Posts by n 118 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Aug 2008
-kids under 5.... go in the hold.
-anyone using a 17' laptop.....in the hold with you and your acer.
-In fact since it's Emirates airlines, Middle Eastern style laws should apply on the flight- yobs in the window seat who have been drinking in the past 1hr before take off....breathalysed....then in the hold....then 100 lashes!
the clue to the file format was obviously in the company name:
ed excel (short for education by excel spreadsheet)
The funny thing is the markers don't even bother to open the coursework, it's more efficient to post out the qualification certificates and those intelligent enough to 1. open the envelope and 2. read what it says, have automatically passed.
Some say the education system is dumbing down...That's why articles like this one are so useful :)
"How does one go about getting one of these contracts? Whenever I quote for a job, assuming the requirements don't change, the price doesn't either."
the clue is in the question, THE REQUIREMENTS ALWAYS CHANGE.
Sometimes the requirements change too dramatically.
Fujitsu said no:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/02/fujitsu_payment/
the boss took the best course of action.
he at least got some justice.
i worked somewhere in a similar situation.
very small company, thief worked in finance dept!
the employee was ordered by the court to pay back the couple of thousand at £10 per month or something ridiculous.
He did pay for 6 months then stopped.
When the court was asked why he stopped paying, they said he had been imprisoned for a few months on another offence. (They never bothered to tell us, his previous victim this though.)
"So when will he start paying our money back again?" we asked.
The court replied: "sorry, a prison sentence automatically wipes previous fines/repayments, he won't be paying you any money now."
So, welcome to britain, steal money, plead poverty over the fine, get a couple of months bed + board + playstation at her majesties pleasure, hey presto, no more pesky fine to pay!
to the idiots saying "this encourages vigilantes...". THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE JUSTICE SYSTEM. That fact alone encourages vigilantes more than anything.
no need for death penalty.....here's an even more radical idea.....PUT PEOPLE IN PRISON!
the ugly unspoken truth is by the time you've paid the bed and board, dental, medical, psychological treatments, recreation activities, educational needs, library, etc,etc, then it gets expensive.
So don't provide it, just a concrete box with a feeding tube at the top and a drain at the bottom.
Life sentences can be less than 8 years today, that should be changed to full life terms in a concrete box until death.
The death penalty is a red herring, don't be tricked into the divisive daily mail vrs guardian muppet show. 100% of people want full life sentences, that is the secret question that will never be polled.
But as for tasers: they are extra judicial torture weapons.
The video of Robert Dziekanski being taserd to death by RCMP:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-c-TJ5U2aU
did they ask them how many people pay actually pay the tv tax?
i heard from an ex bbc tv exec it is "below 40%", but they like to keep the official figures quiet for the same reasons stated in the article.
Well, well, the ico in cahoots with the .gov
So much for the information commission. disgraceful decision....in the public interest my arse!
"we work for them" should be their slogan.
Is restricting ones ability to tv not against human rights legislation or something?
34,000 euros!!!!
could you not just claim that the value of the Academics poetry list does not reflect the true value of the work he produced, the academic would need to pay for unrelated goods such as never ending supplies of open toed sandals, hideous jumpers, beard insurance, airfares and expenses for conferences spuriously related to poetry, year subscription to the poetry society, poetry book club costs, expensive academic offices with associated costs for himself to drink coffee doinging "research", and "networking" with like minded free loafers.
At least you could insult the guys integrity as well as that of the funding body (who are no doubt funded by the taxpayer grrr) to make sure he doesn't get any further funding in the future.
the correct way to deal with a dog who bites your hand is to push your hand further into its mouth to the throat then make a fist. It will be your instinct to pull your hand from its sharp teeth, but this will only cause further tearing of your flesh. You must go against your instincts and push your hand INTO the throat and make a fist. These heavy dogs use LOTS of oxygen. Wait until the dog suffocates completely before removing your hand from the mouth.
