I don't hate you, Ms Cole. I just don't particularly like the comments you make justifying the existance of Impossible.com.
However, I loathe the system that gave you taxpayer money.
Millionaire supermodel Lily Luahana Cole says we should be pleased that her taxpayer-funded vanity website Impossible.com doesn’t make any money. We’d hate it even more if it her Impossible.com were financially successful, she has told the Daily Telegraph in an interview. “I actually think if we were making loads of money, we …
"However, I loathe the system that gave you taxpayer money"
Still, best to qualify these things...
Local councils apply for transport grants too, from Central Gov.
On my commute, my local Council just got £100,000 that (somehow) was all spent putting in two 'egg shaped' speed reduction humps that can't be driven at the designated 30mph speed (are genuinely dangerous to hit at real world 35mph, Guidelines: 30+10%+2). Lorries now come to a virtual stop on the hill and as a consequence, frustrated car drivers now overtake on a blind bend heading uphill.
The general state of the road surface either side of this Safety Measure are attrocious, cracks, broken surfaces, no white lines, but enter the grant zone and you have Dallas style white picket fences (which ironically, their height obscures the 30mph signs they are attempting to highlight)
Talk about over design, that achieves diddly squat in the scheme of things.
Personally, i'd be happier if it never existed and she had a half a clue as to why it was a stupid, wasteful idea in the first place.
I can only think of one thing more pointless online, and now ive said that i'm struggling between the former MP known as Louise Mensch, and her narcissistic outburst better known as Menschn (or however she fell on the keyboard spelling it)
And made Orlowski part of her success story. The more criticism she receives the more successful she is. It fits in so well with Trolling and all the other internet hate memes, almost like mining bitcoin. Before long, she's going to be so successful that Facebook will probably buy her.
She's a fool and I hate her. I'm also proud to be part of her success. Also, my head hurts.
It's not like it's Google, Facebook etc
Half a million and "Mostly harmless".
Certainly a waste of taxpayers money, but down the back of sofa stuff compared to most government waste, sadly!
WhatsApp, bought for $19B and going to steal privacy (for FB) from people that never signed up, because it has the contact data on the users phones.
At least the NESTA money wasn't wasted on developing touch screen technology, for which there there would be no market even if it weren't Impossible.
“I actually think if we were making loads of money, we’d be getting more criticism, you know,”
Yes but it'd be a much nicer, whale hugging, vegan, green, recycling, whole earth synergistic type of criticism.
And no one would be calling you and your money splashing pals 'tits'. Probably.
Thinking in particular of the episode with the hospital with no patients. Obviously not a success by any normal person's standards. but in the fairytale land of civil service budgets and metrics, it's the most efficient hospital in the land.
Come to think of it, I'm not even sure Sir Humphrey could get his enormous brain around Ms. Cole's logic.
The idea is not entirely stupid.
I have been approached by a number of possible clients over the last 4 or 5 years to make some kind of app that allows people to send thoughts, prayers, gift etc to other people who you may or may not know.
This kind of thing is alien to me, if i like you enough i will actually make an effort, not use some website or app. Nevertheless, enough people do think like this and religion doesn't help. Just look at how many muppets click like and share on the picture of the kid with cancer.
Having said all that, she was welcome to do exactly as she has done with a private investor and fail privately (like everyone else). The problem here was public money being wasted.
People want to be nice to each other and send good wishes / help. But people don't want to pay to it.
Its not a difficult concept to grasp and a little research beforehand might have given a hint at that.
None of this is helped by the "sharing economy" .. where i share freely and a company sells it for profit. More people are wising up to that.
Want to help someone;- visit that elderly neighbour, buy the big issue, sign greenpeace petitions...