And some who die from it! Shoplifter/thief in watch store in Africa switched watches from cheap to expensive and left store (paid for cheap one) assistent saw it , chased with a meat cleaver, cut of parts of thief. I watched. Took note, and always in the open market thereafter paid openly with no hidden discount.
The way they treat employees is why I do not buy from Amazon. I restrict my purchases so I can use 'decent shops'; cost more but most do not 'bully' employees as Amazon was shown to have done on BBC in UK. PS I live in UK, so also motivated by Amazon's deliberate tax avoidance in paying UK tax.
The 'poor' are always with us and the exact magnitude of living quality shifts with time. Today's poor have better health and life than many 19th Century rich (or even kings). Think of the advances in childbirth risk. (Deaths in UK once at 30%, now much less so)
Likewise a UK major supermarket cannot take two part names, e.g de Gan or van Holst or mac Donald or O'Reilly. After much correspondence. I just did not sign up equals lost customer Eion Mac Donald (English form) [ I just forget the possibility of Gaelic spelling in the system!]
Roof tiles in Europe and specifically in UK may be from natural stone (slate), ceramic fired tiles or concrete mix.
Some years ago I was involved in degassing various 'waters' and mixtures 'liquid concrete' so that the thickness could be reduced and the tensile strength increased. Gramophone records were made from concrete. House roof tiles were made from concrete at about one-eighth thickness of normal concrete tiles which made very large logistic savings passed on to customer. Unfortunately the whole operation failed [major losses for firms concerned] as customers refused to buy as they 'did not look right on thickness'! The existing tiles much thicker had educated at least two generations on what was acceptable.The step to educate to solar tiles may be easier as it is intrinsically 'not the same' as the normal roof tile. I trust it works at 53 degrees north in cloudy rain file skies as in UK.
Father was not in touch with daughter for last 6 years. This was major part of evidence. Judge thus took actual carers in close contact (mother and grandparents) into account. Daughter did not at this stage wish to see or inany way contact father who was no longer part of her life.
It seems funny that the parchment written 'rolls' containing the early laws of England, in care of the top legal judge "The Master of the Rolls" are still readable (if you know early and middle English and Latin) whereas some recent legislation / tax records are 'lost' due to non-ability to real old computer records from 1950s. Paper degrades faster than parchment, so even paper offices have a finite life less than parchment for record keeping. I note government almost always wants hard copy (parchment or paper will do) with handwritten witnessed signatures for 'important stuff' (taxes, passports, driving licence applications etc). Fire appears to be only way to destroy these rolls.
The decision to build the system was taken when USA did not make GPS positioning available to others with a sufficient degree of accuracy thus EU for both military and normal use wanted its own system, so withdrawal of USA system would not leave EU 'incompetent'. So much reliance is now made of GPS that many services would break if not available - ambulance, police, heavy transport and civil cars, taxis (I doubt ability of new incomers to know streets without GPS, this raises the occasional 'wrong delivery' to the wrong town but that adds to the store of news). Not as wrong as airline tickets to Birmingham Alabama instead or Birmingham UK but accuracy of use depends on the human at the end.
Customers could advise and ask for criminal action against store employee and all store directors in UK if this was to push sales targets. However it would need a witness and the technical proof as recorded. Better to have new computer tested first , approach shop for help get their result and then test again. Thus incompetence or deliberate fraud.
The 8 inch discs still work well on some old machine room equipment I recently saw in UK. Very old machines used for repairing (oldish) rail trains. The main problem is that they be dusted off before use, as even inside a wooden box store container they accumulate dust. I was unable with my modern stuff to read them, so when they die the machine shop stuff dies as well. Then workshop has to work out new way to make copies of old parts, I assume 'printing' (additive manufacture?) by then will work.
Intrigued by your signature petition. Even in the U.K. where we have a universal 'social security' we have great difficulties in getting it to benefit the real areas of poverty as homelessness (no "ZIP Code" or our 'Post Code') makes form filling to get acceptance by government officials impossible.
