* Posts by expat jan

13 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Mar 2011

Live coverage: Blood Moon looms large for North, South America

expat jan
Facepalm

sort of off topic

I struggled with this article, trying to understand what the other event or events might be that cause El Reg to exhort us to watch the "phenomena".

I know 13 or 15 years of Labour non-education has done wonders to the dumbing down of the UK population, but I'd have thought geeks would have avoided such basic ignorance of our rich, multicultural (!) language.

'F-CK YOU GOOGLE+' ukelele missy scoops BIG WAD of $$ - for Google

expat jan

Re: A single sign-on which *requires* you to provide your full name

Back in the Good Old Days, there were not sneaks trying to make you a crim for having a different opinion or attitude to life. Me and my mates have no wish to be bankrupted or banged up because some spiteful, jealous, greedy numpty (ex-so-called-friend) wants revenge or money.

10-day stubble: Men's 'socio-sexual attributes' at their best

expat jan

No sandpaper...

So-called clean shaven is sandpaper.

Stubble oft cropped is hard hair bristle brush = more sandpaper.

Beard, even trimmed every few weeks, is gentle, as well as looking good.

You must remember, shaving is in order to look like a baby, or at best a young boy. A really pointless operation. The Romans only shaved to show they were not barbarians.

'Gaia' Lovelock: Wind turbines 'may become like Easter Island statues'

expat jan

Re: If your names not down your not coming in..

The problems in Japan were started by a tsunami/earthquake.

These exposed multiple bad practices, and plain laziness, in the security and administration of the NPP.

expat jan

Re: If your name's not down, you're not coming in... [sorry, but the mistakes were driving me nuts]

The amount of dangerous waste from a NPP is tiny - yet look at the mountains of waste from coal mining and coal-fired stations (and the numbers of deaths related to coal production).

As yet, it has been uneconomic to provide dedicated nuclear waste disposal of the small amounts concerned.

Oz library finds Lance Armstrong books a new home: The fiction section

expat jan

Re: Can someone please enlighten me

Maybe not, but hypoxic training is.

- Wiggins speaks about the time-trial course at Hampton Court

'It's a reward for the months of training, sleeping in an oxygen tent in the spare room,....

" For cycling, you won't feel any difference until you climb or push it to a tempo/interval pace. The overall pace for rides will be about the same, because despite less oxygen to use, there's also less wind resistance. Generally, you'll go slower on uphills, but faster on flats and downhills." www.tri-ecoach.com/art26.htm

Next they'll have to ban breathing, or maybe competitors who were born and bred above 200 metres altitude.

Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet creator Gerry Anderson dies at 83

expat jan

And between Stretchy arms and Thunderbirds was...

Torchy! Torchy the battery boy.

My rich uncle bought us a (black and white, of course) TV in 1962, so I was plugged into children's programming every day after school. But, of course, Captain Scarlet was the best - Thunderbirds was too slow and Stingray too scary (can't remember why) and Joe 90 I never watched - no technology.

Strings - there weren't any, were there? Maybe they're not visible with 405 lines.

but thank you Gerry Anderson for enriching my life and giving a window to new futures.

Swiss, German physicists split the electron

expat jan
Big Brother

Re: Hmm, I wonder what the fundamental particle of rabid control-freakery is called?

Only recently shed ourselves of 13 years of the real rabid control freaks. The UK hadn't yet reached the 'glories' of North Korea and Stalinist USSR, but was well on the way.

The Tories are doing a fine job of undoing the control mess left behind, but it is so great that socialist sect followers have difficulty distinguishing what is inherited control-freakiness from reality.

Encyclopaedia Britannica - Ah, the memories

expat jan

So you want to sell the tykes' parents a pig in a poke? Thing is, Wikiblablablah is rubbish except for the most simple of facts. Anything complex is stained with socialist dogma, lies and bias.

Microsoft licensing hike sparks UK piracy, bankruptcy fears

expat jan
Headmaster

Re: Re: Re: Re: Charming...

"he result of Old French impacting on Old English"

Well, it seems that the sloppy ex-colony across the Pond has yet again made an impact upon elegant and perfectly adequate grammatical construction and style. Or are you AC because you dare not admit publicly to such wanton destruction of Real English?

Hacked Sun site greatly exaggerates Murdoch's death

expat jan
Facepalm

Mind control...

Derr. So you think NI is somehow hypnotising millions of NI newspaper purchasers to CHOOSE to spend their money and DECIDE to buy a NI paper, then read from it? Or these Sky customers are hypnotised to CHOOSE to buy a Sky box and then choose to subscribe to channels.

I CHOSE never to buy, or even read, the NOTW. I CHOOSE to have a Sky box. At least that way, I can watch US cable TV, which is not censored by leftist so-called impartialtity laws.

Now the real broadcaster imposed without choice on its viewers/listeners/readers is the BBC.

Forceably paid for out of citizen's wages, who have little say on the bias, or on what the large amount of money raised is spent.

The BBC is the real scandal, not NI.

Mozilla cranks out Firefox 5 with cross-platform 'Do Not Track' feature

expat jan
Unhappy

use ffx 3.6+

ffx4 is crap - ugly, clumsy and trashes the most useful add-ons - coffee cup, coolpreview and zotero, as well as 'killing' mozbackup.

Now I'll have to be certain that these are supported before I move on.

Google (finally) releases antidote to Google ad webpage drag

expat jan
Happy

with an small educational non-profit site....

GAS provides a small, but useful, income to help defray some of the site's costs.

With general good hygiene, there is no real need to be scared of iframes, flash or JS.

So thanks Google.