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Ook Ook!
This recent programming language if embedded in the scope's innards may help!
http://bit.ly/bXNXXW
Ook Ook!
Posts by Chris Hawkins
54 posts • joined Tuesday 9th October 2007 14:14 GMT
Re: Eh, what planet is that?
You mean "EUtopia", of course!
Strobe Lights....?
Is this another of Mr Musk's little secrets?
Is Dragon perchance equipped also with a means of playing/transmitting this haunting little 1977 tune in a vacuum....?
http://youtu.be/H4Kgzn3tDQU
What else is about to happen.......?
Posted in Special Projects Burro pops his hooves
RIP - Special Agent Aladdin
"....made doubly onerous by the circling presence of my mutt pack, who sensed the biggest nosh-up since they downed a small wild boar a couple of years back...."
They were probably thinking "Vale! Burritos!"
Damn good thing they didn't scoff him! I can see the local rag making allusions to "perro-nitis"!
A final thought, why was Aladdin not cremated and his ashes scheduled for "Scotty-type" disposal on one of Mr Musk's next orbital perambulations?
Headline: "Dragon torches Donkey"?
This would have made him the first El Reg operative to have made it to the heavens!
Descansa en paz, el burro Aladdin!!
Posted in Roman roads get the web maps treatment
Great Opportunity Missed
Salve!
Looks like the ancient forebears of Michaelis O'Learius missed a great opportunity to develop low cost travel options!
Imagine Roma (Ravenna) to Londinium (Burrio) - 1 denarii !
I can see it now 5000 seater galleys painted yellow and blue, powered by the paying passengers and the odd shot of "le potion magique!" ! However, only one (paid) toilet visit en route!
Vale!
Clean Energy??? Mud??'
There is really only one suitable refrain to all this....
See: http://youtu.be/Vt6xGqk0F0U
.... Mud, mud, glorious mud
Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood
So follow me follow, down to the hollow
And there let me wallow in glorious mud
(With apologies to Messr's Flanders & Swann!)
Re: Hang about!
Winkypop!
Not sure about Carry on Majorca?
More like "Carry on up the Costas"!
I've felt sad for several years, now that the lads have passed on!
In the Western part of Andalucia, there is a perfect set for a "Carry-On" package holiday type caper using the following towns all to be found within 160 km of Seville:
"Moron de la Frontera"
"Carrion"
and (drum roll - wait for it...)
"El Rompido"
I can see Sid "phwoaring" and Kenneth Williams in Blazer as the harassed tour guide trying to corral his charges. As for Babs Windor.....'nuff said!
Forget the Hype - Debian 6 with Gnome 2
Sitting here happily on Debian 6 with Gnome 2 building a web site!
I don't need anything more!
Having been happy with Ubuntu for 6 years - down-systemed to the above config after the arrival of the Unity disaster....
Like Linus, I will not be assimilated.....
So good!!! :)
Posted in Ubuntu deploys cloud-ready Ocelot beta
Unity/Gnomes...Ugh!
I was at the start of a website build project when the Ubuntu 11.04 update arrived.
I have been an Ubuntu devotee since 2004 and was a real fan!!.
So in early June I decide to upgrade to 11.04, despite thoughts I shouldn't, based on the comments flying around the Interweb!
BIG BIG Mistake! I suddenly found that certain essential plugins in Gimp would not work under the Unity UI.
That was enough of a boo-boo for me.
I had to reinstall my machine so I regressed/slid over to Debian 6.0.
At least, I have much more flexibility to choose my UI and avoid MS Widnows-type evolution of Ubuntu where Canonical are telling me what's good for me!
Don't fix what works....!!!!
Give the user a choice of GUI , IN BIG CAPITAL LETTERS, during the initial phases of installation!
Luckily I have enough TUX experience to customise Debian to my one requirements!
