Posts by TrinityX

At last!

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NHS Walk-in Centres

They're loved by the public because the public have no medical training. They're hated by doctors, who do.

Example:

Friend of mine suffering vomiting and diarrhoea went to the local NHS drop-in centre, where they duly drugged her up and appeared the fix the problem.

Problem turned out to be gastroenteritus, a potential lethal bacterial illness. The vomiting and diarrhoea was removing the lethal bacteria from her system; the NHS walk-in divs trapped it inside her.

Result: ten days in hospital, considerably more ill than she needed to be, and damn lucky not to die.

Either staff the damn things with people who know what they're doing, or abolish them altogether.

No Refunds = Stupidity Tax

@Richard39: damn right.

In fact, I know personally one of the utter prats who bought one of these. It pleases me no end to think the silly div wasted his money. Oh yes....

1st test

Time to see how sincere the promises were in the run-up to taking power...

Amazon's Data Retention

I don't mind Amazon keeping a record of what I've bought from them - it's fun (and occasionally useful) to go through it myself sometimes. I'd object a hell of a lot to some government bod helping themself to it, though. What possible LEGAL reason could they have for wanting that information?

Good luck to Amazon in telling them to get stuffed.

"Technology has moved on, but the Lib Dems have not yet caught up."

Given the grasp of I.T. shown by the other two mainstream parties, I'd give the LibDems some leeway on this. They sound like they're generally pointing in the right direction, and there are more pressing things to deal with first - like the whole I.D. card thing.

Why not force BT to fork out?

BT make massive profits at everyone's expense, fail to provide an adequate service, and yet it's the tax payers who have to find the shortfall? Whether it's a tax on the phone line or raiding the TV licence (which won't really be raided - it'll just go up to cover the "raid"), the company supposedly charged with providing national telecommunications continues to fail to do so and is supported in its failure.

(And why does everyone assume that everyone living in the country is rich? Most people were born there and are as skint as everyone else. But the poor have always been easy to ignore, haven't they?)

Let him go

After all the crap the poor guy's been through because NASA don't know how to secure their systems I think he should be let off. Disgusting travesty of justice from day one.