Posts by Michael

Facial recognition(Pasty faced pom: the glove.)

Some of us pay extra for that, you know.......

Mine's the leather suspension harness with the red ball gag.

Transferjet??

More like "Skynet"......maybe that was taken already.

Mine's the leather one ...."I'll be back"

Knight Rider Satnav????

.....(What do you think you're doing, Dave?)

@Alan Moore rides again

...I believe it was Abelard Snazz..

circular transportation facilitation device

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn965-wheel-patented-in-australia.html

Nuff said.

(does this mean the eeePC might be a patent violator too???)

re:schengen

It's not just the commonwealth... crown dependancies (channel islands &iom ) have even more cr*p attached as well ,(work permits, etc)

Try getting residency in bermuda, if you don't believe me.

will they get to vote on lisbon?

.....or get a job at PC World???? Watch this space

@About time there was a back lash

........can we cross referrence this with a "free tasers for the over-60's" article???

The daily mail would love it.

Mine's the grey mac with the bus pass and the lead acid batteries in the pocket.

@Idea

Stopping someone going about their lawful business is common assault, isn't it?

....and ....if it's a criminal offence, aren't the police officers involved permenantly relieved of their duties??( assuming the complaint sees the light of day )

Correct me if i'm wrong on this.

What next????

....The Red Army Faction "strafing " the Royal Air Force for stealing their acronym?????

re: More money for Canada and Mexico

........st Pierre & Miquelon for me ..... , but I might need a schengen visa.

Mine's the one with the transformer on it.

If these films are HD ready.....

..... couldn't they just leave the price tags on?????

I remember ...

An episode of "Yes Minister" which dealt with the issue of success or failure in projects. It was stated that the majority of inefficiency and waste could be eliminated if the initial proposal REQUIRED submitting EXACT criteria for wether a project succeeded or failed from the outset.

Congestion charging brought traffic down in London by 10% or so.(Don't know exact figure... would not call 10% a success though.) ... It's a cash cow.

=FAIL.

Olympics massively overran its budget

=FAIL.

Council tax would improve efficiency by devolving power to local elected officials who , under pressure to get re-elected, would ensure bills stayed below inflation

= FAIL (see above)

Bin charges will improve the environment by encouraging people to recover valuable resources through economic incentive

FAIL (see river )

Je ne peux même plus se permettre un Molotov cocktail!!!Trop cher!!!

Bruxelles commence à regarder de mieux en mieux et pas seulement en raison de tabac bon marché

Salut! Tout notre nouvelle Overlords Europeen!!!!

you're missing the point.

The main purpose of a "passport" is to record innoculations , veterinary treatment , drugs given, etc , including where it was pastured. I mean , even cows are chipped.. ( would you want to check if they grazed near windscale , did they come from the middle east -vaccination against bacillus anthracis in sheep, glanders in donkeys.... not to mention the huge differences in veterinary drug practices in europe as a whole.)

These measures make sense, unless you actually enjoy Roadkill Stew.

Icon , because of the H8 strain , currently in britain... could've been worse.

@Smart business decision

....sorry , I wasn't listening ... what was that about prejudice?

Its going to be educational

....for VM, when their customers start migrating :

The economic climate is tough, customers will be questioning wether they REALLY need VM's services,and it's a known fact after Pipex , Tiscali et al , that the hard line causes customers to flee en mass, like rats up a drainpipe.They want your money, but so also do the BPI.Vote with your feet.... it's the only way to be sure!

Solar power and wind turbines are Not the answer....

What you REALLY want to do is fit a methane digester to your septic tank.... tho the envirotards in the local council won't like it ( high BOD content , explosion risk, etc.)

Maybe I could offset the cost of flushing with the sale of the material for power generation purposes???? Pilot trial at Downing Street???

I'm definitely flushed with anticipation.!

Didn't see Ireland on the list.

....... and it's not in Schengen ( in common with the UK) .There is an ePassport scheme, so... it should be there.

@FUD

"A TIGER??.... in Africa, sir? "....

I d say you were pulling my leg, only someone seems to have made off with it.

Most of the "greenies" live in london ....so,

http://www.nextenergynews.com/news1/next-energy-news-toshiba-micro-nuclear-12.17b.html

(seen recently in a slashdot article)

My solution is to let London and the major cities generate their own power .... they use the most of it. If they want to dispose of the fuel waste, i can see some HEAVY negotiation with local councils in cumbria and elsewhere. ( "separate your rubbish" ) .

It's always annoyed me that the guardian (A) pontificates about the "morality" of energy generation and (B) has it's base in london. ......and never poses a VIABLE energy solution . This is a solution , so propose something else , & implement it or stop whining.

waste of time !!!!!!

You don't need the internet to share files !

Will they ban glastonbury if they get news there may be a lan party there?????

Mine's the one with the usb hard drives and the wifi dongle in the pocket

re: q would want one

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamov_Ka-50

still waiting for the model with turbo boost .

Proxy server, anyone?

A lot of this restriction to national boundaries is to do with DRM : check out the broadcasting sites websites , and a lot of the content is "uk only" "roi only " etc.

One more reason to nail the lid on Vi$ta , i think.

Does this mean..

he can expect a visit from the MIB's from vodafone or O2????

