I notice the creases in his trousers, shoe colour, shoe angle, anorak folds etc. are about the same as the Times article.- (North Koreans obviously can't afford new clothes, not even for a Beloved Leader)
But, the blokes next to him have neatened their uniforms. Suddenly. And changed their shadows for the photo. Plus, swapped medals/ribbons between themselves. (Kim doesn't have any. Loser.)
Odd, that...............
Aside:
We've a town near where I live in Finland called "II". Yep, honest (pronounced in English as "eee", without the PC or the lady on the beach). Reckon that's where the Beloved Leader's retirement home must be, Korean being reckoned to be the hardest lingo in the world, Finnish second - he'll find (after?)life here a doddle.
Hmmm.. Born in 1956, I seem to remember a railway station in Birmingham called Snow Hill. I also remember boarding a steam train there with my grandparents (Or, was it a church choir outing - memory is hazy nowadays). And getting a little orange ticket.
Therefore, I must've been more than 4 years old, so - 1960 - last steam train?
Gordon Bennett! No wonder there was the "Hanging Chad" debacle awhile ago. (Dunno what my mate Chad did to deserve it, apart from being an "Uphill Gardener". At least, he was well hung....)
I guess we have to wait for the results, then. Maybe the lawsuits....
Damn those IT guys. Must've been for a quick pint with the BOFH and PFY.... ;-)
(No, to AC, it's not illegal to tell your vote. In the civilised world, anyway. It's Democracy, and free speech. It is illegal to SELL your vote, IIRC...)
@The Oxford don would lie and throw away his whole life's work for a bit of publicity
Yep, and for 10 grand. Dollars, == green bogpaper nowadays. Worth not-a-lot in squids even with the credit crunch. But, useful if you've got the squits...however, Zimbabwean 1M dollars are bigger, and your finger don't go through so easy.
Agreee totally. That's fuc*king likely. NOT!!
(I was paid a pony by El-Reg to write this and agree with you by the way. True as I'm riding this bike. Honest.).
How long before THIS 'joint venture' - with it seems, the majority of the new middle management not wishing for us Brits to mention the war or 1966, goes tits-up. Seen the operating margin recently? Pants!
<<Operating loss in Nokia Siemens Networks was EUR 1 million (EUR 120 million), representing an operating margin of 0% (-3.3%). >>
As an aside, from Nokia's Investor pages, the following gem leaps up:
...The planned reorganization is estimated to have an **impact** on approximately 130 NRC employees globally, of which a maximum of 100 are in Finland....
IMPACT?? Yep, had that awhile ago, when made redundant. It means a smack in the bollocks with a very large hammer. Now, that's quite an **impact**.
Siemens going back into heavy machinery? Tanks, artillery, maybe?
<<Bill Gates dies in a car crash and ends up in front in front of StPeter@heaven.com.
St. Peter says I don't know what to do with you. You've created many jobs and helped a lot of people in the new electronic age, but you've also been a royal pain to some of our big contributers. I'll tell you what, I'll let you have a look at heaven and hell and choose for yourself.
So St. Peter shows Bill heaven, with the clouds and Angels and harps, and Bill thinks to himself: "OK, as far as it goes."
Then St. Peter shows Bill hell, with scantily clad bathing beauties on a tropical beach with palm trees and Bill thinks to himself: "This is a no-brainer!"
So Bill says to St. Peter: "I'll take hell!"
Two weeks later St. Peter thinks to himself: "I wonder how Bill is doing?"
So he drops by hell and finds Bill chained to a wall, consumed by flames and screaming in agony.
"Where are the bathing beauties, where's the beach?" Cried Bill. "This isn't what you showed me!"
Wonder how much carbon all them fuc*king CCTV cameras generate?? Plus the methane, generated by all them boring farts monitoring them. Plenty of carbon in methane...
@Chris - yep, pretty easy. Stand corrected. There's more than one way to skin a rabbit. (or a penguin! ;-)
@Gordon - Why don't ya just effing TRY IT???!!! Cost you a CD, then have a crack. Then, you won't be talking _out_ of your crack. Oh, installing Firefox? (You don't need to, of course - comes in the tin, but...)
See https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/add-applications/C/gnome-app-install.html. Works easy.
