* Posts by Triggerfish

2451 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Feb 2010

Anonymous 'plonks' names, addresses of far-right EDL types on web

Triggerfish

Re: thugs

So all those downvoters did you actually read the original post, do you actually believe that ALL (the above posters words) Muslims are plotting our downfall, that they are teaching their kids right from the pram to be a bunch of murderous jihadists?

Do you actually when you're walking the street imagine that all those little Mulsim kids in prams are actually like a version of Stewie from family guy, but y'know like brown and believe in Allah. At night being taught by them mum and dad how to McGuyver a pipe bomb from baby toys.

In fact do you feel nervous when there's all these brown skinned people near you in the street? Just waiting for one of them to go bang, you must near shit yourself if one of them trips incase they accidently go off?

I admire the posters ability to make a judgement that all Muslims are just waiting for the global jihad, it must have taken fucking ages to go round and question every Muslim on the planet, especially when you are to worried to approach within more than thirty yards without being in some form of armoured vest.

Good grief.

Triggerfish

Re: thugs

" The Islamists are loud and easy to spot (and watch), all those just behind are just as bad. They teach their children that violence may be okay, that any fight by Muslims against other faiths are good fights etc. and that is extremely scary."

Balls :)

Triggerfish

Re: Results Desired and Obtained

"If someone deliberately hurt my wife or child I'd hurt them very very badly, possibly even kill them, and screw logic, reasoning, the law and sanctamonious twats like you"

Different things.

Thats personal feelings because your family has been hurt.

The others what we should do as as society so we don't all end up smacking each other with axes, dispensing vigilante justice, encouraging summary execution by the government without trial, things like that y'know.

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Re: Irony

@Bumpy Cat.

No worries thought I had to as well. :)

Have to agree on the clueless bit, its a strange thing the girl I knew who was quite radicalised had a real cognitive disconnect thing going on.

@Mycho

Agree with where your coming from, that's why I don't really discount the ones who tend to break some of the tenets/laws/whatever as not being Muslim, and yeah I have listened to the debate over whether a teaspoon or so of wine in a recipe is a no no or something that they can be flexible about, it came down about half half, no one became apostate.

Triggerfish

Re: Irony

The Koran forbids alcohol from grapes, so technically it's only wine that's off-limits. More to the point, however, trying to say who is and isn't a true practitioner of the faith, from outside the faith, is not very cool. Demanding absolute adherence to scripture just buys in to the extremists viewpoint.

@ Bumpy Cat.

First off can I point out I did not intend to make that implication in the way you seem to be thinking, said I am not sure, at no point did I try and say with any definition say what made someone a true Muslim. In fact I think you will find that I said that many of the Muslims who drink would regard themselves as Muslims.

Re reading the comment about tenets of faith may be misinterpreted that way.

If you thought that apologies, was not what I meant to imply.

As for breaking tenets of the faith.

I may be under a misapprehension the more faithful Muslims I have known tend to shun all alcohol, even to the point we were discussing alternates to alcohol when sharing recipes even if it was only a spoonful distributed amongst a lot of ingredients. They were quite strict on it and it was a no no, the grape more being a metaphor for all alcohol.

I thought because of this it was a strict no no, but one of the things the youths did,

I've met Muslims of all sorts from trainee imams who wont even listen to music. (apparently only religious music is acceptable), however some will argue that's to strict an interpretation.

I've, drank with some, I've smoked with some, I've bought odd substances off a few, been to parties with some and have stayed with Muslims who have not had any objection to their daughters coming out to parties down the road with us.

I just am not sure how Muslim that makes them in the strictest interpretation, if a Jew chomps down on bacon butties are they still Jewish? What the cut off point?

I'd all say they were Muslim though, its never bothered me to much.

Funnily enough the only one I have met who was talking like they were on their way to radicalisation (to a scary degree of fervour), when asked about alcohol in recipes was just a case of; pah its not enough to get drunk on who cares and was probably the least informed of any I have known about their own faith and the real world.

Triggerfish

Re: Really?

I cant think of many religions having no purpose but to find hate. Admittedly I don't have a religion and I may be wrong.

But it strikes me generally speaking that most of the problems we have come from people who want to hate and want violence, or power then find an excuse to justify it maybe so they don't seem like psychopaths to themselves or others, mixed with some of the easily led.

If there wasn't religion we'd probably be having wars when the extremist stir clockwise tea drinkers fight the extremist anticlockwise followers. As it is they end up rallying behind a cause be it anti abortion, Islam, or immigration.

