* Posts by Naughtyhorse

2416 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Jan 2010

Donald Trump wants Bill Gates to 'close the Internet', Jeff Bezos to pay tax

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pull the wool off his supporter's eyes

Not a chance.

The more bonkers his rantings the more his base is energised.

He will lose the GE, and spend the rest of his life bitching about it.

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Wasn't the same said about Ronald Reagan?

With some justification.

So much of what's broken in murica was busted by ray-gun

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what then?

Another democrat in the whitehouse.

Play to their strengths, the republicans can set their hair alight and jump up and down on TV, and the democrats can run the country. :-)

Amazon's new drones powered by Jeremy Clarkson's sarcasm

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Amazing: a mutually exclusive claim... with 1 clause!

No authority in it's right mind anywhere in the world is going to permit any old tom dick or harry to fly a drone over a built up area. Not even murica! - look at the current half-assed approach of the FAA to regulate toy planes.

This makes the 30 minute claim more than bollocks.

Anywhere that has significant population density drones will be verboten. Anywhere that has sufficient space to operate will be mostly devoid of people and entirely devoid of amazon whorehouses (spell check? no that's what I meant)

Methinks an amazon mid level hipsters PA fucked up and instead of the 'quarter strength, decaf, soy cappuccino with less foam, no chocolate dusting, two marshmallows on the side, six sugars and can I have it heated to eighty degrees please.' she was supposed to get, she only went and got a 'quarter strength, soy cappuccino with less foam, no chocolate dusting, two marshmallows on the side, six sugars and can I have it heated to eighty degrees please.'

And said hipster tripped out on the caffeine and had a massive brainfart

Investigatory Powers Tribunal scraps its first annual report

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Re: @Velv - Reading matter.

personally Im waiting for the film to come out....

could be another challenger for the worlds most boring movie;;;

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/23/paint_drying_movie/

Brit filmmaker plans 10hr+ Paint Drying epic

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Of course...

The book was much better

Kids' tech skills go backwards thanks to tablets and smartmobes

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Re: Not when the topic is literacy

Just I don't need to know what a gerund or a phoneme is to be literate...

you kinda do have to know all that stuff really.

European Parliament votes to grant Snowden protection from US

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Re: guilty of treason and numerous other crimes

So we can expect a plane from texas carrying bush. cheney, rumpsfeldt, rice at all to be touching down in the Hague any time soon?

yahhh i thought so.

oh and also... guilty until proven innocent? when did the supreme court sneak that one through?

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Re: The US government is something different than the US people.

So not a democracy then?

I must admit I have never been able to fathom the difference between the stance adopted by the US Govt. vs the opinions of the american people.

for eg next year, roughly half of the population will vote for a man (or fiorina....lol) that is borderline insane (carson.... okay batshit crazy) and clearly incapable of the task ahead.

around 1/2 of the population?

wtf?

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<cough>Syria<cough>

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Re: Resting?

it's only still on it's perch cause you nailed it there....

(not disagreeing, just couldn't resist)

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Re: can't really send him to Gitmo

Can't and US Govt.

Is that the same can't as in 'the us can't kill us citizens with drones'

Or more like the can't in ' the us government can't spy on it's own people'

I only ask as international law is so nuanced....

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Re: no-one feels safe anymore?

Is kinda the whole point.

Murica is owned by people who make things go bang.

Expensive things that go bang.

So expensive that only a whole bunch of shit-scared people would even consider paying the price.

manufacture the fear, pass that appropriations bill.

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Re: @ elDog

I thought the umbrella thing was the east germans

Verisign warns new dot-word domains could make internet unstable

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Well at least...

Now we know where sep blatter is going to be working after he gets out of jail.

If MR ROBOT was realistic, he’d be in an Iron Maiden t-shirt and SMELL of WEE

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Re: Not only but also.....

Look at the episode naming scheme....

Beautiful :-)

tech related terms, in 1337(duhh!)... with a FILE EXTENSION!!!!!

and an authentic multimedia extension at that.

Of course there are tons of bit's that depart from reality, it's hard to imagine anyone sticking with a series where 40 of the 47 minutes in each episode was someone clattering away at a bash shell, muttering 'fuckity fuckiny fuck' under their breath every time they got some arcane syntax thing fucked up.... but that notwithstanding I think Mr Robot stands head and shoulders above it's peers in this respect.

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WTF?

The protagonist of Mr Robot is young, slim and handsome. He is smart. He is articulate.

Are we watching the same series?

Excuse the personal abuse but Mr Malek looks like the crazy frog on bad acid (me not him,,, err the acid that is... oh god... the spiders!!!!) and the character he plays has a personality disorder and is living in a permanent psychotic break, complete with interactive hallucinations (spoiler alert), his apartment is a shithole, and it looks like zero of the production budget was spent on soap.

plus they all use linux so there! it's like a documentary about lulzsec :-)

Bacon as deadly as cigarettes and asbestos

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Re: they sure told us we can't smoke that.

like anyone listened.....

duuuuuude

Made you jump! Space to give Earth an asteroid Halloween scare

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Re: Suspiciously exact

Does NASA use feet or meters?

(whistles innocently and leaves the building)

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Hang on.... 2006?

what about the 2 a few years ago, the one in russia that very nearly hit (may not have been an asteroid) but i was sure there was an event where we were all looking one way and behind our collective backs something shot past australia by about 20k miles...

yes a bit of research (clicking on the blue words counts!)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/16/space_asteroid_impact_inevitable/

from 16 Feb 2013

described as asteroid 2012 DA14

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Re: Ominous

lose?

