Posts by Potemkine

Futility at best

Another toy for self indulgence :yawn:

Presumption of Innocence

"Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence." - Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, article 11.

As the poem says,

"Ashes to ashes and clay to clay,

If the enemy doesn't get you,

your own folks may"

Poor girl. May the bastards who rape her share some day the same fate.

For the french-speaking audience...

.. I would suggest to listen to Lofofora's song "Mondiale Paranoia" (Worldwide Paranoia), it fits quite good with today's situation.

For the others, here's a translation (sort of) by Google: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=fr&sl=fr&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.parolesmania.com%2Fparoles_lofofora_28921%2Fparoles_mondiale_paranoia_1070779.html

Artists vs music companies

Lady Gaga may have got £100 only, but how much did get her music company?

What?!

Reading on an english website that EU regulations are not _always_ evil? How is that possible?

PS. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!

Another deceptive article

This one should serve as an example for wikipedia's article on fallacies... An example, starting with the first sentence: "A new study has confirmed that at the time of the Pharaohs the world's climate was significantly hotter than it now is for thousands of years - and yet the seas don't appear to have risen, nor did the various other doomsday scenarios foretold by climate alarmists take place". The see level actually rose of 120m from 18000 to 8000 BP when the climate began to be hotter, looking at the graph displayed - nothing important, it just made Great Britain and Ireland become Islands...

And?

I see El Reg's pro-oil dedicated writer continues his fight for fossils fuels *über alles*

So, wind would not be sufficient enough to cover all our needs? What's the matter? We'll need several sources of energy anyway, this one has many advantages so why shouldn't we use it?

UK will never ever buy Rafales

The US will not allow it. Having the keys of british nuclear dissuasion with its Trident D5 missiles it provides and maintains, the US will be the real decision maker in the end.

MS is pushing us to get rid of MS-Office

MS strategy is counter-productive for us, a SMB. It doesn't feed our needs, users are lost between versions, and it's more and more expensive. Sorry, as a company of 50, we do not have 20,000 € to throw in MS pockets every 3 years just to get a word processor and a spreadsheet application, which are our basic needs.

MS pushes us more and more to get rid of MS-Office, and look at alternative solutions. The next update regarding Office could well be a migration.

What a bunch of retards

Knowing these guys are armed is quite frightening...

Repeat the rightist mantra

"Global warming does not exist, everything is fine,

Global warming does not exist, everything is fine..."

Told enough times it is enough for a large part of the Anglo-saxon population to be relieved, see http://summitcountyvoice.com/2012/10/07/global-warming-deniers-are-loudest-in-the-u-s-and-uk/

What a nice target!

Big, slow and ugly, somebody with a slingshot will be able to shot it down - not mentioning a ZSU-23-4, loaded with HE fragmentation rounds..

Nosotek is accomplice to crimes and should be judged accordingly

North Korea is a dictatorship the Stalinian way. The north korean camps are similar to Dachau or Buchenwald, with crimes committed there at a scale and a sadism even Dante could not dream of. Entire families are decimated, tortures, rapes, assassinations are routine.

Every company working with and for North Korea is accomplice of the crimes committed there. As we trial sexual predators there when they commit their crimes in a foreign country, the same should be made for the guys behind Nosotek.

Exchange? What's that?

Getting rid of exchange and its ecosystem was the best decision for us: too expensive, too complicated, too closed approach, too many compatibility issues, too many failures... switching to Google Apps one year ago was the best decision for a SME like ours with limited resources for IT. For a cost a fraction of the previous cost, now all of our users have access to a lot of services whose usage boosts our productivity through the GUI they want: outlook, thunderbird (+plugins), their favorite browser. The openness of Google APIs is a plus for customization. Also, as a side effect, this move enabled also to get rid of our Blackberry fleet and the associated BES server, and let users choose either IOs or Android devices.