Posts by lglethal

Re: Obvious solution

No you dont need to go that far.

Simply ban anyone who is (or studied to be) a lawyer, union rep, political scientist (gah i feel dirty just using the term), or who's only work experience involves working for a political party, union, an MP's office or a multi-million dollar family business. It might also be good to ban anyone that studied at Oxbridge (or uses the term "read at so and so college" when referring to going to a university), or who went to Eton. But that might be going too far as occasionally good one's pop out (e.g. Ian Hislop).

Maybe then you would get some people in who actually know how to be adults, compromise and come up with solutions, rather than only knowing how to argue vehemently and come up with soundbites.

The city should approve the planning permission with the provision that all vehicle movements to and from the faciltiy are forbidden between 8pm-8am, and with a maximum number (relatively low) of trucks allowed on the roads during the operating hours.

Make sure the provisions would work fine for a couple of "local warehouses" but absolutely unusable by a large logistics centre. And then see if Intel start squirming...

The whole point that you can throw down an application that is so vague in itself is mind-boggling. It would be like going up to your local council telling them you want to build a new residential building but refusing to tell them if it's going to be a single family house, a series of terrace houses, a 40 floor residential tower block, or a medieval Castle complete with Moat and Drawbridge. All of those could be classified as residential buildings for sure, but they have very bloody big difference in effect on the local area...

Re: Wait a minute...

The gif side of things was probably worth about $50m, if I'm being exceptionally generous.

Shutting down an up and coming ad company with the potential (just potential admittedly) to disrupt Meta and Google's dominance of online advertisement? Priceless... (or $400 million to be precise...)

Re: The moon's Australian!

It's pretty much uninhabitable to normal people, suffers weather extremes like you wouldn't believe, seems to contain a lot of areas ripe for mining, and is a harsh and unforgiving place... Hmmm... You might be on to something...

Wait. Wait. No sorry the moon can't be part of Australia. There's no mention here of any deadly and aggressive natural fauna and flora. Nice try, Moon... Maybe we can develop some Spiders that can live on your surface, then we'll think about letting you join as the 7th state, but until then, sorry but you're on your own.

Re: So no more cyber financial fraud?

You are correct to some extent, BUT everytime you take down a group like this, your taking down people with experience and skills at this type of fraud. That means the next group is made up of people with less skills, that have to relearn the lessons of the old group. Which means making the same mistakes as the old group, which should make it easier to track them down, and faster to shut them down. The new groups also need financial backing to get back up and running, so there's a game of whack-a-mole, but everytime it costs the bad guys more money to get setup which decreases the profit margins and you would hope eventually, the profit margin would be reduced so much that this type of fraud dries up.

They may just move on to the next type of fraud, or maybe not, but it's never a bad thing to stop one sort whilst you can...

Re: Rapper Ye – formerly known as Kanye West –

Does that mean when in future he tries to sell Parler to the next gullible Idiot, we will be able to write "Yee Haw(ks) Pardner, ahem Parler..."

Re: The old saying

I certainly wouldnt expect Xi to do much about this at this point. He must still be sore about Putin being so rude as to launch the war a mere 2 days after the Olympics had ended, and before the Paralympics even began. There were weeks of good news stories to come to help paint China as the friendly communist Panda bear, and lift its standing in the eyes of the world. But no, Putin decided to launch his invasion and China and the Olympics were wiped from the world's new feeds. That must have hurt, all that money spent and the pay off wiped out by your "BFF".

I'm guessing Xi wants Putin to fail in the invasion, but not be deposed. A severely weakened Putin, he probably feels he can prop up and control, and use as the evil boogey man to distract the West with from time to time...

Re: Really?!

"Umm Sir this might be a stupid question..."

"No, no, no. Remember Eric, there are no stupid questions. Only stupid People..."

Re: "IN Britain everyone is UNIONIZED so the free economy is already a shambles. "

Nah, look back at this idiots previous post and you'll see he is clearly from a Russian Troll Farm, or maybe a Chinese one.

You can ignore everything he says as just an attempt to inflame people...

I'm not sure where you get the 1L petrol is equivalent to 13kWh, that seems a rather questionable value. Much better to look at it as I have as a cost per km.

But if those are really the numbers for electricity in the UK, no wonder you guys are screwed!

I pay €0,45/kWh on a slow public charger, and €0,55/kWh for a fast charger. My home rate is around €0,22/kWh.

So your paying almost twice my energy bill. No wonder it doesnt seem such a good deal to you!

Still here in Germany, I'm coming out massively ahead. But as I said your mileage may vary...

Re: Measuring a property does not set it...

I see that you have heard of paragraphs, but I'm not sure if you've quite understood how they actually work...

Anyway, I havent bothered to read what you've written because clearly anyone who writes like that cannot be relied upon to make a salient and accurate point. The only thing missing is multiple exclamation marks...

