* Posts by Chris G

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Amazing new boffinry breakthrough: Robots are eating our brains

Chris G
Trollface

We are looking at it all wrong

I t may not be a question of finding jobs for all the displaced workers it might be that infowars has it right

: https://www.infowars.com/from-7-billion-people-to-500-million-people-%E2%80%93-the-sick-population-control-agenda-of-the-global-elite/

I doubt if I will still be here to see it but maybe the conspiracists are not full of crap after all!

500 million butlers and gardeners for the dynasties of the New World Order Elite?

We are 'heroes,' says police chief whose force frisked a photographer

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Exactly my thoughts but I think the end of the sentence has been left out;

"I totally support and am immensely proud of my officers and staff and I try really hard to recognise personally their ‘everyday heroism’. (” but it's bloody difficult when they act like complete twats.")

What augmented reality was created for: An ugly drink with a balloon

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Re: Why won't you serve me?

A long time ago in a garden far away, I shared a house with three mates, we decided to have a party one weekend in the garden.

We stuck a bloody great tarp up over the lawn tied to a couple of trees and one of my mates who was a friend of Splodge invited them to come and play under the tarp along with other friends of ours with a musical bent. The party was great, dozens of gate crashers as well as our friends. Splodgness were playing when the local bobby turned up ( a relative of one of the tenants), he said 'can you ask them to turn it down a bit, only we are getting complaints about the rock concert from a couple of miles away!'

Capita's huge role in UK government should go under the spotlight

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Re: TV Licenses

Ah, being ex-pat and not very interested I admiit to only reading the Brexit headlines.

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Re: TV Licenses

I find it interesting that the Brexiteers were trying to impress the public with a promise of and extra £350million and the beeb runs on more than 10 times that.

Does it really cost so much to run a broadcasting company?

Australian Taxation Office named as party preventing IT contractors being paid

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I don't know about the Oz tax people but in Spain they freeze your accounts and then tell you, basing their action on the fact that if you have notice you may take the money out and do a runner.

They will also go to court to get an 'embargo ' take money from your account and then send you a letter to inform you. Town councils can do it too.

Fire fighters get grinding on London man’s trapped genitalia

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Re: It's amazing.....

The Lady in Benidorm you are thinking about is Sticky Vicky : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky_Vicky

She is 74 now , her daughter opens the show for her, I think one of the things she was famous for was firing ping pong balls but she may have done tricks with light bulbs as she is billed as a stripper and illusionist.

If you google Sticky Vicky, about 5 entries down is a Vimeo for those with enquiring minds.

Industrial plant robots frequently connected to the 'net without authentication

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Re: "83,000 robots researchers found exposed to the public internet,"

"Don't be like that. Robots need to Google porn, just like the rest of us."

Robbie removed the thin cover and exposed her nipples, his tool rose and he pumped a viscous liquid into her parts.....

Jeez, we'll do something about Facebook murder vids, moans Zuckerberg

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Re: Not turtles its A'holes

Mr Dogbreath, I am inclined to agree with you, which indicates an extremely long and deep pile of arseholes to reach the bottom of human depravity.

I doubt that an ex Ivy League Spring Breaking college boy is that naive.

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Not turtles its A'holes

" This is all down to money and shareholders,"

I think it's worse than that, I think it is also down to egos and a sense of superiority, not only Zuck's but all the way down.

They all think they are part of somethiing special that goes beyond mere rules and laws so consequently are reluctant to bow down to either the law or public opinion unless the reaction is extreme.

Farcebook is not the only one, Uber as another example has no sense of compassion either for it's 'Employees' or the customer, maybe they all take 'Disruptive ' too seriously.

Republicans go all Braveheart again with anti-net neutrality bill

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"What exactly are these people smoking? It's madness."

They're high on the Trumpster and his Government of the People, For the Corporations and by the Corporations. Profit is King long live profit!

Male escort forgot pregnancy protection, scores data protection instead

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Re: Youse pay your money

Or; You made your bed, now you can lie in it.

Loadsamoney: UK mulls fining Facebook, Twitter, Google for not washing away filth, terror vids

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La La La La La La

I can't hear it, I can't see it!

Do these morons think the world's problems are going to go away if they are not visible on the internet?

I realise actually trying to address the problems of the world with socially responsible action (rather than invading anyone you don't like) is much more difficult than holding a third party responsible but getting the money out of them could be way harder.

They haven't done too well tax collecting have they? I haven't even heard a good argument from the UK government explaining WHY they should pay tax, even if it is obvious they should.

Heroic stepmum takes one for team, sticks pot pipe up wazoo

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You sure

This is good shit? Something fishy about it!

