It doesn't have to be this way. In the UK, sure, the majority of the time very large fines are set; fines large enough to send the company under, but these are for small crimes and a fine is proportional.
I recieve HSE (Health and Safety Executive) reports weekly as part of my job. The HSE are independent regulators of all work related health and safety issues.
Here are some extracts from 2013 reports:
Optima (Cambridge) Ltd was fined a total of £63,000 and ordered to pay costs of £16,000. Dominik Jaslowski was given a three month prison sentence for each offence, to run concurrently, suspended for 12 months. He was also ordered to carry out 200 hours unpaid community work and pay costs of £3,500.
Brian Peter Beavis, t/a Heavy Plant Repairs, pleaded guilty to breaching Section 6(1)(a) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974. He was given a nine months' prison sentence, suspended for a year, and ordered to pay £10,000 compensation to Mr Pinkerton's partner.
Mr Maddocks had told Mr Lavender they would try to lift the post once and if it was too heavy they would wait for the more manpower to arrive in the form of the property owner and an electrician who was due at the house. Eden Shane Maddocks was given a six month prison sentence suspended for 12 months, and 180 hours unpaid community service work, after pleading guilty to breaching Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974.
I had a friend of a friend in a similar position. He did laser engraving and I wanted some leather bookmarks engraved with a wireframe model of a wheelbarrow. I had all the tools to export a vector graphic, in pretty much every standard format, but his "specialist software" wouldn't accept it. It would accept raster, but that killed all my hard 3D work.
It turned out that there was a printer driver for his laser engraver already installed and all he had to do was click the print button from any application. No had told him this; he just expected to use the software that came with the engraver.
He was happy, I got free bookmarks and as I type this I'm thinking about how much money and business I gained him just by experimenting, and now I'm sad.
"results in me being spammed forever by that system"
I've never been a user of LinkedIn and I was constantly spammed about buying carpet. Carpet from a supplier 200 miles away who I'd never had any contact with.
So I fired off a short email to LinkedIn and they told me that I should be happy that people want to do business with me.
In the end, LinkedIn blocked my email address and now I'm happy. Get them to block your email address - they have processes to deal with it.
Brief Googling is not needed. The water temperature for any car is about 90-95C and a lot of them have sensors and display dials showing this. The metal doesn't get much hotter than 95C.
Also, in modern cars, the fuel pump is disabled automatically after a crash.
I'm not an expect in car drive-trains either. Panels, sure. Everything else, meh.
I have an uncle who was the finance director for a large oil drilling company and he gave me a useful piece of advice:
"never pay off your debts"
Why pay the mortgage off after 25 years? Why not extend the debt, use the equity, and hopefully die before it's all paid off? Inflation takes care of the payments, hopefully. Locked up equity is no good to anyone apart from the creditor.
It's a game and some of the rules can be decided by the debtor.
I'm on my forth mortgage. I've used the equity to pay for holidays, new kitchen and bathroom, and a host of other things. I pay less per month today than I did 15 years ago because of inflation.
It's a gamble. And as I smoke like a chimney, a good gamble.
I promise to wash myself with bleach after this post.
Silverlight is better than Flash in every way and I wish it had gained ground all those years ago. It never ground my PC to a halt. It rarely crashed, if ever. It never hung Firefox. HD video played smoothly; as if I were playing it in VLC.
I know you guys have problems with it on Linux, Unix, BSD, OSX, Android,..., but it's so much better than Flash on Windows.
I can hear the wife in running me a bath. I'll add my own bleach.
* site offices (both project offices and contruction offices) * laydown areas (these are not for people laying down to have a rest, they are for parts and machinery) * staff facilities (toilets, changing rooms, catering) * on site manufacturing (such as making concrete on site)
On the last construction project I worked on, the lay down areas were twice as large as the actual construction.
I'm not bragging. I understand most people don't get my download speeds but the point is the same: 600mb isn't a lot these days.
