Posts by Blake St. Claire 384 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Feb 2008
| Guinness is a fiver a pint here in Dublin. Most of the other beers are around the same price.
You're drinking in the wrong pubs I guess. I was just in Dublin last week and never paid more than about €4 for a pint of G. -- e.g. at The Bleeding Horse or the hotel bar. I've still got the receipts to prove it.
Even if it might be against the law to buy it.
I remember an El Reg article awhile back about a 13 year old girl in Blighty, pregnant by a 12 year old neighbor, with an accompanying picture of them with the baby, playing an 18+ game together. (Later it was revealed that the boy wasn't really the father.)
Pot. Kettle. Black.
> Associating data with an IP address is useless. 95% of consumer services are on dynamic
> IPs and at least 50%+ of these kick the connection on regular basis (BT and Comcast for
> example do it every 24h).
Perhaps they do, but they -- or at least Comcast -- keeps giving me the same IP every time.
It's so reliable that I can run my domain -- web server, mail server, etc. -- as if it were a permanent static IP.
I can't remember the last time they renumbered the local network -- a couple years ago maybe? Other than that the only reason it changes is if you change your router, e.g. like I had to do recently when I switched VOIP providers for my land line. And probably if I had bothered to clone the old router's MAC addr in the new router then perhaps not even then.
> As a FreeBSD user and admin, I don't mind the teasing.
I second that. I've been using BSD since 386BSD 0.1 and using FreeBSD as my broadband firewall/gateway since 3.x or 4.x days and never had my system compromised.
I know plenty of Linux users who can not say the same thing.
| What is the carbon foot print of everyone having to buy new tellies?
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| What happens to all the old ones?
Old ones continue to sit on their stands. Nobody is being forced to buy a new set.
The directive (it's not a law, the CEC isn't a legislative body) only applies to new sets.
Versus a real police checkpoint? Really? Do you have those?
I've never seen one in the times I've been there. Admittedly that isn't especially meaningful -- I'm over there pretty infrequently, and usually limited to the greater London area.
So would anyone really be fooled by a police checkpoint? Should they be?
And no, I'm not talking about Saturday night drunk driving traps or police presence after the fact at something like a terrorist bombing.
Just curious. I'll keep my eyes out for one next time I'm over.
> Sterling arithmitic [sic] there, because of course there was only one match played...
At least my arithmetic is better than your spelling. By chance did you see the words _average attendance_ in my post?
Perhaps I should have used "arithmetic mean" instead -- would that have made it clearer?
Five. 40,000. Those are pretty close. Close enough for government work as my dear old dad used to say.
Seems a bit like our War on Drugs and MickeyD's McDLT back in the 80's. Invent a problem where one didn't exist before, then solve it.
FIFA¹ indicates that average attendance at the Germany World Cup games was 44K, so just about one prosy per attendee. Yes, that seems about right.
¹http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/tournament=107/index.html
Yes, the Vatican sometimes does come off as a bit more enlightened than some of the more fundie christian sects.
On top of not allowing women priests, they won't allow married priests either.
But eventually they'll run out of celibate males and have to do something.
Maybe that's where the little green me will come in.
> LA is the two letter code for the state of Louisiana ... Los Angeles is L.A. indicating that the city name is two words.
As someone who grew up in The Land of LA, let me assure you that many, many people do abbreviate Los Angeles as "LA", just as we also often write UCLA, CSUN, and <bleah> USC, which, by your logic, must always be written U.C.L.A., C.S.U.N., and U.S.C., just to give a couple examples.
Next thing I suppose you'll be telling us that CA is some international standard two letter code for something like Canada, or that USC is the University of South Carolina; when in fact those of us who know better know that they are shorthand for California and the University of Southern California, respectively.
Coat? It's 78°F/25°C in LA, don't need no stinking coat.
I've got GV and I'm trying to figure out what to do with it.
I don't want to tell everyone that already knows my land line and mobile numbers to change. Or maybe it's that I can't be bothered.
Both landline and mobile already give me unlimited local and long distance, and very inexpensive international service; plus I have skype, ichat, and gchat for free international videophone.
