My flock of trained stinging hummingbirds don't seem to be getting the idea, they keep swarming after Boris Johnson - not that that isn't entertaining as well
I've sent your prior use of "first against the wall" back in time to the late 1970s
where Douglas Adams used it in [The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy]. (If you aren't familiar with that book or radio show, probably none of this comment will be intelligible.)
You'll probably be surprised to hear that subsequently you yourself were the first against the wall when the revolution came.
Whyever didn't you point out that you meant to write "car tax reminders" but you accidentally wrote "cat" instead of "car"? You know, letting a mistake like that stand without correcting it, makes you look ridiculous.
"The Autons are an artificial life form from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, and adversaries of the Doctor. Autons conceal deadly weapons within their hands, which can kill or vaporize their targets."
A somewhat more credible cause of mass blindness in the next remake of [Day of the Triffids] also can be considered. Deadly plants... hmm. "Terror of the Autons: Although the Nestene did use standard Autons for this operation, the assault relied on deadly plastic daffodils." http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Auton But I think those spat out plastic film that stuck on your face and suffocated you. Probably mostly annoying to real-life makers of plastic flowers, and of plastic dolls, big squidgy inflatable plastic chairs, etc., which also appeared.
"Data execution prevention" = no encrypted executable code?
But I don't know if it applies to Java - or to strongly Java-flavoured Dalvik.
Also, it isn't clear to me that the program wi!hich installs with access only to a limited set of Android features, gets to go on to breach those restrictions, such as sending expensive text messages. Although that is the sort of thing that happens. Also, are people carefully checking the permissions on each app? To do that, you have to understand the questions!
I think there's room in the world for a company that is good at discounts, special offers, and coupons. Given the number of cases where businesses have got their couponing DISASTROUSLY wrong, you should consider outsourcing it. Hoover UK giving away plane flights with appliances, with the appliances costing less than the flights, comes to mind.
But this company surely isn't good enough at it to be worth THAT much?
What is it in CDs? One CD = 650 MB WAV = 65 MB MP3; three albums = 200 MB; so you've got around 300 full CDs. That's -quite- a lot.
If on average - average - you have five albums by each artist that you like and collect, then that's sixty artists that you're collecting.
Of course if you're into "insert name of modern genre I despise" then they probably all sound the same except to a highly trained ear (or, preferably, a pair), to which every recording is indispensably unique.
I don't even know what the music I don't like is called any more, although I accidentally heard some "dub step" on Radio 1 this week and it sounded a bit of a mess.
Also a few years ago on the radio panel game [Just a Minute], players were challenged to talk fluently about "ambient trip hop" for sixty seconds, and it appeared that none of them really knew what it is either, although Graham Norton (I think) made a very valiant image-saving effort.
To clarify, "real" Usenetters will hate you if you "Preview the new Google Groups experience".
I assume that "the new Google Groups experience" isn't intended to be the default yet. It did have these drawbacks - which I reported to them after looking at it a few weeks ago - of sending posts to Usenet without line-wrapping and without a "References" header line. You do get an "In-reply-to" line but most other newsreader programs don't use that to connect messages.
There's no reason why an 10 character alphabetic-only password shouldn't be hwgsvexf. (No, that isn't ROT13. As far as I know.)
Easier to type, too, than "the1Tdepartmentcangof@ckthemselves-2011-06".
It it needs to be longer than 10 now, there's gqrmlhatdfi. To name only one.
By all means let it be either the initials of a memorised phrase or of one that you make up for that use, although not one that they made you learn at school.
BBC Scotland Freeview viewers from today (5pm launch, tomorrow not sure) have a new full Gaelic-language service, and nearly no "radio" reception any more (Radio 4 Extra and such) while that's on. Drat!
After you write a comment there, THEN they tell you that you have to register.
What a bunch of Jeremy-Hult-the-Counture-Secretaries.
