I always do my shopping in bulk.
Yes, ma'am. I like the fit and the pattern. I'll take 20. And about those pants: do you deliver? I'm not sure I can fit them into my car.
I once was taken shopping during lunch break by one of my female coworkers. For my sins, I reckon. She won't do THAT to me any time soon. I bought 3 shirts, 2 pairs of trousers, new shoes and lotsa socks within 30 minutes. She was struggeling with the decision between two sweaters.
None of my girlfriends went shopping for clothes with me. Twice.
I'm thinking about getting one myself. But wearing it continuously?
Taking out your smartphone in a restaurant while you are in company is bad style. Taking out your smartphone while in restaurant to photograph your food is bad style.
Walking around with those glasses is akin to a tourist walking around with their Canon fuck-off photobrick dangling from their neck. Annoying but non-threatening.
We already have a functioning etiquette for stuff like this. Let's just stick to it.
That could be one of the first apps for that thing. Process what you see and tell you to take it off!
Public lavatory.Wang spotted. PLEASE PUT ME AWAY! I DON'T WANT TO SEE EITHER YOUR GENITALS OR THE GUY'S NEXT TO YOU!
Or the passive-aggressive variant: His is a little bit less crooked and considerably bigger than yours, you know?
Is that your face? Lucky I live on your nose and don't have to see it all the time.
Or how about its mother-mode: You know you should really wash those dishes.
I've counted the beers you already had and you may have a bit of a problem
Watching sports again? There is a nice programme about knitting on the other channel.
The girl next door is really nice and has always clean laundry.
You should eat more salad. Urine is only supposed to look that way when you are Mr Spock.
They claim to use an agent-based approach simulating each object in the game. They also claim that this is what breaks the bank.
I'm sorry, butif that were that computationally intensive then offloading it on servers would cause them to asplode. In a modern PC the CPU will idle most of the time. That would have finally been something to max my CPU out.
Seems like the wrong engineering approach to the wrong problem.
Also oversubscribing your service on launch day has been a problem for every game release since forever.
How can a company as big as EA get it this wrong? I mean this can't be malice since they are also harming themselves. And it's too obvious. If even gaming hacks call these problems way in advance then there is very little surprise involved.
For crying out loud! Ifyou truly love somebody then you will think twice about selling him down the river. That potentially removes him from your life. Which is the exact opposite of what love is.
Laws are arbitrary. "Don't kill your neighbor" is in the same book that contains "don't poke a sheep with a stick".
I would report nobody that I love for sheep-pokery. And I would reevaluate my love first before I reported somebody for murder.
The phrase "law-abiding citizen" is overused. The world isn't black and white. "Law-abiding citizens" don't exist. There is a bit of a sheep-poker in each and every one of us.
The only reason you didn't get fined or arrested today is that you hadn't been caught or nobody bothered to do you in.
Let me confess to my crime-spree of today:
-I was jaywalking a couple of times due to stupid traffic lights and not a car within a mile's distance
-I forgot to get a new public transport ticket this month and have been dodging fares for a couple of days before realizing
-I clicked on a link that played an MP3(which was doubly bad since I had not planned to do so and my office PC's speakers therefore hadn't been turned off) without checking if it was illegal in some way
-and many more things I am not even aware of
Hopefully my girlfriend won't turn me in because clearly I'm a notorious criminal and deserve to have the book thrown at me.
That Norton woman pointed an inflammatory text to the police. Which was used against her boyfriend. Given your posting history you have quite a few of those with your nametag on it. Glass houses, stones and so forth.
As a guy who sees in a cop just another (armed) stranger with a Beagle Boy number on his uniform I do believe this story to be plausible.
You can't simply say that you don't believe that story based on your involvement with law enforcement. He could have met a rotten cop. And those exist. And you never knwo when you deal with one.
Cops are armed strangers. It still is wise to deal with them as such. A uniform and an office doesn't make you trustworthy by default.
Interesting. My experience is of cops bragging how they love to beat up drunks.
The safe assumption is that when you report a crime/give evidence you WILL incriminate yourself. It depends on the individual you are talking to wether you will get prosecuted or not. When you deal with a cop you are dealing with an armed stranger. I'm sorry, but trusting a cop by default is not a very good idea.
The problem is there is very little personal accountability for either cops or prosecutors. It is there in theory but it hardly ever gets used.