Re: His lawyers must be telling him he's going to lose the case

My understanding is that what is proposed is that the court case will be "stayed" not dropped. That means it sits in a sort of limbo until Musk pays the cash. So the case can be restarted at an instant if Musk has another mood swing, and decides to pull out again. And only after the purchase is through does the case get completely shut down.

Twitter are not going to drop the case entirely until the money has changed hands, anything else would be stupidity of the highest order based on Musk's prior conduct.

Re: So?

That would actually require the Government to do some work to identify who is actually behind the shell companies purchasing those properties.

And you know this Government doesnt actually like doing anything that even remotely looks like work. So fat chance of that happening...

They do, but not particularly badly, and generally they'll keep working even with a ton of crud. Now a 3,5mm headphone socket on the other hand...

Speaking from personal experience...

Re: Prospects

"the exam is just a friendly conversation with the examiner."

Wait, you mean I have to actually talk to the students? Ewww....

No, no, no. I cant be having that...

Clearly this is someone for whom English is not the native language (or who is faking it not being their native language). If you were to write it in proper English it would probably read "The ransom was not paid". It's not that difficult, mate.

Re: Tablet users need not apply

Yep I was more than happy with Firefox on both Desktop and Mobile, but then they basically locked down the Mobile version, made it significantly slower than anything else, and basically said "Deal with it!".

So I did, I moved to Brave for Mobile. Is it a better choice? It's faster for sure. It's far from perfect, but at least it's up to date (so less attack surface than Waterfox or the other forks), is not either from Apple, Google or Microsoft, and it doesnt get in the way of my browsing like Firefox seemed to continually want to do. If there was something else of a high enough standard I might try it, but for now it will do.

On Desktop, Firefox is still winning but only because of the extensions. Mozilla really do need to stop shooting themselves in the foot though, every change seems to be designed to annoy their user base...

I dont. Their brand of crazy might just be contagious...

Re: Mac Problems are easily dealt with

Even Easier:

"I'm sorry that's not an IT Supported Product."

"Whats that? Yes, your Manager was informed of that, in writing, when he made the Purchase Order. Please take the issue up with him."

If you have specific Info, then the Police are always available and ready to act.

Otherwise your just spouting bollocks from Fox or the Daily Mail. I dont doubt that there are people stuck in domestic or sexual slavery here, but it's nothing compared to what you'll find in Asia and the Middle East, where the police dont give a shit until external pressure forces them to do a raid or two against the least generous scumbags...

Re: Crypto-currencies can't die fast enough

Look, dont be too hard on the younger generations for looking for ways to make some money like this. A) young people tend to be more risk adverse (part of the learning experience), but more importantly, B) Most dont see a way based on current salaries and standard investments to be able to ever buy their own homes, or make similar personal investments.

House and Land prices are so high (and not showing any sign of coming down) that most young people on engineering level salaries wont be able to afford buying a house until there around 40 these days (especially after paying of student debts). If at all.

Interest rates are 0%, so there's no point saving in a bank. You could put any money you want to save into shares, etc. but growth is not that great unless you go high risk, so why wouldnt you go one step further on the risk/reward ladder and try your hand at crypto. And if you dont think that money in it's current level will be of any help to your long term hopes (i.e. buying a house), then why not gamble with it? Don't get me wrong, I think it's a stupid decision to make, but I can understand what drives it.

Governments really need to start doing more to stop properties being bought up by companies and landowners who are buying to turn the places into rental properties. Let the younger generations get on the property ladder, otherwise there will be a massive crisis in the future. We dont need to go back to the time of Lords and Serfs now do we?

Re: Buyer's Remorse

And if that happens, the Management will laugh all the way to their golden parachutes.

Whilst Twitter Stock would drop like a brick, making Musk's acquisition even more costly...

So I'm all for it...

Just curious, if they sold two versions:

One - Iphone alone. Really just the Phone.

Two - Iphone and charger Bundle. And the Charger can even be in a separate box just tied to the phone box by the packaging.

Would that meet the requirements? I'd think it would, and also give the Environmental benefits. Hell the bundle could even cost more then the phone alone, and I would guess that would still work. Anyone who needs the charger gets it, anyone who doesnt, goes the cheaper option.

This seems a really daft ruling, unless Apple have been hiding the fact that they dont put a charger in (so some deceptive advertising), but at least where I am (Europe) Apple have been very clear they arent including chargers anymore. I think it's even on the phone packaging. So, at least I doubt that's the reason, but who knows with Apple. I guess the reality Distortion Field is not so strong in Brazil...

Re: It's on the Priority List, I swear!

It will be fixed AFTER Hell Freezes over.

Imean Satan's a pretty demanding customer, much more so then the usual Confluence Customer...