Posts by Joe User
298 posts • joined Monday 30th July 2007 17:37 GMT
Re: Minimum?
@codejunky
Note that I said "the author", not "the peanut gallery".
Re: Wild bugs have parasites....
"We could use PETA members instead of insects."
No, too much crap in them, not worth the effort to clean.
Re: Minimum?
"the topic is associated with climate change."
It is? Where does the author say one word about climate-related anything in the article?
Re: @Jake
Let me put it to you this way: if I was stranded on a desert island with nothing to drink but a case of American Budweiser, I'd drink sea water instead.
Re: I already have a cellar full of very long life beers
American Budweiser doesn't have a "best by" date. It's best not to brew it in the first place....
That ain't no DIP switch
The front panel clearly says "Alarm". The product specs state that it comes with "2 Digital In and 1 Digital Out Alarm connector".
"driven by our ancient desires"
Suddenly, I'm craving a beer and a bacon sarnie....
Re: Suck my Glock..
I owned a Glock 17 a few years ago. The trigger insert does not qualify as a real safety in my book. If you keep a round in the chamber and anything gets inside the trigger guard and pulls back on the trigger, it will fire. The Glock's internal hammer is nice, but I prefer a real safety switch on my pistols.
The REAL reason
Microsoft made this deal just to artificially inflate their Windows 8 license count (even more).
Posted in North Korea releases first computer game
Just a bit overbuilt
Wow, a 6-lane road with only 10 cars on it. Yep, that looks like North Korea, all right.
Re: I can't wait.....
Note from Apple's lawyers: We have a patent on shit.
Re: 300+$ for such a limited tool?
On a side note: it's £299, not $299. £1 = $1.62 U.S., so that would make it $484.
Posted in Shh! Proxima Centauri can hear us!
More likely that the Proxima Centaurians have heard and seen the broadcasts from Earth and concluded that there is no intelligent life to be found here.
The perfect name
OS X Basement Cat
"We own your soul!"
Desperate or drunk?
Homo sapiens sapiens shagged Homo sapiens neanderthalensis? I didn't know that beer was invented that long ago....
A world without guns is a safer than than a world populated with guns.
Sure, just as soon as you do away with all the criminals and tyrants.
Re: Ballmer claims Win 8 sales strong, WinPhone to follow
Next up: Monkeys fly out of my arse.
Re: Not worried.
> I can't wait for Star Wars: LIve. The Musical. On Ice.
You mean like this?
Robot Chicken's Star Wars Special: Empire on Ice
http://videosift.com/video/Robot-Chickens-Star-Wars-Special-Empire-on-Ice
Black hole spews out 2-million-light-year-long stream of WTF
Man, I gotta lay off the curry!
Global warming in the Permian
Darn those synapsids and their hydrocarbon-based industries!
Plant extract cures pancreatic cancer in mice
Mice everywhere are rejoicing.
Re: Cost of a replacement battery pack
It's worse than that:
"Tesla Motors stated in February 2009 that the current replacement cost of the ESS is slightly under US$36,000, with an expected life span of 7 years/100,000 mi (160,000 km), and began offering owners an option to pre-purchase a battery replacement for US$12,000 today with the replacement to be delivered after seven years."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Roadster#Battery_system
Just not suitable for longer distances
How many petrol cars would get sold if the dealer told you "It only takes an hour to fill the tank" or "If you fill it too fast, you'll damage the tank"?
Re: volunteers
If this became standard procedure for POWs, I think a lot more men would die fighting.
@PassiveSmoking
Here are a couple newsflashes for you:
1. You aren't the only person with an opinion.
2. If you don't like someone else's opinion, don't read it.
Posted in China warned on nano-safety
What, me worry?
The Chinese public is apparently not too concerned, according to a recent survey by Dalian University of Technology, but perhaps they should be, given China’s track record on product safety, regulatory enforcement and workplace safety.
There are plenty more people where those came from....
Posted in Humanity facing GLOBAL BACON SHORTAGE
Re: Engage smug mode...
Vegetarians: the other white meat.
Posted in Humanity facing GLOBAL BACON SHORTAGE
The label for American processed cheese clearly says "cheese food". It isn't intended for human consumption; it's supposed to be fed to cheese.
Poetic justice
Karma is a bitch.
Re: What a prat...
You either haven't installed IE10 or possibly don't recall this
I installed Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation (Build 9200) on my test machine. At no point during the installation was I prompted for anything about "Do Not Track". When I launched IE 10 for the first time, it never asked me about this, either.
Title correction
Original -- Foxconn: We're not FORCING interns to make iPhone 5
Updated -- Foxconn: WE'RE not forcing interns to make iPhone 5
Foxconn isn't applying the stick (at least, not in public); they're just benefiting from the "mandatory employment".
< whip crack >
Now back to work, you lazy college kids!
Re: What a prat...
Both Microsoft and Roy Fielding are wrong:
Microsoft -- Is it so f-ing difficult to simply ask the user about their DNT preference the first time they launch IE 10? Despite your company's belief, most users actually can think for themselves.
Roy Fielding -- What happens to those people who choose to enable DNT in IE 10? Can your patch distinguish between DNT enabled by default and DNT enabled by the user? No? You idiot.
Posted in HTC hawks fresh Desire for market boost
Apple lawyer, frothing at the mouth: "It's rectangular with rounded corners! Sue-sue-sue!"
Actual effect
There will be a sudden run on ear plugs at the local Wal-martians....
Mars rover harangues empty landscape with loudhailer
Pipe down, I'm trying to sleep over here!
Re: Not quite
> English is the language we have now. It is mostly derived from French brought here by William the Bastard.
English is derived from French? Connerie!
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria.
http://familypedia.wikia.com/wiki/English_language
I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries!
Alternate theory
It was actually Turkish door-to-door salesmen. That accounts for the spreading of the language and the "genetic contribution".
Re: No surprise...
And they're both tossers.
You know the old saying
A fool and his money are some party!
Re: A visit in the offing?
Give the American Media Gestapo enough time and they'll fabricate an excuse to shut down the Internet Archive, too.
Re: I, for one,
"I'd rather have the dinosaurs pooing on my lawn than cats."
We'll send a brachiosaurus round at 2. Please have a bulldozer and dump truck on hand.
What, no more stopping off at Kiev for some borscht?
Re: The TV business is brutal
Samsung spun off its LCD TV division in February of this year.
http://www.techradar.com/news/television/samsung-spins-off-lcd-tv-business-1064682
Getting penetrated doesn't mean they own you
That's what I keep telling my girlfriend.
Re: The State of Oracle
Welcome to "Larrymania".
Re: sixth-largest island
If you want to look at it from that angle, then all of the continents are islands.
Re: D. Webb extradition of an Australian citizen from th UK
@ElReg!comments!Pierre:
> Yes, he's a massive dick.
Actually, I'd describe him as a little prick (with a tremendously over-inflated ego).
Note to self: Mow the letters "F U" in the backyard.
And you say that Americans are nutters....
See title.
Apple's next legal tactic
Give us what we want, or we'll drop to the floor, kick our feet, and hold our breath until we turn blue!
