Posts by d3vy 1633 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Mar 2014
"Besides, they truly don't make 'em like they used to"
That's not always a good thing...
Safety has improved massively over the years. For both occupants and pedestrians: as an example on detecting a pedestrian impact my bonnet pops up on springs to provide a cusioned surface for them to hit. The interior is full of air bags and I won't be impaled on my steering column.
I wonder if I could up rate the springs and launch them into low orbit...
"Why do I have to ask Tesla for permission to sell MY car"
There's a simple answer. You don't.
You can inform them of the sale (I'm sure the new buyer will insist on it so they can register for all of the connected services and access to the electronic service records)
Surely this needs to no more complicated than every now and then the car popping up an alert on the dash saying "I've still got these devices with valid access tokens, do you want to keep them? Ok so that gives a window where it might still work but if it's once a month that's not too bad.
Or it could do it when you pair a new Bluetooth device "got a new phone? Do you want to deal register the old one?"
Mercedes do an add on "my mercedes" that you can buy and retro fit to my car, it's a plug in module so when you sell the car you can remove it, or the new buyer can unplug it and get a new one.
"I think many kids who had a home computer in the 80s would be carted off for re-education if this were in place."
I racked up a £180 a month bill fannying about on irc until 5am through my teens.
Looking back money well spent, it was cheaper than UNI and I get paid a decent whack for doing something that I don't even consider to be work.
"Apple phones are expensive because they take much more care in every aspect of the design"
Flipity flopity iPhone 6?
Antenna gate?
Peeling Matt black casing?
Wires that fray if you look at them wrong?
Non functional power buttons on iPhone 5?
And of course their own round of battery woes...
I quite like apple, we have 5 iPhones and 3 iPads in the house Aling with a host of iPods etc... But I'd not try claiming they were better designed or built than anything else.
Posted from my 3 and a bit year old HTC One M8 which is as good now as the day I bought it other than the battery only lasting one day instead of two now.
"go electronic and choose to receive easily forgotten statements by email"
I'd suggest this is the best path to go down anyway... Check your balance in real-time on the internet/via an app.
If your concern is around security (anecdotal as it is) I've been using online banking since 2001, I've had one instance of identity theft in that time... Because someone got hold of a *paper* copy of a statement/other bank correspondence and used that as proof of ID.
"incidentally large chunks of the NHS and MoD run on Windows servers
Everyone is entitled to their own little hell and having Microsoft's licensing police probe the anus"
My point was that the NHS - one of the biggest employers in the world - successfully runs large chunks of the org on windows infrastructure, this was a counter to the point made above that no one is using windows for anything serious.
"but only even list Unix/Linux on my resume. I meant it that way. From my point of view, I can barely see any Windows servers running anything critical"
You don't see windows run anything critical because you've created a little echo chamber for yourself, you said as much with your comments about your resume.
If you only ever get approached form UNIX/Linux jobs because of your resume then yes, you will only see Linux and UNIX running.
From my point of view I could conceivably believe that Java/python/php etc no longer exist because I do dot net development and that's all I really see (incidentally large chunks of the NHS and MoD run on Windows servers).. but I'm not so closed minder as to think that there are no other tools to complete a task...
"I need to get me some of this penguin stuff. It would obviously make me an expert in all things"
It's amazing.. I didn't even have a PC yesterday but then someone told me that android IS LINUX and it happened immediatly.. it was like a scene from the matrix as the entire wealth of human knowledge materialised in my head.
I know Kung fu... And I'll tell you about it at every opportunity.
" 6 month exclusivity for cinema showings? I will NEVER go to the cinema to watch a movie"
Well, that is where the bulk of the profits come from, a streaming service showing new releases would cost a fortune to be able to compete with cinema revenues.
I go to the cinema quite often, what's the reason you don't go? Is it cost? Because many cinemas offer memberships that are a flat rate and you can go as often as you like, for around £20 a month you can go to the cinema as often as you like... So really cost can't be a factor, so either you don't like the experience, or you just don't want to pay for the content you consume?
"I just want a legal version that I can pay for so artists writers film crews etc etc etc can get their money that they deserve."
You might want that, I'd quite like it too however the majority would still use kodi because it's free, the majority of people dont give a fuck about content creators as long as they get to save £20 watching a streamed cam of whatever latest release they want to watch tonight.
"Well said mate, we just got on with it, didn't we"
I've had this discussion with someone at work recently - Though I was born in 82 so was too young to be aware of most of it I was most definitely aware of what was going on in the 90s.
Like many things (kidnapping, crime etc) the level of fear has gone up despite the actual incidents going down.
What are people afraid of in the UK at the moment? Terrorism. Has terrorism become more prevalent in the last 10 years? No, it has significantly reduced to the point that people born in the 90s don't really equate terrorism with anything other than Islam... which feeds nicely into the other thing that people are starting to fear in the UK (anyone with a slightly darker shade of skin than themselves - unless it was derived from a bottle or from a session at tanneriffe above the bookies)
Hey, if your not using paint you're cheating.
Maybe a new masthead for the US site?
https://1drv.ms/i/s!AlOWT_GGqqbfg_8dIxPz1eRxSzbGGg
Yes there's a massive gap in it... we ran out of budget half way through and couldn't raise funds to get it finished.
It's still the best masthead, everyone loves it, its been viewed by more people than viewed the 2008 masthead. Make the register great again!
I got this while doing some research* via ToR last week, it was solved with a captcha and then I carried on.
I've not encountered that before so I assume Google have changed their thresholds for what they consider to be abnormal.
* I was trying to determine if there was a correlation between nationality and 'Jigglyness' - More research required.
