In the UK, being inebriated or having an alcohol or other drug dependency is often used as a mitigating circumstance in court and results in lesser sentences.
Nope - nothing to do with that. At this point, the selection of people to go through full body scans is random. Not everyone has to go through one yet.
Most of the people that have refused so far and thus been banned from flying were British citizens.
I love how people here go on about libraries like we all have them. It must be really nice to have a quality library near you, but travel a bit and you'll realise what a rare privilege you have !
Just to put this into context - this man got 2 years in jail (ok, he'll probably only seve half that) while violent thugs who please guilty to GBH often get non-custodial sentences.
So what we're saying now is that having naughty thoughts and desires is WORSE than beating a man in the street.
The thing is that the people travelling to London for the Olympics won't want to stay in the hole that is stratford, so we're putting the WiFi where they actually will be.
Most posters here don't seem to understand how very different the UK is from the US with regards to employment law.
An employer cannot fire me if they find out I am looking for other roles. They cannot take any punitive action. The absolute worst they can do is stop promoting me or giving me increases.
At my level (senior tech / lower management) I actually inform my line manager when I start to look for a new role and when I go for interviews. This results in an adult, respectful and largely healthy transition. It avoids all the skullduggery I see from my US colleagues and is actually better for the team I leave behind as people can plan accordingly.
Most people I've worked with in Europe find the idea of the at-will state to be abusive and would never support something like that in their region.
I know at least 10 people who've stopped going to movies in the UK primarily because of cellphones.
Not sure which one of us that makes right. These are both just anecdotes.
What I will say though is that I know more people who won't go to a cinema because of phones (glare and talking) than people who think it's ok to use a phone in this environment. On that basis alone it seems worth fixing.
Many slight changes from one lane to another in the UK are not supposed to be signalled according to my driving and IAM instructors. Moving out to pass a bus that is offloading / loading should not be signalled as an example. How would this car deal with that ?
I will admit that I've only worked for a dozen or so organizations in my whole life, so maybe my experience is unusual, but I've never had a contract that stated any reason had to be given in the first place,
That's just because you live in America. Those of us who live in the free world know that we can do our civic duty and our livelihood will be safe.
This is fine if you're an island thousands of miles from other large population centers. The problem with Europe is that you're never more than a few hours drive from the next country. So even if every carrier in the UK agreed to block stolen phones, I can be in France within 120 minutes of leaving my house and I can sell them there.
This would need to be Europe wide to have any effect here.
I think the key difference is the number of us who've had to clean up after Gates and suffer the outcomes of his security.
Every time some windows botnet completely outside of my ability to control hammers on my public facing boxes and I have to divert time into dealing with or mitigating the impacts of that traffic, I look to the sky, shake my fist and scream GAAAATESSSS! All of the time I spend doing that is time that I don't spend adding real value to my customers.
How many of us that run secured equipment and platforms have been bitten by one of these phone bugs yet ?
I don't know a single person in London who composts and none of my friends outside of London do either. That sample size covers about 300 people.
I do know that people regularly fight the councils over recycling schemes as most british homes just do not have space for the (up to) 6 recycling containers that some councils have tried to impose.
It works very well. It works so well in fact that it allows Amazon to break into your house, take a book back if they find they shouldn't have sold it to you, and leave the money on the nightstand.
Oh, wait, you meant it works well for the customer? No... not at all. Any time someone I buy from can take those goods back, something is fundamentally broken.
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In the UK, being inebriated or having an alcohol or other drug dependency is often used as a mitigating circumstance in court and results in lesser sentences.
Pat downs aren't an option in the UK either, and we're part of the EU. It's scan or no-fly here too if you're selected for the scanner.
In the UK, if you are selected for the scanner and refuse, you are not allowed to fly. There is no pat-down option.
Nope - nothing to do with that. At this point, the selection of people to go through full body scans is random. Not everyone has to go through one yet.
Most of the people that have refused so far and thus been banned from flying were British citizens.
