Posts by Danny 2

Screw you, gadget-menders! No really, you'll need loads of screwdrivers to fix Apple's AirPods Max headphones

I remember having a bulging toolkit

Full set of Torx drivers, security drivers, every sort of driver. Could dismantle any device and break into any girls heart.

1985 to 1998 - It was a very good year.

Police drone plunged 70ft into pond after operator mashed pop-up that was actually the emergency cut-out button

Re: Fail safe?

@Nick Ryan -"The history of avionics is full of post-event learning experiences."

I was just reading about Tunnock's Teacakes / Munchmallows and found this gem in Wikipedia -

Retired RAF bomber pilot Tony Cunnane told of how Tunnock's Teacakes became a favourite ration snack of the V bomber nuclear deterrent flight crews based at RAF Gaydon, especially after discovering that they expanded at high altitude. This ended after one was left unwrapped and exploded on the instrument panel.

Won't somebody think of the ducklings?

...dropping it squarely into a pond...Investigators added that an object of similar weight to the Skyranger drone could cause fatal injuries to somebody wearing a hard hat if dropped from a height of just four metres, or 13 feet.

I mentioned this crash a couple of days ago advocating police drones are safer than police helicopters. I said if a drone fell then nobody would die, but I'm happy to stand corrected. I'd still rather a drone fell on me than a helicopter. And as a tax-payer (?) I'd rather pay for a drone over a cop-ter.

Labour Party urges UK data watchdog to update its Code of Employment Practices to tackle workplace snooping

Zoom watermarks

The Intercept has an article on audio and video watermarks in Zoom that can be used to trace leaks. What You Should Know Before Leaking a Zoom Meeting.

Which i kind of ironic given that they've just sacked Laura Poitras for criticising The Intercept for getting Reality Winner arrested via printed watermarks. Poitras brought Glenn Greewald to interview Edward Snowden, thus starting The Intercept - and Greenwald had already quit.

Scottish Environment Protection Agency refuses to pay ransomware crooks over 1.2GB of stolen data

Actually, 87 beavers have been slaughtered in Scotland with SEPA approval so it would be mondo-porn. SEPA are not fit for purpose. Or even porpoise.

Here is poem about it, with the poets permission:

Bereaved A poem by Robert Alcock

1

Bereft, bereaved,

the river grieves

her eager lover,

her healer, her sculptor.

Crafty, intelligent,

in his element

in her element,

every behaviour

a force of nature;

feverish wielder

of iron-toothed shovel,

adze and axe and chisel,

felling birch and alder;

willow weaver; builder

in mud and timber

of lodge and barrier,

slowing the flow

of her too-hasty water,

catching sediment,

sifting it, saving it

for her catchment;

leaving

in his wake

a sunlit lake,

seeded

with weed and reed —

his vegan feast;

hosting and feeding

a host of other species:

newt and salamander,

moorhen and gander,

rail and flycatcher,

vole and trout and otter;

until with many seasons

pool is succeeded

by meadow,

waders by grazers,

and he heads to a new

bend of the river,

renews his vow,

his gift to her.

No longer, now.

Bereft, bereaved,

the river grieves

her spark-bringer,

her shape-shifter,

her creator, her saviour.

2

His misfortune:

to be worth a fortune,

a price on his head,

prized more dead

than living,

as pelt, felt, and scent:

untold wealth

bought and sold

and hoarded

by unbelievers,

hearts full of craving,

dammed with greed

for silver and gold

that gleam in the bank,

never seeing

the flicker and fold

of sun-sheen

on a stream bank.

They came as thieves,

trapped and seized,

misprised, mythologised:

called him a fish,

a meatless dish,

who'd bite off his balls

before he'd submit;

and offering up

their own masculinity

on the bloody altar

of a mad divinity,

drove him

over the brink

to extinction.

