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697 posts • joined Friday 6th June 2008 07:34 GMT

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and

a JEDWARD icon to be used to signify the total pointlessness

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@ the First Dave

looks like it's reading lessons that you need mate, he said monopole not dipole

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A unicorn horn points forward

You've seen one then ?

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Design

Apple and good design used in the same sentence .... have you forgotten Antennagate already ?

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Sherlock

"Legionella bacteria .... has not been determined as the source of the respiratory outbreak."

So, what else can it do ?

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Remember

Gaddafi used ant-aircraft guns fired horizontally into a crowd who were doing nothing more than shout slogans and wave placards and flags.

Then calmly said that they were all on hallucinatory drugs, as if that somehow made it all ok.

Well fuck him off.

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Why did the chicken commit suicide

To get to the other side

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outsourced

says it all

when will they ever learn

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Third world

It hasn't been "third world" for, oh, over 40 years, except in the media.

It's actually "majority world" and "minority world".

Guess which one we are in.

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It's a temple

My body has a "evaporative cooling" system, I call it "sweating"

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So is a Brazilian iPad

just like a regular iPad except for a small, erm, touchpad near the, erm, bottom

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One I'd like to see is

Rendezvous with Rama

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Big blob

He must have something large to need such a big blob of pixellation to hide it.

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You don't say

Part of the internet is a bit iffy.

Whatever will they find next.

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Tinfoil

At last a practical use

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Looks more like

a middle finger

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Why bother

Just wait 6 months and buy iSteve 2 instead

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Jury took an hour

Presumably it took them 59 minutes to stop laughing

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Old

My geology teacher told me about shale gas in 1964

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"revoke any legislation that has not been sucessfully prosecuted in the past ten years."

The idea of laws is that they PREVENT people from doing Bad Things.

Therefore a successful law will NEVER be prosecuted.

Fail.

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heroes

I have two science heroes

Yuri Gagarin - he really did venture into the unknown with the great possibility of death

Enrico Fermi - similar as he stood next to the first ever atomic chain reaction, anything could have happened

Very nice statue - what a contrast to that other statue in the news this week

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Fashion

Fashion always makes fools of its followers

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My client

Mr. A. Kookaburra would like it drawn to your attention that pursuant to ,,,,etc,,,,,etc,,,,,,

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Re: What about the stupendous amounts of snow and ice the previous winter?

Their figures were for 7 months

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Failure points

1. Only UK stations

2. Only 'major' stations

3. Only 15 presets (what!!)

4. Sound quality is piss poor

5. No 'record to disk' facility

Of course you can record it by recording 'what you hear' on your soundcard but it would be better to have it inbuilt.

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Cheap

That seems very cheap compared with the cost of the database in the first place

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Craters

It's just a load of craters.

Presumably 23 of them are full of some sort of moondust.

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How about

they run the original Avatar at 60 fps

That way we won't have to sit there for so bloody long

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Erm

I've actually never heard of Lindsay Lohan.

This is probably a Good Thing.

Ok back to the RPGLE

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Brecht cant wait for

the 3d opera

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The Apple Store

I'd like to see them try.

If I set up a store selling apples (fruit) and called it The Apple Store, Apple Computers would have to show that a normal reasonable person would mistake a piece of fruit for a computer.

Ceci n'est pas une pipe.

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5 digits !!

I've figured out (groan) why a 500 day counter has 5 digits.

It doesn't go to zero, it goes to a display of "TODAY"

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kettle

The company who tried to sue podium.com because is contained "pod" being attacked by the company who sued "lindows"

Farce

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Can't wait

until these things go head-to-head with the Russkie version

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Copyright

How will they be able to tell if

- I downloaded it legally from a pay-for service

- It is a freely given track by the artist

- It is my own work and I own copyright

Oh wait, Sony BMG says it's illegal therefore off it comes, sonny, and that's one strike.

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Tested

Just tested this out.

Uploaded an mp3 file* to my Amazon cloud.

Then copied the link and pasted it into browser.

Yes you can play it directly with Winamp, and therefore anything else probably.

The big drawback is that you have to sign in to your Amazon account to listen to it or download it.

So It's slightly less use than a 4Gb memory stick, and less instantly available too, and definitely less portable across devices, which is, erm, where Amazon came in.

* I own the copyright

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For U.S. Customers Only

It appears that you are attempting to use Amazon Cloud Player from outside the U.S. This service is intended for U.S. customers only.

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600 watt Amp

Let's turn that thing up to 11

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Ok as long as

They remove all the apps slanted the "other way".

That would be "even handed"

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hahaha

who fucking cares

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I used to love it when

GW Bush pronounced "nuclear" as "new-killer"

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Good to see

Good to see the Tories looking after their business chums, while the poor saps that actually bought a card go without

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File format

How can a file format be "proprietary" ?

It's a sodding file format.

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Google

Come on GOOGLEBAY let's have it

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Pop music

If you think this is rubbish, you have lost track of what pop music is all about

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Please no

"It's a UNIX system! I know this!"

no no no

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Hahahaha

All those corporates will have to register to prevent e.g.

microsoft.xxx

google.xxx

ebay.xxx

The thing is, if they don't have pron on those sites, they should be kicked off the .xxx

Can't wait for .wtf

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Time Travel

Either

(a) has been invented but travellers have kept it secret so far

(b) has been invented but travellers can not be seen or interact

(c) has been invented in the future but travellers can not go back in time

(d) has been invented in the future but travellers can not go back as far as our time

(e) has been invented in the future but nobody has visited our time yet

(f) has been invented in the future but travellers to our time were not believed

(g) has been invented in the future but travellers to our time were captured on arrival

(h) has been invented in the future but is not yet stable enough for human travel

(i) never gets invented

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5 digits

Why, in all that's sane, do they have a CUSTOM-MADE clock for a 500 day count, that has 5 DIGITS for the day number.

WTF ^googol

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Ther's got to be

... a lightbulb joke here

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