Posts by Mystic Megabyte 1800 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Feb 2010
It's pretty obvious that reading and exercising will keep your mind away from suicidal thoughts.
Poor guy!
Just to remind our American readers why the USA is so despised. For years the USA has de-stabilized any democratically elected government that it did not like whilst blathering on about democracy.For example, Australia.
Yes, just like BT!
After searching through all the small print (if there is an "R" in the month then these conditions do not apply) you always get to "Other Terms and Conditions apply - See www.bt.com"
Some somewhere buried on their web-site is an ever changing get-out clause.
WTF is that about? As you can tell, they are not high on my list of trusted companies.
As stated, there wasn't that many previous "Ones" - Zion had only been destroyed 6 previous times, and Neo was the sixth "One".
Hakster you're a genius! Now I understand, The Matrix is an American re-make of "The Prisoner".
Patrick McGoohan is actually in a bad computer simulation where he thinks he is Keanu Reeves.
Robbed of his ability to act he struggles to escape from the rest of the cast.
It's all so clear now! I am not a number!
Years ago, six months after it was due, Brent Council (London) rang the VAT office to ask where their VAT rebate was.
A cheque for one million pounds had been sent by second class post months before.
Meanwhile in Turkey someone opened a bank account in the name of Mr. Brent Council and cashed the cheque!
The last I heard each office was blaming the other, does anyone know how it ended?
Paris, nothing second class goes in her box.
I have recently become concerned about the flock of sparrows that sit outside my window.
They seem to always be interested in my movements.
My suspicions were confirmed after I played Hava Nagila loudly on my gramophone whereupon the sparrows formed a circle and started to dance!
That's the last time I buy bird food from Lidl.
I live in an unspoilt rural area which is going to become a hideous industrial wind farm if the subsidy scammers get their way.
All so that numpties in the big cities can watch crap on massive power hungry screens.
Let them try putting a wind farm on Hampstead Heath instead.
It would make more sense to restrict the size of TVs to 36" or less.
For those who want to watch soaps all day I propose riveting LCD goggles to their heads! They are living in an alternate reality already so they would not even notice.
I don't own a TV. Happy New Year.....?
I'm not generally paranoid but you are bringing into your house an internet connected device with camera and microphone that you have no control over. If you even think of modding it a Swat team will arrive and stuff you into a sack!
Yeah right! I definitely will not be buying *any* Microsoft products. I already switched to Linux when Vista came pre-loaded with DRM spyware.
What a strange world we live in :(
BT have the most convoluted T&Cs that I know of.
At the end of every piece of junk that they send me, after all the escape clauses it states "Other Terms and Conditions apply - see www.bt.com"
Yes! Like "we have the right to change any conditions and bury that fact deep in the bowels of BT"
So BT, if you are listening...f**k off!. I do not want to give you any money, ever!
Firstly, mucho congrats and hugs for all involved.
For your next mission how about HERB PARIS?
Help Eject Richard Branson Permanently Aboard Rocket Into Space
It just needs to go up and stay up :)
Herb Paris: "European herb with yellow-green flowers resembling and closely related to the trilliums; reputed to be poisonous"
"The iPad is tremendously successful precisely because it resists the temptation to fill its chassis with every feature going."
Coming soon the new iBucket!
This beautifully designed bucket is strangely lacking a handle.
Apple explained that the customer would much prefer using the iBucket indoors and not have to go out to the well.
Apple also said that they would like to hang on to the handle themselves.
"It is currently unclear why obviously a script-kiddie-like malware abuses such a valuable zeroday vulnerability; usually cyber criminals abuse them for profitable malware,"
I think I know why :)
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/12-year-old-finds-critical-firefox-flaw-earns-3000-bounty/7524
Up here in the land of stone houses and horizontal rain internal antennae don't work and external ones last 10 minutes.
Instead make a totally waterproof dipole out of plumbing parts for about £10.
You will need:
3 bits of 15mm copper pipe, two about 22cm long and another bit any suitable length for the upright
One 15mm Speedfit plastic Tee, or probably any similar push-on plumbing fitting.
Two solder on or push-on 15mm end caps. (Stop ends)
Two bits of copper wire stripped from some mains cable about 100mm long.
Some sleeving or tape
Some silicon sealant
Some co-axial TV wire, long enough to reach your TV.
A couple of 15mm pipe clips, Hospital clips are the best they stop the pipe rotating in strong winds and are made of brass.
Form a coil on the ends of your copper wire and solder to the inside of the short pipes.
Feed the wire through the Tee and sleeve them.
Fix end caps to the other ends.
Feed the co-ax up through the other pipe and join to the copper wires.
Push this pipe into the plastic Tee and seal the bottom end with a good squirt of silicon.
Fix your Tee shaped dipole to the chimney breast or wherever.
Result 100% signal strength!
100% waterproof as all connections are inside a bit of plumbing!
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