>And if I used it all at once, I'd probably be laid off.
And that's the other cool thing - we can't be laid off for a trivial thing. Employers can only drop you for really extreme failure. Anything else means they have to give you a series of verbal then written warnings so you have time to get good again.
>Chip and Pin system in the UK, for instance, is more secure.
That'll be the one where the PIN terminals let everyone else in the queue watch you type in your number because the so called protective sides are so small or badly positioned as to be useless.
Re:Americans traveling to other countries.
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I used to find the low number of Americans with passports rather scary and insular until someone pointed out you only get 2 weeks vacation a year. With the US being so big and varied, it would take you most of your life in 2 week chunks to check out home let alone foreign places.
Of course, us backwards wierdo liberal faggy Europeans get 6 weeks holiday:-)
>What's the point?
Because Joe Public will see the govt are doing *something* and be happy. The fact that those of us with half a brain know it's a waste of time is irrelevent.
>It's the CV
I know of one senior guy who worked for a well known credit card company. He was brought in to cut costs. On day one all the department heads were brought in one by one. He ignored everyone's plans and spreadsheets and just gave them a slip of paper with 500k, 1 million or whatever written on it and said 'that's your budget'. A few months later he had another 35m to lose and noticed a single dept that cost that. He ordered it shut down and the staff made redundant. Within a few months the company's income was in freefall - he'd sacked their most profitable sales team. He had to go grovelling to the board to explain, rehire as many as he could at inflated salaries and was then fired. You can bet his CV reads 'Worked for xxxxx, achieved 70 million cost cuts'
>wish they'd start putting the entire Dr. Who series on DVDs
You can get the lot in the UK - why not import the DVDs, assuming your player can handle multiregion/PAL.
1. Far too much fraud. If you get stung, even if you pay by Paypal, you pretty much lose and eBay really don't much care or want to get involved. I got caught out over a lens (overseas seller, great and huge rating but decided to shut shop) and while I got some money back, eBay's response was 'we got back what was left in his Paypal account so that's all you're getting'. Quite how they get away with abdicating their financial responsability in these days of strict corporate financial controls etc, is a mystery.
2. System encourages loads of duplicates. A tricky one. people tend to only pay attention to the first or second page of results so sellers with duplicates tend to put up new identical ads every 24 hours to ensure they always have something near the top.
3. The changes to shops. Ebay have promoted shops and many people have built their livelyhoods around them. Suddenly the costs go up and the results get stuffed at the bottom of each search. Great way to alienate a huge portion of your userbase overnight.
4. Poor policing of dodgy items. Whether it's pirate software/DVDs or people who sell a CD for 1 buck with ten dollars postage, there needs to be a much slicker and *obvious* way for buyers to report bad items.
5. Just too complicated. I've used eBay for years so know it and can grok new features and why they're there. Pretty much every new user I've introduced has found it hugely complex and overwhelming with features, links and all sorts of options that make no sense to a newbie.
>i say revive nuclear
Ordinarily I'd agree but I read somewhere (sorry, no cite) that there is only enough raw material for that for another 30 odd years anyway.
Here's a wild idea, why not us in the West stop being so damned selfish and start to make real cutbacks in our obscene energy usage to buy our kids extra time to solve the problems we've made for them?
I had a Pioneer rear projector for 8 years and never had to change the lamps. Fairly average usage pattern. They often last a lot longer than you'd expect! The picture beats the LCD that replaced it hands down but we moved and the Pioneer wouldn't fit the new house:-(
There was a UK reality show based around a bunch of people thinking they were off in to space. I wonder if this is the US version? You have been warned!
As you'd expect with a reality show, they all went a bit loopy pretty quickly. I do wonder what it is with the modern world that makes people flip out so badly under unusual conditions. If we had something like WW2 now I suspect everyone would just run around waving their arms mumbling 'wibble'. It just makes you appreciate what a level headed bunch our parents/grandparents were.
I don't know why but the name Facebook just creeps me out. I always imagine a big scrap book full of peeled of faces. Maybe I need to see someone about that..
I know it's a dry run but wanting 4 people and 5 skills implies some poor science is going to lose out. Let's hope the real one has enough people to cover all the bases.