The only way Canonical will get me back is an all-expenses paid return trip to the ISS to celebrate the Shuttleworth visit.... (must be 8 years or so now!) on a Canonical-funded SpaceX Dragon Capsule! (not Soyuz...Roskosmos, after years of great service in the ballistic human field, seem to be going the way of Ubuntu!)
Hologram communication
Sorry to spoil the party but tomogram 3D communication, as against hologram, has already been demonstrated using live feeds beaming pseudo holograms into studios!
CNN used the technology provided by an Israeli co. to beam live representations of one of their reporters, Jessica Yellin and Will.I.am of Black Eye Peas fame from the Obama Victory Party in Chicago to their studios.
See:
http://goo.gl/KEFrl
http://goo.gl/52D8W
http://www.virtualvutech.com
and :)))) here
http://goo.gl/TI6cb
These articles from down-under suggests that full live hologram transmission may have already taken place in the Antipodes.
See:
http://goo.gl/qO7ms
http://goo.gl/j1Rxo
MS/Skype
I really am concerned at this news.
It took long enough to get Skype to produce an effective Linux Client.
I can just see the "evil empire" keeping the existing Linux client and then as the product develops easing the linux version out because "it is no longer compatible.".
I can also see the "evil empire" also trying to turn itself into the "world's" phone network. Free Computer to Computer Calls will go!
With Google dominating search, Facebook social media and Microsoft voice communications, the world Interweb really is becoming dominated by a small cartel of US controlled IT companies.
We really do need companies like Amazon.com, baidu.com, yahoo japan etc. to start fighting back internationally and offer competitive products.
Re Eating → #
Steve,
Sorry! Been done before or actually something very similiar and over 50 years ago.
Read the relevant parts of the 1957 Goon Show Episode "The Great Regent's Park Swim".
"Grytpype-Thynne:
Well, I've just invented the word "Help" for people who are drowning."
Later in the show.....
"Moriarty:
Aaagh! (etc)
Grytpype-Thynne:
Steady, Moriarty.
Moriarty:
(more sounds of agony)
Grytpype-Thynne:
Steady, Moriarty. You know that I charge one thousand pounds for using
my invention, namely, the word "Help".
Moriarty:
(sounds of agony, interspersed with growls)
Seagoon:
What a bit of luck, folks. Whilst the Bengal tiger was fighting Moriarty, I ........."
and even later in the show.....
"Grytpype:
... and I warn you, nobody shout "Help". That is a word I've just invented and will cost anybody five hundred pounds to use. Now, give me that green liquid. Right, Neddie, into the canal.
Seagoon:
But I can't swim without that green liquid. Aarrggh
FX:
(splash)
Seagoon:
You swine, you pushed me in! Help!
Grytpype-Thynne:
Out you come, Ned. To using the word "Help", five hundred pounds
FX:
(cash register)
Grytpype:
Thank you.
Seagoon:
Wait, wait, but I ...
FX:
(splash)
Seagoon:
Help!
Grytpype-Thynne:
Out you come, Neddie. To using the word "Help", another five hundred
Pounds.
F.X.:
(cash register)
Grytpype-Thynne:
I thank you.
Seagoon:
But look here, I ...
FX:
(splash) floundering
Seagoon:
You swine, you pushed me in. Help!
Grytpype-Thynne:
Out you come, Neddie. To using the word "Help", another five hundred pounds
FX:
(cash register)
Grytpype:
Thank you.
Seagoon:
Wait. (splash) Help!
(repeated several times, getting faster)"
...How I miss Spike Milligna and Neddy Seagoon!
Link to full script: http://goo.gl/N5lhQ
Re: The race to the bottom
I concur!
However, if they have already reached the point where they do "do "stupid" to genuinely Olympian standards.", what are they going to do for an encore for the real event in London 2012?
The mind genuinely boggles! It really does.
Can't help thinking though that there must be a better way to do and implement airport passenger screening!
