Posts by Mystic Megabyte

It's a double WTF!

Pence is a moron who has sold his soul in order to promote his "Christian" beliefs. How crazy is that?

For general browsing I use Firefox but it's locked down so some sites don't work properly. I only use Chromium for banking and one private streaming video site, that's it! I don't know how they can target adverts at me although I had planned to only click on obscenely expensive bling that I don't want.

Does NoScript work now? It went all weird a while ago.

I thought that Groupon had vanished years ago. No sign it around here anyway.

A couple of years ago they were going to label my YouTube uploads with my real name. I had to alter my name in my Gmail account.

Trump the Chump

Stupid enough to let yourself be compromised by the Russians.

Well you wouldn't need lube, he exudes slime. Ugh!

Swiss spy

This brigadier did it because he was passed over for promotion, maybe that's why they now promote the folk with fragile egos to the top. Who does that remind you of?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Louis_Jeanmaire

more ranting!

I suppose that my passport which has another few years to run will have to be replaced next year at a cost of ~£100.

My paper driving license will have to be replaced next year, more cost.

My shiny new ID card will probably expire every leap year if Crapita do the programming, more cost.

Has May told the farmers that after Brexit we will be flooded with cheap, sub-standard, USAsian meat products?

For all those that voted for Brexit, have you never heard the expression "United we stand, divided we fall"?

FFS, for a paltry sum Putin has managed to get his puppet in the White House and also destabilised the whole of Europe. ID Databases may just about be OK if your government is in control of it but not if your country is taken over by a hostile power. The future does not look good :(

P.S. Will we end up with QR codes pinned to our doors?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-uyghur-muslims-xinjiang-province-qr-codes-security-crackdown-hrw-a8532156.html

Obvious solution

ABC should change his/her name to something synonymous with honesty, Trump! I would definitely give money to "Trump Investments Ltd.", er wait....

This title is invisible

If he was wearing bandages around his head I think I might know who he is.

The Fake President is the epitome of Greed

We've always had greedy people but ISTM that the greedy have now gone into hyper-drive. Maybe they sense that the time left to steal from the masses is running out. One of two things might happen:

1) The people will rise up and shoot them all - (unlikely)

2) It's the end of the fecking world - (most likely)

Whatever happens I don't think that the USA will ever recover from Trump's destructive behaviour.

Slightly off topic: This laptop came with Win8 and because I'm a grumpy old bastard I did not go for the free "upgrade" to Win10. I only occasionally need Windows so one box that works is good enough for me. (it dual boots Ubuntu) . After I had seen the total disaster of Win8 I thought that maybe I should update it to Win8.1.

Click update.

Downloading 0%

Wait a long time :

Downloading 0%

Quit.

Google Win8 update.

Go back and see that it is actually downloading, you just need to leave it for several* hours.

So after all these years MS cannot even get a progress bar to function :(

I've been using Linux for over ten years, I have never seen a progress bar that did not work.

*a.k.a. "all night"

1993

Just get Roger Wilco with the SCS Eureka to suck it all up.

Prime day?

pah! Stromness has a whole week of shopping!

http://stromnessshoppingweek.co.uk/

https://www.orcadian.co.uk/annual-hack-kicks-off-week-of-stromness-festivities/

Links are SFW

Not good stuff!

A pal had left a tray of cooking oil in the oven of his coal burning stove. Because the oven door wasn't air-tight it kept igniting, using up all the oxygen, extinguishing and then re-igniting when enough air had been drawn back in. You could see the flashes through the gap in the seal. His bright idea was to chuck some earth on it, but every time he opened the door it ignited big time.

I gave it about a half a second squirt with my elderly halon fire extinguisher, the fire went out but the top half of the room was immediately filled with white fumes. Guessing that these fumes were not very pleasant we crawled out on our hands and knees and didn't go back for quite a while.

Have a bad day!

If I get a scam call from India I ask them if their parents know that they're a criminal. They don't like it and I hope that I may have ruined their day.

Flakey

recommends that the FCC deny China Mobile’s Section 214 license request.

Just give someone $500 million to build a golf course in Tibet and this decision will be overturned.

No!

I going to create GitHab and move it to Amazon, that might stop the confusion /s

Past its sell by date?

Pah! When idiots send me a .doc or .docx I use Libre Office to send it back as a .pdf

Microsoft has sent us the following statement:

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Have another quote

Hey Stephen Miller and all you Trump sycophants, have you forgotten this one or don't you think it applies to you?

Mark 8:36

"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"

War, what is it good for?

History, if we have any, will show that Trump was the most useless* president ever elected. Next week he will probably leave NATO, "too expensive", and Putins work will be done.

* for legal reasons other descriptions have been omitted

We're screwed

The problem I foresee is that Kim Jong-un will now start selling his nukes to terrorist groups. He'd reason that NK is far enough away from their likely place of use. That can only have bad consequences.

Trump is a moron.

How Tesco rips you off

On a rack of identically packaged nuts, all the same "organic" brown colour. One pack is £1.99 or, according to the sign, "Any two for £3". But when you get to the checkout and get charged £3.98 you discover that "Any two" actually means "Any two of the same sort of nut."

Fecking scammers! Avoid Tesco if at all possible.

P.S. Also identical SD cards priced at £18 in Tesco are available for £12 elsewhere

Possibly the biggest fail in history

Putin just has to Tweet the code word "pee-pee" and Trump will start ranting about Apple and encryption.

Hard hat?

Maybe he forgot his hat and went back to fetch it.

Totally free!

Have you lost an asteroid? Ring 0800 696969 to find out how to get compensation.

Not a good thing

ISTM that the pro-gun lobby are happy when these massacres happen. All the schoolkids will grow up to be paranoid and buy more guns. Marketing at its best?