Posts by Liam

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@ "Let's just observe that women actually pay less for their car insurance. And insurance is based on real measured statistics. So why do women pay less for their car insurance? Because they generally have fewer accidents, and the ones they have cause less damage. As good a measure of "safer drivers" as I know."

playing devils advocate here... but strictly not right...

i think most people will agree that men drive, generally, a lot more miles per year (how many mums do the driving as opposed to dad, how many female reps, salespeople do you see?)

so maybe women are less likely to have an accident but the fact is they drive much less... so if you do an average of miles/crash you would get a more realistic (gu)estimate.

i can also say that the vast majority of women drivers i know are far from safe... why the hell does my mum feel the need to talk with her hands whilst driving?

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"A pervasive developmental disorder, Asperger syndrome is distinguished by a pattern of symptoms rather than a single symptom. It is characterized by qualitative impairment in social interaction, by stereotyped and restricted patterns of behavior, activities and interests, and by no clinically significant delay in cognitive development or general delay in language.[13] Intense preoccupation with a narrow subject, one-sided verbosity, restricted prosody, and physical clumsiness are typical of the condition, but are not required for diagnosis.[4]"

FROM WIKIPEDIA - but nothing there that makes someone do something they KNOW is wrong and would get fuckered for... sounds like really mild autism to me... certainly doesnt sound like a defence against hacking the US gov! i know they need hacking to save the rest of the world but be more careful eh matey!

nanny state!!!

lets ban everything that might cause some distress to a tiny minority of people.

OR how about anyone with this type of problem should be aware of their condition and not make everyone else suffer?

why cant people take some responsibility for themselves rather than try to make everyone else pander to their needs. sheesh. i cite the US' blame culture as the cause behind all this. imagine if 20 years ago you would have seen an advert like:

' i was walking down the street and fell over - ive sued the council for 20 grand'

look where you are going you frikkin idiot!

yup - english subsidies again

im seriously getting pissed off with subsidising scotland and wales... when england is the shittest of the 3 now...

wtf?

the arcade only does composite out?

might as well get a bloody wii!

what level of 360 does proper hd output? which has a hdmi? optical out?

it would be interesting to know...

how much the techies got for a bonus last year - considering that the company reportedly gave average bonuses of 300+k! last year

finally - fixed width! :)

finally those of us with decent monitors wont be forced to squish everything up so the page isnt too wide to read.

most web devs never seem to use % widths as you never know what it will look like for everyone.

the new icons suck tho... glad the old ones are back too?

as paul said...

surely this might just show that people who wanted them already have them?

its not like you need to re-buy them every year is it? i mean M$ seem to give you a free 360 every x months when the old one dies!

HMMM

come on - we all know its Chelsea who are the gay ones :)

how the hell

can she think she is entitled to $250k?

this just enforces the rest of the world view that americans are greedy, selfish bastards out to take what they can....

of course not everyone in the US is like that - some are visiting from canada :)

(just kidding i know there are some decent merkins out there!)

most money spent != biggest gadget buyers

all this means is that we are being more ripped off than most people.

for example why we can buy the same devices for the same £ as $ - double the price!

look at all consoles and it equipment.

look at how much more gadgets cost to us that in asia...

its just confirming ripoff britain

cant we just

fire them both around and let them collide - the winning scientist is the one that survives?

exciting times indeed!

i despair, i really do!

PA Consulting consulting: 1 cockup & UK gov: countless...

i wonder if we can remove the gov mps from their position for losing many many items of data? can we cancel their contract yet? oh shit - if we do we just get the tory boys back in so its lose:lose :(

wonder if i'll have the balls to vote liberal this time (then cross my fingers for few years)

we now know why people become MPs (apart from magalomania). they are simply too useless to work in industry!

its like the old addage 'those who can, do. those who cant, teach. (what about adding) and those that can do fuck all, govern'

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@ He has some good ideas for modest reform

"Lots of British posters here. You can always spot them in language discussions because almost all British people are ignorant about language matters" - or maybe its because its an english website? <sigh>

"In the US, which is more progressive on this front, a number of reforms have been made, " - you mean the yanks can't spell so now our language (the one seemingly known now as international english) has been so bastardised by the merkins we should all suffer. NO! you take our language - fuck it up then expect us to change... who is the ignorant one here?

the fact there is so much confusion is that YOU use a different version of english to the rest of the world - if bloody MS didnt insinuate that US english was proper english and international english was some weird variation we wouldnt be in this predicament.

im happy for some reform - such as the rule 'i before e except after c' - well and loads of other examples that come to mind! this does seem stupid to me.

does this also mean we have to speak like core america and seemingly use so many double negatives in a sentence that the meaning is lost. 'i aint never done nothing' springs to mind frequently as well as 'i ain't never'

if we dumb down the spelling now will kids know the differences from there, their they're etc? the english language, as said before, is full of nuances and subtle variations. surely any dumbing down just alienated the vast amount of people who have master the language already?

