Posts by Santa from Exeter 377 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Oct 2009
I get that your average USAian is too stupid to work out how roundabouts function, but even Mythbusters proved that they keep the traffic flowing better than the ridiculous habit of putting traffic lights on everything (don't mention the brain dead 4-way stops).
It would seem that 'The Land of the Free' just love being told when to stop and when to go.
Quote - just imagine how hard it must be to live in countries that don't have to replace every single postbox, government form, uniform and banknote every time the head of state changes!
If you are in the UK, you do. My nearest postbox sill has GR on it (George for those who don't know postbox put up between 1910-1936)
The 'old' banknotes and coins will only be withdrawn when they become too worn to use.
I see all the usual suspects in the anti-vax, anti-mask conspiracy wankers are giving sensible posts the inevitable downvotes.
Here's another post for you to let loose on.
You are ruining the Register's comment section on any dog-whistle topic so it's becoming not worth bothering.
Oh, and I'm deliberately *not* going AC on this as a lot of you do, I actually stand behind what I say (and yes, I know it's a Nym, but I use it all the time here - and elsewhere)
Bullshit. Apple are the worst of the lot! I wonder how much they paid the judge for that fucked up decision. If it's closed, it's a monopoly. Hate on Google all you want, but they do at least allow sideloading and Apple take exactly the same cut from developers as Google, making a mockery of that part as well.
Kiss were never truly a Rock group, they were, at best, heavy-ish pop with OTT theatrics to cover up the failings of the music.
It was no real suprise to me that, after taking off the makeup for a bit (the adulation was more sychophantic than genuine IMHO) when they were flagging, they quickly put it back on again as that was their schtick.
There were plenty of true Rock bands in the 70's and 80's that far outperformed the lacklustre Kiss IMHO.
Exactly the same here in Exeter. Instead of a 'Green Wave' on major routes we get the Red Jams. Prioroty given to side roads, even when there's no traffic whatsoever emerging from them.
When combined with a piss-poor implementation of the '15 minute City' idea I'm half convinced the County Council is trying to poison the residents!
How far in the past do you want to go? Just far enough where the mill was the only place to work and was 15 minutes away (as was the mill owners shop)?
Or maybe far eniough back that you had to walk a day to get to the local Town, so were forced to use the village shop?
I live in a subutrban area of a smallish city and the main thing within 15 minutes walk from me is charity shops, hairdressers and a dog shampoo parlour, unless you want to but a fireplace.
Quote - 'Interestingly, e-bikes are ~3x more CO2 efficient than push bikes as human food is much more CO2 intensive than electricity.'
I call bullshit on that one. I don't consume any more food when I ride a pushbike thatn I do normally and, at the end of it's life (well longer than a battery) my pushbike won't have the same amount of hazardous waste as an e-bike.
Well, it's here folks, El Reg has gone fully Yank.
I know it's a story about NASA, but a sloppy conversion to kg from lbs (that *only* Americans use) and not even an attempt to convert from Miles is really taking the biscuit.
Truly we should have the 2.8677 Adult Badgers sized cubesat in an orbit of 25146.7257 Devon fatburgs by 3258299.6947 Brontosaurus'.
I really don't see the point in this, if Big Blue are trying to use this to entice new players into the Mainframe buying scene they are deluded.
Anyone who needs one already has one, and if they need a T&D stack, they'll have a physical one already.
The only way we might use this is when we come to refresh our hardware, so IBM would lose out on that side (also lose out on their nice little reselling sideline).
Colour me Confused.
From the Article -
"Most employees believe that employers should invest in their future by providing skills training, and younger employees have higher expectations, according to the report. In Germany, 69 per cent of employees aged 18 to 29 agreed with this, while in the UK, the age category agreeing most was those aged 30 to 49, at 65 per cent."
You might well find the difference in the age band between the UK and Germany is down to the training available to the differing age groups.
In the UK, it's not uncommon for companies to invest in early years training, which then tapers off significantly by the time you reach 30.
I don't know the situation in Germany, but its possible that the reverse is the case there.
Oh, there was a build up to 'The Troubles' (nice conflation of those with the recent woes over Brexit induced customs tomfoolery).
The build up was, once again, the fault of those Damn Europeans, specifically the Frenchies.
You *were* aware (like any half decent historian) that the Pale was established by the Normans, weren't you?
The first car I named was a Citroen BX, one of the early models with no stalks around the steering wheel, a revovlving drum speedo and an LED Tacho - The Big Red Rocket Ship, it also had the Weber carb so as a 1600 it could nail the speedo to the 120 mph max.
The second was a Black Montego. When the wings had to be replaced and the Scrappies only had white ones it became Ska.
The third was a Race edition 2.1L diesel Espace I named the Flying Wardrobe on Wheels. Used to enjoy leaving the local boy racers standing at the lights with that one.
The last one I named (just scrapped it) was a green Chevvy Matiz, called the Pea, because it was small, green and felt about the size of a peapod.
CE+ is an absolute joke.
It's squarely aimed at Small Enterpise where the 'Security Team' is also the teamaker.
Working for a reasonably sized endeavour, where we have seperate Networks and Platforms Teams we *really* don't need it explaining to us that our "BT Home Hub is a router"
Additionally, the definition of 'supported software' used is complete bollocks, as apparently RHEL6 is unsupported, even if you can provide evidence that you have bought the Extended support package!
Load of old Crap
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