Posts by Chris G

Re: Revenue and profit

That says everything you want to know about Amazon. Their employees pay their taxes for them.

So called employer taxes are, in reality, a part of the employee's income for the work they carry out, it is to provide pensions, healthcare and social NB welfare, it's effectively a tax on the worker.

As you say, a 3% gross profit is either the result of poor management or very good, tricky accounting.

The contributions to tax revenue made by employees via such things as VAT is nothing to do with Amazon's generosity to the nation or anyone else, arguably, if Amazon didn't exist those people would be working for somebody else and paying VAT according to their individual shopping habits.

All explanations for what has happened on the moon are, by definition, Extraterrestrial.

Personally I think it was about to land on top of the old North Korean moonbase so they shot it down.

Re: At werdsmith.

What's the score for a frail granny carrying a small kid on her zimmer frame with a puppy in the kid's arms?

Re: Perhaps they should have run the experiment in Wales!

Wasn't that Odo bloke in Star Trek some kind of sheep shifter?

Re: Moved to France

Spain in my case, I at least now have a Partido de Correos (post box in the post office 16 Km away) This week has been the first time in over 16 years that DHL or any courier has delivered to my address and that was twice for my new passport and the old one that they send separately.

DPD in the UK is SEUR in Spain and I think Geo post in France, they have a functional tracking system that shows your package sitting in various warehouses including a local one from which they will take the package, drive it past your house and then return it to the sender.

When enquiring about the nondelivery they will accuse you of not being in/not replying to the notification they didn't send you/ packet was wrongly addressed/the moon was in the wrong phase, or all of the above.

Last time I looked online SEUR had over a thousand reviews, 98% of them had one star out of a possible five, because you can't give a zero star review.

If you depend on any part of that group for deliveries, buy a bicycle, no matter where in the world you live cycling to the sender to collect your packet will be quicker.

Re: Your face, your ass

Are you saying we've got to contend with rectal recognition as well as facial?

An answer wiuld be appreciated as I would like to get to the bottom of this

Re: That's all very well....

Irate scooter rider?

In Spain a lot of towns an cities have paseos, pedestrian walkways where the Spanish love to walk on a Sunday in particular after a family Sunday lunch at a restaurant. Most of these paseos have a cycle section where is was envisaged cyclust would toodle along at a similar pace to the joggers, however, they are usually populated by lycra louts trying to break speed records while weaving around skateboarders and now e-scooter riders. The cyclists are bad enough but the scooterists are deadly, have no concept of braking and seem to think trendy trumps everything else.

My remedy is a bag of gravel, keep the gravel in the bag and whack the sods with it.

Re: heavy

If voice recognition has problems with a Scottish accent, what does it do with Geordie?

I worked with a Geordie mate for a couple of years and never fully understood him, his wife was a Brummie, when I told I had trouble understanding his accent she told me to just let him mumble on as that's what she did.

Re: Can someone explain...

5G is less about speed than enabling billions of pieces of IoT tat, so money is the thing not speed.

Just think how happy people will be when their toilet roll holder asks Amazon to send a truck load of puppy toys, because it can't sense a roll in place.

No more having wipe your arse with one of your socks because you forgot to buy toilet paper.

Re: Main mirror

Politics getting in the way?

Shirley that would never happen, politicians respect pure science.

Don't they?

Re: Now we know what taking back control really means…

In the event this current crowd does remain in power, I think bringing back some form of Inquisition is highly likely. The head honcho would almost certainly be Rees-Mogg who would probably insist on Witchfinder General being included in his title.

Regarding Boris' attempt at closing Parliament, I am surprised he hasn't claimed executive privilege in the same vein as his tree swinging oppo across the pond.

This is certainly an indication of what is likely to come if he remains in Number 10 for any length of time I suppose he will announce his latest policies via the Telegraph, or does he tweet?

Re: "The Register has reached out to CamScanner's developer"

'Contacted' doesn't imply response either.

'Reached out' however, implies corporeal physical movement towards the object, not electronic contact.

Re: quick, hide.

The Time AI video is fascinating, I have bookmarked it in the Sci-fi and fantasy folder on my browser.

Re: Pass me the spanner, comrade Fedor

" I'm sorry Dave, you're not my friend anymore, meet Tovarich Fedor".

A Stock Exchange is where you buy stocks in publicly quoted companies, you can't buy shares in privately owned companies there or indeed shares in things like the NHS. So no everything is not necessarily for sale.

Re: Get your proposals in!

Sorry SVV but my app is a Quantum AI Blockchain Entangled and is Totally Disruptive, so get behind me in the queue.

Re: Family Link

Ever thought of using explanation and/ or discipline?

Re: Millions

"But why should the McCanns get so much police attention when many other families with missing children get much less?"

Perhaps because someone has to fly to Portugal regularly to 'consult' with the Portugese police?

At least in those days it was easier to stay out of 'arms way.

Re: Too bad it took a collision

The touch screen system was obviously conceived of and agreed to by people with no experience or concept of damage control in battle situations.

In the old days in the British navy there were articificers who could maintain and repair almost anything on the go, including jury rigging steering and things like mechanical throttles.

How would damage to your touch screens and associated coms for them, be dealt with in battle conditions today?

Remains Unclear

That goes without saying, even Trump doesn't know what he's going to do next.

Re: Reality is Coming to an End

What you think is reality may be coming to an end but in reality it is being replaced with real reality.

Really!

Re: Amazon Response

What appropriate steps are they likely to take considering how they treat their own staff in the US and Europe?

If Bezos isn't one of the Lizard People, he easily qualifies to join them.

Re: Coding under the influence

The method for emptying the JD bottle so that you can lay it down may impact your cuing action.