The UK Government is proud to present Omnishambles v1.0
For folks who've not yet met the word "omnishambles", it means it's fuck up what ever way you look at it.
Most amusing was seeing Beardie Branson bleating that the Gov't was corrupt because they'd taken away his toy train set and given him a bank (Northern Wreck aka Virgin Money) to play with instead.
Not if you have a delorian you jack ass
Or even a "DeLorean" if you want to get the spelling correct.
There's a good write-up of all the issues surronding bicycle helmets here:
MOD PARENT UP.
That doesn't work for a number of reasons:
That said, I chose to wear a helmet. I've had too many visits to the hospital. I've cracked a helmet (rather than my head) when I crashed at speed. I've seen the reports of James Cracknell who was taken off the road in America by a truck wing mirror and survived (probably because he was wearing a helmet).
We're all adults we should be able to make our own minds up. We can also encourage our kids to wear a helmet but we don't want to follow our European friends by legislating for it.
Europe has a lot of advantages over the UK. They have bigger wider roads with dedicated cycle paths, they have car drivers who aren't selfish bastards.
I'm not pissed off, of course.
Perhaps when they get round to delivering it, I'll be able to try some of this stuff.
There's also nothing worse than a comment that states the bloody obvious. If I'm clearing a register to zero I don't need a comment next to the SR 6,6 or XR 6,6 that is performing that action. I can read the code to see what the bloody code is doing.
The time that code needs a comment is when you're shifting bits or multiplying something by a funky/obscure value for a sensible reason but the reason isn't obvious by simply reading the code.
Also remember you don't get the comments in the post mortem storage dumps when you're trying to fix someone's programming error at 2:30am with a few managers breathing down your neck panicing that it won't be fixed and running by 8:00am.
So the real question is, why pass a law when there's no clear indication on the lawmaker's capability to enforce it?
The UK Gov't is only implementing what the stupid folks in the EU Gov't told them to. The real problem is that the EU Gov't allowed this crap to go through in the first place. We need to get some (members of parlaiment) MPs and (members of the European parliament) MEPs who have a clue about IT, who have a clue about how the Internet works. That's the underlying problem - we've got clueless career politicians with a supporting organisation made from clueless lawyers and MBAs.
If you want your web browsing to be a useless and painful experience try running with cookies disabled. I hope you enjoy re-entering your password on every secure page.
The fact that the UK Gov't QUANGO can't afford, can't be bothered and doesn't have the time to enforce this crap law is a good thing, they can spend my taxes on doing something more useful.
No, no - the Australian term is "budgie smugglers".
We've even started calling them "budgie smugglers" here in Pomgolia.
Unfortuneately too many of the links I can find point to dailyfail.co.uk so I won't post them here.
I want British Airways to fly me from LHR to wherever in the shortest time at the lowest cost. I don't want them to LIKE me on Facebook as part of the process of doing that.
If they need a nice little pocket sized document with my photo, my date of birth and a unique reference number they can use the nice booklet that cost me £90 from HM Passport Agency.
When your gas price gets that high you can shout about it from the top of the Empire State Building, until then STFU.
"It's the best thing since professional golfers on 'ludes." -- Rick Obidiah