[/Thinks] Project for today: Create an Open Source based Passenger Screening system using Tuxology and Penguins on Rails. Find angel investors and Government R&D financing. Spend loads of money. IPO in two years time even though not making money yet. Exit with loads of dosh and penguins to start "next big thing! " [\End Thinks]
[/Thinks] & [/End Thinks] used with grateful thanks to the late Lord Neddy Seagoon of Airwick Gatport.
Posted in Man killed by own cock
Animal Farm .....TNG2!
And now Auntie has just reported this - "Live chicken thrown at KFC staff in Nuneaton"
http://goo.gl/KRZUj
Posted in Man killed by own cock
Animal Farm....TNG???
Well with Belorussian foxes shooting hunters and armoured Indian poultry on murderous rampage it is only a matter of time before the scenario played out in the following url becomes reailty:
http://youtu.be/FQMbXvn2RNI
Re: It's for kids??
0 to 6? !!!
Wooly Thinking! Whoever wrote that must be Baaarmy!
All the adults, I know who have watched afore-mentioned ovine escapades have joined the flock!
Or wozzit?
Hmm! Just reflecting on the news of this avian espionage carrion and can't help thinking that the mascot of this esteemed journal is also a feathered reptilian of the vulture variety!
Me wonders if this caper was not cooked up in the El Reg basement by El Reg's equivalent of Q as an attempt to infiltrate the Israeli Hi-Tech sector. Pity about the GPS guidance system though - a couple of hundred kms off course by the looks of it!
Not Good enough, Mark!
Daily rolling releases are not good enough!
I have come to expect more of Canonical as Ubuntu is the only OS I use and love!
I want my Ubuntu releases the day before! OK! ::))))))))
Posted in Dirty PCs: How much filth can you take?
Laptops as well
These are all desktops!
This year, the fun and games in my neck of the woods down here in the Southern Iberian Peninsula, has been with Laptops!
I had several in, where I've had to strip them down to the gunnels and take the casings to the local garage to use their compressor to clean out exhausts! The dirt that came out! The CPU's started behaving a bit better with mean temperatures dropping 5 to 10º!!!
What people do with them I do not know????'
EU does the same → #
Actually I agree with you!
Globalisation and freedom of movement of goods, services (including media and the 'net) has been all the rage for the past two decades.....
Humans....apart from within a group of EU countries.... forget it!!!!
Hypocrisy
If I remember correctly, it was some lunatic Congressman or Senator who dreamt up the scheme for charging for the visa waivers to avoid adding to the US Deficit. To subsequently use such funds for promoting inward Tourism to the US is hypocritical in the extreme!
Why cannot the US Congress be honest with the entire US Tourism Industry?
Guys, you are just going to have to get by on domestic tourism! Forget marketing overseas...we really do not want any "aliens" coming to the US whether from "friendly" or "not so friendly" countries. They are ALL a risk!
By the way, while we are about it, you large US Air Carriers with international routes better reduce your frequencies!!!! There's going to be little growth on international routes for the next few years.
The additional staff laid-off and increasing unemployment numbers - tough!
No wonder Disney, Wynns Casinos et al are opening up theme parks outside the US. The decrease in "alien" tourism will leave little room for growth in coming years!
Not only has the US succeeded in destroying any sympathy and support it had among a bulk of the world's nations, it is now succeeding in ruining what little sympathy it has left in so-called allied and friendly countries.
Mine's the Catholic Cardinal for Scotland, Cardinal Keith O’Brien! He told the U.S. what it was all about last week-end!
Posted in Feed curry to sheep, boffins suggest
lamb+curry
Going one further than microwaves, get these ovine-flavouring boffins together with Craig Venter, to genetically engineer "Baaaaaaas" that flavour themselves with appropriate spices during their life time, and then, when their individual "baa-by date" approaches, jump on the dining room table, lie down in a suitable pan and self-immolate!
Mine's Shaun the Sheep!
Pretty good for a guy from Pretoria High!
