Posts by Chris

Hacked off people buy stuff to cheer themselves up...

Details at eleven?

Seriously though, how do I get a job working for the Department of Bloody Obvious Research?

Hmm...

"...this system provides... ways that limit the number of friendly force and non-combatant casualties"

Presumably provided you can resist the urge to "respond" using an airstrike?

Err....

So they're not allowed to know what you're saying to your lawyer, unless they go to the trouble of bugging you?

Erm, that seems a bit odd... but who said the law had to make sense eh? =)

RE: Dangerous weapons sold in airports

"What's the bloody point?"

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Because the razors on sale inside the departure lounge have been security vetted to make sure they're not terrorist razors... I'd have thought that was obvious =)

RE: Here we go again

Is clicking "check for updates", nodding a bit, waiting a couple of seconds as it pulls down the update, installs and restarts really that much effort? *shrug*

Complaining about having to do something simpler than making a cuppa is considered shameless whinging in some quarters... =)

Got to admire her ability to say that with a straight face...

"Blogs have only existed under a Labour government. Perhaps if there was a Tory government, all the leading blogs would be left-of-centre?"

Is she seriously suggesting that there are people who think the Labour government is left of centre?

Still makes me laugh....

...when people (mostly in the US tbf) refer to Obama as a left-wing socialist radical

Compare this: http://www.politicalcompass.org/images/uscandidates2008.png

...with say this: http://www.politicalcompass.org/images/internationalchart.gif or perhaps http://www.politicalcompass.org/images/enParties.gif

Alternative version for pubs

"People are likely to disagree, why not have a pint and talk about it?"

RE: 50 years of data isn't really enough to draw conclusions from

/holds hand up towards sun and notices that I can feel the heat from here (just about =)

Considering that the sun is really rather far away, I conclude that sun must be pretty damn toasty!

Nice to see someone's still keeping up with the story

Though you're in for a long walk if you want to talk to some of the other few people who seem to be reporting this... http://news.google.co.uk/news?hl=en&ned=uk&q=phorm+bt+police&btnG=Search+News

Hell, the Beeb can't even be arsed to put out a few lines about how this vidicates the goverment's "Why should we give a monkeys?" approach

Re: Oversight

You're missing a trick here; if each bot can only deal with one missile it's not a disadvantage....

Oh no, it's an opportunity to SELL MORE BOTS!

Whole swarms of the little guys whooshing around the airplane, doing barrel rolls of delight at the honour of guarding you (yes, you sir!) as you head off on your holidays...

Come to think of it some kind of mob of groundbased bots to rush over and jump up and down on the nasty people firing at the airplane might be a good idea?

ps. It's possible that I've been spending too much time with the sales guys recently... '=|

RE: Screen aspect ratio

Because laptops fold closed and keyboards are kinda wider than they are tall I guess... saves on odd shaped keyboards and/or "wasted" space? *shrug*

@Dave

"...not one single branch of the US administration entirely trusts any of the other branches... ...you can bet your bottom dollar that _every_ agency has some files on UFO reports."

So every branch of the US administration has a niggling doubt at the back of their collective minds that the other branches may be fibbing about knowing nothing about UFOs and in a worst case scenario are either in hock to the little grey dudes or have been replaced by shape-changing alien lizardmen?!??

Bloody hell, I thought I'd worked in offices with a bit of interdepartmental tension but that takes the biscuit =)

Err....

Couple of random things; first off, if I was thinking of taking an eleven year old to see that film (I'd be worried about getting arrested/lynched as I've got no kids =) I'd bother to take five minutes out of my lunchbreak and have a quick look at some reviews/previews... the internet is handy for this I hear.

The phrase “psychopathic, mass-murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy" popping up all over the place would seem to be enough of a hint that this film might scare the snot out of the youth *shrug*

Seriously, I found clowns freaky enough as a kid without them disappearing pencils into people's heads =)

Secondly, what's all this about the film glorifying the use of knives?

The villian was a nutter, a genuinely unpleasent chap with a nasty habit of doing whatever he felt like without any thought for others (see the above psycho clown quote)... and he had a thing for knives. He seemed quite keen on explosives and petrol too...

So the thoroughly evil man likes knives and hurts people without a second thought...

How exactly does that "glorify" the use of knives?

RE: "plodcopter"?

I thought they were dubbed "whirly-plods" a while back?

@ Chris

"If it's so easy to get grenades into this country for a terrorist attack, why exactly are they using Panini bread mix to make explosives?"

They've watched far too many cookery shows and MacGyver repeats? *shrug*

@Alistair

Bloody hell, someone else saw Monkey Dust too!