Posts by Bob Rocket

Re: Saving money not parking

Your AV will choose quiet roads to cruise up and down whilst it is waiting for your call :)

It is all about the money (and control) though.

AVs cannot break the speed limit - no more fixed penalties

AVs don't need car parking space away from home - no more parking charges or Parking Eye

AVs can't drive recklessly - no need for traffic cops

No need for DVLA (other than model approvals)

No need for DoT

No need for HoC Transport committee

The list goes on and on

The potential impact on political control of AVs is only just being realised by those whose very livelihoods currently depend on non AV forms of transport (including Professors of Institutes of Transport and Logistical Studies).

Re: Green lobby failure

'Currently supply of Rare Earth Elements...'

Is that you TW ? (if so I claim my 5 shillings)

Re: Who needs to hack?

My first thought on seeing the video was that I could just sit on it, wave a bit of paper in front of it and it will carry me home.

Mr Git

'that cost me cart to the tip'

that cost (of doing business) you include in the rent don't you ? The incidence of tax (from whatever source) falls on the consumer (and not the rentier).

Not everybody can save or raise (or have the foresight and risk capability) sufficient capital to gain from longer term economies of scale.

Sometimes frugality and austerity over time simply means starving to death.

When you look at your current net and your starting net worth, is the difference solely due to the amount of work you have put in over the years (if so then good on you) or is the largest part of that gain capital value accrual (speculative land/house price gain) ?

Here's a thing, reduce your rents to below the level that attracts a Government subsidy (which you pay for with your taxes), this will increase demand for your (now) low cost housing so you can select tenants who look after the place, pay on time, clear up after themselves and who may then accrue sufficient capital to salt their own pig.

Re: Who really wants robo-cars??

I'll take six (but I'm keeping my two manual ones as well)

Re: Brexit related costs - I agree with tiggity

Leave EU voters should pay more tax.

Non voters should be shipped to Scotland and be forced to build the wall.

Remain EU voters should be shipped across the Channel (to enjoy French taxation rates).

That way everybody is happy.

Re: Beatings will continue

1. There will be no jam for you laddie with that attitude

2. Whilst it would probably make Teresa* mildly moist to continually beat the ungrateful proles electorate for their own good, extortion is probably a better method, tell Uber to hand over £185 very big ones and they can have free rein during her reign.

*Try an image search on Google.com from a UK IP address for Teresa May (the glamour girl, not the third rate politician), the results are revealing (and not in a good way). Wasn't bias in search results Fake News ?

Re: Firewall

It might be just the brushes on the motor, a quick trip to the tip will likely get you a whole bunch of only partly worn ones for the identical motor (usually free but no more than a pound or two).

If your machine was one that was sold in three variants of spin speed (800/1000/1200) you will probably find a jumper that you can uprate it to the fastest, jumpers were replaced with solder bridges (which you can also uprate) and in modern machines it is in the firmware (which might be difficult)

Not Secret

Insider leak or insiders outside PC got hacked, none of these exploits were marked secret to avoid charges of exporting restricted technology so staffers/contractors were free to take their work home with them.

Re: Seems you can't sign up

They are delivering the call as per the customer instructions, 'divert calls like this to junkbox'.

BT are missing a trick though, they should have various ELIZA machines answer the calls and keep the callers on the line as long as possible (running up the bill and occupying the time of the spammer)

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Re: "Car horns symphonise accompanied by" arrrghhh!

'symphonise' is fine, it's where the horns start as random beeps then morphs into a disjointed cacophony before evolving into a pseudo orchestral piece, the shouts of passing cyclists and screams of violated dustbins adding to the syncopative rhythm.

Why he was slicing pickles in the second paragraph is anybodies guess though

Re: The tail is wagging the dog

You can have the day off when all human demand has been satisfied, until then there will always be someone willing to pay someone else to do the bits they can't/won't do for themselves.

Re: Well you don't actually have to listen to anything W3C says

'Distributors create nothing and exist only to tax their consumers'

The distributors act as a hedge for the creators, the creators get a guaranteed sum for their work and the distributor takes the risk that not enough buyers will be found for that content for them to make a profit.

Increasingly I find most 'content' is designed to get me to watch adverts and is not worth the price.

DRM is a good thing, it is like an adblocker on steroids.

Izal - Government Property

https://forums.digitalspy.com/discussion/1485107/does-anyone-remember-that-toilet-paper-that-was-like-tracing-paper

Re: Privatise It

'We've got plenty of broadcasters that use that model, and they tend to churn out shit.'

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and one mans meat is his alone and he should pay for it.

I choose commercial output because there is nothing on the BBC channels I like yet I am forced to subsidise the BBC output.

The truth is that the BBC would go broke in a week if it had to compete commercially and all those luvvies on massive salaries would be out of work.

Re: Spoilsport

'So in summary, it's a Pre-Out of Office notification.'

good, I was afraid it would prevent my patent application for a Post-Out of Office notification that sends everyone on my lists an "I'm Back" message.

Re: Privatise it

'Thanks to the BBC we at least get a semblance of unbiased reporting'

Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Crash...sorry fell off my chair then.

Re: He has a point

I understand the automatic watering controller based on soil moisture content sensors part of the project but I fail to understand where the internet comes into the equation.

That is just Autonomous Things not Internet of Things

(unless it is a £1300 Rentokil one that phones a bloke who comes round with a watering can)