Posts by earl grey

sounds like he should be working on unix

" has something of a history of being inflammatory, and has regularly been accused of abusing his own powers to shut down debate he doesn't like."

Re: This story is still nowhere near as strange as...

Nice. "if..."

Loved that movie and still have the VHS. Have a beer.

Re: Parenting

Ah, like the old "fly united". Snork

Re: Bah!

What? You've never had to do that?

Re: Wow....

"boardroom primates"

I think you have mistakenly moved them up the ladder by several steps.

Re: Wrong Solution

Pshaw. Next thing you'll be saying they shouldn't be killing citizens in the streets.

Re: Trump was right the first time

Puppetmaster....hmmm; wonder if we could get the Major after him.

Re: Enterprise Javabeans

I'm sad.

Re: In my newsfeed 'highlights' today

They didn't have a choice. Everyone else in either party was far worse. Hard to believe, I know; but true.

@AMBxx - Self breaking

Every car I ever owned could self break. None of them had automatic braking though.

Re: Fail

You don't understand. When all the meatsacks are gone or not allowed to drive, the automobots won't have a need for red lights and so that technology will simply go away.

Re: What's the point?

" Old Yeller treatment"

That's kinda harsh. At least the Yearling treatment. erm..................

Re: Sarf Wales

"after nine on a weekday. "

AM, or PM?

Re: The Information Technology Industry Council, AKA "Isn't It Ironic".

"Mostly at the expense of the incumbent natives. Remind me - how much of the country was stolen from the First Nations again?"

Who took it all from the old ones who were there before them, and the ones before them, and the ones before them. this is nothing new and has been going on for thousands of years. stop acting like it's something that "just happened yesterday" and "oh, we're so bad" because we're just the latest group.

Re: A can of worms has opened

Anyway, since it's a can of worms, you may as well have wormwood.

Re: America... no, the world, stranger than fiction!

Just so you know about Love Canal...

It was a clay sealed chem dump that met all the standards of the time and place.

It was donated to the city/school district for putting a school on top of only and was NOT supposed to be dug down into.

Some greedy wanker in the city/school saw all that wonderful vacant land sitting there and figured they could make a ton of money selling it off for housing lots.

The builders dug down through the clay seal and put in basements and VOILA! chemicals leaking into everything!

Raise a big stink any way you want, but the original canal served its purpose as originally constructed and if not dug into would still be sealed up tight today with none of the problems. The property should have been permanently noted on title transfer as being a former chem dump. I don't know if that happened or not and what subsequent "cleansing" of the records may have happened for the sales to progress. And yes, it sucked for those who bought property there.

Re: For that you need (new term) OLED

"Or Enhanced Bass sound"

Would that be the Enhanced Billy Bass talking fish sound?

Re: Has a customer ever apologised to you?

Gaaah...I can hear that playing in my head now.