Anyway: According to Google "Colin Harrow, who lives in Thackthwaite near Cockermouth, is a finalist in this year's Elderly Accommodation Council's Art Awards", but I think it may be a different person. But if that was my address, I wouldn't draw attention to it.
it wasn't actually tremendously funny. But when they passed round a bottle of the notorious Buckfast cheap "tonic wine" (caffeinated so that when you should pass out, you don't), and apparently all got impressively quickly drunk, -that- was most terrifically funny. It's deceptively strong stuff.
But I rather dislike the C-word when so used, partly because I gather that in the U.S. it has a different and more unpleasant secondary meaning, in the neighbourhood of "slut and/or whore". In Britain it basically means "inconsiderate", but it is provocatively rude.
that Sassenachs wouldnae ha done the verra same thing in sich a curcumstance? Even for that Stella Artwah. There wad be retail premises fownd razed to the grownd in Newcastle whan the hordes dispursed.
has a diagram showing the disputed cease-fire lines between North Korea and South Korea. Basically a bunch of islands have been in the middle of no-man's-land and in the firing since 1950. I don't think I'd stay there. Mind you, looking at a map of the Falklands (Britain's claim on Antarctica's presumed frozen wealth, oil and such, it wasn't always frozen you know) you feel the same.
I mean, North Korea, whether you're a fan or not, couldn't ever relax with Southern islands just over there. It's a stupid place to draw the line.
http://newpacificinstitute.org/jsw/?p=4115 shows the location of the hovercraft base.
It's like bloody D-Day.
As usual, when these situations are handled by the United Nations, it is a sick joke. This is because there isn't really any such thing as a United Nations, it is Big Nations playing deadly practical jokes on each other and on the rest of us/them, depending on whether you count the United Kingdom as prankster, prankee, or both, at diifferent times - I did mention the Falklands, which was a bit of an apple-pie-bed experience for us UN-wise.
There are people who like to have pretty, unreasonably expensive things in their kitchen.
For the rest of us, I've seen DAB radio down to £15. As for kitchenproofing it, wrap the bugger in clingfilm. Job done.
Absoltue (nee Virgin), Absolute 80s (sound suffers), Absolute 90s (mono)... conveniently broadcasting the same programme up to 10am so you can compare the transmission quality of each. Shouldn't Absolute 50s be the least good technically, or is that what BBC Radio 2 is for?
Why aren't people making these to record digitally any more - am I missing something? (Such as podcasts? No thanks.) Since I live in Scotland and am about to be blessed with an all-day Gaelic-language TV service on Freeview (kitchen TV with Freeview being an alternative to radio otherwise), I'm not going to have a Freeview radio option for most of the time.
So let's all you fellows go out and rape somebody, they can't prosecute millions of us for it.
No, I don't mean it. What I mean is that whether the, um, mass civil disobedience would or wouldn't work is beside the point, which is about the morality of free speech (or lack of it) and its reckless misuse.
Apparently you're not allowed even to talk about the superinjunctions but we are led to believe that some of them are to prevent reporting that two people have copulated, on the basis that such reporting without the consent of one of them infringes their right to privacy. I'm not sure I agree with that. But if it's the law it's the law. And mindlessly retweeting the prohibited information isn't heroic.
An unrestrained press... is free to tell you how to vote, and can make you believe it. That's bad.
i gather that "ordinary" depleted uranium has about one-third the radioactive decay of regular uranium - they don't get all the U-235 out of it.
This device probably is just the same and lasts only long enough to run the experiment before radioactive decay annihilates the special molecule and/or zaps the whole computer.
Using Linux is still read-only. Progresss comes from modifying it to control your vacuum cleaner or your greenhouse. And from contributing that work back to the community.
I'm unclear on how much good can be done with that much money, given the cost of film making which is what they do - I assume that Comcast isn't sole sponsor - but apparently one NBCUniversal is worth 300,000 ReelGrrls to them. Ms. Baker presumably is collecting, what, a dozen ReelGrrls herself? Or a hundred? It's a full time job and traditionally paid in pieces of silver. A classy lady like that doesn't come cheap.
