The Off Topic Topic

[Josquius]

Heh. Just read that some unlucky Somali pirates mistook an Armada supply vessel for a cargo ship, with predictable consequences.

And apparently it isn't the first time either. Another unlucky group decided a French Navy supply ship looked like a nice target a couple years ago.

Not the first time...French...
The supply ship surrendered?

[Iormlund]

 
Nah. The pirates were captured. At least those still alive.

[Razgovory]

Really the Navy should just seize or sink all of their property(including the boat), and then release them on their own recognizance.  In the middle of the ocean.

[mongers]

Friday the 13th, time for a break. 

[Syt]

RockPaperShotgun have thir annual survey up:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/01/13/its-the-quite-important-rps-survey-2012/

I love the final questions:

25. Do you contribute to pun threads in the RPS comments?
Yes
No

26. Know any good jokes?
Yes
No
All jokes are good, even the bad ones

27. Thanks for filling in the quite important survey!
No problem

[Admiral Yi]

I just signed up for a free FT.com subscription and a discounted Economist subscription. 

[Josephus]

I'm back to hating winter again. 

[MadBurgerMaker]

Well, hopefully I'll talk to you guys in a couple hours.  Nuking the C drive and sticking win7 64 on there.   16gbs of RAM is arriving tomorrow, so I can't put it off anymore. 

[Sheilbh]

I just signed up for a free FT.com subscription and a discounted Economist subscription. 

Jealous.

[MadBurgerMaker]

Well, hopefully I'll talk to you guys in a couple hours.  Nuking the C drive and sticking win7 64 on there.   16gbs of RAM is arriving tomorrow, so I can't put it off anymore. 

  That was way too quick and easy.

Edit:  Oh right.  The shitty part is downloading and fixing all the stuff on that's on the other hdd, can't be used with 64, waiting for all the updates, etc.  STILL DOING THAT   

Fucking Apple.  I install iTunes, and suddenly there are 5 Apple, Inc. products on my computer.   Uninstalled Bonjour and something about mobile device support, with iTunes warning me that a bunch of stupid shit that I don't use OMG WON'T WORK, but I can't remove "Apple Application Support" and their software update program.

[katmai]

 

[Sheilbh]

Apparently Egyptian liberal parties are negotiating a coalition agreement with Egyptian Salafi parties.  The idea is to keep the Muslim Brotherhood out of power on a sort-of enemy of my enemy is my friend basis.  I think I'd rather the MB in power than Salafis who are surely the liberals real enemies?

[Neil]

Apparently Egyptian liberal parties are negotiating a coalition agreement with Egyptian Salafi parties.  The idea is to keep the Muslim Brotherhood out of power on a sort-of enemy of my enemy is my friend basis.  I think I'd rather the MB in power than Salafis who are surely the liberals real enemies?

You're a Labour shill, aren't you?  Would you rather have the Tories or the BNP in power?

[sbr]

[Caliga]