Posts by Chris G 6754 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Oct 2007
"There were “already several countries”, including Turkey and Saudi Arabia, where nuclear weapons were “being more or less openly discussed”.
See this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-LMwVoQbS4
There has been a fair amount of speculation that Pakistan could or has supplied the Saudis with nukes for some years.
On the bright side, WWIII kicking off in the Middle East would vindicate a lot of Nostradamus' fans and put paid to all this worry about Anthropomorphic Global Warming.
I am stunned that anything connected to Telefonica/movistar has good ratings from customers.
In Spain, though equivalent to BT in the UK, they fail to provide coverage in many places, are expensive, have appalling data deals and nonexistent customer service.
Apart from that they are rubbish and have been in trouble in the past for dealing in cartel deals to prevent competition.
I now use Yoigo, for here the call deals are ok and data provided you don't top out are also not bad. Their billing has never been wrong which compared to most other providers is a recommendation in itself.
Having seen the Naturalisation and Immigration boys at work, I suspect they want to grab overstayers, put them in orange overalls with cuffs and manacles and send them off to the US's increasingly industrial private prisons.
Think of it as a recruitment drive, who's going to miss a few students from Chad?
@veti.
I think the world population (or a significant part of it) is gradually succumbing to a condition that could be described as Facetweetergrammeosis, it appears to directly attack and erode basic cognitive function, leaving sufferers with low apparent intellect with unwarranted swings of emotion, with a propensity for putting words into the mouths of cat and other fluffy animal photos.
The offering looks to me, to be the result of a lot of cross platform discussion in order to arrive at a deal that looks like choices being offered when in fact nothing real has changed.
When an update will allow me to completely remove Chrome, Google assistant and half a dozen or more junk apps that are embedded into the OS for no good user reason, then I will think Google are addressing the problems.
Microshaft are due for another raking over too, now that win7 is about to lose support with the win8 incarnations close behind, eternally buggy and continuously updating 10 with its intrusive telemetry will dominate. I bet once the majority are on board, options will become narrower and narrower with only Apple as an alternative for most business use MS will step up abuse.
I wish Uber in its IPO venture, nothing but.......
I wouldn't touch their stock with anybody's money, let alone mine.
Lyft seems to be less toxic and aside from the overly litigious US could do well with bicycles and maybe scooters.
From past observation, most companies approaching something like an IPO or buyout tend to try to make themselves look a bit more cuddly. It's buyer beware but I'm sure that would never stop a yank from suing to recover lost gambling money.
Sociopathic economiser of truth that he is, Zuckerberg can't produce so much crap without the cult like obedience that he seems to get from his employees.
The ongoing saga of disaster that is faecebook must surely be confined to the pages of history sooner rather than later, it has single handedly been responsible for dumbing down an entire generation.
Can't we close them down for crimes against humanity?
PT Barnum reckoned there was one sucker born every minute, Faecebook for the last three years seems to have been getting about thirty every minute.
What I would like to know is where and how does the Zuck find so many so easily?
I have an extensive portfolio of bridges and a Trainload of snake oil to sell.
Faecebook's behaviour with regard to it's (l)users, is comparable to Zuck handing everyone a tube of KY and asking them to turn around and drop their drawers.
Plus a smidge of supporting local corporate interests.
Modern US National security makes no distinction between military, economic or corporate threats, isn't that how a military/industrial complex would react to the world?
I bet the Eejit's retirement fund is growing logarithmically.
That the major players in Social Media are completely sociopathic.
It is time to poke a big hole in them.
The way amendments like this are inserted into bills as a result of lobbying and the concomitant brown envelopes show clearly that democracy and government 'for the people' is a(n unfunny) joke.
The other species of pondlife targeting older people are the Equity release types. My father was cold called by one of the larger companies a few years ago before he died, he asked them to send him details so a couple of reps turned up on his doorstep. When he wouldn't let them in they accused him of wasting their time and became quite rude, they were lucky he didn't show them out of the garden with a claw hammer.
Quite a few of his friends had similar experiences.
A very good question given the difficulty in ensuring the age given is genuine. Although I am in favour of this kind of regulation, I can see it as providing government with the thin end of an 'ID card for all ' wedge.