I'm pretty sure that a connection authentication/encryption system where the word "false" appears in the name has some 'splaining to do.
They maybe could call it "double" something - it doesn't matter what - such as "double helix", If it isn't taken. You could make a case for that. Another offering: Twince. Google it, it's really odd. I am not taking responsibility for the results, but what Google says that they are is excitingly diverse. This page will probably soon be amongst them.
Actually it seem that "twince" is often used to refer to "two children born from one pregnancy" - but a lot of other things as well, and some people don't even have a meaning for it, they just want you to search for content about it on, or through, -their- web site.
If this were to happen, they'd be trapped in the bad bit of the Prodigal Son story as well, and through no fault of their own, serving broadband to rich swine but presumably not allowed to have any themselves.
What we need right now is another video-pornography-claimed-on-Parliamentary-expenses scandal - to remind overyone what broadband really is for.
Popular player = other players pay for the privilege of playing the game with you. This discouts or zeroes your own game playing fees.
As for jerks-pay-extra-to-get-to-be-jerks - no. How about, other players get to choose whether to put you on audio or not. If you're a jerk, no one wants to play with you: maybe play against you.
"At least it made him less likely to send a spur of the moment angry email to anybody"
Hmm, yes... you wouldn't want that, Osama bin Laden getting angry with you and sending you a recklessly worded e-mail. What could be worse than that.
Incidentally, I haven't heard of these fellows using biological or chemical weapons, is it against their religion? If you don't count persuading stupid farm kids to carry suicide bombs as a biological weapon. Imagine for instance if they went about spreading foot and mouth disease amongst livestock., which I presume they didn't, it spread like it did because that's what happens. Or swine flu. Of course they very much don't like swine, but is that all that stopped them?
In 1979, VisiCalc spreadsheet was a "killer app", a reason to buy the computer to run that application software (application of general-function computer hardware to a specific practical or aesthetic purpose).
Admittedly the computer was an Apple II PC, but Apple didn't and don't own the word "app", nor did it depend on the company name "Apple" - as far as I know; this is 32 years ago.
Rough men, uncivilised men... it's hung on George Orwell, and may be based on something he actually wrote or said in one or another place.
From here http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/ctc/faq.htm#RoughMen
- Did George Orwell ever say: "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf?" Or: "We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us?"
- Not exactly. But he did make comments that were along similar lines. In his essay on Rudyard Kipling (1942), Orwell wrote: "[Kipling] sees clearly that men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilised, are there to guard and feed them." (Thanks to Keith Ammann for this). And in his 'Notes on Nationalism' (1945) he wrote: "Those who "abjure" violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf."
And at http://www.military-quotes.com/forum/we-sleep-safely-our-beds-page2-t330.html
somebody "found this quote attributed to a speech on a BBC broadcast, April 4, 1942." I wonder if that could have been basically the same as the Kipling mention.
Likewise it seems to be not actually true that the Duke of Wellington had a look at his army and said, "I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me."
Soldiers, effective ones, are not necessarily moral people at all, as the incidence of looting and rape committed by any occupying force should tell you.
"In principle I generally support the Torys but every now and again they really should remember they are supposed to be governing for the benefit of the people."
Yeah. People who donate lots of money to the Conservative Party.
People who live (if the tax man asks) in Belize.
I seem to remember that it's actually quite nice there. If you're rich.
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It would be quite attractive to
stick Donald Trump with the bill in this case.
My flock of trained stinging hummingbirds don't seem to be getting the idea, they keep swarming after Boris Johnson - not that that isn't entertaining as well
I've sent your prior use of "first against the wall" back in time to the late 1970s
where Douglas Adams used it in [The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy]. (If you aren't familiar with that book or radio show, probably none of this comment will be intelligible.)
You'll probably be surprised to hear that subsequently you yourself were the first against the wall when the revolution came.
As it happens it was the sexual revolution...
On reflection,
The one that is first against the wall will sue all of the others.
