I got a little bit upset by that Register article
I expect the comments this time around will improve on that
Supermodel Lily Cole: 'I got a little bit upset by that Register article'
Millionaire supermodel Lily Cole has told a national newspaper how upset she was by The Register's coverage of her taxpayer-funded wishing well, Impossible.com. Youtube video of Cole talking about impossible.com Using Freedom of Information laws, we attempted to discover how the wealthy socialite and globetrotter was awarded …
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Tuesday 17th June 2014 08:11 GMT Daggerchild
Re: I got a little bit upset by that Register article
Well I'm not ashamed to say I winced. Not exactly a fair fight this, no matter how bad the site is. I see the griefers love it tho.
Pumping shells into a Government moneyflusher's PR shields? Yeah, sure, pass the popcorn, you go AO! A second armor-piercing shell thru a girl's delirium dream just because she had the temerity to be hurt by the first? I'll pass, El Reg. Bit too much like sniping civilians with a high power rifle. Not nice :(
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Wednesday 18th June 2014 00:05 GMT skeptical i
Re: I got a little bit upset by that Register article
Might be more inclined to agree with you, Daggerchild, if she weren't getting wodges of tax money for the project. How do I get over a quarter-million to faff around promoting a "stuff wanted" site?
(Need a crocodile tears/ boo-freaking-hoo icon.)
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Friday 20th June 2014 09:27 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: I got a little bit upset by that Register article
@Daggerchild - if the government wants to piss away £ 200k of our hard-earn taxes then I'd prefer they did that to worthwhile causes than mere hopeless 'wish' matching window dressing for rich kids.
Rather than let these people get away with it using all their 'chums' to support them using our cash I'd prefer the money was given to something more useful.
Keep sniping El Reg, you're aiming at the right targets.
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Monday 16th June 2014 16:22 GMT Anonymous Coward
And now they're encouraging flyposting.
They're suggesting at http://www.impossible.com/toolkit that you go round spamming your neighbourhood with their crappy publicity flyers. Twunts.
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Tuesday 17th June 2014 09:54 GMT davemcwish
Re: And now they're encouraging flyposting.
and in airplane toilets apparently.
Looking this morning there seems to be some trolling going on
"I wish someone would pull the plug on this site, shut it down so it stops wasting taxpayers money. #somethingelse"
and the greedy
"I wish a #Canon EOS 5D Mark III, a Canon 17-40mm and a MacBook Pro 13" 2,4 GHz. #secondhand #thank_you"
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Tuesday 17th June 2014 14:32 GMT Daggerchild
Re: Nope, Sorry!
I thought the *actual* problem was the Government twunt who *gave* her the money. *Everyone* asks for it. It's all gone a bit girl-XBox-player in here.
Besides, receiving Government funds for an overblown project that drains cash and eventually delivers something horrible *is* how most large employers of IT professionals operate, after all, so not sure how many of the Reg crowd are without sin here ;-)
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Tuesday 17th June 2014 08:11 GMT Daggerchild
Re: Never...
@ ElRegUser007 : You're still using an old version of humanity. You need to upgrade to the latest internet-enabled version where they fixed various bugs like empathy, tolerance and regret. You'll see a remarkable drop in caring! This will free up resources for new features like griefing and trolling. They significantly improve the taste of tears!
There's an outstanding bug in 'survival of the species' now but we don't think it affects any current users. It's a long time since anyone's tested that feature so it may be removed in future releases.
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Tuesday 17th June 2014 12:19 GMT The Axe
Re: Never...
"Her" Art Matters series? So she produced it, directed it, scripted it. No, she is the pretty face fronting it. She might like art which is good for a presenter to be interested in the subject they present (like Attenborough), but she hasn't scripted it, or directed it, or produced it - so it's not her.
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Monday 16th June 2014 19:14 GMT Peter2
Re: Never...
Obviously not. Then again, presumably being a celebrity she will likely be famous for "being famous" and given we don't receive, read or even pay any attention to that sort of media then we wouldn't care, would we?
People visiting a tech site are likely to have zero interest in her, until or unless she accomplishes something as we define the term, which is quite likely to relate to accomplishment of something in Science, Technology, or (applied) Math.
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Tuesday 17th June 2014 08:37 GMT 's water music
Re: Never...
People visiting a tech site are likely to have zero interest in her, until or unless she accomplishes something as we define the term, which is quite likely to relate to accomplishment of something in Science, Technology, or (applied) Math.
Whilst I am sure that a lot of us do have a *boner for STEM it seems a little reductive to dismiss all other areas of human endeavour and achievement.
*used advisedly
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Monday 16th June 2014 16:24 GMT Pete 2
Units?
> Success can only be measured in time
Now that's impossible! (dot com)
I wonder how much success she's had with
this ventureour money? Would it be a couple of months, or a millisecond?Although investing her own money is a bit of a win-win since any losses just reduce the amount of tax she (or more likely: some company that her accountant has magicked into existence as a container for this venture) has to pay, whereas any profit would go directly back to her.
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Monday 16th June 2014 21:36 GMT Friendly Neighbourhood Coder Dan
Re: You can actually see for yourself, here.
Maybe they count on blind people to click on them?
I couldn't find any ALT text for the images to save my life. Those who can't quite understand what's going on will probably click a bit all over just to see ( hear? ) what happens...
However, they do efforts to make it as inclusive as possible in different areas:
<!--[if lt IE 7 ]> <html class="ie6"> <![endif]-->
Just in case.
Hopefully the WAP version will be ready soon!
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