Here's my Greater Dealing With Officials Theory: position of power + uniform = total dickhead
If you get indifference then you should count yourself lucky. Don't treat them as equals because they think you are not.
But it is broken. We don't move on due to Inertia(Backwards Compatibility TM Microsoft).
And since even MS moved on to A9/A15(even if Samsung jumped ship) you might ask for whom the bell tolls.
Nowadays we are not terribly dependant on CPU architecture. We are dependant on APIs. And when those get ported, the Brave New World is one compile away.
Consumers do more and more stuff on more and more other plattforms they won't be too much baggage The corporate world is plain lazy and stupid(why we are not still using Sun Rays I have no clue). The gaming world has moved on to iThings, Androids, Consoles and whatever supports the Windows APIs(in that order) so there won't be too much trouble there wether it be Geralt or Irritated Poultry. We are not as CPU architecture dependant as we were 20 years ago. The amazing thing is that it took this long to sink in.
In 2 years I predict I will run legacy x86 stuff on Wine on an iTing or Android. The war is over. RISC has won. I'd conjure up a heroic effort of the 300 at the Thermopylae(which was BTW won as a war) but x86 is rather reinterpreting the charge of the light brigade.
Flash'd all their sabres bare,
Flash'd as they turn'd in air
Sabring the gunners there,
Charging an army, while
All the world wonder'd.
x86 never was perfect. By now it carries so much baggage, kludges and uglyness that it would be best to start over.
Speaking of which have we gotten rid of the A20 gate?
Now that RISC architectures definitely outnumber CISC, shouldn't we consider x86 a niche thing? True, it is hard to get
rid of legacy stuff but with Windows in decline isn't the new stuff just a compile away? Give it a decade or two and we will
be rid of it. the only thing that keeps it afloat is Windows.
In the Mirror Universe they are currently discussing why 68k is still around.
I'd hazard a guess that the typical European commute is less than 100 miles per round trip. But if you live in the city and you ave to park somewhere nearish your flat then you will have nothing to plug your car into. And that's why I can only look at the Tesla Roadster with desire in my heart and the dosh to pay for it and yet refrain to buy it on impulse since I have no practical way to recharge it.
Bugger.
They also pointed out that the Mustang(they had a Shelby on the show just recently) isn't as quick as people expect them to be. But they love what you get at that price point.
They loved the Holden Monaro, too.
The last old US cars they had were two stupidly huge, unmanouverable, ugly gas guzzlers from the 90ies(they looked like some abomination from the 70ies). In many ways the mainstream US car industry has been down the drain for quite some time. Apart from the odd SRT10 and 'stang there are few cars one would consider buying when you compare what you can get at the same price.
But it is very hard to define what is a US car anyway. GM, Ford et al are very global and buy parts all over the world. Slap on a Holden, Vauxhall and Opel badge it's still a GM. Although they simply don't sell all models worldwide. So perhaps the variants they don't sell in Europe are US cars? Your definition is as good as mine.
They are not against electric motors per se. On the contrary, they actually quite like them. They produce full power at all revs(in contrast to combustion engines where you need to hit the 'sweet spot'). They do hate the Prius because it is a stupid car.
The Audi Q5(a car for morons, I might add) had more than a few issues when it launched. I'd rather buy version 1.0 software than version 1.0 of a car. Or as in the case of Tesla, version 1.0 of new tech.
But I love the idea of the roadster. A nimble, Elise based car with an electric engine. That's very, very cool. If you can life with the downsides then it might be worth a second look.
And they tested cornering of sports cars by having them be shot at.
The car with the fewest hits obviously was the best. Obviously.
Currently they are putzing around in Africa, trying to find the True Source Of The Nile(which can't be Lake Vicoria since it has already been discovered). Since they have no clue where to look they decided to move away from Gibraltar(since that is where the Nile ends up in the ocean, the Mediterranean just being another lake), find some bit of water and declare it the source of the Nile.
What they truly do is dick around, get stuck and show how great the locals are.
What they do is pure Gonzo(as in Hunter S Thompson, bless his delicious eyebrows).
That's why they give up objectivity, participate and use hyperbole.
