Posts by Richard

@Alex

I was worried there for a second. I thought someone had made a logical argument why my comment was rubbish. Turns out you were just saying "Oh don't pick on the Nazis, you big meanie ", which is possible the most ludicrous thing anyone can say. Nazism has racial hatred at its very core, as formed _by_ Hitler and by those who surrounded him (perhaps more so). You _cannot_ sympathise with Nazis without being a sick, twisted individual, who is not welcome in society.

Of course Islamic extremism isn't the same as Nazism, I was just using it to illustrate a point on freedom of speech. You _can_ be a Muslim without being an extremist (unlike the Nazis). Indeed, the majority of Muslims want the same as everyone else, to have a family, have a home, have a steady income and, hopefully, not to get blown up.

Also, at no point did I mention communism. I do distinguish between between communism and fascism. The former does not _have_ to lead to racial purges, but tends to as a result of the paranoid totalitarian government that seeks to run it.

Somebody please, think of the children!

The rating system isn't broken, it never has been. The problem is that parents will still buy their kids games that are rated for ages higher than theirs. Then, "Shock, horror, mature content in a 18-rated game, how could the evil games industry allow my 13 year old son to be exposed to this? Harrumph, Harrumph, Daily Mail, Harrumph!"

Or you get the Hot Coffee incident were parents are up in arms because their children went on the internet, found out how to modify a game to access content locked by the developers but not completely removed, and then did it. No accidental discovery of filth, these kiddies wanted to see simulated, fully clothed, blocky sex acts. "Harrumph, Harrumph, Hillary Clinton, Harrumph!"

Funny, I'm sure I've seen this somewhere before....

And as memory serves, apart from the obvious "Boom, there goes a whole lot of toffs, Oh the humanity" incident, there were never really that effective. Their only real use was to stick a whopping great swastika on one and tour the world, banging the war drums.

How dare they!

I demand that the government ban the Red Arrows immediately, so that we can all get really worked up and shout at the PM as load as a online petition will allow. How could they even think of being reasonable about this, it's despicable! Rhubarb rhubarb etc.

Well, I was going to say something witty, but ok...

"There is no IT angle to this story. What is it doing here? I am removing The Register from my bookmarks. Please cancel my subscription. I am also dissatisfied with today's weather. Please make the weather the way I like it. Goodbye."

"Please make him stop!"

I've just had a coffee-monitor incident.

We're hip, honest.

"Hey dudez, come get our hip new OS, it's where it's at... Um... Booyaka... sha?"

I was just sick into my mouth.

@AC

Agreed. Looks like it won't take much force to turn the inside of that thing into a meat filled matchbox. If I was in that thing on the motorway, I'd piss myself first lorry I saw.

Cambridge Tech Boss thows toys out of pram

Quoted as saying "The British people won't mind living on the street, so long as we keep producing shiny gadgets."

Gum proof?

Well, will it be gum proof? Or resistant to scratches from say, compasses? To even think of putting this kind of thing in schools, they are going to have to be tough as nails... oh and cheap.

Colour me sceptical

...cos this guy sounds like a nut.

Moral of the story...

Don't accept display models, they're always crap.

Oh, and0 don't be an idiot and take incriminating photos of yourself using company property, regardless of whether it is or is not likely to be sold to a third party. Boy is that sales woman going to be in trouble.

Rhubarb rhubarb!

Why resurrect this completed series? Seriously, it should be left alone. I suppose this Colfer chap seems to have the right attitude, but it's still unnecessary.

Nobody better try to do this to the Discworld series, once Pratchett eventually succumbs to his alzheimer's, or else I'm going to be really pissed.

@Rob

Unfortunately, that kind of attitude isn't going to help. While The Brain Trust sit around ignoring everyone else, confident in their own superiority, the rest of the world gets more ignorant. This makes them more susceptible to indoctrination by the Creationist/IntelliDesign zealots, or more likely to accept without question all that BS the media was spouting last week about the world ending because a bunch of scientists have dared to mess with nature, shooting protons ONE WAY around a big ring.

Rather than laugh at our uninformed brethren, we must seek to teach them, so that they may go about their labour without breaking down and crying through fear of the sky falling.

Champagne?

So the terrorist wouldn't be an Islamic militant then? Good to see someone thinking outside the box. Perhaps he's a Russian*, that would be a shock eh?

*Silly me, then it would have be Vodka. Lets hope she hasn't got any cuts on her leg.

'millennials'!?!

If you need me, I'll be in the angry dome.

Horray!

I hadn't been paying too much attention, so it was only after reading further into this mornings hype that I realised this was not in fact the day they push the Big Red Button and destroy us all. The best we could hope for was a miss-aligned electromagnet, resulting an a very deep, narrow whole in part of the Alps and, possible, a very surprised goat herd.

I also object to the beeb's article, claiming "Success for 'Big Bang' experiment", which as you said, is bollocks.

