Posts by Rich 11 4584 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Jul 2009
Aw, look, yet again it's someone who thinks that anyone with an ounce of integrity, empathy or compassion must be virtue-signalling, because obviously it's so much more important to boast about yourself and raise your social standing amongst your peers than it is to be able to sleep at night.
Tells you all you need to know about them, the small-minded conscienceless self-centred rat pricks.
this seems to suggest that the public highways will in effect become a beta testing ground
Since beta testing should clearly comprise a smaller set than the full customer group, I propose that Slough should become the beta testing ground. And they can use Swindon for the alpha.
About a dozen years ago my then-boss was excited to get a brand new laptop, complete with fingerprint sensor. "Look at this, Rich11," he enthused. "This is much better than your AD password policy, a lot more secure!" "Really?" I said, pulling out my pocket knife and opening up the blade.
I always did enjoy watching comprehension dawn on his face. The opportunities were frequent.
Stupid name, trying too hard to be cool.
It'll be one of those computer-generated US military nomenclatures, following the adjective-noun pattern. I keep hoping that some bored grunt will add a few words of their own to the lists, so that we can look forward to a four-star general codenamed Strident Fuckwit and a black site called Farty Towels.
Just a suggestion, buds, just a suggestion.
It could be worse - think what happened to the economy last time we had an ex-Chancellor as PM.
You won't see me defending Brown on many points, but one thing is for certain: the global economic crash was caused by the exposure of the long-running subprime mortgage racket in the US in 2007 and the subsequent collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, not by the economic policies of Gordon Brown. Blair, Brown and Mandelson were responsible for 'light-touch' regulation which didn't help, but do you really think a putative Tory chancellor at the turn of the millennium would have been insisting that London-based banks maintain higher reserves and undergo more rigorous stress tests? The decisions of the past nine years have been bad enough, with the banks not required to meet new regulations until 2019, and will that survive Brexit? Already we are seeing the moron Trump reduce regulations on the US investment banks, setting up the conditions necessary for the next tranche of financial scams.
And this sounds exactly like a White House press briefing:
As increasing numbers of tech journalists have discovered while trying to pin Rony Abovitz down on what his company has actually produced, he alternates wildly between praise and aggression and refuses to hear anything that sounds like criticism.
Even basic borrowing gets screwed up as "PFI"
The decision to keep the PFI liability off the books sits firmly at the feet of successive chancellors, not in the hands of a civil servant.
letting a simple contract for a rail franchise is beyond these cretins meagre talents
The entire franchising idea isn't simple -- that's the bloody point. Again, political direction.
the asinine "Foreign Aid" programme.
Yet another idiot who reaches for Daily Mail thinking instead of giving a moment's consideration to an investment in the future. It's almost like some people want developing countries not to climb out of poverty and to risk discontent, instability and war, eventually sending more refugees out into the world. Far better, ethically as well as pragmatically, to help people and to help create markets for our goods and services -- even David 'Pigfucker' Cameron understood that. You do want more trade deals once we're outside the EU, don't you?
But there was then no consultation or further communication, according to ORG. The commission say that the job they were given proved too big to have time to talk to journalists and editors.
That's remarkably handy. How they think that excuse will convince anyone that it wasn't a complete stitch-up is beyond me.
There is an upper limit of population, and we're heading for it at 11 billion* by the end of the century. By then population growth flattens out. This may upset people who would like the chance to sterilise or kill other people (certainly not themselves, of course), but I'm not going to weep over their lost ambitions.
To head off those who will say 'How can we feed so many people?', first you need to realise that we can already feed all the people on the planet. It's just that most of the food tends to be bought up -- and a good proportion of that left to rot -- by the wealthy nations. The populations of Europe and the Americas are set to shrink slightly, while Asia's will rise by a quarter. The difficulty will be in Africa, where the population is set to quadruple over the next 80 years (even with shrinking family sizes, because people born over the next decade are likely to live until the end of the century). However much of Africa's agriculture is still done at the family plot level, with nothing but a hoe and a spade: modernisation offers a way out of the food problem they'll otherwise face.
*Assuming we don't start the next set of resource wars after losing too much land to the sea. Or that Trump wonders what that big red button might do...
Why is this a story about a "2,200-plus-word extravaganza" when Obama's was 3,000 words and that seemed reasonable?
Because it's such a complete reversal from his previous EOs. Just look at the chaos he's created with the travel ban, which wasn't consulted upon. You don't applaud someone for suddenly starting to do something which was standard procedure before he took office.
Nobody thought the leftist liberal elitists would lay down and allow Trump to have his presidency
Yes. Those masked hitmen were all ready to swing into action. Time and again we thought that would be the real solution, as everyone said at the time. Yet somehow not a shot was fired and Trump ascended safely to the pinnacle of his dreams. Those goddamn lily-livered yellow liberals just chickened out, didn't they, Bob? They just couldn't give the kill order, not like a True American would.
If I went overseas, I'd try to learn to speak like a Canadian. I certainly wouldn't want to advertise that I'm from THAT place.
You'd be following in the footsteps of many Americans who did this in the 80s and again after the invasion of Iraq.
The rest of us would certainly appreciate Yanks saying 'sorry' more often, in a Canadian accent or not.
I wonder what the measurement/unit of force was involved, can you quantify?
I estimate it at about one-sixth of a mic drop. In other words, about a thousandth of what he deserves.
just in case someone replies, please, please don't.
Silly boy. That's the last thing you should ask.
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