<<European countries where jobs will be lost are: Austria; Belgium; ***Czech Republic***;>> HUH???
I should work for UPS. They're probably next.
At least, with UPS you get a free Ubuntu-coloured shirt 'n' trousers*. Saves changing when you've had a near-miss. DHL has a different uniform, IIRC.
*(See the new Ubuntu 8.10 background to put you off yer brekkie. It looks like both the BOFH and PFY pebble-dashed the same shitter after Friday lunchtime's Curry 'n' Guinness spasm without flushing)
You'd have to click the "terminal" icon, unless you're a an alt-F2 fan. Then click to close it again, unless you remember "exit" does it for ya. Bit less fingerwork, though. ;-)
(Oh, and Gordon appears to be a left-handed-website viewer. One stupid paytard bunny).
Years ago, Bill Gates changed the world of office applications by creating Windows. No-one can surely deny that was a major revolution in the office environment . I remember (trying) to use a VAX 730 for business applications, and the cry around our small office was "PRINTING IN C-TOS!!" which meant no-one else could, else it'd crash. Eventually, we used one of our staffers' "Garfield" dolls as a token. If you had it, you were allowed to print. No-one else was.
Then, we installed (IIRC) Windows 2.? Peace at last. No shouting.
But, MS tools killed off our (micro)VAX cross-compiler business, which was a serious earner. Why pay 5000 quid for a VAX-based tool when a PC-based tool cost 500? Killed (micro)VAX, too, IMHO.
I digress slightly.
Now the problem Canonical has is that the support for "Joe Public" for Ubuntu comes usually from a bloke down the pub - me - who uses it, and knows it. It's too simple for its own good. I've installed it dozens of times, and never, ever had someone want to go back. Admittedly, most times on the family's second, older computer, but...
At the weekend, I visited my girlfriends sister's family, who asked me about a lappie she had. Win-2000, which had become very corrupt. (As she has two teenage boys, I guessed why...)
Anyway, stuff Ubuntu on it, sweet as a nut. She (the sister) uses it only for browsing, letters and g-mail.
But that's the business model's problem. I got it and installed it, all for nowt - even tho' I was offered money for it.
Canonical has an uphill struggle. But so did Sir Edmund Hilary, and he made it.
Nuclear to Mars? Not more "Little Green Men", phleeeeze! They'll be really pissed off. We're lucky not to have woken the basta*rds up with the (relatively recent) armada of unheavily armed solar-powered Golf Carts.
Where's Orson Kaart (or whatever the bloke's name was) when you need him?
I always find a pint of Koskenkorva ("Finnish White Wine" == basicaly, vodka) a little too much for breakfast. Beats the living shi*t out of milk on my cornflakes.
Glad someone's got some sense.
(in case you're curious, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koskenkorva_Viina)
1) 8 people a day do die on our roads, you're probbly right.
Yep, a lot more people die in their beds daily. Let's ban them fuc*kers, too. Beds are obiously far too dangerous. Stands to reason!!. Won't get in one ever again. (except for a bit o' "Horizontal Jogging")
2) Why is the speed limit set at 30, 40, 50? Why not - if these folks are the "experts" in road conditions the Muppets must be, have 34.25, 40.1, or 51.88? Jeez.
3) Why is it deemed that driving at 29m/h is OK, but at 31m/h, children riccochet from bonnet to bonnet? (Think of the children!!!)
I LOVE my EEEPC-701. Simple, runs Linux - as if I give a hoot - , does what it says on the tin. Internet access, emails, Skype and the occasional document. That'll do me.
If you buy a 'fridge, and it says on the box, "Keeps food cool", that's what I expect it to do. And it does. Like the eee - does exactly what's promised.
I don't expect it to iron my shirts, wake me with fresh coffee in the morning, cook my food and give me a damn decent blowjob on a Friday night. I got a girlfriend for those. She can't keep food cold (well, except for her famed icy stare). OK, bit frigid sometimes ;-)
WTF would anyone want XP/Vista/W7 on a tool that fits in a coat pocket, goes everywhere I do and does >95% of what we *really* use a PC for??
I've a *real* laptop at home for downloading pr0n/playing games, whatever.
Mine's the one with the Asus bird's photo in the pocket.