Boffins gently wake the Large Hadron Collider from annual hibernation

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Beam stability

DON'T cross the beams!

CERN is the leading edge of science, even when I don't know what they're talking about I''m impressed.

Gig economy tech giants are 'free riding' on the welfare state, say MPs

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A long time coming

A government report ( or commitee) that actually speaks the truth and makes some sensible suggestions.

Other governments should take notice.

Huawei used cheap-as-chips chips in some P10s, now buyers want to boil it in oil

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I sense a strong hint of Taoism in his response, sometimes in Chinese and oriental culture it is necessary to be humble and admit your failures in order to regain face (mian zi).

Ewe, get a womb! Docs grow baby lambs in shrink-wrap plastic bags

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Re: Looks unpleasant.

Trust me, when parents are faced with their newly born children suffering from anything, they will go through hell to try to deal with it.

I had to stay in hospital and learn to pass a feed tube up my daughter's nose and into her stomach and that is nothing compared to what some of the other parents had to deal with while I was in Great Ormond Street. Children born premature, without a pancreas, without limbs, one without a face but when it is your child you will do what you must.

We are wired to protect our children, it shouldn't be any other way. This is not growing clones, it is improving the chances of very unlucky children and their families to look forward to a normal life.

Jimbo announces Team Wikipedia: 'Global News Police'

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Re: Could anyone explain...

Korev, This article explains why Paris Hilton is way more credible than Lily Cole :

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/business-genius-numbers-paris-hilton-entrepreneur-donald-trump/

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Re: Filtering Fake news

@ DropBear, that is the one thing that no longer happens in any media, mainstream, alternative or any of the trendy outlets that claim to be reporting news.

Nobody simply reports what happened, it has to be dramatised or slanted to suit some bias, there are probably no more reporters on the planet than you can count on the fingers of one hand, the rest are journalists.

The brave British boat men hoping to poke Larry Ellison's lads in the eye

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Re: Can't..

If BAE gets involved it is also going to be 'ready' several years too late for this year's race.

From the article; From base stations in the Bermudas, the link then goes to New York where it reaches the main trans-Atlantic backbone.

So, that means the NSA have all of the telemetry and will be passing it on the the Patriot team.

Uber sued by ex-Lyft driver tormented by app maker's 'Hell' spyware

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Re: Disruptor

"Or expensively funded vapourware, maybe."

Which often comes out of arseholes.

The old saying 'There is no such thing as bad publicity' is being stretched to its limits by Uber, so far I have not seen any good publicity about them.

Maybe it's Uber that should be disrupted?

(You can't) buy one now! The flying car makes its perennial return

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Re: Calories - I call BS

You forgot to include psychologists, a science often based on preconditioned opinions.

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Re: Sadly requires

It does look as though it could take off from and land on a Queen Elizabeth class carrier though.

I wonder if it can land with a full weapons load and without a patch Tuesday?

Zuckerberg: Escape from the real world into my goofy make-believe science-fiction fantasy

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Direct brain interface

Oh yeah! I can't wait to share my every thought, concious and subconcious via fartbook. I bet all of the powers that be will want backdoors into that.

Stop asking people for their passwords, rights warriors yell at US Homeland Security

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Re: We desperately need a Trump icon.

If you have a true representation of Twump, you won't have many facial features.

His head is so far up his own arse, all you will get is an eye squinting out of his navel

ZX Spectrum reboot project's Great Ormond Street charity cash questions

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Re: Interesting question

Great Ormond Street is world renowned and consequently has patients from all over the world.

My daughter was born with a genetic metabolic disease, without the benefit of a doctor trained by GOSH she would have died at about the age of two months at which time she was roughly 70% of her birth weight.

A paediatric doctor at the hospital she was bornin had worked at GOSH, she was called in by a nurse who was not happy with the decision of the attending consultant to send my daughter home inspite of her problems not being resolved. The doctor listened to us and the nurses regarding the symptoms and immediately made arrangements for us to go to GOSH, her first tentative diagnosis was proved correct and my daughter was then treated accordingly.

One of the symptoms of the disease initially was projectile vomiting, the first 6 or 7 weeks of my daughter's life, vomiting every time she was fed resulted in her having little to no appetite. So that she could be fed via a nasal tube at home I had to stay at GOSH twice for a couple of weeks at a time to learn how to pass the tube and provide other treatments.

When you live there like that and see not only your own child but all of the other seriously ill children who are treated there equally and with immense regard for the wellbeing of not only the children but their familiesas well, regardless of who they are, where they come from, I cannot praise GOSH highly enough.

