IIRC, he's an Ozzie. I believed the 'one-sided' extradition treaty only applied to British and usa citizens? Anyone help me out? I forgot which way I came in.
"In case you forget, the US is fighting a WAR". Oh really? Didn't see any declaration of war, but maybe the 'insurgents*' didn't get it. Maybe, if you don't declare a WAR, then you can bung innocent shepherds into Gitmo. on the basis they were maybe fighting without wearing military uniform.
"War on Terror"? Who is Mr. Terror, and where does he live?
As far as Wikileaks is concerned, what's the difference between them and the blokes who exposed Watergate? "Behind every watergate, there lies a Milhous".
How can the US do this to sites offshore (e.g., tvshack.cc - quick whois tvshack.cc in Google shows it's chinese...)? I can only assume one bit of the 'service' is in USA, or the domain registrar is there. Plenty of other countries out there, chaps.
I was having fun trying - and probably failing miserably - to guess.
Re: "418 & 915MHz is USA". Don't they have 'High Streets' as well? Or is Wal-Mart built on a farm?
Oh, re. the 'goodie-bag' I shall surely receive*, when you're tidying the office, pop the Moderatrix in there. On second thoughts, I'm too old. Plus, Finland's bloody cold right now, and the "old fellah's" hibernating.
And, Al Reg needs the Moderatrix far more than I.
*Yeah, right. Got as much chance as having a few pints with the pope.
"If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her ... and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid: Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate: And the damsel's father shall say ... these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city. ... But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel: Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die. Deuteronomy 22:13-21"
How on earth did Mary, Jesus' mother get away with that one?? Remember, we're still in Old Testament terri(st)tory at this point. 'Course, this leaves the man without a wife, and he has to go through the whole (presumably expensive) thing all over again.
I guess the damsels covered up by getting married at "that time of the month", which gives about a 1-in-4 chance of escaping.
Nick - if you'd named the airline, we could all avoid it. Or take tape 'n' card in our hand luggage to fly with them. Or a can of spray-paint. Oops, it's a liquid.
Why American advertisers have to shove everything in your face defeats me. Eventually, it just becomes background noise, and totally ineffective. Bit like the idea we should encourage more and more CCTV cameras - far too much information to process for the cash-strapped 'security' (haha) bods, and they become basically useless.
In response to: "You HAVE to get scanned. It's either this machine, or a FAR more invasive hands on approach. Don't like it? Don't fly."
At Security: "Hello, luvvy. No, darling, I don't want one of those x-file doo-dads to invade my body. Would you give me a VERY thorough and delightfully invasive pat-down, oh, and and a box of tissues? Thanks, sweetypie. Take your time, pleeth.
Ooohh, Aaahh, Cantona!!.
I betheeth you, do it again when I've had to nip out for a fag. Or two. Ta muchly."
OK, there's a chance of being frisked by an "uphill gardner", so you might be "shit-out-of-luck", but...
Grief, I regularly delete my cache, defragment and run file shredder to clean up my XP lappie, because I often lend that machine to other students of my (adult) language class, who don't have a machine for their 'etäpäivä' - i.e, work-from-home days. Many are 'refugees' from Iraq, Somalia, etc., and don't know how to 'clean up' after themselves (online banking, etc). Cache full of bloody facebook stuff.
Can I be accused of destroying evidence??? Without knowing it, I might have lent it (and my 3G dongle) to an Al-Queda 'sleeper'.
But, iFixit's stripdown states "The battery is user-replaceable" !! By whom?? I wouldn't have the nerve to mess around with something so small. That's assuming I can BUY a replacement battery from Samsung, which I doubt...You'd need a Playmobil-sized engineer to (un)do half of the stuff in iFixit's teardown.
Now, did the 'strippers' get it back together, functioning? Not stated, interestingly. They gave it 6/10 for serviceability, but....
No way. It was obviously the fact that the plane got to such dizzy heights and the Plastic Pilot had had a bit too much 'dutch courage' and slumped over.
I see what you're saying, tho, but the ground's the thing, not the blue upper bits. Think you're seeing weather patterns, maybe...
But, as we know, the Earth can be particularly awkward. Gaia's like that, fickle minx...