And hyperbole it was when they deliberately stalled the Tesla Roadster mid course. They did the same with two other electric cars. They hammer the point home that pure electic cars are not practical since:
a) charge times are too long
b) they don't have the mileage
c) the infrastructure isn't there
They are fans of electric motors. They give all the power(POOOOOOOWER!) at all revs. That's why they built the iHammerEagleThrust(Geoffry) with an electic motor that was attached to a generator that was attached to a diesel engine. As jury-rigged as this sounds it is actually not a bad idea. Better than connecting both a combustion engine and an electic engine to the wheels like the Toyota Priapism does(which gets worse mpg than a BlueSomething Ecodiesel, I might add).
As odd as it sounds, Top Gear sometimes does give genuine consumer advice. And lessons in German(Doppelkupplungsgetriebe). And they intensify the relation between nations(albeit mostly in form of apologies). And they are very global. Just hook up the old torrenting program and take a look how many people of how many nations much off the BBC and report back when the mind has stopped boggeling. Why the iViewer hasn't been opened up for everybody outside the UK(at a fee) is a mystery. Top Gear alone would propably sell that. The show redefines the word "production value". Andy Willman must be a bona fide genious.
I am fully aware of this and I understand the reasons for it. Not only was it a sound decision from an engineering point of view, it also hammered the need for state saving into the heads of developers. But I'm not altogether sure if the reasoning behind getting rid of stuff asap hasn't already been eliminated.
But for a(most likely) headless embedded system with a very specific task this is something I would not want. OTOH if you only use it for non-essential UI stuff like the display of a washing machine or the dashboard of a car then I'm not going to object.
Android wasn't built for headless RT stuff and it doesn't have to be. Right tool for the job. Not square pegs/round holes.
Really? I love taping porcupines to condoms. Yet I find no app for "Popish Plot" on the Windows Store.
I taught my cat to meow tunes from sound of Music and failed to get a RIAA license for him. Yet I find no "Pirate Cat" app on the Ovi Store.
Which proves criminals use iThings and Androids almost exclusively. Those bastards!
The notorious Elouise "Granny" Smith kept an Excel spreadsheet of all the apples she painted green and rendered inedible.
Joe "Bazooka" Henries bragged on Facebook how much chewing gum he had stolen.
Elmer "'Lil Gangsta" Pompelfroy tweeted each dodged fare into the world.
Richard "Lyndon B. Johnson" Nixon had an AMA on Reddit.
And Bill "Babyface" Gates admitted to jaywalking on IRC
It doesn't take too much imagination to fit some computerized equipment into any crime. You just wait. It won't be long before carrying a laptop will be considered being equipped for heineous, unpleasant crime.
Jaywalking while carrying a laptop will land you in the slammer for life since that's three strikes in one.
Nobody made a fuss when most crimes in the 70ies and 80ies involved a landline. And before that crime was quite likely to involve shoes. Possibly even underwear.
I use the same (throwaway) email account and password for all my low priority accounts. If they get owned have fun with my trivialities.
I do use a password generator and a keystore for my important things, tho.
If His Flying Noodlyness hadn't intended us to use throwaway email accounts for throwaway online services he wouldn't have given us Hotmail.
This thing is as daft and wonderful as a pet elephant.
I guess I'm not the only one to look at it and go "Hmmmmm......".
Nobody ever got unfriended for giving away a 20" fondlelisk.
I chose my tablet because it came with a lot of SD Card slots and USB connectors and the possibility to load stuff I couldn't get from a walled garden shop.
I also chose it for the rootability(if I ever chose to) and the general goodness that comes from openness.
So I got a lot of choice to pick exactly what I wanted. Among my possible choices was an iPad. And it got discarded since it featured none of the above. And it just happens to be an Android tablet.
You pick the right tool for the task. And for what I had in mind an iPad would have fit as well as a 6' purple dildo: Hilarious to have but of no further use beyond the initial wow factor.
And since my initial decision my requirements have shifted slightly. Since I read a lot of comics on mine I could have used one of the high-res Retsina iThings(though why they name that after Greek wine is beyond me). Thankfully this is now so common I again have a lot of choice.
So? If your data is deleted that will eventually propagate through all backups.
That's a lousy reason and a lame excuse not to offer the big "DELETE PLX" button.
And by deleted I mean deleted. Not flagged as deleted.
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We need this to tell those 'celebs' apart. After a couple of years they have the same face. Starting with the nose.
I always do my shopping in bulk.
Yes, ma'am. I like the fit and the pattern. I'll take 20. And about those pants: do you deliver? I'm not sure I can fit them into my car.