3

Meanwhile,

across the great water,

from his stolen fur

men built

harbour and fort,

fought

a hundred-year war

for his coat —

Iroquois, Huron,

English, Dutch, French:

the hunters won,

the rivers wept;

the men kept

grasping and killing,

striving and building,

until outposts

were ports,

forts

were states,

and the wealth

that poured downriver

was caught

in the sieve

of a great city

where men in tall hats,

priests of Enterprise,

prophets of shiny Profit,

traded and plotted

in lodge and bourse,

and laid out

their main square

atop his drained pond

on the island

hunting ground

called Manhattan.

4

So the builder's pelt

built a new world

that soon outgrew his coat:

grew and grew,

knowing only

how to grow.

Fur fell out of fashion;

the cities forgot him

but the river

never forgot,

never stopped

weeping,

kept bleeding

silt to the salt sea;

to a river

what are centuries?

Foam floats by endlessly.

5

Then one morning

in spring,

the river in spate,

he saunters

jauntily

out of a crate.

No showy reunion,

no show of emotion

after their long separation;

he tastes the air,

doesn't waste the light,

starts his search

for a suitable

building site.

Retrieved, delivered,

reintroduced

by human beings

being humane,

for a change:

his good fortune, to be

no longer worth a fortune

dead, but prized

as he is, alive

— by the wise;

there are plenty

who don't agree,

call him a pest,

call for his head;

his "protected status"

a paper-thin wall

of paperwork.

He's oblivious,

to him paper's best

shredded

to make a nest.

They shred it:

perpetrate

a legal slaughter,

eighty-seven dead,

blood in the water.

Once again

men demonstrate

that they dominate,

subjugate nature,

eliminate the neighbour

whose behaviour

they can't tolerate,

even if

they stand to benefit.

And the river

is left

bereft.

Hollywood drone pilot admits he crashed gizmo into cop chopper, triggering emergency landing

Re: Helicopter danger

Peter2, I haven't smoked dope since I lived in the Netherlands. I do find 'the war on drugs' pathetic but my beef is with the overuse of police helicopters in residential areas for non-threatening reports.

Um, most of your comment is just so obviously wrong or out-dated that I'll only deconstruct it if you demand it after you read the other comments here.

Re: Helicopter danger

DJO, thank you! Years ago growers would use sodium lights stolen from car parks, high energy and hot. Not now for the most part. And flying above flats looking for a thermal signature only identifies those in top floor flats. Drones can carry any sensor a helicopter can.

Re: Helicopter danger

fireflies,

You mention the rapid development of drones since 2013, and that is true. And their range can be greater than a helicopter now, depending on model. And they are cheaper.

You mention helicopters are faster that drones, I don't know if that is true but it only has to be faster than someone on foot - or a stationary flat! You said drones have to remain in visual sight - that's not true even if it once was. I mean, maybe it's still true for civilian drones.

Re: Helicopter danger

Matthew,

For passengers travelled then I doubt your figures - or at least would like to see some figures. I'd advocated banning car drivers under the age of 30 and over the age of 60, and that any driver should have the equivalent training of a helicopter pilot.

My problem with helicopters isn't the lack of pilot training, it's the inherent risk of the machine over residential areas compared to societal gain.

Re: Helicopter danger

Hey Heyrick,

I'm not promoting the DM but there were relevant facts in that article, such as police are already using drones with heat cameras.

I grew up in the cold war listening to Radio Moscow and Radio Free Europe and the BBC World Service on a short-band radio under my bed covers when I should have been asleep. I think I can cope with the Daily Mail and the Guardian propaganda, and the scores of other online publications I scroll through.

I'd recommend you don't ignore the DM or other publications you know to be flawed, especially the popular ones. It's dangerous to be unaware of the various bubbles.

Re: Helicopter danger

I normally apologise in advance for linking there. I do skim it everyday because it's not paywalled and too many people read it to ignore it, same as the NYT and Guardian. But worse obviously.

A stopped clock is correct twice a day, unless it's a 24 hour clock.

