* Posts by Maverick

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Man jailed for sex with donkey and horse

Maverick
Happy

contributions from Mrs Maverick

"he'll be saddled with shame"

and

"he won't be trotting down to the shops for a while will he?"

you see what happens when you live with me?

top article BTW

HP loses massive bank contract

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not really

as they will get transferred to the new provider,

new badge same job - it's the law

and the new provider will want them

No refunds for ID card pioneers

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don't stop with the IOC

dump the lot

every last stadium

every last track

every last training facility

every last 'hospitality' facility

nothing in all that Government spending that will benefit any child / athlete north of Milton Keynes

. . . and let's face it, would be worth doing to hear that whining fool Coe's reaction <evil grin>

Most browsers silently expose intimate viewing habits

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FAIL

pretty hopeless site to be honest

zip code approximation? since I live in the UK that's approximate in the sense of the correct flippin' hemisphere ?

as I run NoScript I had to allow it to run in the first place, & then it could only locate sites that I trust (e.g. Reg) and then only the top page

it couldn't even list my bank (a very big one) and I visit that pretty much every day

this site is a waste of electricity

Pirate Bay now run from Pirate Party 'mountain bunker'

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Megaphone

well said sir!

as a dedicated 100% non-PB user all of this is noise in the system, I'd simply say let's face the REAL basic truth here . . . (these are UK scenarios, OK?)

CD revenue has tanked because ;

1) the supermarkets have driven the retail price down from £16 - £18 per unit to £7 - £9 each

2) the labels went to sleep & let Apple steal their revenue stream

DVD revenue has tanked because;

3) retail price point is no longer >£25 each (see #1 above idiots)

4) rentals are cheap, real cheap (BTW are you awake yet Sky? no?? thought not!)

simple basic economics, ignore the market trends and your balls get crushed

but at the end of the day they must be immensely profitable to waste millions on lawyers, so do I worry about the poor darlings? nah

do buy their 'products'? nup"

am I interested in their latest 'pop sensation'? PMSL not really

that having been said - please keep going PB, I do need something to watch with my beer & popcorn and you provide GREAT soap opera :)

City Police still using Terror Act to bother photographers

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please don't

I just had to go for rest in a darkened room after that

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this tells you all you need to know

. . . about why we need a new government - though it's looking increasingly likely that we will get the same bunch of megalomaniacs back

at least WJ won't be one of them so be thankful for small mercies (well at least until she gets a peerage)

US prosecution of McKinnon 'spiteful', says ex-top cop

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burglary

> did they commit the offence of burglary? Damn right they did.

err, damn right they didn't actually

try looking up the definition ;)

Popular Facebook game caught serving malvertisements

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greasemonkey

and some good user scripts sorts this (plus all the usual FF protections)

PS "Farm Town developer SlashKey warned users to ignore the ads but failed to suspend third-party adverts"

and do you REALLY think that the developers give a flying f**k about this? robbing sc*m bags the lots of 'em

Jobsian email axes early-iPhone support

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FAIL

as they say over the pond

BOHICA

MS sees Windows 7 leap, but XP workhorse refuses to die

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great

your opinion would count if you understood basic English grammar

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oh very business savy

> and businesses still can't guarantee all their business critical applications will run perfectly in Windows 7 due to the large changes in technology between the two versions

that will be a business with out any sort of BC or DR plan then?

those sort of f**k wit run businesses deserve to fail

(and that's not just the small / medium sized ones either, just ones without any kind of effective audit oversight board = so most banks then!)

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WTF?

The title is required, and must contain letters and/or digits = nonsense

> DOS based accounts system than 2K did.

Jesus mate, sounds like you're letting the bloody bean counters decide IT strategy, get another job quick would be my advice !