A whole new kind of abuse

Joe Montana reminded me of something. If receiving threatening calls from an angry ex, stalker, local drug dealer* etc. may seem bad now. You just wait till you have to pay for the privilege.

*Admittedly your friendly local drug dealer would just stab you, since he probably doesn't know how to use a phone.

< /Daily Mailism>

At last, a clean sociaty

...with freedom and liberty for all*

*Providing you obey the rules and never do, say or think anything that the Miniluv has deemed unsuitable.

I can't wait

...to see the truly vomit inducing trailer that will precede the movie's release. Complete with voice over work from that guy who always does these things and sounds like he smokes five packs of B&H silver a day, with the rapper left on.

MS?

Not knowing what Tom was talking about, I checked to see if you needed something unusual to view their site. Having been there, I still don't know what Tom was talking about, but I have gained a headache.

Beats filling in forms

I can think of worse things to do with a Friday morning.

Addendum

I would like to add to my last comment that I agree that a tax isn't going to work. They should just slim their profits a bit and lower prices, unless they'd rather we froze come winter of course.

Let them have their fun

They'll right it, print it, bind it with gold leaf, then hold it high and say "Yay! We have formalised your rights, you lucky plebs" today.

...then tomorrow it'll be hanging on a nail and string in number 10's lav.

[Gloomy stops off to get a coffee]

Pharmacies?

"Yes, I'll have a pack of paracetamol and a Jumbo Mr PleaseMe, thanks."

Doesn't Sweden of all places have an Ann Summer's equivalent?

Wolverines!

It's all gone Red Dawn!!!

...according to Google.

Am I one of the few...

...who got David's joke about Australians? Besides Sarah I mean. Silly people.

I know of at least one Kiwi who has been accused of being British, by an American.

Plus, in case you thought we Brits were immune to such mistakes, my fiancée has been accused of being Australian, despite being born and raised in Hampshire, by someone from only a few towns away.

Anywho... I'd suggest having someone photoshop the picture to add the greasy hair and make Robbie look younger, but otherwise not a bad idea.

"disguised as a member of a mime troupe"

Love it! Definitely adds flair.

Actually, the McKinney story would make a pretty good movie.

Spy wanted for source code espionage...

Trench coat provided.

@Gilbert Wham

Quite right. The exchange rate of currency is only meaningful when you're actually exchanging money. Take your Sterling to the US, lots of cheap burgers. Take dollars to the UK, you have to make do with chicken nuggets.Of course, relative cost of goods and services is important. Your burger may cost $1 (~51p) in the US, but over in rip-off Blighty it'll probably cost you £2 ($3.96).

@4a$$Monkey, it's just people venting. People get annoyed at not being able to get a job, and start blaming those who have (normally well earned) money. Have you seen the number of anarchist symbols and slogans sprayed over northern cities? Sheffield is covered in them.

Was there crime before GTA?

Was it a GTA-like crime? Or is that GTA portrays a number of RealWorld™ crimes, which this is an example of?

Ok he got the idea from a game, but it could have come from a movie, TV show, hell... maybe even a book.

Training?

The additional licenses for flying cars better be pretty strict (though ideally not expensive). Otherwise, there's going to be a lot of power cuts/toasted cows when pylons start getting hit, and maybe a few new 10ft sq skylights in people's roofs.

@How many of those 500,000 people were informed?

"By definition there must be more surveillance of innocent people, which given the fundamental right to privacy means it is being abused."

That's exactly the kind of woolly minded thinking our glorious leaders are trying to get rid of. There is no such thing as innocence, we're are all guilty. It's just that they haven't found crimes for us all yet.

Vested interest...

In chesty women..?

Right, were did I put that card and those permanent markers?

Fibbin'?

What do you get for these days?

"Hangin's to good fur um, I says" etc.

I don't know why I read this website...

...all it does is get me depressed and enraged at the state of country, public, government, world, human race etc. At least when I (dare to) read the Daily Mail I just get depressed and enraged at the newspaper and its staff.

Though I am amused at the concept of someone being mistaken for a terrorist and paedophile. As if the two alone weren't bad enough, now we have terrorist paedophiles.

@Pete

Well there was this little thing a while back, I think it was called the "Cold War". Ended around 1990 if I'm not very much mistaken.

Now call me crazy, but when my (potential) enemy has a fleet of 'apocalypse in a can' nuclear submarines swarming the oceans, I'd like to have a relatively good way of finding them before they can get close enough to unleash swift doom on my friends, relatives, pets etc. Now of course the cold war _is_ over and the probability of super powers going to war is mercifully slim, but these cigar tubes of death are still out there, and not all of them belong to our best buddies the Yanks.

Plus, who knows what the future will bring? I'd prefer to be a little bit safe than very very sorry.

Hmm...

One wonders if it would protect the wearer from lightning also.

I propose an experiment and suggest that the kind of person who'll buy this suit would make a perfect ginnie pig. If the test results in their death, at least we'll be minus one moron.