Beware the demagogues.

Triggerfish

Re: Irony

I know Muslims who drink, but I am not exactly sure that that makes them Muslim though (in the correct sense, they would certainly identify themselves as it), or they are at least breaking the tenets of their faith by doing so.

Moss reanimates after 400 years in DEEP FREEZE

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Re: Hmmm

Beat me to it. I was just going to mention that series excellent read.

Lego X-wing fighter touches down in New York's Times Square

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Re: Surely there's some armature?

I asked a civ engineer years ago about why Americans like wood, seems like there's a few factors, Not everywhere has suitable clay so brick is not always the most easily available material. Theres more people who can build in wood because of this. It has better properties than brick in many way not just insulation wise but it can also be structurally better in a fire. Its easier to work with and more versatile with how you can lay out the building, there were a fair few reasons :)

I figure in a big tornado as well bricks not going to make much difference in resistance.

Triggerfish

Re: Surely there's some armature?

I'll agree with the lasting for ever, same thing has happened in our family, even the lego sack it has been passed around in has lasted for god knows how long.

'Leccy car biz baron Elon Musk: Thanks for the $500m, taxpayers...

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Re: Wow-2

Jesus man there's a fine line between troll and stupid.

Look lets put it simply.

The government has invested in a car company, they've done that with a lot of others as well like GM and Ford, you know the guys not paying anything back. Tesla has actually done so with interest,

This has meant that the car company has been able to invest - and in turn employ American people who also then end up paying back into the economy.

Not only that but Tesla are now a step closer to working out car technology that will eventually become mass produced, once it becomes mass produced then it means that it becomes cheaper for all,

So its a rich persons toy at the moment but it becomes useful for the people.

Think of the car you drive now, a lot of the innovations you take for granted ABS, side impact bars whatever came from luxury car manufacturers like Mercedes and Lotus, the rich pay for these innovations eventually they trickle down. If the rich didn't pay for these then your base car would be more expensive or not as good as they are now, companies don't spend money to innovate for sheer joy the bean counters stop them.

Irish deputy PM: You want more tax from Apple? Your problem, not ours

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Re: Is this the

@Darren

Yeah I get that we had to lend to shore up one economy to make sure ours doesn't crash as well, and I know a few who have cheerfully gone bankrupt and not really cared about the debts they run up which is damn irritating as well.

Man were fucked at the bottom basically

Triggerfish

Re: Is this the

Hmmn your right the republicans have definitely done well for your economy.

Triggerfish

Re: Is this the

With you explaining it like that I can see what you mean and where you are coming from.

However I can't help but feel some resentment over the fact that countries that have basically been more responsible (if you can call the UK gov or any other gov responsible) have been expected to bail out the free ride.

Triggerfish

Re: Is this the

Yes but meanwhile the countries expecting to bail them out because they don't collect enough taxes are suffering because they are losing jobs and taxes because the multinationals all sod off and base their businesses there.

I mean I realise there may be other reasons that companies may not choose to work or base themselves in the UK for example and would rather base themselves in somewhere like Ireland apart from tax, but I still think its a fair point.

Also if the jobs etc are being generated shouldn't that be a sign of a growing healthy economy that shouldn't need a hand out?

Because well taxes are getting paid, companies are paying their taxes (some exemptions yes, some are fair enough when running a business) Staff are earning a decent rate of wages and spending into the economy. If you have some of the largest corporations in the world based in your country and you are having to come begging cap in hand surely you are doing something wrong.

Triggerfish

Re: Is this the

Well if it needs to be a bit clearer for you AC.

Then it strikes me that a country that turns round and is quite willing to stuff the rest of the EU with low tax rates and by being a tax haven, and then also says hi we have no money (considering a lot of a countries money is raised by taxes) bail us out. Well why should we, how about we turn round and say raise your taxes.

Its worth noting Cyprus has been in a similar boat personal income tax allowance for 2012 in Cyprus did not start until you were earning 19500 euro, Which is nice when in he UK our personal allowance started at about £8000.

Its a bit like knowing someone who spends all there money getting wasted at the beginning of the pay month and enjoying it whilst you try and be a bit more sensible, and then whines to you and comes asking for handouts at the end of the month saying I have no money, at what point do you turn round and say "get stuffed have some personal responsibility"?

Triggerfish

Is this the

same Ireland who has been asking for bailout money, because they have no cash?

