* Posts by Naughtyhorse

2416 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Jan 2010

UN to call for 'pre-emptive' ban on soulless robot bomber assassins

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Re: Threat to International Stability

Drones go on joyrides more often than people think...

cos the uplink is important - isn't that kinda the point - no need of an uplink.

in my naivete i imagine there would be some protocol by which it would make itself safe in the event of a BSOD in the controller.

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Re: Dont they already exist..and not just cruise..cluster bomb

good job they are illegal - it would be awful if they were ever deployed!

especially if the people responsible refused to acknowledge international law.

Doh!!

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Re: or wedding party, or village in Gaza

Surely the point is that the kind of poor decision making that lies at the heart of wedding party/blue on blue attacks is pretty much always down to a bad choice made quickly by a gung ho kid high on adrenalin. Seems pretty reasonable to me - from a tactical standpoint;

planes better than infantry - less casualties (our guys... of course), less collateral damage.

drones better than planes - likely much less casualties (again, our guys), even less collateral damage.

totally autonomous airstrikes - no casualties, no collateral damage (potentially)

Of course giving the fuckwit at the end of pennsylvania avenue a way to distract his 300 million serfs with a big bang in someplace they have never heard of with absolutely NO downside....

Big Mistake.

May threatens ban on 'hate-inciting' radicals, even if they don't promote violence

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Re: Really, Brittian...I mean REALLY?!?

sadly may was elected.

we have no one to blame but..... all those fuckwits that voted tory.

Which is the same deal as your side of the pond. being a right(left!) thinking man in the US must be incredibly frustrating. At least this side it's easier to laugh at them (thx Jon Stewart little Stevey Colbert and all... oh and bill o'realy! 'fuckwit in chief' at fox). At least demographics are on the side of reason over there. not so here im afraid.

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Calm Down Dear!

After the drubbing they got from ukip in the recent council elections, the tories said they needed a more effective strategy to deal with them in future.

Welcome to the future.

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Re: Police state

lol

don't try and reason with the troll.

(strongly suspect 'witnessed' in this case means saw it on telly)

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Re: LOL!

dunno,

but i wish they could drop it a bit harder

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Re: Won't be able to post hate comments

freedom of speech as a right

ability to spell optional

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Joke

Re: Won't be able to post hate comments

here now!

you leave adobe's portable document format alone!

Oi, butterfingers! Drop your mobe in a pint? Hope it's not an iPhone

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bubble everyones arse

I dont think it's meaningless i think it's pejorative.

isnt someone in a bubble removed from reality? (I think this is what they are suggesting their service does - clumsy much?)

yeah?? well you know what you can do with that insurance policy.

shove it up your own bubble. dickhead.

(that said id use them in a shot before i consign an ex mobe to fecking mazumba!) the name is bad enough but that grimacing spaz in the old ads.....uuuugggh! muthaaaaa! where's me dried frog pills?)

Tennis pro serves up pic of bad French Open line call

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Rules are the Rules

The umpire is always right, even if he(she)'s wrong.

He's the final arbiter. line judges and hawkeye exist to assist him, he can choose to ignore or accept that advice.

guy getting thrashed 6-1 6-4 6-3 needs to stop being such a big baby and take up a sport he's good at.

The Tomorrow People jaunt back to the airwaves

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FAIL

Re: 70's TV?

Cool your boots man!

That! is _not_ a camberwell carrot!

quote;

Danny: The joint I am about to roll requires a craftsman that can utilise up to twelve skins. It is called a Camberwell Carrot.

Marwood: It's impossible to use twelve papers on one joint.

Danny: It is impossible to roll a Camberwell Carrot with anything less.

Withnail: Who says it's a Camberwell Carrot?

Danny: I do. I invented it in Camberwell and it looks like a carrot.

so nothing to do with veg at all.

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Re: I'm on a nostalgia trip...

hmmm

arrow??

brings the term 'harbles' and 'sucked' irresistibly to mind.

The first few eps had some good choreography, but that male lead, (either pronunciation is apposite) whoever he was - had me cheering for the bad guys by ep 03.

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Re: Sci-fi is at a dead end...

Ahh German! the language of love!

Is it just my conditioning, or is he steering the ship with a big red todger?