...books on how to learn Morse Code, or keeping carrier pigeons.
Sodding Hell, can't they fucking think?? Anyone capable of organising an escape is well clever enough to learn morse code - no torchlight, just a white or mirrored object 'flashed*' from the window.
Nope, Jaffas are seedless oranges. D'uh. So, vasectomy comment makes sense, it was my monicker for one of my managers when he announced he'd had the "Final Cut" or he'd be immitating the "John Wayne Walk" for awhile.
Why not use "wget" - with a depth search of about 20 to ferret through Ms. Palin's undies? Save a UK bank or two?
Password's probbly "vicepresident" anyway. If not, "John-The-Ripper" is your best mate.
Anyone got a 500G hard drive in their jacket pocket? Apart from me?
Enjoy, and publish the results here. (Not in a US-controlled country, tho'. FBI'll get ya. Shit, that's everywhere but North Korea, and anywhere where there aint no Ni*ggers).
(mine's the one with ½-terabyte disk in the pocket, and a Golliwog on the lapel)
>>This is intended to cover everyone who is in the country for more than three months, and therefore wouldn't apply to those visiting for shorter periods.<<
OK, I get it.
Don't stay for more than three months if you're a suicide bomber.
That's why you're a journalist in London, and I'm unemployed, getting about €2,500/month on the dole (apartment rent (noin) £300 also 80% paid) for calculating the square root of my apartment's name (Bugger Hall) in Finland. Swap? Nah. (till Winter, anyway - Damn, think it just started...)
<<As to the previous comment about time to warm up... if one was being truly energy-saving, then parts of the house may be allowed to cool to 12C or less overnight in winter. *Then* how long does it take for a CFL to warm up to a decent brightness?>>
Er, parts of our "house" (communal landing/stairway) can get to MINUS 20C in the winter. And, it's dark. 18 hours/day in December. Right, fire alarm goes off. Turn on stairwell light, and may as well hit the fire alarm's snooze button.
Or should that be Gordon Brown? Same effect. Utter shite.
See http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/3174452/Traditional-lightbulbs-banned-by-EU.html
So, the new dimmer-able (thus energy-saving) lamp me and my blonde Finnish bird just bought to properly illuminate our webcam shenanigans is now (almost) worthless. I'd better buy enough bulbs to last for as long as I'm still capable. Maybe one or two'll be enough.
OK, I get it. Instead of soft, low lighting, it's full chat or nothing.
Now, brings a bit more to the equation.
Imagine if the cupid stunts in the EU decide to implement this on cars. Plunged in utter darkness for about a second (= about 100m) while switching from dipped beam to main. Cute.
Sorry to be a dummy, but aren't the latest planes "Fly-By-Wire". Don't they have a PS2-style interface? So therefore, a "click of the mouse" is what sends the plane into a helluva fun trip?
@Who says it might have been a laptop? -an abject apology
Hi, Sir. Having re-read my comment I posted earlier, and Your knowledge of the scenario, I have no choice but to offer You a total, unqualified apology.
In mitigation, this is what happens when I write comments at the same time as losing at billiards.
Er, well. Couple of things. Mobiles can (theoretically) have a max output of 2 watts (Class-II). But nowadays in practice it's limited to one. That was when the coverage was crap, now it's ubiquitous pretty well anywhere. OK, I'm talking 2G here, but YMMwontV.
Mobiles won't be broadcasting simultaneously, GSM standards (ETSI - now 3GPP) use Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) which separates the single frequency channel into 8 (6, or 7 as one or two are reserved on a single BTS (basestation) for signalling (BCCH, MBCCHC, SADDC, FACCH, FCC), etc) timeslots. So, you can't add up the power. It's distributed over time. 1W = 1W for all time.
So, it's definitely less power out than the microwave ovens used to heat the nosh on your flight. (Unless you're flying American, and get the doggie-bag left over by the previous seat occupant - unheated)
Totally pissed off with the Airbus A330 EMC gubbins. Why can't they get it right???
Always upsets my EEE lappie while I'm trying to watch a grumbleflick and have a swift Jodrell Bank midair, at the same time as they're trying something as mundane as landing or summat.. Tossers. (Oops)
Thought the Spanish for "Dumb" was "bobo", and the English for the Spanish word "mensa" was "message" as in "dejar un recado or mensaje a or para alguien" - leave a message for someone.
