Posts by Alien Doctor 1.1
184 posts • joined Tuesday 16th February 2010 17:14 GMT
I couldn't help but...
I couldn't help but think of Carry On Spying ;)
"I am Doctor Crow. You are surprised? "
"Yes, I am! I expected you to be a man... or a woman. "
Re: That Ass. Principal
Isn't that Meatloafs' passport photo?
Re: Will they also force...
an interesting analogy, but surely a manufacturer should be able to market their products in any way they see fit (as long as my ad-blockers can zap the buggers)?
Re: Will they also force...
I fully agree old chap - and in addition to Pepsi they could also add bottles of Hobgoblin.
Will they also force...
my local car showrooms into displaying and selling models from other manufacturers, I find it so hard to buy a VW when I'm in the Ford showroom in Bristol?
Re: I wonder
powered by windows?
Posted in Twenty classic arcade games
Re: Can anyone remember...
Thanks <spez> that was it. Have a beer old chap.
Posted in Twenty classic arcade games
Can anyone remember...
the title of a MotoGp or World Superbike-styled racer? I used to waste my lunchtimes from Unisys at the Crown in St. Nicks market Bristol, supping on a Newky Brown and shovelling coins into the game.
I can't forgive them...
they made me redundant in the early 90's from the Bristol office when I turned down a move to Milton Keynes - the office wsn't closing then, I think it may have been constructive dismissal - but at the time I was so naive concerning the machinations of the IT industry.
Re: elfreeman
So all gun-owners in the states are members of militias?
An anagram of Lewis Page...
Sewage Lip
Posted in Ten... PC games you may have missed
Re: A few additional suggestions
Yep - a decent implementation of Traveller would be great.
Posted in XBMC coders acquire TVonics brand
Re: And next week...
Pulse-eight - sorry, I should have added the "joke alert" icon.
Posted in XBMC coders acquire TVonics brand
Re: And next week...
So sorry DJGM, did you damage your funny bone over the weekend?
Posted in XBMC coders acquire TVonics brand
And next week...
Tivo will find someway of suing the hell out of them.
Every time...
I hear "Golden Dawn" mentioned I can't help thinking Crowley and Regardie have been reincarnated as Greek fascists.
Re: Optional
"but really, here in the US we don't care when it comes down to it."
In that case just get all your red-neck morons back into your own borders and leave the rest of the world alone - we don't give a damn about you.
The icon? Maybe that's washington dc
The Repuglican was...
probably worried about losing his collection of gay porn.
Just a chuckle...
Flattery won't get him anywhere other than gaol.
Frankie Boyle...
Susans' husband does it again - a brilliant comment from Frankie.
Posted in Gamers bereft as Xbox Live takes a dive
Bastards
"Don't panic everyone! #Xboxlive is just having a little doze! The teams are currently trying to poke it with a big stick to wake it back up!"
What condescending bastards - that seems to be typical now of help-desks that continually screw customers over with meaningless drivel.
Did anyone else...
read the contact name on the job advert as "krash me live jobs"?
Seawolves
A quick wiki gives:
Early when the Stony Brook Campus was located in Oyster Bay, the team was known as the Soundmen or Baymen. Throughout the 1960s when it moved to its present location, Stony Brook sport teams were known as the Stony Brook Patriots. In 1994 as Stony Brook anticipated a rise to Division I in the NCAA the nickname of the team was changed to its present one today, the Seawolves. The Seawolf was said to be a mythical creature from the Tlingit tribe which brought good luck to those able to see it.
Where can I puke?
<quote>
"HP is committed to helping the city of New York build an effective and innovative 911 call center for the city’s greatest public servants – those at the front lines of emergency response every day. "
</quote>
I guess HP have been watching too many U.S. crime series and trying to buy in to the sickliness that pervades American politics: if you can't slag it off in public, talk nicely about it and no-one will know you're really sticking a finger down your throat and wishing you were European.
Posted in Microsoft kills Windows Live brand
"it is all included when you turn on your PC for the first time."
and the second time you turn your PC on - it crashes?
Re: Sir
No problems at all.
Posted in BOFH: Dawn raid on Fort BOFH
"Corporate Wasting-Money-on-Pointless-Shit"
That immediately reminded me of the Onion News Network report "Sony Releases Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work" - a classic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AyVh1_vWYQ
Thanks for the memories.
What's twatter?
The post is required, and must contain letters.
Oooops
Why I thought there were 14 days in a week escapes me - not having to have a regular INR would give me 1/14th of my week back.
Too many blood tests
After having had a pulmonary embolism in 2004 and then three more blood clots in my leg recently I have put on warfarin for life - this is a royal pain-in-the-inner-arm as I need to have INR checks on a weekly basis, which means half a day waiting at the doc's for the phlebologist to take my sample and send it to the hospital for testing.
Anything that would give me 1/28th of my week back would be very useful and means I won't end up with an arm looking like a smack-addict.
It still won't turn me an iphone user though - but hopefully the tech will be available to all - the benefits should outweigh any use by a company to patent it.
I suppose...
condominium is a type of single-element latex, but I couldn't find it on the periodic table.
For proof...
just experience what Tex Murphy saw in his investigations. What more proof could one want?
Posted in Got a few minutes to help LOHAN suck?
Vacuum pumps
I've got an old "extension" pump if you want and you could probably have the Mrs' old breast milk pump as well.
Posted in Go back to the future with Red Dwarf
Sorry Mr/Ms/Mrs Doubly Trademarked...
but I am not a die hard fan, although I am a fan of good British comedy; "Back to Earth" was excruciatingly bad and did a great injustice to the memory of the first few series.
There are many examples upon which we can draw that show that sometimes a death really should remain that and resurrection will only bring pain, embarassment and a wish that that relative should have been left to rest in peace.