Better Place electric car outfit goes titsup

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Re: Chicken, Meet Egg.

"It is one of those cases where it's a good idea on paper"

turns out to be shite in reality.

it's an electric car FFS!

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all true....

but in my world

6,000,000,000 is in fact more than 1,700,000,000

which kinda suggests (and this is putting it patronisingly mildly) that 'Ford made most of their profit from making cars'

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"I want to put you in a nice powerful electric car and then see you make that same statement after spending a little while doing not much else except drawing big black circles on the tarmac. They've got a higher power to weight than internal combustion engines and virtually zero noise."

True, and after about 20 minutes of that when the batteries in the tesla are as flat a witches tit, you can hop into my lambo, do exactly the same - but with a _much_ better soundtrack, for an hour or two, then take it off the track, down to the pub for lunch and then home, passing the tesla, still doing tiny donuts - cos the extension lead is so short!

not a tesla salesman by any chance?

didn't think so

'Catastrophic failure' of 3D-printed gun in Oz Police test

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Re: The Liberator - a bargain

Given that this one is already prone to exploding in the hand, one with 1/2 as much material in it.....

yeah thats altogether possible!

lol

World's richest hobo (Apple) has worked 'tax-free' in Ireland since '80s

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Re: "tax resident nowhere in the world"

you paid tax while at school??

good lad

err no

BOLLOCKS!

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like HS2 (which will only start years after the recession has finished).

so all the apple execs can get from london to brum quicker, which it the part you clearly fail to get - not all benefits show up easily on a speadsheet

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Doh! you went and fucked it up!

" because the tax laws had good intentions."

How extraordinarily naive! the tax code is the way it is because big corp paid the gov for it to be that way. The only conceivable reason for anyone to create such a complex system is so 'clever accountants' can game it.

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Re: Why do people get upset at Apple for this?

'you should bitch at congress, parliament, the IRS, or whoever makes the rules...'

and why exactly do you think this is all happening (at last)?

The bunker at the end of the world - in Essex

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Re: Make doubly sure you...

well it is supposed to be a _secret_ bunker :-D

p.s. I live in Colchester and thought it was round here someplace!

Climate scientists agree: Humans cause global warming

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Re: Totally Meaningless Study

but all god botherers are known to be credulous fuckwits ergo the study was irrelevant.

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Re: Proof? I could go on and on, and on.

I daresay you will....

you'll still be dead wrong tho

Google 'DOES DO EVIL', thunders British politician

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Re: Is it so easy?

The same way you can choose to buy something from France if it is cheaper and you live in the UK.

try doing that with a truck load of fags - see how far you get.

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Re: Is it so easy?

The answer to most of your questions is:

you get an expert in to advise. And obey the law!

The answer to your last is;

don't be so effing thick, the uk gov is not responsible for collecting taxes for other countries

Mobile tech destroys the case for the HS2 £multi-beellion train set

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Re: Where will video conferencing be by the time HS2 is actually working

Cant have double deckers - the bridges are too low

Cant extend platforms - more expensive that HS2

You clearly dont use VC regularly, you would not be so oblivious to it's shortcomings if you did.

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Joke

Dear god man! are you insane???

"put your thumb in your mouth and never draw the connection between poor transport and poor economic growth."

you are aware of where that thumb has been the last 50 years!

most unhygienic!

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Re: Is Tim London based?

I think i know who you are!

and you are only pissed off cos it goes past your house!

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Re: It will only work to move people around the UK if the tickets are cheap!

The current cost and capacity issues on our network are entirely due to clever. clever economists 'rationalising' the spend on rail for the last 50 years ( i.e. spend fuck all - having put a major road builder in charge of the network rationalisation in the 50's leaving us a seriously fucked up network to begin with)

other countries in europe have taken the view that they need to have a rail network, so fuck the cost and build a good un (it's a bizarre non-thatcherite idea, but there are benefits that cannot be easily expressed in a ledger! the very idea!!). So in classic british style we have a rail system that is both utterly shite to use, and heinously expensive at the same time. Which (if you are in the road building business) it a pretty neat trick!

Things that cost the same as coffee with Tim Cook - and are way more fun

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Joke

Au-pair in a tank...

Any mishap involving an au pair driving a tank is surely going to fall into the category of someone elses problem - to wit, to poor blokes who's cars she is trying to parallel park between.