There's another post in this thread where some games are mentioned. I remember downloading those games back in the day too. 65 x 1.44mb = 94mb, and that set of files had the game minus the videos and the audio was compressed flat. 94mb would have taken me about 4 hours to download and yet I still did it. I did it a lot.
Just imagine it's your birthday and you're unwrapping the present, and it's going to take 4 hours, but the wait could be worth it.
On this laptop, and my previous 3 laptops, I push the power button to shut down. Just a quick push, not a five second hard push.
Every program shuts down, asking me to save if need be. Any programmes that don't play nice, first timeout and then the PC shuts down properly - programs close, data is saved, hard drive spins down, power to the memory is stopped, screen is turned off.
Maybe on the first laptop I set this function. It's been the default on the next.
It was almost a joy missing out most of the internet yesterday. A couple of news sites, a favourite forum filled with mature readers and posters, the weather forecast and a tower defense game I'd wanted to finish for some time.
That was it. I've been burned over the past ten years or so. There was no way I'd put up with it this year. I found better things to do.
Slashdot. Why? Why? Why? Why become big childish pricks for a day? The pink pony shite you forced on us a few years back was the straw that broke the camel's back. And today. Today I click through to yesterday's "news" and I see Sam-whatever with his abominations. You'd get trolled-to-fuck posting that shite anywhere else, and yet here it's on the landing page.
Slashdot, you've got one chance left. No more childish shit. No more April Fools shit. No more Dice shit. Continue to post shit and Slashdot will forever be known for posting shit.
Redirects. I'll rant about their redirects too if you like. Why can't I stay on their domain to do my banking? Why must I be redirected? Who knew that https://www.nwolb.com is actually part of Natwest? Not me and not their internet security staff when I phoned them (tell me I have malware again! I dare you.)
We went through this with our daughter when she was still in pre-school. Constant ear infections, with no evidence of such. We thought our daughter was trying it on and so did our doctor.
I'll always remember the look my UK doctor and I shared. It was pure mutual understanding. He said "we'll try these homeopathic pills" and then we shared eye contact. I knew the pills were bollocks; he knew they were bollocks.
We both explained to my daughter that these pills would cure her forever and the nice white sugar pills in the fancy packet did just that. She hasn't complained of an ear infection since.
I'm that pirate. I'm the pirate who helps distribute. I'm the pirate who tries everything once. I'm the pirate everyone in the office speaks to about software... Or I was.
My solution? Update it regularly. Fix bugs regulary. Post about them. Keep your software alive.
What pissed me off most? Updates. I'd download v1.0 and it would have bugs. Because I didn't register, I didn't hear about v1.1 that came out a week later. Manually updating software is a royal pain in the arse when you have a lot of it.
Paying 99p for an app that updates on its own once a month is a joy. Some of the apps I own might only change a single pixel on a button but if I know something is being improved upon, that 99p seems like a bargin. Everyone loves a bargin.
Technically? I wouldn't know. Giving up my email address is normally the most I'd be willing to give you on top of a small amount of money.
176 x 220 pixels - yeah, that'll do nicely for now.
2009? Why have I not seen it before today?
The Pebble, now that it's out, looks a bit of a disapointment. I'm sure if Samsung did an upgrade of the S9110 it would be a nice bit of kit and they'd fly off the shelves.
Slashdot Mirror
It doesn't have to be this way. In the UK, sure, the majority of the time very large fines are set; fines large enough to send the company under, but these are for small crimes and a fine is proportional.
I recieve HSE (Health and Safety Executive) reports weekly as part of my job. The HSE are independent regulators of all work related health and safety issues.
Here are some extracts from 2013 reports:
People go to gaol for killing other people.
I had a friend of a friend in a similar position. He did laser engraving and I wanted some leather bookmarks engraved with a wireframe model of a wheelbarrow. I had all the tools to export a vector graphic, in pretty much every standard format, but his "specialist software" wouldn't accept it. It would accept raster, but that killed all my hard 3D work.
