* Posts by heystoopid

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Abbey online banking takes 24-hour lie down

heystoopid

Oh been done in Australia in 1995

Ha ha , here in Australia back in 1995 Westpac Bank Ltd took over a Perth , Western Australia based bank called Challenge.

Now sadly the resulting merger and integration of the Challenge Bank Customer Data Base and identicafion of customers real money was soo poorly mismanaged , so as to deliberately deprive all existing Challenge Bank customers access to any account or credit funds for well in excess of 48 hours or more! , as the computer challenged Wank Bank IT staff desperately sought ways to fix the problems caused by their own ineptitude and very poor planning!

In the the end Westpac , then publically apologised with large scale Newspaper Adds within the state of Western Australia , addressing former Challenge Bank customers , saying literally we didn't mean to stick it too you! , please stay we promise to do better!

Sadly , however the damage had been done! , and no amount of redress on the Westpac side of the fence could prevent the stampede or loss the vast majority of the Challenge Bank customers , as they moved valued credit funds and assets to other financial institutions like Credit Unions etc(the major australian trading banks shameful activities(excluding the NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK(NAB) whose then GM point blank refused to join the stampede of the idiots , by asking the simple question "Does it fit the official standard lending criteria? or so the story goes") struggling to survive in the face of a vast sea of red ink from bad unpayable very large debts of many billions of dollars(20 or 30?) generated by gross anything goes stupidity lending of the late eighties based on the guesstimated final developed value and not the ability of the land developer to deliver the goods(Alan Bond/Christopher Skase to name but a few and destroyed all State controlled Banks at the same time) caused a literal hundredfold increase in the more secured Credit Union customer base as the banks put the screws into their financially secure customers by excessively ramping up the fees slashing staff and branches by 50% or more to cover and artificially hide the losses from the balance sheets)

Westpac the Bank had become so desperate to correct it's balance sheet , that it's board , chose to transfer a large surplus from it's own pension fund which the trustees had set aside for post 2012 payouts to retiring staff back into general revenue to hide the embarassing losses , and sacked the messenger who warned the board(he then went on to enlarge and enhance a local bank in Westpac's home state of origin to rival the size of the bank within that state, of his former bosses gaining many of it's wealthy cheesed off customers as well , annoyed at large scale fee increases well above the level of inflation)

In the interim the name Westpac was hidden from sight as a trading entity due to it's bad name as the scurge of good banking practices , run by an ex Wells Fargo man(remember this is the same bank that lost it's shirt in Argentina in the eighties and hit number one on the US FDIC watch list as well) , for over a decade until recently it re-emerged from the doldrums , and is still struggling with a declining customer base even though it ranks number three based on capital , but on customer numbers , number four of four and still a falling star!

So been there , done that in Australia in the nineties!

Interestingly , the combined debts of the ten million or so Australians on credit cards issued today by the local Australian Banks is now far larger than that which caused the Banker's lending crash of 91/92 in Australia!

Life does indeed move in circles!

Sin City director to remake Barbarella

heystoopid

How soon we forget

How soon we forget , the only reason Hollywood came into existence was to avoid paying royalties to one Thomas Alva Edison and the maker of black and white film stock George Eastman Kodak back in New York State!

But hey, Hollywood has been pirating foreign film ideas and novels since the roaring twenties(Dracula , Sherlock Holmes and a rather large number of French Films in both innovative(eg Our man in Rio - Jean Paul Belmondo(1962)(Later James Bond Movies ripped a lot of ideas from that one) , Taxi(1998) and Classic category as well , and famous for not paying the French owners one centime in copyright royalties either! Or take the train scene from Dr Zhivago as it steams out of a railway tunnel , in a similar manner to one of the very earliest moving silent movies created)

But then again , anyone for new movies from Hollywood , such as Rambo XV , Shrek XXV , Jaws XXX or bad to the core Greco Roman Epics like Ben Hur X or Jerusalem AD70(oops , sorry I forgot they have already remade the very trashy "Alexander" and the equally sickening movie called "Troy" which makes the arthouse Italian Sword and Sandals comedy movies of the sixties using the ex Elizabeth Taylor "Cleopatra props" look first class in comparison) , that be the question?

Crap just ain't crap , unless it is made by the Hollywood mafiosi and pirate crapola ideas cash machine , for we aim to steal and crap on the audience at the same time! , and we will think of all the ways to continue to milk the customer of every last cent , for the next one hundred years!

Perhaps as the laconic intrepid French Film Makers would say , now we know we made a first class movie the Hollywood Pirates , have just made a large budget crap remake in American English , for a hundred times what it cost us , to film the same movie! , now we know why they can't afford to pay royalties to us for stealing our good ideas and concepts turning them into rubbish in the process and putting them on this loser and tax dodge write off! , becuase it is truly crap in any language!

Apple moans over sex toy ad

heystoopid

Oh well

Oh well, what was the plot again , for even the redoubtable Jean LaFitte would crack a smile with all this legal piracy flying through the air rather than usual broadside of Grapeshot he was so adept at using way back when the average US Fir Built Frigate use to turn tail and flee before a lightly armed captured French built sloop flying the white ensign on the Atlantic Seaboard!

Sadly , though is this the same team of sour grape legal losers , that finally gave internet bloggers the same rights as newspaper reporters , that be the question?

Hmm, this one has the air of a vexatious law suit!

