Retiring British who first was a heavy interweb user when Yahoo! was the way to go. Ex IT specialist with a focus on the 'nixes. As for the name, think Gulliver and his voyages.
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Then from bitter experience you are not suited to writing commercial code. If you can't understand your own code from a few weeks ago what hope is there of another programmer maintaining it in six months, a year, a decade? Maintainable code should KISS even at the cost of ultimate efficiency.
OTOH, I only knew there was a TV show, never realised there was a movie original. Maybe it didn't make it to the UK.
Tongue in cheek suggestion for Rachel Reeves... If football clubs are so fucking rich they can lash out a hundred million quid to 'buy' a player, stick tax on the transfer market transactions. Either it would rein in the ludicrous transfer market or it would solve your budget worries.
And you have to order it using the number next to the picture... Terry Gilliam, Brazil, 1985
Black bag lobbed out the window onto the lawn... The FOTUS reveals his trash roots yet again. By next week there will be old mattresses and a broken washing machine and several rusty old junker vehicles on the lawn. Along with a dangerous dog on a short chain. And sacks of used depends.
And you need a clean up crew or the pile of bodies will stop the defenestration s being fatal
Read this just in time to miss the beginning 🤣
Error, I didn't mean to imply Ireland was part of the UK, meant to just add that NI that is part of the UK and the separate country of Ireland shared patron saints
Trump mansplaining things he doesn't know about?
He had this roll of heatproof polyimide tape, he kapton about it for hours. I'll get my coat
And what if I told you someone took one of those nice OSes and added a GUI with a shed load of restrictive guardrails and discouraged you from looking at what underpinned it?
Shivers (1975, Cronenberg) had a similar core idea but played more for gore.
Northern Ireland is part of the UK but not Great Britain. But as Wikipedia says... and I fell into the imprecise use. Analogous to the confusion of America meaning The USA or the continents en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britain....
Yeah, he had to admire all the gold plated shit he had stuck on the walls, he's had two goes at Zelensky and a few other photo opportunities. But mostly he's been being paid to golf at mar a lardo or sell 2nd hand cars off the lawn or cosplay at roofer on the US public dollar.
You are of course right... England's patron saint is Syrian Scotland's is from Galilee Wales's is Welsh Ireland (both North and Eire, they share) was from Brittania (Roman Britain). I know, Ireland has two others. Even more multicultural, but only one was born where he is patron saint.
Fair enough, not Vladimir Futon... I'll just call you Chesterfield Porker instead.
An even better idea, stop eating protein rich engineered junk food and start eating a healthy diet. If you can afford over priced unneeded nutrition supplements you can afford real food.
The AI forgot his candles and his diaper
No, it's invisible to me 🤣
It's worse than you pay the tariff... On your $100 item the tariff was $30 but you end up paying $45 more, $15 extra profit for the retailer and wholesaler and $30 for 🍊🤡 admin. The retailer and wholesaler won't see that as bad if the sales don't fall significantly.
Probably a 2025 Pepsi Max
I guess that makes me a structural purist, ingredients purist. Hard line. I might have considered a sub a sandwich even as a purist but recent history shows it's not so much food, more a weapon. A chip buttie has to be in buttered white sliced bread otherwise it's just a bap pretender 🤣
And it might be able to make soup, baked bread and peel vegetables but only one at a time. A blender, a stick blender, a stove and a mixer can multitask more easily
Way expensive kitchen gadget that would be destined to be used once then sit in the cupboard gathering dust for most people. Price outrageous if all you use it for is soups.
Trump's favourite windmills are mostly better at CO2 low than solar, without the non-CO2 risks of nuclear. Nuclear also has a high up-front cost compared to solar or wind. But design it right and plan for the long game the downsides can be minimised.
Probably blame Biden for it too...
Only one of those is a sandwich in the UK. Two slices of bread with stuff between them.
I am primarily a Linux user but there are some things you need windows for, or more accurately some things you can't do if you don't have windows available. The last thing I gave up trying to do via Linux and did easily in Windows was manage an Apple account to remove the last apple device.
Not a fan of MS and very much not a fan of Win 11 but .. there is at least one published way to set Win11 up with a local account... www.tomshardware.com/how-to/insta...
I like that even at breakfast the coffee comes with a biscuit 🤣
smallpox is smallpox because the blisters were smaller than the other pox making disease around... Great Pox. Otherwise known as Syphilis nowadays. Reputedly there is a person suffering from that in Washington DC
Correct, they'd have died of cholera or typhus or dysentery before the polio got them.
