Re: @Perlcat RE "independent conservative democrat"

Sounds just like European mainland and its 'Christian Democrats' - usually a bunch of right-wing non-democratic fundamentalists (with 'mental' being more to the fore than 'christian')

Re: Great but . .

It's only a deilvery truck.

Not long before it's painted brown and has 'UPS' on the side.

Re: Go SpaceX -- waste?

Space gives us mobile phones, SatNav etc etc.

Experiments in space can give us much more.

You not use a mobe?

Re: Presumably this means...

"In addition the figures supplied provide no breakdown on the number of UK computer hacking prosecutions that actually resulted in a conviction. "

Or that the cases have been a bit too loose and either thrown out, dropped or found not to be hacking after all. As 'hacking' has become more closeley defined it's a lot harder just to point and accuse.

Re: Re: Darwin rules

Cyclists can come badly if colliding with a wandering phone user.

I would suggest the use of an Air Zounds horn but the happy wanderers tend to freeze like rabbits in a spotlight.

Re: Is Creationism creeping into science?

Nah, sleep easy.

There is a lot of 'created' that even on the telly the quotation marks can be heard - it's a bit lazy, being used as shorthand but it's fairly common.

( they do it to wind up thier fellow Evolutionists)

Re: Verify or die

I know someone who puts in answers like that on forms at the local Job Center.

So far he's never been asked to clarify why he would want to be a megolomaniac bent on world domination.

Re: er ....

'Where were you on 1st January 2000?'

Not a clue, I was absolutley rat-arsed.

Re: kettle calling pot

"The recovery rate for rare earths is less than 50 per cent,"

not bad when you consider that slag and spoil heaps are now being considered as valuable deposits

Re: Your mother

Nah they showed how it works in the animation in 'Meaning of Life'.

It's El Ron's Thetans at it again!

Father Ted

"America - where else in the western world can you see armed fascist thugs wearing swastikas and giving Nazi salutes on the streets with that right protected as freedom of speech?"

Careful now, that's at least 50% of his audience.

There's a timeline on the Guardian site that shows Hunt's involvement quite clearly.

Re: Floating heads!

The 'organisational' chart appears to be a pond or a pool of -- floaters?

Re: 43 managers, one worker?

That'll be the unpaid intern then?

Re: Can that prosecutor please explain . . .

"they think just because they have 19,000 drones around and can kill anyone, anywhere including US citizens "

A bit harsh for downloading crap movies, donchyathink?

Re: I love the smell of...

iPong?

iReek?

iStink?

ai, ai, ai!

Now I know why it's sometimes called 'Wiffi'

Re: Will avoid, lesson already learned

Had this once with a dining table leaf - it was a different finish to the other one.

Took it back , replaced, went home - right one but damged.

Took it back -replaced, opened there and then, wrong finish -- but noticed that the packing was slightly different between the two finishes.

Chat wth manager and we went and checked - yup, we could tell which finish by which factory had packed them.

Sorted - actually good service as they were happy to go beyond "It fits" or "it's the right code" or "replace or refund". It helped a lot that I wasn't one of the screaming complainants who had done stupid things and were blaming it all on the returns staff . Been on that side if it, symapthy helps.

To be honest - I'd prefer Ikea for someting like that than one of these cheapish beds with a flat screen on a lift.

not quite

BT are interested in the same places as the rest of them .

This is no different from a few years back when Broadband was being offered by world+dog+tiscali.

In exchanges where there are several different operators it's an idea to check what they are all offering as regards speed - if there is only BT offering BB from an exchange it's 'cos the others can't be arsed.

Then along came the poorly implemented LLU where existing cabling and cabs not belonging to BT were never considered (why Virgin etc were not forced to share I have no idea)

But who, now, looks after the external side?

If the Virgin box just up the road (with ducts that go right past my house) had been LLU then I wouldn't have had to settle for FTC with the last 10m as O/H.

Re: Dead Horses

Next time (insert name of most personally disliked footballer here) goes crook - shoot the bugger!

They cost too much to look after.

Re: "democratised content creation"

" There are an awful lot of really talentless people out there."

Yup, and it used to be more on the web than on telly but the web is getting more pro while the telly is catering more and more for the noise and gloss and glitz.