Re: what's so difficult about Q, U, X, Y and Z?
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I've actually heard worse. Apparently anyone can mass claim videos, without checks as to whether or not they actually own any of the infringed copyrights. It happened to a channel i look at by a serial video claimer. There was no music or copyrighted material in the videos, and yet these videos were now demonetised and the channel had to fight for them to be bought back under their own control...ONE AT A TIME.
You can have videos demonetised from anything controversial. Even showing clips of violent video games (Call of Duty, etc) on a video game channel can result in demonetisation.
News segments are often demonetised for being gorey, "problematic" or traumatic too. This happened with coverage of September 11th videos and compilations of news coverage.
Youtube is for the advertisers first, not the creators that keep the site running.
"They are not wanting to break the cable (which would just piss everyone off), but intercepting the signals passing through them, preferably without the user of the cable knowing."
Ah. I've heard before speculation from a source, that i don't quite recall, about the Americans or Russians wanting the ability to cut entire nations off from the internet in wartime. That's where that came from.
"I am genuinely staggered that this kind of shit still happens."
I'm genuinely not. People need to stop buying this crap, while the security is an afterthought. Car security for keyless entry to Jaguar Land Rover vehicles has been shit for over 10 years and yet people still buy them too. It's been common for people to turn up with cheap Ebay equipment to airport car parks and unlock hordes of cars with a transmitter and a signal from said equipment, yet people keep buying the cars... >>INSERT WTF GIF HERE<<
Related disclosure: I have a friend who lives in a rather nice area and her partner has had 2 Land Rover Discoveries stolen from outside their house. Their next vehicle to replace it - Yep! A Land Rover Discovery. Some people don't learn.
Bad reviews for hotels in tourist destinations can be quite damaging.
I've heard from a few people that the French in the service industry can be quite rude and condescending to Brits abroad.
Coincidentally I had a friend named Arthur who was insulted by a French man, who told him his mother was a hamster, and his father smelt of elderberries.
True experience last time i stayed in a Spanish hotel (2017):
Upon finding a dead cockroach by the fridge and asking to move rooms - "But what if the next room has roaches?"
NO! You DO NOT say that to a customer. You say something along the lines of "i'm very sorry sir. We'll get that sorted and move you to another room", or just offer a discount or something.
Now i know it's a badly cleaned hotel with an infestation you still think i'd want to stay there?
In the age of online reviews bad service can be a death sentence for a business. Any business.
If you think the customer service here is that bad may i suggest you go to Europe and experience their customer service?
Even in Spanish tourist destinations it can be shockingly bad sometimes. And then there's the French...
Not all of the 60+ million people of the UK are anti-social miserable people when dealing with tourists/the public/in general.
They're currently turning Windows 10 into some kind of hybrid Frankenstein monster, where no one needs to bother dualbooting to run Linux and Windows. This is an attack on Linux, since they're trying to limit people running full Linux as a competitor.
Can't have people using a full install of Linux and realising it's got a lot of advantages over Windows, can we now...
It kills me how Google is doing nothing with tablets, but putting slightly better hardware in them every few years, while Apple is actually (and this is hard to believe) innovating in this area. If Google was doing things like this i'd update my crappy, laggy, light bleeding, old Nexus 9.
We could harass the Russians during their own elections via VK and Facebook if they weren't always rigged in Putin's favour anyway. Alternatively, we could just do what the Americans do: Discover oil in Russia and send our freedom carriers over there to ravage them with freedom bombs and freedom troops and freedom, well, you get the idea.
The user has to agree to the surge pricing before the app finds them a willing driver. After that, even if millions of drivers become available the user won't know. They've already agreed to pay more.
The alternative is to find alternative transport, or keep checking the app to see if the surge pricing is increasing or decreasing (which for me has sometimes taken around 10 minutes to become reasonable again)
"I rarely see drivers ignore red lights, though I have seen it."
That's interesting. It's like a free-for-all here in the Midlands. Very few people indicate, very few stick to their lane. It's getting terribly dangerous some days. There's people crossing red lights and one-way streets often too. You can't go a week without seeing someone drving anti-clockwise on a roundabout.
Near me we have one of those pedestrianised roads in the middle of town that's only for buses, taxis and cyclists...It's made over £2 million in 2 years from people not reading the signs on every post and driving through anyway.
I guess i should say "your region may vary"
"I'm not a cyclist hater, I see many more stupid and dangerous things done every day by drivers than cyclists. But I think cyclist have some 'evangelists' that go out tooled up with cameras looking for trouble and that engenders a lot of bad feeling."
I've been a cyclist for about 5 years now and the police do <u>fuck all</u> even with evidence when a serious offence is reported to them. It's unfair to criticise people for having an inexpensive camera mounted to their (probably expensive) transport to pursue a prosecution, when the chance of being killed in a minor crash is high. I don't have a camera but i see why so many do.
RE: Valerion: "I've never seen a car do the same"
You've never seen a car pass a red light? That must be a lie. I see them every day on the way back from work. I even see them driving on the wrong side of the road commonly, and without lights on in the dark some evenings. I'd love more traffic police around and speed cameras.
Don't be a dick Jake.
"Very few pedestrian fatalities involve cyclists. Of the 448 pedestrians killed by a vehicle in 2016, 3 were caused by cyclists, compared to 289 by cars. These levels have been broadly consistent over the past five years"
Source: https://fullfact.org/health/cyclist-deaths/
Oh, and let's challenge that persistent myth about cyclists and red lights too:
"a new study from the Danish Road Directorate found that less than 5 per cent of cyclists break traffic laws compared to 66 per cent of motorists"
Source: https://road.cc/content/news/260509-cyclists-far-less-likely-break-traffic-laws-motorists-finds-study
I've always been in a similar situation. Brummies don't seem to think i'm one of them despite living there all my life and being born there too. I'm continually asked where i'm from and "what accent is that?".
Maybe it's a good thing i don't sound like them according to these surveys.
"Williamson keeps a pet tarantula on his HoC desk to intimidate folk. I've never known anyone to keep a pet at work, guy's a psycho and not the sort of psycho he pretends to be, just a daftie with no empathy and unreasonable ambition"
Was he auditioning for the job of Prime Minister or a typical Bond villain?