@What do you call a politician with brain damage? - Normal!

Does this mean if you have two jags , live in central london(nr downing street), and have no means of actually generating o2, you have to stop breathing or something? Maybe the penny dropped early on that one.

how about this solution?

Fire it from a rail gun?

@Chris Simmons

US customs ..........."And what is the purpose of your visit to the US?"

Chris " ..................." I am here to chew bubblegum and kick a$$"

Cone hotline????

a multimap -linked site , with gps or rfid monitoring of all the cones in britain?

Americans dont DO irony .....

"in camera" is latin for "behind closed doors"

This is a "Daily Mail" headline......

If he was more familiar with the research on hybrid organ breeding , he'd know the test subject would more likely be porcine, and isolated in a lab environment.

He should be more worried about it ending up in the food chain

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/apr/21/genetics.gmcrops

hence the current requirement for medically modified ( for medicine as opposed to improving strain ) animals to be soaked in creosote or similar directly after on-site slaughter to prevent some entrepreneur hawking out the carcass to the local butchers (again) .

The heepanzees could probably have a good career at PC World.

What I want to know is this...

If/When XP does become unsupported, will we be able to download an activation key generator LEGALLY?......Will we be allowed to host the sp-updates on private websites for slipstreaming, etc?If not, how well will this sit with the EU antimonopoly witch -hunt against M$??? I run opensuse, but have XP for running some proprietary software not available on linux,(nor ever likely to be....too obscure).

we need a linux version..

Would suggest Rammstein (Feuer Frei) or Dope (Die MF Die)

Any other suggestions?

Passport nationality?

Does it differentiate diplomatic passports from non-diplomatic ones? ... that dosent seem to be covered here. Who actually issues them?

What I want to know is...

Can it reheat your coffee, or your fries & burger , which is what i believe it's mostly going to get used for.

Shocking...

The school officials should snap out of it .... before it develops into something more.

@I've *got* it!

Are we talking about impression prints( "were gonna need a bigger diplomatic passport") or some kind of browneye iris scan? I do have a problem with anyone from HMRC examining that area, without Passport control getting in on the act too.

Re: GPS in space .

Didn't the russians do something a bit similar with the PROGRESS supply vehicle?

(I've got a bad feeling about this)

I suspect..

the MP's are weighing in on Phorm, just to make sure it dosent create a backlash against Cleanfeed.

@Let's cover the country with one of the most dangerous technologies known to man

I suspect this post was by one of the Antiscience lobbyists (Subgenera - Ecofeminist)

This situation is one where the likes of cardinal o'Connor are proved false . Scientists need to improve the boundaries of science all the time . They DO need to know everything , so that accidents can be prevented . Nothing wrong with the technology, if ONLY competent scientists are involved ... leave out the priests and politicians .

What i was saying is that since scientists have been screwed over for so long , especially in this field , they should leave this area of expertise to the french . Why not ? better unions , better working hours... and no meddling by Brown et al...

Windscale was caused by politicians trying to rush to build the bomb ... the Brown atomic age part deux is simply a local c@ckfight.

We're arguing semantics here

The main reason we're getting increases (indirectly) in tax is this . Increases in taxation are power . For politicians , power is good . It increases taxes for the same reasons a dog licks it balls .... because it can.(Tax is also the reason they dont drink tea in boston, not cos Nicaragua is closer .)

The whole argument about cars versus bikes is clear . Bikes beat congestion (Both types). As for carbon neutral bikes , try this ...http://www.dieselbike.net/militaryproduction.htm . (note the production date ...2005.).. I'd like one that runs on chip fat , thank you. If i run out of fuel i could flag down one of those chelsea tractors & do some roadside liposuction. A politician , maybe ...

Buses are cr@p... theyre more than often empty DURING the working day and tend to squish cyclists .. but then again, so do cars driven by speed demons and dozy numpties.And trains are usually crowded , overpriced and smell funny.

Oh , and anyone going on about pakistan or africa or bangladesh, etc . By the time global warming happens, there wont be anyone LEFT there. Hopefully i'll have moved to greenland by then...(Oh well .. better start paddling the canoe )

I AM concerned about global warming , (I live next to a river) but advice for any greens(especially london greens). Accept a command economy or a fascist state, or stop breathing.The continual droning about cycling /buses/cars/congestion is really going nowhere (literally). What's needed is to get rid of the 9 to 5 workweek, ( mandatory shifts for everyone) so road & rail are effectively used. Also, make internet shopping mandatory. Canned or dried foods only, so as to allow staggering of delivery times ( form a queue for the oranges, comrade) . Also , all engines to run on reject stolichnaya and chip fat. ( hmm potential ( Soylent) green recycling opportunity) It also solves the politician problem to the point where we can seriously consider replacement by a computer (a simple one maybe, that says "what?" & " I don't understand " & "where's the tea/coffee?")

Did i miss anything?

is it available...

...in black?

I'm using opensuse right now.

One reason I like it so much, is the ability to log into root as a user ,(no fiddling with command lines)... good hardware support too...

Now if only there was an RPM version of AptOnCd, it'd be perfect.

So...there's no need

to open the pod bay door

reminds me

Must download a copy of "friends" sometime soon.