Posts by Aladdin Sane

Re: Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics...

That ground doesn't exist any more

Re: Balkanise

Russians don't take a dump, son, without a plan.

Re: Military Spec

Was one of those systems called WRAM? Papa Sane worked on that.

Assuming that they have grounds for an appeal.

Re: New year

Sure thing. Just take your bank balance and convert it to Iranian Rial.

Re: Christmas films are banned until much later in the year.

That's a film tie-in I didn't expect to see.

I would happily inflict pain on the bastards that sold dowsing rods as bomb detectors.

Re: No, silly

So we've all been deceived?

Re: Maybe worth considering

Yea - ok, you can downvote me for that

Done

Nah, they lack the depth and ability to give pleasure.

He already has a gaping void where his heart should be.

Re: or, 1 byte

That's a hell of a ping test.

Re: Easy solution

When I was younger:

Don't meet strangers from the internet

Don't get into stranger's cars

Now:

Your Uber will be arriving in 5 minutes

Re: There was a time....

They missed with unerring accuracy. Concussing a child was frowned upon even in the good old days.

Re: proper application of thermite

Remember kids, thermite and thermal paste are 2 very different things.

Re: The money, due within 20 working days, goes to the Treasury

But it's not being split, it's going to the Treasury.

Re: What About World War 3?

As Uncle Joe said, "Quantity has a quality of its own."

Re: The reason why is the interesting questionm, surely.

Deprive those kids of a valuable opportunity for self-discovery and critical thinking by slowly working out for themselves that their parents and society have been lying to them.

Plenty of opportunities for that to happen.

Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

Otto von Bismarck

Re: Stating the obvious

Except that if the slippery little bugger hadn't holed up in the embassy, there's every chance that the evidence wouldn't have weakened and the case may have made it to court. Now we'll simply never know.

Re: I am from Gdańsk and I beg for help

Or a 3rd placed rugby team.

Re: loophole?

Sure that should be five mini lion drones that come together to form one super-bot?

Re: three character limit

WTF