Don't recognise him without the badly applied bronzer.
And I remember the day the stay at home order was due to kick in going into the office and clearing the fridge, turning the Aircon off or down in offices I felt may never see another working person, turning the qooker off, writing a farewell on the office noticeboard.
My mother of 89 went into self isolation the moment it hit, I was her sole contact -through a glass door - for 9 months and she lost so much capacity in that time. And then had a stroke, went into a care home and died of COVID. I was the one who braved the shops and it was *scary*
From that article the main thing couchboy seems to have learned in post is how to go on holiday.
Wi-Fu perhaps?
Everyone is dying, some of us are closer than others. I thought you were implying his demise was imminent... there is always the hope.
I wish it were so
The study has found however that vulpes vulpes is a very susceptible organism and thrives on the infection.
Black doves was remarkably watchable.
2018 when he laid into the diver over the cave rescue was when a lot more people became aware he was a petulant foulmouth manbaby... but he wasn't out and out fascist on MSM until years after that. Maybe that's a non US perspective, maybe US MSM was earlier to the table with it.
No Havering, I don't disagree that Scotland gets the shitty end of the English parliament, but furthering a lie about how many people think the UK is fucked is playing into Reforms hands to ensure the UK is fucked.
It's Torygraph wank writing, not only stop giving them the air of publicity of their fantasist fascist wet dreams, start charging them for the hot air pollution they emit.
Well done, touting racist lies to sell your cause. You are probably hoping Deform get elected at the next election to make your case for Scottish independence better. If I were Scottish you'd have lost my vote right there. Independence, fine, at any cost, not fine.
Hard to tell from that photo but ... too much mayo and the round crouton is way overbaked 🤣
What sort of country is it where this advert needs to be made? The USA is sick, sick unto the death of children and other injocents, sick in its addiction to guns and cruelty and fascism. Sick to the point where the only fast treatment is radical.
Seriously nasty way to go and as it was predating Musk outing himself so publicly as a fascist, there was not that negative a connotation to buying the electric panzer. I feel sorry for his family... And for him. But it is yet more evidence the Cyber truck is a literal dumpster fire.
So President Sore Arse is pursuing Soros for pure vindictiveness ... Or as can call him, President Nappyrash
Send him to all three... so in ElSalvador he can be called no balls coristone.
A lot of people want him dead. He should bear that in mind... given his figures are under water, perhaps he should select the popular choice and just die.
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That should say '5.2 lbs of carbon per gallon of gas' but there's no edit
Plus as you are just burning the hydrogen part you'd burn far more gasoline to get the same energy from the engine... think how much heat 5 lbs of coal would give out and instead you are collecting it. The article is not science, it's journalist fantasy... or big oil garbage.
The maths doesn't add up. Petrol (gasoline) is about 87% carbon and 13% hydrogen. A US gallon of gas weighs about 6lb, so you'd get 5.2 lbs of carbon PER GALLON of carbon. No way can this be removed at service... work out how much carbon you'd have collected by 20k miles. /2
$90k seems a touch high for a vehicle that has a Chevrolet list price starting at $59k. Either ICE specced these way high or someone is creaming off a fat profit. Set DOGE to investigate!
But I am not in the USA so US LEO can go fuck themselves and their warrant, they have to go via the UK courts, whereas if I use a US cloud provider my data may just be passed over without my knowing.
Most MAGA don't read SciFi. I know, I could have stopped one word sooner.
Clearly Greenland is destabilized and full of failing companies and needs the National Guard to look after it. Oh, sorry, I meant DC or Chicago or LA.
I didn't say they are, but US law explicitly says that US companies are required to hand over data wherever in the world they keep it, irrespective of any other countries laws. There, actual evidence of the risk. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act
Why 9/11? To give the day a more positive memory to counteract the bad association with that date?
Nope, no intention of trying. Win11 is increasingly broken malware. Maybe it's only saving grace is that it is broken so it can't do all it's malware tricks.
It's why I won't have a Ring doorbell and avoid Alexa like a plague ship. Who wants to give Bezos all your comings and goings for free? Who wants their refrigerator to tell Haier or Whirlpool their habits?
