I joined a famous car company in 1991. I was one of 50 apprentices. 4 were female.
Each year, 50 new apprentices were taken on. 4 were female.
I stayed 8 years.
How many females from those apprentaships were left on the shop floor when I left?
Zero. The work was too dirty for them, the management wanted them in the offices, where I eventually landed, and none of them took a shine to the work.
Over 30 females got promotions out of 400 people. I was one of the few men who made it up to the clean offices.
Come to Spain. Sit with us. Speak English all week. Eat English all week. Drink English all week.
South of Spain: It's England with better weather (not today or yesterday or the day before - gee it's hot here. We also have better beaches in England.).
My contract with the job centre required than I send 3 CVs every week to the jobs they had on their board. Forget that I was sending more than that a day, to companies clever enough not to use the job centre.
My wife. She actually believes they are informing her of new products on the market. If there's an advert for "salty,sugary, causes-instant-death, crunchy toffee bread", it'll be in our food cupboard a week later.
I live in the UK, work in the UK, pay BBC licence tax and I'm currently seeing adverts as the company internet proxy is in Germany. It's a disgusting practice. Heaven forbid they'd let me type in my licence number, provide my passport number, biometric data...
First comments are at the bottom for me. I changed it from the default the first week of signing up here.
We all know that the first third of comments are trolls, shills, first posters and general twats.
The second third of posts are almost predictable.
The final thrid of posts are from people late to the game, probably posting from home, have maybe read the flipping article and tend to post interesting and insightful stuff.
Sites like the BBC are perfectly readable in landscape. The majority of vBulletin forums detect my mobile, and display the threads in an easy-to-read format. Ladbrokes, although they cut some of the content the site is very usable, even more usable than their identical App. Google obviously works fine with all their pages.
For sites that insist on showing me a mobile format, I can use Dolphin on Android and pretend to be a desktop.
For crap sites, pinch and expand to zoom works fine. Double clicking a paragraph renders the text large enough to fill the width of the screen.
Largest problem is JS heavy sites. Not enough CPU power or memory for some of them.
Give it time and everyone will create usable sites for phone browsers.
I can type fast on the dafault Android keyboard. Autocorrect handles my typos - something I wish Firefox would do.
Scales are easy to beat. A lot of items weight the same. Tins of food, with the shop's own branding, is where most are stolen. Dropping one helps. If it leaks, you've scored.
Messing up your scanning also helps. The helpful staff are not so helpful after you've done it for the tenth time.
High priced items in my area are meat and coffee. These are also the items offered in pubs on a Saturday. It's a roaring trade.
I live in a low income area, full of real and exciting people who sometimes struggle to feed their families. We feed a young girl five times a week, sometimes using stolen meat. She wouldn't have a decent meal otherwise. This world makes me sad.
In a small English town of 120,000 people, the chances of knowing someone who works in the local council offices, for just a little over the minimum wage, is high. They probably went to school together. They probably share drinks. They probably share data too.
I followed this on Kickstarter. I can't wait for it to retail. People have asked me why...
I'm a keen gardener but I don't take my expensive phone outside while gardening; the dirt doesn't agree with it and the screen wouldn't handle the abuse. I leave the phone in the kitchen, where I can hear it ringing. So it rings, I run up the garden to answer it, and it's no one I want to talk to. My watch could have told me and saved me the hassle.
I suppose the same is true for driving. I could ignore it mostly.
Calendar sync, notifications, SMS, caller ID - I could probably leave the phone docked all the time. Ah time, it should probably tell the time too.
Same with Virgin Media in the UK. Phone them. There's a lot they can do.
I've had hardware swapped out. Little regtangular boxes added to the cable (noise filters?). Lines swapped outside my house. Even router settings changed from the default. Extremely helpful most of the time, but it may require more than one phone call.
I get more than the 30mbit I pay for. That can't be bad.
Last night, 1.3gb file from TPB, starts slow, speeds up after 10 minutes, last 1gb comes through at 33mbit (my max limit). This is not unusual for Bittorrent.
Usenet, which I can no longer afford, 33mbit start to finish.