Re: Helicopter danger

Just because the Daily Mail claims Boris Johnson is Prime Minister doesn't mean he isn't.

Feel free to google the spec of the Aeryon SkyRanger R80 if you doubt it can target a heat signature.

https://www.sussex.police.uk/police-forces/sussex-police/areas/au/about-us/governance-and-processes/drones-unmanned-aerial-vehicles/

(I'm not bothered by the downvotes, just the lack of arguments and rationale here. Most disappointing for this forum.)

Re: Helicopter danger

Fair point, some railway trespass is more threatening than just to the trespasser. In reality the railways are well enough designed that when cable is cut the railway just stops, no real danger.

I still contend a helicopter is not a proportionate or suitable response.

Re: Helicopter danger

Maybe train police not to walk on railway tracks? Maybe deploy a drone? Deploying a helicopter to search for a potential trespasser is literally overkill.

Hey, we've got a helicopter burning up our budget during austerity, what can we possibly use it for to justify the expense?

Re: Helicopter danger

The sensitivity needed for what? For identifying a human heat signature? The sensitivity required to spot a dope farm? Either way you are wrong, the police are already deploying such drones. There is a story in the Daily Mail today about a crashed cop drone, which admittedly proves your point that they are difficult to fly. Helicopters are even more difficult to fly, but when a drone crashes then nobody dies.

Re: Helicopter danger

an infra-red camera from above. Officers on the ground have no way of replicating that sort of search

Drone.

Re: Helicopter danger

Ignoring your puerile insults and lack of argument, you challenged me on how often helicopters crash in residential areas and failed to respond when I listed some - regardless, once is one too many.

Risking civilian lives for trivial police fishing exercises is immoral. I can see the need for police helicopters in residential areas during a pursuit of active killers, but not otherwise. Anything else they can do in a helicopter they can do with a drone with zero risk and at a fraction of the cost.

hash houses can be booby trapped (commonly by connecting things such as door handles to the electrical mains) and any occupants armed

A big fan of Breaking Bad and The Wire, are you? You are living in a fantasy world. A large scale farm run by a criminal gang could well be dangerous, I wouldn't know, but criminal gangs do not set up in small flats. The people who do are the resident who grows for themself and a bit of pocket money. They don't risk a hefty prison sentence for resisting arrest, let alone your deluded murder attempts. How do I know? Because I've met scores of these folk, some in the community and some in the cells.

Go on, name some examples of dope growers in flats who commit violence. Or grow up and get a life outside of TV.

Re: Helicopter danger

And how many times has that happened in the last 10 years?

Too often. For instance a few months earlier in London.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_helicopters

Knock on the door and do what, exactly?

Arrest any criminals without risking civilian lives.

I'm not trying to downgrade its importance but merely trying to put it into context.

The context is it was searching for someone reported to be on a railway line. Something that could and should have been carried out by officers on foot.

Helicopter danger

I've stated this before here, and for many years before that. I don't feel we should be using helicopters above residential areas as they are too liable to crash. As transport to oil rigs, fine, only risking their own lives. But for rich people avoiding road traffic, never.

Police in Scotland misuse their helicopters just because they have them, for no good reason. Sometimes they fly above residences to search for the heat signature of cannabis farms - knock on the doors instead. The fatal Clutha helicopter crash in Glasgow was launched to search on suspicion of someone trespassing on railway lines. A 'crime' that would either have ended harmlessly, as it did, or one fatality at most.

I have no problem with unarmed police drones.

Facebook tells Portuguese court that a biz called Oink And Stuff makes profile-harvesting browser extensions

Re: Do as I say not as I do.

C'mon, intent is important. I would strongly recommend nobody else smokes and drinks as much as I do, but that doesn't mean I'm likely/able to quit.

It's a 100 years since the first magician sawed a person in half as a stage trick, so I googled that last week. I would strongly recommend you search for 'sawing a lady in half' rather than 'sawing a person in half'. The former is cute, misogynist but harmless. The latter is disturbing.