We are as an engineering file contractually obliged to send out all documentation in 3 forms; (1) ready use by email as PDF or raw drawing/document; (2) Final documentation as DVD (multiple copies to different addresses of all documents) and correspondence during contract; (3) One hard copy of all documents in "2". These form in 3 and one of the 2 copies the necessary 40 year expected life resource for any death or injury requirement and subsequent legal inquiry. (Our plant makes/ handles some very nasty chemicals, and safety back ups of all documentation go to insurers , classification authorities and at least one legal copy to our own and customers archives. We go through a lot of DVDs. Reason for DVDs , not alterable after burning. Reasonable shelf life. However do keep one of two external and internal DVD readers/ burners on the computers. Hard drives (electro-mechanical) are not as resilient to a start up after long term idle storage (bearings1).
Concur. Hundreds of present and old Linux OSs and versions on DVD and CD iso files (storing off computer hard drive) and of course the Live Linux or install DVDs as well after buring iso.
The company I do paid work for has an average age of over 60; about 60% folk at or over 55, maximum about 78 ~79 years (experience tells when you are in engineering contracting business!); about 40% in new graduates. Mostly young folk of 30+ learning experience while doing the base intense calculation jobs (big math input) but judgement on calls by experienced folk. It saves them making mistakes. Disclaimer I am 76, one of the younger old folk.
1 As I have supported a goodly few folk 'update' to free Windows 10 as a volunteer IT helper; (Others on Windows Vista to GNU/Linux), and in some cases have had a lot of trouble with the update, 2. I see a rest from my labours with the end of 'free update'.
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And some who die from it!
Shoplifter/thief in watch store in Africa switched watches from cheap to expensive and left store (paid for cheap one) assistent saw it , chased with a meat cleaver, cut of parts of thief. I watched. Took note, and always in the open market thereafter paid openly with no hidden discount.
The way they treat employees is why I do not buy from Amazon. I restrict my purchases so I can use 'decent shops'; cost more but most do not 'bully' employees as Amazon was shown to have done on BBC in UK. PS I live in UK, so also motivated by Amazon's deliberate tax avoidance in paying UK tax.
The 'poor' are always with us and the exact magnitude of living quality shifts with time. Today's poor have better health and life than many 19th Century rich (or even kings). Think of the advances in childbirth risk. (Deaths in UK once at 30%, now much less so)
Likewise a UK major supermarket cannot take two part names, e.g de Gan or van Holst or mac Donald or O'Reilly. After much correspondence. I just did not sign up equals lost customer
Eion Mac Donald (English form) [ I just forget the possibility of Gaelic spelling in the system!]
Roof tiles in Europe and specifically in UK may be from natural stone (slate), ceramic fired tiles or concrete mix.
Some years ago I was involved in degassing various 'waters' and mixtures 'liquid concrete' so that the thickness could be reduced and the tensile strength increased. Gramophone records were made from concrete. House roof tiles were made from concrete at about one-eighth thickness of normal concrete tiles which made very large logistic savings passed on to customer. Unfortunately the whole operation failed [major losses for firms concerned] as customers refused to buy as they 'did not look right on thickness'! The existing tiles much thicker had educated at least two generations on what was acceptable.The step to educate to solar tiles may be easier as it is intrinsically 'not the same' as the normal roof tile. I trust it works at 53 degrees north in cloudy rain file skies as in UK.
Father was not in touch with daughter for last 6 years. This was major part of evidence. Judge thus took actual carers in close contact (mother and grandparents) into account. Daughter did not at this stage wish to see or inany way contact father who was no longer part of her life.
It seems funny that the parchment written 'rolls' containing the early laws of England, in care of the top legal judge "The Master of the Rolls" are still readable (if you know early and middle English and Latin) whereas some recent legislation / tax records are 'lost' due to non-ability to real old computer records from 1950s. Paper degrades faster than parchment, so even paper offices have a finite life less than parchment for record keeping. I note government almost always wants hard copy (parchment or paper will do) with handwritten witnessed signatures for 'important stuff' (taxes, passports, driving licence applications etc). Fire appears to be only way to destroy these rolls.