Facebook teens' kimonos - basically never closed

Triggerfish

Is it just they are behaving stupidly? Which admittedly is a given with teenagers.

They are also now being brought up in an environment that trains them to give away their details.

They haven't even got lessons from other countries set ups like the old soviet era states, I wonder how many classes still even teach animal farm or 1984, and then considering back to my teenage years when we did get that I wonder if I would have done any better anyway.

Its a bunch of sophisticated adults and the underbelly of society, against teenagers who haven't grown up to learn yet and adults who haven't been able to catch up with the tech changes and so can't advise them, (and how often did you listen to your parents anyway?).

Climate scientists agree: Humans cause global warming

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Re: This may be a dumb question

Re: This may be a dumb question

You appear to be amazingly unintelligent. If a balanced site does not exist, the best that can be done is to provide the leading sites from both sides and allow someone to make up their own mind

*Yes and that's fair enough. I guess you could say my response was to this comment from you

""Hmmm. That's a bit like saying that I'm not sure whether to vote Conservative or Labour - give me a nicely balanced site to help me chose...!!""

*Which makes you seem amazingly smug

You see I was asking whether there's a site that helps people analyse this data, without bias. I'm not exactly sure where to start, and it would be helpful methinks to have somewhere that tries to sort it out without having its own agenda, apologies for wishing we could have some sort of scientific neutrality in the hope of maybe getting the reasonable truth or giving people the tools to help make some sense of it all.

I am quite willing to admit that for me there's so much guff in the way that going on one site that's biased one way and trying to sort out whether its correct or not and whether its actually good science or not is frankly confusing.

Admittedly I should probably go get a better grounding in statistics, then maybe brush up on my physics and you know spend some more time on blah blah.

Probably I in admittance need a site that really shows how to analyse scientific data I guess.

"I presume that your view is that all your beliefs are perfect, and everyone else is 'massively biased'? Congratulations."

*Yes that's right all my beliefs are perfect. I'm sure I have stated several times before in my belief that I am absolutely perfect, I am omniscient, that's obviously why I am asking questions you muppet.

Triggerfish

Re: This may be a dumb question

"Hmmm. That's a bit like saying that I'm not sure whether to vote Conservative or Labour - give me a nicely balanced site to help me chose...!!"

Well surely its more sensible than saying give me a massively biased site that lies and obscures truth behind bullshit and statistics? How are you supposed to work out what's the truth if you already know they are biased?

Triggerfish

Re: This may be a dumb question

Thanks for the answers Dodgy

The Why, I am not looking at this data to find out (I'm interested in wildlife and diving so I read about this stuff because of that). I was asking if it implied that they were evidence (whilst trying to be aware that correlation...).

Many people do use these reports as proof.

However to be fair the reports have come from a mix of sources and not all of them do use it as proof one way or another, for example the Japanese scientist report they say it is an example of migration due to global warming, but some of the other examples have come from just things like dive reports - comments on coral bleaching at dive sites spread around the world, some of the invasive species stuff comes from places like Glaucus.org, which just tends to report sightings and encounters (with just the facts, such as found it here, it was this long, it looked healthy etc).

I'm with you on 2 you see. IMO The science has become screwed up by becoming too political and too full of soundbites that people use to support their almost religious belief (on both sides), and trying to make sense of whats what is a real is a PITA. I don't think you can easily get to know if you are hearing the truth if one bunch of people are using a evidence one way without having an idea of the flaws and counter arguments. I don't think you can really form an opinion or come to the truth without looking at your own theories and then being a bit brutal and trying to disprove them and seeing if they still can hold water.

I think one of the biggest problems with climate science at the moment is that you can try and find info on the net and there's a thousand voices screaming my gods better than yours and its hard to figure out sometimes who is telling the truth and who is speaking bullshit.

With that in mind if anyone can recommend good sites that do look at it dispassionately and are happy to criticise claims on both sides by just sorting through the facts then please let me know ta.

Triggerfish

This may be a dumb question

But I am asking it genuinely so can some one explain it to me.

There seems to be some evidence that a marine and animal life is starting to migrate to areas outside of there norm, for example corals near Japan now seem to be establishing themselves further North where its cooler, certain Mediterranean species are starting to be found off our coast, coral bleaching, things like this.

Is this not an indication of waters getting warmer?

BTW it may sound it but I am not asking a rhetorical question to prove a point.

Urban Farming

Triggerfish

Unfortunately not young any more, willing to go on the possibility of dumb.:)

It tends just from a bit of observation (just comparing to local weather from other people in nearby places - maybe hearsay is more accurate) to have a more warmer microclimate here nestled in a valley.