"That is, threats that are not going to be carried out."
Oh well, in that case its all fine.
We can go round threatening who ever we like as long as we don't intend on carrying out that threat.
You of course miss the fact that while there may not have been intent to carry out the threat the recipient of the threats could not have known that - the result is still the same, causing fear.
Add to that the fact that BWs home address was published on 4Chan and you have quite a fear inducing cocktail.
Regardless of the above your argument is invalid, Even without intent if you find yourself threatening someone online you are a cock.
I find it quite telling that you post as anon. How many emails did YOU send?
@Tom,
"Did they? TFA says that "Police aren't confirming a cause of death until they receive autopsy results"
The results are obviously not in, but as the article states the couple and the cat all died and signs currently point to CO poisoning.
That combined with the fact that they seem to be running a commercial unit which produces CO as part of its operation really does point to the fact that it was CO poisoning.
Obviously the autopsy will prove this either way - but regardless, having a detector is probably a good idea anyway (Especially if you happen to be running a CO generating device with no ventilation)?
"England has similar rules now for rented properties - (interlinked) smoke alarm on each floor, and a CO detector in any room containing a solid fuel burning appliance. IIRC, Scotland requires a CO detector in any room with a fuel burning appliance except cooking appliances"
They are mandatory in new builds too, the company that built our house came round with a box of them a few years ago when the regulations came into force (They went door to door handing them out, one for the utility with the boiler, one for the kitchen for the cooker and if you had opted for a gas fire one for the front room too)
"Does that mean Tesla employees are so underpaid, and so badly treated, that they will leave at the drop of a hat? And when someone does leave, Tesla looks to sue their new employer? Remind me never to apply for a job with them."
Quite the opposite, it suggests that they are paid well enough that they are able to save enough of a buffer for them to leave their job at the drop of a hat to work at a startup.
Also, Tesla are suing the new employer mainly for theft of commercially sensitive information, the staff poaching will be secondary to this, staff can be replaced but a few hundred GB of your designs, plans and probably code for your product in the hands of a competitor is something that your not going to be able to recover from easily.
You're quite right, contracting is a piece of piss, we skip merrily from contract to contract while money rains down from the heavens and falls at our feet.
Which begs the question, why are you still a permie? Seriously, it sounds shit the way you paint it, c'mon, I'll put you in touch with some good recruiters and an accountant.
You KNOW it's not as easy as you make out, you yourself have probably served a contractor their notice and asked them to leave (in reality we get no notice period), or canceled a contract a few days before it was due to start..
Some other things to consider: finish your contract in November? Well, put your feet up because no one is hiring until mid January now.
Not been paid on time? Have fun with THAT, there was a period this year where I didn't get paid for four months because of an issue with the clients finance department, contractor payments were not a priority to resolve. What comeback did I have? Put a few % tax on as a late fee? Court and ensure the end of my contract and loose any repeat work from that client? Nope I fell back on the money I had to wait. Now Mr permie, what would you do if your pay was two days late? I'll bet you'd be in to your payroll department and it would be resolved pretty quick.
The guys claiming to be getting an effective vat rate in the range that you quoted are the ones that are not making provisions for down time, taking all profits out of the company and then panicking at the end of their contract.
I'd also point out, it's not a fiddle to follow the law and pay the minimum amount of tax.
In fact I'd go as far as to say if you have any pre-tax benefits from your employer, including pensions, student loan payments or childcare vouchers you are a hipocrite as you are also employing legal "fiddles" to reduce your tax bill.
"It's down to the end client to collect taxes, effectively through PAYE, before paying the contractor."
Well that's f*cking mental.
For a start it's not my money it's my companies money, not mine. I take a small amount for myself and the rest gets spent on expenses such as training, insurance etc, I also use profits from some contracts to subsidise work I do for NPOs and charities..
So are they hitting me with full whack income tax on money that will never be mine?
Which then raises where does that get paid? Me or my company? Are they paying per taxed money into my company?
I should probably go and read up on what they're changing... Or just continue not working in pub sector.
@dr s
I've just typed a big response and chrome crashed...
The jist was : you're quite right that's what I was getting at doing, not emptying the account every month, but rather having a clear agreement in place for how dividends would be doled out based on the profits generated by each member.
@dr s
You're quite right,
That's kind of what I proposed, I didn't mean it to read that they would take everything out.
Rather that when they did declare a dividend it would have to be based on an agreed amount which would have to be based on the income generated by each person.
That said, there's nothing to stop a contractor emptying their company account every month (as long as they leave enough to cover tax etc) doesn't matter if your a one man band or a company owner employing 20 people, you can take what you want as long as it's accounted for an all taxes paid.
It's a daft idea to do that... But there's nothing to stop you doing it if you want to.
No, an umbrella is very different from what I proposed.
In an umbrella you are an employee of that company, they pay you a wage and your expenses, they take a cut to make their profits.
What I proposed was a situation where a small group of contractors all owned shares in the same company, allowing them to use the same tax structure (small salary and dividend) as they currently use.
"I'm talking about companies doing it in B2C situations. It happens. A lot of car garages and trades people have been doing it for a good few years"
Literally no one else is discussing this. The article is about contractors, we are talking about B2B contracts.
If your friend accepted a 20k quote for development work as you stated and got stung it's partly due to their negligence in not checking first. (Though if it was a b2c situation I'd probably make the vat situation clear in the quote)
I have never quoted a vat inc price for work...
For a start VAT can change..
Being charged vat doesn't really matter to a business, we just claim it back.. so crying over a 4k vat bill on a contract is a bit ridiculous, unless of course they were not a busines... In which case a bit of diligence up front on their part would have paid off.
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