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Currently using Ubuntu Feisty. Decided to go for the leap to Linux because of the incoming support withdrawal of XP and I don't really want to go to Vista yet. Plus we're building a LAMP dialler platform, thought i'd best get my brains into a linux install. Feisty seems to be stable for me. Took me ...

I would first probably start looking for somekind of hidden camera, damn these shows come up with weird shut to laugh at. Then I would probably follow him for a short while to see if he returned to any carers and hand the briefcase to them explaining what had happened. If he has no carersi would han...

A friend of mine used to think salt was there to cool your food down.

And being a bit mean me and my cousin managed to convince his sister that Kidney beans were mice kindeys. She believed this for quite a few years.

I don't really understand why a body can't be considered a planet simply because it's within an asteroid belt or such. If the object is large/massive enough to become roughly spherical under it's own gravity, and orbits a star, then it's planet in my view. The fact that this increases the number of...

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Er yeah ill refain from repeating anything from that thread above apart from this. I don't believe Pluto should be classed as a planet.

Weinberger's story centers around Carl Collins, a Texas scientist turned nuclear Don Quixote, who convinces Pentagon and Energy Department officials to spend millions on his jousts with the laws of physics. Clever guy, wish I could get the government to give me loads of money to research total crap...

Did they have a continuity officer person thingy??? It suddenly turns dark when Magneto et al is moving the bridge to attack Alcatraz. The needles with which Beast stabs Magneto switch places. I laughed my arse off when Shadowcat got to the kid, I just instantly thought she was going to run face fir...

After going through my photo collection i came up with a few:

On a related note, the new self service tills at Tesco here don't ask for any form of ID when you use a card. You just swipte and it prints your reciept, no request for a pin. I really need to get round to pointing out the blatant security hole to them. Anyone can use anyones card in them without b...

In reply to Broomstick: In my crazy rant i totally forgot some people have problems with numbers. I have been told though, over here there will be cards for people with disabilities that are unable to enter a PIN and for people that have problems with numbers. But these cards need to be specially re...

oh i forgot to add. I get this loads. "Im sorry i dont know my PIN, can i sign for it?" I want to say: "ITS FOUR NUMEBRS!.. FOUR! You can remember where you live cant you? You can remember your phone number? Why the HELL cant you remember 4 numbers!?" to which ill probably get th...

This is basically a rant about credit/debit card fraud. Anyone else in the "customer service" experience this? Im constantly reading about card fraud and indentity theft in the news, how it all costs like 3 billion pounds a year. Then I go to work and see why. People are stupid. No matter ...

For me the key to the fact that E=mc^2 leads to a nuke was the realisation of the Nuclear Binding Energy. The fact that energy is released when nuclei are broken apart and form 2 nuclei of different elements. http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/nucene/nucbin.html and http://hyperphysics.phy-a...

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Me in Corporation Nightclub suckling on a bottle of Carling.

There are quite a few regular beggars in sheffield, theres one woman everyone knows as the 'Excuse-me-people-are-being-ignorant' Woman . She comes upto to you with the same fucking line everytime, once i got it from her on the way into uni and then 1 hour later coming out of uni. I heard someone say...

Children of Dune - Frank Herbert

I liked it. Its not revolutionary, but its pretty funny. Plus that ginger lass is hot.

Yes, yes she is.

I liked it too. Chris Morris is brilliant. And i can see many helpdesk lines being in the upcoming episodes.

"Its not working"
"riight. Wanna tell me the problem?"

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On a bus in sheffield. :S.


I love camera phones, so handy when you want to catch a moment of stupidity.

I find the actors the funniest part of the show, seeing how they try and convince everyone and how they really try to keep straight faces.

"you will be in orbit but not experience weightlessness"????

Come on!

Just watched the second show. Got me mad at how dumb people can be, and made me laugh so hard i almost puked. The bit with the 2 russian guard actors that couldnt keep a straight face when talking about "gorgeous women" and "NO! all the gorgeous women are in russia!". Then when t...

Ive just put my TA soundtrack onto winamp excellent game, excellent music.

First and only game i won a tournament in. Won 30 GBP from Wireplay by coming 3rd in a TA tourney

This guy obviously hasn't taken a Quantum Physics lecture (infact this guy is obviously an idiot). It has been measured that particles have appeared from nothing, existed, and dissappeared again.

And he says something can't come from nothing.

Yeah, but my point is, i think it can be used as scientific evidence in court (at least in the UK) with the 5% uncertainty. Most people take a "match" in DNA profile to mean a 100% match.


And i'd like to point out I hate Statistics (as a maths subject).

Aren't DNA 'matches' within a 5% uncertainty? Im sure i heard during a lecture from a forensic scientist that this was the case for legal evidence, so it is wholey possible that two brothers could both match a DNA profile taken from a crime scene, very improbable though, even without having had tran...