Posts by Ginolard 54 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Feb 2010
Not really sure why you're getting downvoted.
I'd wager the vast majority of people in the "Leave" camp have little to no understanding of how the EU legislative process actually works.
Being "dictacted" to by Brussels is laughable when you realise that it's each Member State's government ministers that decide which EU laws and regulations get adopted
Brussels taxis are ridiculously expensive. I can only speak for myself but I'm just not prepared to factor in an extra €30-40 on a night out when I can get an Uber for half the price.
I'm really not at all concerned about whether they're licensed/insured or not. Quite frankly, I feel safer in an Uber than in a normal taxi (the way some of them drive is frightening). Until the normal taxi services realise that their pricing models are not competitive, Uber will continue to thrive. Basic economics.
I've been happily using Uber in Brussels since I found out about it. The taxi services here are stupidly expensive (€60 from anywhere in the city to the airport - a journey of maybe 15-20km) and they kicked up an almighty fuss over Uber in order to protect their cosy little cartel.
I've had taxi drivers refuse to take me because the journey was "too short" and not "profitable" enough. Well, fuck them then, I'm the customer and if a business isn't willing to offer me the service I want at a price I find reasonable, I shall go elsewhere.
Plus, taxi drivers drive like arseholes here.
Oh come on. This is hardly a revelation. I mean, everyone knows that beer kills brain cells right? It works much like a lion hunting deer. The lion will always go for the weakest, most vulnerable deer which, as a result, makes the deer herd stronger. Culling the weak ones etc etc.
Beer works the same way by killing the weaker brain cells thereby making you smarter!
That's certainly how I feel after a few pints anyway.
....is REALLY depressing?
Listening to the music now that you listened to when you were a teenager.
a) It's pisses over the tosh that passes as music today and most of the musicians are dead (or as good as dead)
b) It reminds me that I'm an overweight, 40-something, father-of-three and not a teenager.
Still, new Journey album soon!
Do the US not understand the Domain Name System or something? I mean, FFS, RojaDirecta is already up and running again with 3 different domain names! Whilst Homeland Security were showing everyone the size of their balls and slapping pretty notices on homepages, the websites themselves were pissing all over them from a great height with their truncheon-like trouser sausages.
I bet the testees (*snigger*) suffered from some pretty strong side-effects that have been hushed up.
Things like:-
Completely mis-interpreting an innnocent remark and having a hissy fit for the rest of the day
Constantly asking whether the lab coat made them look fat
Mysterisouly all needing the toilet at the same time
Paris because she also likes putting stuff up her nose. Allegedly.
I was recently told about a Call Center that would look for candidates' Facebook/Twitter/MySpace accounts and would discount said candidate if they didn't have one!! They believed that it showed the candidate was not "sociable" and, therefore, would not fit into their team.
If I was ever asked, in an interview, why I didn't have an account on a single social-networking site I would ruin my chances of getting the job because of the inevitable bile-filled rant.
...why it costs more for provider to transmit 1MB of data than it does 1GB? It's data. It's doesn't weigh anything. It doesn't require any sort of "heavy lifting". It's just electro-magnetism (or light, if you are lucky enough to have fibreoptic).
Excuse my ignorance, I'm merely a poor SysAdmin but I've never understood this argument.
"How long before a fight breaks out because the pub runs out of 3D specs?"
That won't be what causes a fight. No, it'll be caused by some half-cut pillock "dodging" out of the way of one of Emile Heskey's "shots" causing them to stumble into a group of Millwall fans and spilling their pints.
Huh. In my experience it would be more like
1.Walk into bank.
2. Try and find a pen still attached to its chain
3. Try and find a working pen still attached to its chain
4. Fill in withdrawal form without the pen nib tearing the form in two
5. Join interminably long queue
6. Realise you are behind the man from the penny arcade who's cashing in his yearly takings
7. Give up and risk being hacked. It's less hassle.
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