Saw it in the Telegraph* this morning about 6am (UK time). Had a little chuckle about the 'space enthusiasts', nowt much about El Reg being an IT news source...
Now, were you behind that 'phantom missile' over California the other day? Maybe not, as you've used up your beer and travel budget....
...Hey, wait a minute, has the 'playmonought' gone AWOL???
If it means fahrenheit , you're in the same boat as Libya. They use it as well, and I think (apart for some minor cities that call themselves countries (Vatican, Monaco, Rockall spring to mind - but they use Celsius)) so "F" is the only commonality between the two countries.
About 20 years ago, I was working from home. I had one of the old analogue phones (OKI, IIRC).
Anyway a mate who lived nearby phoned me because his girlfriend had had her car broken into, and stole her handbag. It contained evidence of her address, and her house keys. (Epic Fail #1)
She thought she'd report it to the police when she finished work. (Epic Fail #2).
She mentioned it to her then-boyfriend over a lunchtime phone-call, who realised immediately the danger, and called me.
I ran round to their house (in Leamington Spa) like a shot, mobile and camera in hand.
Door open.
Didn't go in, called the police with camera primed, in case they came out. I was behind a bush, they wouldn't have seen me.
Astoundingly, similarly to Sarah's experience, they were round in 5 minutes or less. I mentioned the "perps" may still be inside, so they told me to wait, as with batons drawn, they combed the house*.
Needless to say, I was too late, TV, Stereo etc. gone.
Also, a nice set of designer T-shirts, that the boyfriend had designed and - fortunately - photographed were taken.
Caught the 3 stupid buggers a day later, as they were prancing round Coventry (10 miles/15kM away) wearing them. All kit recovered.
* Maybe that's why they were quick - free "Baton Training Course 101 ?"
""It’s strange that the US, which was light years behind Europe, ..."
Yep, found it peculiar myself. For example(s):
Friend of mine - US based, but of Pakistani descent (They were early adopters) - didn't want a mobile in the early 'noughties' until I convinced him I wanted to call HIM, not his bloody desk.
He also thought it reasonable that he should pay ½ the call, until I pointed out that, should I send him junk/empty envelope, he's wasting money every time.
One bloke (this is the early 'noughties', remember) loved my Communicator so much, he rushed to buy one. Came back to the hotel with a ...Motorola...Sigh.
Goddammit - an extra 11 000 feet* would've been technically space. Not much further than my walk to the city. Reckon either John or the bloke with the cigar were chatting too long, and filled the balloon a tad too much?
So, the 'pop' released it, huh? Bet that caused the little chap inside to foul his breeches, and press the release button. I would have done, too, and forgotten about the button...but Playmobil folks are made of sterner stuff than me.
* Converts to approx 3,4Km. It's about 2½kM for me to shop.
Be a better bet than Sony. But then they have the SonyEricsson millstone around their necks, as also Nokia has NokiaSiemensNetworks as their Dun Cow* to slay. ("2½ yearsuntil they can kill that beast...NOT Beresford-Wylie's finest hour...)
Only problem is, I think the Finnish Gov. holds the "Golden Share". Otherwise, with the branding of Nokia vs. the branding of Sony, I'd bet Nokia.
Been doing that for awhile in Oulu. Kinda restrictive, usually it's just the #19 - Airport - City - Uni. Makes sense (first two places, anyway) Sometimes I get lucky and they change vehicles and I get the vehicle usually allocated for the Airport run, so I can browse for the 25 minutes I spend on the bus every morning. No worse than WiFi in the pub, surely?
Connection to the bus's Internet doo-dad is done by a new-fangled thingumajig I heard called "BEE JEEZ", or some such. Same technology that lets the internal bus display show what the next stop is called. I thought it, like the buses ran like clockwork, but it seems to use another odd thing called "Jee, Pee-ess". I think clockwork's better myself. Ask John Harrison*.
But then, I'm old and smell of wee-wee. What would I know...
...the conspiracy merchants would pop out of the woodwork.
I note they don't use their real name, unlike me*.
AC didn't use the 'troll' icon as I suggested. I think "he's not the Messiah, he's just a very naughty boy"
As an aside, I think QinetiQ and Blue Tree Travel Services (the sponsors, IIRC) would possibly have monitored this rather closely, as they seem to have stuck quite a bit of wedge , effort and time in this project - esp. QinetiQ.
