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Comment Re: A Fool and His Money (Score 1) 131

And as you naysayers are busy complaining, I actually accumulated $250K worth of Ethereum between 90 and 110 bucks, and now I'm liquidating it out in the 170s.. making nearly $200K on the move.

What's your excuse?

My mate Dave down the pub's cousin's boyfriend put a quid on a six horse accumulator last weekend and won five hundred!

What's your excuse for not achieving a 50,000% rate of return?

Comment Re: Electric shock treatment (Score 1) 98

Well yeah, the kid being dead tired all day from being shocked awake every few minutes would make them less hyper during the day......genius

Wouldn't the low tech alternative of chucking a bucket of cold water over them at random times during the night work just as well?

Comment Re:new scientist article (Score 1) 46

when the moon goes overhead, the ground goes up and down by about plus or minus six inches

Yeah sure, if that was true then the moon would make the oceans rise and fall on a regular daily basis, rather than being at sea level all the time.

What sort of idiots do these so-called scientists take us for?

Comment Re:Death? (Score 1) 144

Why would this amount to 'death'? If I had, for an example, a LabView system on my bench that ran on Windows XP, it wouldn't need to 'die' because it isn't networked to any other systems. There are lots of pieces of test equipment that embed various versions of Windows in them. At a previous job we had Unholtz-Dicke shaker tables. One had a Windows XP host, the other had a Windows 2000 host. They worked fine. They will continue to work fine.

Young people today (*) probably can't imagine a device that doesn't have 24/7 access to the internet.

(*) who need to get off my lawn

Comment Re:Why aren't public displays monitored 24/7? (Score 1) 139

Over here in Sweden we have small traffic signs directly under the stop sign that tells which lanes that needs to yield in case the light stops to work, somehow I thought that this was the same throughout the entire EU but I guess that this is now how it works in the UK then?

The rule in the UK is that you give way to traffic on your right at roundabouts etc if it was there first.

If everyone arrives at exactly the same time at a set of broken traffic lights or roundabout, you get a Mexican stand off and common sense has to prevail, i.e. if you're on a moped, let the big fucking lorry go first.

Comment Re:Well duh-I'm special. (Score 2) 228

Except we're not the only one's with opposable thumbs so it can't be that. And African gray parrots certainly can do the talky, talky just fine so it's not that either.

It's a combination of those things plus being bipedal.

Our three advantages are opposable thumbs, flappy lips, bipedality and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.

Comment Re:Yay but nay (Score 1) 220

Right, but they can be told to

And this, ladies and gentlement, is the reason for Brexit. Some people are getting sick and tired of being told by the unelected EU bureaucrats what to do. Especially after voting against it, like the Dutch and the British.

Found the straight bananas fuckwit.

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