Posts by Triggerfish

I follow the mantra "Never trust a salemen, Why? because it saves time later"

One of my old employers (a Yorkshire factory owner so you can guess how straight talking he was) used to follow the mantra of "Tell them to go fuck themselves".

I used to love the sales call you occasionally get when a salemen would try after being politely rebuffed, the "are you authorised to refuse to speak/ put me through to" trick......actually mate I am authorised by the boss to tell you to..

Occasionally we would have to talk to them though cos we needed stuff, so he would deal with it, it could be quite brutal for them, I've seen salesmens smile fade like tears in the rain withing the first few sentences of a meeting.

I'm going back and reading some William Gibson.

Re: Bah!

I do vape, trying to give up the cigs. I have to say I agree, I can totally understand why someone who does not would not want to be in a room with people vaping in the same way they would not want to be in the smoking room especially people who use cloud mixes even as someone who vapes I have worked in rooms with people using them and it gets a bit much.

If it's treated like cigs in that respect though, i.e don't use in an enclosed office space (unless everyone doesn't mind) or as part of policy etc, no vaping in cinemas and such then I don't see why there is an issue with people vaping.

Re: Keep waiting for the day when users will start to push back....

I have to agree with this, until it get's to a point where it becomes so intrusive people psh back it's going to carry on.

But I think not just because most people don't understand computers, but because companies actively are trying many different ways to get your data.

In a way, slurping on the QT can cause some issues because you can get bitten once people catch on, there's even companies who have taken decent size hits because of this.

The way it really works is companies working the angle through omnichannel marketing and such. Want some vouchers for your supermarket? Sign up, give them your details let them tie that to the data they are picking up when you now connect via wifi to use those vouchers in the shop, and your profile and data footprint grows.

Only the most tinfoil of us would not sign up to nothing, I use things like Amazon for example, and it's these ways that people are really giving away their data, sign up to that supermarket and give them your name, and next thing you know the ad hoarding in your shopping centre is reading your wifi MAC and saying "Hello dave, want to buy some stretchy pants?" (I know you keep buying pie, the supermarket told me so).

Problem is we are getting generations of people who are more and more used to this, and havng the convenience of things just working when they expect, which is the other side of omnichannel marketing, and for the current and coming generations a lot of this is also the boiling frog effect.

Re: It gets worse every year it seems...

Agree with this, but think of all the non tech users out there. Google must really be harvesting some data if even the paranoid and techy sort that read things like the reg, are finding it harder and harder to get around.

Re: clarocque@gmail.com

Protesting and mobilizing against establishment and the democratic process is destabilizing democracy.

I would argue the ability to actually do these things is the sign you are in a democracy.

Re: OMFG!

I just hate modern victim culture. And obviously I hate scousers because they transported my ancestors on the slave ships out of Liverpool.

Irony?

Still, if we hadn't scrapped the Sea-Harriers, we could be conducting meaningful trails until the F35s are available.

Or just kept them, and possibly developed them further.

Re: Who cares

When are people going to get past the bull about carriers with no aircraft

The ship has still to complete sea trials, followed by work up as a ship before it gets to starting to work up with aircraft.

When you design something to carry aircraft, it's generally a good idea to know whether it's said aircraft are going to work on it, as well as actually have some. Otherwise surely you risk building a massive floating football field for all it's use.

Strikes me it's a bit like designing a plug socket, but not being told what the plug will look like.

Re: Well this is an interesting experiment @Dan55

I'm reminded of something called the incident pit, cant' help wonder if it's going to carry on and on, just with political changes rather than errors.

Big John is basically one of those guys who spends all his time working grease into the slope.

Re: It will be yet another war soon

"Political operatives are usually not members of the Council."

Then Richard chose not to mention any exceptions to that statement.

Yes but it does say "usually not", which implies there have been other times this has happened. Whats the problem?

I have a book for Trump and Bannon, if either of them actually read.

Its called Seven Days in May

For a bad moment there. I thought someone had already achieved Rule 34 on the special relationship.

Re: "all terrorists are Muslims"

I'm amazed how many people managed to forget Northern Ireland in the '90s.

I was living in Londn, thats why I don't get the we should fear all Muslims thing, by all rights I should be terrirfied of anyone Irish, the sound of an Irish accent on a plane should make me worried they are going to hijack etc.

But I can see that realistically thats all bollocks, so dunno why Muslims are not getting treated with the same level of rationality.

Re: Democrats overlooking Obama's record @Lars

As someone British I can assure you our lot is not really that superior. :)It just used to fascinate me because it seemed to carry on down into society for so many as well. One tech I knew had not let his father into his house since his father had asked him to vote for Obama last time, there's been some stuff like taht here, it just seemed more common.

I really do not think (or know enough to think) one system is better than the other just sometimes you realise when talking to people you work with and friends, how much of a shared langauge different culture thing goes on with some conversations.

Re: no bias nor inflamatory tone, move along

TMCDR*

*To Much Caps Didn't Read

Re: no bias nor inflamatory tone, move along

Man you gotta fix that keyboard.

Re: Democrats overlooking Obama's record

I have to say the partisanship in the US (although guess we see some of that in the UK with Brexit right now), is always quite suprsing, a lot of the people I have talked to in the US are very partisan with their politics and refuse to see the other side at all. I have had more than onepersons tell me they have refused certain people in their house because they had different politics. (I'm talking someone being a democrat versus repulican, rather than say supporting something like Nazi's and the Clan). And it's only from my small sample grop so could be completly wrong.

I know not all people like that in the US aren't like that plenty of American friends, but it seems more prevalent.

Re: What can possibly go wrong?

You missed out meglomaniac, demagogue and twat. ;)

Re: About time

Oh Big John. I'm so sorry but just look at all those down votes! I'm afraid like our glorious King we aren't winning the popular vote. At least we can console ourselves with being Right.

Must be all those illegal forum joiners.

Re: Less than a week in the position...

If Trump were impeached, I assume his bible-banging VP, Pence, would take over. As a Brit, I would not wish that upon our American friends

Well Sir on this side you have the devil, and this side well it's the sea deep and blue.

Re: So want to see this at some point

Oustanding Nate

Re: From the 90's on....

But I love the McaFee I get bundled on every new PC and laptop... now excuse me just got to go see about this head injury.

Re: If only all coppers were so nice

Some can be I was in Thailand with a GF who had twisted her ankle, we were leaving a concert a few miles out from the city and public transport hadn't been well organised, so it was a rush to cabs which were driving down from the nearby airport, which we were loosing badly due to limping GF.

So we were walking along the road everyone overtaking us, and it was looking at being a long time before we made it back. Cop car stops, copper gets out, doesn't say a word just puts us in the back of a car (you don't argue with Thai cops they have a reputation for sometimes being dodgy, and there is the face thing people have been shot), last thing we see is our friends gesturing to us from other side of the road and looking worried but reassuring us they knew we had been picked up.

He drives along the road in front of the crowds pulls his car across it blocking part of the road and stops the cabs standing in the road, with his hand resting on his holstered .45. Then hustles us out of the cab and tells the cabbie to take us home.

What a dude.

Re: Sun

If you can't read a map, knowing where the sun is doesn't make much difference. Plus you need to have some idea of how to use the sun to tell which way is North.

Even part timers are entitled to holiday pay, how is your company geting away with that?