Posts by Ted Treen

Re: 18 billion? Peanuts. The real deal goes on.

Almost:- I agree the gov't budget is undoubtedly fraudulent and backed my figures which are probably a mixture of wishful thinking, pure invention and guesswork.

But for a real scam, just look across the Channel to the EU budget.

When was the last itime its auditors signed off the accounts?

@Christoph

Thanks, I needed that!

@Terry 6

"...And how often do they really feel tempted to see their friends naked?.."

As a 65-yr old whose circle of friends is generally aged roughly the same, just the thought was enough to put me off my cocoa & chocolate hob-nob.

Earlier warning of such suggestions would be in order...

Re: errrm....

"...the chubby-one-with-the-bad-haircut..."

Is that the Dear Leader, or his sister?

Aww C'mon...

...it's Jasper hoping for a load of anti-Apple trolls.

The terms "sophistry" and "economical with the actualité" might spring to mind.

@Crisp

Actually unless they've changed the law in the last few years I seem to recall that prostitution itself isn't illegal in the UK, although I'm open to correction (fnarr, fnarr).

However, what is illegal is:-

a) Living wholly or partly on the earnings of prostitution

b) Soliciting for the purposes of prostitution

c) Permitting premises to be used for the purposes of prostitution

Natch, in true Brit style, the laws make it impossible to legally indulge in a legal pastime. Don'ch just lurve lawyers?

Re: Cameron talking crap again

Indeed...

"...an effort to “root out” extremism from institutions..."

Might I suggest starting with The Palace of Westminster?

Re: MPs using pure logic . . .

They use fuzzy logic...

"The wants of the few, from the pockets of the many".

@Neil Barnes

" One thing that would truly disable a politician is a proper sense of scale..."

Too many words.

"One thing that would truly disable a politician is sense."

There. Fixed it for you.

Re: "Worst one-night stand EVER"

@Ledswinger

"I wonder if there were negative behavioural traits that are legacies of our 'minority ancestor'"

Of course:- How else d'you account for John Prescott or Gordon Brown?

Re: How do you say?

Thumbs down for a schoolboy pun, FFS???

Why are the PC Brigade as dour and humourless as latter-day Pilgrims?

Re: Mightier than the sword

And "...the plan has been attacked for lacking legal certainty..." really means "The bill has been deliberately left vague so it means whatever we want it to mean when we come to use it".

Plus ça change...

Re: my money would be on:

It wouldn't be on them for long...

They could smell a halfpenny at 25 miles against a force 12 gale.

And they'd be there in a flash to slurp it up...

Re: Analysis by Fantasy

Amen to that:- in spades!

Re: "So what can an original Mac do that the new ones can't?"

"C'mon Jasper. If you're gonna hate, at least be factually correct about it."

Now that would be something new, original and innovative.

Correct, John...

"...you're in a big metal tube which isn't particularly condusive to good radio signals..."

And most of these big metal tubes were designed quite some time ago (when today's mobile comms would, if considered at all, have been viewed as sci-fi). They have great wiring looms running overhead; to one side; to the other side; in fact almost anywhere where they could be tucked away out of sight.

That makes the radio reception - especially at mobile frequencies - even more iffy.

Re: When you ask a question in the head or subhead....

Err, not if you're Jasper, and you're after an anti-Apple trollfest of schadenfreude.

You let neither accuracy nor journalism rear their ugly little heads...

@Vimes

"...what hope is there for any of us?.."

None - I had hoped that as they were so pig-ignorant about IT that they would consider it inconsequential, but that was before they started to spout about "Terrorists" & "Think of the chillun", so I'm afraid I must answer your question with "Probably none".

Unless of course, we happen upon a latter-day Wat Tyler...

Re: A Samsung or Google paid analyst, uh?

"...Barclay's analyst Ben Reitzes, who said that while "response to the launch has been stronger than expected", the figures themselves should be ignored..."

Looking at the track records of a) analysts as a breed, and b) Barclays as a bank, better advice might be that Reitzes' utterances should be ignored.