I once was taken shopping during lunch break by one of my female coworkers. For my sins, I reckon. She won't do THAT to me any time soon. I bought 3 shirts, 2 pairs of trousers, new shoes and lotsa socks within 30 minutes. She was struggeling with the decision between two sweaters.
None of my girlfriends went shopping for clothes with me. Twice.
Oh for the love of god don't! ...
No kit could survive the sheer onslaught, nay, stampede of
Or at least put filters on YouTube!
I will have to pour bleach on my eyes to get rid of that particular mental image.
I'm thinking about getting one myself. But wearing it continuously?
Taking out your smartphone in a restaurant while you are in company is bad style. Taking out your smartphone while in restaurant to photograph your food is bad style.
Walking around with those glasses is akin to a tourist walking around with their Canon fuck-off photobrick dangling from their neck. Annoying but non-threatening.
We already have a functioning etiquette for stuff like this. Let's just stick to it.
That could be one of the first apps for that thing. Process what you see and tell you to take it off!
Public lavatory.Wang spotted. PLEASE PUT ME AWAY! I DON'T WANT TO SEE EITHER YOUR GENITALS OR THE GUY'S NEXT TO YOU!
Or the passive-aggressive variant: His is a little bit less crooked and considerably bigger than yours, you know?
Is that your face? Lucky I live on your nose and don't have to see it all the time.
Or how about its mother-mode:
You know you should really wash those dishes.
I've counted the beers you already had and you may have a bit of a problem
Watching sports again? There is a nice programme about knitting on the other channel.
The girl next door is really nice and has always clean laundry.
You should eat more salad. Urine is only supposed to look that way when you are Mr Spock.
I might do just that...
They claim to use an agent-based approach simulating each object in the game. They also claim that this is what breaks the bank.
I'm sorry, butif that were that computationally intensive then offloading it on servers would cause them to asplode. In a modern PC the CPU will idle most of the time. That would have finally been something to max my CPU out.
Seems like the wrong engineering approach to the wrong problem.
Also oversubscribing your service on launch day has been a problem for every game release since forever.
How can a company as big as EA get it this wrong? I mean this can't be malice since they are also harming themselves. And it's too obvious. If even gaming hacks call these problems way in advance then there is very little surprise involved.
For crying out loud! Ifyou truly love somebody then you will think twice about selling him down the river. That potentially removes him from your life. Which is the exact opposite of what love is.
Laws are arbitrary. "Don't kill your neighbor" is in the same book that contains "don't poke a sheep with a stick".
I would report nobody that I love for sheep-pokery. And I would reevaluate my love first before I reported somebody for murder.
The phrase "law-abiding citizen" is overused. The world isn't black and white. "Law-abiding citizens" don't exist. There is a bit of a sheep-poker in each and every one of us.
The only reason you didn't get fined or arrested today is that you hadn't been caught or nobody bothered to do you in.
Let me confess to my crime-spree of today:
-I was jaywalking a couple of times due to stupid traffic lights and not a car within a mile's distance
-I forgot to get a new public transport ticket this month and have been dodging fares for a couple of days before realizing
-I clicked on a link that played an MP3(which was doubly bad since I had not planned to do so and my office PC's speakers therefore hadn't been turned off) without checking if it was illegal in some way
-and many more things I am not even aware of
Hopefully my girlfriend won't turn me in because clearly I'm a notorious criminal and deserve to have the book thrown at me.
That Norton woman pointed an inflammatory text to the police. Which was used against her boyfriend. Given your posting history you have quite a few of those with your nametag on it. Glass houses, stones and so forth.
As a guy who sees in a cop just another (armed) stranger with a Beagle Boy number on his uniform I do believe this story to be plausible.
You can't simply say that you don't believe that story based on your involvement with law enforcement. He could have met a rotten cop. And those exist. And you never knwo when you deal with one.
Cops are armed strangers. It still is wise to deal with them as such. A uniform and an office doesn't make you trustworthy by default.
Interesting. My experience is of cops bragging how they love to beat up drunks.
The safe assumption is that when you report a crime/give evidence you WILL incriminate yourself. It depends on the individual you are talking to wether you will get prosecuted or not. When you deal with a cop you are dealing with an armed stranger. I'm sorry, but trusting a cop by default is not a very good idea.
The problem is there is very little personal accountability for either cops or prosecutors. It is there in theory but it hardly ever gets used.
