Posts by PTW 257 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Jul 2012
Missing 20M votes probably, and give over with your Brexit nonsense.
Not anon, cos I don't give a flying about your down votes. You were wrong, you lost, I, nor anyone else has to agree with your point of view. But seriously, 8 years later and you're still whining?
Wail, "democracy is broken because people didn't vote the way I wanted them to!!!1" Take a deep breath, and listen to yourself, please.
No need, hypoxia via Nitrogen is akin to being drunk anyway, that's why they have the CO2 removal.
I'm pretty sure a standard medical O2 mask hooked up to a nitrogen bottle would do
Michael Portillo presented an awesome documentary "How to kill a Human Being" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1228865/
There's some truly joyless bastards lurking here, I guess the 8 of you were the same in the office, so were the target of many a prank.
Down vote away, especially if it puts a little joy in your lives.
Unlocked workstations resulted in any of the following:
Inverted screens,
Desktop icons removed, and wallpaper replaced with previous desktop screenshot,
Very rude emails composed to the head of IT, not sent, just left full screen
System language changed to Russian, or Greek
These days it's not "the woke mind virus", it's simply "dog whistle retardation" on the left, and the right, el Reg used to be so much better than this.
I used to love a healthy debate, these days it just descends to people threatening violence/spewing hate. Which to me, is a sure sign that your argument doesn't hold water.
You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into, and by reason, I mean looked at the data, from numerous sources.
Beer, cos it's Friday, and I don't have to deal with CrowdStrike. Have a good weekend whatever your political persuasion
The Office for Budget Responsibility have forecast an increase in fuel duty receipts from 2019-2020, through to 2022-2023. Did any of them look out of the window during 2020 an see the empty roads?
https://obr.uk/forecasts-in-depth/tax-by-tax-spend-by-spend/fuel-duties/# Check out the note at the top of the page!
Not an urban myth, there was some odd UK law at least up into the 60s, where a 16 year old could drive a 3 wheeler, but only if it didn't have reverse. Quite why anyone thought reverse was such a huge danger between the ages of 16 and 17 I have no idea!
I remember my farther telling me of one of his friends who re-enabled reverse but had a bolt he could drop through a hole and lock out reverse should he ever be stopped by the Police.
WWI veteran, when asked to what he attributed his long life, he replied, "Cigarettes, whisky, and wild, wild women" 6 June 1896 - 18 July 2009 (113y 42d) R.I.P.
The general trouble with the medical profession, they think bodies should be perfect when they're lowered into the ground/burnt. I'm with Hunter S. Thompson: “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
that's me, rather than Mr. Allingham BTW ------------->
Was it a 60% margin to join, you know when the British public were lied to and told it was only a trading block?
Edited to add: BTW 45RPM you do sound rather condescending in your last sentence old boy. Sort of the way labour treated their voters calling them thick racists if they voted for Brexit, that worked out well
'cos you're a miserable curmudgeon! You do realise that almost anyone that knew that command is an old fart like me, and it took them back to the early days of home computing. That's what got most of us here [both el reg, and in IT as a profession]. And it made me smile, and think of simpler, happier times.
Anonymous South African Coward have a beer on me, I went from a ZX81 to a C64, but plenty of friends had Speccies. There was also a weird POKE command on a 32k BBC B that would make it 16k and it'd persist across reboots. It needed another POKE to fix it, thankfully the Comp Sci Master saw the funny side in the end.
No, if the article is to be believed, it's a large scale fraud by Bay Area Compliance Laboratories! Quote "... and paperwork said the work was done in San Francisco." when the testing was done in China.
Did Cisco, Huawei, et al have any idea what was going on?
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