Posts by Teiwaz 4136 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Oct 2011
Unwarranted number of D/vs for an attempt at an amusing pic post.
At first I thought 'soap in a sock', then erm, coffee and toast in a Prophylactic?
I still don't get it, but good attempt, clearly a lot of thought (and a large sheathe) went into its creation. Have an U/v (drop in the wind though).
Unfortunately sometimes it's the Facebook/wahtsapp/viber (whatever is currently popular 'social tool').
If you have customers/clients or friends/relatives who insist on using it, you often have little choice. They act as a lock-in above and beyond merely being locked into using whatever half-assed program you're locked into using to use the half-assed 'service'.
Which all came about because the phone operators thought they had a lock-in on calls so thought they could gouge you to their hearts content and didn't need to plan for the very obvious evolution of video calls (or enough in cross operator compatibility) and could go on gouging without need to invest in innovation.
Their new Beta web client will install in Linux in Firefox, but only does messages, not audio or video.
Doesn't tell you before it asks to be installed that it's next to useless though. Not much of a beta if it plays it safe (I'd not mind a few bugs),
The native 32 bit client has a bad habit of forgetting your login if you close it, like it resents being snubbed...
Still trying to wean relatives who use it to something else...for my sanity more than anything else, they're happy with it on ipads etc.It's just a pain in the ass to me...
"Yes, because guns will totally protect against electronic surveillance."
And taking them to a school or government office will give them another 'excuse' to increase 'surveillance'.
p.s. Thumbs up on the name, although should it not be spelt 'Raymond Luxury Yacht'?
Cameron may just want the right to 'opt-out' of any EU regulation/Law*. He can take that to the morons worried about the consistency of their sausage or the size of their 'pint' and claim a win. That this will also allow the UK to opt-out of Human Rights and other legislation beneficial to the people in favour of some loop-hole ridden charter will be lost on them as it 'couldn't possibly happen here'.
If no opt-out can be negotiated, he could decide to support out, in which case he gets opt-out anyway.
Enjoy 'tombraider' those of us with other uses are still bothered by Microsofts recent tactics and 'feature' inclusions, enough to have either switched long ago or switch recently. Yet are often still expected to support the 'thing' as a day job.
The tech issue conscious with issues whine, 'happy people' must be on some medication or have had a lobotomy, with their thinking now done by Microsoft 'as a service'.
Expected comment - Thank you for not disappointing
What would be the purpose though, unless your farts are particularly pungent in which case they might be valuable as an 'organic' alternative to tear gas (for vegan riots - although they might have a certain amount of immunity)
"Some of us are old enough to remember it was the "grown up" version of TISWAS."
That won't be the '25-35 core demographic' though.
It's been my perception that that age group don't like to watch anything made before they were born (or anything subtitled for that matter), so it's no wonder they are running out of content*
*But that might just be the people of that age I know...
"Why aren't my icons working???"
I used to do something similar on the school acorn network. a quick bbc basic program to logout and fake the prompt as if still logged in, returning fake but plausible error messages on any input.
Retreat to a safe distance and watch the teacher try to log the machine out...
" that's the kind of project that just runs and runs."
Where the Government is involved, there seem to be no other type.
Has there been a successful IT project initiated by government in the last couple of decades (the failures keep getting reported, but not the success stories (if any). Iit just seems like really poor P.R. work for them to not blow trumpets about a success, given all the abject failures and complete disasters.
It's not even 'unlike them' to blow their own trumpets, even when it's undeserved...
They're not connected, but I always dig out Meco Christmans in the Stars album around this time of year.
Most of it is cack, but 'what do you get a wookiee for christmas (when he already has a comb)' gets a laugh from people who've not heard it before.
The Holiday special is note-worthy in that all the other wookiees are dressed (to some extent), begging the question, 'is Chwebacca a naturist?'
I'm not a rabid fan, but...up to 7, yup. 8, well, take it or leave it.
Didn't mind the added galactic celebs, but the original music I preferred. The idea of Han and jabba meeting Jabba was okay, but the CG Jabba looked like a slug who'd just had salt poured on him. Nope, didn't buy that, if they couldn't make him look as he did in Return, they shouldn't have bothered
11. No, No, No, No, No!!!
"Let's say PRESTON was instrumental in preventing a Paris-style attack in London, and the terrorists were caught before they could harm anyone. This is simply not going to appear on the 10 O'clock news."
