Posts by Swarthy

Re: For schroedinger's cat

Yes

Re: Evidence is available from the phone company

Bad law, politically motivated and solves nothing.

That sums it all up, perfectly. This law will not accomplish any of it's stated goals, as those are all covered under existent regulation; it is merely and attempt to be seen to "Do Something".

Uranium?

I don't know of too many Uranium-contaminated water sources, but I would think that Mercury would be an outstanding target.

Re: Is it just me

Really? I read it as half an homage to the Reverend Spooner. I've taken my kittle lids to see runny babbits at the zetting poo.

And I did that with out any references to "Our queer old Dean".

Re: You learn something new every day

From the complete shit-shower the two "Main" parties have given us, I believe that if more people knew of Gary Johnson he would stand a very good chance.

Of course, given the offerings of the Left and the Right, Cthulhu would seem like a viable alternative.

Vote Cthulhu, and He'll eat you first!

The current internet is already full of tools

Re: Prohibition

Actually, Prohibition may not have accomplished any of the stated goals, bit it did accomplish exactly what is was intended to do: it made some people a LOT of money. We've learned how to profit from deal with the knock on effect of organized crime in the intervening years.

Re: Can I switch them off as they mess up the front page layout....?

I don't even use the front page anymore. I just go to the Week in Review: http://www.theregister.co.uk/Week

IM(Not So)HO this is what the front page should be.

Re: Yes, sir...

Just what current candidate they are purchasing now is a question up for grabs.

- All of them.

Re: Hurry up

I thought Ix meant "boy who is not able to satisfactorily explain what a hrung is, nor why it should have chosen to collapse on Betelgeuse Seven"

Re: MCCYWG

Funny thing, if you put MCCYWG into Google Translate and tell it to detect a language, it believes it to be Welsh.

Could any Welsh speakers here suggest a proper pronunciation for "MCCYWG"?

Re: Jumped the shark

So where do you rate the 'Kin'?

Eaten by the shark.

Re: Alexisiritana

But they need to include Genuine People Personalities; how else will we know who's to be first against the wall when the revolution comes?

Re: PLED

So you're saying that "pled" and "gotten" are hideous, misbegotten words that should be removed from usage? In that case don't read below.

Let us flee, said the fly

Let us fly, said the flea

Together, they fled through a flaw in the flue.

Re: BOFH, the movie

Salmon Days is coming back?!

He's the basalt of the earth.

Re: Fire sale buys them time to recover?

May want to put GWX Control Panel on the updates-only one; seeing how Win10 is being pushed, I wouldn't be surprised to see it delivered as a security update.

Re: Maybe it wasn't a drone?

I had to do a quick search to make sure IRON PIGEON wasn't a Laundry Files reference. It's not quite up there with EQUESTRIAN RED SIRLOIN or SCORPION STARE, but it's in the area, and I would absolutely fear what Bob would be going up against with IRON PIGEON.

anarchy confused for ochlocracy - That's easy to do: they look similar, and I'm not sure which scares me more.

Re: Pee-ple (ho ho see what I did there)

After all, who wouldn't want a shower made of gold?

Re: "Master of DevOps"

I see your 'Structorum Magister' and propose 'Aedifex Princeps' as far more impressive.

Re: You What?

@Tom 38

We need to continue this off-line, and maintain our focus on the dynamic on our plates.

A sense of entitlement you say?

I think so. Having read her original open letter, and the response from someone older (mentioned in the article) I could point to one decision that was firmly in the hands of Talia that would have given her an extra $600/month: Get a roommate. San Francisco is expensive! And it has been for some time. When my sister was living in SF she was in the same position in terms of income and rent; but she had 2 roommates to share the bill, and she had a bit left over each month.

Also, Talia's letter stated that she had been there for six months and was upset that she had to work customer service "for an entire year" [her emphasis] before she was eligible for a promotion to media where she could "make memes and twitter jokes about food."

There are some valid points, a company should pay its employees sufficient to live near(-ish) to where they work, especially for professional-grade work, and absolutely should pay somewhere around the industry average.

I am not saying she wasn't getting screwed, or that Yelp comes off well in this at all.

I am saying that if Talia hadn't decided that living on her own was a requirement, and had gotten a roommate, she would not have had to scrounge food and bum money off the guy at CVS.

Re: Sorry LG, the idea is doomed.

I see your FLIR attachment, and raise you a physical keyboard. Between that and the extra battery, I'd actually have a reason to upgrade my phone.

439 Terrorists, or about 20-50 "Preppers"; although the ammo count is a bit low for the the post-Apocalypse crowd.

I leave which would be scarier (400+ Terr'ists, or 20-50 paranoid Yanks) as an exercise for the reader.

Re: "technology that moves cities and their citizens."

Don't forget Krupp.