I've never seen a cat projectile-vomit and have the violent runs at the same time before..
He competely ignored birds from that moment on.
I did exactly the same thing!
During my first proper job (mainframe assembler programmer - ah the joys of running the 3270 terminal emulator on IBM PS/2 50z machines connected to a 4mb token-ring..) I got bored a lot. One day, I discovered the joy of MD-DOS system calls and a freeware DOS assembler..
We used OS/2 LAN Server as our network management and so had a whole heap of print and file servers scattered around the building, none of which had any security at all.
Then one day, I didcovered the network enumeration API.. one broadcast storm later (and a PC that I hurredly switched off to stop said storm), I had a complete list of all the file servers.
I amended my code and (overnight) ran it again and ended up with a complete list of all the files on all the servers - most of which had been put there by staff and were unknown to the Powers That Be (and, in quite a few occasions, that was probably just as well - even if in the mid-90's, the porn was pretty low-res..).
There were quite a few games though, all of which I copied onto floppies and took home.
"text messages were originally an engineering function that the first mobile engineers left in and which telcos were initially extremely skeptical of"
Citation needed.
Ok - not an official citation but here goes:
Many, many years ago (mid-late 1990's), I worked at the Motorola tentacle responsible for making and selling cellular base-stations of mobile service providers. We also provided other services - one of which was one of the first txt message handlers, written for Cellnet (remember them?) and running off one of the big Sun servers that we had sat in our computer rooms. One of my friends was part of the team that wrote the message handler..
And yes, before they worked out how to monetise it, the service providers were *extremely* resistant to offering the service to customers since it used up bandwidth on the control channels that had hitherto been reserved solely for engineering messages - something which would cost them money to expand if the service became popular.
Of course, they ended up charging obscene multiples of the actual cost of the txt message (I remember them being in the order of 6p/txt when the actual cost was more of the order of .00001p/txt) because it made *lots* op money while costing very, very little.
nor that Devon, my own place of birth, was in England
Devon? In England? Wash your mouth out!
(The disinclination to be labeled as English appears to be spreading from Cornwall to Devon - or at least according to my Cornish/Devonian[1] wife..)
[1] Not - not the geological era. Honest dear.. The bed in the garage again? OK.
God botherers who think Christmas and the associated garish decorations are important
But not to those of us that actually think about such things rather than being fed opinions..
(Chrstmas as we know it has very little to do with the birth of Christ - which was probably in March - and everything to do with the Catholic Church borging pagan festivals in order to keep their converts happy)
one of the three gods mentioned in the first part of the Bible (Adonai, Elohim and Yahweh)
Yet another example of "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing"..
Adonai is an Aramaic word (the New Testament and bits of the OT were written in Aramaic - most of the OT was written in Ancient Hebrew) that is cognate with 'Lord'. The Ancient (and Modern) Jews have a proscription about using the names of God directly (YHWH being one of them) and so used the word 'Adonai' as a placeholder. Much the same way as we say 'Lord' instead of using YHWH.
Elohim (which is plural) simply means "mighty ones" (or "sons of God" - 'El' means God/mighty power in ancient Hebrew and is used sometimes and one of the Names of God). Sometimes used to refer to angels, other times used to refer to the faithful.
YHWH is a word that stands in for the phrase "I am what I am" (one of the names of God that declares his purpose - can also be stated as "I will be what I will be" - Ancient Hebrew only had two tenses - past complete and incomplete). Also note that ancient Hebrew had no written vowels so modern English has added in the extra vowels to give some idea of the pronunciation.
So in summary (and apologies for the Biblical nerdism), your reasoning and example are utterly wrong since none of the three names you mentioned are anything to do with an acient fertility god. There were gods who were referred to using 'El' - but only because all the langueages in the area were related and used similar names. Not three Gods, but different names for the same God (and one name that is plural and doesn't refer to God at all - as in the ancient sh'ma: "Hear O Israel, the Lord our God is One" - which in Modern Hebrew uses 'Adonai' as a placeholder.).
And yes, I have studied that stuff - for a lot of my life.
this dog may be a case for use of shock collars
Something that is utterly illegal in civilised countries.
The fact that BB recommends it (and appears quite blase about use of shock collars) says all you need to know about his personality and utter selfishness and lack of empathy.
Quite honestly, anyone that approves of the use of those things has no right to call themselves human, let alone a person.
sustained campaign against them in both the US and the UK
To be fair (and I remember the 1970s), the pendulum had swung too far tawards the unions and things needed to be rebalanced.
Unfortunately, it swung too far the other way. Maybe we need to damp the osscilation a little bit to get a nice central steady-state.
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