It turned out that there was a printer driver for his laser engraver already installed and all he had to do was click the print button from any application. No had told him this; he just expected to use the software that came with the engraver.
He was happy, I got free bookmarks and as I type this I'm thinking about how much money and business I gained him just by experimenting, and now I'm sad.
Whenever I'm in London, which is a few times a year, I always see police with guns. Big fucking blow-your-head-off guns.
Sure, in my small town in the south west of England, they don't carry guns but in the big cities, they do.
"results in me being spammed forever by that system"
I've never been a user of LinkedIn and I was constantly spammed about buying carpet. Carpet from a supplier 200 miles away who I'd never had any contact with.
So I fired off a short email to LinkedIn and they told me that I should be happy that people want to do business with me.
In the end, LinkedIn blocked my email address and now I'm happy. Get them to block your email address - they have processes to deal with it.
When I did Judo, it was all about holding the person down until your mates came along with their big swords.
I do hope Bitcoin currency follows this as I have a few big mates, with swords, and I know Judo.
Whoa. I know Judo.
cmd.exe /s
;)
dir
I do that and walk away. Text scrolls up the screen. Everyone thinks it's computer magic. I go outside, smoke and chat.
Renaming takes longer...
Brief Googling is not needed. The water temperature for any car is about 90-95C and a lot of them have sensors and display dials showing this. The metal doesn't get much hotter than 95C.
Also, in modern cars, the fuel pump is disabled automatically after a crash.
I'm not an expect in car drive-trains either. Panels, sure. Everything else, meh.
Bad for who?
I have an uncle who was the finance director for a large oil drilling company and he gave me a useful piece of advice:
"never pay off your debts"
Why pay the mortgage off after 25 years? Why not extend the debt, use the equity, and hopefully die before it's all paid off? Inflation takes care of the payments, hopefully. Locked up equity is no good to anyone apart from the creditor.
It's a game and some of the rules can be decided by the debtor.
I'm on my forth mortgage. I've used the equity to pay for holidays, new kitchen and bathroom, and a host of other things. I pay less per month today than I did 15 years ago because of inflation.
It's a gamble. And as I smoke like a chimney, a good gamble.
I promise to wash myself with bleach after this post.
..., but it's so much better than Flash on Windows.
Silverlight is better than Flash in every way and I wish it had gained ground all those years ago. It never ground my PC to a halt. It rarely crashed, if ever. It never hung Firefox. HD video played smoothly; as if I were playing it in VLC.
I know you guys have problems with it on Linux, Unix, BSD, OSX, Android,
I can hear the wife in running me a bath. I'll add my own bleach.
All large construction sites have things like:
* site offices (both project offices and contruction offices)
* laydown areas (these are not for people laying down to have a rest, they are for parts and machinery)
* staff facilities (toilets, changing rooms, catering)
* on site manufacturing (such as making concrete on site)
On the last construction project I worked on, the lay down areas were twice as large as the actual construction.
600mb is a 48 second download, for some of us.
I'm not bragging. I understand most people don't get my download speeds but the point is the same: 600mb isn't a lot these days.
There's another post in this thread where some games are mentioned. I remember downloading those games back in the day too. 65 x 1.44mb = 94mb, and that set of files had the game minus the videos and the audio was compressed flat. 94mb would have taken me about 4 hours to download and yet I still did it. I did it a lot.
Just imagine it's your birthday and you're unwrapping the present, and it's going to take 4 hours, but the wait could be worth it.
The majority of us (my mother and father at the time) did not have £400. It was the rich making the rich richer.
She was a fucking wanker.
She split my family, caused debt and killed my career.
Ding dong the witch is dead.
Now I want to see her in her coffin.
And yeah, it should be tagged "troll".
Well I don't get it 110%.
On this laptop, and my previous 3 laptops, I push the power button to shut down. Just a quick push, not a five second hard push.