So, I think the Conspiratory crowd can sod off and stay there.
(OK, I asked a previous manager of mine from a different company - now in - QinetiQ, if they had a hypobaric chamber loafing around, and why, at the time Lester and his motley crew were looking for one. He told me that they were quite short of folks at the moment, but maybe he chatted to a few colleagues about PARIS , and they decided to put a few extra hours their of spare time into it).
At least they had more sense than to go with a LEGLESS pilot. However, following this closely (in the interests of journalistic integrity, natch) and, in natural empathy, I drank a bottle at home of cheap red plonk.
Now, like the little plastic fella, I'm kinda hoping no-one finds me real soon...
It's the simple fact your boss won't let you and your team spend any money on cheap plonk. i.e., you can't get wasted on company money any more ....You're fooling nobody!
Seriously, good luck for tomorrow. It's a real shame the camera wimped out, that would've been epic footage. (Why not pop it in anyway, just in case?).
>> They can rip your car to component bits to search for something and don't have to put it back together. >>
But, neither do you. Just (as it's ripped to bits) simplyleave it there. That'll inconvenience them for the next pull-apart. They only have a finite amount of space. Insurance should sort it in "Ten Wurkin Daze". Oh, maybe complain to the Police about criminal damage, and it becomes immutable - and immovable evidence...
Same as the police, who can trash your house, then just walk away. (Unless you happen to live in Forest Gate, London, and they'll completely refurbish it when they discover the bottle of Domestos under the kitchen sink is not a bomb.)
'Nuff said. Except, it's the US gummint, where they appear to jump at their own shadows.
Don't mind that, but why do they have to piss themselves at the same time? Seen how they "adjust their dress*" as they approach the pentagon/whitehouse podium??
>>Because the EeePC, like the one I have, will be cheap nasty shite.>>
Cheap? Yep, but the 701(eebuntu transforms it) is in my pocket wherever I go. If I wanna lookup the buses/gmail/whatever, it 'floats my boat'. For €150, I'm not complaining. 3 years old, and I still haven't felt the slightest temptation to try anything more advanced than 'Doom' on it. I bet that's a fraction of the wedge you've spent on booze in that time, and not had anything like the pleasure*.
However the mac Air 11½" looks well good. As I said previously, I think Apple are ruling the roost.
(Nice monicker BTW. Well chosen...)
* If you disagree, I think the News-Of-The-Screws pays for articles like that.
"The enemy of your enemy isn't your friend: He's just the next enemy in a long line of enemies who could have been your friend if it weren't for the fact that you keep seeing enemies everywhere."
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Australian National?
IIRC, he's an Ozzie. I believed the 'one-sided' extradition treaty only applied to British and usa citizens? Anyone help me out? I forgot which way I came in.
For his next appearance..
I really hope he gets Senior District Judge Timothy Workman.
(He's the judge who slashed through the US law enforcement's lies about Lotfi Raissi.'s extradition attempt.)
Target for unstable people??
Erm, Canadian Nutters, maybe? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqtIafdoH_g
Example of unstable folks?
Bit more...http://www.scribd.com/doc/41076931/CIA-Response-to-Assange-Assassination-FOIA
What happened to "Nothing to hide, nothing to fear?" Maybe it's only applicable in the 51'st state of the Union.
WAR??
You must be a jar-head.
"In case you forget, the US is fighting a WAR". Oh really? Didn't see any declaration of war, but maybe the 'insurgents*' didn't get it. Maybe, if you don't declare a WAR, then you can bung innocent shepherds into Gitmo. on the basis they were maybe fighting without wearing military uniform.
"War on Terror"? Who is Mr. Terror, and where does he live?
As far as Wikileaks is concerned, what's the difference between them and the blokes who exposed Watergate? "Behind every watergate, there lies a Milhous".
Is this legal??
How can the US do this to sites offshore (e.g., tvshack.cc - quick whois tvshack.cc in Google shows it's chinese...)? I can only assume one bit of the 'service' is in USA, or the domain registrar is there. Plenty of other countries out there, chaps.
Awww. Don't spoil it!
I was having fun trying - and probably failing miserably - to guess.