From this it appears Samsung are the more honourable in dealings with customers. Point noted.
The decision to build the system was taken when USA did not make GPS positioning available to others with a sufficient degree of accuracy thus EU for both military and normal use wanted its own system, so withdrawal of USA system would not leave EU 'incompetent'. So much reliance is now made of GPS that many services would break if not available - ambulance, police, heavy transport and civil cars, taxis (I doubt ability of new incomers to know streets without GPS, this raises the occasional 'wrong delivery' to the wrong town but that adds to the store of news). Not as wrong as airline tickets to Birmingham Alabama instead or Birmingham UK but accuracy of use depends on the human at the end.
Customers could advise and ask for criminal action against store employee and all store directors in UK if this was to push sales targets. However it would need a witness and the technical proof as recorded. Better to have new computer tested first , approach shop for help get their result and then test again. Thus incompetence or deliberate fraud.
Switzerland makes much use of referendums (referenda?). Is Switzerland undemocratic?
I find on my old laptops that XFCE works, KDE now is too difficult to get easy set up.
The 8 inch discs still work well on some old machine room equipment I recently saw in UK. Very old machines used for repairing (oldish) rail trains. The main problem is that they be dusted off before use, as even inside a wooden box store container they accumulate dust. I was unable with my modern stuff to read them, so when they die the machine shop stuff dies as well. Then workshop has to work out new way to make copies of old parts, I assume 'printing' (additive manufacture?) by then will work.
EU. News reports fix the fault as consumers in EU stop buying.
Intrigued by your signature petition. Even in the U.K. where we have a universal 'social security' we have great difficulties in getting it to benefit the real areas of poverty as homelessness (no "ZIP Code" or our 'Post Code') makes form filling to get acceptance by government officials impossible.
Delete Bubonic plague, that is insect borne, e.g cloth can transmit with insects in them
Braw analysis.
I do not buy any phones with non-removable batteries. Limits some possibilities but eliminates burn-ups
No knowledge of this steam or the other thing mentioned. Is it critical to life?
It's not the 1990s, Slashdot; fix your unicode support. It's ridiculous that I can't type a thorn here.
thanks - a brilliant sign off!
We are as an engineering file contractually obliged to send out all documentation in 3 forms; (1) ready use by email as PDF or raw drawing/document; (2) Final documentation as DVD (multiple copies to different addresses of all documents) and correspondence during contract; (3) One hard copy of all documents in "2".
These form in 3 and one of the 2 copies the necessary 40 year expected life resource for any death or injury requirement and subsequent legal inquiry. (Our plant makes/ handles some very nasty chemicals, and safety back ups of all documentation go to insurers , classification authorities and at least one legal copy to our own and customers archives.
We go through a lot of DVDs.
Reason for DVDs , not alterable after burning. Reasonable shelf life. However do keep one of two external and internal DVD readers/ burners on the computers.
Hard drives (electro-mechanical) are not as resilient to a start up after long term idle storage (bearings1).
Concur. Hundreds of present and old Linux OSs and versions on DVD and CD iso files (storing off computer hard drive) and of course the Live Linux or install DVDs as well after buring iso.
The company I do paid work for has an average age of over 60; about 60% folk at or over 55, maximum about 78 ~79 years (experience tells when you are in engineering contracting business!); about 40% in new graduates. Mostly young folk of 30+ learning experience while doing the base intense calculation jobs (big math input) but judgement on calls by experienced folk. It saves them making mistakes. Disclaimer I am 76, one of the younger old folk.
Good sense in your relative!
1 As I have supported a goodly few folk 'update' to free Windows 10 as a volunteer IT helper; (Others on Windows Vista to GNU/Linux), and in some cases have had a lot of trouble with the update, 2. I see a rest from my labours with the end of 'free update'.