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| bd139:
I think he probably summoned those names from somewhere rather than chose them. |
| tggzzz:
--- Quote from: bd139 on June 30, 2022, 04:27:18 pm ---I think he probably summoned those names from somewhere rather than chose them. --- End quote --- Smirk. He claims a lot are Roman Catholic, and I'm not going to comment on that since it would be "religion". I think JR-M would be good in one of the cheesy old Hammer Horror Films. Not sure whether he would be giving or receiving a stake through the heart. |
| Vince:
Politics and Religion, combined ?! Yes that would be disastrous indeed, ALMOST as controversial as floppies !!! :-DD |
| Cerebus:
--- Quote from: mansaxel on June 30, 2022, 05:05:27 am --- --- Quote from: Cerebus on June 30, 2022, 12:45:32 am --- --- Quote from: mansaxel on June 29, 2022, 10:45:01 pm ---FTP killed the ZIP drive in its only successful industry, printing. I'm not crying. --- End quote --- Not before Syquest drives had already done for them. --- End quote --- The Syquest was first and then killed by Zip here -- their market share mainly was in the 44MB drives, and they are much earlier than the Zip drives; when the Zip came, it had a brief sejour, after which FTP took over. --- End quote --- Because the Zip drives came in "bigger" than the Syquests there was a brief flirtation with them here for that reason. We'd often find that a print section ran to two or more Syquests and when this happened there was always a risk of something going missing. Zip drives would solve that problem, but when the printers calls you and says "Can't read the disks", you're in London, the Printer is in the extreme West Country, and you'll lose your print slot* if they can't start the presses rolling at 8pm, it kind of puts a dampener on the day. After my publisher had a few brushes with that and paid the exorbitant costs of a bike from London to St Ives a few times, and actually lost a print slot once, an edict came down from on high "Thou shalt not use Zip drives on pain of death and shalt return to using Syquests". Whatever their faults (and they were many) Syquests were an order of magnitude more reliable than Zip drives. * Cost of losing a print slot - £30,000 from memory. |
| mansaxel:
--- Quote from: tggzzz on June 30, 2022, 04:23:38 pm --- --- Quote from: mnementh on June 30, 2022, 03:35:11 pm ---One of y'alls needs to get and name a cat 5. --- End quote --- The member of parliament for my neighbouring constituency is currently "Minister of State for Brexit Opportunities and Government Efficiency". --- End quote --- Politcis be damned. I find that man truly appalling. So, there. |
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