Posts by Doctor Syntax

Re: Write them down...

It's not going to be the Death Recovery Plan.

Re: Legal issues

"was told, not unreasonably, that they couldn't just take my word for it over the phone"

So far so good...

"but that as I had stated she was dead my LPA was no longer valid"

So they were taking your word for it.

Re: Legal issues

"Wouldn't life be dull if English was such a tightly controlled language that there was only ever one correct way to say something?"

We'd have to start borrowing phrases from French.

Re: Not happened to me, but

Snowdonia?

That must have been expensive for the location shots. They didn't normally go so far from Pinewood.

Re: R.I.P.

You could vary it - "What if so-and-so is fired and marched out of the building?"

As to being in the same plane, travelling in the same car is as likely a risk.

Re: Talking of the DR plan in the safe ...

"and only they will know"

Sitting around in an office in court one day, waiting to be called as a witness I noticed one of the police witnesses, equally bored, twiddle the combination lock to open the office key safe, just for something to do.

Re: Not happened to me, but

What's written on the bank cards will be the first step. Then follow transfers between those accounts and any others. Just take care not to cremate the cards with the deceased.

Re: The Real Hero of the Story

The instruction may just have been "Give this to Mark" and this was the first opportunity.

Re: Legal issues

And the attorney and executor may have quite different responsibilities. For instance the attorney might be trying to keep creditors at bay while the executor's duty will include realising the maximum value of the estate to ensure creditors are paid.

Re: Legal issues

The reason the LPOA stops on decease is that it's no longer needed. The executor takes over.

You won't have purchased any music on line. You'll have purchase the personal right to listen to it. Online storage is another matter (depending on the T&Cs) and this would be dealt with by ensuring the executor has the passwords.

Re: While ya'll

"Skips bail losing 1 million quid in the process"

Not his million, of course. That must have disappointed some of his better off supporters. (Wasn't it more like £240,000, however?)

Re: Appeal

Perhaps you'll be a witness for the appeal. As things stand before the UK courts an assurance has been given and, without proof that it will be broken, that must be accepted. If it is broken it will result in a huge row, very likely be the basis for getting such charges thrown out of court in the US and make any further extraditions that much more difficult.

Re: Shotgun...

"These do terrible things to your cabbages."

Cheep slugs are even worse.

Re: They absorb any old shit you feed into them

I've certainly encountered customer disservice agents who, in the days before chatbots, were probably human but would have failed the Turing test.

Re: Full charge in 10 minutes?

In this rural area there are many houses which have no off-road parking. There is no possibility of them being able to provide home charging. Can people charge them at work? That means a charging point at every car parking space because the driver would need assurance that a charger would be available and first come first served isn't going to work if, say 10% of spaces have chargers. And that would not be off-peak charging.

Re: Full charge in 10 minutes?

The essence of a battery swap scheme isn't the battery, it's the charge. You're buying so much charge. The battery is just the container and is owned by the business that sells the charge. Obviously one of the requirements for making such a scheme work would be a suitably accurate means of measuring the charge - both what's left in the battery that's swapped out as well as what's in the battery that's swapped in. The cost of the battery gets split across the many times it will be used during its life.

Re: Waiting for AA format

And the crosshead screw holding in place needs a smaller screwdriver than you've ever seen.

Re: Memo to developers:

AFAICS this isn't what the roboticists are interested in. They seem more interested in the apparently intelligent behaviour that arises from the combined activities of social insects. The units might be cheap but to achieve the results you'd need a lot of them, all doomed to end up as yet more electronic landfill.

Re: NFTs have no intrinsic value whatsoever, but have sold for multiple millions.

If you can get a fool to believe it and part money for it it has value. That fool can even make a profit if he can find a greater fool.

Re: He needs HMG governments lawyers on the case

If HMG were able to disappear in a puff of paradox it would already have done so. The entire Brexit/Good Friday Agreement/maintain the Union situation was paradoxical. It was a "pick any two" situation.

Re: Potentially an interesting legal case

There's an old saying that my right to extend my fist stops just short of your nose. In other words, we do not live in some ideal environment where individual actions have no consequences. We must consider those consequences. I might have a right to extend my fist, you have a right not to be punched in the nose. The limitation on my right is my responsibility to respect yours. Note that word: responsibility. There are no rights without responsibilities. They are opposite sides of the same coin. Our concept of "rights" is essentially one of mutual respect, our laws are simply a delineation of where those rights and responsibilities lie.

One of the SEC's responsibilities is to prevent the share-buying public's rights not to be misled, either deliberately or accidentally, by what's said by people with inside information or decision making powers in the companies whose shares they might buy or own. They do that by placing a responsibility on the people in that position not to make misleading statements, a responsibility that comes with the right to be in that position.

In this particular case Musk's tweets, because of his position in Tesla etc. can induce individuals to spend money in the belief that he will do what he says and those individuals then find themselves out of pocket. His indulgence in what he considers free speech infringes the rights of others. The SEC is trying to prevent damage he causes.

If, of course, he were to completely leave the management of the companies and divest himself of his significant holdings then his tweets would carry no more significance than those of the man in the Clapham Omnibus. Assuming he does not wish to travel in the Clapham Omnibus but to retain his rights to occupy those positions and hold those shares then he needs to respect others' rights and exercise his responsibilities. The SEC's settlement required him to respect those rights. There's no reason to think that his statements will have any less effect now and, therefore, no reason to think that his responsibilities have disappeared.

My alternative suggestion above was that if he wants to keep his rights to tweet whatever he thinks as he thinks and maintain his other rights in regard to the companies then there should be a mechanism whereby he takes personal responsibilities for any damage he causes. I wonder if he would consider that a fair deal.

Re: Advice from Twitter?

There is, of course, the argument that the gene pool is already too large.

Re: Emergency credit?

Or just carry some cash for emergencies.

There's also File>Open Remote... to work with the local application on the cloudy document.

I stand corrected. Although Sylpheed looks superficially like the old T-bird type of interface it isn't a fork but Interlink is. Sylpheed claims to offer news but the version in the Debian repository doesn't offer it in account setup although the online manual suggests it does; so strike that one off the list.

Given the extent to which people here beef about Outlook I guess there are plenty of people still using that client. However there's scope for a good deal of improvement in any client that I've seen. What's needed is to look beyond just message handling.

Accumulated messages - in- and out-bound can represent a lot information with long term value. That applies to project work IME. Looking back to pre-email days, it would apply equally to case work. But that information is hidden away in a fairly unhelpful interface. No wonder we hear of people storing huge amounts of mail in their inbox or, even worse, their deleted folder.

In a well-run traditional paper-based office documents including incoming mail and carbons of outgoing mail would be properly filed by a filing clerk with all sorts of other, related material. We ought to be able to do as well as that by automating the filing clerk.

In practice if I'm working on a project I might have a desktop folder containing documents I've written, stuff I've researched from the web and material I've been emailed from collaborators. However if I want to read what was in those emails other than those saved attachments I've got to go scrabbling about in the email client's rudimentary filing system UI. I could copy it them out into a text document in the folder but then that has to be maintained as fresh emails are sent and received.

What would really be useful would be to not only set up a folder structure in the email client but also to link the relevant folders into the desktop folder along with all the other material and be able to click on the email threads within them and get them presented in a similar way to comments here. And wouldn't it be useful to add a personal note against an email, one that's not going to be quoted in a reply or included if I forward the email to someone else?

And, of course, what applies to email could also apply to any other form of communication the application could handle. We've only scratched the surface of what an "email" client could and should really do.

Re: Anyone who thinks this is AI

Feed it amanfrommars1's conversations.