Prius art
Whyever didn't you point out that you meant to write "car tax reminders" but you accidentally wrote "cat" instead of "car"? You know, letting a mistake like that stand without correcting it, makes you look ridiculous.
Presumably "unpatched" not "unlatched"
Although you may have been using the term for months and I assuming it was a technical name I hadn't come across - until today.
And maybe you weren't aware of it yourself.
Who was the MP who had charm?
Or are we talking about David Cameron's bracelet with a little doll of Nick Clegg hanging from it.
The one with all those pins stuck in it.
For when Nick Clegg himself isn't around to stick pins into.
Arms, you say?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auton
"The Autons are an artificial life form from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, and adversaries of the Doctor. Autons conceal deadly weapons within their hands, which can kill or vaporize their targets."
A somewhat more credible cause of mass blindness in the next remake of [Day of the Triffids] also can be considered. Deadly plants... hmm. "Terror of the Autons: Although the Nestene did use standard Autons for this operation, the assault relied on deadly plastic daffodils." http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Auton But I think those spat out plastic film that stuck on your face and suffocated you. Probably mostly annoying to real-life makers of plastic flowers, and of plastic dolls, big squidgy inflatable plastic chairs, etc., which also appeared.
People will use it
I can sit at my computer and type www.anneka-rice.xxx and have a certain amount of confidence of what I'm going to see. Or hear.
Not that I, um., ... obviously a fine figure of a woman... nevertheless... oh go on then.
"Data execution prevention" = no encrypted executable code?
But I don't know if it applies to Java - or to strongly Java-flavoured Dalvik.
Also, it isn't clear to me that the program wi!hich installs with access only to a limited set of Android features, gets to go on to breach those restrictions, such as sending expensive text messages. Although that is the sort of thing that happens. Also, are people carefully checking the permissions on each app? To do that, you have to understand the questions!
I was trying to figure out what to do with,
"WHOIS Your Daddy"...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who's_your_daddy%3F_%28phrase%29
I'm not sure I understand.
I think there's room in the world for a company that is good at discounts, special offers, and coupons. Given the number of cases where businesses have got their couponing DISASTROUSLY wrong, you should consider outsourcing it. Hoover UK giving away plane flights with appliances, with the appliances costing less than the flights, comes to mind.
But this company surely isn't good enough at it to be worth THAT much?
I think that's large.
What is it in CDs? One CD = 650 MB WAV = 65 MB MP3; three albums = 200 MB; so you've got around 300 full CDs. That's -quite- a lot.
If on average - average - you have five albums by each artist that you like and collect, then that's sixty artists that you're collecting.
Of course if you're into "insert name of modern genre I despise" then they probably all sound the same except to a highly trained ear (or, preferably, a pair), to which every recording is indispensably unique.
I don't even know what the music I don't like is called any more, although I accidentally heard some "dub step" on Radio 1 this week and it sounded a bit of a mess.
Also a few years ago on the radio panel game [Just a Minute], players were challenged to talk fluently about "ambient trip hop" for sixty seconds, and it appeared that none of them really knew what it is either, although Graham Norton (I think) made a very valiant image-saving effort.
I can't help a sneaking respect for his (alleged) ingenuity
So it worked (allegedly)... it's despicable behaviour, but I'm really hoping I'm not the only reader who is just a bit impressed as well as appalled.
To clarify, "real" Usenetters will hate you if you "Preview the new Google Groups experience".
I assume that "the new Google Groups experience" isn't intended to be the default yet. It did have these drawbacks - which I reported to them after looking at it a few weeks ago - of sending posts to Usenet without line-wrapping and without a "References" header line. You do get an "In-reply-to" line but most other newsreader programs don't use that to connect messages.
For a business that size, there's no such thing as
"overengineered".
Literal in-flight redesign dramatised:
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20030627
Obviously the eyelash extensions are worth every penny
I've seen the television adverts for those products...... sorry, what? Really? Oh.
Paris enhanced in post production.
To scroll down the page,
you push the page up, surely?
Yes, if only.
There's no reason why an 10 character alphabetic-only password shouldn't be hwgsvexf. (No, that isn't ROT13. As far as I know.)