Antigua calls for pirates to return to Caribbean

heystoopid

Atypical of the Yankees

Atypical of the Yankees , for they have a history of ignoring almost every treaty they have negotiated and formally ratified from the Treaty of Ghent in 1815 onwards! , and have routinely flouted all international rules with absolute impunity or care!, and recognize no international border except their own!

Now undoubtedly under the next round of Trade Agreements these Yankee pirates and thieves , will include a future provisional exclusion clause which will allow them to automatically ignore any independent WTO rulings against them , and further require all trading nations are to abide by all US Laws and Statuates absolutely, even if they are contradictory to the local laws , and will then retroactively apply them to the previously ratified and signed trade agreements , as they will argue each new successive new agreement along with additional sub clauses automatically overrides all past WTO Trade agreements without any renegotiation required to be performed by past reciprients!

But then again , how long will Antigua last ? , if these pesky Yankees then apply the Cuban style blockade conditions ? or invade them Grenada Style? For afterall they believe the Monroe Doctrine still applies , except now instead of South of the border , the rest of the world is their personal fiefdom!

Italians sink Ellison's America's Cup bid

heystoopid

I seem to recall

I seem to recall the New York Yacht Club were not adverse to changing the rules mid event and/or creating a unique non standard yacht throughout the years they controlled the event , when it became apparent they were likely to lose the cup , until blackballed into international rules or else ultimatum!

Hmm, I wonder if some of the crew are related to yankee sailors of the 1812 to 1815 era , it could explain their poor performance!

But then again , tell it to some who cares!

Parliament IT dept is rubbish

heystoopid

Ouch!

As your average IT techie would say 95% of your LAN problems originate from the enduser doing very stupid and unanticipated things to the system , and sadly no matter how hard you try , they find ingenious ways to put the spanner in the works!

Given the average IQ of your elected parliamentarian rarely exceeds double digits(the BBC comedy series "Yes Minister/Primeminister" is closer to the truth than you think)!

Now it is common knowledge , that the wireless lan , is the weakest link of all , as the power of the modern laptop can crack the WEP keys very easily indeed with very simple software!

Still I like the comment from one user connecting his laptop to a very insecure wireless net work in a public place , one can wonder if he has any brains?

Sadly of the five hundred plus elected members in the current parliament , a minimum of 70 plus have their brains fitted in their posterior , given one recent circulated petition! , but since all the political parties cannot have people who can think for themselves without an attached minder , the dumber and more stupid the better a candidate they be, little wonder they have so many problems, and the parliamentary IT are obviously so used to dealing with children(members) who have basic computer skills of a child yet to graduate from kindergarten!

"The Peter Principle" rocks!

Cars could run on aluminium, say US boffins

heystoopid

Oh well , nothing like the blind leading the blinded?

Hmm, this reminds me of the farce of the the very poor missunderstood physics expoused in the mainstream public media of the so called liquid explosive , from the official claptrap rubbish which enable the British Police to terrorise all the innocent aviation travellers in the UK heading both east and west(very convenient one could for the armed police to renew their sagging and somewhat adverse public image of shooting many down innocent victims in public places which they appear to do on a somewhat regular basis and get away with literal murder without any punishment of the offending police officers other than a notional ha ha reprimand "Nelson style"(you or I doing the same identical crime would be looking at a very long term prison sentence , nice to have an official police badge and you can get away with murder))

One question , who failed to comprehend basic laws of physics, thermodynamics and the laws of diminishing returns for this crap idea ?

Or how soon we forget the enviromentally friendly Stanley or White Steamer of the pre WW2 era?(could be fueled by non polluting liquid vegetable oil(and even pre heat it as well) and the lower external combustion temperature produce minimal enviromental pollution in comparison to todays so called clean lean burning fossil fueled motor vehicles we drive today!

Oh well , back to putting one's head in the sand like a good ostrich , let the blind lead us to oblivion Tony Blair style!

Police raid ends allofmp3.com vouchers

heystoopid

But Then Again!

But then again , if you read all the fine print of the standard recording contract that the Big 3 Mafiosi of the industry put out from A-Z , it is nothing but a license to steal money from the poor unfortunate artist at every level imagineable(see the sex pistols blog over the crap awards scam they currently run)

Don't forget that the alleged cost breakdown blurb at itunes shows apple retains a mere 20 cents to own operate and pay for the internet bandwithd, the balance of 79 cents paid to the big 3 mafiosi of the industry (multiplied by 1.2 billion sold thus far=12 tracks per Ipod sold) and of which a mere one cent is paid to the recording artist , but even this is subject to the usual industry usery account fees and charges!(these days due to the excessively high industry fees and charges(includes the cost of outright bribery to both the DJ's and chain Radio staion conglomerates(Eliot of NY 1 industry nil all)) the recording artist needs to sell a minimum of 1 million cd's to break even and may receive the royalty payment many years later after the fact!

Yes these business icons make the management at allofmp3 look virtuous and honest in comparison!

Quite frankly , to be fair the industry should be paying us to download the songs in the lossy mp3 given the annual deluge of the ten thousand or so formula unoriginal rubbish or visual pollution(MTV/TV POP IDOL Shows) they release on an annual basis!

Mobile blocking helicopter to trail Bush in Sydney

heystoopid

nice way to treat a loyal ally

Oh well, Sydney is a crap place to live at the best of times (they pump untreated raw sewage out to sea at the heads and it sometimes gets washed back into the harbour).

Still it's a nice to see how even handed the Americans are when they treat loyal rubber stamp allies in the same manner as their enemies.

What price stupidity?

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