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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.

 

[mojoey]

It's a christmas miracle! The CNO reversed the decision to abandon the Navy's Rating system, and thus a 400 year+ tradition lives on another year. Until someone else gets a bright idea.

 

[PhantomCruiser]

AT2 (AW) PhantomCruiser approves this message :thumbup:

 

[Urwumpe]

How Germany works explained by a single event today:

Dozens of journalists and hundreds of police officers are standing in front of a refugee shelter in Emmerich am Rhein. Nobody goes in.

There was a typo in the search warrant.

The international manhunt for Anis Amris is now public, in case you see him, he is the prime suspect for the Berlin truck attack. What makes things worse is that he was already under surveillance by the domestic intelligence service for some months, known as first class terror suspect with Islamic State relations and was supposed to be deported last summer - but Tunisia did not want to see him back in their county and delayed the requested replacement papers for him until yesterday.

He was already arrested for the deportation last summer in Ravensburg for two days, but had to be released because of the missing papers from Tunis.

There is a pretty high 100,000 € reward for hints that lead to his arrest. There is sadly no record of his notice on Interpol yet to share here.

Here is the German description of him from the federal attorney general:

https://www.generalbundesanwalt.de/de/showpress.php?newsid=654

And here is the detailed page of him on the federal criminal agency of Germany:

https://www.bka.de/DE/IhreSicherhei...ePersonen/Amri/Sachverhalt_Amri.html?nn=61060

The second picture of him with the glasses was either the one found in the Polish truck or identical to it.

 

[Notebook]

Got some good photos of him, hopefully picked up soon:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38392128