* Posts by Fr. Ted Crilly

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BOFH: I get locked out, but I get in again

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Re: Very neat episode, nice little cliff-hanger

Try setting white typeface colour default in word. hours of fun juvenile, but fun all the same.

In the old days blu tack on mouse rollers still rattles and etc but... once the target had wised up on a post it note over the ball and that.

Boeing-backed air taxi upstart Wisk plans to fly you across town at UberX prices by 2030

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Re: Traffic is easier in the air

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

Trident missile test a damp squib after rocket goes 'plop,' fails to ignite

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not suprised.

Grant Scrapps even being in the general vicinity is enough to break things...

CERN seeks €20B to build a bigger, faster, particle accelerator

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Re: velodrome

No no, an ITT surely, and a TTT through the service bore of the Channel Tunnel is so obvious too.

Robots with a 'Berliner Schnauze' may appear more trustworthy to locals

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Re: I would be concerned...

Kaiser Wilhem ii old Mum, Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa, Queenie Vicky's oldest girl...

At last: The BBC Micro you always wanted, in Mastodon form

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Re: I still have the real thing

Teac ;-)

The 'nothing-happened' Y2K bug – how the IT industry worked overtime to save world's computers

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Re: Yeah but…

He didn't, I was with him at Penetrode at the time...

NASA, Lockheed Martin reveal subtly supersonic X-59 plane

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Re: Douglas X-3 Stiletto, anybody?

Sabre dance... way down in coffin corner.

Former Post Office boss returns CBE to sender over computer system scandal

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Re: A scandal of epic proportions

Used to get mine free from a contact who visited Pressdram daily, Oh look its for me in the DX ;-)

Contact changed employer so the free Eye was no longer.

Been paying the yearly sub for ooh 15 years now.

They do need the support people....

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No not yet, ' Venal(s)'

Another airline finds loose bolts in Boeing 737-9 during post-blowout fleet inspections

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Re: I hope they also covered

Hatfield rail crash in the year 2000 here in england. wiki search it, grim reading.

Windows boss takes on taskbar turmoil, pledges to 'make Start menu great again'

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Re: Do what you like but give options

Keep taking test drives...

Elon is the bakery owner swearing in the street about Yelp critics canceling him

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Re: Advertising Money

If he was more like Delos D Harriman i'd care but he isn't...

‘I needed antihistamine tablets every time I opened the computers’

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I reject your reality, and substitute one of my own...

Programmable or 'purpose-bound' money is coming, probably as a feature in central bank digital currencies

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Re: Oh hell no

Yeah staff R&R awards, here's a e-chit to buy something at the overpriced place that cost more than elsewhere so the 'scheme provider' can make a cut out of the middle.

Nothing really handy like an amazon voucher or Paypal code, oh no that might be too useful...

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Re: They call these "savings stamps" or "green stamps"

I used to think my daddy was a black man

he scrimped enough to buy the company store

But now he goes to town with empty pockets

And his face is white as a February snow

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Re: Permanent status quo

On the other foot if it can/could, then somewhere it will be...

China bans export of rare earth processing kit

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Re: LiDAR? Really?

Are you sure about RV Jones, radar yes very much so.

Lasing was not practically demonstrated until 1947, actual working laboratory devices of the 'pumped' variety are mid 60's iirc.

I seem to remember that the theoretical concept of lasing and masing for that matter was the subject of papers through out the inter war years.

China’s e-commerce players commit to broaden overseas

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Hmm yeah about that.

Time for China's international subsidised postal rates for 'developing countries' to be removed yes?

FCC really, truly won't give SpaceX nearly a billion bucks for Starlink rural broadband

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Re: Gotta Love Xitler's Lawyers

Careful now with those dangerously sensible socialist notions you have there..

Stratolaunch takes ready-to-fly hypersonic craft skyward, but still no launch

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Re: Talon

C'est un bon point et ces dernières semaines, j'ai beaucoup pensé.

Bonsoir - ici nous avons les diagrammes modernes d'un mouton anglo-français ... maintenant ... baa-aa, baa-aa... nous avons, dans la tête, le cabinc. Ici, on se trouve le petit capitaine Anglais, Monsieur Trubshawe.

Tesla sues Swedish government after worker rebellion cripples car biz

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Re: I am enjoying this dispute

You are Nick Leeson and you owe £600 million...

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Re: Managers

Mind you don't allow yourself to become one of the 'Arseholes' by default to the capture effect...

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Re: I am enjoying this dispute

The Caine mutiny and the strawberrys spring to mind...

No more staff budget for UK civil service, but worry not – here's an incubator for AI

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Re: Don't conflate the two things

Ah yes SIr Humphey, Minister and the hospital without patients and understaffed with administrators...

Vote now on who should take the lead in Musk: The Movie

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May I humbly offer up...

Ben Stiller, he's irritating enough straight off the bat....

Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean AI's not after you

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Re: they didn’t complain that they were put out of a job; they didn’t go on strike.

Great news Boxer! your oats ration has been increased to 2 lbs a day...

Suits ignored IT's warnings, so the tech team went for the neck

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Re: The interneet

aarrrgghhhh!

Apple exec defends 8GB $1,599 MacBook Pro, claims it's like 16GB in a PC

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The return of the Grunt master 9000...

Gauss we've all got a fresh option for a gen AI handheld: A Samsung device

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Apparently not...

Bad eIDAS: Europe ready to intercept, spy on your encrypted HTTPS connections

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You can fit twice as many in the same building size, they'll say it's alright... beginning with the tenants of the town of Harlow

Robot mistakes man for box of peppers, kills him

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Re: It Happened Decades Ago ...

And not one mention of Peter Piper...