Re: "418 & 915MHz is USA". Don't they have 'High Streets' as well? Or is Wal-Mart built on a farm?
Oh, re. the 'goodie-bag' I shall surely receive*, when you're tidying the office, pop the Moderatrix in there. On second thoughts, I'm too old. Plus, Finland's bloody cold right now, and the "old fellah's" hibernating.
And, Al Reg needs the Moderatrix far more than I.
*Yeah, right. Got as much chance as having a few pints with the pope.
'course he bloody did!
Article plainly states:
"..to release the aforementioned dwarf."
Not "Try to". I rely on our intrepid EL Reg journalists as scholars and masters of English grammar.
Er....
Ubuntu-tweak??
Oho. Searched Ubuntu website and got this:
http://www.ubuntu.com/search/google-appliance/ubuntu-tweak.
Oh, right, it's probably in a locked filing cabinet in a basement with no stairs, with a sign "Beware of the leopard" nailed to the door.
If I can't find it on the web-page with Ubuntu's search engine to search the site, what the fuc*k chance has Harry Halfwitt got???
Bible, indeeed...
"If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her ... and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid: Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate: And the damsel's father shall say ... these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city. ... But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel: Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die. Deuteronomy 22:13-21"
How on earth did Mary, Jesus' mother get away with that one?? Remember, we're still in Old Testament terri(st)tory at this point. 'Course, this leaves the man without a wife, and he has to go through the whole (presumably expensive) thing all over again.
I guess the damsels covered up by getting married at "that time of the month", which gives about a 1-in-4 chance of escaping.
Re: Advertising?
Nick - if you'd named the airline, we could all avoid it. Or take tape 'n' card in our hand luggage to fly with them. Or a can of spray-paint. Oops, it's a liquid.
Why American advertisers have to shove everything in your face defeats me. Eventually, it just becomes background noise, and totally ineffective. Bit like the idea we should encourage more and more CCTV cameras - far too much information to process for the cash-strapped 'security' (haha) bods, and they become basically useless.
<rant />
Wonder which genius thought that up?
BOFH, natch!
My hovercraft is full of eels
Better in Finnish...
"Ilmatyynyalukseni on täynnä ankeriaita"
Bit harder to say, though
Hungarian (both according to Google Translate:)
"A légpárnás hajóm tele van angolnákkal"
"Remember, Remember the Fifth of November"...
...Antimatter, Treason and Plot.
Now, there's an idea...
Am I such an old git I can remember something like that??
Whoahaha!
I'd love to see someone put Linux on a 12" 31/3 RPM vinyl disk..
Now that'd be neat. Need the accuracy of a Linn Sondek to decode (I still own one), but as retro goes...neat trick!!!
CHALLENGE!!!!
Bulgarian Airbags, anyone...
Oh, sod it.
No-one's tried this?
In response to: "You HAVE to get scanned. It's either this machine, or a FAR more invasive hands on approach. Don't like it? Don't fly."
At Security: "Hello, luvvy. No, darling, I don't want one of those x-file doo-dads to invade my body. Would you give me a VERY thorough and delightfully invasive pat-down, oh, and and a box of tissues? Thanks, sweetypie. Take your time, pleeth.
Ooohh, Aaahh, Cantona!!.
I betheeth you, do it again when I've had to nip out for a fag. Or two. Ta muchly."
OK, there's a chance of being frisked by an "uphill gardner", so you might be "shit-out-of-luck", but...
Yep. Let's see.
Big pudding-puller???
How'd you know I was big? Haven't met you. Yet.
Mine's a "Spotted Dick". Spotted in some grumbleflick, I'm sure.
Shred??
Grief, I regularly delete my cache, defragment and run file shredder to clean up my XP lappie, because I often lend that machine to other students of my (adult) language class, who don't have a machine for their 'etäpäivä' - i.e, work-from-home days. Many are 'refugees' from Iraq, Somalia, etc., and don't know how to 'clean up' after themselves (online banking, etc). Cache full of bloody facebook stuff.
Can I be accused of destroying evidence??? Without knowing it, I might have lent it (and my 3G dongle) to an Al-Queda 'sleeper'.
There's bugger all in it!
Jeezus H. Christ, unbelievable.