I say this as a qualified accountant (originally)

PS i think Win7 rocks, just wait until you try XP on new HW where the XP drivers are written by the new PFY - let's check back then as to how you think that is still a good idea ;)

Virgin Media downed by thick Leeds 'copper' crooks

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a better way

I am afraid that you sir are assuming these 'lads' can read

at Le Mans 24 Hour race we hand these types over to the CRS,

now they DO know how to deal with them

Pirate Party UK launches manifesto

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Happy

well

not a fecking working one

Hidden Windows 7 costs worry upgraders

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Happy

no title as just waiting . .

for the trolls claiming their business relies on key applications that won't run under Win7

Max Clifford takes £1m to drop hack probe

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and . . .

Louis is a right twunt too, can't see his value to be honest - a male Lilly Allen IMHO

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agree

which I NEVER buy newspapers

they can all go to the wall for me

Cryptome: PayPal a 'liar, cheat and a thug'

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re: googlecheckout

are the same sort of scum

want scans of all sorts of PRIVATE documents

told a retailer i spend a lot with that of they drop to Google and Paypal only my business goes bye-bye

'Snowball Earth': Glaciers, ice packs once met at Equator

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Joke

@ David W

do you work for Yahoo?

Man of God backs Beverley porncoder

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which is why

I never, ever buy any newspaper - local or national

I haven't for well over 15 years

every time I hear the word "professional" in the same sentence as "journalists" I want to puke

the sooner every newspaper closes the better the world will be

Climategate hits Westminster: MPs spring a surprise

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Stop

The Climate Change Industry

ah Mr Gordon INAM,

well it is because we are all TOTALLY sick of being referred to "climate change denyers" . . we just want science not spin, so yes we are highly sceptical that we are having the wool pulled <again> but what is _wrong_ with that?

If you think I'm wrong, ask anyone seeking research funding . . . and ask them how they have to add a climate change angle to any research to get funding . . . and if they go for the contrary view they'll get b*gger all

it is about time someone applied the brakes to the massive Climate Change Industry

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@ moderator

you shot a troll !

well done :)

'Clumsy' French cop tasers schoolkid

Maverick
Happy

in the UK

. . . I believe the kid would have been charged with obstruction, should consider himself lucky a night in a French hospital bed has to be better than a DNA swab, a police caution and never been able to pass a CRB check again for the rest of his life

BAA poo-poos Bollywood star's pervscan printout put-on

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Coat

can I be the first to say . .

nothing to hide, nothing to fear

(unless you have a small p*nis that is)

okay, okay mines the one with the memory stick in the top pocket

Bishop Hill: Gonzo science and the Hockey Stick

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twonk

"Climate change sceptic" . . why are they "sceptics", why not "scientists"?

. . . are you a paid employee of the "climate change industry" - ah yes that will be it (see scarastic name calling works both ways)

P.S. before making smart ass comments I suggest you go look at the data which bit by bit is being reluctantly squeezed out of these b*ggers - do you know how FEW carefully selected samples this is all based on? thought not . .

Virgin Media battles privacy campaigners on P2P monitoring

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er

unfortunately yes they do

Woman sues rail line for 'exploding' toilet

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Happy

can I be the first to request?

Playmobil reconstruction - has to happen

(can I annoy the moderatrix twice in one day? possibly so . . )

Greenock pensioners cuffed for Tesco 'sex romp'

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I see what you did there

> Do you still want him to come over?

ooh-err, very clever

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Re: > I feel fighty today

> Why don't you come here and say that?

wow, is that an offer of a beer?

result :)

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> I feel fighty today

so how would we tell?

guess that next you'll pretending to be offended and stomp off to the pub

(as if eh?)

Confirmed: no iPad iBooks for Blighty

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FAIL

Reply to post: @ who cares?back @

don't be a complete twunt

do you REALLY think the DRM world of iTunes will have all you need?

FFS you silly l33t w4nker

PS perhaps understand the reality of recycled paper before making teenaged smart arsed comments like the PFY you obviously are

BPI rejects scareletter approach to possible pirates

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@ AC 10:27

try: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Norwich+Pharmacal+Order+&btnG=Search&meta=&aq=f&oq=

there you go, mine's a pint

Apple iPad spanked with Defective by Design protest

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AC 22:16

> Naysayers the lot of you.

I bet you think that the climate change industry is about science not profit & taxation don't you?

