Posts by A. Coatsworth

ODFO, mr. Coward. The Cambridge Dictionary uses "Legos" in one of its examples, so I'll take their word over some rando's on the Internet.

You make a Power-ful Point

Re: If you crossed a cat with a human

...for specific values of "everyone "

Re: Are you sure, this isn't the plot of an IT Crowd epsiode?

Damn desk rabbits, they are the worst

Re: Joaquin Phoenix

Nah, way too dignified. It would be giving too much credit to the source material, to use such a good actor. Same goes for Christoph Waltz.

Rob Schneider would be closer to the cringe-worthiness mark needed.

Re: Stranger than fiction

First paragraph: this could be buildingto an interesting point about cross-cultural relatioships...

Second paragraph: the CCP is here to protect you from yourself

As I understand it, the idea behind "singles day" (besides mindless consumerism) was for single people to pamper themselves and be ok with themselves.

As far as these manufactured holidays go, it doesn't seem like the worst idea possible

Re: Adblockers

Because they don´t know any better?

I wouldn't expect my dear dad to even *realize* adblockers are a thing, if I don't inform him. How could he find that out by himself and move as to install the appropriate add on or program?

Like him, most people accept online ads as a fact of life, because it has been like this since the times of TV and newspapers, and because it is not obvious that one can deal with them. Plus the fact that it requires a smidge of investigation most people is not willing or able to do.

It is not like one can see ads for adblockers, is it?

Re: How big?

You forgot your icon, my good sir ---->

Re: "Android is an open source platform"

Starting a declaration with Android is an open source platform is the corporate-speak equivalent of me yelling "Pocket sand!" at the srtart of a fight

Re: Best code ever!

Ah, the Ballmer Peak!

Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/323/

Re: Vehicle ID based charging

Odd how ICE vehicles managed to recharge their energy storage for decades without apps, cards, RFIDs or transmitting any information to anyone... but in this brave new world being inconvenienced for the sake of data slurpage seems to be the new normal.

... and before anyone asks, yes, I am a sad luddite

Re: more BS university studies

>> there are large chunks of UK farmland that aren't suitable for growing crops

It is ok, because there are vast swathes of land around the tropics that are basically unused... you know, they are simply covered with useless rainforest. Thanks to the increase in biofuel prices, clever enterpreneurs are turning these uselss lands into corn and oil palm plantations, which is sooo much better for the environment.

Care to enlighten us? Or will you send me to "do my own research"?

That smugness does wonders to foster the understandig of this difficult topic

If a million monkeys with a million typrewriters can write Shakespeare, surely one million cats walking on a million keyboards can hack any digital system.

They are the spawn of the Devil, after all

>>What are the chances that this will only work in Edge?

Well, there is hope after all!

Re: Perpetual Office

Came here to say the same thing.

It has shades of Mr. Burns' "Don't forget: you are here forever"

Is there a Goldwin law equivalent for "slavery"?

These disconcerting comparisons of anything to slavery is becoming more and more common online

Re: Spot the problem

Oh, that is easy to do: Log to your Google account on web, not on a phone, go to Settings, not to Configuration and...

YOU ARE IN A MAZE OF TWISTY LITTLE PASSAGES, ALL ALIKE

Welp! tough luck. Beware of the grue

Re: Godlike genius Elon Musk ?

beneath of the dignity of a respectable ... site .

Luckily, we are on El Reg and not on one of these boring sites

Re: Another new boss!

The answer is 42, isn't it?

_{Don't know why this BOFH ended up so Hitchhikery but I am not complaining}

Re: Scary, are we blind to this?

On one hand the elites are imposing these laws to control people.

On the other, the same elites are fighting tooth and nail not to apply the laws.

This is indeed 5D-psyops-falseflag chess

Re: And just as promised and Registered earlier re: Veni, vidi, vici ......

What have you brought to this accursed land, by explaining amanfrommars to explain itself?

Of course there are fascist on the Moon, especially in the South Pole! And they wouldn't allow a meedling Kommunist[] craft to blow away their secret.

[1] They've been there since '45, may not even been aware of the fall of the USSR

Re: Idiocracy

the voting numbers on this post sounds about right for a worker:parasite ratio at a normal place.

I guess even the PHB managed to find out how to use a PC and get in El Reg

You, shir, win internet for today.

Enjoy a cold one on your way to Montana - No papers!

Re: Here we go again.... remember Apollo 1 fire

"Space is hard" is the goto excuse when somethig goes wrong with this new generation of spaceships... but it wouldn't be as hard if they didn't actively ignore lessons learned (the hard way) 60 years ago!

Re: Unintentional?

Not sure why the surprise... that's the "SN" in SNAFU