Posts by Anonymous John

Re:BTW Dimanche is the lord's day

One of the Scottish Gaelic words for Sunday has the same meaning. The other translates as Sabbath. Which you use depends on your flavour of Christianity.

Re: so10

One of the conditions was that he was supposed to be at a named bail address between 10pm and 8am, Which he's failed to meet every day since entering the embassy.

Re: At least

Apple won't like that.

For that price, I'd buy two netbooks.

Anonymous?

Re: Ho Fucking Ho

Largely resolved". You're probably the only customer still affected.

Re "How can it be 'paying off' if these subcontractors fail

They don't get paid the full amount, but in instalments as they pass various milestones. And it already has paid off in the case of SpaceX. It had demonstrated that it can both take cargo to the ISS, and bring cargo back.

Re: The really don't "get it"

Quaint Antipodean Network Taking Aussies Somewhere.

Re: You seem to have missed the word "terrestrial".

That was my point. El Reg's interpretation of what the Lords said differs from mine.

"Rather than take up vital electromagnetic spectrum, TV should be delivered exclusively over the internet, the House of Lords' Communications Committee concluded."

Nothing exclusive about it. Having Freeview and Sky/Freesat doesn't really make sense to me.

Re: "The new system is an upgraded version of the existing Kurs automated docking system"

It's not an advantage if it doesn't work.

Re: A diplomatic bag isn't literally a bag

I know, and it wasn't a serious suggestion. If he popped up in Ecuador after being smuggled out, it would cause a diplomatic incident. I really can't see the Embassy doing it.

I thought that was Wales.

Re: It's so secret

There's no way of hiding it landing at Vandenberg. Or being launched from the Cape. And there are enthusiasts who can track its orbit.

Re: "half a million requests to intercept communications data"

May said this morning that was 500,000 requests, not 500,000 people. But surely monitoring one person would only need one request? And as that request would cover a whole family, it would be far more than half a million.

Re: Whats the fuss?

I know what you mean. And a total solar eclipse is just a bigger black dot moving across the face of the sun. It doesn't change anything either. Not worth getting out of bed for.

Re: I wonder what they saw that they interpreted as a "red crucifix"

And the "wonderful serpents" in Sussex? Can we rely on them? The surviving Anglo-Saxon Chronicles are copies written well after 774AD as I recall.