"It would have been cheaper to lower the Atlantic" was the joke the producer made at the time...
Posts by Uncle Slacky
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So, what IS the worst film ever made?
Eddie Murphy heading for worst movie ever glory
Lawyers of Mordor menace Hobbit boozer
American pies are cooling on the windowsill ahead of Pi Day
CSIRO: warming up to five degrees by 2070
MYSTERY programming language found in Duqu
SUPERCOMPUTER vs your computer in bang-for-buck battle
NASA to blast 5 rockets in 5 min in jet stream test
Anonymous takes down Vatican website
STUNNING NEW APPLE DEVICES that will follow the iPad 3 HD!
AOL joins advertiser exodus from Rush Limbaugh
Jelly Bean confirmed as Android names get sweeter
Citrix drops Rush Limbaugh over 'slutgate' slurs
Antibody transistor grabs gold
Paper plane world record disputed
Raspberry Pi signs big-name sellers
Two thirds of Brits crippled by mobile phone loss terror
Space: 1999 returning to TV?
FBI investigated Steve Jobs' reality distortion field, LSD use
Ten... Freesat TV receivers
Wednesday 8th February 2012 12:39 GMT 
Only very occasional freezing here...
...but it does frequently seem to lose the ability to repopulate the EPG (in particular BBC channels, for some reason) which necessitates a power cycle to fix.
The only things I miss from Sky are to do with reminders - the apparently limited number of active reminders (about 20 or so AFAICT), the ability to view all reminders on a single page, and the fact that there's no series link function.
Otherwise, OK for the price (IIRC about £64 at Argos three years ago).
Conclusive proof of human activity causing glacier to vanish
Study links dimwits to conservative ideology
Dead gamer sat unnoticed for nine hours in net cafe
Facebook IPO: Boom or bubble?
Thursday 2nd February 2012 16:10 GMT
Same here
My younger daughter (13) hasn't bothered to join - she texts her immediate friends anyway, and she corresponds with the more remote ones by email. Elder daughter is on FB but has been keener on G+ on late. Her presence on both is mainly in order to plug her own self-built website & merchandise, however.
RIM restyles next-generation BlackBerry
NASA: Solar system may have alien origin
NASA launches Facebook game for space nerds
iPhone 5 rumoured to be packed with pay-by-bonk tech
NHS unfurls condom app – for iPhone-toting teens
Sick of Ubuntu's bad breath? Suck on a Linux Mint instead
Most EU states sign away internet rights, ratify ACTA treaty
North Korea labels phone users war criminals
Update Facebook by thrusting your hips to, er ... 'Like' things
The Pirate Bay torrents printable 3D objects
Try a 'shroom before ruling on chill pills, boffin tells gov
Wednesday 25th January 2012 17:35 GMT
Also: “If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. Except for pharmaceutical poison, there are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in.”
Wednesday 25th January 2012 17:27 GMT 
Bill Hicks' contributions...
"I think it's interesting the two drugs that are legal, alcohol and cigarettes, two drugs that do absolutely nothing for you at all; and the drugs that might open your mind up to realize how badly you're being fucked every day of your life? … Those drugs are against the law. He-heh, coincidence?"
"I'm glad mushrooms are against the law, because I took them one time, and you know what happened to me? I laid in a field of green grass for four hours going, "My God! I love everything." Yeah. Now, if that isn't a hazard to our country … how are we gonna keep building nuclear weapons, you know what I mean? What's gonna happen to the arms industry when we realize that we're all one?!"
Loyal NASA rover Opportunity enters 9th year of Mars boffinry
Groupon banned from selling SNAKE OIL
Wednesday 25th January 2012 15:21 GMT
The original snake oil did work...
...it was the ripoffs that didn't:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=snake-oil-salesmen-knew-something
"Of course, most 19th-century snake oil salesmen did not, in fact, sell this particular product. Even those hucksters who did sell actual snake oil would likely have sold the rattlesnake variety, nearly useless for any ache-relieving medicinal purpose. But the original Chinese purveyors of snake oil offered something that probably did exactly what they claimed it would do: help fellow workers relieve the pain of their labors."
Iranian gov mouthpiece Press TV finally gets taken off the air in the UK
Microsoft blames poor Windows sales on PC slump
Friday 20th January 2012 12:09 GMT
No, Windows 7 Starter Edition
The intentionally crippled version for netbooks.
This is what it lacks WRT "standard" Win7:
- Aero Glass, meaning you can only use the “Windows Basic” or other opaque themes. It also means you do not get Taskbar Previews or Aero Peek.
- Personalization features for changing desktop backgrounds, window colors, or sound schemes.
- The ability to switch between users without having to log off.
- Multi-monitor support.
- DVD playback.
- Windows 7 starter Media Center for watching recorded TV or other media.
- Remote Media Streaming for streaming your music, videos, and recorded TV from your home computer.
- Domain support for business customers.
- XP Mode for those that want the ability to run older Windows XP programs on Windows 7 starter.
Teen net addicts pee in bottles to stay glued to WoW
Thursday 19th January 2012 11:17 GMT
Perhaps it's symptomatic of the lack of fulfilment these people find in their real lives, people who may have abilities far beyond those required by their day jobs?
Maybe they didn't go to the right schools, or be born to the right parents to be able to realise their ambitions and thereby make the most of their talents? If so, it's a damning indictment of the structure of "real" society and the "real" economy that these people's efforts go (materially) unrewarded.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