By the way, at the bottom of the page, here's the missing "H". Sorry 'bout that. Muvver said I always drop my 's (Damn, done it again! it's below.)
H
Here's also the missing "N" from the command "umount". Can you pop it in an envelope, and send it back to AT&T labs? Ta muchly. They've been missing it since before the PFY was a nipper.
Well, I know what "69" is (don't we all, snick, snick) but does "38" represent lying next to a fat bird, after a night with the beer goggles while sporting a Large Hadron?
Erm, Xion doesn't exactly sound like a UK surname. Unlike "Angus McCoatup, Mahatma Kote, or Muhammed Mustavadump." So, be kind to that damn bloody foreigner, will'ya? Shi*te.
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Weirder and weirder..
..from Andrew Alcock's link
(http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200811/200811060007.html)
I notice the creases in his trousers, shoe colour, shoe angle, anorak folds etc. are about the same as the Times article.- (North Koreans obviously can't afford new clothes, not even for a Beloved Leader)
But, the blokes next to him have neatened their uniforms. Suddenly. And changed their shadows for the photo. Plus, swapped medals/ribbons between themselves. (Kim doesn't have any. Loser.)
Odd, that...............
Aside:
We've a town near where I live in Finland called "II". Yep, honest (pronounced in English as "eee", without the PC or the lady on the beach). Reckon that's where the Beloved Leader's retirement home must be, Korean being reckoned to be the hardest lingo in the world, Finnish second - he'll find (after?)life here a doddle.
El Reg Bastards!!!
"Brown's still up for dabs"
Laughed so much, it made me drop my pint. Fuc*king pricey here in the Frozen North. And it was Newkie Broon...
'Course, why should Whacky Jaqui worry? Nothing to hide, nothing to fear. That's why she doesn't need curtains in her house...
Titter. (actually, I'll pass on that one....)
@Yanks should count themselves lucky
Yep!!
Black scores 7, Brown scores 4 (snooker)
Why do the two words..
...STUPID BUNNY
spring so readily to mind?
(Paris, or someone who should be shagging her, not Yahoo!!!, natch)
Micro SSD cards
Don't ya just love 'em? 8G of kiddie porn
Cupid stunts. Park one up your Gary Glitter on arrival. Then, if questioned, complain of piles. 8G of 'em. Snigger.....
Mwahahahaha
Now, I can do away with my g/f.
Ta muchly. Great help. So, i'll pop down to my local German-owned LIDL (Valtatie 31, Tuira, Oulu, 90500 Finland) and get some.
But, as the article says,
<<The majority of criminals are not that smart. They don't do things as you expect them to and read this kind of news>>
Er, ....
Forgot..
Used to have a customer, years ago, whose name was Richard Staines. He'd never, ever, ever let anyone call him "Dick". Dunno why.
@Cilt Bang
Grief, did I misread that or what.............
Snort --coffee | /home/usr/nose >> /dev/keyboard
Snow Hill?
Hmmm.. Born in 1956, I seem to remember a railway station in Birmingham called Snow Hill. I also remember boarding a steam train there with my grandparents (Or, was it a church choir outing - memory is hazy nowadays). And getting a little orange ticket.
Therefore, I must've been more than 4 years old, so - 1960 - last steam train?
Anyone help me out here?
Election surprisingly complex? You bet!!
Gordon Bennett! No wonder there was the "Hanging Chad" debacle awhile ago. (Dunno what my mate Chad did to deserve it, apart from being an "Uphill Gardener". At least, he was well hung....)
I guess we have to wait for the results, then. Maybe the lawsuits....
Damn those IT guys. Must've been for a quick pint with the BOFH and PFY.... ;-)
(No, to AC, it's not illegal to tell your vote. In the civilised world, anyway. It's Democracy, and free speech. It is illegal to SELL your vote, IIRC...)
@The Oxford don would lie and throw away his whole life's work for a bit of publicity
Yep, and for 10 grand. Dollars, == green bogpaper nowadays. Worth not-a-lot in squids even with the credit crunch. But, useful if you've got the squits...however, Zimbabwean 1M dollars are bigger, and your finger don't go through so easy.
