Posts by Tony Green122 posts • joined Friday 16th November 2007 19:07 GMT
...I refuse on principle to drink any Greede Kerching beers (even the admittedly excellent XX Mild).
This is a company that produces beers that pretend to be from such old breweries as Ruddle's, Morland and Tolly Cobbold without the slightest indication that they're all brewed at the same Westgate Street brewery. I've even heard them being sold in GK pubs as "guest beers", pretending they're nothing whatsoever to do with the GK brewery.
And they even produced advertising material pretending that their piss-poor IPA had been Camra's Champion Beer of Britain, which it wasn't.
...just as stupid as wasting wads of cash on the latest, soon-to-be-outdated Apple crap.
Oh, and they're number plates, not "license plates". We're not the 51st state yet.
That's because you, like me, know what a cookie is and how to block one. Not the sort of thing that helps the average user who doesn't even know what a web browser is and just thinks the IE icon is "the Internet".
Jimmy Wales has announced that Wikipedia will be leaving GoDaddy over this. https://twitter.com/#!/jimmy_wales/status/150287579642740736"
Though given the number of complaints about their services I keep seeing on Digg, I'm surprised more people haven't buggered off already.
...haven't been worthy of any respect for many years.
"I'm saddened to see how many people think that a person who has a belief different to theirs should be fired."
He wasn't fired for having beliefs. He was fired for refusing to obey instructions. The fact that he thought those instructions were against his irrational beliefs was irrelevant.
I'd think it's more likely that it's so that American business can make more profit by selling consumers smaller measures. If it's America, then it's money that matters.
Interesting to see that they've actually separated out different types of drinks, something that's rarely done. And good to see that while spirits confer no benefit, wine confers some and beer gives the best benefit.
Some years ago, Prof. Richard Doll (he of the tobacco and lung cancer connection) did a similar study which gave the same results. His showed that drinkers only got back to teetotallers' mortality rates above sixty-odd units per week. It would be interesting to see what level they've found that to be for beer drinkers compared to wine drinkers; extrapolating from what they've published free suggests they'll be showing a higher cut-off point.
I'll enjoy my Real Ale tonight even more...
Most of the comments on that story would have been rejected by the pathetic prudes who moderate the East Anglian Daily Times. The Southern Daily Echo gets respect from me.
One problem is, half of it gets restarted again even if you think you've disabled it. And with more recent releases, such staples as Kmail don't even seem to be able to work without Nepomuk.
Though actually, since Kmail's functionally useless because they screwed up kaddressbook, so that was another reason to dump it.
And all in all, KDE4 gets in the way of me getting things done. XFCE (like KDE3) allows me to get on with my work.
Is this a problem from previous versions? I installed my first XFCE desktop a few months ago and the buttons are all in the order I expected them to be. Though a lot of window-manager themes allow them to be re-ordered.
...is that it just works as a simple interface to control the windows on my screen. Unlike KDE4, it doesn't try to do all kinds of ridiculous things that just use resources and don't actually provide any useful functionality. Seriously, who needs crap like Nepomuk, Strigi and all the other stuff KDE4 depends on?
"Agency officials have also reached out to the passenger to personally apologize for this unfortunate incident."
Wasn't that part of the problem in the first place?
...but even worse in Cockermouth.
TalkTalk's commercial boss David Goldie claimed that BT was trying to regain "the monopoly position that it lost many years ago" courtesy of its provision of fibre optic broadband.
Apparently disgusting that BT should actually INVEST in infrastructure.
If history teaches us nothing else, we should learn the lesson that whatever powers the police are given, they'll find a way to abuse them.
I can just see the Met in particular using this to silence anybody critical of their trigger-happiness, ignoring of 'phone hacking, etc.
Perhaps I could suggest Total Validator: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/total-validator/
It works for me.
Sadly the download link on that page leads to a 404. So maybe it isn't available for Mandriva after all.
...according to Eddie Mair on Radio Four, this was "a story about an Internet
search engine".
Reckon he's a Mosaic user.
Successfully gave all the Murdoch media a nice "look how they're victimising our Rupe" story and pushed what needed to be publicised off the front pages.
He should have a copy of the Sun shoved up his backside every day for the rest of his life.
Sun "readers" have actually evolved sufficient intelligence to use computers. Who'd've thought it?
...in any way related to communists (with the correct spelling)?