So many times when I have taken my daughter for routine visits and seen some of the other kids there, I have left with a huge lump in my throat.

All I can say is anyone who has welched on a deal to help GOSH is a heartless bastard and I wish them just a tiny percentage of the suffering that the kids at GOSH go through in their lives, that would be more than enough for anyone.

Astro-boffinry breakthrough: Loads of ingredients for life found on Saturn's Enceladus

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Re: Don't be too optimistic about Enceladus...

A bloody great aquatic tom cat?

US military makes first drop of Mother-of-All-Bombs on Daesh-bags

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Re: Stupid bastards

Grunt, what you say is not strictly true either,the SAS initiated a series of hits on the IRA which ended as far as I know with Operation Flavious in Gibralter in the late '80s. We might be British but 'Fair play' is arbitary.

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@Triggerfish, American money is buying Afghan opium but it's the kids on the street (in more ways than one) who are paying. Apparently, 90% of heroin on the streets of the US is Afghan, the US stopped eradicating opium there in around 2009 as the population was becoming impoverished, the majority of farmers were depending on opium for their income so in a hearts and minds attempt to win them over they were allowed to continue growing it.

Back to the Future 2: Gasp! America's trade watchdog discovers the risks of 'free' movies

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"Will Maxson, who published a whole blog post about this shocking revelation on Thursday."

A very quiet day at the office then?

But Will is right, the internet is a dangerous place. Thank Heavens I'm not on it... umm..

Switch on your smartphone camera and look how fertile I am

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Would you like to buy

This lovely, only slightly used bridge?

I know there are genuine innovators out there, who could use some financial help to get their ideas off the ground and into production. However, the Venture Capital and Kickstarter game seems to have become a breeding ground for bridge salesmen, luckily for them, there seems to be more than 'one born every minute' and they all seem to have money to invest.

I would just like to add that I am currently looking for £2 million to finish developing my dog poo avoidance system, it uses a sniffer device built into the shoes, it detects doggy do from up to 2 mteres away and then using inertial guidance hardware it will steer your foot away from the offending scat.

In the first instance send cash or bit coins.................

Boeing-backed US upstart reckons it'll be building electric airliners

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Re: Catapult takeoff?

Wrap the passengers in foam and launch with a railgun, use folding glider wings so that once it is in the air it can deploy them and use an auxilliary battery powered prop something like a powered glider.

Alternatively, stop being stupid and use a real aeroplane with proper engines and fuel.

The perfect battery on the horizon is going to be there for quite a while yet.

We know what you're thinking: Where the hell is all the antimatter?

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The neutrinoless double-beta reaction?

I just don't see it!

Head of US military kit-testing slams F-35, says it's scarcely fit to fly

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Re: Phew, bullet dodged.

I reckon, for a several £million, a few crates of beer and a couple of nice safety ties, Colin Furze and his mates could come up with something that would actually fly off a carrier deck and land again more than twice.Plus it would all be done in a back garden shed.

It would have interesting weapons and be fun too.

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$391 Billion

And that's only for one non functioning aircraft, the US doesn't really need weapons to attack countries, they could just buy them. It worked in the Ukraine.

Boffins reveal how to pour a perfect glass of wine with no drips. First step, take a diamond...

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More like centuries than decades, capillary breaks/gaps/grooves have been in use in building, roofing and carpentry since at least the middle ages if not before.

I have an idea for a roundy sort of thing that might make moving heavy things a lot easier,

I could put a rubber ring around it so that it absorbs the bumps a bit.

I was thinking of calling it 'a rotating heavy thing mover' anyone think it could catch on?

Squirrel sinks teeth into SAN cabling, drives Netadmin nuts

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Re: Yes! Mice

The other ingredient in Cribox is bitter aloes an African variety of Aloe that is used as an emetic and was also commonly used to stop children biting their nails.

I was wondering does expending foam come in flavours? I have used it to stop rats and mice on several occasions, sometimes it has stopped them completely and at others the little sods have had dinner on me and eaten their way back in.

That 'Trump lawyers threaten teen over kitten website' yarn is Fakey Fakey McFake Fakeface

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Re: Trademarks

"The name Trump is already verging on being an object of derision already."

Verging? I think it's well past verging.

Good news, everyone! Two pints a day keep heart problems at bay

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Chemically speaking

In a beaker, ethanol readily dissolves cholesterol.

So in my view a good occasional spring clean of the arteries should be a good thing.

After all using a solvent oil to flush the galleries in an engine helps to extend engine life

Now UK bans carry-on lappies, phones, slabs on flights from six nations amid bomb fears

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Re: Security Theatre

"They claim so it's not "manually" operated."