The CIA's 'entire' collection of UFO records has been made available for you to sigh at

Re: I saw one, naturally

My apprenticeship involved being rotated around each part of the chip-manufacturer. That included a month with the buyer, which I was dreading as it didn't seem techie. It was fascinating though. An engineer would look up a price in a catalogue and accept it and the spec. The buyer would demand a better spec and a lower price and would phone around 'til he got both.

I've never harvested anything I planted but I got into permaculture when I was blacklisted. A lot of scammers but some great stuff.

You sound like you have a good life. ('The Good Life' is a funny '70s BBC sitcom but inadvertent choice of words). If you've seen it what do you think of 'Kiss The Ground' on Netflix?

Re: I saw one, naturally

Ta much Jake.

I always knew somebody would be willing to traipse though fields just to create a local mystery, I just couldn't grasp where they'd get a string that long. Before that the longest string I'd encountered was maybe 200 yards tops. I was perturbed by the fact I couldn't do it, so it was impossible, yet it had been done.

I am genuinely going to contact some of my old neighbours with your info just to put the mystery to bed. I am tempted to buy 170 miles of string and recreate the prank on a bigger scale, but due to covid legislation and my lack of fitness I couldn't walk for more than 20 miles.

Were you a buyer at some point in your career? You repeatedly have good info on materials. How long is a piece of string? Here to Dundee if you pay for it.

Re: I saw one, naturally

It was definitely something I could have shot with a shotgun, so I briefly considered applying for a shotgun licence. But 'Reason for Application : to shoot down a UFO' would've had me sectioned.

Maybe this was your relatives. In the same area a piece of string appeared overnight over a distance of at least 15 miles in a straight line through (not over) fences and fields. It fascinated the locals who started to ball it up. They wanted to know why and how. I was just amazed that you could get a single piece of string that length.

I saw one, naturally

The terrifying tale of the 'A70 incident' - Edinburgh's own alien abduction case

That's not me, but I lived nearby and had a similar experience nearby a few years later. I rarely talk about it because I ken fine well it destroys your credibility, one explanation is that aliens only appear to people who have no social standing. Locals started putting up 'low flying UFO' signs, humorous but also because a fair few locals had seen something.

I worked at airports and was driving home in a clear, dark night. There was a car parked at the top of a hill I was driving up, fairly common because of the nice view. Except when I got to the ridge the headlights were still thirty feet above me and I was about to drive under them. At that point the adrenalin kicks in, and I slowed down to get a better view. I nearly stalled the car and if I had stalled the car I would've panicked and could easily have passed out. Instead I revved the engine and drove under it accelerating, then instantly regretted it and turned hard to go back but it had vanished apparently at high speed.

It was a black, flat triangle about 20 foot long, blocked out the stars in my sunroof as I went under it, made a weird, low noise unlike any plane or copter. I've seen all sorts of weird aircraft especially in that job. I was raised on Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind so naturally that is where my mind went. I quickly suspected a prank though, because the lights were just like car halogens and surely extraterrestrials would have better illumination than Halfords. I guess it was an inflatable drone that disappeared simply by turning off it's lights and rising, but it may have been from a nearby RAF base.

[A friend asked me if I lost any time later that evening. "Aye, I had a dram and a joint, just the any other evening". I've still never been anally probed - at what age are we supposed to ask for a prostrate exam?]

Dratted 'housekeeping', eh? 150k+ records deleted off UK’s Police National Computer database

FAO: Defence Lawyers

I'm widely acknowledged in certain circles to be Britain's leading IT guy, and for a small fee I am willing to act as an expert witness in any subsequent court case.

This happens all the time, a standard procedure to free up resources due to defragmentation, consolidation and bygones being bygones.

(Two thumbs up to whoever burned the data, now that my thumbprints aren't on record.)