Here's my Greater Dealing With Officials Theory: position of power + uniform = total dickhead
If you get indifference then you should count yourself lucky. Don't treat them as equals because they think you are not.
But it is broken. We don't move on due to Inertia(Backwards Compatibility TM Microsoft).
And since even MS moved on to A9/A15(even if Samsung jumped ship) you might ask for whom the bell tolls.
Nowadays we are not terribly dependant on CPU architecture. We are dependant on APIs. And when those get ported, the Brave New World is one compile away.
Consumers do more and more stuff on more and more other plattforms they won't be too much baggage The corporate world is plain lazy and stupid(why we are not still using Sun Rays I have no clue). The gaming world has moved on to iThings, Androids, Consoles and whatever supports the Windows APIs(in that order) so there won't be too much trouble there wether it be Geralt or Irritated Poultry. We are not as CPU architecture dependant as we were 20 years ago. The amazing thing is that it took this long to sink in.
In 2 years I predict I will run legacy x86 stuff on Wine on an iTing or Android. The war is over. RISC has won. I'd conjure up a heroic effort of the 300 at the Thermopylae(which was BTW won as a war) but x86 is rather reinterpreting the charge of the light brigade.
Flash'd all their sabres bare,
Flash'd as they turn'd in air
Sabring the gunners there,
Charging an army, while
All the world wonder'd.
x86 never was perfect. By now it carries so much baggage, kludges and uglyness that it would be best to start over.
Speaking of which have we gotten rid of the A20 gate?
Now that RISC architectures definitely outnumber CISC, shouldn't we consider x86 a niche thing? True, it is hard to get rid of legacy stuff but with Windows in decline isn't the new stuff just a compile away? Give it a decade or two and we will be rid of it. the only thing that keeps it afloat is Windows.
In the Mirror Universe they are currently discussing why 68k is still around.
I'd hazard a guess that the typical European commute is less than 100 miles per round trip. But if you live in the city and you ave to park somewhere nearish your flat then you will have nothing to plug your car into. And that's why I can only look at the Tesla Roadster with desire in my heart and the dosh to pay for it and yet refrain to buy it on impulse since I have no practical way to recharge it.
Bugger.
Tyres don't last for 55 miles on the TG test track.
They also pointed out that the Mustang(they had a Shelby on the show just recently) isn't as quick as people expect them to be. But they love what you get at that price point.
They loved the Holden Monaro, too.
The last old US cars they had were two stupidly huge, unmanouverable, ugly gas guzzlers from the 90ies(they looked like some abomination from the 70ies). In many ways the mainstream US car industry has been down the drain for quite some time. Apart from the odd SRT10 and 'stang there are few cars one would consider buying when you compare what you can get at the same price.
But it is very hard to define what is a US car anyway. GM, Ford et al are very global and buy parts all over the world. Slap on a Holden, Vauxhall and Opel badge it's still a GM. Although they simply don't sell all models worldwide. So perhaps the variants they don't sell in Europe are US cars? Your definition is as good as mine.
They are not against electric motors per se. On the contrary, they actually quite like them. They produce full power at all revs(in contrast to combustion engines where you need to hit the 'sweet spot'). They do hate the Prius because it is a stupid car.
The Audi Q5(a car for morons, I might add) had more than a few issues when it launched. I'd rather buy version 1.0 software than version 1.0 of a car. Or as in the case of Tesla, version 1.0 of new tech.
But I love the idea of the roadster. A nimble, Elise based car with an electric engine. That's very, very cool. If you can life with the downsides then it might be worth a second look.
Have you seen Jeremy Clarkson in a scuba diving suit? You will prefer the jeans, trust me.
And they tested cornering of sports cars by having them be shot at.
The car with the fewest hits obviously was the best. Obviously.
Currently they are putzing around in Africa, trying to find the True Source Of The Nile(which can't be Lake Vicoria since it has already been discovered). Since they have no clue where to look they decided to move away from Gibraltar(since that is where the Nile ends up in the ocean, the Mediterranean just being another lake), find some bit of water and declare it the source of the Nile.
What they truly do is dick around, get stuck and show how great the locals are.
JC is a doctor of journalism, goddammit!
What they do is pure Gonzo(as in Hunter S Thompson, bless his delicious eyebrows).
That's why they give up objectivity, participate and use hyperbole.
