Posts by I. Aproveofitspendingonspecificprojects

Re: What *customer* wants this?

Fancy getting down-voted for not seeing the places no longer worth seeing?

Who are those guys?

Try this

The real men start in 2 minutes. I believe the head of an axe used by these athletes weighs about 6 pounds and it is flying at the end of a three foot stick:

https://youtu.be/YnBHaq6rzcE

Re: @Stoneshop - Clearly

> so, not 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, or was it?

TalkTalk about a simple explanation, though!

Re: "toxic jet fuel coated the entire site"

The last I heard was that the residual agent orange and hydrazine left over from the Vietnam war got disposed of in the Rocky Mountains, Colorado thus spreading it evenly, all the way through to California. As for overpopulation you only have to scroll across the USA in Google Maps to find loads of room, some of it still unpolluted (relatively unpolluted.)

> NASA said the problem stemmed from either poor engine design, a defect in the equipment, or possibly

> that foreign objects got inside the pumps and caused the failure. Orbital Sciences claims the problems

> are solely down to the Russian rocket motors.

There is no way that the designers, builders and owners of that rocket are any less than completely responsible for the demise of said rocket unless they had an hostage situation where they were being coerced into using an old, untested, foreign made, unit that was likely to have bits in it that were either rubbing or various other consenting, contentious, inclusive unreasonables.

Re: Thanks for making me feel old...

> in 1995 that it was still possible to publish a world-wide 'telephone directory' in one volume, with all their email addresses in it!

Wasn't that illegal in Britain in those days?

Butt

He gave the world TV engineers that could work on satellite dishes once he got the contact for providing rubbish Sky connections that needed constant replacements. I wonder how many on here got their start professionally from that cowboy.

Re: Theft is still theft, if true...

So what is the legal definition of a "winning ticket"?

10,000 people who you have not spoken to once, are not, "friends", in any sense. They are just people you spoke to once.

FTFY

Re: Ultimate test

Do you mean your wife and cat or the phones?

Remember this could well be an ultimate test, so careful what you say.

Getting rid of schmucks

That doesn't sound very British, so I suppose the BBC will be keeping Rory Cellan Jones, foreskin and all.

failure to deliver service with reasonable care and skill

Once you get told that your account is not longer working, by some illiterate non English speaking oik (that just happens to have all the data on you that Talk Talk requires to verify you) then you could assume, quite rightly that it IS an official contact from the supplier and all you have to do is tell them:

"OK, see to it the account remains suspended; I am going to get a decent ISP, please send the official communique in writing," and then tell them where to go.

Hint when speaking to people of that nature: Shout V loudly.

Re: Jumping ship

I was thinking of the jumping ship analogy for people who think they have to wait. Your best route is to talk to someone with business or legal acumen who can tell you what the prospects are. If they need to act quickly enough in a worse case scenario Talk Talk can go broke and leave you in the shit.

I would have thought someone in a magazine like this might have offered advice already. And I don't just mean readers in the comments.

Re: False offer for "free credit reporting"

> I'm a TalkTalk customer, at least until my contract expires.

> They don't make this information easy to find on their website because they're [incompetent|malicious]

You don't have to wait for expiry if they are incompetent or malicious.

Re: Have I understood correctly?

The UK has a dead dog in this fight. They [GCHQ] are worse than the US."

For Internet surfers in the UK, the most significant surveillance program revealed by the leaks is Tempora. According to documents leaked to The Guardian, Tempora is a GCHQ program that intercepts data on many of the Internet’s fibre-optic backbone connections, both in the UK and globally. The extent of Tempora is unknown, but Snowden’s leaks contained a claim from the UK that GCHQ scoops up even more metadata than the NSA.

None of the GCHQs laudible systems aims served to prevent anything most of us would like to have seen prevented since before the USA was taken over by the chimp

Re: @Dan 55 "Go to a smaller one that looks like its competent"

You are using Windows? Still?

I though that windows was only used by magazines like this to give them something to talk about.

As well as being unlimited versions of Linux there are three main formats not counting the other one. And you can use all of them interoperationally.

Re: As I observed elsewhere in this illustrious mag

> We constantly review and update

> It wasn't encrypted, nor legally required to encrypt

= False advertising and failure of contract

= a get out clause. Close the account immediately and let the bastards sue you. You won't go to prison but even so it would be worth it to spite them on principle.

Only half covered here was the use of archers and the double indemnity they provided:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVuVtP_xepU

The ground would not have been very muddy in 2 hours of battle in October although we don't know the crop recently harvested we know it was covered in a carpet of leaves and two days worth of rain. Not a lot -unless the previous summer was wet. So not much worse than a football field, despite what the expert said.

It was the stadium /domino effect plus the French discounted the archers their bodkins being inferior to the French armour and the weather being adverse to the heavy use of the bows. If the strings snapped at full pull, the bow would break. And a wet sinew would soon stretch and weaken if retightened.

As you say the cavalry would not have frightened the English, they knew from Alexander's time that the spear was superior and there was nothing stopping the archers using spears. Perhaps being used to attract the cavalry into the trap because they seemed undefended and afraid to use the full power of the bows?

Re: Or just vague requests

What will come across as vague requests unless the company has been very silly is the brokering for the contract to supply certain sensors and emissions testing software, hence a link to people unlikely to get more business from VW for reasons best known to the devious buyers club.

Re: To be honest...

The first time I ever hit the report abuse button is to report that an abuser who thinks carbon dioxide is a poison. If you are so mentally fatigued you mistook carbon dioxide for carbon monoxide, then you need to check your heating system and cooking equipment and go for a long walk in the lightest traffic you can find. Then go to bed and sleep it off.

In future save your abuse for the really deserving, such as the environmental cranks like yourself, that have no real idea about the way the world works but get terribly upset about it all anyway.