Posts by Andus McCoatover 2969 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Nov 2007
...Net user going to care about the obsessions of a bunch of tinfoil hat merchants, as long as eBay and Facebook and YouTube still work?<<
Sorry, missed the fact that Facebook and YouTube need, er, the internet. Forgot the tinfoil.
Gerra grip, read "Stranger in a strange land". Or, move to Finland. Same thing.
Try..."Beverley Hills Ninja".
Quotes:
Haru: [Joey is chasing a chicken] Keep practicing, Joey, and someday you will choke that chicken.
____________________________________________
Haru: Do not worry. A ninja knows when he is in danger.
[Tanley and his men fire machine guns at them]
Haru: Now we are in danger. We are really in danger.
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Haru: I am sure you would like to know who I am and what I do, but as part of my creed, I cannot tell you. See my identity must remain mysterious and my mission secret, I cannot reveal it to you.
Boy: Why not?
Haru: Because I would then have to kill you.
Boy: Daddy.
Beats the Fuc*k out of me, too. WTF has it got to do with that fuc*king warmongering shitehole USA?
From the article's link...(emphasis mine)
"Leni de Abreu Neto, 35, of Taubate, Brazil, is charged with ONE count of conspiracy to cause damage to computers WORLDWIDE"
C'mon, US - you're the Worlds Police now. Dunno why you haven't already given Gary Glitter a broomstick up the shi....
(I'm a poet, and didn't know it.)
What's wrong with my 701? More acurately what's wrong with my coat? 'Cos the 701 fits in my coat pocket, but the 900 won't. New coat I guess. Nah. Costs more.
What'll it do that (701 vs 900) I don't need? NOWT. €10 per month for Internet access, or free (PAN-OULU) Tata, big 'puters. This is the way to go.
Mine's the one with the '701 in the pocket...(Obvious, innit)
(PS 701=€250, 900=€300 - 3G modem included)
Grief, I read someplace that the tories are pissed about it, claiming it wasted public money.
FFS, one staffer made it in his/her own time, cost bugger all, and actually quite well done (in my opinion). Made me laugh.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7571973.stm
Bet they fire* the bugger for having a sense of humour.
(* Friend of mine, close to John Major about 15 years ago, told me that he got really, really irate when his new car arrived. Why? 'cos it was grey. Blame Spitting Image)
Why, oh why do we go through this archaic process? I can go between Nordic countries (e.g. Finland-Norway/Sweden) in the same way as folks in UK can go between England and, say, Wales without noticing. E.g., http://www.infokartta.fi/tornio/ - Finland (Suomi) on the right, Sweden (Sverige) on the left of the river. No shite. So, what's the difference? No, don't tell me "immigrants", 'cos no-one in their right mind wants to live in a 3rd world country, paying 1st world taxes. Terrorists? Give 'em a map showing where Parliament is. Couple of sticks of Semtex with their first dole cheque might save money! (No more dole cheques...)
So, get rid of passports, and let internal forces deal with any problems. After all, they can reliably deal with a Brazilian electrician. No problem.
Keep terrorists out? Sure, worked a treat for 11/9 or 7/7 didn't it? Yep. Another fuc*king stupid decision from fuc*kers who can't listen to reason.
Britain - Quote from the first Alien film - "You have my sympathy"
"The cash-strapped MoD could really use that £3bn"
The "Snooping Silo" http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/19/ukgov_uber_database/
Fuc*k me sideways - that's what they want the money for. Never saw that one coming. Gives them some small change to replace all those nicked laptops...
What a Cupid Stunt not to realise earlier.
...you get through to a call centre in Delhi and get "Mahatma Kote" as your customer liason buddy, can you claim for them knowing fuc*k-all English???
300 quid for having to live in a place with no basic facilities is a bit lame. Happened to me once - had the "Remontti Monsters" (big f-off builders c/w builders cleavages) in unnanounced one day, (they'd sent me letters, but they were in Finnish, and at the time I didn't understand)
Got home one day to my rented apartment. Buggers had lobbed my toilet out of the 4th floor window into a skip. Then the shower, bathroom tiles, bathroom floor, kitchen sink, water off...
"WTF do I do now???" I exclaimed. "Oh, no sweat, there's *one* shower and *one* toilet in the basement, and Pizzahut's next door".
For a smegging 2 months????? 25 people??? Nice.
Mine's the one with the turban in the pocket.
When I used to travel to the USA, on return I had four boarding passes. Almost always the top one (Dalls-New york) wsa samped "SSSS" whrich meant exra security checks. So, when I went thro' border control, I swapped the order of the BP's, so it read "JFK-Frankfurt". Dumb shits never noticed, and waved me through.
Pay peanuts, etc...
>>>the cheapest plan is £30 for 75 mins and 125 texts
ie $60 canadian.
Ok its only for 18months, but still!<<
Christ-in-shitty-nappies!
Here in Finland I got a Vodafone USB 3G modem (made by huwei) - totally free, and I pay €10/month. All the data I can eat. OK, it's only 384kb, - €20 for 2Megs but for my eeepc when I'm out and about, it's fine.
