Posts by Tim 130 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Apr 2008
Does using your neighbour's bin count as fly tipping? can i put a lock on my bin to stop my neighbour putting 3 hundred weight of rubble in it?
It would be nice to have better recycling (i have three bins at the moment, normal waste, garden waste and paper). I dont use the paper one much as i do everything online, the garden waste one gets used a couple of times a year, so i have 3 bins and use only one. now if i had a glass and plastic one, that would be used every week!
At least it should even out the unfair council tax though. I pay the same as my neighbour with 10 kids, so they will kop it wth any waste charges.
Seems to me that they are desparately trying to find ways of validating their penchant for blasting everything they see into matchwood before sifting through it to see if it was actually what they thought it was.
I can see it now.
"so soldier, why did you engage your weapons on the unarmed UN peacekeepers?"
"Sir, one of them must have moved funny, Sir. I hear a beep and a target presented itself. Sir"
"Good work troop!"
My wife worked for the aforementioned breathe when they were selling their unlimited dialup for £50 a pop with no guarantee that the connection contract would be honoured. If the user was deemed to use too much bandwidth, they were booted out, losing their £50 in the process and not being allowed back on again.
As there was no firm (or obvious) "excessive use" policy, it was down to the management to decide who was excessively using the account, and to get the wife to give 'em the bad news. Clearly this backfired when the poor saps then asked to speak to managers, who promply capitulated and gave them the connection back. Suits! you cant trust them.
The company was set up by Martin Dawes (yes, that Martin Dawes) and he swanned around in his Bentley, trousering the £50 per person and then finding the lamest excuses to cancel connections. The wife left the company when she saw what direction it was going. Strange then that Dawes first comms company succeeded so spectacularly, to the extent that it became one of O2's primary call centres. Just shows that success is not always down to the so-called leader (as Alan Sugar has also ably demonstrated with numerous crappy products that bombed, and can you say "Sir Clive Sinclair"?).
So, Do amazing things happen when you breathe? erm, no not really. Seems that the only amazing thing that happens is that the current breathe can claim any connection whatsoever to those natty adverts that wooed and confused the nation back in the day.
To claim that the receiver of the call should determine who the caller is would fall down in law if a deliberate attempt to change your identity is made. This could then be construed as fraud. Unless the caller ID is genuine, and the caller does not identify themselves, they are free to assume that the callee should find out who they are. If they intentionally misrepresent their caller ID, then the onus is on them to clarify their ID on the call to avoid any kind of investigation.
Seems to be a harmless prank line, but clearly this can lead to a more sinister practice. Personally, i dont believe anyone who calls me these days, but i am king of the cynics.
I doubt that "staffer" has been told anything concrete. The Iphone projects are NDA'd within O2, apple and CPW and even those who need to know dont always get told. Frontline sales staff will not know and may even use the excuse to get someone to sign for a new phone now, rather than wait a mythical 6 months.
The lesson here? Dont believe a salesman, they tell you what you want to hear, but only if it suits their commission structure.
I personally think it will be out sooner and will be cheaper and better than the original. Let us not forget that Apple often shoot themselves in the foot by suddenly dropping prices or increasing specs, and having to compensate recent purchasers. At least the current lack of hardware will reduce that problem.
Who is going to save us from all the knife-wielding teenagers? Is part of the vetting process a training session on "how to wear a stab jacket" or "acheiving the perfect foetal position to prevent boot-blows to the head"?
is there a register of all the kids who aren't allowed near adults cos they are mental?
You can do whatever you want with no fear of oppression by the state. God forbid we live in a police state where your every move is tracked and you are made to feel like a criminal all the time.
Now i am off to wear a thick padded jacket on the underground when its 25 degrees outside. I may even chance wearing a transformers t-shirt on underneath it!.
who would type www.america.com into a web browser? Someone wanting to buy america? Seems that the word "america" doesnt adequately describe what any website would be about.
now change the word "america" for "sickwrongfilth" and it may be more popular.
How wide is the interpretation of a document "likely to be useful"? If a terrorist wants to drive a van-bomb into a government building, will having the manual for the van be helpful? will the highway code book be helpful? will any "how to drive" books be helpful?
Seems to me they meant to aim this at "jolly roger" type books, used by radicals, but will apply it to anyone they see fit.
I guess it was greener after the french secret service sank it. Still, i appreciate that they have pointed out that young males may not develop sexually if they are glued to their console, but its irrelevent because none of them would be able to get a girlfriend anyway!
Now, are they going to point out how ungreen it is to have the telly that the consoles are played on? or the electricity it uses? or the fact that mum and dad have to drive to work more to be able to afford little johnny's new console? The only way to go green is to get rid of all the fun things......
