Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Re: Well done

Just do the same thing as oil and mining companies do to pay for cleanup costs.

Everybody pays into a fund during operation from their profits and then when the rig/mine closes the company sells the operation to a subsidiary which declares bankruptcy and the government pays for the cleanup.

Meanwhile the contents of the fund having been distributed as stimulus to the companies everytime the market price drops.

Re: "...but what has he done for you lately?"

Law and order is also a bit missing

Re: We have lots of non-fungible tokens

They can prove transfer of ownership with a verifiable ledger - that's all you need to do capitalism (along with an army)

Re: Agreed

The sad bit is that for many voters Brexit wasn't even about the Eu.

If you lived in a safe Northern Labour seat it was a once in a lifetime opportunity to vote against a smug southern Tory PM and have your vote make a difference.

If you had made the Question "Fuck the Government Y/N?" it would have had exactly the same vote.

There were people in my home town voting for Brexit because Maggie closed the pits.

Re: loggers who claim to speak for the trees.

Although planting miles of single species Pine/Fir/Spruce in what was meadow or mixed woodland isn't exactly green

It can happen legitimately - but in this case I suspect it was 'strategic', it's called a submarine patent.

The idea is to keep a patent submitted but not granted, and so not public, by filing all sorts of corrections and amendments and continuations. Wait until a company with $$$ infringes, then you get it granted and sue them - hoping that they have invested so much in manufacturing they will pay out.

The USPTO have changed the rules now to make this much harder.

Re: Eastern District of Texas

It's only necessary to show an infringement there - the 'victim' just has to show somebody in East Texas could have used your product. It's like how if somebody in London can see an article on the internet you can sue in London with it's 'advantagous' libel laws

To record a video one must first invent the universe (or at least finish Hurd)

Re: UK Law

>Please contact the MMB

>the Ministry of Murder and Bombs?

Milk Marketing Board = the shadowy organization behind all conspiracy

I mean how much marketing does milk need? It tastes of milk, you drink it !

Or if you are sensible you leave it alone until it's been turned into cheese in the proper manner.

"yes, please"..

(We are English)

>"some of the 'exciting' things he'd done in the past while waiting for meetings to get going"

We've all wanted to garrote the person failing to work out how to share their screen

Re: I was working for...

Suppose you worked for the UK's new space command and you put your work post code as "space" would that be a security leak?

Space is rather big, even if not actually infinite, you could argue that you gave infinitesimally small amount of information

Re: threats of £1,000 fines being handed to people who don't complete the national survey

Suggested you have that for voting - one lucky voter wins a million quid

Re: Bah, humbug

Religion: own

Re: Without being too picky...

>but Cameron and Blair were indistinguishable.

One killed more foreigners, one screwed more Brits

Re: Back in the old days

Person asking for directions in Whitehall.

Which side is the foreign office on?

"Ours, I think" says the passing civil servant

Re: Without being too picky...

The advantage is that the census is broadly fair and honest.

Would you trust the home office to provide data about the number of undocumented immigrants, needing social services / schools / hospitals in a given area - to the same government that would have to fund it ?

Re: Census data

> give known names rather than their christened names.... give different information in different places

My first company was sorting this out for N. Ireland - back in the time of the euphemisms.

When people (or at least 50% of the people) used a dozen different spellings of a Gaelic name on any official form.

Sex is binary, you do it with "zero" or "more than zero" other people

Gender is the one where you can make up whatever shit you want

Re: UK Law

I can't tell you who I work for. Please contact the MMB press officer at "1 secret underground bunker, London"

Of course if the government were at all competent they would be trying to destroy trust in the census.

The conservative chaps over here replaced the census with a "government statistical survey" which determined that there were no poor people living in any city or any rural areas and so social funding could be cut.

Re: Bootnote

It's the same logic as "if I asked you if you had been served a national security letter - would you legally be able to deny it?"

Re: Musk

That's the really sad thing about the SLS.

Assuming it is ever launched, and works and gets to the moon - then what?

It was designed as a quick/cheap/politically-expedient way to use some old technology for a showboating trip.

It's like Britain demonstrating a post-Brexit challenge to Airbus by taking a Concorde out of a museum and refurbishing it for a single flight.

Re: Drinking in Tx

>Not that I have opinions about the drinks they serve in Texas - no Sir - not me.

Have you considered that this is just Texas' attempt to make oil a renewable resource?

With dinosaurs now sadly extinct we need a new specious of extremely large land animals (with brains the size of walnuts) to die and their bodies by converted into fossil fuel.

Re: What about the fire?

That's why we need to invest in strategic home-grown cork.

Otherwise our rockets will be under threat of the Spanish and Portuguese empires

Re: Musk

So one is commercial outfit moving fast and breaking things to make launches cheap.

The other is a dead end project to re-use a small stock of 30year old engines, and then build some expensive copies. In a dead end project to go to the moon quickly to:

demonstrate our technical superiority over N Korea

distract attention from the presidential scandal of the day

funnel funding to a bunch of aerospace companies that are losing money *(delete as applicable)

Re: multi-million dollar Space Shuttle engines

>The deal was $1.5 billion to "modernise" the 16 existing engines and build 6 new ones. So, a little under $70 million per delivered engine.

So assuming that this has doubled by now

Was 1967 a particularly bad winter?

No, a marvellous winter. We lost no end of embarrassing files.

Re: Mock tech-knocking as much as you like ...

>Nope, just compost them. Which precludes the use of quicklime, and carpets only if those are fully biodegradable.

For long term carbon capture don't you want them not to biodegrade?

I bury all my victims in disused salt caverns (hypothetically of course)