Every program shuts down, asking me to save if need be. Any programmes that don't play nice, first timeout and then the PC shuts down properly - programs close, data is saved, hard drive spins down, power to the memory is stopped, screen is turned off.
Maybe on the first laptop I set this function. It's been the default on the next.
Dialogs to shut down? Why?
40% ABV Sambuca lights with a simple flame. No warming in needed. It's actually desires to have it on fire before drinking.
Also, see Brandy and her many sisters.
Next question.
PDF only wraps around the PNG, JPEG, BMP, generic_image_format. The extra bloat is only a couple of kb.
If the bloat is more, the PDF has been generated incorrectly.
It was almost a joy missing out most of the internet yesterday. A couple of news sites, a favourite forum filled with mature readers and posters, the weather forecast and a tower defense game I'd wanted to finish for some time.
That was it. I've been burned over the past ten years or so. There was no way I'd put up with it this year. I found better things to do.
Slashdot. Why? Why? Why? Why become big childish pricks for a day? The pink pony shite you forced on us a few years back was the straw that broke the camel's back. And today. Today I click through to yesterday's "news" and I see Sam-whatever with his abominations. You'd get trolled-to-fuck posting that shite anywhere else, and yet here it's on the landing page.
Slashdot, you've got one chance left. No more childish shit. No more April Fools shit. No more Dice shit. Continue to post shit and Slashdot will forever be known for posting shit.
Redirects. I'll rant about their redirects too if you like. Why can't I stay on their domain to do my banking? Why must I be redirected? Who knew that https://www.nwolb.com is actually part of Natwest? Not me and not their internet security staff when I phoned them (tell me I have malware again! I dare you.)
I second your bollocks.
Yes, there were early problems. Problems like "Firefox 11 is not supported" a day after I replaced FF10 with it.
Natwest soon learned. I can't remember the last time I had browser issues with them.
Natwest trying to get people to install CleanMyPC or whatever it's called, sure, I'll rant with you all day about that, but not browser support.
Neat.
Not sure about the registry stuff though. I think I remember moving the user file folders on someone's PC and it can be done in a GUI.
Right click My Docs > target folder destination ?????? or something like that.
Honestly?
No sloppy seconds jokes? No bucket jokes? No lost my ring, lost my car jokes? No echo jokes?
Dude, c'mon.
We went through this with our daughter when she was still in pre-school. Constant ear infections, with no evidence of such. We thought our daughter was trying it on and so did our doctor.
I'll always remember the look my UK doctor and I shared. It was pure mutual understanding. He said "we'll try these homeopathic pills" and then we shared eye contact. I knew the pills were bollocks; he knew they were bollocks.
We both explained to my daughter that these pills would cure her forever and the nice white sugar pills in the fancy packet did just that. She hasn't complained of an ear infection since.
It's all good.
I'm that pirate. I'm the pirate who helps distribute. I'm the pirate who tries everything once. I'm the pirate everyone in the office speaks to about software... Or I was.
My solution? Update it regularly. Fix bugs regulary. Post about them. Keep your software alive.
What pissed me off most? Updates. I'd download v1.0 and it would have bugs. Because I didn't register, I didn't hear about v1.1 that came out a week later. Manually updating software is a royal pain in the arse when you have a lot of it.
Paying 99p for an app that updates on its own once a month is a joy. Some of the apps I own might only change a single pixel on a button but if I know something is being improved upon, that 99p seems like a bargin. Everyone loves a bargin.
Technically? I wouldn't know. Giving up my email address is normally the most I'd be willing to give you on top of a small amount of money.
That first one looks awesome.
176 x 220 pixels - yeah, that'll do nicely for now.
2009? Why have I not seen it before today?
The Pebble, now that it's out, looks a bit of a disapointment. I'm sure if Samsung did an upgrade of the S9110 it would be a nice bit of kit and they'd fly off the shelves.
Most crimes are solved because people talk. Loose lips sink ships, and all that stuff.
People in the story are more than willing to talk. It's a bit sad.