But, iFixit's stripdown states "The battery is user-replaceable" !! By whom?? I wouldn't have the nerve to mess around with something so small. That's assuming I can BUY a replacement battery from Samsung, which I doubt...You'd need a Playmobil-sized engineer to (un)do half of the stuff in iFixit's teardown.
Now, did the 'strippers' get it back together, functioning? Not stated, interestingly. They gave it 6/10 for serviceability, but....
(Playmonout voice) Lester!! Lester!!
"I can see your house from here..."
Curvature?
No way. It was obviously the fact that the plane got to such dizzy heights and the Plastic Pilot had had a bit too much 'dutch courage' and slumped over.
I see what you're saying, tho, but the ground's the thing, not the blue upper bits. Think you're seeing weather patterns, maybe...
But, as we know, the Earth can be particularly awkward. Gaia's like that, fickle minx...
Put something into orbit....
Do they still make "Jetex" motors nowadays? Think they need no oxygen. Might defeat the 'escape velocity' myth.
Nah, maybe not....
http://jetex.org/motors/motors.html
@ Or maybe a 2nd-hand 5G iPod
Nah. Practically, "World + dog" couldn't view the video.
It's a Jobsworth.
So, no Flash.
Nice...
Saw it in the Telegraph* this morning about 6am (UK time). Had a little chuckle about the 'space enthusiasts', nowt much about El Reg being an IT news source...
Now, were you behind that 'phantom missile' over California the other day? Maybe not, as you've used up your beer and travel budget....
...Hey, wait a minute, has the 'playmonought' gone AWOL???
*http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/8124611/Paper-aeroplane-launched-into-space-captures-breathtaking-images.html
What's 75F??
If it means fahrenheit , you're in the same boat as Libya. They use it as well, and I think (apart for some minor cities that call themselves countries (Vatican, Monaco, Rockall spring to mind - but they use Celsius)) so "F" is the only commonality between the two countries.
Almost.
When I went to US regularly, for some reason my boarding pass was often stamped "SSSS" meaning extra security checks. P.I.T.A.
I had 4. Dallas-NY, NY-Frankfurt. Frankfurt-Helsinki, Helsinki-Oulu.
Only the top one had SSSS on it.
I just swapped the order and the McJobs in security didn't notice.
When I showed the last pass in NY, the bloke wished me a good vacation...in Ho'oulu, Hawaii?!?! Why he misread that Helsinki != NY beats me...
Dunno either...
About 20 years ago, I was working from home. I had one of the old analogue phones (OKI, IIRC).
Anyway a mate who lived nearby phoned me because his girlfriend had had her car broken into, and stole her handbag. It contained evidence of her address, and her house keys. (Epic Fail #1)
She thought she'd report it to the police when she finished work. (Epic Fail #2).
She mentioned it to her then-boyfriend over a lunchtime phone-call, who realised immediately the danger, and called me.
I ran round to their house (in Leamington Spa) like a shot, mobile and camera in hand.
Door open.
Didn't go in, called the police with camera primed, in case they came out. I was behind a bush, they wouldn't have seen me.
Astoundingly, similarly to Sarah's experience, they were round in 5 minutes or less. I mentioned the "perps" may still be inside, so they told me to wait, as with batons drawn, they combed the house*.
Needless to say, I was too late, TV, Stereo etc. gone.
Also, a nice set of designer T-shirts, that the boyfriend had designed and - fortunately - photographed were taken.
Caught the 3 stupid buggers a day later, as they were prancing round Coventry (10 miles/15kM away) wearing them. All kit recovered.
* Maybe that's why they were quick - free "Baton Training Course 101 ?"
That was then, this is now.
""It’s strange that the US, which was light years behind Europe, ..."
Yep, found it peculiar myself. For example(s):
Friend of mine - US based, but of Pakistani descent (They were early adopters) - didn't want a mobile in the early 'noughties' until I convinced him I wanted to call HIM, not his bloody desk.
He also thought it reasonable that he should pay ½ the call, until I pointed out that, should I send him junk/empty envelope, he's wasting money every time.
One bloke (this is the early 'noughties', remember) loved my Communicator so much, he rushed to buy one. Came back to the hotel with a ...Motorola...Sigh.
The pass was in the name of a 55 year old American
Whaddya mean, couldn't pass as 55? I've seen 45-year-old yanks look better!
