Posts by John G Imrie

Re: "...pay a fine of 800,000 ISK ($6,829) per day."

That's the, 'You pissed me off this week fine'. The 'You are still pissing me off' fine is likly to be bigger, and involve Jail time.

Judges do not like it when you stick two fingers up at their rulings.

Too bad they don't have a firefox plugin for this

You mean that this doesn't exist?

Re: How Did We Survive

Bearskin, thy where lucky lad, my dad made us go out and kill out own bears with our teeth... etc.

" they will either start dumping in garbage data in the system as fast as possible just to get it finished or leave the company because they are tired of doing data entry every time they make a phone call, meet with someone, send an email, etc."

Yes, if you make them do it by hand, and especially so if you make them do it more than once. eg. Time sheet and the New Shiny System tm.

You need to ensure that as much of this stuff is automated. Take a look at how your Lawyer manages to bill you in .1 of an hour increments.

Pilot can regain controll

Fly by wire anyone?

Re: Waste of time and money

+1 for the Hitch Hiker reference, which the down voter obviously failed to get.

Now I'm of to find a really strong cup of tea

Re: There sure as hell is a need for press regulation

We need to have a balance between what is really "in the public interest" and prurient intrusion into people's lives, just because it sells a few more adverts. How do we achieve that?

Follow the money.

Write to all the advertisers in the paper telling them that you and all your friends will boycott them until they remove the adverts.

Re: helping those who want to work hard

You should have got into Investment Banking instead

Just one problem

Who owns the copyright on a photograph of a London Bus crossing Westminster Bridge in front of the houses of Parliament?

Re: shock

I think they have got wise to that . It looks much better if you win by 51% of the vote.

It got butchered with a remake.

The opening scenes on the origanal are brilliant.

Re: Talking Sense

If the glasses come with distinctive little flashing lights that indicate that recording is in progress.

Like the lights on top of a Darlek that let you know which one is talking.

Re: All Methodists?

Methodist's are allowed to drink. That wasn't the reason I left them

Re: Robot Whores?

I think the Japanese have a head start on you there.

Re: Old Apps

IIRC Doom was a client server engine running on IPX when it first came out.

Re: True story

Given the fact's available to her it's an interesting question and one that could have lead to a career in Geology, instead of which it's been held up as a 'hey look at my dumb girlfriend' quote.

Job Title

Brownian motion inducer?

Now what happened to that IID I left lying around here.

Re: OK by me

Jeremy Clarkson in the Volvo with the ...

Hell it's a Volvo you don't need anything else.

Re: I've thought this for years.

Nothing wrong with Grimsby High Street, that an expanding Universe couldn't fix.

PS. I seam to have discovered a door behind which there appears to be an infinite number of Monkeys trying to sell me a script for a play called Hamlot they've just worked out.

Re: How many can tell the difference between...

steaming donkey ordure is good for the roses.

Gartner reports end up as land fill.

Does that help?

Re: MSHTML has a published API

Already been done here http://wiki.winehq.org/MsHtml.

Admittedly not by Microsoft.

Re: Contempt!

If you do not admit your love for Windows 8 we will bring out ....

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Microsoft Clippy.

[du Du DURRRRR!!!]

I can

Writing fake email replies to obnoxious MP's declining to be involved in their latst expenses scam.

The guy is a pillock on a level with Ratner.

That's very unfair to Mr Ratner. Who has admitted his mistakes and has managed to build up another successful Jewellery business.

GTA IV

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