Posts by allthecoolshortnamesweretaken

It can't have been that difficult. I'd have relabelled everything for convenience though. But a diesel engine is a diesel engine, a valve is a valve and so on. You get training to work on a specific type of boat/plane/tank whatever, you get re-trained to work on another model the basics don't change.

Beside, every single one of us uses technical equipment every day that has been designed by people from another country - I'm writing this on a laptop designed in Japan, built in China, running an OS fom the USA with the GUI set to a non-english language running a webbrowser from scandinavia right now and I'm doing just fine. Oh, and the electricity it runs on is probably imported from France.

Re: Radio 4

Same methodology as this then

http://dilbert.com/strip/1996-09-18

Shepard's golf ball

I'll help you looking for it if you arrange transport.

Reverend Ike

Sorry, typo. I never can get his name right without looking him up: Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter II

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverend_Ike

BTW, I found the quote in 'Rolls Royce - The Complete Works' by Fox, Mike and Smith, Steve

(Faber, 1984). Good read. Hundreds of little anecdotes about Rolls-Royce Motorcars, their inventors and their Owners. Also a chapter on popular myths. Usually, the real stories are way cooler than the myths.

Because they can, that's why

"Why do EU citizens think that mass-surveillance is already applied by the US-gov on data stored in the EU?"

I do not want to appear rude, but have you been hibernating for the past two years? (On second thought, make that 20 years. I've just remembered the Echelon system.)

Re: Time to get rich

Upvoted for 'Worstall Mode'. Mind if I'd borrow that from time to time?

Re: What about ex-customers?

My guess would be

a) yes

b) no

Re: Are they cleaning house

But who would / could buy it?

Re: I misread the title ...

As my old friend S.B. used to say: A dirty mind is like a never ending feast.

Re: The real embarrassment here...

Nah, that would be 'Schweinestall'.

'steigen' is a verb that roughly translates into 'to mount' - make of that what you will ;-)

(No really, go right ahead. He always played for the wrong teams from where I stand...)

A 'Steiger' however is a foreman in a coal mine, and you don't want to mess with them.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steiger_%28Bergbau%29

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steigerlied

Re: Linux ....

Because this is the year of the linux desktop, apparently.

Next year it will be the year of the smartwatch,

followed by the year of

- the home laminating machine

- the mainframe

- the android

- the iThing

- the DOS and it's spawn

- the Big Blue Thing

- the Babel Fish

- the machine code

- the AI breakthrough

- the shared printer

And then it all starts over again.

Re: It's a Holocaust!

Not everything is in a/the cloud these days... hey, I think I just found the 'IT angle'...

Re: Start with the small things

Brilliant! I'll get Zac and Cyprian right on it and have some prelim concepts couriered over by friday!

Re: Columbus

Columbus had to fight for years to get the funding - sounds eerily familiar, doesn't it.

When he finally got it, his budget was considerably lower than the cost of the average party thrown by the then queen of Spain.

Re: Don't mess with French mayors on planning issues

Or the german Bauaufsicht:

http://www.erkapfahl.de/de/die-firma/presseberichte/113-ein-haus-auf-wanderschaft-verschiebung-eines-wohnhauses-in-bad-oeynhausen

TL;DR: Man gets building permit for house. Man builds house, but for own convenience not exactly in the allocated spot. House now sited in nature reserve. Probably 'oh, once it's there I'll play dumb and they let let me keep it that way'-gambit. Plan fails. Man gets to choose: tear down brand new house abd rebuild in approved location or - move the entire building. Which he does (see pics in link).

Re: In their transparency record...

Life imitating art, I'd say.