Its definitely been a case with the lemongrass etc of suck it and see with left overs rather than a proper attempt to grow. Weirdly out of the two stalks, the one that's produced roots doesn't seem to be shooting new greenery (and has been planted) the one that had been sitting in water and hadn't produced roots yet was going to be chucked but seems to be sprouting new fresh green growth (and as such has had a stay of execution.

I had a feeling the rhizomes may have been suffering since they have just been plonked in the same dirt trough as the mint, coriander, basil has been growing in. So have had the feeling it may be too damp and cause rot, but I was being lazy and to get to the bag of compost I had would have required emptying out the whole of the cupboard under the stairs. (sod law whatever you put at the back you need).

Next time I will try and rig up something like you suggested.

Window space is still premium at the moment as I am still growing bits of moss over wood etc, after that I think microsalad and sprouting seeds is going to get a try. I may even try rigging a mini hydroponic type set up, but I am also contemplating once an open topped fishtank is built planting in shower caddies around it and running some of the tank water through it or having it partially dipped in there and seeing if it wicks up - on the theory that its going to get nice warmth and a decent lighting from the tank lighting .

Triggerfish

@Jake

I have a sort of ad hoc germination station for my tank plants, a fish tank with cling film on the top and a heat mat underneath.

Did you find the lemongrass needed heat? I seem to read mixed opinions.

All the lemon grass, galangal, and krachai has come from basically having some left over from buying in a supermarket and just thinking lets see if I can grow it, so at the moment its a no loss (and frankly minimal effort on my part) poke it in some dirt experiment rather than a serious attempt to grow it.They are on a W-SW windowsill in Yorkshire, the krachai seems to be rooting, the lemongrass has been in water and is starting to poke some roots through, think the galangal has died though.

@Corinne

Just my opinion but I think there's a little bit of an art to growing as well as science,wherever you put your plants they tend to have a slightly unique environment (light/shade humidity, drainage, soil makeup/structure), there's a lot of plants I grow just by checking them and deciding when to water or not, move the plant etc tempered by what I know of their conditions and how the plant looks like its doing.

I actually quite like this part of growing the observation and fiddling experimentation its like a little science experiment you can potter about with.

Triggerfish

I have a couple of windowsills that are quite wide on the inside. The one downstairs has a trough with herbs growing coriander, mint etc.

Its a deep trough with about 3 inches of gravel at the bottom, it keeps it low maintenance (imo) because you can water it heavily once a week and it acts like a water reservoir, give it the odd trim when the herbs get to crazy, water it each week with a load of water from the fish tank change (good water for plants), it seems to have been working so far.

Have a few odd things I'm attempting like galangal and lemongrass not sure if its going to be warm enough for them though.

Haven't decided on the top windowsills yet, currently using one to experiment with growing some emersed fish tank plants. But I am thinking of trying micro salad or maybe some sort of veg.

I've lived in houses or with people who have veg patches and it is some work, or light exercise depending on how you see it, but even simple things like chips made with newly dug potatoes that are sweet and earthy....

I can understand why people bother.

The IT Crowd returns to Channel 4 for a final episode

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Faaather

Triggerfish

Re: Transphobic

You know it never even occurred to me to think that it was a jibe at transsexuals.

I thought that episode was excellent the fight scene was magic.

Israeli activists tell Hawking to yank his Intel chips over Palestine

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Joke

Re: Mr Hawking, you should listen to “Palestinian academics”

You missed out the fact that both sides want to ban eating bacon that's a massive black mark imo.

And agree with the other poster, bible, monethism etc are not fantastic contributions to our society.

Has any employer ever delivered the training it promised?

Triggerfish

Question 2 you missed off the option for "No"

Question 4 you missed off the option for "Not at all"

Question 5 you missed off the option "None"

Fraudster gets ten years after selling fake 'ionic charge' bomb detectors

Triggerfish

Re: I disagree with most people here.

It seems to me that the buyer weren't that stupid (at least to fall for the scam). From the last paragraph it looks like a lot were corrupt sods who were willing to line their own pockets, because they didn't care about the poor sods who were going to be on the front line, and knew it wasn't going to be them working that front line.

Would have been interesting to see which ones had personal bodyguards relying on these, or whether they were using something different.

Tiny fly-inspired RoboBee takes flight at Harvard

Triggerfish

Re: A Jeff Noon moment

I was thinking more of the Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson.