Posted in Go back to the future with Red Dwarf
FFS
This had better be worth it after that dismal three-parter recently; sometimes I wish I never bother about newly made series/films/whatever and remain happy with my memories.
PTD in care workers
Traumatic events may provoke fear and helplessness and people at these events may experience stress reactions. We assessed the prevalence and risk factors for PTSD in HCW at a hospital treating SARS patients. METHODS: A 91-item questionnaire was administered to HCW on high-risk (ICU, ER, SARS Unit) and select control units 6 weeks into the Toronto SARS outbreak. Seven dimensions representing possible risk factors for PTSD were created and calculated by taking the mean over all questions. Dimensions included perception of risk to self, perception of risk to others, confidence in infection control measures, confidence in information received, impact on personal life, impact on work-life and depressive affect. PTSD was measured by the Impact of Events Scale-Revised (IES-R) corresponding to criteria in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV. Scores of >20, corresponding to the mean score measured for journalists in war zones, was used to indicate the presence of PTSD symptomatology. RESULTS: Results are available for 248 HCW (173 nurses, 6 physicians, 69 others). Mean IES-R was 19.1+15.8; mean IES-R was higher on high-risk vs control units (21.9+16.4 vs 13.8+13.2, p<0.001). Overall, 102/235 (43%) had a PTSD score >20. In univariate analysis, sex, age, and years of experience as a HCW were not associated with a score >20. In multivariate analysis, working on a high-risk unit (OR=2.1, p=0.04), working in ICU (OR=2.0, p=0.04), number of SARS patients attended (>1 vs 0) (OR=4.3, p=0.004), perception of risk to self (OR=3.8, p<0.001), impact on work-life (OR=3.4, p=0.02) and depressive affect (OR=4.7, p<0.001) were associated with PTSD. CONCLUSIONS: A substantial burden of acute PTSD with identifiable risk factors was present in HCW. This may affect HCW retention. Awareness of this problem and intervention may improve the health and well-being of HCW.
http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/MeetingAbstracts/ma?f=102265447.html
There, it didn't take long to find that information; perhaps it would be a valid point to ask you to research something prior to flaming?
Heat? Kitchen?
Health care costs
Most recent I could find (1997, so I guess it's way higher now):
"This article estimates the costs of U.S. gunshot and cut/stab wound by intent. It also compares U.S. to Canadian gunshot experience. Incidence data are from published sources, the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS), and cause-coded emergency department discharge and hospital discharge data systems. Medical care payments and lost earnings per case come from National Crime Survey data, a literature review, and weighting of costs by diagnosis from Databook on Nonfatal Injury-Incidence. Costs, and Consequences by Miller et al. (The Urban Institute Press, Washington, DC. 1995) with the diagnosis distribution of penetrating injuries from the discharge data systems. Quality of life losses are estimated primarily from jury awards to penetrating injury victims. In 1992, gunshots killed 37,776 Americans; cut/stab wounds killed 4095. Another 134,000 gunshot survivors and 3,100,000 cut/stab wound survivors received medical treatment. Annually, gunshot wounds cost an estimated U.S. $126 billion. Cut/stab wounds cost another U.S. $51 billion. The gunshot and cut/stab totals include U.S. $40 billion and U.S. $13 billion respectively in medical, public services, and work-loss costs. Across medically treated cases, costs average U.S. $154,000 per gunshot survivor and U.S. $12,000 per cut/stab survivor. Gunshot wounds are more than three times as common in the U.S. than in Canada, which has strict handgun control. With the same quality of life loss per victim, gunshot costs per capita are an estimated U.S. $495 in the U.S. vs U.S. $180 in Canada. Per gun, however, the costs are higher in Canada, Gunshot wound rates rise linearly with gun ownership."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9183471
Lewis Page == paid troll
"it might be more cost-effective for them to focus on traditional doctor stuff like heart disease and cancer"
WTF Lewis? The doc's are those that put us back together and have to suffer the trauma themselves in more ways than you have empathy cells.
If the doc's are saying this they are doing it for a reason - reductions in gun injuries will reduce overall health costs, prevent less PTSD for the staff involved in treating these injuries and generally be good for the whole population.
I know I'm feeding the paid troll here, but in this article I believe you have really overstepped any authority you have for writing articles on the Reg.
Farcebook
I agree with Mr Iota; I do not have a facebook account and even if I did I wouldn't "interact" with brands that used it as it seems to me a lazy and cheapskate way of advert^H^H^H^H^H^H, sorry, having a meaningful relationship with customers, rather than developing their own piece of net real estate.
Brands that do facebook don't get my business unless they have the same functionality on their own sites.
The Jury
Perhaps the police have been watching "The Jury"* on ITV** this week - they do seem to be quite reactive after TV highlights issues.
* the better half told me about it, I've been in Oblivion again
** somehow the block on ITV has been by-passed, damn woman
Rigel 4?
What about Rigel XVI? Certainly some odd talents there.
Perchance...
it could hit Yellowstone and trigger the supervolcano, then we may have an "end of the world" event.
Screengrabs
If all you provide are maps for the location of clubs why not just use screengrabs?
Not perfect...
but you could try this article:
http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/open-office-dilemma-openofficeorg-vs-libreoffice-716
HTH
AD1.1
"In the UK
They would send a couple of PCSOs around. Tomorrow."
After bacon butties and several cups of tea, they'd then have to walk from the nearest police station - nowadays many miles away - knock politely on your door and say "excuse me, sir, but are you being naughty online with some yankee characters? Oh, OK, just don't do it again will you old chap; there's a good boy."
Optical title
So that's no more Movies 24 +1 +2 +WTF, Horror Channel, SyFy (siffi? a cleaning fluid) et.c et.c what a loss! OMG how will I be able to live?