Well done Elon Musk,
It is amazing that South Africa has produced two very successful entrepreneurs who have succeeded in breaking the mold in space and in open source software.
What Musk and Shuttleworth have managed to do, nothing short of taking on the establishment, is breaking the mold in their respective fields because they believed they could do and were not afraid to try. It is interesting that neither hail from countries of the "old world".
NASA has done so much but it must get back to r & d and the difficult things. Routine missions to orbit and even the moon must be commercialised.
I was stunned by the efficiency of the launch which I watched live via the excellent quality webcast. It was better than NASA and the down-view video link continued in high quality colour until the craft reached orbit and flew out of range. It was also interesting that after the first launch abort, the team were able to clear the glitch within 90 minutes and launch successfully. Has Nasa ever done this?
I would love for El Reg to promote and organise the first journalist in space and El Reg reader to the ISS or round the moon mission, when the Dragon capsule is ready. El Reg could make a mint on video transmission rights alone....
Four Seats....
- Commander Pilot ?
- El Reg Hack: Lester Haines ?
- El Reg Reader....
- Paris?
Pub conversation → #
Oh good grief...
Sci-Fi movies do have a basis in fact
"- believed to be Russian 4th or 5th stage rocket"
Call for Eastwood, LeeJones, Sutherland and Garner...
next, we're going to hear it the geiger counter indicates rogue lost soviet nukes!!! ((::)
Wot'sa matter you???'
Not wanted to banger on about it, but couldn't help noticing that he works for "DiLuigi Sausage Co".
Just wondering if, with a name like this, the machine actually has done this before on behalf of "Da Family"???????
Confused...
Is this the dog in question here?????????
http://bit.ly/dCZVhz
What's good for the goose....
I seem to recall not so a few years ago that the US was prosecuting the US subsidiaries of EU Companies because the parent EU companies were, quite legally under EU law, trading with Cuba.
The US Congress needs to realise that it is no longer the only 100 tonne gorilla on the block. Economically, in this global world, its main creditor China, and one of its main trading partners, the EU are equal or bigger on certain standards than the US.
The US will just have to wait!!!! The days of elected representatives (many of whom have never travelled outside their nation) of a small percentage of the World's population located East of Shanghai and Tokyo and West of Shannon intimidating all and sundry and passing legislation which impacts 3rd parties who have no recourse are fast coming to an end.
Posted in Reg hack pursues Street View spymobile
Old Hat, Lester!
Iberian Peninsula Reports of the machinations of the Spymobile have been surfacing since August this year.
See this article on my blog about the one I caught early one morning in August in Lagos, Algarve, Portugal.
http://barlaventostravelblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/google-streetview-algarveportugal.html
Home Office shifts feet as vetting database looms
The other point no one yet seems to have picked up on is that with unemployment up at high levels and not possibly due to come down for years, those who chose not to be vetted or those on the list who might just be naughty boys and girls with a few dirty photos, will find yet another block on the road to finding employment. The result either the taxpayer will have to pick the price for supporting them on the dole because they can't get a job, or pick up the price for keeping them in jail, when they go off the edge because they can't get a job!! Up go taxes to pay for the database and these support costs..
The general public needs to get real. Life is harsh at times. Things happen. The state can't protect us from everything. We can and must to our best within reason to protect the young and elderly. However, the creation of yet another monstrous bureaucracy is off the planet.
The ongoing and increasing knee-jerk populist reaction by politicians to the baying hounds of the western media and lobby groups is frightening.
The solution is definitely unpolitically correct, but would work. Bring back hard labour and the death penalty for the most heinous of these type of crimes...(Sod the EU treaties on this.) Bring back profiling! The solution is more real policing on the beat and in the community, not vast Big Brother databases administered by faceless bureaucrats who, as as fast as you can say cd, will leave a usb stick with the entire database lying around on some train or bus.
