Re: Good intentions, bad outcome @Dr Mouse
You didn't, hmmn you wouldn't be on one of the people who writes our policy on why we should be monitored would you?
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Having been volunteered by a friend to talk to some men in gray for his vetting and having being vetted. I agree, they did not care about past minor misdemeanours after all it's hard to be a squaddie then a student and not get up to some shenanigans.
It's struck me it was more about how accessible the subject would be to blackmail, or some other soft technique. They really did not give a crap about the odd joint being smoked as a twenty year old doing a degree, it's was far more stuff along the lines of womanising, gambling habits, things like that. Likewise if you were honest about things like having a smoke, or being a bot of a rave kid then you were generally ok, (less duplicity less blackmail chances I guess).
There is somewhere on the web a rather interesting comparison from and electrical engineer between a apple power adaptor and a generic chinese ebay one, he pulls it apart and goes over the design choices made, component choices etc and what makes it different, there is a lot of difference in quality.
Edit found it.
http://www.righto.com/2014/05/a-look-inside-ipad-chargers-pricey.html
Aaaah many years ago, at home figuring out how to install NT and get it to join a domain. I spent many fun hours not being able to figure out why the server I had just built would not talk, swapped cables, reinstalled, invented new swear words and everything.
Several hours later I learnt the difference between crossover cables and patch cables.
I don't really take much care of mine tbh, it has to go in my pocket and cope with my lifestyle. I really hate having delicate bits of shiny that I have to spend my day worrying about. My last phone had dents in the casing, couple of years back with first smartphone and being abroad it really annoyed me that I had to keep thinking about it and whether it was ok.
To improve efficiency we need all depts of government to work together so all information from the state health service, state broadcaster is immediately available to the police and cabinet office.
Yep we should make it all one body, easier to name as well, we can call the police the nose, the news agency the mouth, security services can be the fingers...
No they are not in fact if anything seeing these interviews make me think two things, 1. These people are insane in the way that rabid dogs are and need to be stopped. 2. Maybe we should stop fucking around with other regimes because we really aren't learning from it.
At no point though have I felt the need to stop eating bacon and go and behead a kaffir.
The media have not manufactured Daesh, and sometimes its worth hearing about what the other side have to say, even if it's not what you agree with or you give them some publicity. (pretty sure most of their publicity has been of the sort that would mean most people would happily see them wiped from the face of the planet anyway).
If you do not hear it no matter how abhorrent it may be then you end up having to go by information from only one side, delivered by the likes of Blair* or Bush*, or Murdoch, or Cameron, which is packaged in a much more media and sensibility friendly package, but is just as much bullshit.
*Who is frankly far more responsible for the manufacture of Daesh than any journalist. (But of course according to them not much really).
Try a Russells Viper, almost the same LD50 as the inland Taipan (so about as venomous you are going to get) and also known to be pretty narky.
Try this youtube link where they drop some venom in blood see how quick it causes it to coagulate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WvnjCkLbvY
Also they kill a lot of people especially in places like India, because mambas and cobras tend to hunt and so will get out of the way of people often. Vipers tend to rely on their camoflage which is usually exceptionally good, and so will stay still and hope you do not notice them which often means someone then steps on it and cause it to bite. Drop one in the garden and send someone out to clear the leaves.
Although saying that, there was an incident a few years back now in Bangkok where a guy had bought a cobra (there's places in BKK you can buy them, western diamonbacks, taipans etc etc) and released it into his flat to bump off his wife.
Yes eventually they do. A dive buddy (who worked in underwater videography), found a largish King Cobra wrapped around his toilet. So he tied his camera to a broomstick and decided to annoy it, first it made a threat display, then it starting dry striking the lens, after a few hits then it started using venom (you could see it on the lens), after a few more strikes it seemed to use a lot more venom.
Snakes will dry bite as a threat, because most animals aren't stupid enough to stay around and they want to conserve the venom, but they absolutely will use it if they feel like they are in danger and their opponent isn't backing down.
It also depends on the snake some snakes are mellower than other species, sea snakes are really chilled and yet almost all species are highly venomous I have never felt worried encountering one, I wouldn't fuck around with a black mamba though one African lady described them to me as "an extremely angry snake." *
Also it does not need to be adult a baby snake is born fully venomed and are said to be more dangerous as they have less control over there bites.**
*There was a beeb prog on rattlesnakes and the researches said even individuals among the same species had different temperaments.
**Recently seen an article somewhere saying this may not be true but have not read it yet.
We used to chat up the girls at the stores when EPOS systems went down, got invited to many parties and such. Used to drive the supervisor mad though, especially as we were actually rebuilding the servers while gassing so they couldn't say we were slacking as such.
It's high time some of these major companies simply fired these clowns, declined to pay out their severance, and let them sue if they wish
I always find it weird that when you get past a certain level, things on your CV that would righlty not get me even an interview are seen as a good thing.
"Oh you fucked a companies share price up, closed half of it down and sacked a lot of the staff! That makes you highly employable at board level"
To be honest getting close enough to some wildlife is enough work, gaining their trust enough, wandering through crap conditions (35-40C 95% humidity and jungle to wander through is pretty knackering).. You never know how wild animals are going to react as well. I have seen a troop of crab eating macaques completely ignore me photographing them and sitting among them, and run straight past me to attack some other people who were watching them,monkey bites are not nice they have pretty decent incisors, they are also thieves who will grab anything that takes their fancy. I would have been pretty wary on first encounters with any monkeys.
Orange sent a bailiff round (about 2 years after I left them) to collect on the phone number they had given with my account (while waiting for them to move my number across), seems they hadn't stopped it and had been charging me for several years worth of monthly fees on it. Knowing they are part of EE was enough to keep me away.
into a toilet and had a gient centipede walk right over my foot, almost didn't need the toilet after that. Peeing while holding a stick to defend yourself with is not funny.
I also have a picture of a bird eating spider that covers a large floor tile that used to live in the bathroom at another place it used to sit right above the cistern and it was a waist height cistern.
Again it's a corporation holding a country to ransom, and pain though it is I think you would have to push back as a goverment to show you cannot be so blatantly manipulated. Plus would be interesting to see what happens to googles services in other countries & businesses when they see that this is how google wields its power over them overtly.
Actually I have nothing against muslims, or christians or anything like that. Most muslims are pretty ok out of the ones I have met, in fact couple of years ago stayed on a predominately muslim island for about a month and everyone was lovely, I would recommend the place to anyone wanting to go there for a holiday.
However any lot who happily kill and maim for some cause like ISIS and who oppress people and will not compromise from their own twisted world view and who thinks you should die if you do not agree, well quite frankly fuck 'em.