Re: not so keen on your chapatis
Oh I so agree on Penang, what an amazing place for food, not only the Malaysian food, but the grub from China town and the Indian curry houses.
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No oit can still be unpleasant seems to me there's to types a vapours present at work, those who have the normal vaper and those who are getting into the turbo charged custom versions, the normal ones are pretty inoffensive, the turbosized ones produce huge amounts of smoke that fills up the room we work in (literally hiding the prson vaping when they exhale). Its like being under assualt at a perfume counter during Christmas.
Yes but be serious you would only really expect to see that sort of effort put in by a tech site, you know one that talks about security issues and stuff. You can't expect a site that doesn't understand and report on things like that to understand the needs for HTTPS.
Starting to wonder about that, I never really bothered with Linux as it was to much arsing about setting it up, (yes I know its got easier, but I remember the pain of trying to get dual monitors on a radeon graphics card working), and for me the pc was just a tool to get stuff done.
But MS are now making any effort worth it, and its not like they managed to make win 8 a user friendly experience anyway, I can't help but wonder whether its going to cause people to suddenly work out the value of effort v privacy. I have non techy friends who having heard the comments about win 10 and want none of that shit, IOS or Linux could come good out of this.
From personal experience as a student in Bolton, I can say the police showed quite a relaxed attitude in general to a bit of weed being smoked, sometimes we even had off duty ones at parties.
Funnily enough the only time we did get in trouble was when someone picked a daffodil from a council planted area, that apparently needed a black maria, a van full of cops, two dog teams and a squad car, with us all being slammed into the side of the van and verbally abused.
For hell meetings, there was an AD agency in London a good few years back, that painted the meeting room some really hideous bright colours, purple and orange and had no seats or other comforts. The idea was that you only wanted to spend a brief time in it so meetings were quick and to the point.
My friend lived in Denmark for a while and they had some form of rent control in action, which meant the apartments where he lived there was a mix from high earning professionals all the way economically down to unemployed, he said it seemed to lead to less ghettoization.
How do you know its going to stress the bears until you find out?
Seems to me its was experiment, see results act on conclusion.
PS you can often get quite close to wildlife, some animals are indifferent (or seem so), some animals get used to things and don't care.
I get some of your point, farming gators etc is fine, But how do you farm sharks?
Shark Trust says shark leather comes from a variety of sharks, and some of the ones it lists are on IUCN as endangerd or critical. Obviously we do not know for this companines sourcing, but I might actually email them and find out.
Council security gave me the impression that they spent more time monitoring employees and checking what they looked at on the web and emails than anything,
I got the feeling it was treated like an extension of HR, where there job was to a make sure no one looks at someting that could cause a problem (note in the councils I have worked in policies on sexism and racism mean that even if someone overhears something and finds it offensive then it's treated as sch, e.g working with my Indian friend if I asked him to translate something and said it was al dirkha dirkha jihad to me even if it was just in conversation between us (or if he calls me a Kafir) with no offence meant or taken between each of us, is a possible offence if someone overhears it and finds it racist), so the IT dept watch the staff to make sure the council doesn't get one on some HR policy breach, or find evidence to get rid of people by the same way since it can be a bugger getting rid of long term council staff.
Of course I may be cynical but having worked for various councils up and down the country the biggest conclusion I have come to is a large percentage of my council tax is wasted on idiocy, internal politics and general fuckwittery.
Then they better also provide them with protection for when a councillor phones up and every rule is dropped to keep them happy.
Have also seen same thing with home office, minister questioning whether I had the security clearance to be seeing his emails (whilst fixing a problem with outlook talking too exchange), then insisting and being an arse because I would not let his secretary (who definetly did not have clearance that high) have access to his mail box on her PC because he said so.
Having worked briefly on council tax for a council, them asking for your credit history or bank statements is weird, we never had to do anything like that even when doing debt recovery/ chasing non payers for the council. I can't even see why it would be elevant unless they thought something dodgy was going on, that sounds more like an investigation than standard practice.