Sounds plausible, but how are the public to know they'd been saved from a potential terrorist massacre, the surveillance didn't pick up nor prevent any of the attacks that did occur in since 2000, and not some of the really bad ones during the Irish troubles. Also did these apprehended terrorists get a trial, or where they just disappeared, which is just as worrying.
Nope, just don't buy it.There's another reason for this set-up, and it's nothing to do with terrorism, assumed sexual deviancy or tax evasion.
Maybe the lizards ordered it, maybe some Ai.I ordered it from the future to gather data for some vast virtual reality simulation or aliens for future colonisation/interbreeding or to improve parasite integration, you're guess is as good as mine, and probably a hell of a lot more valid than any half-assed reasoning given by a politician.
users are now, again, being chained to mainframes albeit in a more 'polite' way.
It sounds like you imagine hundreds of people enslaved in long shifts for pittance to service vast machines, with small children forced to crawl around cleaning dust from live circuits.
Are you sure you're not confusing mainframes with early industrial looms and spinning machines?
Although maybe not....
I'd be inclined to wait until Windows finally sinks and wait for them to come begging for something usable - probably the descendant of some for of BSD (and probably 'owned' by apple). They'd not pay, but might insist on their flagship pop idol to do a music vid on the maindeck.
cue the sailors hornpipe and fetch the nurse with my meds.
Now now.
As much as I'm not a not a fan, sometimes you don't have the choice what you're expected to work on or deal with.
You could certainly level similar sentiments about the earth. It's not very secure against stellar objects, and itself can throw up a major fault on a fairly regular basis and wipe out parts of the system, but we don't have a viable alternative, and certainly not much in the way of backups.
The 'rainbow' was an image often adopted by 'hippie' groups. Pre 'burning man' there were festivals held over the world using the name 'Rainbow' and had nothing to do with sexual orientation.
I had this thought several hours ago but couldn't express it succinctly other than the though that this pastor was being ignorantly revisionist. Kind of like seeing a swastika dating from several hundred maybe thousands of years ago and assuming this meant nazis carved it.
The rainbow was heavily used as a symbol of christianity in the 'Good new' bibles and childrens 'religious education' in the seventies and early eighties from what I remember.
@WolfFan
You're sick, The most the often demented 'puppy children' (Wally Llama) engaged in was 'we're not going to do it for art, we're not going to do it for you, Mr Michaelangelo, we're going to do it because 'we like painting naked people'". Hello Nurse, I got the impression, never seemd to notice the effect she had on men (probably tsundere to boot), scratchnsniff I could see clearly gave the impression he'd be inclined to masochism (I'll give you that)
My personal faves were Mindy and Scrappy Squirrel and I dare you to 'suggest' (with either).
The best shows, the ones that endure, often have the odd reference designed to go over a younger persons head and reach the adult also watching. The Goodies, The Muppets, others from the time when the entire family sat round the tv together looking to be entertained had these. Those shows that are sanitised into total safety have no re-watch value (i.e. Tom and Jerry kids) as you grew older. This does not necessarily mean innuendo in a sexual way, but more subtle meaning.
"Religion is always a profession to which it has no meaning and is absurd; it's used as a method of extortion and mind control on the stupid and vulnerable."
Does that make it the second oldest profession?
Organised Religion, certainly. Other beliefs which rely on an authority figure to interpret the will or intent of the spirit world quite probably. Those beliefs (few that they are) that leave interpretation to the spiritual growth of the individual, less likely. The latter were the first and will hopefully be the last and final in humanities history.
"and no mention of Captain Pugwash with the oft-repeated urban legend of Seaman Staines and Master Bates ?
E2A: In a typical example of Sods law someone else posted about CP whilst I was typing."
Probably 'soddoms' law (any 'conversation' involving questionable childrens tv will have reference to Pugwash)
(another biblical ref, but what the f**k is a gamorah/gomorah? I've always wondered why nothing was named after the other mythical? city...)
"...like, what *exactly* was the deal with Roland Rat and his "number one Ratfan", Kevin the Gerbil?
Was Roland really so wrapped up in himself that he missed the bleeding obvious, or was that boring "Glenis the Guinea Pig" (who- somewhat suspiciously- arrived later) the beard? Or was he having it both ways?"
I'm not sure I parsed all that, but it gave me the unsettling mental image of some kind of puppet rodent gang-bang...
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