Easier to type, too, than "the1Tdepartmentcangof@ckthemselves-2011-06".
It it needs to be longer than 10 now, there's gqrmlhatdfi. To name only one.
By all means let it be either the initials of a memorised phrase or of one that you make up for that use, although not one that they made you learn at school.
In other news,
BBC Scotland Freeview viewers from today (5pm launch, tomorrow not sure) have a new full Gaelic-language service, and nearly no "radio" reception any more (Radio 4 Extra and such) while that's on. Drat!
After you write a comment there, THEN they tell you that you have to register.
What a bunch of Jeremy-Hult-the-Counture-Secretaries.
Anyway: According to Google "Colin Harrow, who lives in Thackthwaite near Cockermouth, is a finalist in this year's Elderly Accommodation Council's Art Awards", but I think it may be a different person. But if that was my address, I wouldn't draw attention to it.
Program Manager, surely you mean...
...oh, it's gone. (looks up Wikipedia) Ah, "MS-DOS Executive", that was it. Happy days. Well, not altogether.
I thought
it wasn't actually tremendously funny. But when they passed round a bottle of the notorious Buckfast cheap "tonic wine" (caffeinated so that when you should pass out, you don't), and apparently all got impressively quickly drunk, -that- was most terrifically funny. It's deceptively strong stuff.
But I rather dislike the C-word when so used, partly because I gather that in the U.S. it has a different and more unpleasant secondary meaning, in the neighbourhood of "slut and/or whore". In Britain it basically means "inconsiderate", but it is provocatively rude.
So maybe it was funnier than I felt it to be.
Anyway, who IS Donald A. WIlson?
My guess, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Wilson_(Canadian_football)
In Canadian football, you don't tackle for the ball, you ask. Otherwise, it's the game as you know it.
Last time I was responsible for a random alpha key code generator,
I gave it a limited set of consonants to output, to avoid spelling any actual words, but particularly any rude words.
Or maybe it was alphanumeric... then I also avoided 8/B, 1/I, 0/O and so on.
About that revolution -
Egypt has a military government now, I thought. Is that really better than before?
I assume you get a better class of sniper at public demonstrations, a really professional job they do...
That is the Scots language (more or quite a lot less)
I wake up in that state - of being Scottish. Jimmy.
I am sober, but of course if everybody else around one is in the tired and emotional state, one slips into the argot oneself, just to fit in.
It really would be just the same in Tonbridge. I assume that separate alcohol sale rules in Scotland are part of the reason why it didn't happen.
Remember when that ship spilled its cargo on Branscombe beach, and hordes of British looters turned up to walk off with it?
Or , see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booze_cruise
Are youse telling us
that Sassenachs wouldnae ha done the verra same thing in sich a curcumstance? Even for that Stella Artwah. There wad be retail premises fownd razed to the grownd in Newcastle whan the hordes dispursed.
Real estate values must be pretty poor anyway.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeonpyeong_Island
has a diagram showing the disputed cease-fire lines between North Korea and South Korea. Basically a bunch of islands have been in the middle of no-man's-land and in the firing since 1950. I don't think I'd stay there. Mind you, looking at a map of the Falklands (Britain's claim on Antarctica's presumed frozen wealth, oil and such, it wasn't always frozen you know) you feel the same.
I mean, North Korea, whether you're a fan or not, couldn't ever relax with Southern islands just over there. It's a stupid place to draw the line.
http://newpacificinstitute.org/jsw/?p=4115 shows the location of the hovercraft base.
It's like bloody D-Day.
As usual, when these situations are handled by the United Nations, it is a sick joke. This is because there isn't really any such thing as a United Nations, it is Big Nations playing deadly practical jokes on each other and on the rest of us/them, depending on whether you count the United Kingdom as prankster, prankee, or both, at diifferent times - I did mention the Falklands, which was a bit of an apple-pie-bed experience for us UN-wise.
Maybe Freeview users in Scotland...