Having worked in software, the people who write the software are the worst for using unlicenced copies of other's software themselves. Our place had one legit copy of 3d Studio (then about £3500), and went about de-dongling it and installing it on another 20 computers.....
My heart doesnt bleed for these people, as i have had my hard-earned money stolen by Mssrs Brown and Darling anyway!
Skull and crossbones? for Piracy.... Yeaarrrh!
As MS have clearly demonstrated, maybe they should get some rocket scientists to get their stuff to work. Even basic office apps get my computer fan to whirr while the whole thing sits there like a big lump of uselessness.
God help us if NASA send men to the moon using MS Apps.
The mounties have that ruthless determination to get their man.... even if overkill is the order of the day!
I would be interested to know how they justify zapping someone who is clearly bedridden, as they cant say they were in danger. Also, how did they know he didnt have a pacemaker?
You can't diss the scientology lot. If you do they will take it as a personal attack and hound you to your grave. Let them believe and preach their religion (written by a sci-fi author, but genuine non-the-less).
I wonder if they have scientology insurgents?
So Boris won? How glad are Londoners to not have Red Ken? I doubt any of them will be able to tell one terrible failed politian-turned-mayor from the other.
I am not bothered myself, but never could stand Ken, and being from Liverpool, found myself disliking a hither-to unheard of Boris when he made his Regionist and ill-founded comments about the scousers..... I was so angry, but my curly-permed, mustachioed brothers told me to "calm down" or i'd get my shelly wet.
Enough of all this political balderdash.....get back to the brass tacks of Reg....What big company is trying to blast what little company into oblivion these days?
Sounds like they want to make sure nobody enjoys themselves any more. I am no pot-head (it makes me feel proper sick), but i am pretty sure it's less lethal than drinking and smoking tobacco. I doubt Brown has ever smoked skunk as he seems incapable of enjoying himself anyway. Maybe Jacqui would be better suggesting that Brown and Darling legalise and then tax it. That would have the dour scots bugger rubbing his hands. It would also stop all the illegal activity as most people would want to get it from the shops rather than the local smackhead!
Smiley face......Aceeeeeed! (sorry, early nineties catching up with me there).
Its not as if they wouldnt have already known what it would have been about. Smells almost fraudulent if you ask me.
I get a bit tired of all this GTA bashing. Nobody bats an eyelid if bruce willis robs cars and kills people, as long as he is a "copper". Anyone playing the game knows that the target of the protagonist is the same lowlife scum as in the diehard series of games, and coupled with the "hero's" ex-forces status, we should kind of see him in the same light. Sure you CAN kill innocents, but you won't gain anything and it just makes things harder.
Sounds like someone needs a reality check.
The backs of the boxes for GTAIV and GT5 prologue are both wrong.
GTAIV Does NOT upscale to 1080p (as my telly doesnt allow me to exactscan as it does with all the other 1080p games i have. Also it says there is a 3000KB HD requirement, not a 3GB one that is actually installed.
Same with GT5 Prologue (though that DOES run 1080p), the 6 GIGABYTE install shows as 300KB on the box. Good job i have enough room.
Still wouldnt trade for anything made by Micro$oft so its a moot point.
Google's ubiquity and entry into the english dictionary means they may lose the rights to their own name if they are not careful, in exactly the same way Xerox did in the eighties. Anyone can use the word xerox now (meaning to copy something), in the same way that googling now means to look up on the internet (not just using the google site).
Thanks to M$, my computer will simply report.
"USB Device not recognised" as per all the other devices i try to plug in to it.
Also, the legitimacy of downloaded "volatile" data maybe a legal hot potato. volatile data by its definition is not permanent or even consistent, and it cant be proved that the person knows it is there half the time.
Besides, the Feds probably know what is on your computer by now anyway. Anyone noticed that XP and Vista are at least 200% bigger than the work they do suggests? that'll be J Edgar Hoover's boys trojaning your ass!
Good-o. Amy ugly minger crack face stupid whine-house getting even more publicity for little discernable talent. She can sing a bit, when she is sober, which is less and less often these days. Make me wish Wings would get back together again!
Not very IT based this story, which makes her publicity even more galling!
As much as we all bitch and moan about the nanny state and the intrusion into our private lives that we have in blighty, at least we are allowed to moan.....
Saudi arabia is a 15th century country getting fat of 21st century oil prices. Once that has gone, nobody will go near there again.
No wonder it failed, No single report has conclusively proved that the uniform radiation that they seem to think is emitted causes cancer, infact they cant really prove anything.
Still, you can make money of anyone who panics these days. I think i will start a battery company that helps prevent terrorist attacks (by emitting anti terror radiation)
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