Posts by LateNightLarry

Well, if you're in one of the states controlled by friends of the Koch(roach) brothers which has adopted ALEC's "Stand Your Ground" model law (i.e., Florida), just claim you were being threatened... Someone knocking on your door in the middle of the night IS a threat, right?

That's not beer in that glass, it's Chardonnay...Get me a WINE GLASS icon...

Re: So...

Why doesn't El Reg have a WINE GLASS icon yet? I've been asking for one for over a year...

Paris, because she's from California and would rather have fizzy wine, aka Champagne (except France says we can't call it that).

Re: Has been spent trying to get a fibre-optic cable moved..

From his one bedroom shared BASEMENT apartment to his new 3 bedroom penthouse overlooking the houses of Parliment.

"So am I one of those people when I ask myself "why does the ebook cost the same as a hardback (sometimes more!), when there's virtually zero transportation costs, printing, binding etc? It costs what the market will pay for it, and that's what it's worth.

And you've hit on the very reason I don't feel compelled to buy an ebook ... If I have to pay as much, or more, for a digital book, I'll just stick with the dead tree version. At least with a dead tree version, I can read while the airplane is taking off or landing without being told to shut down my paper device. And if I want to re-read it six months later, it will still be readable.

It's Wine O'Clock somewhere around the globe...

Re: iSore

Are you familiar with the Pontiac Aztec? UGLY angular pretense of a car,

or the Dodge Magnum, one FUGLY car... I had the misfortune of driving one for a week.

need to treat both of them to a ground zero event.

Re: Best application is drenched over three slices of Canadian bacon

You forgot that gasoline is about 20% more in Canada, because they use the Imperial gallon, or maybe litres now...

Mine's the one with the gallon of maple syrup in the pocket.

Re: What I wish would happen to WBC

There was an incident a couple of years ago where all four tires on a WBC van were slashed while they were spewing their hate (in Oklahoma, I think)... When they were ready to leave, they couldn't because of the slashed tires, and every independent tire shop in the town refused to sell them even one tire. They finally had to have the van towed to a nearby city where they bought the tires at a chain store tire center... They had to wait for a break in the line of cars wanting service before they could get their tires... several more hours. The chain store tire center manager said he would have refused them service too, but the store manager gave him a direct order.

Time for the nuclear option on Westboro Baptist Church of Hate...

Re: Frankly, my dear...

Did anyone else notice that the article said she didn't speak English? So here's a big bad cop who apparently doesn't speak a Chinese dialect trying to make a person who doesn't speak English understand that she can't buy the iPhones she wants, and has been told to leave the store, but she CANNOT understand him. Did ANYONE in that store speak Chinese, at least enough to explain that she has to leave... He can't make her understand, so he resorts to his trusty taser and has her on the ground screaming instead... but his boss says he used reasonable means... more like police over-reaction...

Invite...

I don't remember "seeing" an invite to vote either... I read about it from another source, and after fifteen minutes of poking around, found the site to vote... and FB refused to process or acknowledge my vote... Which leaves open the possibility that FB/Zuckerberg saw how the vote was going and just disabled the vote process so the next to impossible to reach requirement became, in fact, impossible to downvote the proposed changes.

Fail... because that's where FB is headed.

I have several friends who USED to be licensed contractors... they lost their licenses because of false bad reviews and claims of work not completed, after which their insurance company revoked their coverage, and effectively revoked their license since they can't have a license without the insurance coverage.

In both cases, they completed about ninety percent of the work in a timely manner and in a professional manner, then the customer filed a complaint with their insurance carrier and the contractor's state license board... The insurance company brought in a different contractor to complete the work, the customer refused to complete payments to the contractors for the work actually done, and the insurance company cancelled the contractor's insurance... which meant the CSLB cancelled the contractor's license for failure to carry mandatory insurance. The customers got their work done at a much discounted price, the original contractor was out the money and expenses, and forced to close his business.

Re: HP "usual scenario"

My recent experience with HP printers would seem to indicate that clowns abound in the assembly plants... had two different models that were defective out of the box... both have been returned and replaced with Canon. May try HP again in a year or two, if they're still around.

