Posts by Khaptain

Re: What about Tim Cook

>Huh?

Have a look at the little icon on the right hand side, there might have been a little bit of tongue in cheek involved.....

We have been on this earth for approx 200 000 years, there was no internet during that time ( minus the last 20 odd years) and yet we managed.....

If you or your children need the internet to learn about sex then your/their problems are far bigger than "learning about sex from the internet".

Re: Resolve afghanistan war

@Bloakey1

There's a little bit of Blott hiding in there somewhere.

Re: The Black Swan Theory

I consider the Black Swan as being the unforseen and pathetic handling of the event by NESTA. NESTA appears to have had excellent goals and ideas and also to have been an ideal path to choose. Unfortunately for Fentem is didn't work out that way.

If Fentem has known in advance about how his case was going to be handled he would have probably attempted to achieve his funding from another source.

Re: Obvious question

Upon reading that webpage it appears that they do not know how to tackle the problem !

Quote :

The concrete goals of the air pollution control plan are not clear, though Zhang Gong, deputy mayor of Beijing, has previously said that the central government requires his city to cut levels of PM2.5 (particulate matter up to 2.5µm in diameter) by 25% by 2017, compared with 2012.

‘While it is very necessary to increase efforts, more research should be done to support policies. Up until now, we still do not know exactly which factors are causing smog in Beijing,’ Ye tells Chemistry World.

Re: Former prez George W Bush took the time to pose for a shot with U2 frontman Bono

Laurel and Hardy used to make people laugh, whereas this pair of arseholes just want to make us cry.

Re: OK,

When you read the procedure it does not seem very possible to "accidently" enable this option especially step 5.

I can't blame MS for this one...

My car also has a semi-hidden menu that I learned about from a web forum BUT I choose to read up on the items before changing any of them. Blindly following theses kinds of procedures is often a recipe for disaster.

Re: I just tried the course

I would suggest that what is most important is not one's capacity to code but one's capacity to reason logically. Anyone can learn to code, reasoning logically is another matter.

As an analogy, when I learned to speak French, I did not become Moliere or Hugo.

Re: will the plea for clemency fall on deaf ears?

I can hear the bullets being inserted into the magazine already.....click, click, click.

Will the first accused please face the firing squad enter the accused box and swear at on the bible.

Re: If it walks like a duck...

Lawyers and anyone even remotely connected to Finance.

Re: Emptyness is always empty

Ok, that seems a bit more logical. I initially understood it aas simply being Apple studying the habits of their customers within the premises.

>instead of wandering around for 10 minutes then giving up, wandering another few minutes finding someone who can help and finding it is one aisle over from the first place you looked.

Agreed it really is a pain in the arse in the larger stores trying to find some specific items..

Re: US state department funding?

Agreed, the irony is unbearable.

Re: Why don't buy yourself a small 30 minute UPS ?

@Stevie

That's a long time to wait for the power company to react, where do you live , Alaska or the Hebrides ?

Re: Darwinian thoughts

In the tube stations they could do what some of the French underground does, full length, full height plastic barriers. The barriers have doors which open only when the train is at a standstill and close before the train moves of... It avoids all of those meat-bag accidents....

Here is an example of a barriere

The stupid will eventually remove themselves and hopefully without any collateral damage..

If they can detect it, then it won't take them too long before they manage to commercialise a "solution". By announcing something like this they are preparing ground for future product development.

Re: why?

>so why are bitcoins so hard to grasp?

Because there is nothing tangible.

Re: I need a break from the Reg...

I fell into the same trap....