Posts by Dave 132 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jul 2007
The picture of the insect in a urinal has a long and glorious history that goes back to Victorian days.
The insect depicted is usually a honey bee, which is a smart alec Latin joke for the scholars.
(The latin for bee is Apis)
Mines the one that I won't wear again until its been dry cleaned
This has partially been enforced already. Air weapons which are legal to own in the UK are now banned from sale by mail order or internet.
(Well to 100% accurate, you can order them via the net and pay for them, but they have to be collected in person)
This raises several points.
Either this means a requirement for age verification by some means or another, which can usually be counterfeited,
Or it means that online retailers cannot sell age restricted goods into the UK.
Can you really see Mr and Mrs online shopper ordering the weekly shop for delivery taking kindly to the fact that they now can't get a six pack of beer or a nice chianti with that.
Its a valid concern, but the cure is gonna be much worse than the illness
Just great. This means that any pencil-dick manager who takes an unhealthy dislike for any poor bugger working there can get his own back if and when the employee takes him to tribunal and (occasionally) wins.
Enough of this backstabbing crap goes on as it is, with decent employees being hounded out of the area. This dimwit idea takes it further.
Great Britain Not so great any more. Leave before they shut the borders
I think the problem with the public perception of feminism is that certain self proclaimed feminists have taken the name to push their own agenda, which is not what necessarily what the original idea was all about.
I would think that most people would agree that feminism in its simplest state is generally agreed to be a good thing (Women should be treated equally to and have the same opportunities as men)
Where it gets messy is when it becomes a religious fervour, and fundementalists get involved. Thats when it really goes to crap.
Religious fundementalism is as similar as it is bad. The intial tenet of most religions is" Play nice boys and girls or (Insert deity of choice here) will punish you either in subtle ways in this life, or in the next"
Trouble is the emptiest vessels make the most noise, so both these reasonable ideas become soiled.
Mines the coat with the sticks of semtex and the detonator trim
This will seriously effect people who like to customise themselves, and show off the results
www.bmezine.com for example.
Now what these people get up to is not for me, I dislike pain, and I'm quite happy with what the good lord gave me in the way of dangly bits, and the amount of holes I have.
However, body modifiers take a lot of time and care researching what they want to do to themselves, and have been known to take a DIY approach that you won't hear about in the free leaflets at B&Q or Home Depot.
So they can't now show pictures on the internet, or talk to people who are considering a mod, and advise them on the safest way of doing it?
Goes against all the health advice and harm reduction that all of their paid do gooders want to advocate don't it
Joined up Government? If it involves lamp posts and ropes I'm all for it!
Or is that too extreme?
I've got two kids in school and I've seen the dangerous crap these grannies have to put up with.
And who are the worst, most dangerous offenders?
Mr executive suit, late for a meeting? Nope
White Van Man? Nope, they usually stop in plenty of time, and make sure all the kiddywinkles and Granny are well out of the way. Its a macho thing.
Kevin the chav in his plastic coated Nova? Nope.
Its the so called respectible Daily mail reading mummies doing the mummy run, because Tarquel is too lazy to walk.
You know the ones that complain about crime and dangerous driving.
Two words: Sic 'em
Sounds like Budget season again, and the only way to get funding is to suck on the teat of the "War on Terror (TM) "
Don't these eeejets realise that by putting out rubbish like this they've lost the credibility war on the "War on Terror (TM)"
There is enough stuff for domestic use that can be purchased in the shops without comment that could fuel a jihad if the "Terrorists (TM) " had half a brain cell.
Cry wolf too often, and you'll be ignored even if you have found something worthwhile to report.
Paris, cos even she's not dumb enough to believe all that BS
This is a technique that is technically difficult to perform, needs a good deal of manual skill and concentration, and even then is only as good as the collection of the sample.
The wages in the now privatised forensic science area are barely above minimum wage. Your average checkout person on the tills in Tesco gets paid considerably more, and the wages in the retail sector aren't traditionally considered high.
