Posts by Fortycoats

..."none shall pass my lips" brigade who insist on different ovens/plates/forks...

try telling that to a coeliac whose "gluten-free" meal was prepared in the same area as regular pizza, bread, or other wheat containing food. Been there, done that. Not a pretty sight (or smell in the bathroom afterwards)

Or a peanut allergy sufferer who is in anaphylactic shock because they had traces of peanut on a spoon to stir their meal.

That's not religion. I know you mean the crazy fad-dieters here, they annoy me as well. Makes things really difficult for those us don't have a choice when it comes to certain types of food.

GB / US Bombs just as reliable

They still find plenty of unexploded ordnance across Germany. The departments charged with the safe disposal have a great name: Kampfmittelräumdienst

They defuse the bombs (mostly), then transport them to special facilities where the stuff is all placed in a big hole and blown up with a satisfying kaboom.

Some cannot be defused safely, and are detonated on site, like this one 4 years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idF3Nq11BcM

Yep, Germans are particularly rubbish letting people off public transport. My young daughter once got stuck on a tram because some old biddy barged through the door getting on without letting anyone else off. By the time my daughter could get back to the door it had closed and the tram drove on. Luckily the next stop wasn't that far away and no harm done. But still, how rude!

Re: double standards? @Fortycoats

Hi, the only link I had was in German. But found an english one here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/advice/diesel-recall-which-cars-are-affected-will-my-mpg-decrease-and-s/

VW were doing the most, it seems, to cheat on the test. But the others are also "optimising" their results. And yes, the tests themselves are rubbish. You never get the mileage stated in the sales blurb, not even close.

And to compare emissions, you don't want to know how much crap the average cruise ship pumps out.

Re: The real problem is the way bean counters work.

Oh don't get me started on the "1TB Disk for £75". Bean-counters then wonder why enterprise storage costs loads more. RAID, controllers, snapshots, compression, deduplication, replication, and all them backups, plus the cost of the people keeping it all running smoothly. (you know, the ones who are immediately blamed on the rare occasion when it doesn't).

And then there's those who won't archive/delete old data from the active database. Do you really want 5-year old data that hasn't been touched in the last 4 years clogging up your expensive All-Flash Array?

Re: That's a lot of different storage devices....

Well, Zip Drives were invented in northern Utah (Roy). I wonder why.....

This was before the days of USB or cheap CD writers.

Re: McRib

Then move to Germany. Available all the time (except when they're serving breakfast. The all-day breakfast hasn't reached these shores yet)

Re: Swiss efficiency

If you mean the Hauptbahnhof that is a black hole for public money, then I think you mean "Stuttgart 21". The opera house is indeed in Hamburg - the Elbphilharmonie. How an ugly eggbox like that can cost over €800m (and counting) is hard to comprehend. But nothing beats BER Airport.

Re: Indeed!

And which god would that be? Jehovah, Allah, Ra, Vishnu, Zeus, Jupiter, Muad'Dib, Offler the crocodile-god, or is it really the FSM?

Re: Blind-sided?

"why they do not automate trains"

Some of the subways in Nürnberg, Germany, are driverless.

I think they have been running for almost 5 years. I haven't been on one myself, yet.

https://youtu.be/PC4GrQq04us

https://youtu.be/VKsybvoLg8U

Can't recall any accidents with them.

Plenty of airports also have automated trains between terminals, e.g. Frankfurt, Paris CDG, Denver, London Stansted.....

Re: Yes tax

OK, I'll bite. Ireland is an English-speaking country, for all intents and purposes. Irish might be the first official language (according to the constitution), but after having Irish forced down your throat for 13 years of school, most of us couldn't manage to string a sentence together, apart from "An bhfuil cead agam dul go dtí an leithreas?", and possibly the words of the national anthem, but that's about it.

It might have improved in recent years. I wouldn't know: finished school in 1993, emigrated in 2002.

Re: People who use adblockers...

Agree with you werdsmith. And not just internet ads, either.

Some radio ads can be really annoying, and those companies end up on my "Do-not-buy-anything-from-these-gits" list. In fact, I don't even change the radio channel, I switch it off. Silence is better than that rubbish. So the ad-men have achieved the opposite of what they wanted.

Re: 50 Meg Everywhere, eh?

I thought Fuckmuppetosaurus Rex was Horst Seehofer. You know, the party leader who is supposed to stand for "catholic family values", but who has fathered a child with a woman who wasn't his wife. (But that's never mentioned in the media any more)

Pretty much par for the course for the CSU..... the car toll was just to get revenge on the Austrians, who dare to charge Bavarian motorists for using their Autobahns to get to Lake Garda or Rimini. The cheek!

I live in Bavaria, and I can't understand how this shower of Fuckmuppets are in government in this state. And with an absolute majority, too. Michael Mittermaier was right, the east Germans should stop whinging. They got a multi party democracy 25 years ago, the likes of which Bavaria can only dream about.

Deutsche Telekom can manage to do it, too. I've had their IPTV service for over 5 years. I'm also subject to the "urban flat / no dish" restriction. Hardly ever had problems, or if there were, they were solved by the tried and tested IT solution: turn it (the set-top box) off and on again. Even a Sky subscription works, although I've ended mine because it was too expensive.

Obligatory Dilbert

http://dilbert.com/strip/2011-10-02

Reminds me of a former employer, and also why they are a "former" employer.

Re: Completely and utterly bonkers

Of course it's completely bonkers. It even has an "Igor" (4th module from the left in that basic mock-up diagram). No mad-scientist project is complete without an Igor.

Yeth, marthter......

Well done that man. Hope it works out.

Thought "Airplane 2" already covered this 30 years ago...

http://spacesuitsyou.tumblr.com/post/70685979135/somethings-strange-onboard-airplane-ii-the

Oh, that's strange......