* Posts by an ominous mass

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Facebook shopped BBC hacks to National Crime Agency over child abuse images probe

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Coat

Re: Answer

@ John Brown (no body)

"Anyone know where I can get more tinfoil? Industrial grade only please."

You will be wanting a product called "Blackwrap"

Try here

http://www.gamonline.com/catalog/blackwrap/

Heavy duty means it holds its shape well and for the truly paranoid its Matt black finish ensures zero reflection of the authoritiy's locating waves.

My coat is the one with the really long sleeves that buckle to the front

Brain plague or estate agents? I know which I'd prefer in Virtual Reality

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Another classic read is ...

The city and the stars

Arthur C Clarke

has VR within VR

Space station to get shiny new ringpiece for automatic penetration

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Joke

"The standard, agreed in 2010, could prove vital"

Standards are a good thing, so good in fact that we need more of them.

Passive round shape accepts a standard probe for docking ..

My goodness we now have Space-rated-X

/me wonders what the innovator was doing / watching at the moment of this particular "Eureka"

Kiwis prep 'permissive' space laws to help Rocket Lab get off the ground

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Coat

Now where can i find that rocket ?

The NZ government has sadly become so corrupt it couldn't find a rocket in the singular place it actually needs one.

Lofty dreams versus pie in the sky

Watch out you other 4 eyes the 5th Echelon has a very very cunning plan, a plan in fact so cunning and so secret that even the the government dosnt know what it is.

<icon>Mines the one emitting ticking noises on the parliamentary coat rack

Official: Microsoft goes to pot, gives weed growers fix they need

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Happy

Re: Hey buddy- try a puff of this-

<insert sound of sucking on a joint>

Man that's some goood dog you got. (Cheech&Chong)

How much ?

You mean you've been supplying it for free ...

That's a deal then and I'm in for as much as I can get.

Can you guarantee quality ?

Ok I'll take the pot then.

UK.gov pays four fellows £35k to do nothing for three months

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Happy

"beancounters, what can you do?cattleprod?"

Ask for a significant amount of unbudgeted capex, sit back, open a beer and enjoy.

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Pint

Re: So much this

Upvotes to all of you. I have done exactly the same thing.

Created a purchase order for $15k on the last day of the financial year then did exactly the same thing the next day. Supplier wasn't the least concerned. Didn't have a manager at the time but the next up the food chain was fully aware. Full speed ahead and damn the bean counters.

Capex is often a use or lose line item.

To make any bean counter break into an instant cold sweat incant the following magic words,

"Unbudgeted capex"

Microsoft wants devs to take notes on their families

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Coat

It gets worse

Just wait until the adult industry get their hands on this.

"Who keeps putting batteries on the shopping list and what are you doing with them ?" The refrigerator asked in a poll of the rest of the house's IoThings.

I am Craig Wright, inventor of Craig Wright

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Pint

I think I am

Craig Wright goes into a bar.

Sitting there is a man called Descartes

Rene asks Craig "Drinking ?"

"Don't think I am" replies Craig at which point he disappears without a puff of smoke

RIP Prince: You were the soundtrack of my youth

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Re: Dear moderator

Thank you and the reasoning is well understood.

However taking 36-48 hours to approve a post is, thinking of the right word to use. Slow perhaps sounds kind.

14 binal comments to go

Your clarification was appreciated

Best regards from the South Pacific

ME

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Go

Re: Dear moderator

Up voted

The issue was moderators taking 48 hours to allow my post.

What you saw was my message saying WTF to which said moderator finally found the "allow post" button.

The other message deleted was the IRC handle Prince used.

Best regards from the South Pacific.

ME

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FAIL

Re: Prince

Down vote because you have no clue.

The name change spelling etc. gave him a way out of his contract with the corporate music business.

Sinead got a haircut around that time to fcuk them as well.

World class talent and way way smarter than your wildest wet dream.

"Nothing compares to you"

Posh frockers Lord & Taylor spanked after Instagram fillies shocker

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For $4k, what the hell I'll wear a frock for a photo.

Will borrow some lipstick even...

After that well it's just a jump to the left and a step to the right ?

South Australia received 100 complaints about police data misuses last year

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Sack them.

No if's no but's no second chances

and forfeit of all contract termination remuneration clauses.

Add a fine and a criminal conviction for good measure and just maybe the abuse might stop.

Maybe.

Google robo-car backs into bendy-bus in California

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Holmes

And when it finally goes live....

Just just think of the potential bugs lurking for those of us that drive on the correct side of the road.

Simple just swap the word right for left. Right?

Right let us turn left right here, right ?