the ever-increasing ridicule of our opposition party

The leader of the opposition party, in a clip from today's Dáil session, riffed off Monty Python's Dead Parrot sketch while attempting to make some sort of misguided point about a website project which was cancelled on account of either cost overruns or expected excessive cost. Not only was this ridiculous, he is weakening the argument against the Government over continuing to fund excessively costly projects. Which, er. Pick one side of this argument, you can't have both. Well, you can, but you're not going to get into power on the strength of it YOU MORON.

why does this only happen with non-rewritable media, hmm?

hdb: DMA timeout retry
hdb: timeout waiting for DMA
hdb: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hdb: drive not ready for command
hdb: ATAPI reset complete

And thus, a coaster is born.