Posts by Clunking Fist

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Re: Now things are different, this is new america

PS (or mabe PiSs) you don't really still believe that the Hillary funde piss dossier is real, ddo you? Its about as real as pizzagate.

Pecker-checker Becker's hacker wrecker: Saudi cyber-crew stole Bezos' sexts from phone, fed them to tabloid – claim

Re: Rather charitable

After Bezo sues NI into bankruptcy, you'd better hope your job is secure.Because these guys and gals will be learning to code.

Mine's covered in memes. Yes: old ones.

Re: Fact of the matter

Me too. Plus MSNPC and the Clown News Network, of course. That's how I know that Trump is def a Russian agent and has been since 1987 by some measures.

Cops use bread and riot shields in desperate bid to contain crazed swan running amok in streets

Budget shortfalls indeed.

British Swans, then? Compare and contrast with Nazi pug dogs.

Re: Swan on toast

"Makes me wonder what happens when the birds move around."

During the Transfer Window?

Xiaomi's Mi-too attempt at a pholdable: Not one, but TWO creases of fail

Re: Am I the only one...

One word: multiple windows. Okay, so that's two words, but you get the picture. Or pictures.

VP Mike Pence: I want Americans back on the Moon by 2024 (or before the Chinese get there)

Re: Lead the way

"I guess the more accurate way to put it is that the guy isn't an idiot, but he is a nutter. OK, technically more of a sociopath"

So you wouldn't have supported Clinton, either, then? Good for you.

Unfortunately, Americans had to choose from these two.

Brit Parliament online orifice overwhelmed by Brexit bashers

" Even if you ignore the lies and duplicity,"

Which lies? That the economy would crash by 8% upon just a vote for leave? That the Chancellor would need to bring in a draconian emergency budget?

Or are you banging on about the fact that leaving will ONLY free up $280M-odd per week for the NHS, rather than the $320M-odd "promised"? - eye roll -

Apologies: I am smirking at the moment, and I know that is not allowed.

"Which in itself is a problem - nobody defined what should be an acceptable number for Constitutional Change. "

I think we have established that it is zero. That's how many UK citizens voted in favour of the Lisbon Treaty.

Re: Can you blame us?

"if anyone see's that fucker, Farage, on his walkabout, there's a free pint if you clock the self-serving publicity whore one. Or spike his beer, or fags."

But your threat of violence or death is only in jest, eh Charlie?

Re: Scotland/Wales want increased powers locally

"and then rejoin the EU, where they will have a lot more influence than they do in the UK"

But double nothing is still nothing.

Google recalculated its wages, and yup, raises for underpaid fellas. So can you forget those gender discrim claims?

Re: Check out Jordan B. Peterson

"Also, lobsters piss through their face"

Oh, stop talking sh*t. ;^)

I'll get me coat...

Re: Check out Jordan B. Peterson

"So, where do you stand on this psychologist's attempt to JUSTIFY hierarchies in human society "

You need to listen better. He doesn't JUSTIFY anything, he makes an observation. That observation is that most all animal kingdoms create hierarchies. Then he links that observation to the patently absurd claim apparently made by post-modernists, that hierarchies are a western, capitalist construction and that if we ditched capitalism (apparently in favour of socialism) it would all be honey and unicorns.

Post-modernists and Marxists seem not to have observed that socialist societies rapidly develop hierarchies, and folk who benefit from those hierarchies literally kill folk who threaten their status in that hierarchy.

But, ya know: it's all about lobsters, eh Rich?

IBM hunkers down for no-deal Brexit, warns of disruption to supply chain, data transfers

Re: Maths were by Dianne Abbot

"but every tory chancellor ever has been off every day."

Gordon Brown was a Tory chancellor? Well I never.

Three-quarters of crucial border IT systems at risk of failure? Bah, it's not like Brexit is *looks at watch* err... next month

Re: What possible delay?

" The default is hard brexit thankfully - You must really hate the people who would suffer the most if that were to happen "

You must really hate those of us who would suffer the most if we were to remain. F*ck you: if the EU want to cut off BMW and Mercedes Benz's noses to spite their faces, so be it.

Insane homeowners association tries to fine resident for dick-shaped outline car left in snow

Re: Power unchecked

So you are unaware that the UK parliament uses First-past-the post? A party could secure the majority of seats, but with a much smaller share of the vote than the party with the second highest number of seats.

So. To the question we really wanted answering: How real is 5G?

Re: Meh

Did they send you a 5G sticker? Did you stick it on? You did? I bet you didn't stick it on quite the right spot. Or maybe upside down.

Don't mean to alarm you, but Boeing has built an unmanned fighter jet called 'Loyal Wingman'

Re: So it's an option from Gradius?

No, but it reads through their old tweets going for wrongthink.

Secret mic in Nest gear wasn't supposed to be a secret, says Google, we just forgot to tell anyone

Re: Slow emails

Jez, Kreton: give them a chance to read your email before they pass it on.

