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2213 posts • joined Monday 16th July 2007 12:21 GMT

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Joke

Does it look just like a Telefunken U47?

It's cleaner than Mary and WAY more fun than Lucille...

Bet Obama knows what a pig with marital aids stuck all over it looks like.

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Come come, Mr Bond

Surely you have heard of my Orbital Numbness Calculatron ?

I bid you Adieu...

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Whilst feeling accused

all the way through it.

You wouldn't steal a car...

No. It has a fecking alarm and, when I steal it I permanently deprive the owner of it. Which, incidentally, IS the definition of 'steal', isn't it ? Learn to speak honest English, too, you mendacious manipulative, greedy bastards.

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No only

but also ...

assholes do it too

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Yeah but

Where's the Automatically_Mark_as_spam_and_hide_everything_in_russian filter?

Huh? HUH?

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Joke

I'm sure potentially

That in the correct circumstances you actually could catch most of that from lady gaga too.

Maybe a trademark suit is warranted after all.

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Queen

Did some work at EMI years ago. Remember some middle-manager guy walking through the office talking to someone saying of higher management 'They're shitting themselves. Queen management are all over this.'

So yes, maybe a good shoeing from proper big boys would make her shut her pointless piehole.

Vapid Twat [homage to earlier posting]

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Dear concerned speedgun-toting neighbour

We all know where you live. Of course we do.

You're a f**king neighbour you moron.

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Thank you!

I guess having 'Wanker' shouted at you MIGHT sound a bit like that...

"Thank you! I had no idea I was doing 30.06MPH! You live at number 37, you say? Gosh, you know I heard there'd been an outbreak of arson recently and they've still not caught the culprit. I hope you're insured..."

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OMFG!

Not my dear trusted friend Claudio Uche Dibe ???

And so forth...

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Joke

Forget Rock Band...

Arm Band, anyone???

>:oD

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What an absolutely fantastic

reason to avoid buying an NFC phone

Posted in Launcher Pro
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I saw 'Landscape home page'

And immediately installed it.

If the fecking thing expires and jiggers the phone I *will* give the dev a day from hell, though.

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Eh?

Fair winds & Following Seas ???

Not Fair Seas & Following Winds?

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Perhaps but

I don't think Denialists actually have any problem with real hard verifiable facts.

It's just that there's so few of them where 'man made climate change' is concerned.

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successful orbital insertion

FNARRR!

'I think he's attempting re-entry, Sir' - Q, Moonraker(?)

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Perhaps

The launch guy held the controller the wrong way.

Does anyone know if Apple made it?

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Just like

Julian Assange(tm)

Trademark Infringement!

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Alien

That's Charlie Sheen these days?

Honestly, I thought it was Russ Abott!

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By golly you're right

And presumably they'd get the opportunity to charge a 30% administration fee on the amount prior to sending it along to the needy.

Missed opportunity to profit!

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It's too similar

To the trademark Ass-Angel (tm)

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If insurance WERE about risk assessment

Then your premium wouldn't go up cos someone in a different county was hit by an uninsured Polish driver. Would it?

Insurance Co's do NOT have your best interests at heart. They have shareholders.

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LMAO

And this is without a SIM, right? i.e. you got operator bills on top? No doubt plenty of halfwits will buy this.

Makes my 18-mo £34 quid a month HTC Desire HD contract look positively bargain basement. Even if I bought it a 32GB memory card.

That's £612 for the phone over 18 months. Oh and ALL calls (except 0845, etc), every text and all data, too. If someone can prove to El Reg they bought one of these off Expansys then they should get a special award.

(Special as in special needs, that is)

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You!

You used to be in my Physics class didn't you!

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Will you also build my website?

Hey Elmer -

I have a copy of the website here which my 12-year-old nephew has made in Word and he says it's very easy for you to turn it into a secure ecommerce-enabled multilingual site.

I can't pay you but I will tell everyone you did this and you will make lots of money from it

Thanks.

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lpt0 is on fire

Two major banks and the LSE.

Surely I'm not the first to spot a suspicious coincidence?