If the bite is on the leg or body or on another person. Use both your free hands to pull the front legs apart. Dangerous dogs have weak lateral muscles on their front legs. By pulling them apart you will easily split the ribcage causing an immediate heart attack.
If you have a small legal pocketknife, push that into the dogs eye. The brain in dogs is VERY close to the eye compared with other mammals, so you can pierce the brain easily through the eye to end the attack.
The people who are this is overblown or exaggerated are wrong.
It wasn't that long ago that an aircraft was hijacked by armed men who forced a landing in the uk.
After a while they released the hostages and instead of receiving an SAS bullet through the head the hijackers all claimed asylum and received a council house for their trauma.
The phrase "you couldn't make it up" is becoming worn out!
GLOBAL WARMING AND WAR ARE LINKED:
WAR INFLATES THE OIL PRICE.
GLOBAL WARMING JUSTIFIES THE OIL PRICE.
People need to read up on global climate scares....the last one called "global weather cooling"(oh the irony!) was kicked off by a government to distract from an oil war (namely the falklands and sandwich isles war).
Bird flu anyone?
"whats that sir, free use of your own spectrum?, you obviously didn't get the memo we sent to the radio hams and cb radio users......it went something like this.....get off our spectrum!....the citizens don't own it anymore, we the government own it so we can sell it to private companies who will then sell it back to you to make a profit."
She should apply for a job with IR.
From IR's wiki:
"Significantly, several IT initiatives are being phased in to better handle ticketing, freight, rolling stock (wagons), terminals, and rail traffic, including the use of Global Positioning System (GPS) and Microsoft (MS) Windows Vista for train tracking in real time."
all aboard the 6.45 "meatgrinder express"!
by making the minor changes now, it deflects attention from the major change that many people wanted to see:
ie, a change to a separation of UK relevant (including some US based) news , and US relevant (including some UK based) news, perhaps placed on different sites(OR DIFFERENT TABS if your on a 2.0 tip), say one called .co.UK and one called .COM.
I also miss the comments font...think it was ariel, it was bigger point size as well. It was a pleasure to read.....which suits me because i only read the story sub-headline and the readers comments.
grey side bars on FF??.....double you tee eff!
She is not "being greedy" as you put it.
She had her rights violated.
NOT EVERYONE can afford to hire lawyers and go to the trouble and time of pursuing a case against some very powerful figures (mayor, police dept. etc).
The idea is that these powerful figures recieve a big fine so that they
1. realise the severity of what their vindictive revenge has done.
2. put in place procedures so that the next person (who might be an ordinary joe who is not as capable as this person in knowing their rights) who faces being bullied by the mayor/police dept. doesn't have to suffer.
There are cases of pointless legal battles where people are greedy, like a small accident that couldn't be helped that has some minor consequencies.
THIS IS NOTHING LIKE THAT.
2 news items recently:
-2 bottles of beer were found jammed in the LHC causing expensive delays.
-a large chunk of euro-grant money was transfered from a cern bank account as "IT consultancy costs/other" to a company called British Operational Fluidic Hadrons.
Could these 2 stories be in some way related??
The reason for the "internal" forums and doctors.net type setups is to encourage the exposure of non-sheep. This allows them to be "managed" and "re-educated" or culled where necessary.
The doctors union should get their act together and set up an alternative forum for doctors to use AND publicise it.
...it's all an ingenious plot.
Once the energy companies have covered the land in windmills the government will suddenly nationalise them.
They then reverse the juice to create giant turbofan engines, this stop the earth's rotation with britain facing the sun 24 hours a day.
Hey presto,
-Heating bills becomes obsolete.
-Solar energy is available to anyone with roof panels.
-Britain turns into a giant version of Ibiza as people finally realise the real reason pubs were granted 24 hour licenses in 2005.
Royal mail/parcel force is about right for small stuff...BUT BEWARE...do not get heavy items mailed by them.
I had a laser printer delivered and informed them of the size and weight.
(It clearly takes 2 people to lift the box as it is large.)