...could get back the radio-on-Freeview services that we're in the process of losing to make space for a Gaelic-language TV service.
Or, more TV gambling services and lo-fi pornography.
I assume that the Android SDK licence
presumably doesn't allow you to use it other than for developing and testing software. Not just to run and use it.
Some people want it
There are people who like to have pretty, unreasonably expensive things in their kitchen.
For the rest of us, I've seen DAB radio down to £15. As for kitchenproofing it, wrap the bugger in clingfilm. Job done.
Absoltue (nee Virgin), Absolute 80s (sound suffers), Absolute 90s (mono)... conveniently broadcasting the same programme up to 10am so you can compare the transmission quality of each. Shouldn't Absolute 50s be the least good technically, or is that what BBC Radio 2 is for?
Why aren't people making these to record digitally any more - am I missing something? (Such as podcasts? No thanks.) Since I live in Scotland and am about to be blessed with an all-day Gaelic-language TV service on Freeview (kitchen TV with Freeview being an alternative to radio otherwise), I'm not going to have a Freeview radio option for most of the time.
Rape should be legal [not really]
So let's all you fellows go out and rape somebody, they can't prosecute millions of us for it.
No, I don't mean it. What I mean is that whether the, um, mass civil disobedience would or wouldn't work is beside the point, which is about the morality of free speech (or lack of it) and its reckless misuse.
Apparently you're not allowed even to talk about the superinjunctions but we are led to believe that some of them are to prevent reporting that two people have copulated, on the basis that such reporting without the consent of one of them infringes their right to privacy. I'm not sure I agree with that. But if it's the law it's the law. And mindlessly retweeting the prohibited information isn't heroic.
An unrestrained press... is free to tell you how to vote, and can make you believe it. That's bad.
Partially depleted
i gather that "ordinary" depleted uranium has about one-third the radioactive decay of regular uranium - they don't get all the U-235 out of it.
This device probably is just the same and lasts only long enough to run the experiment before radioactive decay annihilates the special molecule and/or zaps the whole computer.
Read-only
Using Linux is still read-only. Progresss comes from modifying it to control your vacuum cleaner or your greenhouse. And from contributing that work back to the community.
In proportion
Comcast buys NBCUniversal for $6,500,000,000.
Their stake in ReelGrrls is - was - $18,000.
I'm unclear on how much good can be done with that much money, given the cost of film making which is what they do - I assume that Comcast isn't sole sponsor - but apparently one NBCUniversal is worth 300,000 ReelGrrls to them. Ms. Baker presumably is collecting, what, a dozen ReelGrrls herself? Or a hundred? It's a full time job and traditionally paid in pieces of silver. A classy lady like that doesn't come cheap.
I don't understand the technology, but,
I'm pretty sure that a connection authentication/encryption system where the word "false" appears in the name has some 'splaining to do.
They maybe could call it "double" something - it doesn't matter what - such as "double helix", If it isn't taken. You could make a case for that. Another offering: Twince. Google it, it's really odd. I am not taking responsibility for the results, but what Google says that they are is excitingly diverse. This page will probably soon be amongst them.
Actually it seem that "twince" is often used to refer to "two children born from one pregnancy" - but a lot of other things as well, and some people don't even have a meaning for it, they just want you to search for content about it on, or through, -their- web site.
"Tea, especially green tea" also prevents prostate cancer
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18985656 (2009) says so.
Good, I really don't like coffee and it's expensive.
It sounds nice but let's face it, he's no Oracle
The waterproof with a Samsung Galaxy Tab in the pocket, please. Which is pleased to see me.
Put the unemployed to work... hang on
Contradiction in terms.
If this were to happen, they'd be trapped in the bad bit of the Prodigal Son story as well, and through no fault of their own, serving broadband to rich swine but presumably not allowed to have any themselves.
What we need right now is another video-pornography-claimed-on-Parliamentary-expenses scandal - to remind overyone what broadband really is for.
Would -this- work?
Popular player = other players pay for the privilege of playing the game with you. This discouts or zeroes your own game playing fees.
