Posts by fix

Re: Volvo drivers don't get a serve too?

Old Biker here - You're right that bikers particularly hated volvos in the 70-80 +, but for the wrong reason.

One of their selling points was the cars great structural strength, and their adverts at the time made plenty out of their ability to roll with the roof largely undamaged.

This was achieved by having hugely strong (and there for also hugely wide) support beams at the sides of the windscreen. (A Frame I think their called ?)

That resulted in huge blind spots when pulling out from side roads, in which a motorcycle could easily get lost.

As a result they took the top spot for years for accidents where the car pulled out from a side road directly in front of a bikes right of way, typically sending them flying with some pretty serious results.

SMIDSY (Sorry Mate, I Didn't See You), was born as a result of volvos.

Re: designed and sold electronic sales suppression systems internationally

Maybe it's not looking for a Brexit angle in almost everything, instead it's because almost everything has been damaged by Brexit?

Re: Typical DoubleSpeak from the government.

You maths is not complete either

That jump to the 40% tax level at about 50k kicks in regardless of choosing the NI / Income tax or the CT / Dividend route.

Re: 30 years ?

And such a shame that you have the total inability recognise a joke?

Unfortunately that's not something you get taught at school.

Re: A couple of things here I'm surprised about

Is this the same entropy that ^^ above^^ was saying " I want too is not a mature arguement", now talking about mummies shoulder ?

Very mature.

Re: Clearview provides search services to law enforcement agencies

Unfortunately I can only down vote you once.

My privacy should be my choice.

40 years, that's a Mickey Mouse attempt at hanging onto stuff, Disney have that way outclassed.

https://lucentem.com/2018/12/05/disney-vs-the-public-domain-how-mickey-mouse-continues-to-protect-his-copyright/

Re: I wonder if they're hiring delivery drivers for the sorting office that serves CHR32?

Looks like it:

Ascension Island, Tristan da Cunha and Saint Helena all issue their own postage stamps, which provide a significant income. The three territories each have their own Royal Mail postal code:

Ascension Island: ASCN 1ZZ

Saint Helena: STHL 1ZZ

Tristan da Cunha: TDCU 1ZZ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Helena,_Ascension_and_Tristan_da_Cunha

Re: What's that smell?

No, Tesco's have been supplying goods to you (and millions of others), not services, totally different ball game.

Re: Government inquiry

Actually it's worth recognising the difference between the government ministers and the civil service at that point.

The Government will absolutely say 'lessons have been learnt' (again), no one at ministerial level will receive the slightest slap on the wrist, and civil servants trying to follow u-turn after u-turn will be blamed for the situation.

Nothing new.

Re: Ok, Ok.. can someone own up please?

That's probably why we have to pay for Professional Liability Insurance (amongst other things.)

Re: Dear Courts. No. Go away.

The problem with your argument there is that the software was already written, and the requested emails encrypted BEFORE the legal request was made.

Perhaps you should add 4. Jump back in time to meet the NEW legal request.

Re: Oven Ready Deal

Only if they are chlorinated oven ready turkeys :-(

Re: Ownership of personal data

I think that the personal freedom and responsibility approach would make sense IF you could personally decide not to share you data easily.

However the larger tech companies, and also some fairly unheard of tracking companies have gone to great lengths to prevent people from choosing not to share their data.

This goes from simple items like FB trackers on sites that are not FB, and track people that are not even FB users, to some analytical techniques that will try and ID a user that has browsed in private, with DNT enabled, and has clearly indicated that they wish not to be tracked. These techniques include trying to fingerprint the user from other browser details that are leaked, and even down to the way they move the mouse on the page.

https://www.cs.sjsu.edu/faculty/pollett/papers/shivanipaper.pdf

When data companies are trying this hard to break any attempt by the users to have their own privacy then personal freedom and responsibility have nothing to do with it.

That is why we need protection from these companies who will not, in the slightest, respect our personal freedom or choices.

Re: Contractors already pay more tax

You've conveniently forgotten to allow for contractor expenses such as accountancy and insurance, and also an allowance for those between contract gaps etc. Apart from that nicely detailed maths, shame you've not included all the numbers.

Re: I'm over the top

But they are not cutting into sales? They are not selling iDevices, they are letting people play with iOS, which is not something Apple sells?

Re: No headphone jack

The downside of that £6 bit of tat from Amazon is that it will contain the cheapest, nastiest, noisiest DAC on the planet to hit that cost point.

I guess we've never met, as I am in the the 'niche' that uses a portable DAC / AMP (Fiio Q1 in my case), and it sounds soooooooo much better than that Amazon adaptor will.

Brief ?

Now there is a blast from the past, got to be almost 20 years since I last used that!

@sabroni

How would he and his wife pay just 10% on a dividend of 1M each?

Dividends are paid from profit by the Ltd, so 20% Corporation Tax will have been paid before it can be a distributed as a dividend.

When the dividend is paid out, there is a 5K allowance, but after that a 7.5% dividend tax rate applies to the rest, and any amount above about 40K (presuming they have no salary at all) will still be hit for higher rate income tax as well.

Unless you know otherwise? (In which case please explain.)

Re: @Paul Crawford re: guns.

The problem I have with your argument is that in all the examples you give a tool is being mis-used to do someone harm, and also it needs a much closer and physical approach to achieve that harm, which then entails the risk of losing a physical fight.

A Gun is the only object in your list that is expressly designed to do another person harm whilst still staying at a safe distance yourself, thus making it a lot easier to harm someone else without entailing any personal risk.

If someone had to use one of the alternative methods you list, then a lot of potentials killers would think twice and back off.

That's the real problem with guns, it makes it too easy for a coward to intimidate or kill someone that they won't take on face to face.

Re: There's one very important woman missing from that list.

Same here, have an upvote ;-)

Re: Sueball

You forgot your troll icon !

Re: Mmm

For a very neat reason :-)

The XBMC remote has the facility to put received text messages up as a banner on the XBMC device that your mobile is remotely controlling ..... couldn't do that if it was unable to read them first on the phone.

Re: Cooling

Salt water should not be a problem.

You don't pump the sea-water directly through the weapon, you would use some other liquid that transfers heat well and doesn't cause corrosion, and pump that through a nice big heat sink, say the hull ?

@scrote

Having one rendering engine does have advantages though, at the moment as a web dev you end up writing a page that has to try it's best to play happily with several different engines, removing that complexity would make web development faster / cheaper.