How to avoid pesky border controls: Be a robot truck driver… or insanely rich

Re: ePassports

We already have golden passports that reveal your net worth.

Cyprus scandal exposes EU ‘golden passport’ problem

I'm holding off buying a passport until I can get a tartan one.

Flash in the pan: Raspberry Pi OS is the latest platform to carve out vulnerable tech

Re: ZX Printer

I worked in a district council mid '90s. The Finance director didn't trust magnetic tape backups so insisted everything was printed off and stored in a huge basement under the town hall. I took a barrow load across once and got a look at the stash piled floor to ceiling for about 25 metres.

Obviously nobody would be able to find anything, and it was a huge fire hazard, but also the print had all faded.

I suggested reusing the older blank 'backup' paper rather than buying new paper, but local council so I was admonished for cheek.

Airbnb, or not to be, if you're headed to Washington DC: Biz cancels bookings over fears of inauguration insurrection

If that's so then Version 1.0 would defo be wanting a gun in Glasgow. I've never seen anyone with such a scar. I've heard of worse though. Some ingenious young villain used a penny as a spacer between two blades of a Stanley knife so that when they slashed they cut out a strip of flesh.

1.0, I think you mean the only risk is a Glasgow kiss, aka headbutt, unless you are justifiably criticising our dental health. And you'd merit a Glasgow kiss for offering whiskey instead of whisky ;)

Pandemic? Check. World in peril? Check. CES is on? Check. So of course Bluetooth Smart Masks are now a thing

Ta, First Light. I miss my dentist more than my youth. I've been going to him since I was 17, my longest non-familial relationship. I have terrible teeth but that's on me, the fact I still have any teeth is due to him and the NHS.

I don't actually feel much pain, he cut my nerves. I had one bad experience involving beaten up by a psycho, a 7 year abscess, and a month long wait to get treated. That was the worst pain I've ever endured. I thought I was being a pussy but a dental nurse said she'd experienced something similar, and it was worse pain than her childbirth.

Somebody had knocked my front teeth out with a bottle of martini (still can't drink that) and I pushed them back in waiting for the ambulance because I didn't have pockets. One was chipped but took, the other went black. But the socket was infected and released pus into my mouth through a small hole in one tooth. 7 years later my dentist noticed it and filled the hole, but by then my upper jaw was mostly pus and the pressure was suddenly excruciating. Except my dentist was on holiday, and I had a guest who didn't speak English while I had to work. Thank god for whisky.

Dentist eventually drilled the hole out, left the room and sent his nurse in. I thought, she is absolutely stinking, worst smell ever, I'm going to have to complain. Except it wasn't her, it was the poison from my jaw dripping into my mouth, and the nurse was the one suffering. And the agony ebbed away. My upper jaw was filled with plastic and antibiotics.

Re: Masks work, even cloth ones

@Veti

I bought hand sanitizer and was disgusted to find it is imbued with patchouli oil. I loathe patchouli oil more than any other odour. It's actually worked out well though because I subconsciously keep my hands as far from my nose as possible, plus it reminds me I still have a sense of smell.

I've been wearing a mask in public since the end of February when everyone thought I was weird and paranoid. I started with surgical masks but then made my own. I use linen with a disposable meltblown filter fabric layer in a pouch, and a plastic metal wrap wire to shape it to the face. I've been giving these away to anyone who wants one, not out of altruism but self-interest.

I am bemused by the terrible knowledge, deployment, understanding, quality and use of masks. I have asthma and chronic bronchitis and have no problem breathing through and talking through a mask so can't see the need for this one or the useless fashion items that Wired Magazine just reviewed uncritically.

I sympathise with lip-readers feeling isolated but I can't make a functional transparent mask, and we all are isolated just now. Plus I've had to pull five of my front teeth and until I can get dental treatment I'd rather keep my mouth hidden.

I also use the same fabric to convert Dyson air blowers into air filters.

