I live in the UK. Here, traffic is stopped entirely across the intersection and pedestrians are allowed to use all the crossings. There's no crossing when any side of the intersection has a green light for cars.
After living in the UK for so long, I went to visit a friend in Germany and it took me by surprise when after making a left turn there was a pedestrian crossing the road... and he had a green light too.
I find the idea of letting both traffic and pedestrians on the road at the same time stupid and irresponsible.
I use the Hangouts app for SMS because the build-in app is stupid and GO SMS PRO is to themey. Hangouts does what I need for SMS without the dancing colours and whatnot and without the slowness (on large threads) and "scroll back to the bottom on receiving new SMS" bug of the built-in app.
But there's a notification bug. I have a SMS contact on mute (Twitter). When I receive a non-muted SMS or non-muted hangouts message Twitter starts ignoring its mute. I wrote on their forums and basically received a "we're/they're working on it" message from a moderator. I mentioned that I'm annoyed enough that I'm willing to sign an NDA (because it's not open source) and go fix it myself. I basically got a ROTFL-type reply to that suggestion.
These guys will get their IPs banned first (no idea why VPN providers don't get their banned, but they'll probably be next). Then they release their IPs and get new ones. Those IPs will get banned, while the released ones will not get unbanned. Soon enough people in the UK will be unable to use iPlayer and the BBC customer services representatives will blame the users. Replace "BBC" and "iPlayer" with the your relevant data.
Feet, branch, chainsaw.
We've seen this happen with e-mail and spam blacklists somewhat.
I was one of those hit by the Eurostar cancellations on Tuesday due to protests by MyFerryLink workers. I chose a slow bus (Megabus) the next day because Eurostar had tickets available on Thursday, and half an hour later for Friday, and I didn't want to stick around. I had to use a taxi to get to the hotel I found on the outskirts of Paris (but the RER would have worked for me too, but my gf was mad enough that she wanted a taxi, since I'll claim the costs from Eurostar anyway). And while on the taxi, the A1 autoroute (motorway) decided to start road works.
While here, I would also like to "thank" SNCF for blocking booking.com searches over their free WiFi at Gare du Nord. Really "helpful" during the Eurostar panic.
As for enforcing laws, it's like those armed patrols they have anywhere are willing to do nothing about the "un Euro" Africans that sell Eiffel Tower keychains and metals things everywhere (including Disneyland) and the "speak English" "charity" beggars that have no official charity affiliation (that say they want "just" a signature, but then have an "amount" column on their sheets)
Tell management to stop playing with a Truck Number of 1. During the ramp up of the new guy, with or without your knowledgebase, they'll be in trouble. They'll want the new guy up to speed in day one, and he might not be up to speed in six months after you leave. And he might leave too if management stresses him out trying to get your performance out of him.
Note: I am such a special snowflake in my organisation too, so I'm projecting. But in my case the company would just shut and everybody else would go home (they're all ex-bankers, now otherwise retired). If they were to get a replacement for me the guy would have to read a fuckton of source code, the same way I did, before he can do my job. And it took me about 6 years to understand what I'm doing, as it's not my baby. It was somebody else's, and that guy didn't like to share his thought process even though we worked on this for 4 years in the beginning before we parted ways.
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The UK and Ireland don't drive on the right side of the road. They drive on the correct side of the road.
I live in the UK. Here, traffic is stopped entirely across the intersection and pedestrians are allowed to use all the crossings. There's no crossing when any side of the intersection has a green light for cars.
After living in the UK for so long, I went to visit a friend in Germany and it took me by surprise when after making a left turn there was a pedestrian crossing the road... and he had a green light too.
I find the idea of letting both traffic and pedestrians on the road at the same time stupid and irresponsible.
"God visited me last night. I worshipped Him and He forgave me all night long. Now I'm pregnant. What did I do wrong?"
Of course. And it's not that hard either.
That link is referrer-restricted. It says "view this on joe-ks.com". You probably meant to link this instead
I use the Hangouts app for SMS because the build-in app is stupid and GO SMS PRO is to themey. Hangouts does what I need for SMS without the dancing colours and whatnot and without the slowness (on large threads) and "scroll back to the bottom on receiving new SMS" bug of the built-in app.
But there's a notification bug. I have a SMS contact on mute (Twitter). When I receive a non-muted SMS or non-muted hangouts message Twitter starts ignoring its mute. I wrote on their forums and basically received a "we're/they're working on it" message from a moderator. I mentioned that I'm annoyed enough that I'm willing to sign an NDA (because it's not open source) and go fix it myself. I basically got a ROTFL-type reply to that suggestion.
These guys will get their IPs banned first (no idea why VPN providers don't get their banned, but they'll probably be next). Then they release their IPs and get new ones. Those IPs will get banned, while the released ones will not get unbanned. Soon enough people in the UK will be unable to use iPlayer and the BBC customer services representatives will blame the users. Replace "BBC" and "iPlayer" with the your relevant data.
Feet, branch, chainsaw.
We've seen this happen with e-mail and spam blacklists somewhat.
I was one of those hit by the Eurostar cancellations on Tuesday due to protests by MyFerryLink workers. I chose a slow bus (Megabus) the next day because Eurostar had tickets available on Thursday, and half an hour later for Friday, and I didn't want to stick around. I had to use a taxi to get to the hotel I found on the outskirts of Paris (but the RER would have worked for me too, but my gf was mad enough that she wanted a taxi, since I'll claim the costs from Eurostar anyway). And while on the taxi, the A1 autoroute (motorway) decided to start road works.
While here, I would also like to "thank" SNCF for blocking booking.com searches over their free WiFi at Gare du Nord. Really "helpful" during the Eurostar panic.
As for enforcing laws, it's like those armed patrols they have anywhere are willing to do nothing about the "un Euro" Africans that sell Eiffel Tower keychains and metals things everywhere (including Disneyland) and the "speak English" "charity" beggars that have no official charity affiliation (that say they want "just" a signature, but then have an "amount" column on their sheets)
Tell management to stop playing with a Truck Number of 1. During the ramp up of the new guy, with or without your knowledgebase, they'll be in trouble. They'll want the new guy up to speed in day one, and he might not be up to speed in six months after you leave. And he might leave too if management stresses him out trying to get your performance out of him. Note: I am such a special snowflake in my organisation too, so I'm projecting. But in my case the company would just shut and everybody else would go home (they're all ex-bankers, now otherwise retired). If they were to get a replacement for me the guy would have to read a fuckton of source code, the same way I did, before he can do my job. And it took me about 6 years to understand what I'm doing, as it's not my baby. It was somebody else's, and that guy didn't like to share his thought process even though we worked on this for 4 years in the beginning before we parted ways.