Re: Currys/PC World

Everything at Best Buy, Fry's, Wally World and every other chain store that sells 'puters in the San Francisco was infected with Win8 on the day it was released.. . No choice at all, and apparently nothing was left in the store the night before... or maybe the elves/slaves worked through the night to upgrade them.

Save Win 8 for tablets, and rewrite Win8 to work the way we're used to for desktops and laptops...

Another MASSIVE FAIL for Microshaft.

Re: Clearly

Ring of Fire... I had that as the ringtone for a former boss who was a pain in the @$$....

He didn't get the joke... Maybe I should have had it sung in Farsi (he was Iranian)

A beer glass will have to do since El Reg won't provide a glass of Merlot.

Re: Vitamin D

Don't know about the UK, but in the US Vitamin D is added to almost all milk sold in the various retail outlets...

Are they charging him for the food and beverages he consumes? If not they should be, and if he can't pay for it, then show him the door to the sidewalk. If he can afford to have Lady Gaga and other stars in to visit, he should be paying for their victuals as well...

After all, he is a failure... at life.

Re: Toshiba's self erasing 4TB spinner

I'm sure Mitt Romney would have wanted something like this when he left the MA governor's office... would have save a lot of time in erasing the records of his office and staff.

Fail because Romney failed at reality.

Re: Begin settling space,

@ Cynical... you forgot ALL Politicians... on the FIRST FLIGHT.

and Paris Hilton...

Re: This reminds me of a generation ago, when I lived in Sacramento

As yes... Del Taco is still in business, and expanding... Passable Fast Food Mexican.

Paris, just 'cause...

Re: Yes Yes Yes

Better yet, Mutt Romney or Paul Ryan, aka the Lyin' Twins...

A nice glass of wine for those of us with slightly more sophisticated tastes would be nice too.

Re: Nothing to see here...

Very appropriate except for one thing... when shipping with USPS, only place the address on one side... The reason is that if the clerk sorting the parcel doesn't see the postage next to the address label, they may treat it as unpaid, and charge the recipient...

WINE glass please...

Re: Ah...

That's only for the part of California south of the Grapevine... Northern California still has some functioning brains, when they aren't pickled by fermented grape juice.

Where's my damn WINE glass...

Re: I hate printer "User Interface Engineers"

My old office had a number of Lexmark ink jet printers... the Lexmarks were replacements for a previous generation of Lexmark printers... Within a month of being installed, every one of the Lexmarks had various plastic parts breaking off, and within six months, they were non-functional.

Re: Management "strikes" again!!!

Not Damagement.... Manglement

Either way, it's a F A I L...

Re: Sounds good, but maybe a little extreme

I drive a limousine, and sometimes have to take a call from the dispatcher. I use a bluetooth headset tied to an iPhone and have all lines from the office set up with a unique ringtone so that I know the office is calling... To answer, i just push the button on the headset, then push it again when I'm finished... the phone never leaves the holster. If I get a call from any other numbers, I just let it go to voice mail, and deal with it when i'm not driving.

Paris, because I can't have a glass of wine when I'm driving.

Re: There's worse than "minimum"

Just hope your company isn't owned by Bain Vulture Capital, aka Mutt Romney... BVC would take huge management fees, borrow millions of dollars on the previous value of the company, move the jobs to China and make YOU train your Chinese replacements, move the manufacturing equipment to China (with payment for the equipment directly to BVC, drain your company retirement account, then file bankruptcy for the debt ridden shell that's left. Oh, and they would take down the American flag from in front of the plant while you were training the Chinese replacements, then put it back up after they return to China... Think it won't happen... just ask the employees of Sensata Technologies... the trucks were loaded up last week and sent to Los Angeles for shipment to China... BTW, Mutt Romney still owns 51% of that particular Bain fund.

Re: Republican women have to be pretty

Not only so republiCLOWN men can recognize them as sex objects... so they can treat them as sex objects, but only until they get them preggers, then they drop them like a hot potato.

Re: True

One time, my carrier walked around my open car door, around my feet sticking out of the door, and dropped a notice for a parcel in the mailbox, then walked around both my feet and my car door to get back to the sidewalk to go to the next house... Because the notice was for a COD package, I had to drive seven miles to the post office the next day, stand in line for a half hour, and pay CASH (no checks accepted at that time) for the package... I filed a complaint with the Postmaster, and got back a form letter saying the carrier had rang the doorbell (didn't have one, and the front door was 25 feet further from the street than my mailbox)... After that, I had any mail requiring a signature delivered to my office... which was the post office in another city.

beer, because El Reg won't give me a glass of Cabernet Sauvignon...

