Posts by Grumble

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson moves to shut Parliament

Re: Benito Jonsolini

As opposed to the likes of Reichsmarshal Verhofstadt? No thanks, that guy is a fanatic with a screw loose.

All hail Boris. Go and get 'em sunshine.

Give BAE a kicking and flog off new UK warships, says review

Re: USA Ships

My old man was on the Phoebe and the Naiad. I still have the souvenir ships crest from Naiad somewhere.

Not OK Google: Tree-loving family turns down Page and pals' $7m

Acre?

There's no way that plot is an acre.

User needed 40-minute lesson in turning it off and turning it on again

Re: Can you hold down the power button

Hmmm... perhaps he meant the big key on the numerical part of the keyboard. The one that has "Enter" printed on it like my Dell keyboard?

Blighty will have a whopping 24 F-35B jets by 2023 – MoD minister

Re: Space to spare

Apparently, spares won't be needed as we have to ship the things back to America to be repaired, or so I've heard. If that's true, what bright spark in the MOD thought that was a good idea?

Utah sheriffs blow $10,000 on smut-sniffing Labrador

It's not April 1st is it?

Airbus to build plane that's even uglier than the A380

Re: Ugly, beautyful or purposeful.

Yeah, but the vertical stabiliser always looked like a bit of an afterthought.

RIP Prince: You were the soundtrack of my youth

I've

had enough now. You'd think he was the messiah ffs.

RAF graduates first class of new groundbased 'pilots'

Re: next step - outsourcing

Where does your 10,000,000 come from?

Paying a TV tax makes you happy - BBC

Re: I want to like the BBC

Unfortunately, I think that much of BBC output is made by independent production companies that the BBC buys from. How often these days the you hear a programme sign off with words along the lines of " This has been an (insert a name here) production for the BBC? I cannot recall exactly when this started to be so but I don't remember it from my younger days. So maybe a lot of the broadcast output is not owned by the BBC anyway these days but the rights are owned by the production companies and iplayer availability is just part of the contract.

All that aside, I'd pay the licence fee for Radio4 and BBC4 alone I really would, the rest I view as a bonus.

British games company says it owns the idea of space marines

Define

Marine.

To my mind they are water-borne soldiers. For the purposes of this trolling expedition, in space, no-one can see you swim.

US taxman joins UK politicoes on hunt for Amazon cash

Re: Nothing New!

@The First Dave Well the Queen IS Head of State. At the moment if she dies and Prince Charles succeeds HE will be Head of State and he was born to be.

BBC Watchdog crew sink teeth into dodgy PC repair shops

Carpet Fitters

No regulator for carpet fitters, but with carpets, you can at least see if it's a crap job by just looking at it. If it is, don't pay. Simple. Been doing it for forty years now and never been refused payment. :)

Climate change threatens to SHRINK FISH AND CHIP SUPPERS

The biggest cod

I ever saw was over the shoulder of a fishing boat skipper in Arbroath back in the late 50's. It's tail was dragging on the ground as he carried it into our kitchen after my old man, who was an engineer in the Royal Navy, had done said skipper big favour.

Home Office 'technologically clueless' on web super-snoop law

Re: given cannabis is non-toxic

Cannabis is reputedly more more carcinogenic than tobacco.

World's Raspberry Pi supply jammed in factory blunder

Re: Not quite the £25 computer in reality

Why do you have to keep swapping when there's two usb ports?

Ten... smart TVs

Yeah, but you forget the needs of the sales and marketing people.

Billions of net-ready boxes in homes by 2016

I'm more than happy to pay it just for

radio 4 and if any of the nay-sayers watch any BBC output by whatever means then they can pay up too.

Use iBooks Author, only Apple can ever publish the result

Software and hardware licensing....

The most insidious concept ever devised by man (except for religion of course). It seems nothing we buy these days actually belongs to us. How did our esteemed leaders allow such a concept to develop to these levels.

Raspberry Pi Linux micro machine enters mass production

Buffoon indeed.

Look, if some of you people took the time to read about the device and the ethos behind it, it would perhaps eventually dawn on you that these things are aimed fairly and squarely at school children. Not for hobbyists or engineers or any other adequately paid contributor to these pages but school children. I take it you've heard about them before, people that have little income of their own to splash out on patriotic gestures be it to British industry or UK tax. The idea is, and always was, to produce the device at the lowest price possible thereby enabling education establishments to provide children with a programming/development platform. So cheap in fact that it could be viable to give it free of charge, depending on the schools budget.

If you want to contribute to to the treasury, gift them a fiver when you buy your own.

Nokia posts car-to-phone comms app

Yeah,but .....

what if I'm a passenger in a car - or a bus?

Apple's ex-cop and the case of the lost iPhone 5

Pedantry Alert 2

Parlophone specifically.

Steve Jobs bends iPad price reality

What if

Jobs is factoring in the 30% cut he gets from Ipad apps into his overall pricing strategy.

Inventor of the Workmate dies

Wood and Steel?

Let me tell you, when these things first came out they were made of aluminium castings and had fifteen ply jaws. (I know, I've just been and counted them on the one I was given by my wife thirty five years ago).

It's seen some action in that time too and the only thing that broke was one of the handles that wind the jaws in and out - easily remedied by adapting the handle of a Stanley hand drill. Easily the most useful bit of DIY kit I've ever owned.

Stephen Fry security whoopsie leads to prank fart book order

@Scripsit

Far from the pranksters need to get a life, I think you need to get a sense of humour.