I'm 54, and look more like the young bloke than the masked devil!
It's that Florida sun that does it...(or two terms of the Bush Administration)
Big fleas..
Have little fleas
On their backs to bite 'em
Little fleas have littler fleas
And so ad infinitum.
Myst-All-Chucking-Frighty!
Bloody hell - looks like a younger version of me!!!
I want one of those masks. Then, I don't have to turn the lights off on a Friday night...(well, first Friday of the month..)
Really??
"Gravity is the same 90,000 feet up as it is on the ground"
Huh??
Sorry, but "Lagrangian points" spring to mind.
Correct me (with proof) as I'm sure I'm wrong.
Usually.
89 000
Goddammit - an extra 11 000 feet* would've been technically space. Not much further than my walk to the city. Reckon either John or the bloke with the cigar were chatting too long, and filled the balloon a tad too much?
So, the 'pop' released it, huh? Bet that caused the little chap inside to foul his breeches, and press the release button. I would have done, too, and forgotten about the button...but Playmobil folks are made of sterner stuff than me.
* Converts to approx 3,4Km. It's about 2½kM for me to shop.
Nokia??
In a previous article, the idea was mooted...
Be a better bet than Sony. But then they have the SonyEricsson millstone around their necks, as also Nokia has NokiaSiemensNetworks as their Dun Cow* to slay. ("2½ yearsuntil they can kill that beast...NOT Beresford-Wylie's finest hour...)
Only problem is, I think the Finnish Gov. holds the "Golden Share". Otherwise, with the branding of Nokia vs. the branding of Sony, I'd bet Nokia.
We'll see.
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dun_Cow
WiFi on a bus??
Been doing that for awhile in Oulu. Kinda restrictive, usually it's just the #19 - Airport - City - Uni. Makes sense (first two places, anyway) Sometimes I get lucky and they change vehicles and I get the vehicle usually allocated for the Airport run, so I can browse for the 25 minutes I spend on the bus every morning. No worse than WiFi in the pub, surely?
Connection to the bus's Internet doo-dad is done by a new-fangled thingumajig I heard called "BEE JEEZ", or some such. Same technology that lets the internal bus display show what the next stop is called. I thought it, like the buses ran like clockwork, but it seems to use another odd thing called "Jee, Pee-ess". I think clockwork's better myself. Ask John Harrison*.
But then, I'm old and smell of wee-wee. What would I know...
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harrison
I told you...
...the conspiracy merchants would pop out of the woodwork.
I note they don't use their real name, unlike me*.
AC didn't use the 'troll' icon as I suggested. I think "he's not the Messiah, he's just a very naughty boy"
As an aside, I think QinetiQ and Blue Tree Travel Services (the sponsors, IIRC) would possibly have monitored this rather closely, as they seem to have stuck quite a bit of wedge , effort and time in this project - esp. QinetiQ.
So, I think the Conspiratory crowd can sod off and stay there.
(OK, I asked a previous manager of mine from a different company - now in - QinetiQ, if they had a hypobaric chamber loafing around, and why, at the time Lester and his motley crew were looking for one. He told me that they were quite short of folks at the moment, but maybe he chatted to a few colleagues about PARIS , and they decided to put a few extra hours their of spare time into it).
*Oops....Well, at least I'm consistent.
Don't get it..
Can I write documents/use spreadsheets/browse the web/get my mail??
Does it effing matter if I want to use Windows/Mac/Linux? If I can do any of those, do I fuc*king care?
That's why corporates are using XP still. It does the jobs (?) they need, on legacy hardware.
"User Experience" as I've seen it so far is how much the users' wallet suffers when she/he gets the bloody thing.
I think that's possibly where they all lost the plot.
Just an opinion by a luser, but - us lusers buy the damn things.
Now, the Conspiracy Theorists* start their diatribe..
"Too much wind, didn't go anywhere"
"Too pissed to operate the kit, so just chucked it in a forest while they had another bender"
"No playmobil model can be trained to fly a paper aircraft that fast"
"Flag didn't flutter" (what flag?)
Yeah. I'll read them tomorrow.
* Conspiracy Theorists - would you please use the "troll" icon. Ta muchly. Makes Sarah's work that much easier.