So long, Hotmail: Remaining users migrated to Outlook.com

Triggerfish

Re: 'tis good

Yeah I have my first initials and surname with no need for a string of numbers in my hotmail account. I quite like it for the same reasons, plus it means I got in first (ish) :)

Triggerfish

Well I've used it since the beginning. Its survived several changes of company me living here and abroad, and has meant I haven't had to worry about maintaining my own domain name through all that time.

People I have met during those times can get hold off me, some of them I don't hear from for months or more. Everyone who for me its worth knowing and keeping some form of contact with gets my hotmail address. Everyone else gets the junk ones I create or emails that may eventually expire for some reason or another.

Facebook: Yeah, we'll ban chainsaw beheading vids - when journos call us

Triggerfish

I can understand maybe someone clicking on it out of curiosity, it the 3000 likes I find disturbing.

Hotel marketplace Airbnb: Show us your privates if you want to book a bed

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endeavour to secure a protection

Is that code for...

We'll have a brief discussion, weigh the negatives (it will cost us, we'll have to pay lawyers) against the positives (ooh everyone's IDs for marketing and selling on), and say well we tried. Now lets see who wants to buy these lists.

Quid-a-day nosh challenge hack forms foraging party

Triggerfish

Re: @Lester

With fried rice it depends on how much heat you can get to your wok.

Asian gas suplies for wok cooking chuck out a lot of gas the oil is vapourising almost straight away, after lighting.

The average crappy UK stove top (even if it has a wok burner) just doesn't deliver enough heat. So you often have to fry in parts and let the wok heat up properly between as the food cools it.

As for me I was always told the rice should be slightly al dente, dry and cold (apparently it takes up less oil or something when you do this).

Crap computers in a crap box: Smart-meter blackouts risk to UK

Triggerfish

Re: Whilst I can see the value.....

Of course they can, anything that costs them is a cost that has to be absorbed by a consumer as a price rise.

Any saving is a cost still absorbed by a consumer that now pays for the MD's new boat.

How many times when gas /oil / electricity wholesale prices etc drop did you see them quickly cut their bills to you?

How many times when it rose?

Master Beats: Why doesn't audio quality matter these days?

Triggerfish

Re: isn't what I call music. Not even remotely.

@Vladmir

Well I would still that not all of the dance and rap and the variants are just there to maintain a beat, not all go for repetetive compositions either, although your more likely to find that tendency out of pure dancing in clubs music (although some is more tuneful than you think) admiteddly if you arent into the music its also unlikely you'll be hearing it) since its rarely heard on the radio, and I would agree with you that I am not a major fan of that sort of dance music either because its boring to me.

Some of the variants outside of the club, trip hop for example has plenty of tunes and variations.

Also when do you define that a song has to many repetitions. What about a waltz, or some heavy metal tracks?

Does that not devalue the tunes of other songs for example how about something like Yngwie Malmestein (sic) track that basically is just a delivery vehicle for him to indulge in some guitar onanism?

@Roper

Rap is not all like that. I cant really identify with that get my gat macho shite either tbh, I grew up in a relatively ok part of London, drive buys with my hommies were not part of growing up.

It leaves me cold as well.

But how about something like "disposable heroes of hiphopcrisy" that rapped about things like literacy falling because everyone's watching the television, and lyrically is clever.

Or the Massive attack, they use rap quite a lot. There are rap bands out there that don't do all that, its just seems to be the fashion to be this over the top gangster stuff hats the problem.

But have noticed that in other genres, shoe-gazing indie, heavy metal that sounds like the singers vomiting into the mike (dunno what style you call that), rock with funk (chilli peppers, faith no more) etc

Just to be clear I am not saying you are wrong for not liking a style. Theres plenty of stuff I don't like either. But don't see the point of being so closed either, there's usually a song or two from most genres that you can turn around and go hey that's actually rather good.

Triggerfish

Re: @Sabroni "Music" is the problem

You know there's plenty of quality music in other genres, even if you don't like it.

The arrangement on some quality deep house tracks can be just as impressive as other music for example, and friends who dj are just as fussy about audio quality they are playing somewhere.

I can't see how people who call there themselves music lovers can blindly stick to just one genre and dispel others with such prejudice, and so much music shares its roots or is influenced by another form.

You like rock, but think blues or some folk would be automatically be shit, what do you think Page and plant where listening to then?

Being like that with music is like the comment made by audiophiles earlier its just daft willy waving.