Agreee totally. That's fuc*king likely. NOT!!
(I was paid a pony by El-Reg to write this and agree with you by the way. True as I'm riding this bike. Honest.).
Pity I'm not a Chinese journalist...
...else I'd headline this as a "Morning Erection".
-Gorrit already. Too bleeding obvious.
So, Nokia SIEMENS Networks next???
How long before THIS 'joint venture' - with it seems, the majority of the new middle management not wishing for us Brits to mention the war or 1966, goes tits-up. Seen the operating margin recently? Pants!
<<Operating loss in Nokia Siemens Networks was EUR 1 million (EUR 120 million), representing an operating margin of 0% (-3.3%). >>
As an aside, from Nokia's Investor pages, the following gem leaps up:
...The planned reorganization is estimated to have an **impact** on approximately 130 NRC employees globally, of which a maximum of 100 are in Finland....
IMPACT?? Yep, had that awhile ago, when made redundant. It means a smack in the bollocks with a very large hammer. Now, that's quite an **impact**.
Siemens going back into heavy machinery? Tanks, artillery, maybe?
Demo?
Obvious old joke, but relevant to the subject...
<<Bill Gates dies in a car crash and ends up in front in front of StPeter@heaven.com.
St. Peter says I don't know what to do with you. You've created many jobs and helped a lot of people in the new electronic age, but you've also been a royal pain to some of our big contributers. I'll tell you what, I'll let you have a look at heaven and hell and choose for yourself.
So St. Peter shows Bill heaven, with the clouds and Angels and harps, and Bill thinks to himself: "OK, as far as it goes."
Then St. Peter shows Bill hell, with scantily clad bathing beauties on a tropical beach with palm trees and Bill thinks to himself: "This is a no-brainer!"
So Bill says to St. Peter: "I'll take hell!"
Two weeks later St. Peter thinks to himself: "I wonder how Bill is doing?"
So he drops by hell and finds Bill chained to a wall, consumed by flames and screaming in agony.
"Where are the bathing beauties, where's the beach?" Cried Bill. "This isn't what you showed me!"
"That", said St. Pete, "was a demo." >>
(Icon, natch).
Obviously...
...she had no virtue.
(Gorrit already)
It's a frigging PHONE, FFS!!!
Christ-all-bloody-mighty. Mine cost €50, works fine.
I think you can get a working 1970's BT Trimfone on ebay for the same, which lasts longer. D'ohhhh. More money than sense, some twats.
Oh, so if I can't sell it, I don't own it? Title of Ownership? So, who does? Rental? Operator? Motorola?
Effing 'Merkan laws. Daft as brushes. Hope Osama Bin Liner gets in as prez next week. Whatever.
Think of the children!!!!
Wonder how much carbon all them fuc*king CCTV cameras generate?? Plus the methane, generated by all them boring farts monitoring them. Plenty of carbon in methane...
@Chris and Gordon
@Chris - yep, pretty easy. Stand corrected. There's more than one way to skin a rabbit. (or a penguin! ;-)
@Gordon - Why don't ya just effing TRY IT???!!! Cost you a CD, then have a crack. Then, you won't be talking _out_ of your crack. Oh, installing Firefox? (You don't need to, of course - comes in the tin, but...)
See https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/add-applications/C/gnome-app-install.html. Works easy.
Sigh.
er?
<<European countries where jobs will be lost are: Austria; Belgium; ***Czech Republic***;>> HUH???
I should work for UPS. They're probably next.
At least, with UPS you get a free Ubuntu-coloured shirt 'n' trousers*. Saves changing when you've had a near-miss. DHL has a different uniform, IIRC.
*(See the new Ubuntu 8.10 background to put you off yer brekkie. It looks like both the BOFH and PFY pebble-dashed the same shitter after Friday lunchtime's Curry 'n' Guinness spasm without flushing)
@Christopher Martin
Sorry, Christopher, slight disagreement.
You'd have to click the "terminal" icon, unless you're a an alt-F2 fan. Then click to close it again, unless you remember "exit" does it for ya. Bit less fingerwork, though. ;-)
(Oh, and Gordon appears to be a left-handed-website viewer. One stupid paytard bunny).
Good luck, Mark Shuttleworth!