And hyperbole it was when they deliberately stalled the Tesla Roadster mid course. They did the same with two other electric cars. They hammer the point home that pure electic cars are not practical since:
a) charge times are too long
b) they don't have the mileage
c) the infrastructure isn't there
They are fans of electric motors. They give all the power(POOOOOOOWER!) at all revs. That's why they built the iHammerEagleThrust(Geoffry) with an electic motor that was attached to a generator that was attached to a diesel engine. As jury-rigged as this sounds it is actually not a bad idea. Better than connecting both a combustion engine and an electic engine to the wheels like the Toyota Priapism does(which gets worse mpg than a BlueSomething Ecodiesel, I might add).
As odd as it sounds, Top Gear sometimes does give genuine consumer advice. And lessons in German(Doppelkupplungsgetriebe). And they intensify the relation between nations(albeit mostly in form of apologies). And they are very global. Just hook up the old torrenting program and take a look how many people of how many nations much off the BBC and report back when the mind has stopped boggeling. Why the iViewer hasn't been opened up for everybody outside the UK(at a fee) is a mystery. Top Gear alone would propably sell that. The show redefines the word "production value". Andy Willman must be a bona fide genious.
I am fully aware of this and I understand the reasons for it. Not only was it a sound decision from an engineering point of view, it also hammered the need for state saving into the heads of developers. But I'm not altogether sure if the reasoning behind getting rid of stuff asap hasn't already been eliminated.
But for a(most likely) headless embedded system with a very specific task this is something I would not want. OTOH if you only use it for non-essential UI stuff like the display of a washing machine or the dashboard of a car then I'm not going to object.
Android wasn't built for headless RT stuff and it doesn't have to be. Right tool for the job. Not square pegs/round holes.
Really? I love taping porcupines to condoms. Yet I find no app for "Popish Plot" on the Windows Store.
I taught my cat to meow tunes from sound of Music and failed to get a RIAA license for him. Yet I find no "Pirate Cat" app on the Ovi Store.
Which proves criminals use iThings and Androids almost exclusively. Those bastards!
The notorious Elouise "Granny" Smith kept an Excel spreadsheet of all the apples she painted green and rendered inedible.
Joe "Bazooka" Henries bragged on Facebook how much chewing gum he had stolen.
Elmer "'Lil Gangsta" Pompelfroy tweeted each dodged fare into the world.
Richard "Lyndon B. Johnson" Nixon had an AMA on Reddit.
And Bill "Babyface" Gates admitted to jaywalking on IRC
It doesn't take too much imagination to fit some computerized equipment into any crime. You just wait. It won't be long before carrying a laptop will be considered being equipped for heineous, unpleasant crime.
Jaywalking while carrying a laptop will land you in the slammer for life since that's three strikes in one.
Nobody made a fuss when most crimes in the 70ies and 80ies involved a landline. And before that crime was quite likely to involve shoes. Possibly even underwear.
I use the same (throwaway) email account and password for all my low priority accounts. If they get owned have fun with my trivialities.
I do use a password generator and a keystore for my important things, tho.
If His Flying Noodlyness hadn't intended us to use throwaway email accounts for throwaway online services he wouldn't have given us Hotmail.
This thing is as daft and wonderful as a pet elephant.
I guess I'm not the only one to look at it and go "Hmmmmm......".
Nobody ever got unfriended for giving away a 20" fondlelisk.
I chose my tablet because it came with a lot of SD Card slots and USB connectors and the possibility to load stuff I couldn't get from a walled garden shop.
I also chose it for the rootability(if I ever chose to) and the general goodness that comes from openness.
So I got a lot of choice to pick exactly what I wanted. Among my possible choices was an iPad. And it got discarded since it featured none of the above. And it just happens to be an Android tablet.
You pick the right tool for the task. And for what I had in mind an iPad would have fit as well as a 6' purple dildo: Hilarious to have but of no further use beyond the initial wow factor.
And since my initial decision my requirements have shifted slightly. Since I read a lot of comics on mine I could have used one of the high-res Retsina iThings(though why they name that after Greek wine is beyond me). Thankfully this is now so common I again have a lot of choice.
So? If your data is deleted that will eventually propagate through all backups.
That's a lousy reason and a lame excuse not to offer the big "DELETE PLX" button.
And by deleted I mean deleted. Not flagged as deleted.