It is not just in the UK this is happening. The case of the Italian father arrested in Brazil for kissing his own daughter while on the beach in the presence of the mother is unreal.
As a ageing single hetero-male who has never had kids and probably now will not, I can tell you that if I was in my 20's or 30's today, I'd say sod marriage, sod volunteering my time to help youth, leave me alone with my PC or my dog, and probably ostracise any friends who had kids younger than 18. An increasing number of men are thinking this way, and the implications in 10 years or so time of a sizeable unattached male minority in society reacting against political correctness is something neither politicians nor bureaucrats are capable of imagining or thinking about.
Posted in Kettle car breaks speed record
The Mighty Wurlitzer
Couldn't help it!
This brings to mind the Goon Show episode "The Mighty Wurlitzer".
"Now Seagoon, tell us, what is that fifty-ton brass-bound contraption you're driving?"
Seagoon: "It's a Wurlitzer."
Script here:
http://www.thegoonshow.net/scripts_show.asp?title=s06e16_the_mighty_wurlitzer
Spike, Harry, Peter and the lads would have had a field day with this bit of deja vu!
@Chris Hawkins
Aaargh!
Jon Wilson - well done!
Caught me out!
However, there are lots of contributors here who are possessive about Paris! :)))))
Aaaargh
The problem here is nothing to do with IT/computing/Operating Systems.
Many people buy diesel cars without realising it and then freak when the engine has to be cleaned because they've filled it with 95 octane petrol (gas, to the uninitiated over the pond!)
The teaching of comprehension and common sense by the education system is a thing of the past in the Western World.
Consequently, if one doesn't even know how to begin to ask about things you know nothing about, what can one expect!
One Answer - a civilisation of Paris's, Lindsay's and Dubya's!
Up the Penguins!
Posted in Craigslist supervillain seeks henchmen
Digital Rights Aboose
I say Eccles, would you like to be a hired Goon?
Methinks Messr.'s Millgna, Grytpye-Thyng and Moriaty would have something to say about this unauthorised use of the term "Goons"!
Nonethless, I must admit that anyone going by the name of Jacque Zerapi could only have delusions of grandeur of becoming the next Peter Sellars.
Better watch out Miss Bee or you'll have Auntie down on you!
Posted in US retailers start pushing $20 Ubuntu
Re:Nice book about Linux
@Anonymous Coward
".A Dilbert book cost $12......"
Does this include 60 days unlimited support?
and Uwe Dippel what have you got against dogs....most canines I know are very partial to Ubonetu! :)))
A confirmed Ubuntu fan who is now deploying it on clients' dying computers in youth hostels and B&B's, to cut the virus/malware nightmare and frustrated the hell out of your usual US/Antipodean/European Backpacker who is determined as part of a temporary mission in life (and admirably so) to bu***ger up any public usage PC! :) Pity they can't seem to do the same with the Bulls in Pamplona!
What only Firefox, Openoffice and Pidgin Messenger???? :))))))))
Posted in NY street-cleaning truck swallows dog
Thought it would be Paris first.
I'm surprised.
Paris (Gallic variety) has had street/pavement sweeping "Poodle Removers" for years and I always thought that the canine version of Soylent Green would premiere there first!
Entry to Spain
TimBiller is right.
However, the Guarda in Spain do not generally treat all and sundry as criminals/aliens in arrival. A cursory look/swipe of the passport and away you go.
The problem with the US, even prior to this latest Big Brother control, has been the fact that all foreigners flying into US Airports have over, the past 20 years (yes, even before 9/11 ),generally been treated on the basis of "guilty until proven innocent". As the US is supposed to be the "land of the free", treatment of one's fellow humans in such a manner is galling!
I reckon that even the real Aliens at Area 51 get better treatment....probably because they would phaser large parts of the US into oblivion before one could say "Fire photon torpedoes!"
