Posts by David Neil

Re: Usually gets worse, the bigger the company ...

That's quite a blanket statement, AMEX do offer Credit Card products as well as Charge Cards

Re: Hero ?

Well I seriously doubt the training can replicate the physical sensation of a 400mph wind coming into your face at -35c and the attendant loss of oxygen, but whatever

Duh!

That's what a class action suit is

Re: Bye Bye Hip Hop

Wonder if that includes Ben Folds cover of Bitches aint shit?

snap

Still got that first aid kit in my cupboard, gets me some odd looks when i go looking for something and it falls out.

Oh, and you reminded me I almost wandered into the breakfast bar they had setup for the Juve players that morning, did get a nice selfie with Buffon though, my Son is a goalie and was very happy for me/jealous as hell

Toilet witches?

Will the Igloo also suffer from the above noted blocker to uptake of basic sanitation?

Oh dear

Mean (average) <> Median

Re: A possible solution to showing your hand.

re. point 2 - if they choose you, you'll be out whether you'd expressed an interest or not. The days of laying low and hoping they miss you are gone

Re: Inivitably!

1: That'll teach her to save her work - something we all learn at one point or another

2: If she was in front of the machine it pops up a reminder a good 15 minutes before it goes off and restarts.

Re: "Weeks"?

At a guess, lack of staff to do the re-imaging, probably lack of internal knowledge to do full rebuilds of systems and lack of working backups to restore data.

Re: Re What exactly do people go to emergency departments for if not emergencies ?

I replied to a post which stated "The Scottish NHS is run differently and I can see a GP within 24 hours if I need to."

Where did I mention A&E, or the post that I responded to? Oh it didn't, ergo yer a bawbag

Re: Virgin have a monopoly on cable

Why should they be forced to open it up, it was built with their money, not public funds

Re: I'm old enough ...

Spoke to them several times in April and their call centre people were all Indian - no idea they had anyone this side of the world.

Re: Why store them on a shared computer in the first place?

I'm sure "shared in the most technical sense" would be fine by you if a GP's spouse uploaded a copy of your STI test to dropdrive and allowed it to be picked up by the googlebot

Re: Wow Michigan's state government is out of control

The decision in Flint to change water supplies was taken by the City, not the State.

Re: TfL are caving in to the taxi-driver cartel

"If you want to freestyle/change your mind/get emergency medical help then don't book an Uber in the first place."

kind of missing the point of medical emergency

Re: Windows is the lowest form of Desktop Experience available

So he clicked the first link he saw and this is someone else's fault?

Re: VM/BT as thick as thieves, due to Openreach decision. Forms a Quad-play duopoly.

There is a slight issue with your supposition that OFCOM would be able to force VM to open up their network.

VM's network was built with solely private capital, the Openreach network was primarily built with public funding and then upgraded.

Re: Nice to see...

We don't elect Prime Minister's, we elect political parties who chose who they want as their leader

Re: Out of State

"I wonder what South of the Border (located in Dillon, just south of the NC state line on I-95) would feel."

"ich bin ein Gaffney-er" (and yes, i know it's wrong, just using it as the quote)

tidied

Re: This makes me feel old...

The Japanese effort was a seaplane carrier and only launched amphibious aircraft, though it did launch the first at-sea air raid on another ship.

The first ship capable of launching and recovering aircraft was HMS Argus, a converted liner, built at the Beardmore yard in Clydebank - she remained in service into WW2, primarily as a landing practice and aircraft ferry ship

Re: Not much of a chemist then?

That is out of date and it has been confirmed they do

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-38169194

Re: re yesterdays ohio shooting

Well it wasn't a shooting incident, it was a guy in a car who ran over a group then got a bit stabby with the rest

Re: They still haven not learnt

Or maybe they decided that putting some sort of controls in place might help highlight these sorts of risks before they find out they've shit the bed?

Re: historical Scottish home of Royal Navy shipbuilding

The majority of surface ships since Fisher's time were built on the Clyde.

Do you want salt and vinegar for that chip on your shoulder about the Scots?

Re: A is actually not a bad piece of kit

But the F35 has been shown to be at a severe disadvantage against a 3rd gen fighter like the F16 in visual range engagement. It's advantages come in low observable/stealth - once you're in a dogfight it's been beaten comprehensively in tests.

So your position that it can fill that gap when the Typhoon gets into visual range engagements is wrong.

Re: Slartibartfast Hovercraft

"It does raise the question of how the Star Trek computers were able to figure out when you were talking to them and when you were just talking to other people, since people didn't use the trigger word "Computer!" all the time."

pretty sure they did in TNG

Re: As an alternative to surgical amputation...

Costs an arm and a leg though so you may need to go private

Re: Isn't it time...

Where do you think the campaign contributions for all those state elections come from?

Re: Elections

Every single MP in the house, we do not elect members of the Cabinet, including the Prime Minister. We elect local MPs who follow their own parties rules for choosing a leader, who in turn picks a cabinet/shadow cabinet.

The idea that we elect a single person as PM has never been accurate in this country.