I know the overhead is different, and I know that PAR2 checks and uncompressing RARs take just as long as the download, but it still beats anything I've used ever. This even includes private FTP servers.
HTTP pipes can be maxed out using multiple connections. I used to try 15-20 if the server accepted them. Download managers were the best tools in my toolbox.
I'm getting 60mbit any day now. Whoooooweeeeeeiii, as you say.
From what I read at the time, it went far beyond spoofing caller-IDs and guessing default PINs. I remember thinking that it was up there with cracking servers and needed more knowledge than my own general understanding of phone hacking.
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It works the other way too.
I joined a famous car company in 1991. I was one of 50 apprentices. 4 were female.
Each year, 50 new apprentices were taken on. 4 were female.
I stayed 8 years.
How many females from those apprentaships were left on the shop floor when I left?
Zero. The work was too dirty for them, the management wanted them in the offices, where I eventually landed, and none of them took a shine to the work.
Over 30 females got promotions out of 400 people. I was one of the few men who made it up to the clean offices.
Cold wind in Portugal.
Come to Spain. Sit with us. Speak English all week. Eat English all week. Drink English all week.
South of Spain: It's England with better weather (not today or yesterday or the day before - gee it's hot here. We also have better beaches in England.).
That mirrors my experience.
My contract with the job centre required than I send 3 CVs every week to the jobs they had on their board. Forget that I was sending more than that a day, to companies clever enough not to use the job centre.
How much are those iTunes books worth secondhand?
I love my used books. If they weren't available, I probably wouldn't read books at all.
There's nothing strange at all.
The only reason those results are on Bing is because Microsoft scraped Google's search results.
My wife. She actually believes they are informing her of new products on the market. If there's an advert for "salty,sugary, causes-instant-death, crunchy toffee bread", it'll be in our food cupboard a week later.
I know. Divorce is the only option.
Erm, they have adverts on their website.
I live in the UK, work in the UK, pay BBC licence tax and I'm currently seeing adverts as the company internet proxy is in Germany. It's a disgusting practice. Heaven forbid they'd let me type in my licence number, provide my passport number, biometric data...
I'm a man who smokes with a really deep voice. I had a call from Indian "Steve" a few months back
Steve: Hi, this is Steve from Computer Something Something. Can I speak to Kaz Inda (my wife)?
Me: Hi, speaking.
Steve: [reading from his script] Would have 2 minutes to answer some computer related questions?
At which point I placed him on the speaker and the fun began.
After the tenth question about my OS, usaged, etc, Steve got confused.
Steve: Can I take your name again?
Me: It's Kaz Inda. You phoned me and asked for me by name, remember?
Steve: I do not beleive you are a woman sir.
Me: I'm shocked and flabergasted. Of course I'm a woman. How can you say a thing like that?
Steve: You're an idiot.
Me: You're an idiot.
They've never phoned back =)
First comments are at the bottom for me. I changed it from the default the first week of signing up here.
We all know that the first third of comments are trolls, shills, first posters and general twats.
The second third of posts are almost predictable.
The final thrid of posts are from people late to the game, probably posting from home, have maybe read the flipping article and tend to post interesting and insightful stuff.
Make is so.
All the time!
Sites like the BBC are perfectly readable in landscape. The majority of vBulletin forums detect my mobile, and display the threads in an easy-to-read format. Ladbrokes, although they cut some of the content the site is very usable, even more usable than their identical App. Google obviously works fine with all their pages.
For sites that insist on showing me a mobile format, I can use Dolphin on Android and pretend to be a desktop.
For crap sites, pinch and expand to zoom works fine. Double clicking a paragraph renders the text large enough to fill the width of the screen.
Largest problem is JS heavy sites. Not enough CPU power or memory for some of them.
Give it time and everyone will create usable sites for phone browsers.
I can type fast on the dafault Android keyboard. Autocorrect handles my typos - something I wish Firefox would do.
Scales are easy to beat. A lot of items weight the same. Tins of food, with the shop's own branding, is where most are stolen. Dropping one helps. If it leaks, you've scored.
Messing up your scanning also helps. The helpful staff are not so helpful after you've done it for the tenth time.
