Posts by IsJustabloke

Oh FFS!

Does my head in...

Politician : Today we're doing this *thing*

Few People + Media : *thing* is utter bollocks! How dare you do *thing* you bastard

Politician : Ok, we've listened and now we're not doing *thing*

Few People + Media : You twat! Changing your mind? what kind of a knob jockey does that? You are a detestable semi human snotgoblin!!

BUT

In every other walk of life the response is... well done, it take a big person to admit they've got it wrong! we truly admire you for it and think you're a jolly good chap/chappess

Re: Why are NHS staff wearing body cameras?

I've spent a reasonable amoun of time in hospitals and I can hand on heart say I've never seen a Dr or Nurse wearin one... I woudn't agree to be treated by medical staff wearing a camera.

Yes...

"Thales under DCNS built the CDG carrier which is nuclear powered."

But it's only a piddly little sub power plant and the CD'G is widely considered to be "underpowered"

Re: Revelations

I think that works both ways... we frequently hear that we see the best of US TV and that the stuff we don't see is total bollocks... with added gloss.

I'd have to agree based upon some of the recent additions to Netflix

Hmmm...

"2) Does it produce content that the majority of people want to watch or does it tick boxes for political correctness?"

I dunno about the majority but I watch BBC or netflix... I can count teh number of progs I watch on ITV on one hand... ITV shows always strike me as decidedly low rent

Re: Looking for something to blame?

"If I'm a leftie voter I probably prefer to read leftie articles and newspapers."

So, if like me, you read a full spectrum of "news papers" how do they profile that?

I read the Guardian, the Telegraph on a regular basis, I often flick through the Mail of a Saturday morning in my local coffee shop and I've been known to look at the Express and The Sun.

RE : "Living in a British/English enclave is not the way to integrate."

while I don't disagree with your post in anyway I'll simply ask.... is it acceptable if you're Asian/ Chinese/ Polish/ whatever?

all major cities in the uk have enclaves of various nationalities, living together, speaking their own language, buying stuff in shops owned and run by people of the same nationality, selling stuff they've imported from the country they've all left to live here. Integration? yeah we've heard of it.

I see no problem whatsoever in requiring people who interact with the general public being required to speak the main language of the country they live and work in.

Please do come and live in my country, you're very welcome. All I ask is Live by the same rules I do, speak the same language I do. I've lived and worked in Italy, guess what language I spoke. It's simple courtesy.

And while we're on the subject, they're not ex-pats they're immigrants!

er.. sorry bit of a rant there :)

Re: Let the market decide. If you want an internet-connected toiled holder, fine.

"Reporting diarrhea live on twitter. Oh, I forgot, that is just twitter's business as usual"

Yes but that's just VERBAL.....

Re: Why VR is doomed to be nothing more than a Niche within a Niche

"So off topic, I don't understand why it's still allowed here."

if you would be so kind as to publish a list of "kalten Approved posts and Topics" I'm sure we'll all be happy to oblige you.... or possibly not.

who made you the post police?

Re: This will impact others as well

"Ahh, yes, but consider the innocent, yet crappy admin who accidentally nukes the entire storage with a misplaced wildcard. Clearly not a criminal act. Should they be fired? Probably. Should they be arrested? No. Does the company need to spell out a "don't hose us" policy? No, they can, but what will it mean?"

You're right, a single mistake shouldn't result in an arrest but what about when said innocent mistake is followed by several other "innocent mistakes" on unrelated systems? I'd say that was indicative of intent.

if (when !) I make mistakes of any magnitude, the very next thing I do is try and get it sorted, I don't put it to one side and go work on a different system.

Re: Never needed too

"(been with Orange / EE over a decade)"

I was an Orange customer for about 10 years and each year I got a good deal although all I ever wanted was the "phone" I wanted, this was when smartphones were more smartish than the smartphones we have these days.

In previous years I could normally do a deal with them that left everyone happy and then one year, they simply wouldn't deal. No loyalty discount, no "extras" ( one year they'd given me a dongle and 4 gig of data which was a huge deal at the time for a fiver), nothing. standard tariffs and if I wanted a posh phone I had to pay full whack for it.

So I told them I was off, I do regret it if I'm honest but they left me no choice, they also lost me as a landline and broadband customer, (that really hurt,it had been rock solid and speedy for over 10 years)

Re: "only block those [..] who have never entered the country previously"

"This, in fact, is a large part of the problem: people in the US forget that we are largely descended from immigrants"

The evidence seems to suggest the exact opposite of that; and seems to me to be a big part of the problem... as in "I'm Irish/Italian/Polish/Armenian/whatever American" which seems to be the way an awful lot of people seem to identify despite the fact that having been born there to parents that were also born there would make them "American" (I've no problem with "American of [country] extraction" I myself am English of Italian extraction )

because....

"Why would anyone want to unlock the doors via the internet connected app?"

for thesame reason, they blip the doors when they are still a good 30 or 40 yards away, or get out of their cars, close the doors but crucially don't blip them untl they are walking away and can "fire" the blipper back over their shoulders....

Re: WTF?

"What a silly girl I must be."

No one's saying Brown didn't have a little help....

Re: Predictably facile and sophomoric

"He gets ever closer to the mistake made by most politicians - mistaking his own prominence for inflated expertise and wisdom."

TBF this isn't limited to politicians.. it includes, actors, musicians, "reality TV stars" as well....

Re: Fiat Currency is never Money; why don't people get this!

How do you make it through a single day....

Re: or short term quitting aid

Well done .

I suspect you're in a minority though... a friend of mine observed that there seem to be many more people 'vaping' than we ever saw smoking.

I also think that a lot of people have made the switch because the price of fags is going through the roof.

Re: It goes back a fair way...

"Hitting machine with hammer - £5"

Looking back to what I shall euphemistically call "different times" the correct text for this invoice would have been...

"Service machine using Irish Screwdriver - £5"

Ahem....

Re: Our Core Value

Just reading that shite would have rung all kinds of alarm bells for me, at the very least he'd have been declared a knob Jockey 1st Class. (He could always add it to his list of "achievements")

Re: Proximal IT

"All sysadmins obviously have an energy field of sorts!"

You're not so special.. we devs have our own brand, we use it when talking to testers AND users.

Re: Trump has become more deranged

I grew up in west London....

There was literally no where I could go that wouldn't have received it's own atomic pressie.... east of me... Northwood / High wycombe, west of me central London, south west of me Heathrow...

I read the "how to build a shelter under your stairs" leaflet and just laughed at the absurdity of it.

Re: Not sure what the big deal is

well seeing as we've moved onto Aircraft... I don't suppose the Marine Corp know where their Harriers were originally designed and built? And that they were (maybe still are) building under licence?

Re: The USA way of doing things

"A case to point: NASA spent millions of dollars developing a pen American astronauts could use in micro-gravity conditions (convention pens use gravity to feed ink into the nib). Russian cosmonauts used a pencil."

This story is apocryphal but it reads well so simply wont die.