Posts by Steen Hive

@Eddie Edwards

"Prevention of Terrierism Act!"

You owe me a keyboard, you mongrel!

John Thompson?

I read that as "John Thomas" which would be in light of his bullshit, more appropriate.

Information on individuals should be classified as the private property of that individual with no implicit consent given to commercial or state entities to use it, ever. If explicit consent for the use of sensitive information is given, that consent should be explicitly renewed after a given period or destroyed by default. Non-compliance punishable by death, or worse.

@AC

" this is the world you've ushered in. Or rather are in the process of ushering in."

Fuck off. This is modern capitalism to the core - feudal levels of oppression complete with robber barons and a damned sight more efficiency. What a knob.

@Did you not make the connection to weather?

Quite right, the modelling similarities are many-fold, and there is a case to be made for throwing computing-power at some of the problems.

However "The weather" is subject to limits imposed by immutables like the laws of thermodynamics, etc. In economics they can and do remove these limits at will - like say, abandoning the gold standard and imposing fiat currency, or invoking an arbitrary "utility function" when results go out of band for example. It's not "science", it's voodoo, and it is a reasonable baseline position to regard anyone who describes economics as a "science" as a fucking charlatan.

Woah

Where are all the AntiTVLicenceTards on this thread then?

Maybe they are recovering from being held down and having ads tattooed on their retinae.

@pox

"As a note, however, I am voting for McCain/Palin in the hopes that they win the election and the leftists/Marxists of the world will be so upset that they die of burst aneurysms."

As good a reason for the removal of your franchise as anything. What this has to do with "leftists" escapes me - these GOP idiots are not "sceptic septics" as you seem to imply, rather they are oblivious to evidence-based reasoning and logic.

Creationism and other religious-inspired pap are not "theories" because they are not evidence-led and their deductive conclusion is also their axiom. Of course what these twats really want is to discredit the scientific method completely so that they can punt their sophistry as truth and turn critical thinking into political dissent. That's what makes them (and in turn you, as their anonymous sponsor) a danger to themselves and to normal people as well. Leftists my arse.

10 people

"Ten people had been disgruntled enough to make a complaint."

Anyone ever met someone who was "gruntled"?

very annoying

Ruby On Rails - famous for nothing except taking longer to deliver a page to a user than it took the developer to write the app! Here's a great idea- let's all lumber PHP with the same shite.

Porkies

"Under the 2006 Act, your ability to punt rampant lies to consumers are to be severely limited"

Aw diddums.

@Someone should tell DS Murray

"that it isn't his job to interpret the law, it's the judiciary's."

.... But it's the CPS's job to bring a prosecution. The lickspittle plod bsatards didn't even hand it over to them. Will someone please rid the UK of these corrupt wnakers before people have to get violent to protect their rights?

@Dangermouse

Agree completely! Thank goodness it takes all-sorts though - all the depraved loons slavering over Palin leaves much more wiggle-room for the sane among us to sniff round real politicians like Yulia Tymoshenko.

Paris, because it scans like Palin, but it's closer to Kiev.

@Craig

Doing that in Scotland would likely win you free entry into the Sex Offenders Register. Luckily, both me and my kilt are far, far away from that madness.

@Hilarious

"There are few things as funny as liberals picking on a crippled man, especially one who sustained his condition while being tortured."

ISTR He was tortured after being captured bombing farmers half way round the World in the Second Indochina War. Tough titty, John-boy. Now if the Vietcong had kidnapped him in Colorado and tortured him in Taiwan.....

Railtracks

"The report recommends that investment should be encouraged by an array of initiatives, including establishing standards so local groups can press ahaead with their own deployments."

Yeah, right. S'pose it'll create a whole new "market" for companies to supply "connectivity" between several hundred incompatible fibre networks. Preemptive Balkanisation - just great.

But

Has the moon signed the NPT?

@What?!

Jeez, right on! That's a whole 2 days work there.

Obviously it's not just in Yankee wars that they say "contractor" when they mean "mercenary"

Those were the days

You would never get away with vicious commentary like "Not the Nine O'Clock News" and "Spitting Image" nowadays. We have PC, the Septics have litigation - same shit result.

Being arrested for "Urinating in a public convenience" FTW!

Mine's the one with the lyrics of "I've never met a nice South African" in the pocket.

Drapes

New a rather fetching young lady in Limerick, Éire called Annette Curtain.

@Dangermouse

Ice cubes in whisky?

Seems like our new, black-holey overlord isn't the only ultra-dense thing nearby.

Ah - it was "whiskey", the foreign stuff.

I'll gladly pay

to receive calls if the price is zero. If someone wants to use up my time blethering on the phone, they can bloody well pay for it.

@Svein Skogen

Agree 100%. Copyright and Patents should be only assignable to physical persons.