One drive reliable? It's a pain in the butt to support, it's a pain in the butt if the data connection is bad, it's offloading all *your* data to someone else's computers who will hand it over to the US government and will use it for AI training.
The UK media sold out more readily to frog faced turd than I was expecting and are supinely complicit in advance
I last replaced my laptop in 2024, I tend to get >4 years between refreshes so hopefully Intel will be de-fascisted by then. There again, last laptop was 2nd hand anyway 🤣
It *was* worth $11b, now it's contaminated and will be excluded by many non-US clients because it is government owned it will drop in value. And touched by Cheeto it'll drop further.
He'd sold out by making a 'just eat' advert a year or two back... so he's been establishment not gangsta for a while.
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If only it were that simple... Where is home to someone who was born in israel, whose parents were born in israel and whose grandparents came from 4 different countries?
'they'... the voices in his head that only he can hear caused by the syphilitic spirochetes eating what's left of his brain after dementia has been at it. Most of the rest of the world has a variety of terms for him, none of which involve 'president' and 'europe' in the same phrase.
Let's start with the murder of Corey Comperatore, give it was all obviously a faked assassination attempt, what with the Kensington Gore and the magically restored ear.
No one ever got a Nobel Peace Prize for it either
It's maybe ok, with luck God is pulling Trump off the market in the next few months. God willing. Not that I wish him a speedy death.
They pay you to take them away? A packet of Neurofen, you get paid $many to take from the pharmacy? Count me in for an outer of packs.
Didn't fall out a window tho ...
Congratulations, you invented a perpetual motion machine. People have been inventing them since the 12th century (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...) and none of them have worked. 2nd law of thermodynamics rules OK.
Read the article, your statement is contradictory to what the author explicitly said.
That boat has a very wide sunshade...
Different source from my original for the states ... but numbers not far adrift from those originally quoted.
worldpopulationreview.com/country-rank... by itself this makes pretty depressing reading ... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
California... 5.7 per 100,000 in 2023 Switzerland ... 0.6 per 100,000 in 2023 Louisiana... 19.6 per 100,000 in 2021 All places where guns are held quite easily by members of the public.
Dear DOGE, Cheeto just ordered $780million to be burned. Seems like waste to me, please investigate.
It also omits the fact that half the US despise him just because he is utterly despicable. Pity it's unlikely to be real because the lack of introspection is so trumpian.
Unfair generalisation. I might be in the demographic but there is no way I would vote for the blue or teal wankers. Wouldn't piss on Farrage if he were on fire unless i'd filled my bladder with petrol first.
When do they start suffering from brown trousers?
Worst *so far* given the clown show the media is pushing.
More like Jizzlying
They are waiting for the bulk order of Sharpies in black to be delivered ... It takes a while to make a semi full of Sharpies.
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Did better on connections tho ... Connections Puzzle #804 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪
Managed a 5 because I went weird on 4 with a word of very limited use... but given they gave been picking unusual words not an unreasonable option. Wordle 1,526 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Interesting view on Silicon Valley from some minor self-serving UK politician who damaged the Libs by collaborating with Cameron to govern for a few years before bailing to work for Meta. Would you agree with his view on Zuck as being better? Unsure I would. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
I wasn't offended and I wish it were proved false. Hope time proves I am a pessimist (I am... but so is reality), however sending the military in to US cities really doesn't bode well.
I wasn't aiming for a complete list, just a refutation of everything is Ubuntu. Slackware is a good one as SUZE was based on it. distrowatch.com/dwres-mobile... Contains a really nice graphic of versions lost in history.
Time will prove it was merely an opinion of mine... Or not. I can't prove it one way or the other, it's merely something I raised as a possibility.
In a world where Ubuntu is based on Debian... And where Red Hat and Suse provide other base platforms... Not to mention Gentoo... You suggest Arch. Tie yourself into the most complex to get a usable system version that only supports 64 bit Intel? How to put non experts off Linux.
Don will personally appoint the representative. Don Jr or Eric maybe?
Is it possible that Texas gerrymandering is purely a distraction, as is Epstein? Because the real truth was Trump asserting that you will never have to vote again? Martial law will be declared before the mid terms and then it's game over for a democratic (as in democracy not Democrats) way out.
My first car was a Ford 4 speed manual with a 1300cc (79 cubic inch) Kent 4 pot cross flow and it could get to 80 on a good day with a tailwind. No governor, just not much power to start with 🤣 and most of the horses had wandered off over the years.