R&D money for science – from your taxes?

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How fortunate...

...Tim is not an actual economist, he just plays one on the internet.

otherwise his ego will be feeling somewhat deflated (either that or his lizard brain will be cackling with trollish delight)

Nippy, palaver and cockwomble: Greatest words in English?

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Re: Wainscotting

On the subject of pratchett....

Known as he was for borrowing interesting words from maps and such, may I present "The Dictionary of Eye-Watering Words"

giving us Gaskin, Figgin, Welchett and Moules.

almost certainly real words for something, but I am but a knowless man...

Playmobil cops broadside for 'racist' pirate slave

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Re:"I spent the weekend putting it together."

retards offspring retarded

film @ 11

Hey, Facebook – these are the new Like buttons you should have used

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Re:when LP was on top form

good days indeed...

so about that Umm icon....

HP creates laptop for SITH LORDS

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Re: What else?

illuminated apple logo?

Microsoft's HoloLens: Here by 2016, mere three THOUSAND dollar price

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Re: Price @DrXym

in addition to the above...

The Oculus is a display that you connect a GPU up to.

not just any gpu, it's titan(z?) only.

so you can add at least a grand to your $350

Only a CNUT would hold back the waves of the sharing economy

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I don't wish to alarm you dabbsy, but I just had that worstal round here asking if he could rent my chainsaw for the day.....

Massive global cooling process discovered as Paris climate deal looms

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Re: Interesting

13 dv's for that?

He doubted the word of god!

burrrrrn him

keeeeeeel him

burn him with fyre

then keeeeel him again

<shakes head, walks away>

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Re: Let me be the first to say..

so in reporting a scientific story the beeb is following 97% of scientists and ignoring the fanatical gibbering of a vanishingly small minority of half-wits easily hoodwinked by a small group of multi-billionaires who got to be multi-billionaires by flogging carbon to us all.

strange that.

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Re: So-

depends, when the system is fundamentally chaotic, in it's actual sense, then there is little or no point in trying to model it.

that said all deniers are morons. or have an agenda

Bletchley Park remembers 'forgotten genius' Gordon Welchman

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Re: For Whom the Comment Tolls

amanformmars1

Never_ makes _any_sense.

at all.

usually entertaining

there may be a point

i have no idea

but i always read his/her/it's comments.

They seem to be mostly on topic, and i understand all of the words used....

the icons are awarded on number of posts I think

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Re: Keeping 'Mum' was just SOP for those involved in WW2

Really?

Belsen, Dachau?

your grandchild comes up to you and asks 'what did you do in the war grandad?' and _that's_ the story you'd want to tell?

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Re: Actually traffic analysis is fairly simple concept.

aka metadata,

now where else have I heard this term recently......

<black helicopter icon gone!>

Gold bugs, concrete bog roll holders and frolic-friendly furniture: What IS it with designers?

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Isn't it about time we were allowed to shoot anyone that called themselves 'a designer' but who lacked the wit to perform basic structural calculations, or work to a coherent design brief?

Read a FB post from a friend about some twat who'd invented a thin (widthways) plug (interesting idea, only suitable for low power applications and way too mechanically complex to be of much use for long) in response to the question 'why is this plug 10mm thick? the response was 'well the macbook air is 10mm thick and thats the definition of thin...

at that point i stopped surfing the net and went looking for a fucking gun.

Get ready for a grim future where bees have shorter tongues

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thing happens, scientists postulate, page proselytises....

didn't even need to read the article!

yawn

Vanished global warming may not return – UK Met Office

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please fire that guy

Nope, he's the boss

how else do you think he gets away with such crap

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Re:who is correct.

not holding my breath.

<rejected>

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Lewisis OPINION not supported by facts

colour me surprised!

Jeremy Corbyn wins Labour leadership election

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Re: That popping noise you hear

yup.

just like every weekend at chequers.

what was that about us all being in this together?

don't let the door it you on the ass on your way out

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Re: look a bit silly.

oops!

a bit late there

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Re:raving antisemite

By which you mean someone not 110% supportive of each and every atrocity committed by the bunch of zionist thugs occupying Palestine?

yeah I thought so

oy vey!

Apple iPhone 6S: Same phone, another day, but TOTALLY DIFFERENT

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Re: You forgot one thing...

Damn,

I forgot to note that it is the AGM of the pedants society today!

(not having a go at you in patricular!)

Well, what d'you know: Raising e-book prices doesn't raise sales

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Re: Shift to paper?

VAT... Amazon...

see what you did there?

Are you avoiding tax, big tech firm? Not any more you won't, growl MEPs

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Re: Where does ryanair flight to Dublin actually land?

I think the swedes or danes would have something to say about a shedload of ryanair planes full of refugees turning up out of the blue.

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Re: upvoted..

Because I agree with you,

Worstall will, as usual, be wrong about it :-)

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Re: figure out Bing

really?

'figure out'?

it's a textbox ffs

British killer robot takes out two Britons in Syria strike

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Re: Name one war that was because of religion?

err that would be most of them

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Re: I HOPE ALL THE VIRGINS

whats wrong with fat sweaty gamers livin' in their mom's basement?

it says in this here contract '72 virgins' nuthin about male or female.

(apologies to anyone who is fat, a gamer, or lives in their mom's basement, and commiserations to anyone who scores more than 2 on the list)

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Re: War..........

Equally convenient when a batshit cult of fuckwit godbotheres is intent on setting off bombs in the rush hour

you say potato...