Here come the riled MPs (it's private, huh), Facebook's a digital 'gangster' ('disingen-u-ous'). Zuckerberg he is a failure (on sharing data)

Re: Now, will the government act...

But Soros didn't fund the leave campaign...

See what I did there.

Still, it's happening all over the world. Trump (hawk spit) is investigated for 2 years, every Stone overturned. Some beetles squashed like, err, bugs. But Clinton's insecure server and inexplicable enrichment "nothing to see, move along". Mr C's links to pervs, not investigated. "Move along sir". Nice.

Patch this run(DM)c Docker flaw or you be illin'... Tricky containers can root host boxes. It's like that – and that's the way it is

I didn't undertsand a word of these article...

...I'm only here for the headlines.

Mini computer flingers go after a slice of the high street retail Pi

Pi is a mini computer?

Then what is my 486 DX2/66? It thought it was a micro.

Treaty of Roam: No-deal Brexit mobile bill shock

Re: My money's on Vodafone being the first to start charging

Interesting, I'm with Voda in New Zealand. For $NZ40 I get unlimited minutes to NZ and Aussie numbers (except special rate numbers like 0900, etc) with 10GB. I can roam most of the world and for $NZ5 a day, I can use my minutes locally.

But in reality, I use my 10GB data to communicate over skype and whatsapp.

I don't know what the telcos offer in your country, but I'm sure the EU can't take credit for my plan in NZ.

Re: So predictable !

Mine's the one with the "a good man is hard to find, a hard Brexit is awesome" note in the pocket.

Re: So predictable !

"We seem to get more sense (well mostly) out of the EU, than we do out of our lot."

True. My fav being the vacuum cleaner testing done without any dirt.

My second fav was the, remind me how many years, the EU auditors refused to sign the audit report.

My third fav was the way they took GBP290m a week and spent a small % of that in the UK and thought we should be grateful. Meanwhile, the NHS could have had all or some (or none) of that money.

My fourth fav is the pan-european army that was announced, as predicted, after the vote.

Re: So predictable !

"mostly voted out so they could kick out anyone called Mohammed. "

Lolz, that's STILL why you believe we voted leave? Because we mistakenly thought Pakistan was part of the EU? Bless!

Another Apple engineer cuffed over alleged self-driving car data theft: FBI swoop on bod as he boards plane to China

Re: security is not chinesity

"Or we do not have enough American citizens to do coding?"

There are plenty lining up. Unfortunately, they don't have a lot of coding experience since earning their PhD in Gender Studies and starting work at Buzzfeed.

Judge! snuffs! Yahoo!'s attempt! to! settle! 2013! megahack! class-action!

Where're all the comments...

... oh that's right: I'm the only person still using Yahoo!

Holy crappuccino. There's a latte trouble brewing... Bio-boffins reckon 60%+ of coffee species may be doomed

Re: Temperature?

"There's a finite amount of water in circulation."

Yep, a whole planet full.

"That means that somewhere else in the system (down stream) there is less water than there was. "

Well, downstream of most rivers is... the sea. So less water flows to the sea? I think you may have hit on a solution for rising sea levels.

Re: Add this to the list?

"The Gros Michel was claimed tp be a far tastier variety than the starchy tasting Cavendish"

Betamax was far superior to VHS, too.

Re: Umm... nope.

That and Chinese and Nazi connections make any discussion of population suicide political control."

Fixed?

Re: Umm... nope.

"The biologists suspect that the fungus has become prolific due to warming weather. (That, and monoculture.)"

And over one hundred thousand people a year are KILLED or otherwise inconvenienced by coffee in the UK.

Everyone everywhere now "suspects" everything that happens now is due to climate change.

Re: Umm... nope.

"However they can show times of volcanic activity and other extreme events that can be tied back to the climate records."

Wait, what? Climate change causes volcanoes now?

Re: Umm... nope.

https://xkcd.com/1732/

Wow, we have accurate temperature records going back to 20,000 BCE!

The "uptick" in that hockey stick graph is... bs.

The "proxies", that have "told" us what temperatures were over the last few thousand year, don't give us data that correlate with current temperature records. Which kinda make it look like they are not good proxies. So good luck convincing anyone that you "know" what the temps were in Ghengis Khan's day.

Should the super-rich pay 70% tax rate above $10m? Here's Michael Dell's hot take for Davos

Re: Simple solution to Dell's problem

Dumb example anyway, as most of the Billionaires are billionaires on paper. They may have quite a few million$ lying around, but most of the wealth is in shares.

Re: Rich Tax Paradox

"If you are a US citizen Uncle Sam will demand tax from you no matter where in the world you live."

Sure, if they KNOW about the income. Or you remain a citizen of the US.

You misunderestimate the extent to which some folk will go to avoid giving their money to folk who think invading iraq was a good idea.

