I fully agree with you. I was told by a text from my GP surgery on the 12th Feb to register for my vaccination. So I phoned up and booked it for today (20th). I am 66 with no underlying health problems. A friend of mine has an uncle who is 75 and lives only about 10 miles from me (same county, though different GP) who has yet to be contacted at all!
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Healthy 32-year-old offered COVID-19 vaccine because doctors had him down as 6.2cm tall with BMI of 28,000
Big Tech workers prefer 3 days at home, 2 in the office. We ask Reg readers: What's your home-office balance?
Re: To be truthful
In theory I could have retired 3 days ago on my 66th birthday (the bus pass, ordered on my birthday, arrived today - yay!). Trouble* is I've been a self-employed web developer/programmer since 2005 and have worked fully from home since 2008 and people keep chucking work my way!
* for maybe an enviable level of "trouble"
Hero to Jezero: Perseverance, NASA's most advanced geologist rover, lands on Mars, beams back first pics
No egrets: Ardent twitchers fined for breaking lockdown after bloke spots northern mockingbird in his garden
Watch this space: Apple offers free repairs for the self-bricking Apple Watch SE and Series 5 wearables
Voyager 2 receives and executes first command in 11 months as sole antenna that reaches it returns to work
Nominet vows to freeze wages and prices, boost donations, and be more open. For many members, it’s too little, too late
This scumbag stole and traded victims' nude pics and vids after guessing their passwords, security answers
Ever wanted to own a piece of the internet? Now you can: $1 for a whole gTLD... or $2.8m if you want a decent one
UK Test and Trace chief Dido Harding tries to convince MPs that £14m for canned mobile app was money well spent
ByteDance sues Tencent over lack of link love on its messaging services
Momentum builds behind campaign to fire Nominet CEO, board – though success still far from certain
How do you save an ailing sales pitch? Just burn down the client's office with their own whiteboard
Nominet faces showdown with British internet industry: Extraordinary vote called to oust CEO, board members
@nematoad
"These people are corrupt, feel themselves unaccountable and deserve to be thrown out of office as soon as possible."
Upvoted! I fully agree and that statement sounds like it could also be applied to a certain other bunch of complete bastards whose imbecilic ineptitude has resulted in over 100,000 deaths - I'm sure you can probably work out who I might be talking about...
Takes from the taxpayer, gives to the old – by squishing a bug in Thatcherite benefits system
Remember life on Venus? One of the telescopes had 'an undesirable side effect' that could kill off the whole idea
Open the door, get on the floor, everybody walk the dinosaur: Expect an ad, get a bork
Facebook finally finds something it thinks is truly objectionable and needs to be taken offline: Apple
We've got some really bad news about Apple's privacy measures, Google tells iOS app devs: It'll hurt your Google ad revenue
Re: I Believe .....
Thanks for the reminder - I had to go and look it up again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmWLJmbytkk
Nothing new since the microwave: Let's get those home tech inventors cooking
BOFH: Are you a druid? Legally, you have to tell me if you're a druid
You can drive a car with your feet, you can operate a sewing machine with your feet. Same goes for computers obviously
"the occasional overheated Apple III motherboard"
Not sure about "occasional" - overheating plagued that model! And the resulting cooling (when off) and heat cycles would then pop chips out of their sockets. Wandering chips was something that afflicted Amiga 500s as well. At least, with the Amiga, you could use the renowned fix of dropping it from about 3 feet in the air onto a soft surface like a bed! Fun days!
Judge denies Parler an injunction to force AWS to host the antisocial network for internet outcasts
Hey, stop insulting Neanderthals!
They weren't as dumb as originally thought: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25499-neanderthals-may-have-been-our-intellectual-equals/
Police drone plunged 70ft into pond after operator mashed pop-up that was actually the emergency cut-out button
Re: Touch screen emergency shut off?
Reminds me of one of my favourite Gary Larson cartoons - "Wings stay on, Wings fall off" one:
Dratted 'housekeeping', eh? 150k+ records deleted off UK’s Police National Computer database
This chip lark is child's play: Intel gives us the lowdown on Lakefield in language of Lego
Fujitsu opens door, invites '200 to 250' staff from UK Delivery team to walk out
Re: It worked so well for IBM
...which then makes in customers pissed-off by the lowering of support/service standards so they take their business elsewhere resulting in lower sales, resulting in lower staff requirements, resulting in a whole new raft of redundancies, ad inifinitum (well, until the last person there turns out the light)
Flash in the pan: Raspberry Pi OS is the latest platform to carve out vulnerable tech
Attaching a tractor-fed Epson LX-80 dot matrix impact printer was the height of luxury
My first Epson was the FX-80, which was attached to my Commdore PET 2001-8 (yes, the one with the chiclet keyboard) via an IEEE-488 to parallel interface box. Worked fine for about 3 years and then blew its internal power regulators up requiring a quite expensive repair. The FX-80 limped on for another couple of years before it got traded in for an HP DeskJet Plus - this was back in the days when HP printers were still good workhorses and not just crappy devices for marketing ink at gold bullion prices. Nowadays I wouldn't touch either Epson or HP printers having been stung by their more recent (i.e. anything post 2000) pieces of utter shite!
Gloucestershire IT pro faces court over £30k Amazon voucher theft allegations
Unauthorised RAC staffer harvested customer details then sold them to accident claims management company
Two wrongs don't make a right: They make a successful project sign-off
Lay down your souls to the gods of rock 'n' roll: Conspiracy theorists' 5G 'vaccine' chip schematic is actually for a guitar pedal
File format conversion crisis delayed attempt to challenge US presidential election result
I built a shed once. How hard can a data centre be?
All I want for Christmas is cash: Welsh ATMs are unbeatable. Or unbootable. Something like that
Yes, Microsoft Access was a recalcitrant beast, but the first step is to turn the computer on
'Best tech employer of the year' threatened trainee with £15k penalty fee for quitting to look after his sick mum
Let the chips fall where they may: US Commerce dept whacks Middle Kingdom firm SMIC on naughty list
Stony-faced Google drags Android Things behind the cowshed. Two shots ring out
Re: Google doesn't say much about continuity
Absolutely, and here's the proof: https://killedbygoogle.com/