Posts by Mark 85

I know there's a way to report this, but I can't remember what this is

Lower left hand corner, just below the last paragraph: "Tips and corrections".

Well, both he and Trump are psychopaths. I guess they have to stick together.

Way back when they met, it would have been interesting* to have been a fly on wall.

*or maybe nauseating which would be more likely.

Re: So what happened?

The C-suite suits decided to hire monkeys, pay them peanuts and outsource everything to the lowest bidder. The suits at the top never learn that cutting costs will at some point kill profit and the business.

Re: No.

He surrounds himself with yes men, and watches his cheerleaders on Fox News for hours every morning

He's lately been beating up Fox for questioning his decisions and pushing for people to go to another news service that loves him.

As long as everyone praises him, he's happy. The minute they question, he'll scream, through a tantrum, and bad mouth them.

Re: TITSUP

(who is this f*ck-up fairy gal anyway?)

Murphy's sister.

Re: chewed wires

even rats have musical taste.

Similar thing at home. My wife gave music lessons (piano, recorder or violin); if the music was done well our cat would sit around and listen and if not he would leave.

The old saying is true: Everyone's a critic.

Re: This is why we can't have nice things.

Several years ago, my local university had to cut down what was basically a very small forest on campus

Somehow that just seems wrong to cut down the trees and put a fence up to keep the deer out. Would it not have been better to fence in the humans to keep them away from the deer?

Re: I called the cops

Managed to call the cops by mistake when calling back to the UK from our US office. I dialled 9 to get an outside line then 11 for the UK. The US emergency number is 911.

You must have been doing it on an outside line. Otherwise it wouldn't have done that.

Re: What is scariest..

Many of us are. Once upon a time, we would be appalled at a pile of lies coming out of the Oval Office, but there's been so many and iin rapid fire succesion that it's impossible to keep up with them. We've become jaded to it.

Re: Faster!

But that why us geezers want things sped up. I remember the first satellite launches. I want to see some colonization, new things in space. I want them yesterday.

BTW, get off my lawn, kid.

Re: Is Zuck angling for a US VP job? He's got the billions and lots of experience

Not sure if Zuck would quit his day job for VP that pays a lot less. On the other hand, he has a history of supporting Trump. <shrugs> Who know what lurks in the minds of men?

I don't know about the lad in the article but here in the States, the Amish outfit their buggy horses with a catch cloth.

Re: I am reminded...

There's more than drones now. There's armored vehicles, assorted medium to heavy arms, etc.

The mention of money is probably what his rant is about. Instead of the US spending the money in Russia, it's now spending the money here in the States. Someone over there has to be really upset about this.

That seems to be the way things have been going.

Company screws up.

Company gets called on it.

Company denies they were at fault.

Company sics the lawyers on the one who called them on it.

Company becomes a laughing stock by IT types.

Re: Took first good look at

At the rate he putting on the pounds (weight not money) he'll soon be a "bigger man" Xi. Maybe he is already?

Re: More of a Who Me? except he got away with it

Plastics were real plastics some 30+ years ago!

You mean there's fake plastics now?

Re: this is only half the trip

From up, the only direction available is 'down'.

Well there's also "more up"... "left" and "right". None of those are good though for this flight. Down would be the preferred flight path to get home.

There have been a few cockups of epic proportions due to different units. Seems one of the space craft to Mars (if I remember right) had that problem and reduced itself to component parts on landing/impact.

As a token of appreciation for the inevitable bail out they be getting at some stage perhaps they will donate a Max for use as Airforce One.

I thought they were using the Max for a tax write off for profits from the arms side of the company. But still a great idea on donating one.

Careful there. You mentioned Coronavirus and if a certain high ranking elected US person sees it, there will suddenly be press conferences and lots of questions to the Surgeon General about "you'll test this right?", etc.

Re: Strong men, thin skins

Did someone contradict the shite he spouts? So not fair!

It kind of hard to contradict that much crap because there's so much of it spewed. His average Tweet Storm takes about 2 day for the press to analyze and rebuke it. If he'd spend the time doing his job instead of watching Fox and spewing, things might actually be better.

I don't see things changing but only getting worse. Various shrinks and psychologists seem to think he's into dementia, paranoia, and mental degradation. Seems like that might be true having had a family member hit by those issues.

With his killing of treaties, and general belligerence I hope that who ever has the launch codes won't give them to him.

Re: Free speech?

Yes, on is free to speak, but media is not obligated to spread it.

More importantly, Trump obviously never learned "It's better to remain silent and let people think you are a fool than to speak and prove you are a fool."

Re: "Of course, in the '70s, active correction of the beam was not an option."

Not if you've got a big enough laser!!!

So the solution would also involve bigger sharks and bigger boats? Seems reasonable.

Re: Looks like a job for...

Why would squids or any other variety of aliens want to invade a planet overpopulated with 7 plus billion cantankerous entities who appear to be completely lacking in any useful skills and utterly unable to manage their own affairs? Nothing good could possibly result from such an invasion.

Food! We tasty with crunchy bits (ketchup optional).

Re: There was no word as to whether a Playmobil figure was at the drone's controls.

One can only hope for the Playmobil to return. That and perhaps the flight of LOHAN.

Yes, I"m sitting in the Wishful Thinking Department.

Re: These are the voyages of....

. Was there any comment from him on his private Caribbean Island?

So it's not an island with a dead volcanoe? Won't someone think of the cat?

Re: Too many return() statements in the code?

Back in WWII, the US had problems with it's torpedoes. Some would explode immediately after launch, some would hit the target and not explode unless hitting at an angle. And several subs were lost when tor torpedo did a 180 and hit the sub.