Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Re: I see what it means...

>While the end-of-life drill for the ISS is very clean

Erm possibly, the ISS isn't exactly manouvaerable once it starts to re-enter and big bits with communications break off from the big bits with motors and the big heavy bits that are going to reach the ground in one piece

Re: A strange set of priorities

>There's very little value in getting from London to Canada in 3hrs

Because Concorde is so important we need a special extra security line so please arrive at the airport 3Hours in advance

Re: Software Engineering - NOT

So people with a PEng know how to make perfectly engineered software?

Or does this just mean that you have to pay 1K/year for a MSCE certificate and all software is Excel macros?

Re: Constructive dismissal? That's exactly what it is.

I don't know if it applies to a company as large as IBM but in the USA companies more directly pay for unemployment if they fire staff. So it's in a company's interest to argue that you quit or were fired for cause and get you denied unemployment

Re: IBM are dead

>the Exec bastards who caused this will simply move on and burn somewhere else down for self profit.

Let it be Oracle, let it be Oracle

Re: Constructive dismissal? That's exactly what it is.

'Other roles as required'

Hey programmer you are now a 'hands-on customer service role' in a brothel we own in Cambodia

Well ... looks like you just resigned then

Re: As expected with Just In Time

>the ludicrous customs setup the UK has imposed on itself.

What customs? British cars will be built with British computers made with British brass gears made by the British Babbage computer company

Re: Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine,

>How could we have a legal Russian invasion of Ukraine?

You get a Papal banner then it's a Holy War and any infidels you kill don't count toward God's naughty list.

Re: Energiewende...

You aren't thinking in 4D chess like a politician.

Liz Truss want's to be Thatcher, but is the exact opposite of Thatcher (cf Boris != Churchill)

So logically Truss will re-open all t'pits, recreate the NUM and presumably resurrect Scargill

>visible from a kilometer away when you drive into Luxembourg city.

"Abandon Hope All Ye Who enter Here" ?

Re: Hardly on topic

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Re: Oops, I misread The Headline

Has anyone seen a copy of Boris's birth certificate ?

>They may have trouble getting skilled staff there.

Hence their plan to reintroduce 'lifetime unpaid internships', combined with 'free relocation packages from W Africa'

Re: Why should taxpayers subsidize big business

Well if you wanted grants why didn't you just get off your butt and offer all the local politicians non-exec directorships to help them believe your claims of 1000s of jobs to revive the Nevada deep sea fishing industry

Re: Oops, I misread The Headline

Upto now the US market has been dominated by large, noisy, inefficient, polluting presidents. But recent trends suggest this has gone too far and people now want smaller stylish european style presidents with lower emissions.

Since they aren't allowed to import them from Canada, America is now trying to manufacture them locally

Re: So the USA will save $800M

Eu unlikely, Elsevier and Springer-Verlag have a substantial 'taking politicians out for lunch' budget.

Post-Brexit UK has a more out-of-the-box solution to the problem of access to public funded scientific research

Re: If only

Train a dolphin to hit the big red button

Re: Hosepipe bans

It's also a fear that you are going to get ripped off later.

Suppose next year they introduce special emergency drought rates that 10x your costs 'due to the emergency'

They introduced smart electric meters here which potentially allow them to adjust the electricity rates in real time to match the market price. Coincidentally the standard fixed consumer rate is often less than the spot price that they could sell our green hydroelectricity to California. But I'm sure they won't take advantage of this

Re: A quarter?

But they need those for the 670,000 sharks ?

A lot of USA areas ban clothes lines because they are for poor people and so lower house prices

Re: Hosepipe bans

The problem is that almost all the cost in water supplies are fixed, it costs money to run the pipes even if you use no water.

So either you have bills with a large fixed service charge and trivial usage rates or you charge for usage based on the expected average and then end up massively overcharging anyone who uses more, such as families with kids.

Re: Hmm

> I cant goto another disposal company..

Surely you can just flush it into the street and then define the street as the sea?

Re: Hmm

You can't have nationalised water companies, it would be like the USSR with only one single kind of water and no consumer choice.

With a dynamic free market of water you have a thriving Silicon Valley of choice in new innovative forms of water. Containing added ingredients you would never have thought of under the old system

Re: Hosepipe bans

At which point they're archaeology and therefore not the water company's problem

Re: I'm betting ..

If Golf is a sport then getting out of bed, getting dressed and going to work are the 1,2,3 most popular participation sports

When it hits the fan?

>I use an extremely efficient solar drier.

Did you get planning permission ?

Re: Re:Golf Courses

Carl I want you to kill all the golfers on the golf course

Re: time and money

And IIRC adapting the surplus, reusable shuttle engines into these non-reusable engines costs more per engine than they originally cost to build

Why is the Norris just the SI unit?

I suggest the force needed to pull a cork out of a bottle = 2.718 No

>8.8 million pounds of thrust at liftoff and carry 154,000 pounds of payload

So setting g=1 really helps

Re: "those that happen during wars, beginning in seven months' time"

So are we relying on the Russian army to have the same accounting rules ?

re: declared or not

So are we in an undeclared war with Russia? China? Iran? The Eu?

You know how you blamed the hack on N Korean Mossad Cyber Ninjas from the Matrix when you forgot to change the default passwd on the firewall?

Now to get insurance to pay out you have to prove it was so trivial to break in that any regular crim could have done it

You simply buy our new Insurance Risks policy which covers you against your insurance not paying up.

And if you have any concerns about that we have an Insurance Risks Insurance policy .....