As for jerks-pay-extra-to-get-to-be-jerks - no. How about, other players get to choose whether to put you on audio or not. If you're a jerk, no one wants to play with you: maybe play against you.
Camouflage
They have to watch all the videos in case they are secret terrorist recordings in disguise.
Best job in the world.
Well, unless there's creepy kinky things done.
"its icy surface is warmed by radioactive uranium and thorium ores in its interior."
Well, so is Earth's.
Oh God, this is The Register, isn't it, we don't talk about that here.
It already says on the bottle and in the TV advert (UK)
"Enjoy Meths Responsibly"
(Americans note, not "meth".)
Google that and the first raesult is http://www.drinkaware.co.uk/
I'm not the person to say that they seriously mean it, but it's there.
In the advert space on the right, however, there is this:
Methylated Spirits
Low prices on Methylated Spirits.
Free UK Delivery on Amazon Orders
amazon.co.uk is rated * * * * *
www.amazon.co.uk/methylated spirits
Pause for thought
"At least it made him less likely to send a spur of the moment angry email to anybody"
Hmm, yes... you wouldn't want that, Osama bin Laden getting angry with you and sending you a recklessly worded e-mail. What could be worse than that.
Incidentally, I haven't heard of these fellows using biological or chemical weapons, is it against their religion? If you don't count persuading stupid farm kids to carry suicide bombs as a biological weapon. Imagine for instance if they went about spreading foot and mouth disease amongst livestock., which I presume they didn't, it spread like it did because that's what happens. Or swine flu. Of course they very much don't like swine, but is that all that stopped them?
"Software"
But , no, no, no, no, no, and no.
In 1979, VisiCalc spreadsheet was a "killer app", a reason to buy the computer to run that application software (application of general-function computer hardware to a specific practical or aesthetic purpose).
Admittedly the computer was an Apple II PC, but Apple didn't and don't own the word "app", nor did it depend on the company name "Apple" - as far as I know; this is 32 years ago.
We've had killer apps ever since.
According to
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/decline-of-honey-bees-now-a-global-phenomenon-says-united-nations-2237541.html
"The mysterious collapse of honey-bee colonies is becoming a global phenomenon"
"Declines in bee colonies date back to the mid 1960s in Europe"
It's only a web browser.
I'm willing to accept that it's quite a good web browser.
And you can run apps in it. Well. Ever heard of Java?
But it's just a browser. The operating system only runs one application. Well, and probably Solitaire or something.
Not "good men"
Rough men, uncivilised men... it's hung on George Orwell, and may be based on something he actually wrote or said in one or another place.
From here http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/ctc/faq.htm#RoughMen
- Did George Orwell ever say: "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf?" Or: "We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us?"
- Not exactly. But he did make comments that were along similar lines. In his essay on Rudyard Kipling (1942), Orwell wrote: "[Kipling] sees clearly that men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilised, are there to guard and feed them." (Thanks to Keith Ammann for this). And in his 'Notes on Nationalism' (1945) he wrote: "Those who "abjure" violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf."
And at http://www.military-quotes.com/forum/we-sleep-safely-our-beds-page2-t330.html
somebody "found this quote attributed to a speech on a BBC broadcast, April 4, 1942." I wonder if that could have been basically the same as the Kipling mention.
Likewise it seems to be not actually true that the Duke of Wellington had a look at his army and said, "I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me."
Soldiers, effective ones, are not necessarily moral people at all, as the incidence of looting and rape committed by any occupying force should tell you.
Usually, young scientists do the most exciting work.
Also, it doesn't so often make headlines when someone in their fifties discovers a cure for something.
Both are just the way that it is.
"governing for the benefit of the people"
"In principle I generally support the Torys but every now and again they really should remember they are supposed to be governing for the benefit of the people."
Yeah. People who donate lots of money to the Conservative Party.
People who live (if the tax man asks) in Belize.
I seem to remember that it's actually quite nice there. If you're rich.
Just like here.
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