We've passed 100,000 covid deaths in the UK, 151 deaths per 100,000, far worse than the US, Mexico, Spain etc. Yet we still don't have a test and trace programme. Our incompetent politicians should be on trial for mass manslaughter, but until that our best personal defence is a mask.

We didn't collude with Twitter to throw Parler off our servers, says AWS in court filing

Re: never liked amazon

Parlor is a different app from Parler, more a ChatRoulette type thing. It's likely to be 'collateral damage' now.

A Parler exec was interviewed on BBC Radio 4, they claimed they had tried to comply but were stymied by a server outage, and then a failure of their 'Content Removal System' (?)

Weak excuses, ignoring that they were knowingly profiting for years from breaching their T&Cs.

I stopped shopping on Amazon a while back (worker's rights).

I only used Facebook a couple of times and they locked me out because I used it so rarely. They asked that four of my 'friends' that they chose vouched for me, but given one of them has since died I am unable to comply until the afterlife gets internet access. I was only logging on to delete it anyway.

Salesforce relieves Republican National Committee of its tools citing 'risk of politically incited violence' across the US

The fury of a micro penis

Illma Gore painted a nude portrait of Donald Trump in 2016. I recommend you don't click on this link because it will inhabit your head even after Trump is dumped from the Whitehouse.

She was banned from social media, hit by lawsuits, and attacked in the street. Just for her art. I can't recall any Republicans defending her free speech or urging people come together.

Disclaimer: I also have tiny hands that would rule me out of being a pianist, but have only had complaints that my piano-organ was painfully large. Probably why I'm not a politician.

Scary adverts

I read US journals using the Tor browser and thus get to see web adverts. For the past six months the adverts have mostly been for clever trompe-l'œil T shirts, you know, spirals disappearing into your chest. For the past two weeks all the adverts are for body armour and combat clothing.

Decades-old UK government papers show that they tried to roll out a 'Cab-E-Net' system in the '90s. It was crap

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

That phrase was coined in 1849 by Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr. But if nothing changes then what was the idiom for nothing changing in 1848? Were things assumed to change before that expression of ennui?

In 1988 my French pal proudly showed me his Minitel which could "make online purchases, make train reservations, check stock prices, search the telephone directory, have a mail box, and chat in a similar way to what is now made possible by the World Wide Web".

He'd forgot I could read French even if I couldn't speak it. All his messages were to a text version of Tinder. Hooking up was more a matter of good writing rather than being good looking and swiping right. A kiss is still a kiss, plus ça va .

Trump's gone quiet, Parler nuked, Twitter protest never happened: There's an eerie calm – but at what cost?

Daily Mail angle

"it was not a coincidence that on the same day elections in Georgia handed the Democrats control of the Senate"

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex quit all social media later that day - coincidence or show of solidarity?

Microsoft's beefed-up take on Linux server security has hit general availability

Re: MS security for Linux?

...like boxer shorts in a Helsinki sauna.

Boffins store text message inside E coli bacteria using electromagnetic signal – and you'll never guess what it says

Data repository

Up your bum!

ZIP folders were originally a Microsoft engineer's side hustle until bosses figured out he worked for Microsoft

@ Stuart - Wasn't Acorn's RISC OS the first to use a file to be replaced by a 'folder'?

I'm probably misunderstanding your question but the computer folder metaphor dates from 1958.

If you mean which graphical OS was the first to represent a compressed directory as a folder icon then I'll take your memory over mine.

Re: I think the zip folder story is rather great for all involved

"powertoys!" ... still a thing

Were stuck into SysInternals, now on GitHub. Mark Russinovich took the opposite path, started by developing MS tools then MS bought that and promoted him.

I haven't thought of that in too long so I checked how up to date it is - SysMon was updated earlier today to identify Process Tampering - literally up to date!

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/

https://medium.com/falconforce/sysmon-13-process-tampering-detection-820366138a6c

Facial recog biz denies its software identified 'antifa members' among mob that stormed Capitol Hill

Re: The main problem with trying to spot antifa members...