Steamer closets, flying cars, robot boxers, smart-mock-cock ban hypocrisy – yes, it's the worst of CES this year

Re: Well, scale matters

"how many busses would you need to drop"

Enough to cover 3 football pitches? Or fill 6 Olympic sized swimming pools? Or cover the length of the Thames? And it depends: are you dropping form the height of 2.5x Big Ben*.

*You CAN drop from the height of Big Ben: it's height is about 0.93 QEII Commemorative Clock Towers.

Fake news? More like ache news. Grandma, grampa 'more likely' to share made-up articles during US election

Re: Red herring

"Only in America can really complicated issues be boiled down to two simple choices:

You're a commie Leftie

or

You're a Fascist Right Wing Nazi."

Only in America, you say? Wow, you've not really been paying attention, have you? It applies all over the world. For eg, anyone in favour of Brexit is labeled a racist. Anyone dismayed at Angela Merkil inviting undocumented migrants to Germany is racist. Anyone pointing out the inequities of quotas is a misogynist or racist. Remember "right-wing" and "far-right" and "alt-right" are code words used by those who practice identity politics. And for sure there ARE racists in the word. But someone who believes in private enterprise, thrift & hard work, social welfare as a safety-net rather than a way of life, isn't a racist, but they ARE "right-wing".

Re: Red herring

"It has to do with truth versus deliberate falsehood."

Yep, CNN etal never deliberately create fake news stories. Nor do they fail to report news due to partisan positions. Well done.

Amazon exec tells UK peers: No, we don't want to be dominant. Also, we don't fancy being taxed on revenues

Re: Tax allowance for costs is a grace

"Shareholders have not asked for profitability only share price appreciation."

In most(many?) countries, share gains are taxable as either a capital gain (for investors & pension schemes) or trading profits (for share traders).

Re: Tax allowance for costs is a grace

Starbucks?

So what you're saying is that Amazon buy their Samsung Galaxy S9s from Colombia for $10 and sell them to Amazon UK for $790 who sell it to UK consumers for $800?

Or are you saying that Trotters Ind Traders import a load of S9s for $790 and sell them on Amazon for $800 and Amazon gets $8 per trade for "facilitation"? Then Amazon pays tax on the profit from $8 (which is $8 less the wages of it's UK employees and the rent on its UK office and the cost of running their server farms and their internet connections?

Attention all British .eu owners: Buy dotcom domains and prepare to sue, says UK govt

Re: Wow, it's almost...

"that as a country we seriously think our farty little island can really negotiate a better deal than at present."

Yes you can: most everyone agrees that "no deal" is a far better deal. So just get on with the preparations.

Re: Wow, it's almost...

"It has always been the case that Joe public never gets given the information necessary to make an informed decision"

Thanks for that, Comrade Herr Adolf Stalin, but I'd like to continue to be able to vote thanks, imperfect as it is.

Re: Wow, it's almost...

"Some people seem to have a very odd idea of what democracy actually means."

Actually, no: our representatives gave us the chance to advise them directly on an issue (they otherwise don't seem to listen) and we took that opportunity. Yay.

Re: Wow, it's almost...

"For those of us who don't live in Maidenhead (and who the **** can afford that?), she's not elected."

By your measure, none of the EU Presidents is "elected" (not even the President of the Euro parliament, who is a MEP) and neither are the EU Commissioners. So why should I consider the legitimacy of those Presidents and Commissioners if you don't accept the legitimacy of our Prime Minister?

Re: Wow, it's almost...

"But it isn't [undemocratic] - you have a eu parliament with MEPs voted for by the electorate."

Err, the laws are basically written and implemented by the Commission, not the 99% rubber-stamp Parliament. When did you last get the chance to vote for your Commissioner? Or the President (any of them)?

Sorry, Samsung. Seems nobody is immune to peak smartphone

S5 Mini is only 16GB. Even with a big flashcard, hard to manage.

Pork pulled: Plug jerked out of beacon of bacon delight

Re: Mixed feelings

"[TAB] has been the [next field] key for the -also many- decades of HTML existence, it's strange that you would only notice it now."

And for many more decades of accounting system data-entry, both main frame and PC.

TAB has only ever been spaces in word processing, shirley?

Brexit-dodging SCISYS Brits find Galileo joy in Dublin

Re: Merry Brexmas ...

"More like NAFTA, CETA, ANZCERTA and TPP"

Yes yes yes, if you want to be technically correct: those countries are free to sign whatever agreements they want to due to ... sovereignty.

All those countries are lining up to sign deals with the UK. So widdle ol' Britain (only 5 or 6 in the GDP stakes) will soon have a bunch of friends again in the new school.

Boffins don't give a sh!t, slap Trump's face on a turd in science journal

Re: Curious precedent on what is allowed

"I apologise for being a libtard snowflake that actually gives a shit about the planet "

So the fact that the USA is the only industrialised country to REDUCE CO2 emissions must please you? (Yes I know Trump is not responsible, but capitalism is: it is cheaper and cleaner to frack gas and turn your back on coal. Yet members of your beloved EU get to build coal fired power stations: Poland, Germany. So get a grip.)