Bootnote # 3
Pyrrus in the Deathworld series.
2374 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Oct 2007
"I also find it interesting that El Reg notes that the woman is 'nubile' and 'attractive' - this seems like a bit of an assumption".
A safe assumption as the pictures were passed around. And they were referred to as "banging pictures" . It's a new usage of "banging" to me, but its meaning is clear.
And me. I've got a 3 Mifi gizmo on a contract that gives me 15GB pm for about £18, and I've yet to use all of it. I use it for a tablet, sometimes my Kindle, and my O2 phone since the last upgrade, when I switched to a much cheaper contract.. It's all I need for email and web browsing.
I went up north to Stockport by train earlier this week, and apart from a few stretches of open country, I had an excellent connection all the way. We've come a long way in the past few years. When I were nobbut a lad, we had to use two tin cans and some string.
That was always the case.The ISS needs enough docked vehicles to return the entire crew to Earth, and the Soyuz was the only vehicle that could stay up for six months, All the Shuttle could and did do, was to take one crew member up and bring another back.