Internet browsers - barely any difference between them. How different could they possibly be?
You're not a web designer then?
I hope they at least offer him some guided tour highlights of the big smoke apart from the cell he has probably had to endure.
Seeing London will remind him why he likes living in the Shetlands.
...I'm sure they'll manage to find some kiddy-porn or similar to justify collaring him. They'll certainly never admit to grabbing the wrong bloke.
Otherwise they wouldn't have to have such a massive advertising budget for it.
General rule of thumb: the better and more lavish the advert, the crapper the product.
Proved for me by a cheaply-printed sheet of A4 I saw at the Zythos Beer Festival a few years ago in Belgium, "Chouffe. het bier is beter dan de slogan" (Chouffe: the beer is better than the slogan). And it is!
Research by Professor Richard Doll and others in 1993 showed that about 30 units a week produced the lowest mortality rate. It wasn't until drinkers got to 63 units a week that their mortality rate became as high as that of a teetotaller.
It would be interesting to see a similarly properly-run study looking at the mortality rates of people who habitually drink different types of alcoholic drinks. I have a strong suspicion that spirit drinkers might well be skewing the average quite badly (for example, it's well-documented that brandy is far more damaging to the liver even than other spirits).
Outed as a fan of that publicity-whore.
...the Dirty Digger's pulling back while the heat's on with the intention of coming back for another go when the short attention-span of the public means most of them have forgotten.
...but that really did make me laugh.
So many times I've sat waiting for a page to load and I see my browser saying it's waiting for ssl-google-analytics.l.google.com, s.ytimg.com or ad.be.doubleclick.net. So as far as I'm concerned, they're getting in my way so I'm going to block them.
Who in their right mind would want to read any of the crap coming out of ANY of the Digger's so-called "newspapers"?
Ah, you'll be one of those 'merkin chaps who still haven't worked out what's going on in the world outside the good-ole Yoo Esovay.
Er... Story in the Daily Hate. Probability of being true, approx. 5%.
...none of the wildlife in the area has ever pissed or shat into the reservoir.
...it was NewLab that gave Lockheed Martin the contract.
Having written to the ONS in January expressing my concerns about the use of Lockheed Martin and the security of my personal data, the stock reply from Helen Bray (2011 Census Stakeholder Management and Communications) had the wholly un-reassuring conclusion,
"I hope you will be reassured by the measures taken to protect the confidentiality of census information".
...oddly enough, I wasn't reassured. But since the incompetents at Lockheed Martin seem to have lost my form anyway, with luck at least my info didn't get leaked.
... the thug stamping on your head will be a Met. officer. Probably with his number and face covered up.
I'd say Google Analytics IS malign. Too many times I'm sitting waiting for a page to load and I see Firefox telling me it's waiting for Google Analytics.
Funnily enough, since I put dummy addresses for their servers in my /etc/hosts file, an awful lot of pages load faster...
At least it only wanted you to CLICK on her.
Far too many useless bastards like Crapita buggering things up and charging the taxpayer vast amounts of cash to do it.
No immigrants / muslims / other-minorities to blame it on.
Even when companies complained about refuse point-blank to co-operate with the ICO, they just let it drop anyway. As I found when I complained about Think Pink Cartridges' spamming activities - they carried on after getting a recorded delivery letter telling them to stop and wouldn't reply to any of the ICO's enquiries. The ICO's response: "yes they've been spamming you illegally and they wouldn't co-operate with us, but we're not going to do anything about it".
That's not a case of "not needing to use a big stick", it's a case of "never bothering to even use a small stick".
They seem to have the same function as the Advertising Standards "Authority" - to make it look like scum are being regulated without the inconvenience of any real regulation.
Maybe a copy of the hovercraft column (http://www.hovercraftsomerleyton.org.uk/) unveiled last year by his daughter on what would have been hist 100th birthday?
I bet nobody had even twigged until a reptile from that vile rag started asking if they found it offensive.
I dread to think what they'd have made of a bakery in Rochdale where I once saw a sign in the window saying "Say it with bread. Give her a muffin".
Were her chips tight previously?
...if Microsoft's security model wasn't so crap that it's easy to take control of Windows machines, we wouldn't have this sort of problem anyway.
So they're taking credit for sorting out a problem they've caused.
...once Nokia start installing it on their 'phones.