The fact is that the manner of implemention of the increasing level of immigration security in the US in such a crass way, the US has succeeded in pissing off a large part of the planet. True, the DHS did bring Disney in to provide training for the Immigration Control staff, but I reckon Goofy, Daffy and Mickey would do a better job.
Did anyone else...
Geoff,
You got there just before me!
A "Vista Waiver" programme on all laptops sold outside the US would be an excellent idea. Knew there had to be a good IT idea somewhere in this topic.
Oh to be able to buy a good laptop in Europe free from Redmond domination, not pay for Vista and install what ever OS I wanted on it!
Trouble is if MS were to introduce a "Vista Waiver" programme they would want all our personal details first as well....
oh well, it was an idea while it lasted.....!
They just don't get it!
At the time of 9/11 the US had the sympathy of the world. In 7 years they have, by showing how grossly they don't understand the world, managed to alienate the bulk of the planet, but when you meet the average Merkan they don't get it.
They are imposing increasingly restricted travel restrictions on friendly nations, while their own frontier with Mexico and Canada remains as porous as ever and given its length will never be totally secure.
The time has come for the rest of the world to treat US citizens as aliens, including special desks at Immigration just for US citizens and staffed by the most obnoxious border agents in each country's Immigration dept.
In case the US hasn't noticed, it is no longer the Hyperpower it was. China, India, Russia, the EU and Brazil are all doing fine as economic and political powers. IT giants such as Microsoft & Co can no longer get the top foreign brains because these prefer to stay at home rather that endure the humiliation of the US Border control system.
My partner and I are another couple who will never be travelling stateside again either directly or in transit.
Mine's the Free Finnish OS with a VIA Taiwanese Processor please!
Posted in UK electricity crisis over - for now
Is the UK regressing to developing country status?
Hmm!
"One energy-market analyst, speaking to the Times, blamed lack of investment owing to years of uncertainty over government policy.
"The Government’s inability to make long-term energy security decisions over the last decade is coming home to roost," said the industry watcher. "Lack of political will to make tough decisions has left Britain short of power."
Sounds remarkably similiar to what's been going on in the South Africa over the past year!!!!
Posted in Phoenix beams back Martian postcards
MARTIAN AIR FORCE ONCE AGAIN DENIES STORIES OF UFO LANDING
General Rgrmrmy The Lesser, KGM12 , (Knight Garter of Majestic 12) recently appointed Joint Chief of Staff of the Mars Armed Forces, telepathically empathically denied the reported landing in the polar regions an alien spaceprobe from Earth during the past 24 hours.
Recalling the famous alleged supposed incident at the Ares Vallis Air Force Base many years ago, no proof was ever found any such landing.
The General continued, that over the past decade, substantial advances have been made in planetary defence and in the event of any alien craft attempting such a landing, there would be a Mars-shattering Kaboom that would be telepathically audible and visible to all!
As there was no such Kaboom there was no threat!
In a separate development, ACME Labs announced today the retirement of long time military advisor to the Kaboom programme, Col. (Retd.) Marvin T. At the age of 1000, it was common knowledge at ACME, that Col. Marvin was increasingly showing disturbing signs of overwork and old age, apparently wandering the corridors of the the labs muttering verbally, "There are Bugs in it!" and "Where's the Kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering Kaboom!"
La siesta de Lester
El Google habla muy bien el Espanol! El Lester Tambien!
Seriously, I have been using Babelfish & Google Translate for over a year now to do prelim translations into French and Spanish for web-site content. As I speak and read these to languages pretty well, I am able to correct the results quite easily. Not perfect but enough to be comprehensible and generate business.
Another trick to getting better results when machine translating from english to these languages, is to write the english version as it would be written if literally translated into the other languages. e.g. don't use apostrophes etc.
For example, using googletranslate from english to spanish, a coloquial english phase:
>> Lester's Siesta translates as Lester's Siesta
while
>> The Siesta of Lester translates more correctly in Spanish as "La siesta de Lester"
Olé
Posted in NASA bites nails over Phoenix landing
Up the little green classes.
