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Why didn't they turn the other cheek and forgive Greggs their trespasses?
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I disagree with the first part of your comment (I expect to be compensated for the work I do, if I have to work late I expect pay or time off), but this part I very much agree with:
"My stance on overtime is simple : if you tell me no overtime is paid, then I'm not working overtime. And don't come and blame me for projects that are late, you're management ; you're supposed to be aware of my workload and find solutions to lighten it if necessary."
If you can't get all of your allotted work done in the time available (and you're not being a lazy/incompetent git), then it's your manager's problem for giving you too much work.
There's another side to this as well, working more than about 50 hours per week reduces your efficiency in the long run. So if your manager wants you to work more than that, then they are actively harming the business.
Interesting you talk about minorities, as the person in question is a Russian citizen (which, given the lack of a denial, seems to be accepted by the Russian ambassador as well), not Estonian.
Which begs the question, why start commenting about minorities in Estonia? Did you get a little note this morning on your desk AC, or do you work from home and get an email or text?
Does it pay well? Do you have to be fluent in English, or are you given talking points so you can copy and paste?
If they were given to you you should probably go back to your handler and mention that the Guildford 4 and the Birmingham 6 weren't actually minorities (although there are areas of Birmingham where white people make up less than 50% of the population, they're still the largest ethnic group).
Still, why let facts get in the way of a good bit of misdirection eh?
Don't forget that he ran from Sweden to the UK apparently because he was worried about being extradited to the US.
Which is about as sensible a plan as running from Norway to China when you're worried about being extradited to Russia.
Also, why's Clinton getting the blame for this alleged conspiracy against poor widdle Julian? Wasn't Obama president then?
"something with more margin than a $1000 iphone , like a $100,000 Range Rover for instance."
The new Teslas use an app on a phone to unlock and start the car, so by pwning the $1000 phone, you've also just got access to their car as well.
I'm going to guess most of the high end cars, including Range Rover, are going to introduce this over the next few years.
People don't really use desktops much anymore, the computer they use the most is the phone in their pocket, and the majority of those run Android, which is based on Linux.
Of course, it's using linux to run proprietary Java apps so it's not exactly what the open source zealots were expecting...
I'd say that the X-37B looks like a (baby) Shuttle, whereas the Dreamchaser looks like an HL-20, which it should as that's what it was originally based on.
The HL-20 looks like a mash-up of an HL-10, and a BOR-4, and again, that's basically what it is.
If anyone wants to know more about lifting bodies then I can recommend "Wingless Flight" by Dale Reed, which you can read here
If the polystyrene was quite thin then you might have been ok, because it would have only heated up as much as the water (ie to 100C). In the same way, if you're careful, you can make a cup of tea in a paper bag using an open flame.
what happens if you're not careful >>>>>>>
Here's a panoramic photo of their three gate guardians. There's the Vulcan, and a Catalina, but I don't recognise the smaller jet between them, and an F101 Voodoo.
Pretty cool collection :)
"for a poor staffer to go through"
Don't be daft, if they were staff then they'd have some employment rights. Facebook use contractors to do the nasty work, that way they can just let them go when they get PTSD.
Ok, I can see the point in the word "improvised" when we're talking about something not manufactured in a factory, but by that measure the atomic bombs used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were basically prototypes, and could well be described as "improvised".
Improvised will still kill your arse dead.
"And if this sudden jihadist had not been so stupid? How many dead?"
If he'd actually been able to buy a car bomb online (and how exactly was he expecting that to work? The postie was just going to turn up one morning with a bomb in a box? How much more transparently a setup would it have to be?), then he'd have wound up killing himself, and maybe his mum (who I'm assuming is the 45 y/o who was arrested with him).
This dude is clearly not the sharpest tool in the box, I'd guess his next move would have been to declare jihad on facebook using his own account.
"Don't like the idea of having to watch your children all the time?"
See this is the problem, you're sat there thinking, 'well, sure it's tough, but I'm sure I could do it', without thinking through the implications of all the time. ie it's not uncommon for new parents to go at least week without a shower, because they can't take the two minutes away from the kid to do so.
