Humor Random Comments Thread

[Urwumpe]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38368526

Funny. In Germany, any nonsense can be called a religion, but you need to be an organized one to get any official status and be allowed to deduce your own taxes. All large Muslim organizations failed this so far, only the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat and the Alevi movements managed to get the herculean paperwork done.

Same with getting any benefits as charitable organization - you need to prove that you are really charitable. So Jedism would not have a better chance here, unless some Sith Lord tackles the bureaucracy.

 

[Notebook]

I guess the Dark Force has penetrated the UK Charity Commission. They must be very powerful.

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[Ravenous]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38368526

"I find your lack of taxation accountability disturbing." :lol:

This Jediism thing was funny the first time I heard for the 2001 census, but it's getting a bit silly now.

 

[Notebook]

Always thought it was silly. Surprised the Charities Commission bothered with it.

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[Urwumpe]

Always thought it was silly. Surprised the Charities Commission bothered with it.

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Where taxes begin, the fun ends.

 

[Notebook]

There should be some penalty for making frivolous applications. Its obviously not a charity, and its a complete waste of someone's time to investigate and give a reason why an application fails.
Some form of non-returnable deposit, then we'll see how funny it is.

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[Urwumpe]

What about making a law on being funny in public or towards public offices. Call it the Monty-Python Act.

 

[Notebook]

Bah Humbug, I'll be glad when Xmas is over!

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[Linguofreak]

I guess the Dark Force has penetrated the UK Charity Commission. They must be very powerful.

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Of course it has. You know what everyone says:

The suns never set on the British Empire

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*Linguofreak exits, singing "God save our gracious Queen, gracious Queen" to the tune of the Imperial March

 

[Notebook]

As I may have said before, crunch time for BE was the Suez Crisis. The last time the UK thought it could act without US backing. What happened in the Near East, and the Far East, as I knew them defined that decade.
What's happened today in Europe makes all that more poignant, we had an Empire, it was a Commonwealth, I've no idea were we are going next.
Edit We are still part of Europe

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[jedidia]

What's happened today in Europe makes all that more poignant, we had an Empire, it was a Commonwealth, I've no idea were we are going next.

Well, you know what they say about the Queens reaction to the news that the phone lines were down: "Good god, the continent is isolated!" :lol:

 

[Notebook]

An earlier version.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=c...UICCgB&biw=1366&bih=661#imgrc=qUzduxkZPHhQlM:

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[Urwumpe]

Edit We are still part of Europe

Could be hard to change, unless you start setting sails for the new world.

 

[Linguofreak]

Could be hard to change, unless you start setting sails for the new world.

The United Kingdom of Eressëa and Northern Ireland?

 

[Urwumpe]

Rather the Crimson Permanent Assurance. :tiphat:

 

[jedidia]

So... nested RDP sessions don't really seem to work. Bummer...

 

[n122vu]

So... nested RDP sessions don't really seem to work. Bummer...

RDP'ing into one machine, then RDP'ing from that machine into another? We do it all the time.

 

[Urwumpe]

RDP'ing into one machine, then RDP'ing from that machine into another? We do it all the time.

Works better with Linux - the Windows RDP is a bit strange.

 

[jedidia]

Works better with Linux

Actually I tried it on Linux (the whole point was to have a linux machine inside the VPN to which our windows-using service technicians could connect via RDP to run some scripts that require ssh and set up some devices via rdp inside the vpn without having to be inside the vpn themselves...). The essential problem seems to be that Remmina doesn't route keystrokes through nested sessions (although it seems to have no problem with mouseclicks).

And I found XRDP a lot stranger to work with than win rdp so far. That session managment gives me the creeps, and keyboard setup is a nightmare all of its own.

RDP'ing into one machine, then RDP'ing from that machine into another? We do it all the time.

On which systems and with which clients?

 

[Andy44]

So I've figured out what caused the Chelyabinsk Meteor event to occur. Apparently, someone constructed an unlicensed home-made interoscitor in their workshop and follishly switched it on:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Building-An-Interocitor-An-Alien-Communication-D/

---------- Post added 12-21-16 at 07:18 AM ---------- Previous post was 12-20-16 at 10:22 PM ----------

This being the Random Comments thread, I have a random fact:

Emperor Horihito of Japan was a biologist in his spare time and published several papers on the subject. His son, Akihito, the current emperor, is also a scientist, apparently.