Posts by Marvin the Martian

"A man who likes his food"

Quality no, quantity yes!

Also, shouldn't he be teaching british people to eat british food, wouldn't that be more logical?

I'm all for it.

If there's one thing lacking in British houses, it's space. We need access to more of it.

Great camouflage

"If I bring in this gaggle of kids, nobody will notice!"

Were this rented kids and didn't she have any of her own? Otherwise she'd known they're the stormtroopers of the Lord of Entropy, and attention magnets like you cannot believe.

That would interfere too much with skiving off work.

"My job is near, but the roads are icy.

The pub is far, but I'll drive carefully."

Rewrite as haiku if needed.

They could have pointed out it's a *fake* fur worn by Mario.

But then, that would take the fun out of riling PETA, wouldn't it?

It's that or a loft extension.

["Small plane" indeed, it's going to be a ULM not a fixed-wing one there. Or a canvas-on-wood glider. With a traffic jam, daylight hours, and horrible weather to further restrict your enjoyment. On balance, a simulator makes sense.]

Bastards! This I can just drop into the attic and play, costing only fractionally more than putting an extension in (and without all the headaches of planning permission, neighbourly consent and works disruption while working at home).

Choices, choices; and the missus to convince.

Which part of "lock, stock and barrel" made you think it's about a conoisseur's selection?

RE: s/School of Rock/Slade in Flame

Article sez "Black in one of his most memorable roles to date". That's technically true, but it's still an eminently forgettable role and movie.

You can have BOTH SoR+TenD in exchange for SiF. And I don't even like Slade.

As before, a lot can happen in 10years.

I'm struggling to remember which of five addresses I used professionally (and which personally) 10years ago. GMail wasn't around, it was Yahoo and other stuff (as well as several uni ones).

So if your small business owner [not: technical contact, being his/her nephew] changes email, the chance that (s)he remembers to notify nominet is small. A good year later (s)he still probably still checks his former addy occasionally, so most address changes will not have an effect within a year --- but 10years after, who knows? I guess many emails will fall on deaf ears.

That's the point that was made, and your reply ignored.

"For every Roger Rabbit there was a Space Jam".

For every Mad Max there's a Waterworld. For every Michael Jackson there's a Justin Bieber. For every cat there's a dog. All neither here nor there as arguments --- 95% of everything is crud.

And the howler "platform that arguably only worked once" --- as shouted before, millions of Mary Poppins fans would disagree (Bedknobs Etc is more of an... acquired taste?).

What a good decision strategy.

"Judge argument:

A ) On the basis of the content? or

B ) On the basis of who the author is?"

So you'd take a grinning wild-eyed man's word for it that he's not going to use that bloody axe on you? The content states he won't.

Ogden Nash reference, too...

The rhino is a homely beast,

For human eyes he's not a feast.

Farwell, farewell, you old rhinoceros,

I'll stare at something less prepoceros.

"industry-standard value"

Actually kudos for the judge to saying this is such a uselessly bad calculation that bringing the suit is doubtful, the alleged $340K not even being at first glance worth $75K. The [magic number] $2.5 is already taking into account the average time of following! So 17K times $2.5 it is, tops.

The resolution seems so simple -- you cannot claim to have "Worker@Company" belong to the (ex)worker as that's now misrepresentation (and any negative note open to defamation lawsuit), NOR to the company (a public relations disaster waiting to happen -- readers believe it's a real person then they find out it's a ghostwriting committee?). Just write a final message and shut down the account.

Synergy: silly [article], great [article + discussion].

Basically, there's this extremely arrogant article (consensus says "tosspot") stating some stupidly obvious home truths (how to distinguish yourself from 80% others: by not shooting yourself in the foot), and showing they want YOU to do THEIR work [but don't we all want that? Yet they can, like utilities forcing you into self-reporting, etc]. Article on its own: digital loo paper.

If you say "what's the point" honestly, then you've a lost cause; but probably the meaning was "this is wrong on so many levels". That's where you have to pick up the article's invite to look at things from the other side -- as in this thread: number NO [because reasonable people cannot work while interrupted] or YES [some jobs only via overpaid interruptors with mental difficulties] plus trivial and cheap solution [use a second phone while on the market] that suits everyone [except cold calling recruiters, boohoo].

Just like other insects, the ecosystem doesn't care about your low opinion of recruiters --- they're like bouncers but sitting behind behind bullet proof glass: at best your wailing and railing may entertain.

If prospective employees would pay their fee for landing a job, they'd be treated bette! But you're JUST THE COMMODITY THEY TRADE with the company --- this is not hard to understand. Not fun, not elegant, but simply is -- you win NOTHING by ignoring this or (worse) wasting breath fighting it. So yes, if you reflect a bit on it, your own chances will go up at very little effort and no cost (and the smiling toadie's cv sorting job gets easier -- win/win).

I was thinking maybe to change that to "youngest stone in the world"; but then, e.g., new stone is continuously created in volcanoes.

Still, it's an outrageous error to leave in the "article" (read: paraphrased press release). But start snipping at that (and the fact that the product doesn't exist, like the golden yacht by the same bloke) and there's no article left.

"Haven't the police anything better to do"?

I don't know how lively that county is -- so maybe yes, maybe no.

The question is, doesn't ElReg have anything better to do? "Scottish businessman arrested for ignoring police order to stay away from his wife"... Sheesh, that interests me deeply, that's why I read Hello! and the DailyMail and all that. Religiously.

RTFA?

Article mentions that for example the Lexmark "can be found at a third of the quoted price", and says that all except the Dell "can usually be found much cheaper online" than the manufacturer's list price.

So bravo for finding one of the ten cheaper than list price.

That's what you may think, but not what can easily be shown.

There's so much priming going on, just like product placement on tv/ in movies; and they're terribly effective [as they have to, to justify their cost]. Especially on those who think that it doesn't have an effect on them.

Are you sure they were actual researchers?

Maybe the title should be "journalists accept story concocted by robots".

Because there the same happens: once an outrageously improbable story gets accepted somewhere online by a legitimate journal (the "Sydney Bugle & Watchtower" or so), then other papers suddenly copy it en mass.

I'm in trouble, I seem to have missed a lot of deadlines!

Suddenly it appears to be April Fools time already, and I haven't met my Xmas deadlines yet.