Years ago, Bill Gates changed the world of office applications by creating Windows. No-one can surely deny that was a major revolution in the office environment . I remember (trying) to use a VAX 730 for business applications, and the cry around our small office was "PRINTING IN C-TOS!!" which meant no-one else could, else it'd crash. Eventually, we used one of our staffers' "Garfield" dolls as a token. If you had it, you were allowed to print. No-one else was.
Then, we installed (IIRC) Windows 2.? Peace at last. No shouting.
But, MS tools killed off our (micro)VAX cross-compiler business, which was a serious earner. Why pay 5000 quid for a VAX-based tool when a PC-based tool cost 500? Killed (micro)VAX, too, IMHO.
I digress slightly.
Now the problem Canonical has is that the support for "Joe Public" for Ubuntu comes usually from a bloke down the pub - me - who uses it, and knows it. It's too simple for its own good. I've installed it dozens of times, and never, ever had someone want to go back. Admittedly, most times on the family's second, older computer, but...
At the weekend, I visited my girlfriends sister's family, who asked me about a lappie she had. Win-2000, which had become very corrupt. (As she has two teenage boys, I guessed why...)
Anyway, stuff Ubuntu on it, sweet as a nut. She (the sister) uses it only for browsing, letters and g-mail.
But that's the business model's problem. I got it and installed it, all for nowt - even tho' I was offered money for it.
Canonical has an uphill struggle. But so did Sir Edmund Hilary, and he made it.
Aw, Gawd
Nuclear to Mars? Not more "Little Green Men", phleeeeze! They'll be really pissed off. We're lucky not to have woken the basta*rds up with the (relatively recent) armada of unheavily armed solar-powered Golf Carts.
Where's Orson Kaart (or whatever the bloke's name was) when you need him?
Icon obviously, natch.
Newbie disappointment?
Dunno. When I bought my second eeee701 locally in Finland, I was specifically told not to expect XP/Vista performance.
So, I've said the same to everyone I've shown my eee to. Mate of mine didn't listen (even tho' Id lent him the box overnight) and gave it away!
I've said before, it does what it says on the tin, no more. (Using it in a pub in Oulu to write this, BTW)
Re: Email will get you
So will DNA, if he licked the stamp.
Why these muppets don't use Internet caffs beggars belief!
Paris, cos I'd lick her stamp any day. (well, 3 weeks out of 4)
Hyvä idea!
I always find a pint of Koskenkorva ("Finnish White Wine" == basicaly, vodka) a little too much for breakfast. Beats the living shi*t out of milk on my cornflakes.
Glad someone's got some sense.
(in case you're curious, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koskenkorva_Viina)
Daft buggers...
OK, I'll let rip.
1) 8 people a day do die on our roads, you're probbly right.
Yep, a lot more people die in their beds daily. Let's ban them fuc*kers, too. Beds are obiously far too dangerous. Stands to reason!!. Won't get in one ever again. (except for a bit o' "Horizontal Jogging")
2) Why is the speed limit set at 30, 40, 50? Why not - if these folks are the "experts" in road conditions the Muppets must be, have 34.25, 40.1, or 51.88? Jeez.
3) Why is it deemed that driving at 29m/h is OK, but at 31m/h, children riccochet from bonnet to bonnet? (Think of the children!!!)
Cunch of Bunts.
(Gravestone, natch)
I don't get it....
I LOVE my EEEPC-701. Simple, runs Linux - as if I give a hoot - , does what it says on the tin. Internet access, emails, Skype and the occasional document. That'll do me.
If you buy a 'fridge, and it says on the box, "Keeps food cool", that's what I expect it to do. And it does. Like the eee - does exactly what's promised.
I don't expect it to iron my shirts, wake me with fresh coffee in the morning, cook my food and give me a damn decent blowjob on a Friday night. I got a girlfriend for those. She can't keep food cold (well, except for her famed icy stare). OK, bit frigid sometimes ;-)
WTF would anyone want XP/Vista/W7 on a tool that fits in a coat pocket, goes everywhere I do and does >95% of what we *really* use a PC for??
I've a *real* laptop at home for downloading pr0n/playing games, whatever.
Mine's the one with the Asus bird's photo in the pocket.
Why not remove from the prison library...
...books on how to learn Morse Code, or keeping carrier pigeons.