High priced items in my area are meat and coffee. These are also the items offered in pubs on a Saturday. It's a roaring trade.
I live in a low income area, full of real and exciting people who sometimes struggle to feed their families. We feed a young girl five times a week, sometimes using stolen meat. She wouldn't have a decent meal otherwise. This world makes me sad.
My mother recently bought a new laptop.
"I need Office 2012" she said, fully expecting me to provide a copy as I have done in the past.
"Google Docs (Drive) will do you fine" and it has for the half-dozen letters she writes a year.
Pirating software is an old passtime.
"The Big Bang Theory seems to be almost real time"
It's not in the UK.
The wife and I were watching it a few weeks ago. I swore to her that we must have must have missed some episodes as the plot wasn't making any sense.
TBP, Season 5, all of them in one go was easier than finding the missing episodes. That is part of the story of my piracy.
The other part is that I used to pay for Usenet access. A large sum of money with stupidly high bandwidth. I wonder who else would like that money?
In a small English town of 120,000 people, the chances of knowing someone who works in the local council offices, for just a little over the minimum wage, is high. They probably went to school together. They probably share drinks. They probably share data too.
*wink*
It's rife.
I followed this on Kickstarter. I can't wait for it to retail. People have asked me why...
I'm a keen gardener but I don't take my expensive phone outside while gardening; the dirt doesn't agree with it and the screen wouldn't handle the abuse. I leave the phone in the kitchen, where I can hear it ringing. So it rings, I run up the garden to answer it, and it's no one I want to talk to. My watch could have told me and saved me the hassle.
I suppose the same is true for driving. I could ignore it mostly.
Calendar sync, notifications, SMS, caller ID - I could probably leave the phone docked all the time. Ah time, it should probably tell the time too.
Red please.
Same with Virgin Media in the UK. Phone them. There's a lot they can do.
I've had hardware swapped out. Little regtangular boxes added to the cable (noise filters?). Lines swapped outside my house. Even router settings changed from the default. Extremely helpful most of the time, but it may require more than one phone call.
I get more than the 30mbit I pay for. That can't be bad.
*cough*Usenet*cough*
Last night, 1.3gb file from TPB, starts slow, speeds up after 10 minutes, last 1gb comes through at 33mbit (my max limit). This is not unusual for Bittorrent.
Usenet, which I can no longer afford, 33mbit start to finish.
I know the overhead is different, and I know that PAR2 checks and uncompressing RARs take just as long as the download, but it still beats anything I've used ever. This even includes private FTP servers.
HTTP pipes can be maxed out using multiple connections. I used to try 15-20 if the server accepted them. Download managers were the best tools in my toolbox.
I'm getting 60mbit any day now. Whoooooweeeeeeiii, as you say.
When I search for Klom Dark meme, your post is top 'o the list.
I hate you.
The norms upsetting the fatties again? They should stop. Stop it. Stop it now.
"I'd go to the gym but gas prices make it too expensive a journey"
"I can't afford fresh food"
"My genetics make me eat birthday cake"
"They don't make push-bikes large enough for my frame"
"The objects on my desk have started to orbit me"
"I don't like sports; I only like birthday cake"
"It's my birthday and it's my cake"
"Fatties run in my family! Well, actually they waddle, and the scooter only travels at a walking pace"
"Nom, nom, nom. Birthday cake."
"I haven't seen my cock in years"
"I have cake; who's birthday is it?"
"Using the Type-two-diabetes diet, I lost 20 kilos and a leg"
"Birthday cake!"
From what I read at the time, it went far beyond spoofing caller-IDs and guessing default PINs. I remember thinking that it was up there with cracking servers and needed more knowledge than my own general understanding of phone hacking.
Cleaner than clean. Didn't you read his story?
I'm on Tesco Mobile, who use O2's network
1. Not blocked.
2. Not blocked
3. Not
4. No
5...
Not even the evil TPB.se is blocked.
What gives?
I have a metal wire behind the back of my teeth. It's been glued there for 20 years.
I've also had MRIs.
There's never been a problem with heating or tugging or anything else.
If only you'd started your post with "So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time."
"Send to group" is the way to send 14,000 messages in a month. I often send 30 in one go using this method.