Posts by Wommit

I'm still waiting

for someone to explain why its OK for people to be killed on TV, with blood and gore spraying over the room, body parts flying and people screaming. But not a simple sex scene.

Priorities need to be sorted out and fast.

Always the same

98% of lawyers giving the rest a bad name.

Paris has been using lawyers recently.

Now come on.

Just who hasn't wanted to 'pop a cap' into a server now and then?

Errr...

About this 'Manipulate Amy Pond with your wee' Any more details?

AT LAST!

Write only memory.

You've got to remember

The attitude of the police to the public is a case of 'do as you're fucking well told!'

The attitude of the police themselves is 'we'll do as we fucking well like!'

This not a case of one law for us, one for them. It's more like, all of the laws for us, none for them.

Do I detect

the tiniest amount of cynicism here?

Umm...

And what would it do for your self esteme id you were always shortlisted for the 'pugugly' jobs?

Teach them something useful

Every time I talk with an IT / ICT teacher I _always_ say teach the kids to touch type. This is a skill which is quite easy to teach and will be useful through out their lives.

Schools shouldn't bother with teaching word processing or spreadsheets. What ever the school is teaching will be out of date by the time that the kids get into the work place (well those that decide to work that is.) But even dole scum can use touch typing to speed the filling of on line benefit forms.

In the UK the qwerty keyboard is the main interface with the computer, and no one is trying to teach the kids how to use it.

</rant>

Pussers Rum...

I got totally pissed on the smell of that stuff when I were t'lad. I was CPO's mess man and I had to collect the rum, in a covered fanny, from the rum store.

Just as I was about to collect the couple of gallons for the Chiefs, the cask ran out and a new one had to be broached. This, together with all of the paperwork (if you thing SSADM involved lots of paper, just try opening a barrel of pussers rum) meant that I was standing in the alcohol laden rum store room air for nearly twenty minutes.

For an innocent junior such as wot I wus (and still am, I'll have you know!) this was a little too much. I was pissed, rat arsed, out of my tiny tree.

I staggered back to the Chiefs mess with the two gallons of rum in its fanny and was promptly accused of stealing some of the rum on the way over. I had motive, it was rum, and opportunity, I was twenty minutes later than normal, and they had proof, I was pissed. Court Marshal time.

Fortunately a calmer head than the president of the Chiefs Mess decided to do a little investigation and they quickly realised that was truly innocent, and totally unable to work that afternoon.

I was sent to my mess and gladly had a make-a-mend with sleep (a very rare treat in the late 60's.)

Black Friday was a sad day, at HMS Heron the CPO's tot was delivered in a hearse with most of the camp lining the route.

Beer, the sailors mind altering substance of choice.

"sleep in the car for three days with their dog"

But what about the smell?

I'm sure the dog got used to it.

Boom Boom

Very nice, but

do they have a version that ramps up the anger in your emails to TOTAL SPIT SPRAYING PSYCHO level?

That would be really neat.

And...

Where's the Paris Hilton angle?

You should be ashamed of yourself.

Daft idea

I drive to the station, but park my car on the road as the station car parks are just legalised extortion.

I buy CD's and DVD's, bought four CD's last Saturday, got three DVD's the weekend before. However if I'm forced to pay a levy for P2P sharing, I'll download a bittorrent client and go for it. I can get a 500GB portable HDD for less than £60, I've lots of USB ports spare.

Give me the choice of paying to legally download and I'll look at what's on offer, the price and the limits (there's bound to be some) and compare these against the stuff I like, the amount I want and how much I want of it.

Then I'll make _my_ choice.

So they switsh it / them on and...

WTF do we do with it they cry (in Welsh of course)

And...

"our technical team carries out regular checks to ensure that all vehicles are equipped with the appropriate number of radios."

We don't check that they work, just that they're there.

Police and CPS incompetance...

Nothing new here, move along now. Nothing newsworthy here.

Excellent

You should host more documentaries like this.

Toys!

Scalextric, Airfix and Corgi make _toys_

Hornby make _Models_

So they're

going to build a computer which exists and doesn't exist at the same time.

Gonna be a bugger to type on.

Clicked on the link

never saw a thing.

Was wearing my peril sensitive sunglasses (indoors of course) though.

So...

"They will now be covered by plastic sacks until a public consultation is completed, the BBC reports."

Nice clear sacks, sacks you can see through. Still they'll keep the rain of the cameras won't they.

Promised to try harder.

Never happen. Not until one or more of the directors / CEO of a health trust is jailed for these data breaches.

The CEO's will ask "why on Earth should we spend a penny on something that won't give us a benefit?" And they'll keep saying that until they change their attitude to "we'll spend as much as it takes to keep _me_ out of prison."

This is a title

"Health watchdog the King's Fund reports that while the number of staff rose 35 per cent from 1999 to 2009 (to 1,117,000), the number of managers rose by 85 per cent."

And when the trusts need to save money they always fire the medical staff, preferably nurses. I bet you could sack 2 in 3 of the admin staff without lowering the quality of the medical care given.

This has a number of issues

1) The government has launched an urgent internal review of police stop and search powers after acknowledging officers had used the powers illegally.

If the Officers had used the powers illegally why aren't they being prosecuted?

2) A 2004 stop and search sweep by the Met netted 840 stops, but did not get the appropriate authorisation from a government minister, according to reports.

So the Police service middle / upper management are going to be prosecuted then?

3)Baroness Neville-Jones said the government was endeavouring to contact every one who had been illegally stopped and searched, so that it can apologise to them.

Surely that should read -

Baroness Neville-Jones said the government was endeavouring to contact every one who had been illegally stopped and searched, so that it can ask them to be witnesses for the prosecution.

4) The review covered the period up to 2008. Procedures were tightened up at that point, following increasing complaints about stop and search. The government believes no errors have occurred since then.

Yeah, riiiiigggghhhhtttt! </sarcasm>

5) It doesn't appear to cover coppers' alleged tendency to cite the Act to stop photographers, er, photographing.

They're going to be looking into that later, right. Right?

Title

"Rises of up to six per cent plus large bonuses for senior management have added to anger."

Just shows how in tune with their employees the BT management really are.

But will they...

be able to program something which understands AManFronMars?