Yeah, but if you ARE selected for a full body scan, you can't refuse it. Your choices are take the scan or don't fly.
But if you read a few more books that you didn't need to, you might not say things like "give you the just of it"...
Just for some context, in the UK, 'destroying' something is often used as slang to refer to going out and getting massively drunk and partying.
Doesn't make him very bright though.
I love how people here go on about libraries like we all have them. It must be really nice to have a quality library near you, but travel a bit and you'll realise what a rare privilege you have !
Just to put this into context - this man got 2 years in jail (ok, he'll probably only seve half that) while violent thugs who please guilty to GBH often get non-custodial sentences.
So what we're saying now is that having naughty thoughts and desires is WORSE than beating a man in the street.
You gave up on the software as well - you sent most of that to India.
And you gave up on many other service industry jobs including accounting functions and legal functions - those are in India too now.
Huge parts of it outside america and Europe.
And yet newspapers do it all the time...
Does your vacation booking software send out of office e-mails when you apply for time off ? If not, it has nothing to do with this.
Most insightful post here!
The thing is that the people travelling to London for the Olympics won't want to stay in the hole that is stratford, so we're putting the WiFi where they actually will be.
Most posters here don't seem to understand how very different the UK is from the US with regards to employment law.
An employer cannot fire me if they find out I am looking for other roles. They cannot take any punitive action. The absolute worst they can do is stop promoting me or giving me increases.
At my level (senior tech / lower management) I actually inform my line manager when I start to look for a new role and when I go for interviews. This results in an adult, respectful and largely healthy transition. It avoids all the skullduggery I see from my US colleagues and is actually better for the team I leave behind as people can plan accordingly.
Most people I've worked with in Europe find the idea of the at-will state to be abusive and would never support something like that in their region.
I know at least 10 people who've stopped going to movies in the UK primarily because of cellphones.
Not sure which one of us that makes right. These are both just anecdotes.
What I will say though is that I know more people who won't go to a cinema because of phones (glare and talking) than people who think it's ok to use a phone in this environment. On that basis alone it seems worth fixing.
I very much doubt that the safety features were the main contributor to that premium drop.
Many slight changes from one lane to another in the UK are not supposed to be signalled according to my driving and IAM instructors. Moving out to pass a bus that is offloading / loading should not be signalled as an example. How would this car deal with that ?
I will admit that I've only worked for a dozen or so organizations in my whole life, so maybe my experience is unusual, but I've never had a contract that stated any reason had to be given in the first place,
That's just because you live in America. Those of us who live in the free world know that we can do our civic duty and our livelihood will be safe.
This is fine if you're an island thousands of miles from other large population centers. The problem with Europe is that you're never more than a few hours drive from the next country. So even if every carrier in the UK agreed to block stolen phones, I can be in France within 120 minutes of leaving my house and I can sell them there.
This would need to be Europe wide to have any effect here.
I think the key difference is the number of us who've had to clean up after Gates and suffer the outcomes of his security.
Every time some windows botnet completely outside of my ability to control hammers on my public facing boxes and I have to divert time into dealing with or mitigating the impacts of that traffic, I look to the sky, shake my fist and scream GAAAATESSSS! All of the time I spend doing that is time that I don't spend adding real value to my customers.
How many of us that run secured equipment and platforms have been bitten by one of these phone bugs yet ?
I don't know a single person in London who composts and none of my friends outside of London do either. That sample size covers about 300 people.
I do know that people regularly fight the councils over recycling schemes as most british homes just do not have space for the (up to) 6 recycling containers that some councils have tried to impose.
Actors do it all the time!
It works very well. It works so well in fact that it allows Amazon to break into your house, take a book back if they find they shouldn't have sold it to you, and leave the money on the nightstand.
Oh, wait, you meant it works well for the customer? No ... not at all. Any time someone I buy from can take those goods back, something is fundamentally broken.
I didn't realise that they were giving citizenship to operating systems now.