That indicates that either they are incredibly stupid or they think the rest of us are. How many people 'manually operate their alarm to wake themselves up? They don't! They set the alarm for the required time and the device does the rest. IIRC the thinking about the Brighton bomb in 1984 was planted at least weeks before and the timer was set. As you say, this is just theatre, albeit at an absurdly low level of credibility.

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Re: Checked in luggage

Perhaps if it is checked in as hold luggage it goes to the non puplic areas where it can be looked at in more detail to determine whether it's a phone or a bomb.

Microsoft cloud TITSUP: Skype, Outlook, Xbox, OneDrive, Hotmail down

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A little ray of sunshine

I have just gotten back into my hotmail account here in Spain on my w7 laptop, the odd thing is my account was still open and functioning on my android phone, since outlook/hotmail went cloudy the service has turned to a steaming heap of dung.

It is slow, over complicated to sign in and the UI has degraded even further, the last time being when hotmail was dumped in favour of the outlook flavour. I keep it going because it is easier than trying to migrate all of my contacts to something else, maybe I should rethink.

Repentant priest from Cuntis sorry he dressed as Hugh Hefner

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Disgusting

Who would allow two corpulent middle aged men to dress in Bunny suits and then appear in public?

After looking at the link I need mind bleach or maybe half and hour perusing some mind cleansing 'normal pron.

NASA's atom-chiller ready to fly to the ISS

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Re: ooh! crappy sci fi horror movie premise time!

"ISS creates "stable dark matter" which opens a wormhole to Hell/Nasty Alien Place/alternate dimension"

If you add time warp to the choices, it could explain how a blonde troll came to be POTUS a couple of months back.

Look! Up in the sky! Is it a drone? Is it a car? It's both, crossed with Uber

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7-10 years

The video blarb mentioned ' in 7-10 years you could see this happening'

Even IF the physical technology became useable this still wouldn't work, filling the airspace above cities with hundreds of flying twizzies would need an AI air control system that is certainly not going to be sussed by then.

I strongly doubt that such a thing will be practicable for self driving cars in two dimensions this side of 2050 let alone a hybrid road/air transport system.

Also have concerns about security for an AI controlled transport system, if someone could dream up an 'Italian Job' hack in the '60s, I dread to think what damage a successful exploit could do to a city wide system in the future and governments are better at breaking systems than securing them .

Royal Navy's newest ship formally named in Glasgow yard

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Re: i wonder...

I was thinking HMS Forth should have sister ships in the same class named HMS Go and HMS Multiply.

Perfect for diplomatic visits to less favoured ports, obviously sailing in in the correct order.

Has your spouse stayed on after Mobile World Congress? This sex doll brothel might be why

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Re: Eighty Euros

Hookers (Putas) are a part of Spanish culture, there are Clubs de Noche all over, or, if you like to put 'Putas+your locale' into the search engine on your phone you will get a list of local girls, the services they offer plus photos. Many of them will visit youin your hotel/house/car or you can go to them, I am reliably told that they are more interesting than a sack of spuds.

A club (brothel) visit is likely to cost more than €80 as they will stiff you on the drinks but via the phone my single/frustrated mates at work tell me €50-€70/ hr is average, if I were not happily married and was feeling the need I think I would prefer the real thing to a disinfected lump of rubber.

YMMV

Dyson backs Britain plc with $2.5bn AI and robotics investment

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Reap the Whirlwind

I personally don't like cyclonic, bag free vacuum cleaners, I don't think cyclonic effects really work well at less than about wheely bin sized receptacle vacs with a small diesel engine to run it.

However, Dyson has successfully spawned a growing market segment in vac's that others are only too happy to copy, not to mention all the other items on his books and he certainly knows how to sell. I also like his ideas about bringing back training instead of relying on University and college taught technicians who may have not been taught to engineer the way his company needs them to.

Considering he has 2.5 billion reasons to think he knows what he is talking about with his new campus, he probably does, I wish him luck and hope he makes the old base into a world leading Technology centre.

Vice News YouTube video commenter set for retrial over 'menacing' posts

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Missing something

I think what the first judge failed to recognise was that the fuzz had observed him going to Islamic extremist fundraising events in addition to making threats on YouTube so my impression is that they were trying to nip a potential terrorist in the bud.

I find a lot of police prosecutions are ill thought out and often flawed because they go for easy prosecutions for easy wins to keep the numbers up but with this one, the kid seems to have been getting sufficiently hot under the collar to need a figurative bucket of water throwing over him tocool him down.

If somebody makes death threats against you, it is best to take them seriously until you know better or have removed the threat.