Posts by Ian Stephenson

Can't be that tricky...

...after all it's not brain surgery.

Yes, that's mine, the one with the dubious red and pinkish stains up to the elbow.....

greenie != someone who cares about the environment

Fair do's to your interpretation, but to me a greenie is politically motivated not environmentally.

You are not a greenie, you are a person who cares about the environment.

I recycle because I hate waste (Our household of 3 generates about 1 binbag of landfill waste per fortnight) and fill the blue bin in the same period, plus 1trip to the tip^H^H^H recycling centre per month to get rid of those tetrapak's that the recycling collection won't take but the tip will.

I am also pronuclear (see other posts)

I am VERY skeptical about AGW as reported (yes climate is changing, planet earth is a dynamic system, yes humankind has had an effect - we are part of a dynamic system, are we to blame? no idea, take out all of the other inputs to the system and let's see, is taxation the way to go? NO! Is that piece of research valid? Let's see how it was paid for, whether it was correctly reviewed and if the results are repeatable.)

I am a meat eater - though I believe if you are going to kill an animal, have decency to use it all (anyone who wears a fur coat should be willing to eat the rest of the animal - mink fillet anyone?)

My apologies if you thought I was classifying you within the category of political slime I call frothinggreenies.

..but can we build it next to your house?

Yes, I've said so before.

Can they plumb my radiators into the cooling circuit too please?

To quote PJ O'Rourke*...

"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please.

And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences."

Pity everyone want's the right but not the duty.

*One of the few septics I can tolerate.

close but no cigar,,,

That would be the court's and the judges job to interpret the law.

His job as a lawyer is to a) try to convince the court that his interpretation is the correct one.

or b) to scare the public enough that his interpretation doesn't get challlenged in court (ACS anyone?).

And a better analogy would be the bristol zoo carpark attendant myth.

I can.

Add a credit card number to the mix.

You're paranoid.

Just because you're paranoid does not mean they are not out to get you though....

Thanks, I did.

I spent the bank holiday weekend throwing spears at straw targets, acting as a target for light cavalry (blunted javelins, arrows and throwing darts) and eating very well indeed.

I'm much more relaxed this week, I put it down to the lack of proten in my diet in the run up to the weekend.

You mean "Earth First.."

"..We can strip ine the other planets later."?

Agreed,

though I'd put Player above Consider.

It's worth making the effort for Excession though.

<QUOTE> Ulver laughed. 'It looks,' she snorted, 'like a dildo!'

'That's appropriate,' Churt Lyne said. 'Armed, it can fuck solar systems.'

</QUOTE>

The problem with a cull

is how do you decide who dies?

My suggestion is get rid of all Health and Safety legislation and let Darwin sort it out.

Let's see what sort of reduction we get with that.

Keep the telephone sanitisers though... we know how that ends.

He said lawyer not record company exec...

Hey! That works too!

The operative word was "celebrate"

But if you want to break out the bunting and champers go right ahead.

"No one person in their right mind would accept this.."

Want to phrase that as a wager?

People will accept anything as long as it keeps teh interwebs and their 50" plasma screens powered for a low monthly cost.

Yes it may fuck up the Earth but that's for the next generation to worry about and there is no unsafe/unsightly nuke* pile at the end of the street.

* I am pro-nuclear**

** what is it with footnotes today?***

*** It's coffee o'clock and I'm getting tetchy.

I still feel fairly safe.

My house is 68m above sealevel

@Paul 135 - WTF?

Are you naturally this stupid or did you have to work at it?

Security by obscurity is once again proven no security.

If Sony had treat their users with a little respect and folks like GeoHot with a little bit of trust, Sony could have been informed of the holes and patched them before they were exploited like this.

You know, the security model used for open source?

If you were being sarcastic my apologies, however I don't think you were.

In the beginning, there was nothing...

... which exploded.

There fixed it for you.

Grenade for the Big Bang.

@Naughtyhorse

I disagree...

Thermite is the answer.