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Is easy...

You become a shareholder with the intention of profiting

Everything you vote for is to increase your chance to profit

Therefore if plans were disclosed the expectation is to lose money not make it

Therefore the plans, or lack of, will cause the stock to tank

Therefore the stock should tank anyway.

Sell Sell Sell.

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Come and work for Salesforce Europe then

And hire Kneelie Kroes (sp?) for your lawyer, I'm sure she could work up a huge anti-competition fine for MS on this basis, bless her.

In the meantime I guess the guy has no job? I mean, you'd not want to stay with MS would you, even if they let you.

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But...

will we be able to buy the illustrated book from Waterstones ?

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His name's already released

So release the names of the coppers, too....

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I thought he had to be charged?

Apparently not...

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HTC / Android

Fringe

That is all :oD

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From the desk of Olajumoke Ademuyiwa

Dear trusted friend,

We are being experiencing legal troubles in sending your $4,000,000 remunerations to your banking address.

Please send fraud lawyers as urgency to expedite your swift payments

Trust in God we shall prevail

Your trusted friends

Olaide Taiwo and Olajumoke Ademuyiwa

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Oh I'm quite sure

they know how they screw people over.

And how much money it makes them.

Perhaps they reduced volumes because their CUSTOMERS starting noticing how they get screwed over and projected demand slipped.

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Pint

might be pulled at a moment’s notice

Fnaarrrr

That is all.

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Bring it on

Sounds like they just gave their permission for 3rd party penetration testing to me. No point being a crybaby when you go offline when you literally asked for it.

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Coat

Right to bare arms

*Rolls sleeves up...*

OK, I get my coat

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Big Brother

Right to bear arms, OK, but...

A few thousand armed demonstrators excercising their right to bear arms wouldn't last long against a bank of military miniguns, teargas and skincinerator rays.

Then they'd be labelled terrorists and their families hunted till the end of time by the NSA/DHS or some other TLA.

The right to bear arms is already meaningless in the good ol US of A. You'll just get mown down by your Govt. for trying.

Big brother, cos his minigun is wayyyy bigger than yours

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But

It's fine for Microsoft/XBOX then, I guess.

SONY's network, SONY's software, they set the rules. It's that simple, don't whine about it.

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Appropriate business response?

"Don't support Apple"

Just bung it on Android or WinMo or something, nay EVERYthing, else

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FAIL

Fail

Oh, and a Fail, too.

And yes, you guessed it

A Fail icon to boot :oD

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Flame

Fair point

Go get the industry experience, the required know-how, solid respected references, a killer CV to distill it all for a client to browse through and put your income where your mouth is and go contract independantly.

If you have the ability.

Of course, this assumes you're in a career path that has any progression. 'Shop Assistant' really doesn't come up very often in the job boards and tender lists, so you may need to retrain as something useful/skilled, also.

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Your Sir-ship-ness

You're absolutely right there but...

I've also been fortunate enough to meet some seriously shit-hot contractors who are well worth their rate, too.

The crap ones don't get asked back and you can bin them off quickly enough cos they're NOT employees ;o)

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Firefox spellcheck

Free for personal use

And corporate.

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Me too

First Direct still mandate using IE for Internet Banking Plus (ordinary internet banking works nicely on anything) which they defended as saying their site had been security tested etc, etc, which yes, is fine, until you factor in the actual browser itself is possibly compromised, not their site, and they don't have control of that.

Maybe someone at First Direct will even read this and get a clue.

... and then I woke up

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VirtualBox

That is all.

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More likely

the a mate Farcebooked it there n then and the media 'received word' of said event :o)

I'd Farcebook that immediately complete with snap!

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Should make for an easy appeal

"The Judge demonstrated no competent understanding of the technical issues involved and was therefore insufficiently able to pass down an informed judgement"

Simples

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Shock news!

Antivirus is at least partly snakeoil.

And also no substitute for educating yourself and using common sense.

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Controller

It's a handheld electronic device with buttons and joysticks on it that allows you to interact with the software.

Or, in your case, a meatsack