Posts by I. Aproveofitspendingonspecificprojects

Re: Not worth much

Why do I get the name Aldi recurring?

Is it because they have a shop at both ends of every largetown in Britain?

And lots of electric?

Or am I confusing it with Triumph Jaguar?

Waiting lists... for rubbish?

There is only that one explanation for world dominance such as the triumph Bonneville whose normally aspirated engine broke the world speed record in the 1950's IIC with speeds of over 200mph.

And subsequently lead to the demise of a company that had the only upper class market "Landrover" for a decade and more -with both industries sporting decade long waiting lists. A calumny Honda and Nissan were only too keen to help assuage.

The filled their output with rubbish because people were so willing to put up with rubbish just to get one. The thing is once they had the rubbish they learned it wasn't worth waiting for. It was all about strike powered unemployment for when production met targets for too long in a run.

It wouldn't surprise me that some union leaders had a share in constructing the scenarios not because of communist interference but because they were stuck up the management backsides so far they waltzed to the toilets together.

According to the BBC

Experts Beyond Belief recently declared that that bit of the Magna Carta is still in force. So we have that going for us. (Or was that: The wheels of the carta go round and around?)

> there isn't much to prevent the various intelligence agencies from abusing it...

Or the kidnapper taking the battery out or sending it on a bus somewhere.

We think it is amusing.

I very much doubt internet users in Venezuela will be doing much to protect themselves. Especially since most will be using outdated mobile phones. Unfortunately they have already sorted out who are on the lists that the CIA make for future dictators to round up and torture/murder when the next coup takes effect there.

Re: Elephants in the room

Assuming the bloody elephant isn't the bot net, that is.

Re: It's all good

> All crims including this chap should spend a long time in prison.

FTFY (or did you mean he should receive further perks/punishment whilst there?)

Why spend a long time in prison?

Is that where ignorant fools, after may years schooling, finally get to learn where Mexico isn't?

Re: Despairity

That comment was teapartyesque in Americanease.

Well done.

Nice set of votes too. 5 up and 4 down. Politically acceptable to any party.

Have a down-vote and some Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité on moi.

Re: "irrational factors such as the shell’s colour"

> I am sitting here amidst a pile of open computer cases and exposed wires - a sculptural compilation which has taken much thought and innumerable decisions - some involving data processing performance, and others - colour.

What no masking tape and can of car paint spray?

Must be a woman. (Wonders off to find clean shirt.)

Re: Never under estimate the power of big content

> political donations and poorly informed politicians.

It doesn't matter how well or how poorly politicians are informed, what matters is that the idiots who vote for them are poorly informed. It's a failing of a two party system that can send you to prison for not voting for either party, that both parties become as one.

With a true democracy the unlikely voter is key.

Big content has always offered rewards:

http://johnpilger.com/articles/australia-the-51st-state

Re: Whose modems were they anyway

Got a link to who the mass media corporations are the copapacketitioners?

Alien Sugar and Rupert Mordork come to mind.

Re: standard units

How about inventing the Snowden as a political temperature scale. Or rather, a non-political temperature scale. Or should that be a non-political political temperature scale?

We could have NSA and KGB equivalents for Fahrenheit and Centigrade.

Free World?

The free world is where you choose to make it so. There are no barriers to your conscience. You are free to help the down and out and free to give to charity and you are free to speak your mind. This applies to all people everywhere. You are also free to murder anyone you disagree with until someone takes exception to you doing so.

Several people have been successfully prosecuted for treachery of one sort or another. Klaus Fuchs is a particularly good example. The fact he was ignorant of the evil Russia was and still is capable of was no excuse. What was an excuse is that Russia was an ally that Churchill was (and thus all of the British at the time were) in the process of giving half of Europe to.

Who was there to say that Churchill was the traitor?

Our parents/grandparents were free to do so at any time and a few did.

Yet to this day Fuchs is fucked and Churchill remains an hero.

As for the sordid affairs of the US secret service, Oppenheimer suffered malicious persecution, not for being a spy and not even for being a communist but for being suspected of being a communist by the US secret services. We all know what sort of stupidity was rampant there in the 1950's. A place lauded as free; where you couldn't choose your own politics or beliefs.

The free world is what you make it, not what other people tell you it is.

Well done

I licked you pie comment. Can we have one on faggots.

Singed desperate.

IN THIS CASE

> Every big leap of this form is the playground of the rich at first - because they can afford to buy into the early stages.

Missing the point, aren't you?

Why is it only obvious to some that space exploration should be either in the hands of politicians or of very poor people?

About "We will cooperate fully with all the authorities involved in the investigation" - is there an option to not fully cooperate with the authorities?"

Yes. NASA's management almost got away with the O ring business. (Think rednecks, politics and Utah.)

YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR.

You get what you pay for and then you check it out but even with careful assessment with every design, you end up relying on an explosive platform to draw out the explosion a reasonable time. There are so many things that can go wrong with a rocket engine, nearly all of them acoustics related any amount of error could creep in.

Not least of the likely failures may have concerned the cryogenic effects on the unique crystal structure that made the design so fantastic all those years ago. Wouldn't it be nice if they could prove the cost to the integrity of the motor was caused by the stupidity of the pleasure boaters causing the scrubbed launch?

If they can prove it, can they sue?

Re: Copyrongs

I was going to ask for directions.

Re: Good hardware but why not a real operating system?

Are you imagining that the computers they are buying will be supplied with Linux Operating systems designed by the distributors?

I didn't even know Cray was a Linux distributor.

I had formed some woolly, sheltered, half formed idea that the Met Office itself would be writing the operating system. I can't imagine Base or any other tools written by dedicated (even the most dedicated) amateurs being of infinite use and compatibility with ground to cloud. Someone mentioned that "weather systems are chaotic" I was going to say that the phrase doesn't mean they are difficult to analyse. But I think I had better stop now.

Re: Phew

Got a link?

Is it Cadbury's or haven'they cleaned the toilets?

I still can't get my head around how they allowed a small amount of fecal matter to ... ah never mind I already know and it would only upset you..

I just can't understand...

And you say the American stuff is crap?

Oh man... I...

Re: If

I wonder if there is a chance of an IT magazine ever uncovering the reason that US firms that are overly expensive and not all that good should oust from top places nearly every foreign competitor.

I wonder if anyone at El Reg can get their heads out of other people's sex lives long enough to concentrate on stuff like that?

If only Nokia and Blackberry could find some angle to introduce naked women and tight little crotches on their wares.

Re: Ice

Correct me if I am wrong but we are only beginning to look at probable undersea volcanoes.

Doesn't that mean anything to you?

Or did you read an earlier version of the article than the one I read?