Posts by Thicko

Re: Who are their lawyers?

"I don't like Brexit but it is not correct to lay the blame on those who voted leave.". I dont like to split hairs but logically you do have to blame those who voted to leave for us actually leaving! However I agree that Remain ran a remarkably sloppy ship. They were fat, dumb and happy because they had so many of the economic facts stacked in their favour. They simply could not see that feelings and fears would dominate the referendum until it was all over. If I was of the Red Wall or a fisherman I could well understand why Leave won on the day. They heard and loved the Leave messages about the left behind, sunny uplands, big new deals with US etc. but forgot to look at who was feeding it to them. If they had they might have reflected on just how well the Tory Party had ever looked after the poor and the North and thought twice!

The outcome was not 'fair' given the remarkable width and breadth of untruths told by both leave organizations as well as their significant financial overspend. Don't forget the iffy mysteriously funded FB scare campaigns that supported Leave either. Come to think of it the Russia report still hasn't been published in full either!

Re: If only there were some sort of handy backup.

Solar navigation doesn't work well at night! Once I got lost on the routes around Liege late one night and only really knew how badly when I recognised the tunnel I was driving through as the one I'd been through half an hour earlier. Even today Google reliably directs me off the A5 motorway between Karlsruhe and Stuttgart to give me a grand tour of Pforzheim before directing me back to the motorway at the next junction if I let it!

Re: At any normal company

"....but I'm fairly sure I could comport myself in a more civil and beneficial manner.". I'm sure nobody doubts that!

Re: ESN to the rescue!

It rescued a lot of Home Office contractors from poverty that's for sure!

Re: .....and let's not forget FB......

Fascinating article. Thanks!

Re: Copyright law

Its the 10% I'd be most worried about!

Re: Equality

You get on with it then, best of British mate!

Re: [Apple & Google] have been on the record as saying that the UK app … is a world first

I guess they are crowing about the addition of the QR code combined with contact tracing as a "world first". Every time I hear that phrase from this government I get the distinct uneasy feeling soft soaped into swallowing yet another half or three quarter lie.

Re: S8 and S9 old?

lineageos on an S5 is surprisingly nippy. I set one up for my mum and she is very happy with it pottering about the BBC food pages. She has now even mastered the art of accidentally calling me on Whatsapp (yes I know, I should change it to Signal!).

Re: ....and the beat goes on.............

maybe they are the 2 fabled fishermen who may actually benefit from the pantomime.

I guess they will only be needed until the algorithms can replace them so why invest in them, they are just expendable meat bags from the FB investor point of view.

Re: How

Assuming you are not rooted you could try Netguard

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.faircode.netguard&hl=en&gl=US

You can block individual programs and system programs access to the web through either wifi or mobile data or limit them whilst roaming.

it does require a little setup to get it right but it works for me. i use the pay version downloaded from Github to add a hosts file to block lots of iffy web addresses when surfing.

Re: QR

I get the feeling that deep down this brexit mad for it government thinks those Jonny Foreigners (not one of them went to Eaton you know!) will be as disorganized as they are. Those Dutch started training additional customs officers 3 years ago. I get the feeling Britain is going to get a nasty lesson in January.

Re: Team America: World Police

As I understand it the US has not ratified its half of the UK-US extradition agreement. Until this is sorted out we should not stick to the letter of the agreement as the US is having its cake on this.

Re: A sign of the times

I would never vote Trump precisely because I know what we got last time!

Re: I'm not stopping you...

If you happen to have run into a cop having a bad day, it will do wonders to diffuse the situation. If you have done something wrong 'man up', then 'shut up', and call a lawyer, before you say *anything*, other than, 'I think I should speak to an attorney before i talk with you.'

I expect this could work if you are white. I would be a bit more nervous if I wasn't.

Welcome to Hollywood science 2020!

Re: Good one

and maybe some liposuction vouchers.

Re: Flat Mars-ers

The Red Dwarf episode "The Last Day" should be more than enough to give any God based conspiracy nut plenty of cause to fret. Does Heaven really exist?

Re: Could someone check the numbers?

And the silence on descen in a rear engine plane t can be a little startling too if you are sitting at the front where you can loose the throttled back engine noise completely under the wind noise.

Re: And who will pay ?

The use of the" friend of a cabinet minister" is a straw man. There are very good reasons why other countries protect their valuable assets. Our usual laissez faire attitude to almost everything in business is no way to protect a national asset.

I dont know exactly what the government would say. Do you? What do other countries tell their security sensitive companies about who they can be sold to? Whatever it is, we should say it too rather than nothing at all. Or even worse, just mumble some flubbery about profit and freedom.

Re: He was supposed to get 5,900,000 shares ?

You should have seen what the previous heffalump snuffled away!

Re: I've got the feeling that I should invest in Capita shares

You simply dont have the Capita Connections old chap!

Re: Natural vs. artificial intelligence

Its not really intelligence, more being able to read and interpret lots of different real time data streams from remote sensors.

"Having control of employment rights in the UK parliament is not the same as running them down..." Technically you are correct but you would have to be pretty deaf to Priti Patel and co and their clear and oft stated intentions. That you added "completely" to your comment as in "completely biased against..." lends weight to the idea that you are so heavily biased in favour of brexit that any inconvenient fact is just false news to you.

Re: WTF?

Protecting The President probably. He has a few scrapes already!

Re: Happy crooks

8 years so with good behavious, out in three or four. Less if you consider the time on remand. At least the stay at Goodayes hospital might put him off a life of crime!

Re: Trustworthy?

You write it and I will run it!

Re: If only roaming worked at all

Ican only agree with u regarding Croatia after my first visit last year. 3UK roaming was quite acceptable for me there. I used up several GB of allowance in a week there.

Re: This is nothing compared to..

Those turkeys are hardly likely to vote for Christmas!

If you think the BBC is biased just watch a bit of Fox Be!

Re: Crazy Prices

They cant gouge you for EU roaming at the moment but gougers being gougers I don't fancy it remaining free for long after next March!