LEGO Pilot??
At least they had more sense than to go with a LEGLESS pilot. However, following this closely (in the interests of journalistic integrity, natch) and, in natural empathy, I drank a bottle at home of cheap red plonk.
Now, like the little plastic fella, I'm kinda hoping no-one finds me real soon...
Nice one, folks. Respect!!
Utter Bollocks, Lester!!
Problem isn't the wind.
It's the simple fact your boss won't let you and your team spend any money on cheap plonk. i.e., you can't get wasted on company money any more ....You're fooling nobody!
Seriously, good luck for tomorrow. It's a real shame the camera wimped out, that would've been epic footage. (Why not pop it in anyway, just in case?).
I'll be on regular updates.
-Cheers, I think it'll work. Nicely.
I did*.
Never happier.
I am a fairy. My name...escapes me at the moment.
*Both. Hated it, and went.
You're correct.
>> They can rip your car to component bits to search for something and don't have to put it back together. >>
But, neither do you. Just (as it's ripped to bits) simplyleave it there. That'll inconvenience them for the next pull-apart. They only have a finite amount of space. Insurance should sort it in "Ten Wurkin Daze". Oh, maybe complain to the Police about criminal damage, and it becomes immutable - and immovable evidence...
Same as the police, who can trash your house, then just walk away. (Unless you happen to live in Forest Gate, London, and they'll completely refurbish it when they discover the bottle of Domestos under the kitchen sink is not a bomb.)
@TeeCee
Was that an audition for the BOFH's job, perchance...? Nice one!
Although I disagree with your choice of music. "Tubular Bells" might fit more snugly.
Nothing to hide, nothing to fear.
'Nuff said. Except, it's the US gummint, where they appear to jump at their own shadows.
Don't mind that, but why do they have to piss themselves at the same time? Seen how they "adjust their dress*" as they approach the pentagon/whitehouse podium??
*http://www.armyofmom.com/2006/11/which-way-do-you-dress-sir.html
@Bilgepipe
>>Because the EeePC, like the one I have, will be cheap nasty shite.>>
Cheap? Yep, but the 701(eebuntu transforms it) is in my pocket wherever I go. If I wanna lookup the buses/gmail/whatever, it 'floats my boat'. For €150, I'm not complaining. 3 years old, and I still haven't felt the slightest temptation to try anything more advanced than 'Doom' on it. I bet that's a fraction of the wedge you've spent on booze in that time, and not had anything like the pleasure*.
However the mac Air 11½" looks well good. As I said previously, I think Apple are ruling the roost.
(Nice monicker BTW. Well chosen...)
* If you disagree, I think the News-Of-The-Screws pays for articles like that.
Jeezuz, Haitch, El Reg. ...
Do you get your mods. from the jobcentre, or (Defunct) Woollies nowadays???
WHF is wrong with this?? (Unless the Mod's also a Freemason. Or Brazilian, which might explain a bit....)
Andus McCoatover
Have another go, moderator. You'll get it. Given time.
* Submitted at Sunday 24th October 2010 21:16 GMT
* Rejected by moderator at Monday 25th October 2010 09:41 GMT
@AC "Im not sure what the poster was trying to say."
* Submitted at Saturday 23rd October 2010 16:38 GMT
* Rejected by moderator at Saturday 23rd October 2010 20:11 GMT
Sir Paul Stephenson would probably be a fully-paid-up member of the Secret Handshake Society, A.K.A th...(sounds of Glock bullets going into brain...)
"Did you get the bastard?"
"Yes, Chief"
"OK, now fuc*k off and have your do'nut break. The other brigade'll clean up"
Ye Gods and Little Fishes!!
Never doubted this proj. would see the light of day, pity it was a bit too blowy.
Still, let's hope it as bad tomorrow, so another excuse for another bottle or two of cheap plonk...
(After all, that's what it's about, innit??)
@ AC. Your last paragraph...
"The enemy of your enemy isn't your friend: He's just the next enemy in a long line of enemies who could have been your friend if it weren't for the fact that you keep seeing enemies everywhere."
Couldn't have put the whole balls-up better.
Delivered in a nutshell. Memorable. Thanks.
'Mortified' in Mountain View?
I bet "Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells" just chocked on her G+T.
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