Sodding Hell, can't they fucking think?? Anyone capable of organising an escape is well clever enough to learn morse code - no torchlight, just a white or mirrored object 'flashed*' from the window.
Oh, better still, ban windows*.
*There's the IT angles.
Re: @ Sarah Bee
>>If you don't like The Reg readership, find another job>>
DO FUCK*IN What??
Leave our Moderatrix alone. Or fuc*k off.
Bestest (as my Finnish g/f says) - Do both.
Now, take my two words of advice concerning sex and travel.
Fuck off.
You and your putrid comments make me angry.
Andy Crofts, Valtatie 5 as 15, 90500 Oulu, Finland. Not ashamed to show it.
Pop round sometime, but remember, we've got as many guns per population as US.
Dickwipe.
...but without gaining a firm foothold...??
Foothold??? They've eight of the buggers, haven't they? If they can't get one of them firm, then Darwin was wrong.
Paris, 'cos mine's still firm.
@ Magani
Nope, Jaffas are seedless oranges. D'uh. So, vasectomy comment makes sense, it was my monicker for one of my managers when he announced he'd had the "Final Cut" or he'd be immitating the "John Wayne Walk" for awhile.
@there is a simple explanation
Have you seen OUR (Finnish) President, Tarja Halonen???
Her hubby needs a fuc*king medal for "Services well above the call of ANYONE!!!"
(She's a great lass, incidentally)
Paris, 'cos I need a wank.
A mate of mine...
...many years ago moved to NZ. He is "monorchid" == one ball less than is customary for males.
Wonder if that'd account for the 50% reduction in lil' swimmers? Or maybe there's too many 'lefthanded websites' in that part of the world.
Outlook??
<<That's hilarious, even Outlook isn't that slow!>>
Run that fuck*er on hasta la Vista, baby! Then tell me what s l o w is.
(Ref. http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/hasta-la-vista.html)
Why not use "wget" - with a depth search of about 20 to ferret through Ms. Palin's undies? Save a UK bank or two?
Password's probbly "vicepresident" anyway. If not, "John-The-Ripper" is your best mate.
Anyone got a 500G hard drive in their jacket pocket? Apart from me?
Enjoy, and publish the results here. (Not in a US-controlled country, tho'. FBI'll get ya. Shit, that's everywhere but North Korea, and anywhere where there aint no Ni*ggers).
(mine's the one with ½-terabyte disk in the pocket, and a Golliwog on the lapel)
@jeremy
<<demand full passenger details inc cc numbers>>
Don't you mean "SS" numbers? (Wish I had the Nazi 'S' on my keyboard, dammit.)
3 Months??
>>This is intended to cover everyone who is in the country for more than three months, and therefore wouldn't apply to those visiting for shorter periods.<<
OK, I get it.
Don't stay for more than three months if you're a suicide bomber.
Bleeding obvious icon, please.
@ Sarah Bee - "Go to your room"
Priceless comment.
That's why you're a journalist in London, and I'm unemployed, getting about €2,500/month on the dole (apartment rent (noin) £300 also 80% paid) for calculating the square root of my apartment's name (Bugger Hall) in Finland. Swap? Nah. (till Winter, anyway - Damn, think it just started...)
@dervheid
Best ever!!!! 100%!!
Congratulations. (Minging Muppet)
Dangerous angle
<<As to the previous comment about time to warm up... if one was being truly energy-saving, then parts of the house may be allowed to cool to 12C or less overnight in winter. *Then* how long does it take for a CFL to warm up to a decent brightness?>>
Er, parts of our "house" (communal landing/stairway) can get to MINUS 20C in the winter. And, it's dark. 18 hours/day in December. Right, fire alarm goes off. Turn on stairwell light, and may as well hit the fire alarm's snooze button.
Gordon Bennett
Or should that be Gordon Brown? Same effect. Utter shite.
See http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/3174452/Traditional-lightbulbs-banned-by-EU.html
So, the new dimmer-able (thus energy-saving) lamp me and my blonde Finnish bird just bought to properly illuminate our webcam shenanigans is now (almost) worthless. I'd better buy enough bulbs to last for as long as I'm still capable. Maybe one or two'll be enough.
