Posts by Flakey

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I’ll be 81 years old and assuming I’m still alive, will have fathered 2 children, divorced once and loved a few more times, hopefully watched my daughter become a very successful businesswoman (she’s half way there already) and seen my son fulfil his dream of directing a film. I’ll have seen some of the most beautiful places on Earth (Angkor Wat, the Pyramids and standing at the foot of Everest looking up) seen the football team I support play at Wembley 3 times (won 1 lost 2) along with having eaten and drunk much more than is good for me in my life. So I reckon I’ll be more than happy to face the impending doom of an asteroid crashing into the planet.(skips off singing "its the end of the world as we know it but I feel fine")

Did I miss the part

of the Bible that says "Thou shalt not wear a RFID tag for they are the work of satan and hell awaits those that adorn themselves with such sinful apparel" or is that only in the American version?

Its ok liking it now

at the "hobby" stage but what happens when you are doing it five days a week, week in week out as a job? 12 years ago after being made redundant twice in engineering I too decided I wanted to get into IT, put the work and the hours in to get the qualifications (A+,Network and security+ along with CCNA) and thought I was the mutts nuts when it came to computers until they just took over.

Imagine this, you spend every weekday in front of a computer then when you want time away from them at the weekend you are getting phone calls from family and friends along the lines of "any chance you could come and look at my pc ?, theres something wrong with it" Trust me, it gets to you. In the end I started taking myself off to my close friends garage and tinkering with car engines (something Ive always enjoyed) 3 years ago I'd had enough and was at the garage bitching and moaning about IT and computers, telling my friend how I wanted out. He then offered me a job working in the garage. Of course I took it and for the last 3 years Ive never been happier even tho the money is way less than I was getting and no one asks a grease monkey (which is what I tell people I am) to fix their car.

Do something you like by all means but believe me IT isnt what its cracked up to be.

Oh Yeah?

"only Dishonored and Far Cry 3 offered an experience fitting the billing ‘game of the year’, Talk sense man. Any so called "game review" that doesnt even MENTION Borderlands 2 isnt worth reading. Granted Dishonored is good but doesnt live up to the hype and as for Far Cry 3, that has been as dissapointing as No2 in the series. This discussion shouldnt even be happening. Borderlands 2 (and 1 for that matter) beats them all hands down. Next you'll be saying that the latest version of Need For Speed: Most Wanted is better than the original.

My Take

As I see it,when a MP is appointed as a Secretary of State, no matter what department, there seems to be a rush to "assert their authority" and "leave their mark" as well as the need to be seen to be doing something to justify their appointment as well as their inflated wages and over-inflated ego. Theresa May is no exception. She probably said to all her lackies on entering office "We really need to leave our mark on this department" Of course she will use the plural as a way of making all her lackies feel like they too are on some grand quest to change the department and the lives of millions,if not the world, which of course we, in the real world, know is complete and utter tosh and therein lies the problem, AFAICS, the need to be seen to be doing something.

The next time a new Secretary of State is appointed, just watch and wait to see how long it takes him/her to come out with some "grand plan" it happens every time as in Ian Duncan Smiths Universal Credit (which has been criticised by a large number of groups as having the potential to cause chaos across the benefits system) and Im sure theres more if I could be bothered to look. Sometimes doing nothing is the best way forward.

Hang on a sec....

..if Mr Millionaire/Billionaire (the amount is irrelevant) is really paranoid about Belize justice and being stitched up for something he hasnt done, why doesnt he just use some of his wealth to get out the country? I cant believe that someone with his financial clout and presumably long list of friends cant conjure up a plane or a boat to get him out pronto. He cant be that crazy if he can work out disguises and ways to avoid the police. Something doesnt smell right about all this.

"Adrian remains employed by the Trust and I am pleased this matter has now concluded".

Has he been reinstated to his old position? has his pay cut been rescinded? I notice the trust is very quiet about this and as for the politically correct halfwit that started all this bollocks,what has become of her? Hopefully she is the new Paperclip and Toilet Roll Co-ordinating Officer for the housing trust.

Forget Apples...

..give us a bacon sarnie icon

Some called him....

...a daredevil. I say a daredevil would have performed the jump in a mankini and beany hat.