European Space Agency grits teeth, preps contracts for SpaceX Galileo launch

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Re: who would very much prefer their payloads to be launched on European rockets.

Do we not agree there's no point in a hospital run solely for the staff?

That's not how I would express it.

It's how I would.

Indeed Minister.

How would you express it Humphrey? At the end of the day, one of a hospital's prime functions is patient care.

One?

Until we have the money for nursing and medical staff, it's a function we can't pursue In 18 months or so.

18 months? We can open some wards.

No, it's got to be now.

I suppose we could form an inter-departmental committee to examine the feasibility of monitoring a proposal for admitting patients earlier.

How long would that take to report?

Not long.

How long?

About 18 months.

I suggest we get rid of all the staff there and use the money to open closed wards in other hospitals, when we can afford it, we open St Edward's with medical staff.

Do that and you'll delay the opening for patients for years, you talk as if the staff have nothing to do!

What do they do?

Really, Minister! There's a large number of extremely busy departments. Firstly, the Contingency Department for fires, strikes, air raids, nuclear war, epidemics, food or water poisoning.

In such a crisis, the hospital is a key centre for survival. Then, the Data and Research Department, conducting a full-scale demographic survey of the catchment area.

We have to anticipate the future requirements for maternity, geriatrics, paediatrics and the male/female balance.

Thirdly, there's Finance - projected accounts, balance sheets and cash-flow budgets. Then, the Purchasing Department for purchasing medical equipment, examining estimates, looking at price lists and catalogues...

Purchasing what?

Everything, Minister. Everything from brain scanners to Brasso! May I continue?

Be briefer.

Would that I could, Minister, but you need to understand. Fifth, the Technical Department for evaluations. Sixth, the Building Department dealing with Phase 3 plans, costing and so forth for the final

phase to be completed by 1994.

Then, there's Maintenance, Cleaning and Catering, Personnel in charge of leave, National Health Insurance, salaries, as well as staff welfare officers to look after the 500 employees.

And finally, Administration.

Administrators!

More administrators administrating other administrators!

This is important work, Minister. The typing pool, stationery, office furniture and equipment. Liaison between departments.

Are you being serious or not?

What do you mean?

There are NO patients!

That is what a hospital's for. Patients! ill people! Healing the sick!

But all these vital tasks must be done with or without patients.

Why?

Why?

Why?

I don't understand.

How else can I express it? Why?

Would you sack the army because there's no war?

Completely different! A hospital must produce results.

We don't measure our success by results but by activity. Those 500 people are seriously overworked. The full establishment should be 650, may I show you the paperwork?

No, Humphrey. Enough is enough. Sack them!

Out of the question, Minister.

We need administrators or the hospital will never open.

Sack the ancillary staff.

The unions won't wear it.

Sack half and use the money to get doctors and nurses and open some wards!

No, Humphrey, that's my last word. My last word! You may go!

Very well, Minister. I shall have a word with the unions....

CompSci academic thought tech support was useless – until he needed it

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Re: It just seems that way.

'the further you go up the educational tree, the more you should realise how little you know'.

FIFY ;-)

Scarlett Johansson sics lawyers on AI biz that cloned her for an ad

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Re: The Beatles – or what remains of the band

And that might as well have been by ELO...

Tesla swerves liability in Autopilot death lawsuit

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Re: What about other road users?

PP3's

Blue Origin pulls sheets off cargo lunar lander prototype

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umm

Architected? does that mean designed for a future purpose?

Privacy advocate challenges YouTube's ad blocking detection scripts under EU law

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Re: Good.

I got rather tired of the shitty monocular in green that zooms into a women's breast, then synthetically informs me this shitty thing has been 'banned by the British privacy commission'.

And they want me to not block ads...

Food robots delivering bombs? Oregon State campus shut down by 'prank'

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Re: Umm ...

Well it might help the more conservative reader if Reg expressed in units we all understand; 1194 perches

It is 20 years since the last commercial flight of Concorde

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Worked under the usual departure for Concorde Kingston on Thames for 6 months, funny none of the locals seemed to not mind too much at the noise :-)

Millions of smart meters will brick it when 2G and 3G turns off

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Re: No corruption here.

Can you prod it with a pole? or is it's perch to high to reach?

Developers build AI to read ancient scroll burnt in Mount Vesuvius eruption

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A dirty scroll for uncle Tiberius perhaps?

Or, or possibly it's Lurkio's shopping list...

Engineers pave the way for building lunar roads with Moon dust

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Coat

Hang on

I thought Reg O'Lith was your Irish Intel Fab correspondent...

NASA reschedules Boeing's first crewed Starliner flight for mid-April 2024

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Re: Intriguing....

GORDON'S ALIVE!!!

Elon Musk's ambitions for Starship soar high while reality waits on launchpad

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Re: Mars taxation

F1A, that takes me back to childhood and Barkston Heath...

You've just spent $400 on a baby monitor. Now you need a subscription

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Yeah, Sat nav

I Have a Sygic lifetime license they keep trying to encourage me onto a yearly sub and the 'offer' to do so 1 year at £11. Wow I mean with a deal like that who wouldn't. Here's me been using Sygic since the symbian Mcguider days...

Lost your luggage? That's nothing – we just lost your whole flight!

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Spoiler alert...

Scientists suggest possible solution to space-induced bone loss

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Re: Mice?

Munehaus the planet you lived on was commissioned, paid for, and run by mice. It was destroyed five minutes before the completion of the purpose for which it was built, and we've got to build another one."

Only one word registered with Arthur.

Meet Honda's latest electric vehicle: A rideable suitcase

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Re: "plus an added dignity tax"

Yes and in this case, not mutually exclusive...

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