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And how long have you lived here exactly? It was hardly a serious request.
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re:not enough energy
It would be nice to think so, but I was once bunkered during a tourny training session and got three hits around my kidneys. One hit my battlepack, rupturing a pod; one hit my body armor (lightweight stuff but effective).
The final round missed everything except the soft tissue around my kidney, where I now have a crescent shaped scar as a result of the, quite painful, tearing of the skin around the area of impact.
Usual? No. Possible? Yes.
I feel for you regarding your problem leaving Vodafone, but consider this..
I'm about to do something I never thought I would do and praise Orange.
I used to have a PAYG with them, then ended up on a monthly contract for £35, which whilst I was working wasn't a problem, but became so between jobs. (over a year ago now)
I rang up to cancel, no problem.
Next day I get a call from their retention team and he asked me why I was ditching them, easy - price.
So then he asks me how much I would be willing to pay, again easy - £10 a month.
Next thing I knew he was outlining a £10 a month deal, with 400 free minutes, unlimited texts and unlimited internet - would I stay? Very easy - of course. I got a free Nokia too - basic but sufficient.
Now two days ago I got a call offering me a free phone upgrade (I have very basic requirements of a phone) so I ended up being offered a Blackberry 9300 - which seems quite nice. The other thing is they send me an envelope to return my old phone, which I find out is worth £35 if it's in good working order.
Overall I'm well pleased, and extremely confused. This kind of thing just doesn't happen in my world and I'm waiting for the almighty kick in the bollocks that's must be lurking around a corner somewhere very near in my future. Seriously, I'm totally bemused as to how this can work as a business model?
It's a shame I didn't get a picture of the one my dog did a few years back after she had eaten a bar of soap (from Lush - non foamy).
It had those little sparkles in it, and when I discovered it in the garden it was shining in the sunlight like it had landed from outer space. I inspiringly called it 'sparkleshit' and can honestly say it has been one of the most unique sights I have seen throughout my entire existence. I mean, how often do you come across a shit that sparkles?
If I'd been a bit more clued up I could probably have won the Turner prize with it. C'est la vie, viva la turd!
I think the original poster has a point, but to include this statement..
"This doesn't mean "no single point of failure" idiocy,"
..kind of undermines it, as the poster who highlighted that the DC is a single pof.
In built resilience through software is a lot cheaper than lots of fancy tin to do the same job, but it does need to take advantage of not having single pof's - otherwise the software wouldn't cope, n'est pa?
Mea culpa, I didn't realise that they were all now multi-tasking.
I'm not knocking them, I just get fed up with people who consign something to the bin of history because they are no longer using them.
Just because I eat with my fingers, doesn't mean the knife and fork have become obsolete now does it? Every tool has it's purpose, as I'm sure these slabs do. They just aren't a replacement for a workhorse PC that does video editing and massive file transfers etc.
Ok, I'll start - here's how it used to be..
There I was, watching some TV (on my PC) whilst checking the Reg, and keeping an eye on my email.
In the background I have a linux distro downloading and I'm ripping some of my films with AnyDVD, then I'm using DVD shrink to convert them to single VOB files and transferring some I did earlier off to my NAS drive.
That was how it used to be, about 10 seconds ago.
I suppose in 10 seconds time (i.e. the future) I will be able to close down whatever email app I'm using on my fondleslab to play a game, then shut that down in order to watch a movie, then shut that down to make sure I'm up to date with my email/IRC chats. It must feel like the future, living in the future like you do.
If what this kid did was incitement, then surely picking on a teenager in front of a crowd the day after rioting could also be classed as incitement?
If this had all been a legitimate protest then the actions of the Police would be commended. As it is I know a lot of people who think they should have been putting the fear of $deity into these little scumbags who think it's funny to burn people in their homes.
It's also worth considering the chicken and egg in this scenario. I mean, I spent loads of time playing computer games when I was young because my home life sucked and had an absentee father (apart from the occasions when he would turn up just to scare the shit out of us).
But no, it must be the computer games.
"http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/01/huawei_phorm/"
And so the merry go round spins back to where it started, just with new people on board.
If Huawei integrate the phorm stuff with their own kit that they're deploying to BT, it isn't really Phorm, is it? It all sounds too plausable and deniable - gotta be true :)
I don't believe these shadowy organisations work like that anymore. They tend towards agent provocateurs (sp?) to push the usual suspects into more extreme acts than they would otherwise.
The net effect would be the same however. The internet war has been going on for a while now. The fact that the man in the street may have heard of Anonymous just goes to show how far along it is. Sixteen years ago when I was trying to educate my friends as to this new thing called the internet they were like 'what the hell is it and what's it for?'.
I wish we could just ban advertising.
Have a government owned and run central website that you can log on to to look for the things you might want. Then sellers can register their products and services, match the two together and hey presto.
Unfortunately it will never happen. Consume away peasants.
The only grammatical error I saw was a missing apostrophe to denote the missing letters.
Is it because..?
Is it 'cause..?
How you pronounce it is completely academic since we are talking about the written language, not the spoken. For someone with dyslexia to _only_ miss an apostrophe is an achievement, not something usually derided; except by fuckwits.
"people I talk to mention the difficulties of filling the vacancies they have for highly skilled..."
People aren't usually born highly skilled. I achieved my highly skilled status by performing any number of entry level positions from cable monkey, telephone software support etc. on upwards.
Without the lower level jobs, no-one gets to be highly skilled.
I know someone who has just been prescribed some anti-depressants - the side effects list has put them off even trying them.
Dr's advice - if you can make it through the first two weeks it should get better - people take these drugs to stop them being so depressed they kill themselves, but one of the major side effects is suicidal thoughts.
They're legal though, and they generate huge tax profits for the gubbermint - they just aren't much fun. They only seem to ban stuff people might enjoy.
Fuckers.