Dear Delivery Driver

.."if you have a parcel for me and theres no reply when you knock at the door,take your pick from the following:

you can leave it next door at No3, the woman is nice,bit of a cougar but Ive been there and I'd vouch for her,

leave it at No5 altho you may not get an answer,the guy there grows some of the most wicked weed this side of the pennines and is usually comatose most of the day but if he does answer, mention my name and you can probably score (if thats you thing of course)

dont leave it at No7,they have a rabid dog that roams the garden freely and eats delivery drivers at any opportunity and dont bother with No9, they are foreign and english is not their first language. take ya pick"...is that too long a message to put in a window?

A good idea but.....

.. flawed when one considers the attitude of internet providers towards bittorrent. Their mindset is "bittorrent is used for illegal downloading therefore all downloads are illegal" and punish bittorent users usually with speed throttling. Until this mindset is smashed nothing will change.

Up until a few weeks ago my internet provider,O2, provided a good service with good download speeds,anything up to 1.8 Mbps which I was quite happy with. Now the speed has dropped through the floor when using bittorent to nothing more than 30kbps maximum making it a virtually useless method of downloading and no amount of ranting over the phone has or will change their attitude. Not surprising Im moving to another provider when my contract is up in a couple of months time.

What do you expect....

..when we hand over power to so called "politicians" who have no training to do such a responsible job (except the ability to fiddle expenses and lie through their teeth while smiling),yet these same people make decisions every single day that affect the lives of millions of people.

We have only ourselves to blame,we are the ones who are so easily swayed every 4-5 years to put a cross on a peice of paper because its easier to have someone else make the decisions than to think for ourselves,we are the ones who have such a low opinion of ourselves that we allow these people to seduce us into believing that they know better,we have given these people the power and to,ultimately,use that power against us while conveniently forgetting that no matter what pretty coloured rosette is being worn, POLITICIANS ARE ALL THE SAME,selfish, greedy, power hungry control freaks.

George Carlin put it perfectly when he said "what they want is obedient workers, just smart enough to operate the machines and do the paperwork and just dumb enough to passively accept all the sh*t"

Giz a job

"Yesterday, the Confederation for Business Industry (CBI)"

CBI stands for Confederation of BRITISH Industry not Business industry (check their website or google,its all there in black and white) I take it research isnt compulsory when compiling a story?

What do you expect when......

the Right Honourable (yeah right) Stephen Timms, the so called "Minister For Digital Britain" doesnt even know what an IP Address is. The halfwit thinks its an Intellectual Property Address.

http://boingboing.net/2010/04/08/minister-for-digital.html

Altogether now..........

"happiness is a warm gun...bang bang...shoot shoot"

Who would want to......

live on a post apocalyptic planet thats full of rich assholes who have bought survival and public servants who have gained survival by having a cushy job? I know i wouldnt Anyway, if the landscape after the Great Cataclysm is anything like Fallout 3 or Metro 2033, I think I'd rather be dead.

I voted for.......

....Surgeon. Just think of the sales of operating theatre equipment, blood soaked gowns and, when the string is pulled, cries of "scalpel....suction"..and of course there is always the possibility of the operation going wrong which leads to 'Litigation Barbie' jeez, the possibilities are endless

hang on a mo..........

The code states: "Passengers must not be selected on the basis of personal characteristics (i.e. on a basis that may constitute discrimination such as gender, age, race or ethnic origin)."

So working on that assumption, the only people they can scan are white people for the simple reason that choosing a black/asian person for scanning constitutes discrimination. I bet race relation lawyers are rubbing their hands in absolute glee.

Just thinking.......

Wouldnt bumper to bumper particle collisions be safer than head-on particle collisions?

Can I be............

.like Kurt Russell in Stargate and go through first? I might find some remotely arab-looking tribe with some remotely arab-looking really fit totty and I wouldnt come back :)

@Pablo

Totally agree. If this file was on a torrent site, the torrent must first be created, nothing "inadvertant" about that, then upped to the tracker. They make it sound like some bot is randomly harvesting hard drives...planks

I find this.......

...very strange that the Guardians website is hacked so soon after their technology editor advocated the hacking of the BNP's website. Maybe his time would be better spent making sure the site is secure. Careful what you wish for....

Amber is.......

a boring name for a 3 legged cat...it should have been named tripod

On counting up.......

Peter O'Toole once said, when asked about the number of relationships he'd had "a gentleman never keeps count" ...Ive always considered myself a gentleman

This is what happens when.....

scientists spend too much time in the lab surrounded by chemicals and start playing Prototype