I'm waiting for an epiphany. I'm not holding my breath.
God Bless the British Isles
The Great British Isles Dream
Take a look at my girlfriend
She's the only one I got
Not much of a girlfriend
Never seem to get a lot
Take a jumbo across the water
Like to see the British Isles
See the girls in Caledonia
I'm hoping its going to come true
But there's not a lot I can do
Could we have kippers for breakfast
Mummy dear, mummy dear
They got to have 'em in Dublin
'Cause everyone's a millionaire
I'm a winner, I'm a sinner
Do you want my autograph
I'm a loser, what a joker
I'm playing my jokes upon you
While there's nothing better to do
Don't you look at my girlfriend
She's the only one I got
Not much of a girlfriend
Never seem to get a lot
Take a jumbo cross the water
Like to see the British Isles
See the girls in Caledonia
I'm hoping its going to come true
But theres not a lot I can do
I really need _another_ email address because the address I've been using for 15 years -- the one that all my friends and family know -- all the sudden I need to change that.
And I can be neighbors with Linus and Maddog too. Oh wait, they probably have other email addresses that they use.
It'll be amusing to see which sycophants get and actually use a linux.com address.
fail, Epic. As far as I'm concerned.
Suppose you and your best friend decide to rob a bank.Let's presume it's in the U.S. where not only the police, the but bank security guard, and even random bank customers are carrying heat.
The bank's rentacop shoots your buddy and he bleeds to death waiting for the ambulance to arrive.
I expect YOU are going to be charged with manslaughter on top of everything else. Manslaughter is a felony criminal charge that will be brought by the local government. On top of that, your friends wife might file a Wrong Death lawsuit -- a civil case -- against you. And no, that's not Double Jeopardy. You can go to trial for both, and found guilty of both.
What did a judge tell me once? Ignorance of the law is not an excuse (for breaking the law.)
Hmm. Looks like I accidentally clicked the anonymous button last time. Anyway, Pedantic Grammar Nazi is as close as I can get to Pedantic Lawyer. And no, IA(Still)NAL.
Duh.
There is still some software that only runs on Windoze.
I'm down to one application that probably will never run on anything but Windoze. I use V'box to run it. I'd write a clone/competitor if it weren't for the fact that it's too big and I have too many other things to do with my time.
> In the US, they're shocked that Wal Mart in the UK sells Alcohol (not just beer, but wine, whiskey etc.).
Say what? Don't know what hole you crawled out of but in most places here you can buy beer, wine, and whiskey in the supermarket.
Wallyworld may only sell beer, but then consider their typical clientele. If they sell wine, it's probably in a cardboard carton. Couldn't tell you actually, I've only been in a Wallyworld twice in my life. Three times if you count the time I went to an Asda.
> Blimey, what can you say other than only in America!
Nah, I expect South Africa is just as crazy. Last time I was there the park ranger at the gate to Kruger seemed genuinely surprised that I wasn't in possession of a firearm.
That was in '85. I can only guess that it's the same, or worse, today.
> Merkins have a lower voltage
News to me.
We have 240v to the house. The transformer up on the pole has a tap. We run three wires to the house, the third wire (neutral/ground) is attached to the center tap on the transformer. Thus we get 240 for water heaters, stoves, ovens, and to charge our electric cars and rayguns; and 120v for everything else.
Wish you guys would get this figured out. It's not too much different than what you have: 408v 3-phase up on the poles. Your transformer on the pole has three taps, you take any two to give you 240v.
>If 20% of AOL is worth $274m, the whole thing is still valued at $5.5bn.
Interesting math. I suppose you mean 5% is $274M, which is what the OP claimed. Then your $5.5b works.
>That's quite a lot.
$5.5b and it still generates nearly $1b in revenues. Wonder what the net is, but I can't be bothered to look it up.
If I was Steve Case, mine would be the one with wads of cash in the pockets.
I guess I'm not average then. Hopefully I'm better than average, but it's hard to tell sometimes.
I'm guessing that they don't have passports and well, Florida has DisneyWorld, so maybe that was the appeal. For a real foreign country I'm surprised they didn't head to New Mexico.
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