>You can't play NetHack on a PDA.
I play it all the time on my Psion 5 PDA. Well, not *all* the time, I do eat, sleep, talk to the family, work etc. too.
I'd say go one further. Someone ought to patent the whole idea of 'law' (a mthod for producing a valid outcome when two or more parties have different. That'll make them stop and think.
>I guess I made a logical fault in most web sites being universal
>in the english-speaking world
That sounds almost like an apology. We'll have no apologies here. Please go away and come back suitably abusive, rude and ideally armed with a smart-bomb.
It's a bad day when the web starts growing some manners. mumble mumble..
Two sites aksherly. The main reason I would guess is that venture capital is a way of life in the US, over in the UK unless you're very lucky you have to finance any new venture yourself. Pretty much stops most good ideas dead before a line of code gets written.
Monday: Started my new blog. It's kewl!
Tuesday: Run out of things to say. Keep getting hassled by Americans telling me to westernise or die. Total drag.
Wednesday: Seems to be some sort of spat next door. Hope they don't lob any missiles my way.
Thursday: Man I love Battlestar Galactica. Double episode tonight!
Friday: Pizza! Maybe some behadings later.
Saturday: Bit sunny. Not bad. Got some emails from my buddy GWB saying be cool.
Sunday: Had a lie in. Just found out some Brit paper has been reading this blog so I'd better start thinking of something more interesting.
Monday: Hot damn, slashdotted. Server down for a bit but OK now. Will rewrite this later with some cool scary stuff to make the Americans tremble with fear like I'm some sort of extremist. heh heh!
You sir (or madam) are a very rude and angry person and the tone of that reply was quite unwarranted.
Addressing the central theme of your reply though, you're right, I was wrong. I read it too fast. I appologise most profusely.
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>a digital toilet
Surely that's just the internet?
>Germans travel extensively
Couldn't keep 'em still between 1939 and 1945.
>And if I used it all at once, I'd probably be laid off.
And that's the other cool thing - we can't be laid off for a trivial thing. Employers can only drop you for really extreme failure. Anything else means they have to give you a series of verbal then written warnings so you have time to get good again.
>Chip and Pin system in the UK, for instance, is more secure.
That'll be the one where the PIN terminals let everyone else in the queue watch you type in your number because the so called protective sides are so small or badly positioned as to be useless.
I used to find the low number of Americans with passports rather scary and insular until someone pointed out you only get 2 weeks vacation a year. With the US being so big and varied, it would take you most of your life in 2 week chunks to check out home let alone foreign places. :-)
Of course, us backwards wierdo liberal faggy Europeans get 6 weeks holiday
>What's the point?
Because Joe Public will see the govt are doing *something* and be happy. The fact that those of us with half a brain know it's a waste of time is irrelevent.
try http://www.sendit.com/circle/search?words=dr+who&f =dvd&x=10&y=9
>It's the CV
I know of one senior guy who worked for a well known credit card company. He was brought in to cut costs. On day one all the department heads were brought in one by one. He ignored everyone's plans and spreadsheets and just gave them a slip of paper with 500k, 1 million or whatever written on it and said 'that's your budget'. A few months later he had another 35m to lose and noticed a single dept that cost that. He ordered it shut down and the staff made redundant. Within a few months the company's income was in freefall - he'd sacked their most profitable sales team. He had to go grovelling to the board to explain, rehire as many as he could at inflated salaries and was then fired. You can bet his CV reads 'Worked for xxxxx, achieved 70 million cost cuts'
>wish they'd start putting the entire Dr. Who series on DVDs
You can get the lot in the UK - why not import the DVDs, assuming your player can handle multiregion/PAL.
1. Far too much fraud. If you get stung, even if you pay by Paypal, you pretty much lose and eBay really don't much care or want to get involved. I got caught out over a lens (overseas seller, great and huge rating but decided to shut shop) and while I got some money back, eBay's response was 'we got back what was left in his Paypal account so that's all you're getting'. Quite how they get away with abdicating their financial responsability in these days of strict corporate financial controls etc, is a mystery.
