we just need some Beckman drives

That's The Way I'd do it

N1 owner in mild disappointment moment

But what the hell, it works and isn't the size of my xoom.

hmmm

Recent experience suggests that it's become the idiot magnet of choice. Sadly, ham foundation freqs are going the same way.

Oh good

that's another contract I've bid for heading straight down the toilet.

Oh dear

My NexusOne is currently awaiting collection after UPS failed/forgot to collect it yesterday. To be fair to HTC, they warned me it would take 20 working days to be assessed and were happy to agree that it was suffering from the well documented on/off switch fault without demanding that I do soft, hard and semi-flacid resets while spinning widdershins.

Where I may have gone wrong is in buying a Wildfire as my backup phone while the All Powerful NexusOne is away on its holidays. Still, at least it's not an SE X10. They really ARE woeful

:sigh: Perhaps I should have tugged on the Jobsian Weiner after all. No, no, no! What am I talking about! I shall man-up and suffer the indignity of a less than premium smartphone experience, safe in the knowledge that I, and millions like me, are all in-duh-viduals.

Pint? I suspect I'll be needing one.....

OMFG

Sorry, don't usually rely on LULZ and OMGs but W and indeed TF are these people thinking?

Oh hang on, got it; they weren't thinking. Still, it's the supremely ironic to have toy security staff confiscating toy guns.

Well as it's Friday, I'm off to buy myself some hi-viz and a PMR so I too can inflict randomness on total strangers.

@ Steve X

Yarrr, think I'll invent that and maybe call it skype

Pirates, cos they're all about stealing other people's stuff.

Another rural non-starter

Voda offer femtocell. Relucatantly, as they are the only network offering coverage in my locality (and that's marginal) I make enquiries. "Yes sir, you only need 1Meg broadband and......"

Right. I wish. About a 3rd of that on a good day.

Would love them to sort the local cell but with three cows and a tractor passing through on a good day, it's not going to happen. Sadly neither is a broadband upgrade any time soon.

I for one

welcome our magnet-waving overlords.

So where do I sign?No, really, I want in on this one. My utter lack of knowledge of the subject, combined with some paranoia and a ruthless determination to make money should make me a shoe-in.

@ Tim

I’d hoped people on this forum might recognise a bit of “Friday” when they saw it. In future I’d appreciate being referred to as “fat tosser” rather than “big man”. It’s much more accurate.

On a serious note, the reduction in resources as a trigger for change strikes me as being how this will play out. The human race has a poor track record for changing without some degree of compulsion and a worse one for ignoring difficult decisions. I’d venture that for every great moment in history inspired by altruism and philanthropy, there will be a dozen driven by force.

All the alternatives to oil presently being developed rely on consumption of finite resources; we’re simply swapping one shortage for another. It’s going to take greater minds than yours or mine to crack this one. In the meantime, lower consumptions buys us time but doesn’t solve the problem.

Yes I do have a large 4x4 but then I split my time between project management contract work and forestry work with a sideline in agricultural fencing. I also have a smallholding where we produce much of our own meat, fruit, eggs and veg, bartering with others in the village for things we don’t produce ourselves. I tow a 3500kg trailer for moving animals, timber, feed etc.

Trouble is, when I drive to a town I get labelled by the car I’m in by people who might have smaller cars. I’d prepare to bet the majority of their houses are a mass of processed foods and the latest must-have gadgets and they wouldn’t know a composting system if it came and kicked them in the backside

Maybe the football fans out there

would care to consider the oft-heard phrase "up the Arsenal"

<face/palm>

Someone alleges a crime so plod casts about for cameras for evidence. For some reason they ignore every mobile phone (most of which can take pics and video) and opt for the camera that I suspect might just have been pointing at them. Suspicious? Moi?

Strange that when people offer their cctv footage to police as evidence of their car or house being vandalised, the police rarely seem to interested in viewing it or taking it seriously. And by strange I obviously mean "bloody predictable".

Badgers? Well it's black 'n' white sarge, yer actual prima facie evidence 'n' stuff.

her twitter is out for all to see?

Pass the hard hat, this needs further investigation.

Coat? Flourescent yellow in this instance.

Moral outrage

I for one am a huge fan of bare beaver.

All these comments

And not one mention of the popular front of Judea?

Jihadi? They're all very naughty boys. The grenade? From Antioch obviously.

James Dyson must be pondering

whether it was such a smart move to pass up the opportunity to register iSuck. Surely Jobs has registered that one by now?

Huh-huh-huh..... suck jobs. </beavis>

Linux, because it's a Ping win.

Mine's the one

with the Land Rover keys in the pocket.

And to all you who bought a netbook

for web browsing and found that the unholy alliance dictated you have XP, we'd just like to wish you all the best and a gret big f*** you. No really, we love you guys. Look, stop bothering us for spare change or we'll call the cops.

So what about

the poor saps who have been brought in to fix some of this mess, with bonuses paid once they deliver. They get fragged to satisfy the mawkish cry for revenge from people who know eff-all about banking?

Bravo. Really, well done.

@Hermes

Is the opposite of denyalist (sic) a nihilist? Oh I think it is.....

Nice weather for dying

A gun that only works when the weather is nice? That'll be the SA80 then.

If ever there was a need for a Paris comment

"Lightning Gun #

By Anonymous Coward Posted Wednesday 26th August 2009 16:55 GMT

Too hard to control the path of the discharge"

Intentional or not, you owe me a new keyboard.

Paris, because random discharge is a way of life.