Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Re: Better than regular loans

> or decide that the contract remains in force even in case of bankruptcy ? How is it that you get to decide that ?

The humble politicians decided that cunning law/medical students would graduate, immediately declare bankruptcy and then spend 3 years earning very little while training and then emerge from bankruptcy in time to get their $250k job leaving the humble charity of Harvard or Yale out $250K in fees.

>how do they think that a subcontractor can do if for LESS, hiring those exact same people, after adding in corp-rat overhead and profit

By also using what they built for other customers.

It's why it's cheaper for the government to buy an Intel CPU rather than fab one in house

Re: Oh my Golgafrincham

We would no longer be able to build a B-Ark.

The management consultants would be too busy market researching a logo that can be fitted nasely

Re: Copyright

>Copyright only applies to the names of fonts

That's why the Acorn Archimedes famously had the same fonts but named after Cambridge colleges

Re: Clippy

Strangely for me it keeps recommending Fraktur or wingdings

Re: Acid - don't do it...

You want to downplay the dangers of Equasy ?

Re: Acid - don't do it...

That's not true - even thinking about drugs will immediately kill you.

I know because I went to school in the 80s and the Thatcher/Reagan governments would never lie

Re: WTF ?

A, the test is expensive and involves you going to a hospital

B, the test might come back positive but you really want to go to visit your grandkids / cousins wedding / Disneyland

C, you are used to a society where it's standard to just fake any type of licence / permit because interactions with government officials are 'transactional''

Re: Brit MPs ?

Personally I don't need to get a vaccine shot.

If everyone else has the vaccine then nobody can give it to me and I'm safe.

Re: Not "divisive and discriminatory", but essential

Ironically if they lived in that area in the 80s somebody would have checked that they didn't belong to CND or vote for the wrong party

Re: WTF ?

No but will avoid going round to the local Staples and making a photocopy of someone's certificate

Re: We released 15 independent contractors.

You need to do it in a Mr Burns voice: "Smithers, Release the consultants"

Re: Being paid to do nothing is not unusual for independent consultants

You don't think the Inland Revenue would regard 'being paid to sit around and do nothing' as prima-face evidence that you were a regular employee ?

Re: Pub rules

Pubs in the Vatican can get really rowdy

Re: Yankees and roundabouts

On behalf of HMG may I apologise.

It's normal policy when abandoning a colony granting independence, to split it into two states, preferably on religous or ethnic lines. This then allows the two halves to wage war on each other and leave the rest of the world in peace.

Due to an administrative oversite and a lack of French cooperation, the USA was forced to implement this plan informally themselves - and naturally made a mess of it.

Re: Boston?

Perhaps this was necessary to reduce the number of casual visitors to the Garden State ?

Re: Boston MA Roundabout rules

Here the rule at 4way stop is: Range Rover driver with the most bling sunglasses goes first

Expecting people to read signs?

This is rural America, reading is for nerds/democrats/liberals/

Re: Do what did you expect?

I blame Apple. Kids today don't know which way is clockwise.

Re: Signs ...

At least the UK has one agency planning the stuff.

Here the motorways are federal, so there are no signs to the motorway on the surface streets because that's not their jurisdiction. The motorway numbers 'junctions' but in the city a junction can be every block, junction numbers get skipped so J32 can be immediately after J20 or you can have J20a,b,c,d,e because some suburb was built.

The local signs are the city responsibility, but the city can change every few miles, the same road can change name. There is no standard road numbering outside motorways.

Then in the city there is the same road east/west or north/south with the same building numbers.

Re: Yankees and roundabouts

Enhanced business opportunity.

Wonder what happens to accident rate when the ambulance company wins the contract for road signage?

Re: Invasion of the roundabouts, thank Gawd

The problem isn't the 4way stop - it's the alternate 2way stops.

So at every junction one set of roads is a stop but the other might be (4way) or not (2way) so you are never entirely sure if the other car is going to stop - unless you can see the back of an octagonal sign on their lane.

That's multiplied by the probability that the other car will stop even if they have a stop sign of course.

Re: @Binraider

“to procure all such machines as are known in any part of EuropeAmerica.”

Eventually we will write a musical about him

Re: How many were actually developed

Yes but it did enable cheap Chinese Blackberry phones allowing Blackberry OS to become the dominate platform today and leaving RIM as the global trillion $ business.