@Thatcher

Mental pictures not required - Thatcher's very existence would make one question the wisdom of bringing children into the World.

@Titanic sinks

All of the above, but it is a local paper after all. P&J has always been so, but rags like the "Mearns Leader" take the biscuit in the parochial stakes.

Paris, because she never made the front page in Stonehaven.

2nd Amendment Ninjas

Obviously not part of that mythical "well-regulated militia"

Dead musician at the pearly gates..

Hey, St. Peter! Who's that with the shades - is it Bono?

"Nah that's god, he just thinks he's Bono"

@scotchbonnet

"Not to ignore the obvious, but since the prediction was for an "ice-free Arctic"

You are ignoring the obvious - that was not the "prediction" at all.

Ex-patriot

is entirely correct for people (like Saakashvili himself) likely on the payroll of a foreign state.

Even more surely..

It was the Moderatrix in the basement with the cat-o-nine tails.

@Michael

Aside from the drubbing you have received from subsequent comments, please bear in mind that Saakashvili is a bona fide Stalinist lunatic that apparently thinks nothing of shelling civilians with impunity - not to mention that much of his opposition has died in very mysterious circumstances. Just because he is in the pay of the Bush mafia doesn't mean he shouldn't be committed to an asylum.

Russia had a far better legal case for attacking Georgia than the US had for attacking Iraq or Bombing Serbia. Just because so-called "democracies" decide international behavioral norms don't apply to them is neither here nor there - the precedent was set with Kosovo and Iraq. Those who set the precedent can choke on it as far as I'm concerned - they've just allowed Russia to play the same game, and Russia knows there's fuck-all (aside whinge like the stinking hypocrites they are) that the "democracies" can do about it.

Trrsm

Is a war waged against you, and not by terrorists either.

Also, fat people are heroes. Think of the added value and jobs provided by industries servicing piles of lard, on top of said piles' already awesome consumption.

Tories

Thatcher was the traitorous, authoritarian toe-rag that taught NuLab everything they know about fucking over the populace.

When the Tories get back in, rent-a-plod and "contractors" will be able to snoop with impunity too!

Yeah Russia-Chechnya IS different (from Georgia that is)

In that Chechnya is a de jure _and_ de facto part of the Russian Federation. (like Kosovo was of Serbia). That principle didn't stop Clinton bombing targets all over Serbia proper to let Albania annex Kosovo in stages. Furthermore, I suspect very, very few Albanians were in possession of US citizenship. Of course with Chechnya there will be no Western intervention.

Anybody with an iota of sense could see the malicious intent from countries like Germany and the US when precipitating the breakup of Yugoslavia and later carving up of Serbia, and the implications this could have for former Soviet republics.

SO has a greater case for secession from Georgia than Kosovo had from Serbia. It had a independence referendum that the same powers that pathetically fell over themselves to recognize an independent Kosovo didn't recognise, This incarnation of its borders are very new and included a secessionist minority on creation, and SO has had de facto autonomy within Georgia.

That the Russians are now playing the Western powers' vile game in Georgia can't really come as a surprise, can it? - after all you took the game to them, by threatening its borders and dismembering its allies. Tune into the same channel for updates on the Baltic states as the Russian minorities get emboldened.

@Waggers

"Nope, not if you use the Rolex brand name, logo and any other registered trade marks on it. And not if the design of the Rolex has been patented.

Similarly, it would be illegal if I made copies of my favourite CD and gave them away to my friends - or posted the same music on t'internet for anyone to download."

FAIL for not being able to tell the difference between copyright, trademark and patent legislations.

I tend to gravitate to the idea that copyright infringement _is_ theft - theft of _copyright_, but that copyright - not being a natural property right - is quite correctly not afforded the same protections as those property rights protected by larceny laws. Others disagree, but I don't give a monkey's.

Useful

Maybe they'll give some to the Brits - give them a sporting chance of not getting shot in the back.

Risk of contamination?

Surely with the subsequent negative match, it proves there _was_ contamination!

@AC

Absolutely. The "Grandfather World War Fighting Credits" were apparently the first to lose value in the credit crunch.

Let's go find some old davchek

..my droogies, and razzrezz his platties.

Is that "A Clockwork Orange" I see before me?

Jock

As a Jock I cordially offer to pull down the top-jock-cops jocks and provide a sample of my DNA up the jocksie. How's that sound, you fascist swine?

The Elephant

..in the room is that MSO is a big fat bloated trojan horse anyway, no?

Communists? Amateurs!

What's worse, the state knowing everything about you, or world+dog knowing everything about you?

@French

"What are the French doing, creating ID cards for the British?"

ID cards are being foisted on you by your very own British imbecile government, not by the French.

So fermez la bouche, douche