* Posts by Quiller-Nine

9 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Jan 2010

A tiny typo in an automated email to thousands of customers turns out to be a big problem for legal

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"That meeting went on for about seven years," recalled Ali with a shudder, "but oddly enough, it was only about an hour later that they let me go back to my desk and send out a 'correction' to all recipients of the first message."

This is the best line I have read in ages!

Capgemini awarded towering £600m deal to run London cops' IT infrastructure

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Spelling error...

It's spelled "ruin" not "run"

RasPad 3.0 converts Raspberry Pi 4 to a tablet – be prepared for some quirks

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Re: Absolutely amazing...

My Pi-based arcade machine begs to differ.

Steve Jobs in iPhone bitchslap to creationists, Tea Party

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Well said, Sir.

That is possibly the best post about this subject yet. You win ten internets.

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WTF?

Eh??

Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr Paul Vail, King of the On-Topic Rebuttal.

What the funk does citizenship/representation have to do with the other guy's argument?

What is this "abyss" that the UK now finds itself in?

Vis-a-vis the citizenship thing, when the UK ruled the US they never made any secret of the fact that they were just another one of the colonies and were treated just as badly as any other. They never pretended that the US was of equal stature to the then-mighty UK.

Turk unwraps doner kebab robot

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Joke

@AlistairJ...

I always thought that the Doner Card meant that you were authorising your remains to be used in another kebab?

Jobcentre ejects Jedi Knight

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Coat

Hokey superstitions etc, etc

"Does a real religion have to have caused at least a million deaths"...

That's not a real religion, that's a space station.

Mine=[Subject related paraphernalia] + [Pocket]

French mock British G-spot probe

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Joke

Dear King's College...

I am very disappointed at discovering that your findings regarding the "G-Spot" study were erroneous. You seem to have frittered away your resources doing "research" and "testing" and forgot to consider the all-important "Mimoun Insistence Factor".

I understand that my colleagues dealing with oncology research are now looking to hire Dr Mimoun to insist that an over-the-counter general cancer cure will be viable within the next 3 months and thus make it reality.

Yours sincerely

BC

US faces critical lack of (mad) computer scientists

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@Graham Wilson...

My ex-wife is of the wrap-'em-in-cotton-wool-and-don't-let-them-near-the-explosives school of parenting and I find it insane. As a youth I was given those wonderful junior chemistry sets and encouraged to find out why and how things worked, which is something that I have been grateful for my whole life.

I agree with your mollycoddling statement, if it ain't dangerous, it ain't educational!!

Bring back MacGyver is what I say.