How else to provide proof of age and identity? What would be the format and what info would be passed on to the likes of Farcebook et al?
DPD and it's Spanish arm (SEUR) have questionable reliability, in as much as you can rely on them to not deliver anything to an address, on time, according to the payment for express, one day , overnight, 4-5 days or at all. Most of the time they just return parcels and then accuse you of not having responded to some message within the (ungiven) given time.
The last time I received a parcel via them was a packet from screwfix, the driver rang and asked where the house was then changed the address to that of the local garage five kilometers away without explaining anything to them or informing me. It was only when I went to get petrol the girl remembered the name on the packet was the same as mine, gave me the packet and proceed to tell me off for using them as a drop off point.
Back in the day I used to think TNT were bad.
I find it remarkable that a country that is as apparently as piss poor and as full of uneducated oppressed people as N Korea is able to produce nukes and malware that are good enough the worry the US. Instead of isolating them and sanctioning their economy, they should be welcomed into the fold and their best researchers employed by the West.
Long term a trade war will not enable the US to maintain a lead when that very thing stimulates the Chinese to try harder to produce sanctioned goods at home while the Chinese are also promoting greater innovation. If America wants to stay ahead it's a case of 'Must try harder'.
Unlike the US, China can also encourage research that doesn't necessarily produce any immediate return on investment while using people who probably would have been conducting research for US companies and universities if not for the limiting of foreign workers.
The privacy of our customers as much and as often as we can, we take this very seriously.
Similarly a majority of Googles android apps don't work when you deny the absurd permissions they ask for, in theory you have paid to use them when you bought the phone with android installed. So in my case maps, compass, pedometer and a raft of other handy apps don't function.
Useful as Lithium ion batteries are I don't think they are that high in the list of things that are essential to our future. Energy storage certainly, at both large and small scale but who's to say a battery technology based on a completely different chemistry, or even physics is not somewhere in our future. Graphene is a likely candidate as the basis of denser energy storage.
Regarding machines writing even summaries of existing material, why? There are enough average writers out there looking for a job that could do better though possibly slower.
At least with a trained technical writer there is more chance of them recognising genuinely useful items to include.
As things stand at the moment AI should stand for Actually Ineffective.
Are impossible to predict, every year Pantone tries to predict ' this years colour trends' with a fifty/fifty chance of either being right or wrong.
All other consumer goods are the same. Who knows what some manufacturers may have waiting to spring on the markets?
The likes of Gartner and others like them, I am sure get paid regularly by thosr trying to drive the markets.
I'm waiting for the holographic Minority Report wrist phone, pholding phlaps, phlipping 'ell.
Sooo, never drink where a beaver may have peed?
I never drink water, I think the Vikings had it right that processing into wine or beer made water drinkable.
I had measles, whooping cough and chicken pox in the '50s, never had mumps and been near it dozens of times, my mum seemed to be immune to it too, other than arrogance they are the only diseases I have had.
Not sure if I have been near a doctor since MMR was invented.
"Americans, then."
Oh no! Americans don't get this all to themselves, there are droves of highly qualified numpties here in Spain who have no concept........
When in the UK I keep thinking I must have spoken in Spanish going by the lack of response I get in shops, buses, railway stations etc.
@Montreal Sean
Not completely true, I tried telling them I was a Satanist which just fired them up to try harder to convert me ( this was decades ago when I was a teenager) finally my brother who had been listening from upstairs, got out of the bath, came downstairs naked and told them to "FUCK OFF".
They never came back.
I think there may be suitable material for a paper on Quantum Homeopathic Thinking; it may be possible to produce an entire concept or theory diluted down to a single neurone firing, I am sure I have detected such events during the introduction of a number of election manifestos.
Once a document gets into a council office, the world, his missus, snot nosed kids and his dog have access, council clerks are locals and are as likely to know some of the 'naughty' boys as anyone else. I have also seen desk tops left on all night to save firing up in the morning so the cleaners or anyone else in there at night could have access.
The best security in a local council is when there is a meeting in the chambers, nobody gets to know what is discussed there.
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