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ShanwickOceanic (netAirspace FAA) 20 Jun 19, 12:12Post
...and that's when the FBI kicks your door in and arrests you for signalling to your KGB handler.

For $99, you'd think they could put a reset button on the damn thing. Or a Ctrl, Alt and a Del.
My friend and I applied for airline jobs in Australia, but they didn't Qantas.
ShyFlyer (Founding Member) 20 Jun 19, 18:00Post
ShanwickOceanic wrote:For $99, you'd think they could put a reset button on the damn thing. Or a Ctrl, Alt and a Del.

For $99 per bulb, they'd better damn well send a person out the hand deliver my new replacement bulb. And Install it for me. And then wash my dishes.
Make Orwell fiction again.
helvknight (Founding Member) 20 Jun 19, 18:55Post
Recently a TV adaptation of Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman was released. The book is a satire on the end times and a Christian group in the States is pissed.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/ ... -pratchett

They have petitioned Netflix to cancel the adaptation. One problem - it's on Amazon Prime.

(oh and I've watched it and it's excellent)
Hire Engineers to drive the vision and execute a plan. Hire MBAs to shuffle the papers and work in sales. Hire Accountants to manage your staff working a viable livable wage, and never have either an Accountant or an MBA run your company. - Steve Jobs
Mark 21 Jun 19, 22:58Post
The world is going by too damned fast. Now we have smart light bulbs? With computer programs built in? When did that happen? Sorry, but I'm not paying $99 for a light bulb, even if it's an LED bulb in my bedroom that I can turn on with my smartphone while getting a blowjob in a whorehouse in Thailand next Saturday night. Nope. Don't need it.
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GQfluffy (Database Editor & Founding Member) 24 Jun 19, 17:05Post
The wife bought some for the Exteriors, our bedroom and family room.

Rather handy when you're away from home getting paid-for favors from peoples, otherwise known as being out of town and being busy on the far side of the world.

Can help make it look like one is home when one isn't.



{silly}
Teller of no, fixer of everything, friend of the unimportant and all around good guy; the CAD Monkey
Mark 26 Jun 19, 14:46Post
Ummmmm..... ya.

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ShanwickOceanic (netAirspace FAA) 28 Jun 19, 16:26Post
City of Helsinki's corporate identity just became very unfortunate:

https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/hels ... s/10854067
My friend and I applied for airline jobs in Australia, but they didn't Qantas.
Mark 17 Jul 19, 01:19Post
I'm trying to put myself in the head of that security guard. Nope. I still can't figure out what he was thinking.

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Mark 21 Jul 19, 00:26Post
God help me. The English language has its drawbacks. I'm discussing the sentence, "Can I borrow your burro to burrow a hole?" with a person who speaks English as a second language. His native language is Russian. My mind is blown. Actually, my head hurts.
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ShanwickOceanic (netAirspace FAA) 21 Jul 19, 09:13Post
Sounds like the kind of job where a barrow could come in handy...
My friend and I applied for airline jobs in Australia, but they didn't Qantas.
ShanwickOceanic (netAirspace FAA) 04 Sep 19, 15:48Post
Don't grow cannabis on your roof.

Drugs in cycling? Surely not...
My friend and I applied for airline jobs in Australia, but they didn't Qantas.
JLAmber (netAirspace ATC & Founding Member) 20 Oct 19, 20:48Post
ShanwickOceanic wrote:Don't grow cannabis on your roof.

Drugs in cycling? Surely not...


{laugh} Explains why one rider came in two hours after the peleton and was carrying an empty pizza box!
A million great ideas...
ANCFlyer (netAirspace ATC & Founding Member) 22 Oct 19, 17:47Post
My six month old new desk-top just took a shit. Going back to the manufacturer tomorrow, three hours on the help desk line (very accommodating) and nothing. Replace the damn thing. They will . . . . in the interim I'm on the wife's tablet until further notice . . . .

FFS . . .
LET'S GO BRANDON!!!!
ShanwickOceanic (netAirspace FAA) 22 Oct 19, 18:00Post
ANCFlyer wrote:My six month old new desk-top just took a shit.