Manchester ID staff suffer isolation as new dawn fades

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Flash adverts? er no

FF + Adblock Plus .+ NoScript

. . now all we need is an add-on to auto filter pre-election news, I'd install that in a blink

Oz man coughs to DD-jub job advert outrage

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what a hero

maybe, maybe there is something worthwhile in Human Remains Departments after all?

or not - as he'd taken the decision to leave?

Windows 7 users to fly without SP parachute

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Troll

currant <sic> martket share

"IDC said last week that Apple scored eight per cent of the market for all PCs shipped in 2009, up from 7.9 per cent."

they _really_ are making massive inroads huh? that 0.1% wow

</sarcasm mode>

World braces for Lindsay Lohan sex tape

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@ Moderatrix

awesome stuff :)

HOWEVER that's ANOTHER keyboard drying out in the airing cupboard now <sigh>

U2 frontman bitchslapped by TalkTalk

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Happy

agree 100%

May I refer all readers to P.60 of the Viz annual (The Council Gritter - issues 162 - 171)

Paramount prepares to scale Dune

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yes it is

if he wore them over his head

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also enjoying the prequels

think he is doing a good job with them

not sure about the film though, I fear cgi hell and god forbid more bloody unnecessary 3D

Oz bank thinks it's 2016

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@ Ken Hagan

> and what else can you call it when knowledgeable people sell squillions of pounds of services to non-knowledgeable ones by invoking FUD

well I call it the great Climate Change TM (AKA Global Warming) swindle

Mr Bean ousts PM from Spain's official website

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Joke

hmm

so what next?

a Gordon Brown look-a-like?

as if . . . http://frogmatters.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/jabba-the-hutt.jpg

Google 'open' memo betrays deep corporate delusion

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@ Iggle Piggle

"otherwise every page would not include the words "Ads by Google"."

not here they don't :))

Can anyone explain the chunnel fiasco?

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FAIL

the 'offical line'

I listened to a senior director on the Jeremy Vine show yesterday (yes, I'm sorry, I know that JV is a right PIA) . . this bloke spouted the most unbelievable bullshit.

The show had several calls from people who were stuck on these trains, this director dismissed these as 'hearsay'.

The show's resident lawyer rang in to point out that these were 'eye witness accounts' not hearsay and as such were permissible as evidence in a normal court of law.

All in all I don't think Eurostar or Eurotunnel give a flying whatsit about their passengers. I know myself and the family suffered from the second major lorry fire closure about 3 years ago. This was after the 1st and would 'never happen again due to improved incident handling procedures'.

All in all a right set of twunts.

Senior IT workers caught in bank bonus tax crossfire

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@Dumple McWhartingcock

too fecking right mate

can I help with rebuilding? (obviously having made sure the one eyed one and the badger are safely north of the border)

PS Mr Alex Salmond - give us a English a vote as well and you can have independence TOMORROW :)

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@ AC "poor bustards"

got a new offer from my credit company today

a 'black card' (WTF is that?)

£250 p.a. fee and 51.8% APR - thieving ***ts

let me see . . . an accept reply OR cross cut shredder => free bedding for the guinea pigs

you guess !

OpenDNS taunts Google with real-time directory

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can I admit that

I am a big fan of OpenDNS for home use

with a bunch of kids using god only knows how many devices to connect to the net having it configured in my router gives a parent some peace of mind

(and no, it's not locked down to paranoid levels - I'm not that uptight)

Scareware slingers flaunt fake MS endorsement

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Troll

@ O RLY

. . through rose coloured spectacles ?

Overstock's Byrne claims $5m scalp over short selling

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go go Patrick

let me just say that I always believed him - common sense really to me, as a 25 year qualified accountant, 10 serving CFO & cynical Yorkshireman to boot

I hope he hangs everyone of these twunts out to dry

for all the reasons involving journalists (note the lack of 'profession' here) may I say that I NEVER EVER buy a newspaper, sorry Sarah but your fellow journos are a bunch of right &$%@s and should be on the dole & some in prison meeting a nice man in the showers who has has own bar of soap :)

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