@ Dan Skriv "Maybe this is another sort coming of the education system on your little island" - erm england isnt an island - britain is - but we arent talking about british language are we? talking about britain we would have to include gaelic (the language spoken by 2 people in scotland (polish is more widely spoken up there)) and that farcicle language that is welsh... :)

@ "bunch of tards." - yes, lets all talk txt spk - mch btr innit?

@ Adam Buckland

thats odd - our wii hasnt been used since before xmas!!! its a crappy little thing. its ok for kids and as a novelty but ive yet to find a decent proper game on it. wheras my ps3 is on most nights - we are currently playing the excellent ps1 game worms on it a lot lol... even the mrs loves worms :)

im tempted to get a cheapy 360 due to M$ buying up games companies and limiting games coming out on the ps3...

great! now....

fix the fact that we cant run it on our company machines.

i installed it on home machine last night and it fliers superspeed. much faster than ie and especially FF :)

not an issue...

since on the 2 machines ive tried it on it manages to crash and burn before its done much. i just get a lovely dead tab icon.

now, why the hell do i get this on 2 very different xp machines??? is the question!

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:: Gamers shall have the right to return games that don't work with their computers for a full refund. - OR take it back after installing, grabbing the key and using a crack for no cd?

:: Gamers shall have the right to demand that games be released in a finished state. - define 'finished'? no pc game can guarantee that all h/w will work with it as its impossible to test. maybe they should use a more mainstream process, does it work on nvidia and amd gfx cards, amd and intel chipsets (as others are less well used - especially in gaming pcs)

:: Gamers shall have the right to expect meaningful updates after a game's release. - erm... if a finished game is released why expect updates?

:: Gamers shall have the right that games which are installed to the hard drive shall not require a CD/DVD to remain in the drive to play. - so they can lend the cd to everyone? surely this is a means of copy protection?

@ "..given a six-month stretch in the slammer"

well, she will do 3 months... to be honest she should get more - stealing from an ill pensioner! plus they have no idea how much cash had gone over a longer amount of time... how many other people has she done this to?

she would get more like 2+ years for both of what you mentioned above

good to see....

that a paedo like this is seen in the eys of the law as about as bad as soemone who smokes pot - similar sentences for posession of anything more than a few doobies...

good to see paedophiles in the same category as people who do no harm to society at all...

i say stick em in prison general population and let the cons do us all a favour... why the hell should people like him get protection more than anyone else!

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i remember at the time when there was the british beef scare it had been reported that many french farmers were feeding their animals on total shite. literally! they found some french farmers were feeding their animals their own faeces! (not the farmers') also things like cigarette butts were being given as food!

wtf???

3 years for a paedo - yet death penalty for trying to smuggle some drugs in and out... i think they have their sentencing a bit wrong dont they!

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@ thomas k.

im sure they do - lian-li have been making alu cases for years. they do all sorts... some really cool media cases for your media pcs#

i think it looks pretty sweet to be honest.

@ "is that worth £75 exactly, given the price of generic PC cases these days? Given, it's not exactly the same as a PC case but still, I can't see where that price tag is coming from for a metal box." - erm... i know they are expensive but they were designed for overclockers. basically alu is great for heat dissipation,meaning less fans and less pc noise.

@ "Of course, if they'd bought a PS3 in the first place, they wouldn't have the issues with overheating, noisy fans and optical drives anyway. Flame on..." - wtf? my ps3 gets well-noisy. although i airsrayed it yesterday so hopefully its much quieter now!

@ "Oh, and it's $150, not £150 - I know that we get a bum rap in the UK for these things, but doubling the value of it it pretty fecking unlikely." - wtf? havent you seen you can buy most US good for the same price in $ as we pay in £s? i mean most adobe s/w is more £ than $! work that one out!

no different

from me writing a thesis stating star wars is real...

seriously - when is the bible belt going to realise everyone else thinks they are nuts? surely higher education and fairy tales dont go hand in hand. higher education is about learning yourself not being told to believe all this make believe rubbish

this is pissing me off

lock em up forever - if your excuse is "a video game showed me how to do it" then you arent fit to be in society and should be deemed as a dangerous psycho.

what is they watched a film like hostel... would they go off torturing people for fun?

what if they saw a ww2 film... would they want to invade poland?

what if they saw a french ww2 film... would they instantly surrender at every available opportunity? lol

im sick of people using any escuse to try and get away with whatever they do. im sure all this has come from americas litergation nation philosophy. if i trip over some water in a shop its my fault for not looking where im going... not the shop.

