Posts by Spasticus Autisticus 184 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Jan 2014
Strangely yes, and without any issues during the move - you'd imagine the body count could be quite high.
While I like the '. . . what now?' eg 'Decoy family', reply 'Decoy what now?' (Rick & Morty), I dislike the 'wait, what?' that appears in R&M quite a bit, it might not be long before Simon or Steven use that phrase.
Is Pootering (sic) part of the Extend mission by Microsoft to eventually Extinguish Linux as we currently know it?
Perhaps it's a case of - systemd isn't finished until Linux can't boot?
Beware of geeks bearing gifts.
PS I'd like someone to ask AI Bing 'who are the useless cunts that work at Microsoft?'
The last few have been a bit weak.
Richard Speed was doing a good job with On Call and Who Me? Maybe he was too English for the USAsians, lots of Yanks have a good sense of humour but many, many others aren't educated enough to 'get' funny things.
We (the UK) get many overseas comedians here as their humour is sometimes lost on their fellow countrymen, we send our weaker comedians to the USA - Tracey Ullman, James Corden, for example. I can imagine Rich Hall is probably not considered funny in a lot of US States :)
Richard Speed hasn't posted anything for nearly a month, is he another casualty of the descent of El Reg in to the current blandness, or is he just on holiday? Since the .com takeover things have been getting more and more strange here.
Almost certain we'll not see any more bork shots of Windows killing itself.
You could try Old Harry's Game by Andy Hamilton. He's done lots of good stuff on radio and TV.
Also Alexei Sayle's Imaginary Sandwich Bar, and Lenin of the Rovers
Meet David Sedaris is laugh out loud too.
I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue is good
All from BBC Radio 4
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Red Dwarf, Benny Hill, Fawlty Towers - all individually brilliant and unique. Father Ted very good too.
Porridge, Open All Hours - Ronnie Barker
Early Absolutely Fabulous?
+1 for stuff by Armando Iannucci. Chris Morris fronted The Day Today, is this where Alan Partridge started?
Chris Morris's Brass Eye (his gardener is my gardener :) )
'Google’s Sundar Pichai explained the same: “This past year we’ve also focused on providing quality information during the pandemic.'
The word quality without a quantifier is meaningless. If something really is top/high/good quality the quantifying word will be used. If I see 'quality' on its own I then put the required quantifying word, low/poor/rubbish, in myself.
"What has happened is that in the last 20 years
America has changed from a producer to a consumer
And all consumers know that when the producer names the tune...
The consumer has got to dance
That's the way it is. We used to be a producer – very inflexible at that
And now we are consumers and, finding it difficult to understand"
Some lyrics from B Movie by Gil Scott-Heron, 1983.
Change the names for some in the current administration and the whole song/poem is still relevant.
I tried to not have the lyrics double spaced but I failed :-(
Sorry KDE, 3.5.10 was the last good KDE in my books. Used on SuSE something or other (11?). I thought KDE 4 was pretty awful so they lost me, I did try it again a few years later but still disliked it compared to whatever I was using - might have been Mint Gloria and GNOME or Xfce. Still a happy Mint user with either MATE or Cinnamon depending on GPU power.
Unfortunately any person of Chinese descent is vulnerable to the CCP, no matter for how many generations they may have lived outside China. If there are relatives back in China then pressure can be exerted - 'it would be a shame if Uncle Ying and Aunt Tong lost their house, think of poor little cousins Tiddle, Aye and Po'.
We can only hope that whatever catastrophe China has to suffer again doesn't effect the rest of the globe too much.
The bunker is/was in Mistley, the ground site has been developed in to housing recently (haven't looked for a few months to see if its finished yet). I'm not sure the the Secret Bunker signs are there as the 'attraction' isn't open any more. As I live in the third of 'The Three Parishes', I don't know, because I don't 'see' the local signage.
That's good Jake, you are a responsible gun owner.
Maybe our gun cases should have a tracker on them too? That way it is possible to 'see' the weapon(s) being moved from safe to case, 'see' case as it travels, then 'see' guns being used at gun club or other shooting locations. The guns 'disappear' back in to case with tracker that then travels back to safe at the registered location, guns or case disappear in to safe - all beautifully logged by the powers that regulates guns.
So easy with today's technology :-)
I fly model aircraft and the new drone laws are threatening my hobby. I also shoot at a local gun club.
I was slightly bullied at school, in two cases I remember I retaliated to the surprise of the bully - one who found himself held by the throat backed over a table, the other* kicked hard on the knee so he couldn't catch me as I ran :-) - attack is the best form of defence against bullying.
* I was told he joined the Met. Police, where I suspect he continued to be an arsehole.
If the service is working our ISPs don't care about the infrastructure, if its Openreach's kit then contact them direct - search for openreach damage.
I did this when some trees got removed near a new development and our line was hanging down to around 10', I could see a lorry tearing the line down at any moment so called Openreach. Within the hour 2 vans and 3 guys turned up, one went up the pole and gathered the excess cable up. Sorted.
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