Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Re: Acid - don't do it...

You want to downplay the dangers of Equasy ?

Re: Acid - don't do it...

That's not true - even thinking about drugs will immediately kill you.

I know because I went to school in the 80s and the Thatcher/Reagan governments would never lie

Re: WTF ?

A, the test is expensive and involves you going to a hospital

B, the test might come back positive but you really want to go to visit your grandkids / cousins wedding / Disneyland

C, you are used to a society where it's standard to just fake any type of licence / permit because interactions with government officials are 'transactional''

Re: Brit MPs ?

Personally I don't need to get a vaccine shot.

If everyone else has the vaccine then nobody can give it to me and I'm safe.

Re: Not "divisive and discriminatory", but essential

Ironically if they lived in that area in the 80s somebody would have checked that they didn't belong to CND or vote for the wrong party

Re: WTF ?

No but will avoid going round to the local Staples and making a photocopy of someone's certificate

Re: We released 15 independent contractors.

You need to do it in a Mr Burns voice: "Smithers, Release the consultants"

Re: Being paid to do nothing is not unusual for independent consultants

You don't think the Inland Revenue would regard 'being paid to sit around and do nothing' as prima-face evidence that you were a regular employee ?

Re: Pub rules

Pubs in the Vatican can get really rowdy

Re: "uniquely Canadian"? Hardly.

They may have been Canadian weaponised beavers, along with Canada geese taking out US airliners it's two parts of the Canadian invasion force

> Everything in Canada is Maple Syrup flavoured. Even the beavers.

Only in Quebec

Re: Yankees and roundabouts

On behalf of HMG may I apologise.

It's normal policy when abandoning a colony granting independence, to split it into two states, preferably on religous or ethnic lines. This then allows the two halves to wage war on each other and leave the rest of the world in peace.

Due to an administrative oversite and a lack of French cooperation, the USA was forced to implement this plan informally themselves - and naturally made a mess of it.

Re: Boston?

Perhaps this was necessary to reduce the number of casual visitors to the Garden State ?

Re: Boston MA Roundabout rules

Here the rule at 4way stop is: Range Rover driver with the most bling sunglasses goes first

Expecting people to read signs?

This is rural America, reading is for nerds/democrats/liberals/

Re: Do what did you expect?

I blame Apple. Kids today don't know which way is clockwise.

Re: Signs ...

At least the UK has one agency planning the stuff.

Here the motorways are federal, so there are no signs to the motorway on the surface streets because that's not their jurisdiction. The motorway numbers 'junctions' but in the city a junction can be every block, junction numbers get skipped so J32 can be immediately after J20 or you can have J20a,b,c,d,e because some suburb was built.

The local signs are the city responsibility, but the city can change every few miles, the same road can change name. There is no standard road numbering outside motorways.

Then in the city there is the same road east/west or north/south with the same building numbers.

Re: Yankees and roundabouts

Enhanced business opportunity.

Wonder what happens to accident rate when the ambulance company wins the contract for road signage?

Re: Invasion of the roundabouts, thank Gawd

The problem isn't the 4way stop - it's the alternate 2way stops.

So at every junction one set of roads is a stop but the other might be (4way) or not (2way) so you are never entirely sure if the other car is going to stop - unless you can see the back of an octagonal sign on their lane.

That's multiplied by the probability that the other car will stop even if they have a stop sign of course.

Re: Check out Freakonomics episode 454

> there's a fair bit of science supporting them as a good traffic management measure.

That's the problem. We don't your science - 4 way stops are in the Bible and the Constitution so that's all that matters

Re: @Binraider

“to procure all such machines as are known in any part of EuropeAmerica.”

Eventually we will write a musical about him

Re: How many were actually developed

Yes but it did enable cheap Chinese Blackberry phones allowing Blackberry OS to become the dominate platform today and leaving RIM as the global trillion $ business.

Re: 6G-W

Texas should have it's own separate 6G standards to stop any of that Commie/Yankee/Liberal data getting in.

Re: 6G

If you combine 5G and 6G you get 11G which is obviously better, it's one faster for a start

Re: Toyota Land Cruiser

There was a suggestion by the USMC that it be given the "Hero of the Soviet Union" medal for the number of US troops it has killed.

Re: Toyota Land Cruiser

That would be an effective US military strategy. Make Toyota pick up trucks as complex, unreliable and unmaintainable as an F35 or Osprey that both sides are now back on equal footing.

Re: When is a city not a city?

The self driving large white spheres worked though

Re: Covid 19 and hot desks

>The fundamental philosophy behind hot-desking is that the desk is what's important

But what is a chair or keyboard without its idiot ?