(Oh, that's only when I can't access the totally free 10Mb city PanOULU wifi network...)
for fuc*k's sake, why do you put up with that crap???
Yep, really.
Well, trolley =NE= girl. (can't find pipe character on Finnish keyboard)
I wonder how much "blood" was in the said sleeping bag. Was it a bit of menstrual flow?? a dab from a scratch/insect bite? ½ a gram? a pint? 4 Litres??
Never let the the truth get in the way of a good story! US media likes to be prosecutor, trial and jury. TTF they're not (yet) executioner. Oh, forgot. They almost are.
Louise Woodward springs to mind.
<<are we going to start reciprocating the US entry requirements and make American passengers under go fingerprinting, photographs, body cavity searches (in public) and examination (including copying of HDDs) of any computer equipment, mobile phones & MP3 players / iPods.>>
Remember, the 11/9 terrorists were living....In the fuc*king US!!
D'oh
My mate - Vietnamese bloke owning a pub/resturant in Finland, bought one. In Finland. Finnish keyboard. (Which I need).
4400mA battery. Mine from UK. 4400mA battery. It's about useless when out and about. 2hr. max. I WANT A BIGGER ONE!!! (So says my girl)
(Sorry for the poor speling - keyboardäs feck*ing small)
Yea, triangulation (or more - quadulation??) using the timing delay on 'old-fashioned' GSM aint a lot of use, but if there's a SMLC (Serving Mobile Location Server) stuck there someplace, it'll get you about 200 metres. Sad, I know if you happen to be in Bradford looking for a curry-house, but a bit better than being declared to be on Sealand...
There's some more to this than meets the eye, surely.
BA aren't that stoopid to boot someone off the flight 'cos they mislaid one of her *CHECKED* - i.e, accepted by the airline - bags, for chrissake?
Their stupid fault, hope she sues the fuc*k out of 'em. Or, more accurately, joins the orderly queue doing the same.
Oh, shit. I said "orderly". Nah, she'll just toss a few mobiles at 'em.
Can't wait for the court account. Sod my guts, the hearing's on my birthday. Bloody marvellous!
How old was the "virgin" Mary supposed to be when Gabriel swooped down and without a "by-your-leave" gave her a good seeing-to?
14?
How d'ya put an archangel on the sex offenders reg?
Bang up those donkeys, bet they watched the whole sordid event.
Next thing, the'll be criminalising being born to underage mothers. Sins of the father, and all that.
Law and Order? Nope. Just Order. 3rd Reich style.
Riding from school today - on my moped - I decided to pop into a bar in the city (coffee, cos Finland's a bit tough on DUI. Not as bad as UK, but I digress).
I whipped the Asus 701 out of my coat pocket (Finland, remember - coats are de rigeur) and set up a fellow student's gmail account.
Took about 5 minutes - 15 sec bootup, 20 sec to connect to Panoulu, and then the rest to figure out how to do it, and do it.
I had 5 folks staring at me, and then wanted to know where they could get one. UK, of course - they're not available in Nordic countries - I guess å, ö and ä are a bit tricky.
It does what it says on the tin. If I buy a 'fridge, it says on the box, "Keeps food cold". It doesn't say "Washes clothes, irons shirts, makes coffee, gives good head". If I wanted that, I'd go to the nightclub, and get a bit o' totty.
Horses for courses. The Asus does exactly what it is designed to do. Touchpad aside, I wouldn't change it for anything, esp. the price.
School? Well, I'm 52, but still got a brain.
"The Financial Times reports that Amyas Morse, MoD commercial director, telephoned BAE Systems and Vosper Thorneycroft (VT) this week with the carrier news"
Are we sure that Mr. Morse phoned? I'd assume he'd just 'signal' the news
<groan />
Mine's the one with the ex-Marconi (honest!) key in the pocket
"It's the incentives that are ruining the company. The last thing they need is improving!"
Depends how they're improving, and for whose benefit.
After all, doesn't "restructuring", "realignment" and "improving synergy" sound wonderful? Unless you're the poor fuck*er made redundant from Nokia after 13 years. Cutter unts.
Actually the engine has still useful functions. It can raise the ISS periodically - ISS is still subject to miniscule earth atmosphere effects, so is permanently being dragged to earth.
Second, once the ISS is decommissioned in a decade or so, the "truck" is used to ensure the ISS doesn't fall on someone's head.
Bleeding stupid thought. Aren't piss-heads supposed to use public transport? Or, should they preferably drive home (Designated Drunk, etc) so us 'normal' passengers don't get aggro.
Aren't busses provided so as we can gan yem to t' missus after getting Mullah'd* wi' the lads?
Next, they'll be insisting on "smart casual dress" (Sorry Jesus, No fuck*ing sandals)
* Mullah'd == having a face like an Ayatollah. PS Bugger off, Muslim Extremists.
Yep, been on it. Also, in Tampere (about 200Km north of Helstinki) there's a Routemater double-decker converted to a rolling bar.
Pisser is - neither has a pisser. Crossed legs all round (although pissing in the street is antisocial, no-one does fuc*k all about it)
-Andy, Oulu, Finland.
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