Posts by wolfetone

Re: 1984

Well, technically, he'd be arrested for being part of a terrorist cell with his exploits in Catalonia.

If you listen to my wife she'd tell you both were a waste of money!

Re: Has anyone...

They might drop a load of them on Venezuela before the 6th April, just to get rid of the ones that can't be upgraded.

Re: Let's be honest

30k after a few years

£30k isn't enough to deal with bed ridden people, having to pull them up to change their bedding, or administer chemotherapy to people who are terminal, or to provide end of life care. Especially when you consider an MP gets £80k, 6 week holidays and can merrily fuck off for 3 weeks over Christmas while they country's in crisis.

But yeah, I'd love to live with you if you think £30k is enough for that.

Re: I wonder if...

LIAR!

Re: hate it. use it

"What! It costs you £15 to take a dump..."

I've got a big arse so I go through a lot of bog roll.

The right of free speech includes the right to offend, and it includes the right to defend.

If someone wants to say something horrific, let them. But it's in the public domain, and it allows those who are offended to state why that person is wrong. Banning such things from being said then allows the original person to cry persecution, and leads others to think why can't it be discussed in a public forum so that people can understand what they said was wrong and disgusting. It gives a chance for all sides to put their case forward, and for the wider audience to understand the situation.

But banning things just leads to the abuse of power, and in the end that's what festers strong feelings without recourse for education or for people to be told why they believe such and such a thing is wrong. That's what breeds terrorism, that's what breeds underground movements, that's what breeds people to go out at night and target sectors of the public.

An update 20 hours on:

O2 say they've fixed the problem and it's all back to norman, but I'm still sending texts and I'm still getting messages saying the texts weren't delivered or sent. So yeah, clusterfuckarooney.

Re: Very good of you

I pity the fool who paid £40,000 for something you can get for free off the internet.

Re: Elon & Drugs

Remember: America likes to be seen as saints in public, but perverts in private. Do as NASA say, not as they do.

"It's simply not safe to let humans fully fly an aircraft, pilots like to talk about the good old days when everything was manually controlled but the truth is that pilots have never been very good at fully flying an aircraft and never will be. Accident rates have plummeted since the computers took over.

Some pilots still like to think they are big hot shot mega dicks who are fully in control of everything and you will see some commenting that this crash was 100% the pilot's fault and say things like "hur dur any good pilot would have been able to resolve the situation"."

I think the pilots of the Quantas A380 that had an engine explode would beg to differ on that one. Especially when all the computers crapped themselves and basically said "We give up, it's up to you", the pilots landed it safely without hydraulics or anything like that.

Re: No software can be trusted

"I beg to differ, I have a tendency to trust code I've written and tested myself. "

But we can't trust your code, and that's what they were getting at.

We have a DAB radio in the house for the dog when we're out. One day I was at home and it was rather stormy, and I noticed the signal on the radio kept being interrupted. I dug out an old Ghetto blaster thing with an FM radio on it from the mid-80's, there was no loss in signal.

Call me old fashioned, but DAB isn't ready for the mainstream yet.

Shades of Mir?

Shades of Space Station Freedom. And that didn't work out well for the original version of Trump's Presidency either.

Re: I don't care what they do

"Anything would be an improvement over the wild west we have over here now!"

You say that like it's never been the wild west over there?

"Are they setting themselves up for another Carillon style fiasco?"

By the time the turd hits the juicer no one who signed the contracts will be in any position to face justice.

"The asterisks go around the *not*, you cretinous amoeba!!!"

The *asterisks* go around _anything_ I WANT YOU F**KING IDIOT! DON'T DO THAT AGAIN!

"Every government department: we’re underfunded

Also every government department: we spent a billion or two on IT crap than none of our front line staff needed or wanted"

The exact thing to be expected when you have politicians who have no real world experience, they come out of university with a degree in politics and think it's their right to become an MP. If you have an MP with real world experience put them in a job that allows them to use that experience to make decisions instead of heavy reliance upon "experts" who are only "experts" because they give their recommendation based on how much money they're likely to get.