What does bother me is the risk of this setting a precedent. They've got the bell and no-one's complained too loudly, so hey, why don't we get the wheel? Or some of the guns? After all, there'll still be plenty of twisted metal left down there to 'memorialize' the ship.
Well the people who go rob war graves are going to do it anyway. They aren't going to see a sanctioned lift as permisson, they just do it anyway.
Personally if you want to go to the North Atlantic and try and recover a wreck cherished by the RN at 2800 metres depth in conditions were if you fuck up you can really be in trouble, I'd have no qualms about our lads taking a few pot shots at you with naval guns during.
By the same token, if the relatives of the Bismarck or Bretagne's crew were OK with it,
I absolutely was (grandad was merchant navy during WW2 as well), the soldiers on the Bismarck fought just as bravely and most likely did not want to be there as much as the average allied soldier or sailor. Hate the politicians and human nature if you want for getting us into wars, but not sure your average conscripted soldier really deserves much hate.
Likewise I have found it odd to go to places like the Kwai festival and find lots of Japanese there (esp since other Grandad was a Chindit), but I don't hate them for coming to see it, I don't hate it has donated/built by (can't remember the name) Japanese Ironworks company on the Bridge, I can understand my Grandad never wanting to buy Japanese, I can dislike some politicians in Japan denying the Japanese war crimes, I don't hate the average Japanese person though.
We should learn from the past, but not neccessarily relive it.
Also I would say if the survivor of the Hood felt it was fitting then it is fittting.
Then your impression is wrong, my friends is a teacher, studied marine archeology has a most walls covered by bookshelves, mostly sails and plays rugby. He has and never has had any interest in the internet, but you would be hard pressed to call him illiterate.
Also half the country? I think you may not have much interest in doing maths or statistics. Subjectively speaking of course.
Unfortunately they are the sort of idiots that then show up in the papers making a sad face while holding a scrap of paper, and huge headlines saying council charged me for making a mistake (although it should say "for being an idiot") they have to much power or something, and then our money gets wasted on trying to enforce it.
I have had calls at 3am (while working on a council repair line) about such fun things as my light bulb is broken get someone here to replace it (couldn't change it themselves health and safety), and there's ants in my kitchen my babies in danger. Both these people were mid twenty 'ish, if I phoned my parents and said the council didn't send someone round to change the light bulb my parents would be ashamed, both these people then had there parents immediately ring and complain as well.
Have to say listening to those calls I feel slightly worried for the seven year old whose been left in the charge of an idiot.
It could have been easier, the advertisers could have had a little more respect for privacy and playing fair, most people would find a free content site with non intrusive adds acceptable, instead they thought they could push the limits. Unfortunately for them, on the web with tech savvy people all around, people don't bother trying to change a law, they write a program, this is the counter reaction to their extremes
Bugger that, after a few years of using command line on unix boxes, using vax, and having experience with windows in its many flavours including ME, the average OS should at least be something I can delve into, windows 8 should have been ok need to get used it but it'll be usable and same same enough; instead well its been a long time since I swore at an OS but win 8 deserved it.
Actually post release, if they still have all the creepy options turned on, I would ask why am I paying for it?
Either its free and I am being monetised by you selling my personal details to advertisers, fair enough.
Or I have paid a fair chunk of cash for it and thats where you got my money, now sod off trying to gouge more out of me by selling me and my personal life.
Depends, I have worked for an employer who used to drive in, in a 70K car, be pretty abusive, and spend a lot of time telling us how hard their life was because they were only paying themselves 16K (the tax paid for by the company dividends, car, reduction on mortagage for home office, phones, computers ipads etc etc apparently do not count as wages). They used to say things to their employees who they were paying 13K (and definetly underpaid) that they were the reason that even as a CEO they couldn't afford childcare.
Someone like that, yeah I can see someone going fuck you.
Morals and Ethics all very well, but its easier to keep them if your employer also has them.