Fried-egg sarnies kick off Reg man's quid-a-day nosh challenge

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Re: Nice shopping

Uuurgh BBC search is awful. Cant find the articles from a couple of days ago.

I wouldn't begrudge the pepper bit. But they worked out the whole value of the recipe like that the same way you would do for a resteraunt dish.

So it meant they were saying things like add 5p baked beans, 10p bacon, 7p of wine etc.

In other words can you feed yourself for a pound a day from a fully stocked food cupboard, not just condiments or herbs and spice.

Turns out yes you can, who'd have thought.

Triggerfish

Nice shopping

You did better than the beeb, who had a load of people who said look recipes are easy, then mentioned you just add 30p of this, 5p of that.

I think the weekly shop for all the goods (since buying 1p of pepper is not possible) they mentioned came to about 30-40.

Bill Gates offends Koreans after sticking hand down trousers

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Re: Maybe @Psyx

I don't doubt there are. Maybe also the ones I have met because you get to know the group and their friends tend to skew my perspective and so I only tend to meet those who have integrated (as much as you can in some cultures).

But can't see why you think its only Brits, I have met the same idiots from plenty of other countries as well. Its not just some British disease.

Triggerfish

Re: Maybe

Bull I know plenty of Brits who have made a good life abroad and live within the culture, and Americans and French and Germans etc. There's also plenty who are twats (and usually they tend not to stay long, or are on holiday and don't give a shit), nationality does not define the individual.

Triggerfish

Re: Maybe @NomNomNom

Excessive use of hyperbole methinks

Triggerfish

Re: Maybe

I agree you respect the countries culture you are in.

I have also traveled in a few Asian countries where being a foreigner means that you are not as strictly bound by some of their social conventions than you would have been if you had grown up there, they expect you not to know because you are now Johnny foreigner.

This has included sitting and having chats and drinks with some guys and then being very surprised on a night out when local shopkeepers start bowing to them and showing far more respect than I have who was treating them as equals. Being outside of the culture does get you some leeway when abroad in some surprising ways sometimes.

Anons torn over naming 'n' shaming of 17yo's gang-rape suspects

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Re: @mickey mouse

I'll have to correct myself, apologies.

The sentence seems like it was low because they were tried as juveniles, and it was actually a minimum sentence they can apparently be kept in detention until the age of 21. (Still low though that's 5 years and 4 for them)

Looks like a grand jury is being convicted to look into how the case has been handled as well.

Triggerfish

@mickey mouse

No that was in Ohio, two of the boys (according to wiki) were convicted as minors, one got 1 year another got 2, plus an extra year for distributing child porn.

I cant comment on this, mixed feelings part of me thinks anonymous are would be doing the wrong thing if they released the names, another part of me thinks them blackmailing the police to investigate in this case is laudable.

The thing that disgusts me most apart from the sheer horrifying crimes (I guess alleged in this case) both of these are is the sheer reluctance of the police to investigate in this case and the previous, (as well as the subsequent low sentencing).

Not sure what you are supposed to think when you have to blackmail the people who are supposed to protecting you into actually doing that.

Amazon: We cut prices to scare ourselves into innovation

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Re: It comes with a price @Ledswinger

Well yes.

But I guess you can factor in things liike in the UK we then subsidise these companies with tax credits due to low pay, and the fact they can hire and fire by the day with temps means they have a nice flexible workforce that they don't have to commit to (labour laws etc), which we keep on tap by benefits in between and having to provide an infrastructure that processes benefits at each change.

Oh and at some point you could be in that position, you know that they came for the Jews etc.

Well we let them erode the lowest workers rights and if we stand by and don't care? Then one day in a depressed economy, you could be looking at your skill set and get asked for a massive amount of IT skills, or hell just need a job anywhere, and find yourself being paid a pittance for all the effort that it took to learn it, I mean I know there are no jobs out there like that at the moment and everyone in IT is gainfully employed....

Unfortunately yes I do use Amazon, and things like supermarkets over my local butchers etc. Because I don't have enough spare cash to subsidies the difference can't help think we are shafting ourselves long term though.

Moist iPhone fanbois tempted with golden Apple shower offer

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Re: RE: unique to iPhones?

Yes happened to friend recently, there's was a droid phone but can't remember what make. sent back because it was acting up, and report came back they had checked the strip and it had been water damaged. They live in a pretty damp house, but I believe them when they say they hadn't got it wet.

Strikes me as a good way to get out of warranty repairs, open in some repair shop not in your presence their word against yours.