2. System encourages loads of duplicates. A tricky one. people tend to only pay attention to the first or second page of results so sellers with duplicates tend to put up new identical ads every 24 hours to ensure they always have something near the top.
3. The changes to shops. Ebay have promoted shops and many people have built their livelyhoods around them. Suddenly the costs go up and the results get stuffed at the bottom of each search. Great way to alienate a huge portion of your userbase overnight.
4. Poor policing of dodgy items. Whether it's pirate software/DVDs or people who sell a CD for 1 buck with ten dollars postage, there needs to be a much slicker and *obvious* way for buyers to report bad items.
5. Just too complicated. I've used eBay for years so know it and can grok new features and why they're there. Pretty much every new user I've introduced has found it hugely complex and overwhelming with features, links and all sorts of options that make no sense to a newbie.
Thanks for the correction. A quick Google revealed this which backs you up. http://www.potentialenergyuk.com/?p=47
>i say revive nuclear
Ordinarily I'd agree but I read somewhere (sorry, no cite) that there is only enough raw material for that for another 30 odd years anyway.
Here's a wild idea, why not us in the West stop being so damned selfish and start to make real cutbacks in our obscene energy usage to buy our kids extra time to solve the problems we've made for them?
I had a Pioneer rear projector for 8 years and never had to change the lamps. Fairly average usage pattern. They often last a lot longer than you'd expect! The picture beats the LCD that replaced it hands down but we moved and the Pioneer wouldn't fit the new house :-(
There was a UK reality show based around a bunch of people thinking they were off in to space. I wonder if this is the US version? You have been warned!
As you'd expect with a reality show, they all went a bit loopy pretty quickly. I do wonder what it is with the modern world that makes people flip out so badly under unusual conditions. If we had something like WW2 now I suspect everyone would just run around waving their arms mumbling 'wibble'. It just makes you appreciate what a level headed bunch our parents/grandparents were.
Just make sure Chuck Norris is there. That'll keep it all under control.
I don't know why but the name Facebook just creeps me out. I always imagine a big scrap book full of peeled of faces. Maybe I need to see someone about that..
I know it's a dry run but wanting 4 people and 5 skills implies some poor science is going to lose out. Let's hope the real one has enough people to cover all the bases.
>You can't play NetHack on a PDA.
I play it all the time on my Psion 5 PDA. Well, not *all* the time, I do eat, sleep, talk to the family, work etc. too.
Aw poo. Don't answer the phone midway through creating a post then forget you hadn't finished it before you hit submit. Ah well, you got the idea..
I'd say go one further. Someone ought to patent the whole idea of 'law' (a mthod for producing a valid outcome when two or more parties have different. That'll make them stop and think.
>I guess I made a logical fault in most web sites being universal
>in the english-speaking world
That sounds almost like an apology. We'll have no apologies here. Please go away and come back suitably abusive, rude and ideally armed with a smart-bomb.
It's a bad day when the web starts growing some manners. mumble mumble..
Two sites aksherly. The main reason I would guess is that venture capital is a way of life in the US, over in the UK unless you're very lucky you have to finance any new venture yourself. Pretty much stops most good ideas dead before a line of code gets written.
Oh for a +2 humnour mod point!
Monday: Started my new blog. It's kewl!
Tuesday: Run out of things to say. Keep getting hassled by Americans telling me to westernise or die. Total drag.
Wednesday: Seems to be some sort of spat next door. Hope they don't lob any missiles my way.
Thursday: Man I love Battlestar Galactica. Double episode tonight!
Friday: Pizza! Maybe some behadings later.
Saturday: Bit sunny. Not bad. Got some emails from my buddy GWB saying be cool.
Sunday: Had a lie in. Just found out some Brit paper has been reading this blog so I'd better start thinking of something more interesting.
Monday: Hot damn, slashdotted. Server down for a bit but OK now. Will rewrite this later with some cool scary stuff to make the Americans tremble with fear like I'm some sort of extremist. heh heh!
You sir (or madam) are a very rude and angry person and the tone of that reply was quite unwarranted.
Addressing the central theme of your reply though, you're right, I was wrong. I read it too fast. I appologise most profusely.