Put the two together.
You worried yet?
You bloody well should be
Quote:"Surely you'd prefer people to be killed quickly rather than die slowly in the ground (or sit on the ground with a tin can) because of being merely badly injured? So developing newer, more powerful weapons is surely in the humanitarian interest if you realise that war's not going to stop."
Agree from the humanitarian interest, however, from the military interest, less instantly lethal weapons are more effective. Some poor grunt with no legs screaming his last, but not just yet is a more effective result.
It demoralises the enemy, and takes out several more who look to get medical help to the fallen comrade.
Its the same mentality as cost accountancy
In that SP1 installed OK on my Toshiba Satellite running Vista Basic.
That said it has fiddled with the default settings that took ages to customise up when I first bought the computer, so every time I need to do something, I'm having to fiddle and reset stuff as I go along.
Annoying, but I'll live with that.
As for the benefits of faster copying and the like. Haven't seen it so far
As others have said its a wonderful idea until you crash.
To quote the BBC website:
Mr Negre says there's no issue with safety - if the air-car crashes the air tanks won't shatter - they will split with a very loud bang. "The biggest risk is to the ears."
Gonads!
Fixed air compressors and their tanks in an industrial setting are very tightly controlled for a reason, there is a hell of a lot of energy stored in there and it can do nasty things like blow walls out, not just give you ringing in the ears.
I've used full size gas cylinders in lab settings in the past, they have to be treated with respect. Even just opening the valve a fraction without a regulator attached can cause such delights as ruptured eardrums, or can kill you with a gas embolism if a high pressure jet impinges on the skin.
Its a good idea for stationary emergency power generation, but for vehicle use, I don't think so
Paris, because even she's not that stupid
"Should be a requirement in government. Chancellor has an economics degree, trade and industry a business degree. Health has at least been trained as a proper nurse or doctor (not the new piddling half-ass temporary nurses they spew out now) defence was a ranked soldier, The science bloke is a scientist, not a piddling "wooly" science like sports tech or food science."
IIRC a certain prime minister was a trained chemist.
Inbetween taking milk off kiddies she also oversaw and approved the destruction of manufacturing industry in this country.
Why should anything change with the current incompetant shower
I keep hearing the same tired refrain by "Industry leaders" and the like that they are decrying the skill set of the candidates that they want to employ. They seem to be missing the point somewhat.
The reason that the number of hard science grads and postgrads is dropping because quite frankly who the hell wants to do hard study, incur big debts, then join the workforce where you are consistantly underpaid in comparison to colleagues doing non technical jobs with fluffy McQualifications.
This is due to the UK wishing to become a "Service Economy" and get rid of all that nasty "making things"
Its a chicken and egg scenario, and until someone wakes up to the problem we're a dead duck
Had the person referred to as the son of a king, let it lie, it would be old news now, then forgotten.
Now its going to run for years and years and years.
As for Memes he's just made himself one. Also I don't recall the members of status Quo objecting to their likenesses being used this way. I suspect they think that if they take it in good humour, the result is good publicity. They are right
I also dispise the no win no fee stupid claims culture, but isn't it a result of the previous version where someone with a legitimate claim due to corporate indifference would be fobbed off for years before having to take a derisory farthing from the corporate insurers.
If you fall over and bump your arse on something obvious thats your fault IMHO, if you're injured by say falling masonry from a building that has been in a dangerous state for months and nothing was done, then prehaps taking a large wad of cash off the idiots responsible may open their eyes.
Wanted to buy a laptop at PC world
Was told that I needed to buy a new version of MS office as I wasn't allowed to install it on the new machine. Ignored that, found an acceptable one, and was about to pay for it when the hard sell on the warranty came in.
Was basically told buy the warranty, or we will refuse to look at your machine, even if there is a hardware fault covered by the SOGA.
Credit card back in wallet, walked out, not gone back
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