And what about this scheduled for later today?
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/may/HQ_M08089_Chandra_Advisory.html
Methinks the aliens are worried that they are losing media and conspiracy theory coverage on earth, what with the situation in Mess'opotamia (apologies to Jon Stewart), natural disasters on earth, man-made disasters in the US (primaries), UK (Gordon & Boris) etc. etc.
This will get the wires chattering again
Posted in UK's tallest bovine soars to 6ft 6in
Re: Vegan winn - Beefing things up!
Lets hope he doesn't get together with the lot shown on this link.......
http://www.cowswithguns.com/cowmovie.html
South African Penguin Power
I'm a Ubuntu fanatic through and through!
I admit I've had problems getting the onboard wifi and sound to work on my new Acer laptop, so I'll be pleased when Intrepid Ibex arrives if there is improvement on the wifi front.
But I'm surviving and working and thriving and am a lot happier with Ubuntu Gutsy on my machines.
I was in Franschoek last November, lovely place...Not many Roaming Goats though.
However, a day later I was visiting the (Tux)... Sorry!.... Penguin colony just south of Simonstown on the Cape Peninsula and saw a sign in the Car Park...
Picture is here on my blog......!
http://barlaventossouthernafrica20tripblog.blogspot.com/2007/09/penguin-power.html
You can see where Mark´s sense of humour originated, ekse!.
I wonder, however, what happens after we get to letter "Z" and "Zooming Zebras"?
Posted in Suicidal moose descends on Alaska
Many Mooseteries in Alaska
Moose Hi-jinks seem to be the norm up there!
See:
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/wildlife/moose/story/211088.html
The Key to this matter
Actually, Chaves is the Portuguese word for keys.....This might help unlock this matter.......
...Hat & Coat......
Git yere priorities right!
Rabbie Burns must be turning in yon grave!
Cats!
Nae mention of the Scottish government drafting a Haggis Welfare Code!
The poor wee thingies need protection from rampant Haggis hunters from over the pond!
I dinnae ken either what Dr. Finlay, Janet, The Broons or Oor Wullie would make of this!
End of Flights to the US
If you follow the financial markets at present many countries including China are shifting their financial assets out of dollars, hence the weakening currency. The number of tourists visiting the US has dropped, and more and more people I know, now say they will avoid travelling to or transiting the US as it is to much of a hassle. The US economy is going from bad to worse.
The time really has come to move agencies like the UN out of the US to somewhere like Geneva, and stop all flights to the US. Let people fly to Canada and then, if they want to, cross the frontier by road or train. (Although I suspect there will be a "no-train" policy implemented there soon as well.) This would also put an end to biased bilateral flight arrangements between the UK, Europe and the US which always end up in the favour of the US and ease congestion at Heathrow. (It might also put BA out of business but what the heck, Ryanair will take its place!)
As regards internal US flights, the ending of all flights with alien foreigners (funny never considered myself to be form another planet!) to the US, should release enough capacity at US airports to ease their internal air traffic control system and allow for vetting of each individual flying. If passengers need to go to Hawai, use a Hawaii Five O longboat from California, and Alaska, husky sled.
On an IT angle it would give a boost to Lenovo and the Chinese IT industry's future efforts to dominate the world.
Finally, it would also reduce international sightings of PH. ;)
Love the Lost in Translation Page
Tried the following phrase in that site:
Dick Cheney's shotgun
Result:
Injector of the frequent hunting of Cheney
Translated that phrase which gave:
The injector of the attempts considers of Cheney
which gave:
The injector of the cares of proven you of Cheney
which gave:
The injector of the Obacht of explosion one of you of Cheney
which gave:
The injector of Obacht of bud one of you of Cheney
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David McLeman
My 25 years of comical IT buzzwords
Tim Worstall
Time to take a sniff at the coffee, perhaps
Chris Mellor
Will they have to drag him back like last time?
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