Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26111 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
>Belgium/France border theres no difference between the peoples either side, a french on one side is not diferent from a belgian on the other side.
Now you're just being deliberately offensive !
Just saying it's a good job that G*d doesn't step in and sort out the middle east, but leaves it to his favourite son - Tony Blair
>THe israelies are the ancestors of the canaanites
You are not to leave even one person alive in the cities of these nations that the Lord your God is about to give you as an inheritance.
You must completely destroy the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites,
Because it wasn't necessarily in HP's interest to do a deal - but it is in the interest of the individual at HP doing the deal
They are going to appear on business sections of the TV news and in the business papers - so they are going to be familiar to people looking for their next CEO
By the time the deal goes bad - all deals go bad or at least are obscured to the point that nobody knows if they were bad - they have moved on.
They are just known as the person that worked on multi $Bn M&A deals
>How's that for cunning engineering? Ideally uses six gyros, but can work with one
Seems wasteful !
" engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar which any bungler can do with two after a fashion" Arthur M. Wellington
ps It needs 3 gyros so had 6 - cos the call-out fee for replacements is rather high.
It can 'work' with one by basically arranging observations by waiting until they drift into view and then using the magnetometer to hold it still for a while and then use the last gyro to unload the magnetometer. It's like saying a car with no steering but a handbrake that can lock up one wheel is controllable
pps. you can't really add extra gyros, they have to be pretty much at the center to control the pointing. For all the talk of a service mission, it would be better to spend the money on a new cheaper telescope
ppps. that statement migtt also apply before it was launched
Here in the Great White North a challenger to the great monopoly Telco decided to roll out VOIP phones which supported caller id for emergency services.
Unfortunately the location they reported was that of the data center hosting the VoIP network gear - generally in a different city, and in one fatal case, a different province
>I would not want to try creating an AutoCAD drawing with keyboard commands and the arrow keys
What I miss about classic Autocad is having the commandline.
Most drawing construction consists of entering lines as angles and offsets, it's only the editing that needs a pointy thing. And even then a pad+pen is easier than a mouse best.
There's no need to have two separate internets. Merely implement the RFC3514 evil bit
>Boeing issued thir very first "Diversity Report" in April of 2021.
Diversity has definitely been at the root of Boeing's recent issues.
Specifically, hiring managers from a minority aircraft maker and moving manufacturing to states where snake handling and moonshine brewing are the main achievements
A lot of storage is on tape because it is still relevant.
Scientific data from 150 years ago is still important in astronomy. Not sure if recopying reel-reel tape to exabyte to DAT to LTO is easier than just rescanning the plates.
And in the less real world, a lot of corporate / tax / insurance data has to be kept for decades.
>My only issue with mandatory voting is what if you don't think any of the candidates is worthy?
That's the nice thing about the Australian system (IIRC) , all the support agreements are worked out in advance.
So you can vote Communist / Green / Nazi, safe in the knowledge that the vote is actually going to transfer to the Labour / Lib-Dem / Conservative - but you feel like you are being individual
>I mean that's basically 'capitalism', buy the best at the best price.
No I think you have that wrong:
Capitalism is buying the product made by people who look most like you. With the most macho name and the most flags and with the ads with the loudest music. If this isn't financially viable then the government can cover any losses the company makes.
Communism is trying to buy the best product wherever in the word it's made irrespective of what it's called or what kind of raptor is featured on the logo.
Personal liability from the person who clicked on the attachment, or the sysadmin that allowed attachments or the manager that bought Microsoft instead of insisting that the PSNI created their own secure OS or the minister that didn't give them unlimited funding for computer security?
Or do we just blame the current chief constable and rotate on the next one till the next scandal?