and yes, as mentioned above the game doesnt who you how to make molys - just where to find them and an ability to throw them

people need to take account of their own actions. its a pity none of our politicians can do this though - not leading by example are they?

hmmm

i agree we need to get rid of them - but replace them with whome?

the tories? the same people that have sold off everything good so we now pay god knows how much more for power, transport and water? the same lot that dont give a fuck about anyone earning less than £100,000? the same lot that only 100 years ago we seriously looking into the stererilisation of the working class?

or do we go with the libdems who are a more trustworthy bunch but have some stupid policies (£900/year road tax my ass!)

dont let in the devill just because you are pissed off at idiots... do you all think that the tories will actually get rid of cctv etc?

arseholes

yet they are still allowed to put unlimited etc

what the hell does ofcom actually do?

yes, its limited to 75% of the speed you are paying for!

im still struggling to get over 4Mb from my 10Mb line from virgin... anyone know why if i unplug my gateway i can get an extra 1Mb? doesnt make sense to me!

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@ "Also, reread the article. It clearly explains why 5 million hits doesnt actually mean fuck all. The only really good metric is unique visitors, along with graphs of initial visit activity (users vs duration) and repeat visit activity."

- wtf? so im not counted as a tesco customer as ive been there before? arguably it should use transactions over hits but the fact is that 5million people viewed their web pages. the fact that some might visit more doesnt mean they have less customers... i agree it should be used in conjunction with other methods such as length of page views etc

ive been in plenty of shops and not bought things before... it doesnt mean im not a customer nor should it mean im ignored from visitor figures.

it is a hard one i accept. the web isnt a shop and cant be treated as such

come on...

In the same country in early March 2003, a South African man living in London and his [Massachusetts] girlfriend were stranded for six days by a powerful snowstorm.

Presumably "the same country" means the USA; or possibly Britain, or even conceivably South Africa.

yes, since the UK is well known for its snowstorms, as is south africa :)

i love the idea of 'BAD' gps devices... letting their unsuspecting users become lemmings.

mannnn

2 years and £3k fine for that... seems a tad harsh to me!

you could rape someone over here and get less time!

hmmmmm

i have to say i love the fact my ps3 remote is bluetooth, it means i can use it outside to change my music (and upstairs/bathroom if i want to answer Jeremy's question). as i have my home cinema kit in the corner of my lounge (with tv central) my V+ box never seems to work without me pointing the bloody thing into the corner. bluetooth or BT style remotes for everything could be very cool.

@ "you can point the remote almost completely behind you away from the television and it will still change channels/work as intended?" - you sure you arent bouncing the signal off walls in your house? i used to be able to switch on my lights in the lounge from the kitchen by bouncing the signal off 3 walls :)

btw - for a cool toy try remote controlled dimmer switches :) ive got them in my house :)

AHHHH

to be honest ive never seen $$Frontmatter - not sure i got to use 6.53 for webapps. i always tended to use agents to do anything fancy (as you control 100% of the markup).

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@ "Just noticed that the WTC bomb date written like that is the yank emergency services number. Think 9/11, think panic? Despite the fact it should be 11/9 but Americans are doodie heads" - wtf? where have you been the last 10 years? surely everyone else guessed that the same day? lol

i say make companies accountable. if your ID gets lost by a company £1M fine. now, do this for every lost ID and that really fucks up the company.

i always think its amusing that directors get stupid bonuses because their people have done what was wanted. yet they never get penalised if anyone makes a fuckup. so its just win win being a director.

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@ "What do you want, sheeple? An arsehole who gets a worthless talking to and thinks he's immortal, and ends up killing an old lady, or a scrote who won't do it again because his joints hurt every time it rains?" - but its been proved time and time again we cannot trust that most racist institution, the police.

i wont even begin to list all their dodgy behavior but the fact is they cannot be trusted.

@ "Let's hope the plods get a few more scrotes and make us a bit safer." - what happens when some of tyh

@ Andy Worth

"So, can we get soap operas (Eastenders, Coronation St etc.) banned on the basis that watching them gives people ideas about beating their wife, murdering people, stealing, cheating and so much more?" - ive been saying eastenders (others too mut i find EE the worst) is a reason for societies downfall for ages. in fact how about "o, can we get soap operas (Eastenders, Coronation St etc.) banned."

we see people trying to live the lives of these southern idiots. im sure many more people seem to think soaps are how you are supposed to live... as they 'mimic' society (well society where everyone works on the street they live on, no matter how intelligent they are, you spend all your time in the pub, you cheat on everyone and at xmas someone dies)