Re: Old News?

Of course, you have to remember that American Airlines is in bankruptcy as well... Don't have a lot of extra money to play with, so they'll HAVE to raise rates to buy the iPads.

That's me coat, with the iPad in the pocket...

Re: "The box only holds 3TB - USB sticks will hold more and you can carry them in your pocket. "

Not so much big pockets as DEEP pockets... or a very big wallet.

Paris, just because she's there...

Re: Once again a government fails it's people.

Only if the "Back to the 1850's" RepubliCLOWN Party gets control...

Beer, because I'll need a whole lot of it if the RepubliCLOWNs win in November...

Re: Excuse me?

The official RepubliCON party position is, "Don't confuse me with facts. I have my mind (all two brain cells of it) made up already."

Fail, because the RepubliCON party is one big failure... The Greedy Old (White) Prick Party... Any women in it are just to satisfy the GO(w)P's in charge.

Re: Time

Apple will have a patent on time by Friday, retroactive to the beginning of time.

Beer... a substitute for the wine I keep asking for... You can get drunk quicker on wine than on many kinds of beer, and red wine has health benefits as well...

Re: Cinzano Bianco

Promises "anytime, anyplace, anywhere" but you know the reality won;t live up to the advertising...

There, fixed that for yer...

Since El Reg hasn't seen fit to provide a glass of wine for me, I'll have to substitute a flagon of horse piss instead... I WANT a glass of a good Cabernet Sauvignon...

Re: How about Obama

I'm not sure either of them could manage a 1955 lemonade stand...

But Mittwitt would be busy trying to bleed the lemonade stand of assets so he could sell the shell and move it to India, while Obama would be trying to keep it going in the winter with a foot of snow on the ground.

Since I can't have wine, I'll sell for a glass of horse piss...

Re: Thats odd

@Gerard Krupa...

California may be weird, but California is a STATE... In the US, states do not issue patents, only the Federal Government in Foggy Bottom, in the guise of the US Patent and Trademark Office can do that. Even the state courts cannot rule on patent issues since they're not covered by state laws.

It's Wine O'Clock somewhere, but all I can see is this damn beer glass...

Re: Doubtful, I think

@Fibbles... Nice idea, but try to get it past the teapublicans and especially the National Rifle Association, which now controls our do- nothing Congress on all matters related to weapons, especially assault weapons... Several lame-brain Congress critters from Texas and Oklahoma have already said that everyone in that theater should have been armed and he would have been stopped short... And they see nothing at all wrong with AR-15's and 100 round magazines in the possession of mental defectives.

I'd use FAIL, but I need some serious alcohol... several cases of wine, consumed in mass quantities... (Remember the Coneheads with beer?)

Re: Ready, Aim, Fire

For the RepubliCLOWNs just one possibly improper (not illegal) voter registration in 100,000 is "evidence of massive voter fraud" whereas if 1,000 people are denied the right to register because of virtually "poll tax" requirements, they're just protecting the integrity of the voter system... Buffoons and worse...

Beer, because it's wine o'clock somewhere and El Reg won't give me a wine glass...

Re: That slope is slippery. Ouch!

THIS GOVERNMENT HAS DECIDED THAT

There shall be put into operation by the Ministry Of Reeducation a mission whose purpose shall be to reeducate the reg readers as to their proper place in nature.

You mean some unelected, lard-assed twat filling a chair in the Ministry of Education has decided to give himself a promotion and corresponding raise. He'll probably get away with it because his boss is too busy watching the cockfight in the basement of the Education building.,..

Where's my wine glass Lester, It's wine o'clock here...

Re: WTF?

How about a transit service called South Lake Union Transit... S.L.U.T.

And the company actually had signs made up advertising that name...

Paris, coz, well, she is A South Lake...

Re: Computer misuse

While you have him, figure out some way to KEEP him there... or send him to the South Pole and drop him by parachute in the middle of winter down there.

It's wine o'clock somewhere...