Acorn founder: SIXTH WAVE of tech will wash away Apple, Intel

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Re: Oh S*&t! - point of order

2 flattened fifths is an octave, and therefore back in tune.

so having more than 2 robots in the choir is pointless

Copyright minister admits: Google has better access to No. 10 than me

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Re: So what is the difference between No. 10 and 1600 Pennsylvania

You are forgetting about the political doppler effect between the us and everywhere else.

Someone who, in the us would be regarded as a 'pinko commie liberal sonofabich who needs to keep his stinkin gubermint hands off my medicare' would be regarded in the free world as a raving neo-facist loon.

On the hunt for a new ampere

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Re: What happens to the old one ?

new kbd pls

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Re: They need to create a framework

ho ho ho

I know you jest, have you tried to buy a new tyre for your car lately?

eg

205/55/R16 91V

205mm _and_ 16 inches in the same fucking measurement. what genius came up with that?

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Re: What's all this rubbish?

'The French invented the kilometre to make French cars sound faster'

True,

but that was the second attempt... the first involved a playing card and a clothes peg

'Liberator': Proof that you can't make a working gun in a 3D printer

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Considering...

What congress is doing to america _NOW_ and has been doing for the last 20 years. Don't you guys get it? Guns is the 'shiny thing' keeping 300 million morons distracted while EVERYTHING ELSE is being taken away.

America can't really afford to be so stupid these days. you aint that big of a deal anymore.

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Re: french assault rifle, never fired, only been dropped twice

Fair Point,

hence the farage dig - emphasis for the xenophobic, racist, foaming-at-the-mouth 'never let the facts get in the way of a good story' aspect :-D

(upvoted)

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Re: Way to miss the point...

Should You want to put a bullet in David Cameron (not me guv, he's a diamond geezer salt of the earth)

getting hold of a gun is the easy part.

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Coat

Re: Not the original liberator.

for sale:

french assault rifle, never fired, only been dropped twice

Mines the one with the 'nigel farage book of after dinner wit' in the pocket

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Re: Doesn't anybody watch '50s movies?

and theres me thinking it was a ducks arse!

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Re: Pens should be banned

Ramen!

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Holmes

Re: ireland during the troubles?

Thing is with your basic irish troubles situation is that the terrorists there had a huge shitload of (boston irish) american money to get the guns and bombs in.

Though something tells me that (boston irish) american money has somewhat moderated it's view on terrorism just lately.

Doesn't it say in that there book of yours that as you sow so shall ye reap?

Elon Musk and PayPal chum quit Zuckerberg's immigration gang

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a very smart team of political operatives

Who just made 2 major contributors walk out the door....

so THATS where romney's staff went!

(Am I the only one who sees it as ironic that the 'land of the free' is a place where everything has a price?)

Identity cards: How Labour lost power in a case of mistaken ID

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Unhappy

Re: I wonder how much of the opposition matches mine?

All well and good, except the plod concerned knew full well that said spotty herbet did not have car insurance, cos the DVLA would have told him so.

As it stands, I believe, if you cannot satisfactorily demonstrate to the plod who you are, then they can hold you until you can establish your identity.

Israeli activists tell Hawking to yank his Intel chips over Palestine

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Is it really surprising....

that the fact of him having the temerity to issue one dissenting syllable against one of the worlds leading rogue states, the jewish government would have the greatest living mind isolated and prevented from communication.

how very civilised, and so unexpected from tel aviv.

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Re: Mr Hawking, you should listen to “Palestinian academics”

actually the fallacy that that is a fallacy, is in fact a fallacy

let us begin at the beginning...

write down the Hindu symbol for zero...

(hint: you cant do it with out algebra :-D)

gotcha

ask any mathematician it's a pretty important concept

TV gesture patent bombshell: El Reg punts tech into public domain

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Re: I really don't like the idea of gesture TV

Oh FFS

bung a bit of gaffer over the lens(es) and get back to worrying about... whatever it is that worries you most.

Plans for fully 3D-printed gun go online next week

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and that how fox won the battle!

MSNBC sux a bit (I get all my news from jon stewart - but you prolly dont like him much either) but fox sux so bad it infects the entire sector