So, when you, AC, have spent three weeks with no more than an hour of uninterrupted sleep at any one point, lets see how high and mighty you are about keeping your kid off a phone when you realise that just one cebeebies cartoon will allow you to have the first shit on your own you've had for weeks.
"so much of its other output is populist drivel"
And yet if you have a quick look at BBC4 there's stuff that would never be funded at a commercial station in a hundred years (eg).
Sure, you might not like their more highbrow stuff either, but I can't think of any other broadcasters that make both "populist drivel" and what I'm going to guess you'll call "elitist drivel" at the same time.
To save you the bother of searching, here is LineageOS's officially supported devices list. Of course, you still have to go through that list to see if there's any phones on it that fit your criteria on there.
"Intel graphics [...] their Linux support is second to none"
Really?
Sure, as long as you're using a bang-up-to-date kernel, then the latest CPUs work ok, but if you're using a LTS release then get ready for basically no graphics support beyond VGA resolutions, or finding a way to run a bleeding edge kernel without breaking everything else.
And don't get me started on the complete non-existence of drivers for Intel "PowerVR" graphics. Especially the stuff integrated into the lower end chips, which would normally be just the sort of hardware you'd want to use for a Linux desktop.
Bono's not being ignored, it's just there's so many different famous people fiddling their taxes that the press doesn't know who to start with. This will continue to play out over the next few months whilst various celebs and their lawyers refuse to comment and in the end practically nothing will change, because those in a position to do something about, for instance, tax evasion in the Channel Islands, have too much to lose.
I was using a newer Link ATM recently and it seemed to be offering me UI customisation options. There was a queue so I didn't investigate further, but if I get a bit of time with that machine I'll have a look and see what it offers. In theory there's nothing stopping them from allowing customers to set some preferred default options like "withdraw £30 without a receipt or checking the balance".
Even today, after this story has been around for a few days, if you go to the Google Play store and search apps for "Whatsapp", you still get at least one clearly fraudulent app in the first page of results, and that's without even mentioning the apps with icons clearly designed to be as similar as possible to an existing one.
I can only assume that the MoD have been buying 'milarty grade' wheel bolts for £1245 each from BAE, which in hindsight have actually turned out to be made from pewter.
Oh, and you'll never guess what, but the person at the MoD who signed off on them now has a job at BAE. What are the odds eh?
"It always amazes me, the look of shock and horror and that 'caught in the headlights expression on their faces"
Just FYI, what you're seeing there is the average person's "oh fuck he's ranting, how can I slowly back away from the crazy person" expression, not them thinking "oh wow my mind has been blown and suddenly I see the truth".
That said: "The reeality is, OBL and the CIA were buddies, from wqay back when the Russians were in Afgahnistan" [SIC through-out], isn't wrong, but you're looking at it the wrong way. It's not that the CIA had some master plan in 1980 to fund this bloke Osama so that they could use him twenty years later in a false-flag operation, it's because at the time they genuinely thought it was a good idea to give guns to the religious fundamentalists, and that there was no way that this could possibly go wrong, no-siree-Bob. (Spoiler, it went wrong.)
Just remember Hanlon's razor, "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity", ie it's much more likely that the CIA are fucking incompetents, rather than grand masterminds.
Oh, and keep an eye out in twenty years for some ex US-backed Syrian rebel with a grudge turning terrorist.
Err, they're planning to use 5.9GHz, that's a pretty short range signal and pretty much the opposite of what you'd want for surveillance. It'll only be detectable over slightly longer distances than an ANPR camera could pick you out.
Not to mention, even if this went into law tomorrow we're talking about the US where they haven't even made seatbelts mandatory in older cars. You'll never have to install this in existing cars even in thirty years when your Tesla is an old hoopty.
"like that US "stealth" plane bought down in the former Yugoslavia when it's radar invisibility coating rusted."
It wasn't that the stealth coating was damaged (I'm pretty sure anything iron based would make a terrible radio-wave absorber so 'rusted' is definitely the wrong word). Instead it was a combination of the F-117's using the same routes night after night, and modifications made to the radars to use longer wavelengths.
The predictable routes (and poor radio discipline) allowed the Serbs to site their AA battery right under the flightpath, and their older radars weren't the sort of system that the F-117 was designed to guard against.