@Graham Marsden RE: Opt out?
Precisely. Got it in one. This is already happening in UK hospitals.
"You can opt out. But if you do we won't have access to your medical history so we won't be able to treat you."
Opt in or F-off.
Posts by Martin
38 posts • joined Thursday 31st July 2008 12:02 GMT
That's Entertainment !
"the big chill-down of the space freezer for loading into Discovery was a major event in its hometown of Birmingham"
Those long Winter evenings must just fly by.
I wud doo it betterer
But mi smell chicken is broked !
Posted in First case of sleep emailing documented
Potential Spammer's defense ?
I was asleep when I sent those 3 million dodgy viagra emails M'lud.....Honest!
Welcome.
I for one welcome our....
er..
Wrong thread - sorry.
Posted in HP hunts down 'rare' BladeSystem problem
Totally Titsup
Each blade contains several virtual servers and
each server hadles several applications and
one rare error happens to occur and
The whole shebang goes totally titsup.
You gotta love progress.
OK, OK
I admit it ........ The other one was me !
....... and my doctor says the rash will be gone in a week or two if I keep taking the meds.
Dual Usage
Simply add a strategically placed cork and voila! - A doll that explodes! (messily)
Posted in Zavvi goes titsup
Translation
"Zavvi has continued to experience significant difficulty in obtaining stock on favourable credit terms. This has resulted in considerable working capital difficulties as a result of the failure of EUK, in addition to continuing operating losses."
Which translates in English as "We're feckin' skint !"
Posted in Don't delay: Delete your DNA today
I wonder if
I wonder if someone convicted on the strength of DNA Database evidence could argue that
it was inadmissable because it shouldn't have been retained?
Wow - Such passion on this thread.
Can I just say that I have a pet slug named Kevin.
But he's not terribly smart.
Who would they call ?
It doesn't matter really - they'd only end up going through an automated options system before
being redirected to a call centre in India or some foreign parts.
Paris... foreign parts.. Heh heh!
Dirk
Dirk, was without a doubt the world's unluckiest Orb Spider. Not only was he captured and
incarcerated in a perspex prison, but he was subjected to massive G forces and subsequent
weightlessness while being abducted and taken aboard an orbiting space station.
In his desperate attempts to escape, Dirk managed to squeeze out of his cage. Hoping to
find a way to stowaway and get back to Earth, he hid inside a small toolbag.............
Building Applications ?
What? is that like planning permission or summat?
Self-repairing eh?
But they'll still have to wait 4 - 6 weeks for out of stock parts to be shipped from Taiwan.
Then they'll be the wrong size parts.
Then the supplier will deny all knowledge of the original order.
By which time the warranty will have expired.
So they'll have to engage a lawyer to fight their case.
Which will cost them an arm and a leg.
Which will require them to self-repair again !!
I don't think I'll worry anytime soon.
Posted in Batman sues Batman over Batman
Not that I'm cynical or anything, but...
It's obvious that the town is going to lose, unless WB etc. decide to make a gesture.
HOWEVER - I wonder what would happen if someone named a new town after an 'existing'
super-hero? ...... Mega law suit from the IP owners without mercy methinks.
Paris, because I'd like to see her other side too.
Posted in Europe takes aim at BBC licence fee
Make the beeb subscription only.
If I don't want Sky I don't buy Sky.
If I don't want to pay-per-view for something I don't.
If I don't want the BBC I am forced to pay and get it anyway.
If as everyone says it is so damned good then it would surely thrive by subscription only.
Posted in Sarah Palin's words get data mined
It was bugging me....
But now I know where I've seen Ms. Palin before.
She's the "Universal Optician's Spectacles Model" isn't she?
Look at any specs ad - there she is.
Posted in Apple probes poison-pumping Mac claim
Something fishy...
Maybe it should have read "poisson" ?
Posted in Tories would decentralise NHS IT
Hokey Cokey
You put your IT Systems in.
You pull your IT Systems out.
In, Out, In, Out,
....until everybody feels sick.
Fantastic !!
Amazing, incredible, wonderful, etc. etc. etc.
In fact I can't wait for it to go on public release so someone can buy it and tell me what it's like.
Not very good
at slug-balancing then?
Damp Squib
I expect Mr. E's licence was 'paid' by a BBC exec checking a box. That way the much vaunted protest becomes completely insubstantial.
Paris - Check her box.
Posted in Oz pub slammed over 'No Undie Sundie'
I wish......
I could be the dwarf on No Undie Sundie.....
RE: Computers make you stupid.
[quote]
I'm no pedant but.....
Solomon Grundy - "make absolutely know sense at all?"
I once saw in a university magazine the editor using "no" instead of "know", but that just about takes the biscuit.
How about all those people who dont know the difference between "lose" and "loose" to.
[endquote]
OK - That last "to" had to be an 'o' short deliberately, right?
Otherwise it's just to funny!!
Last words..........ever.
"Right - Switch it on!.......
........er.....is it supposed to do that?.......
......Oh Crap!"
<BANG> THE END
Paris has very probably Hadron
Hooray for the Colonel !
So KFC do cookies now?
COOL !!
Posted in Hi-tech cops lose their website
Follow standard procedure
I thought it was usual in any domain dispute for the big guy with the money to squash the little guy?
Posted in Google restores Chrome's shine
Google ate my hamster !
I no longer care who takes over the world; They are all as corrupt and
depraved as each other.
But I do object to the rapidly becoming ubiquitous use of the non-verb
"to google" when referring to conducting a web search.
It really gets my goat, and my goat is not happy.
I knew that.
........or did I dream it?
Benefit of the doubt.
I am dubious, but willing to give the benefit of the doubt.
I know loads of non-IT common or garden folk who haven't the first clue
about nettiquette and probably don't know one end of a PC from another.
But they know how to find and download music, films and anything else,
dump it to a stick, ipod or phone, and transmit it around their friends like
an expert.
Paris - Living proof of complete ignorance.
Magnetic Monopoles
Can I be the Racing Car?
Of course she is, and......
...If I had five identical boogers I'd make a song and dance about it too!
Paris ... 'cos women don't have boogers.
Posted in Craigslist supervillain seeks henchmen
Thanks, but no thanks.
I'd need at least 22k p.a.
Paris, *the* Femme FLATale.
The REALLY BIG question.
If a grocery store employee says "Paper or Plastic?"
and there's no-one in the store to hear it,
.....Will it adversely affect the price of a tin of baked beans?
...The shopping trolley is out there!
Mmmmm.........
Jelly & Doughnuts !
Grassist !
I wonder how excited everyone would be if a hitherto unseen painting
of a patch of grass had been found beneath a famous Van Gogh portrait?
.....Paris (beneath the penguin pic)
Opinion
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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