"its software had actually spotted neo-Nazi and QAnon supporters among the crowd"

Not the proudest boast for the software, given the T shirts, signs, flags and baseball caps they were wearing. Plus, for extra irony, their lack of facemasks.

It reminds me of the 'Silicon Valley' program that could identify any food image as either "Not a hotdog" or "Hotdog".

Loser Trump is no longer useful to Twitter, entire account deleted over fears he'll whip up more mayhem

felixk,

You have no idea how quickly fascism snowballs.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/proud-boy-6mwe/

A Proud Boy wearing a shirt with the acronym 6MWE combined with a fascist symbol was seen in D.C. protesting the election of Joe Biden.

Claim

"6MWE" stands for "6 million wasn't enough" — a reference to the 6 million Jews murdered during the Holocaust.

Rating

True

Can you name another US President whose supporters actively claimed to be nazis, and who that President praised and encouraged?

Tweeted by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

It's amusing that his last ever tweet, from the Potus account, was "We will not be silenced" - only for that tweet to be deleted!

The WSJ called for him to resign so it's unlikely he'll be given the same access to Fox News, which he'd already started dissing. Lets hope he starts vandalising Wikipedia pages to help run down the clock peacefully. Top golfers should challenge him to games to distract the spoiled child.

Failed insurrection aside, Biden is going to be president in two weeks. What does it mean for tech policy?

My commiseration Commander Klarg, but a national health service is from cradle to grave, not 65 to grave.

My american ex is ever anxious despite having a lot of cash because one illness would bankrupt her. I'm sanguine despite covid because I live in a socialist hellhole with free medical care regardless of age.

Re: Democracy

I'd never heard of the Outsiders Mark. This is maybe a wee bit funny though. Well, I find it funny.

I was a peace protesting anarchist who committed a fair amount of 'malicious mischief' (vandalism), that I used to sign with a stencilled black thistle.

Then a bunch of Scottish fascists stood for election as 'independents' and they chose my black thistle as their dog whistle graphic. They got all the police interest for my previous works!

[I hate that the front page of the i yesterday was "Anarchy in the USA". It's so demeaning to anarchists to be compared to obvious fascists]

My point is you have to be aware of the iconography of your opponents.

Re: Old tech

LogicGate,

52 & ½? I wish! Back then I was just a kid with a crazy dream.

Anyway, sadly, I am nationally disbarred from being the leader of the free world. I am also legally barred from travelling to Prestwick to oppose Trump's flight from justice, because some of us take Covid seriously.

Re: Old tech

So. slightly funny but really just typical. I got my octogenarian mum into 'Corner Gas', which she loves and laughs at loudly. My dad resents that but he agreed to watch an episode. He turned it off after five minutes saying, "Am I supposed to laugh at that?" At least he gave it a fair chance.

And then he stood up, pirouetted twice and fell to the floor. I resisted the urge to say, "Am I supposed to laugh at that?"

It's weird there is a minimum age for US President but no maximum age. I think the minimum age should be 52, and the maximum age 53.

United States Congress stormed by violent followers of defeated president, Biden win confirmation halted

Re: Police Scotland

As the owner of two loss making businesses in Scotland Trump can work from home - ie not Scotland.

Samantha Bee had a hilarious skit labelled, "The Original Trump Haters". I posted the link and got a lot of abuse from New Yorkers who all said, Hey, we are the original Trump haters!

Re: Careful. Slow down and THINK.

Eclectic, Jura is highly passable. You'd be accepted in good company with a pint of Jura. I mean I wouldnae drink it if I had a choice but sometimes I have to drink whisky so awful that lemonade is added.

For decades I've been taught that the only acceptable whisky mixer is cold water. In the past year I've read articles claiming that mixing 10 to 75 percent water actually gets you more pished, plus makes it taste better.

I'm not sure about that but I've started adding 10% water just to make the good stuff last longer.