SO, the postman turns up at the delivery address and asks the person accepting it IF THEY WILL HELP HIM LIFT IT OFF THE VAN. She refused as she wasn't strong enough, (quite right to as well, as if he had of dropped his end the insurance wouldn't have covered the damage because she would have been helping to bring it in from the street??).
The postman took the huff.(they don't like delivering non-letters generally)
He then dragged it from the back of the van and deliberately let the other side of the box slam down onto the concrete road with a crunch(there is no tail lift on postoffice vans-remember)......he then dragged the box up the small path (they don't use the trolley things that proper delivery drivers use).
Then out of spite he ROLLED the box numerous times over the doorway into the office hearing it smash about inside, despite there being signs on the outside of the box saying "FRAGILE, THIS WAY UP ONLY, GLASS INSIDE"(glass=optical laser drum).
Once i heard about this i complained to royal mail, who then sent out a form to fill in and said it might be months before someone comes to inspect the damage for repair etcetc, heard nothing from them, and couldn't be bothered chasing it up as i had learned they were useless by then. £150 lost)
SO don't use royal mail/parcel force for heavy/big/fragile stuff. They are rubbish at that.
this big announcement is for the EDITED register, not the full one, which is passed around every gov dept, quazi-gov dept routinely. (justified by terrorism/crime prevention/think of the children etc,etc)
You have to ask the question, why is it only worth a couple of grand, answer is because you can get the full one easily.
..and yes you can still go to the library to see it if you haven't already downloaded it.....
....mines the one with a DocuPen R800 in the pocket, and a packet of werthers originals for the old dear at the library.
this one size fits all website went out years ago.
Segment for goodness sakes (corn darnit jimpin josopher-again for the merkins).
Your advertisers will love it = your F.D. will too!
Your (megalomaniacal journalistic) ego will hate it.
You even admit it yourself!:
"Unfortunately, not all our stories can be relevant to all our readers all the time".
err...yes they can, tag each story as someone suggested earlier, put in a filter, or just separate the stories on .co.uk
if you don't do it someone else will............cuuuuuuuuut.....paaaaaaaassste....
"Of course, there can be legitimate reasons for opposing the use of cameras. In talking to El Reg about the law on photography, several Police Forces made the fair comment that there were individuals who had learnt how to use cameras at demonstrations as a means to wind individual officers up."
"of course" NOTHING!...."fair comment" NOTHING!
Taking a picture to wind officers up is illegal then is it?
So when rodney king was filmed the camera man was winding them up?
So when Mr Dziekanski was tortured to death in vancouver airport by police the person filming it had his film confiscated because he was "winding officers up" was he?
Why is reg justifying this position? Disgraceful.
I want an answer from the usual el reg trolls who sniff around the forums leaving pointless uninformative posts.
WHERE ARE YOU NOW TROLLS!
...The "children crossing" sign could act as a beacon to garry glitter types who would congregate near the signs looking to "help" children across the road.
...And why are the people on warning roadsigns always black.....totally racist....i will be righting to a token black MP about this shocking oversight.
It's redistributing wealth from investors and private pension funds and energy company shareholders (like the author of the article funnily enough and thousands of other people) to elderly poor who are being hit hard at the expense of record oil company profits.
Scaremongers who don't like the tax forget to mention the other option....NATIONALISATION.
So, more tax on your highly profitable shares or nationalisation, which is it to be?
Thought so.
However, if as one poster suggests, any of this tax money goes on quangos, pogo-stick-to-work initiatives, or "environMENTAL" projects, i would be against it. (And i strongly suspect this money will be wasted knowing this gov.)
All the oil company profit was not created by the companies effort (as the author points out 9% profit is not great), rather it was created by gordon brown and chums who have created conflict in oil producing and transporting countries.
Is anyone else getting tired of this authors political ranting, check out "other articles by this author" link at the top.
Ok mate. Your a neo-con. WE KNOW. If i want to read neo-con articles there are dedicated political websites. Why are you even employed on reg.
IT?
The Register 
Biting the hand that feeds IT
Copyright. All rights reserved © 1998–2024