Typical. Just enough time for you to get moved in and start feeling comfortable with it. {grumpy}
My friend and I applied for airline jobs in Australia, but they didn't Qantas.
Mark 22 Oct 19, 21:58Post
ANCFlyer wrote:My six month old new desk-top just took a shit. Going back to the manufacturer tomorrow, three hours on the help desk line (very accommodating) and nothing. Replace the damn thing. They will . . . . in the interim I'm on the wife's tablet until further notice . . . .

FFS . . .


I thought mine shit the bed on Sunday. Turns out, it was just a long waiting time to install updates.
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ShanwickOceanic (netAirspace FAA) 26 Oct 19, 11:36Post
Track migratory eagles by SMS, forgetting about the roaming charges:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50180781

What's an even bigger fail here is that this isn't the first time it's happened.
My friend and I applied for airline jobs in Australia, but they didn't Qantas.
ShanwickOceanic (netAirspace FAA) 28 Nov 19, 15:38Post
I wrote:I see that 400 has been paid. Why have you allocated 300 to the rent and 100 to the arrears, when the rent is 350?

Letting agent wrote:We allocated 300 to the rent and 100 to the arrears.

{facepalm}

I wrote:Yes, I know that, you absolute danglespanner. Why?

Letting agent wrote:Well, we bollocksed it up last month and allocated the full 400 to rent, so we did this bollocks to un-bollocks that bollocks...

{facepalm}

(I might have paraphrased a bit.)
My friend and I applied for airline jobs in Australia, but they didn't Qantas.
ShyFlyer (Founding Member) 28 Nov 19, 16:20Post
Had a similar issue with Bank Of America some years back over an overdraft. They chose to drag their feet crediting a deposit.

Also had a similar issue with one of my credit cards "losing" a payment of mine. They chose to cash the check late. After a rather tense phone call, they agreed to waive the late fee, and the hit to my credit score, when it was discovered that they had changed the payment address without much of a useful notice.

That incident prompted me to start paying credit card companies electronically and not by check.
Make Orwell fiction again.
ShyFlyer (Founding Member) 28 Nov 19, 16:26Post
Facebook and, apparently, Instagram. Servers couldn't handle the holiday load it seems.

This wouldn't happen if they'd spend more time on infrastructure and less time virtue signaling and trumpeting thier SJW efforts.
Make Orwell fiction again.
ShanwickOceanic (netAirspace FAA) 03 Dec 19, 12:05Post
Emails this morning.


08:07:

Welcome to our brand new spiffy intranet!

08:28:

The new intranet is offline.

That went well, then...
My friend and I applied for airline jobs in Australia, but they didn't Qantas.
Fumanchewd 27 Dec 19, 21:55Post
I couldn't find this website for four months... although I wasn't trying too hard.
"Give us a kiss, big tits."
ShanwickOceanic (netAirspace FAA) 07 Jan 20, 14:47Post
Level crossing train detection fail:



Gonna need a crowbar to get all those seat cushions out.
My friend and I applied for airline jobs in Australia, but they didn't Qantas.
Lucas (netAirspace ATC & Founding Member) 07 Jan 20, 19:20Post
Always best to double-check. {nut}
JLAmber (netAirspace ATC & Founding Member) 08 Jan 20, 22:31Post
ShanwickOceanic wrote:Level crossing train detection fail:



Gonna need a crowbar to get all those seat cushions out.


There's a very busy crossing near us (Carleton crossing, for the enthusiasts) that had, for over 100 years, had a manned signalbox. In a cost-cutting drive the signalbox was replaced by an automated system that has, so far, allowed three trains to pass through with the barriers in the up position. Somehow this hasn't resulted in any accidents but it does mean that Network Rail have an operator sat in a car next to an emergency override system saving absolutely no money and still being far more dangerous than the old setup {facepalm}
A million great ideas...
ShanwickOceanic (netAirspace FAA) 09 Jan 20, 00:03Post
How else do you make the case that crossings are dangerous and need to be closed, definitely nothing to do with cost...

The foot crossing near me in Runcorn would be closed and locked at the first hint of trouble, though. I (and the Network rail people I spoke to) were fairly sure that the old bag in the old crossing-keeper's cottage was phoning in faults because she didn't like the sirens (never mind the freight train s thundering past). Came to it very late one night to find the gate locked and the light on red (but no siren). Phoned the signaller, who was surprised to hear my voice and said I should put the crossing attendant on. "Crossing attendant?" Wherever he was, he wasn't attending the crossing. Busted...
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