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markfiend wrote:I suspect it's actually a project to demonstrate the insanity of "blasphemy" laws in this day and age.

This law was only enacted in 2009 (although in such a way as to make a prosecution nearly impossible according to the Minister responsible). Anyway, if this report was designed to test the law then it's fallen at the first hurdle, not having the support of a sufficient number of "outraged people"


http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/st ... 92915.html

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Anyway, if this report was designed to test the law then it's fallen at the first hurdle, not having the support of a sufficient number of "outraged people"
That's outrageous!
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Pista wrote:Problem: You're being investigated for improprieties.
Solution: Fire the guy that's investigating you
Shades of the Saturday Night Massacre?
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That's got 'Alice's Restaurant Massacree' going through my head again, mind you, it is apt.
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Pista wrote:Salford police have a message about the yoof of today.
Someone buy this man a drink.
I always find it funny when you hear older people complain about the "Yoof" as if they are miles worse than many of their generation. I remember my age group there were a lot involved in football hooliganism, my mother once said jokingly I hear the Mods and Rockers are coming down at the weekend and the woman carrying drinks dropped her tray and was very upset. There were issues in Glasgow in the 50's and I guess in other cities, every generation has had its fair share of tossers.
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Of course, when Jesus did it, there were no crocodiles
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Pista wrote:Of course, when Jesus did it, there were no crocodiles
Well clearly, he'd not watched James Bond for tips. :innocent:

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Pista wrote:Of course, when Jesus did it, there were no crocodiles
Well clearly, he'd not watched James Bond for tips. :innocent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhUlXS09lM0
They realised Roger Moore would taste quite bland I think :)
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So the NHS Cyber attack...

A salutary lesson of what happens when the higher-ups refuse to fund decent rolling IT updates. It is absolutely criminal that Windows XP is still used for any purposes. And I hold the Tory government 100% responsible for the failure.
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markfiend wrote:So the NHS Cyber attack...

A salutary lesson of what happens when the higher-ups refuse to fund decent rolling IT updates. It is absolutely criminal that Windows XP is still used for any purposes. And I hold the Tory government 100% responsible for the failure.
Came across this today - couldn't resist posting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMI2tIGi1Iw

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markfiend wrote:So the NHS Cyber attack...

A salutary lesson of what happens when the higher-ups refuse to fund decent rolling IT updates. It is absolutely criminal that Windows XP is still used for any purposes. And I hold the Tory government 100% responsible for the failure.
I've just spent the morning patching servers and likely to roll over into the afternoon and evening too.

We're not that bad; our clients were all patched but on the server side we have an unfortunate combination of "no downtime during office hours" and "we have no budget for overtime" going on, meaning that servers which can't be taken offline during office hours end up not being patched. At least when something like this goes global we have a better chance of our user base accepting some downtime.
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mh wrote:combination of "no downtime during office hours" and "we have no budget for overtime" going on, meaning that servers which can't be taken offline during office hours end up not being patched.
Yeah that sounds familiar.

Fortunately we have a guy here who can - and does - object to that sort of management stupidity, and he has sufficient seniority that he's taken seriously. I look forward to the chaos when he finally retires!
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There's an utterly bastard cat up for adoption - any takers?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/pets/news-fe ... off_fb_tmg
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Microcosmia wrote:There's an utterly bastard cat up for adoption - any takers?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/pets/news-fe ... off_fb_tmg
He is a handsome chap, if a little stern looking!
Black cats are my favourites and they are so often overlooked but i think i'll have to decline, he'll eat my poor Chumley alive! :lol: :lol:
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Microcosmia wrote:There's an utterly bastard cat up for adoption - any takers?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/pets/news-fe ... off_fb_tmg
... :twisted: :twisted: ... very lovely. And even black ... ;D ...
That were the right cat for me, if I had a house and a garden and lived in Australia ... :lol: ...
within a year he would love to be carried around and regularly have the ticks drawn from his bastard fur ... :lol: ...
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It's not even weird...
'Are we the Baddies?'...
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Pista wrote:The Earth is flat. Here's the science
There's a story from back in the days of the moonshot in '69 - apparently NASA took a picture of the earth from space, and showed it to the leader of a prominent flat earth society to prove that the earth wasn't flat.

His reply:

"I only said it was flat. I never said it wasn't circular."
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Pista wrote:The Earth is flat. Here's the science
There's a story from back in the days of the moonshot in '69 - apparently NASA took a picture of the earth from space, and showed it to the leader of a prominent flat earth society to prove that the earth wasn't flat.

His reply:

"I only said it was flat. I never said it wasn't circular."
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EvilBastard wrote:
Pista wrote:The Earth is flat. Here's the science
There's a story from back in the days of the moonshot in '69 - apparently NASA took a picture of the earth from space, and showed it to the leader of a prominent flat earth society to prove that the earth wasn't flat.

His reply:

"I only said it was flat. I never said it wasn't circular."
I suspect he said also that there is a big turtle with four elephants in the dark side of the flat circular earth :lol:
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I got sucked into a flat earth facebook group a while ago. I lasted less than a week before I blocked all the group admins and removed myself from it :lol:

It's not so much the flat-earthism by itself, it's the toxic mix of all sorts of other loopy ideas: moon-landing-denialism, anti-vaxxism, 9-11-truthism, Obama-birtherism...

The final straw was a post about Stephen Hawking whose "logic" went something like this:
1) Hawking was diagnosed with ALS in 1963.
2) No-one survives more than 10 years with ALS.
3) Therefore Hawking is actually dead and the person everyone currently thinks is him, is actually an impostor.

I got called a troll for asking where they found another paralysed physics genius willing to impersonate Hawking.
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