OK, I get it. Instead of soft, low lighting, it's full chat or nothing.
Now, brings a bit more to the equation.
Imagine if the cupid stunts in the EU decide to implement this on cars. Plunged in utter darkness for about a second (= about 100m) while switching from dipped beam to main. Cute.
Gravestone icon, natch.
@Excuses excuses.....
Sorry to be a dummy, but aren't the latest planes "Fly-By-Wire". Don't they have a PS2-style interface? So therefore, a "click of the mouse" is what sends the plane into a helluva fun trip?
(Penguin, 'cos I'm obviously a dummy)
@HOW close?
From a quick mental calculation, 11.8 inches corresponds to roughly one nanosecond in the speed of light. Better move smartish!
@Who says it might have been a laptop? -an abject apology
Hi, Sir. Having re-read my comment I posted earlier, and Your knowledge of the scenario, I have no choice but to offer You a total, unqualified apology.
In mitigation, this is what happens when I write comments at the same time as losing at billiards.
Sorry for that. Regards, Andy.
@@Stewart Haywood (AC)
Er, well. Couple of things. Mobiles can (theoretically) have a max output of 2 watts (Class-II). But nowadays in practice it's limited to one. That was when the coverage was crap, now it's ubiquitous pretty well anywhere. OK, I'm talking 2G here, but YMMwontV.
Mobiles won't be broadcasting simultaneously, GSM standards (ETSI - now 3GPP) use Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) which separates the single frequency channel into 8 (6, or 7 as one or two are reserved on a single BTS (basestation) for signalling (BCCH, MBCCHC, SADDC, FACCH, FCC), etc) timeslots. So, you can't add up the power. It's distributed over time. 1W = 1W for all time.
So, it's definitely less power out than the microwave ovens used to heat the nosh on your flight. (Unless you're flying American, and get the doggie-bag left over by the previous seat occupant - unheated)
EMC indeed.
Totally pissed off with the Airbus A330 EMC gubbins. Why can't they get it right???
Always upsets my EEE lappie while I'm trying to watch a grumbleflick and have a swift Jodrell Bank midair, at the same time as they're trying something as mundane as landing or summat.. Tossers. (Oops)
Paris, 'cos I have the video!
@Peyton
Thought the Spanish for "Dumb" was "bobo", and the English for the Spanish word "mensa" was "message" as in "dejar un recado or mensaje a or para alguien" - leave a message for someone.
Obviously, I'm both. Or, one of us is.
@Moderatrix
<<"please restore my H in future or I shall be obliged to address you as 'Angus'.">>
So, it's no longer "Andus McCoatover" but "Angus McCoatup". Couldn't resist. Nah...
'Shore fing. (Shorely shome mishtake </Sean Connery>)
By the way, at the bottom of the page, here's the missing "H". Sorry 'bout that. Muvver said I always drop my 's (Damn, done it again! it's below.)
H
Here's also the missing "N" from the command "umount". Can you pop it in an envelope, and send it back to AT&T labs? Ta muchly. They've been missing it since before the PFY was a nipper.
H N
@Moderatix
(The 'offending' mail hasn't appeared yet, but---)
No, I'm not an idiot. Mensa member for 30- odd years. IQ 179.
Watch NO jeremy whatsisface, 'cos we don't get it (receive or underststand) here in Oulu. Get Emmerdale and similar 'downware', like "Heartbeat".
Oulu? No, it's not a village in Hawaii. It's in Finland. Cupid Stunt (not at you, Sara)
Oh, yes, The poster is obviously a "kusipää" = Pis*h-ead.
Doesn't know his ars'se from his elbo'w. And can't spel, ether. Nor punctuate. Greengrocer's appostrophe's, anyone
Think (s)he didn't like the Mohatma or Muhammed reference.
-Happy days! ;-)
69 - 38 -huh?
Well, I know what "69" is (don't we all, snick, snick) but does "38" represent lying next to a fat bird, after a night with the beer goggles while sporting a Large Hadron?
OK. Gorrit already.
@@Michael Xion
Erm, Xion doesn't exactly sound like a UK surname. Unlike "Angus McCoatup, Mahatma Kote, or Muhammed Mustavadump." So, be kind to that damn bloody foreigner, will'ya? Shi*te.
Tish.
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