Posts by Chris G 6754 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Oct 2007
Though there may be some merit in the 'pump and dump' allegations, all investors who part with their money on the basis of gaining profits from selling at the right time in a fluctuating market are basically gambling.
If their due diligence is insufficient and/or market forces mean they lose money, yhat is the essence of gambling.
Resorting to litigation for losing a bet is a sign of either greed or they have little understanding of the system.
"Governments could go through the cache of hypothetical drugs DarkNPS developed and ban them, even before anyone actually produces or distributes them,"
How does a ban before they are even made stop anyone anymore than the bans on existing illegal drugs?
If anything, this program will point out to suppliers what to aim for in their next 'designer high'.
I see quite afew sites that don't have a reject all button, have a few basic on off buttons and then hidden away in the 'our partners' section, dozens of legitimate interest buttons.
I just reject the entire site as it is obvious they have less interest in doing business with me than taking and selling/sharing my data.
These sites have a standard format that somebodyhas sold them, so now the moment that box appears, I go elsewhere.
@ Pete 2
You have stolen my comment.
As for Amazon Astro, "Everything you love about Alexa but on wheels" according to one blarbista, so my take is that it is not worth considering.
There is a shipload of other alleged innovations that could be flushed down the toilet of history along with the metaverse and friends in '22.
Aliexpress like many other businesses are subject to more than just GDPR, they ate also obliged to collect VAT at point of sale now, something that has come in within the last year.
That also applies to eBay when for example buying items from eBay.com (US) for shipment to Spain.
One place I worked at in the early nineties decided to finally embrace the notiion of a PC on every desk.
It was a small 4 story building from the thirties and still had the original wiring overlaid with five decades of upgrades and telephony so the general mangler decided that ripping all of the old redundant cables out for a fresh start with the modern age.
Six weeks later, and a couple of skips the old stuff had been removed the floors and walls reinstated and a start made on the new network, the second day one of the installers discovered an old mains incomer in three phase, with his drill, that tripped the local sub-station due to the bit being welded between two phases.
The incomer didn't go anywhere, it was just taped up and left in the wall under the stairs.
"Why exactly do we need centralised societies anymore?"
Because we don't want millions of townies filling up and sullying our countryside, it was bad enough having farty old ramblers picnicking on my land when I had foaling mares and belligerant bullocks back in the 80s.
"My parents house gets a bus each way per day. I would catch it to work at 07:30 or so and would be brought home 11 hours later. It didn't take long for me to believe in the benefits of car ownership!"
Luxury! I have lived in my house for four years, at the bus stop in the village 6Km down the hill a timetable alleges that there are two buses in each direction per day.
The route goes past my house and I have only seen the bus three times. In fairness this is rural Spain, any plans for 100% EVs or the whole population moving by public transport will not be happening before the heat death of the universe because the politicians, providers, public interest groups and Uncle Tom Cobbley will all still be arguing on how to achieve it.
Been a nuts 'n' bolts engineer for decades, everyone I have ever worked with aside from the newly qualified, have lived by the code of ' if it ain't broke don't fix it'.
We always used to tell the newbs, 'You are the most qualified here because you have been taught all the latest stuff', hard to enunciate when your tongue is firmly in your cheek.
The newbs believed us and always thought they knew better until they realised they didn't.
Brighton, the London Riviera!
It has always had delusions of grandeur and been accordingly overpriced.
There are so many other nice places on the South coast, Brighton is easy to avoid.
The closest I like to get is the South Downs way, I have ridden it end to end on horseback a couple of times.
"Yes, roundabouts are prone to some accidents, but they tend to be low speed and less damaging accidents."
Depends on where you are, some years back a dual carriageway was built from Ibiza town to San Antonio on the other side of the island.
For all intents and purposes it was an autopiste aside from the four or five roundabouts that interupted high speed driving plus a couple of pedestrian crossings. For the first year there were regular scenes of mangled cars embedded in the roundabouts in spite of them being comon on Spanish roads the locals and many tourists just couldm't get used to roundabouts on what looked like a motorway.
In the UK 'Drunk in charge of live stock' covers riding a horse or driving a buggy while drunk, I actually knew a woman in Kent in the 80s who was charged and fined after a pub stopover that was a little too enthusiastic.
There are other statutes that cover the equivalent of due care and attention/dangerous driving in charge of livestock etc.
One of my horses was quite keen on Holsten Pils, I never found out if there was a statute against riding a drunken horse.
I wonder what the final cost is, of buying affordable unfinished software that will depend on patching and updating throughout it's life.
Windows and flash ought to have taught the lesson but it seems it is better to get the new shiny stuff out there and allow the users to fault find so that the product and users can be 'saved' by the caring seller, who undoubtedly takes the security/privacy/wellbeing/money of their users extremely seriously.
The panspermia notion that life originated elsewhere obviously could be true but unlikely and fails to address the fundamental question of 'where was that?'.
There does seem to be enough evidence however, that the building blocks for the building blocks of life definitely are out there.
Given the size and age of the universe, the probability that these building blocks over time with enough attempts will result in something approximating life.
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