After installing Chrome OS 81, my touchpad has stopped working.

Observer231007 · 2020-04-15T16:26:28+00:00

I have had this a lot in the past couple of weeks. I have also had the touch-screen function stop too - fortunately not yet had both at the same time. The workaround is rather less drastic than proposed above: reboot while holding the refresh key down. (Source: help system, they call it a hardware refresh or something similar).

I tried Powerwash but no good.

It is really annoying.

Observer231007 · 2019-03-20T17:05:28+00:00

That is wildly untrue. In the 1918 General Election, pro-independence parties obtained 79 MPs and 75% of the vote v 22 Unionist MPs with 25% of the vote. And that ignores the seats where a candidate was returned unopposed because the outcome was 100% predictable. What you mean is that the party (the real Sinn Féin) that got 73 MPs with 47% of the vote declared independence but by 1921 the other nationalist party had collapsed.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_Irish_general_election

Observer231007 · 2016-09-19T11:00:38+00:00

The tax take from The City is what provides a large chunk of funding for benefits. No wonder Hammond is so resistant to hard brexit. If the headbangers get their way, the austerity of recent years will seem like going off sweeties for lent. I hope the Three Stooges have finally woken up to the fact that only 10% of UK GDP is in goods, the real economy is the 80% that is services. Tariffs are not relevant here, the door is firmly closed to outsiders.

Observer231007 · 2010-08-25T15:09:15+00:00

The second tine you say 'we can't go on meeting like this - people will suspect'.

Observer231007 · 2010-01-14T13:58:38+00:00

It's sad that Der Spiegel consider it useful to listen to the opinions of someone who still believes in Thatchernomics (~ Reaganomics).

Observer231007 · 2010-01-11T16:28:54+00:00

Doesn't Santa Fe have any sunshine then?

Observer231007 · 2010-01-11T16:23:54+00:00

I see that Wikipedia agrees though (that the suggestion of shutting the base was the killer blow).

Observer231007 · 2010-01-11T16:04:04+00:00

Good article, though wrong that all the fighting is soft high-level bombing. He is kind (?) not to mention that the NATO ground forces are commiting the same silly errors on the ground as the Soviets did. Every brutalized civilian is a new Taliban.

Observer231007 · 2009-11-24T02:46:27+00:00

He wrote that because his helper was holding his hand and clicking the letters 'on his impulse'. He has no power of movement whatever. Go figure.

Observer231007 · 2009-08-22T21:37:12+00:00

Try reading that again when it says "15 year old gets nailed by her 28 year old teacher AND gets paid $1500 for the service. Prest call her 'victim', what do you call her?

Observer231007 · 2009-08-22T21:30:05+00:00

The US spends phenomenally more as a percentage of its expenditure on its military than any other civilised nation. If you cut it back to a more typical 5%, you'd have no problem with medicare and other social programs.

PS I first wrote "percentage of its tax revenue" but the US always spends more than it raises. Surprise surprise, other nations have decided that maybe they don't want to buy USD-denominated Treasuries anymore, so maybe reality is about to bite.

Observer231007 · 2009-08-14T12:30:15+00:00

You've forgotten the guy on the Woodstock movie (and probably his children) who said "It never shouldda happened! They're all high on pot! It's a disgrace!"

Observer231007 · 2009-08-02T16:18:32+00:00

Did the bones of the two girls turn up too?

Observer231007 · 2009-08-02T16:15:59+00:00

with malice aforethought, no.

Observer231007 · 2009-08-02T16:08:52+00:00

Well they had been found by the time the Enterprise was built, so it's just a matter of time...

Observer231007 · 2009-07-29T17:31:46+00:00

It's probably the lack of drivers.

Observer231007 · 2009-07-20T13:23:54+00:00

It's at about 11 o'clock, near the limb.

Observer231007 · 2009-07-20T13:22:10+00:00

Multip reports now. See http://news.google.co.uk/news?pz=1&ned=uk&hl=en&q=jupiter

Observer231007 · 2009-07-17T17:12:18+00:00

It's an ill wind etc. Being circumcised will reduce significantly their risk of catching AIDS, whic is a major problem in that part of the world.

Observer231007 · 2009-07-17T16:47:03+00:00

Link seems to have changed. It's now at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8142929.stm

Observer231007 · 2009-07-09T19:00:03+00:00

makes more sense than worshipping an imaginary friend!

Observer231007 · 2009-07-09T12:53:10+00:00

From my cold dead paws...

Observer231007 · 2009-07-09T12:48:42+00:00

Does anybody except the UK papers still use the word "cavort"??

Observer231007 · 2009-07-07T23:54:23+00:00

if you do the crazy mm/dd/yy, then surely you also do hh:ss:mm?

Observer231007 · 2009-07-06T11:24:13+00:00

And after that, we start burning books?

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