Posts by Rogerborg

Wait, what?

If I become a citizen of Umbongo Land, can I then just stick two fingers up at UK law?

Last I checked, laws apply to anybody IN the country, regardless of citizenship - he doesn't have diplomatic immunity, although doubtless he'll buy some if it appears convenient to do so.

As the great Bill Hicks said : "No middleman required"

Yes, but Hicks was always ripping off Martin Luther.

Muppet mongs

Sending demands for payment[1] to Councils? Why not just send the taxpayers a bill directly, it works out to the same thing?

The ICO should bring cases against individuals, go after commercial targets, or sod off and get proper jobs.

[1] Last I checked, a "fine" can only be imposed by a court, not some pathetic quango.

China vs The World

I know who'll blink first, and it won't be the [INSERT PRINCE PHILIP IMPRESSION OF CHINEEE FELLOW] ones.

Yup, can't see anything inaccurate in those tweets

Never, ever, have more than you can afford to lose sitting in a PayPal account. It's like splitting your money red-black at roulette - you win nothing, and eventually it's going to come up green.

If Murdoch strangled and then ate an orphan, live on Sky 1

I'm betting that Downing Street would really make good on their threats, and send him a Strongly Worded Memo.

Actually, I'm being a bit ridiculous, aren't I? More like a respectful suggestion to please consider moving future orphan devouring to after the watershed.

Women shouldn't have to pay as much as men for insurance!

Why, taken to an extreme, they might get it into their pretty little heads that they should *earn* as much as men.

Moan, moan, public sector has it so hard

I don't see them resigning in droves for the milk and honey to be had out here in the real world. Why's that then? Hmm?

Aaaanyway, more power to 'em, and keep those bleeding heart bleats about being overworked coming while your department runs just fine on 10% of its usual staff and nobody else notices a difference.

HE'S SPARTACUS!

And so's his wife.

No honour among thieves, no backbone among spackers. They'll all be busy working on their "bigger boys did it" plea bargains by now.

Sex bot, sex bot, you're my sex-bot

No longer do astronauts' spouses have to DIY it while their other half is exploring outer space. Never mind Waldo, how about Dil... bot?

Might as well just call it "Bank of Bank"

What's the (actual) alternative now? Santander?

Psychlos want people to be happy

Like bodywork shops want people to drive safely.

Bunch of miserable Vulcans, the lot of 'em. Send 'em all back.

More common bleedin' sense from Mike "The Bike" Penning

Comprehensive educated, ex army, ex fire-and-rescue, decent working bloke who got into politics late. This is what happens when you vote for the guy who's CV doesn't read "Sociology degree -> election agent -> election candidate".

Can we clone him, please?

My financial data hasn't been compromised?

Well, yesterday you said that about my email.

Now the squealing begins in earnest

I look forwards to seeing many more Lulztards wetting their pants as they're arrested one by one, and point the finger at the next tard in the logs.

$39,833,499?

Well, that'll cover lunches, plus the PowerPoint explaining why they need another $150 million or so to reach the next stage of development: a yacht for every executive.

Heh, "managed", nice newSpeak

Try throttled. Or strangled. Or held down and donkey punched while being violated by a rhino.

And all the time, a PR bunny simpers "Oh, golly gosh, no, we don't 'manage' that sort of thing[1]! Gee willickers, no sir, no we don't."

[1] Sotto voce: "to the best of my knowledge"

Consumers consume

I open sourced a little app about 5 years ago, saying "I'm done with it, here's all the source, released to the public domain, no license terms, do as thou wilt. Here are clear instructions for the (free) tools that you need to build it, and here are step-by-step build instructions. Good luck."

To this day, I still get both polite request and bare faced demands to implement features X, Y and Z. As far as I can see, not one of the sponging mongs has taken it upon themselves to pick up the ball and do their own build. You just can't help some people to help themselves.

Tried and tested method, chumrades.

They had to destroy the data centre in order to save it.

Snickers

Bit of a marathon story there.

Hahahahaaha!

My mate died of cystic fibrosis at 26! HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA! What a laugh, eh?

1337 days in pokey

Come on, y'r honour, sentence for the lulz.

You got this from Mueller?

Then I'm guessing that the true story is that Apple are suing Lodsys whose customers are stepping up to defend them.

That's the beauty of Mueller: he's never, ever right about anything, so you can be sure that the opposite of what he says is the unvarnished truth. It's all about consistency, chaps.

As grown ups figured out many years ago

"Deleting" an object should usually just mean flagging it as such. Adding storage costs less than losing revenue, and it's better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

Dude, what?

Don't you know that mod chips are distributed by The Serious Organised Terrorists, and that they sneak out at night and harvest your childrens' organs while they sleep?

Why do you hate the children?

>how the fuck is it possible for someone that stupid to get elected in this country?

She wasn't elected, she was selected by "Community Leaders" who deliver blocks of votes to whomever promises them the best housing deals for their cousins and wives (with lots of overlap) straight off the plane.

Kerry has basically brought the democratic process of downtown Mogadishu to Bradford. Can't fault her for her cultural inclusivity.

>Wonder what achievement he unlocked?

Epic Level Gonorrhea.

Look, if you're a 13 year old boy with unmonitored intartubes access, nothing a real broad does to you is going to corrupt you any more than what you've already seen online. I bet she didn't even know what teabagging was.

But if such devices are made in China

Won't the orbits be all slanty?

self->coat.get();

Jobs for the New Old Boys

Don't get your hopes up - it's just shifting contracts to a different lot of Friends and Family.

Mind you, if they're looking for populist ideas then burning the DVLA to the ground and salting the earth would guarantee a landslide win.

Limp wristed nancy boys

The Commie plan to defend Moscow was (and as far as I know still is) for the Inner Party to flee for bunkers deep underground, while airbursting nukes overhead to slag any incoming warheads at a safe(*) distance. Soviet pragmatism at its best.

(*) Safe for the Inner Party - the Outer Party and Proles are glowsticks either way.

Rise in car thefts = rise in gyppos

Now, I'm not saying that you can prove there's a casual relationship, but come onnnnnn.

MySpace is also still used by hookers and rent boys

The distinction between musicians may be a fine one, but the hookers and rent boys do have a slight edge in dignity - they only pimp themselves out to one john at a time.

What's Linux on, 1% of desktops?

Might as well get your editorials from that guy trying to sell Commodore 64s.