Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Vive le resistance

No it just means that they didn't pay the bill

We disconnected the fire extinguishers and nobody complained for a week so we proved fire extinguishers are unnecessary

Re: I for one welcome out Dutch overlords

So apart from:

Investing in R&D rather than financial engineering.

Hiring highly qualified staff and investing in their career over decades rather than firing everyone over 40 every time the stock dips.

Working with the customer rather than trying to screw them on every order.

Building links with universities and apprentice programs.

What's their secret? Preferably one that can fit into a single PowerPoint, doesn't coat any money and I can implement before this quarter's bonus window.

Re: Will it really matter?

Stealing the designs doesn't help, you still have to get the parts.

Zeiss don't sell EUV lambda/20 off-axis parabola mirrors on Ebay, Cymer don't ship science-fiction light sources to China

Then you have to make it actually work, that involves a bunch of ASML and TSMC engineers that have been doing this for decades working together

Re: "identify gay priests, and providing that information to bishops "

>they have been waiting for jesus to return for 2000 years

So how did you treat him last time he stopped by?

>But then I'm not the messiah...

Are you a very naughty boy?

He was a nice Jewish boy who was also God, where is he going to find a girl his mother approves of?

Certainly not some Welsh tart

No it was just an advertising campaign.

Cohen's bread, wine and model crucifix company of Jerusalem needed a new gimmick.

Re: What would Jesus have done?

Also being your own father is likely to be confusing, if worthy of a special edition of Oprah

Re: Land of the free

>I am so glad that I am not an American

Quite glad I'm not a priest

Re: Its 2023.

>Churches in 'the west' are already having to 'import' priests from 3rd-world countries.

So the solution is a captive breeding program, like with pandas?

I don't think gay priests are going to help much.

Re: As a member of the Reformed House of Python

You would expect a python to hith

Re: ESN services vs network

>TETRA will provide a call between John o' Groats and Lands End without any laborious setting up.

Suggesting that local policing has reached a crisis

Re: ESN services vs network

>… an NHS ID has no statutory powers.

But fortunately an NHS EGO does

Re: voted Labour and Remain

>The only beneficiaries of Brexit are Russia, China and a few rich Tories with their snouts in the UKCA trough.

And the happy fish.

I think a few european politicians might be breathing a sigh of relief that they don't have to deal with the [F/G/Bel/It]-exit annoyances in their own countries anymore

Re: ESN services vs network

And people wonder why the NHS still uses fax machines?

Re: voted Labour and Remain

I thought Labour consistently fought a bitter campaign with Labour over Brexit?

Re: Purchase

Possibly for police, there are many contract organisations that provide "Policing Services" in places like Africa and the middle east - trouble is so many of them only speak Russian.

Ambulances? Unlikely, our parents and grandparents fought a Brexit to remove foreigners from working in the NHS.

The colonies do export firefighters around the world, but they generally come with water bombing aircraft - which might not be suitable for a typical chip pan fire.

But we would still need to invent our own radios for all these groups to talk to each other

Re: hopeless

Is that still the one that burns soldiers, needs a strengthened chassis to carry, has a wrist mounted unit that you need to be the terminator to lift and they never made enough batteries for ?

Re: Irony

I had a very thick history teacher who couldn't understand: "steel is iron+carbon which you make by removing the carbon from iron"

(I was always a smart arse, even as a kid. Now I do it professionally)

Re: British technology

Finally - a British computer that leaks oil

Re: British technology

The great thing about valve computers is you get a much warmer more rounded answer

Re: What could go wrong?

But if the government scrapped IR35, so every crystal reports monkey got their Mondeo tax free - then we would be a technological superpower.

Re: It'll be like the Crick Institute won't it.

£19M spent on local community involvement initiatives

£999,980 on branding consultants

£20 on speccy from car boot sale

Re: Video on Ring's servers is the problem

>If this was stored on a machine within the home they would be much more secure.

Yes they would have to get a warrant to remotely access his home server, or maybe just turn up with a warrant - there might be all sorts of interesting stuff they can find, or just steal

Re: Meanwhile in London

You think the government of Airstrip One has the ability to keep the viewscreen servers running ?

Sort of depends how you account for it.

Dept gets $100K, university takes $30K cut, or dept needs $70K, university will want $80K - grant application is for $150K

It did 'mildly infuriate' me that we were actually more expensive than the national laboratory next door when you included the university's take, and yet we were being paid post-doc salary while the national lab researchers were being paid a salary "commensurate with private sector" to "attract and retain talent"