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Post by banjo on Apr 15, 2022 7:08:25 GMT
I (we) signed that too Dinks, but it is rhetorical to draw any comparison between "unearned" State Pension and the level of "earned" remuneration with which otherwise disreputable companies are legally enforced to comply unless they can find some wiggle room. Like those P&O shysters.
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Post by nob on May 25, 2022 14:11:45 GMT
Kicked off at the Mrs school today, teacher telling this scrote what to do and the scrote didn't like it so punched a glass door. Cut his tendons and the air ambulance etc was called. Hes now in Hull general being seen to, what a waste of recourses.
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Post by banjo on May 25, 2022 18:24:51 GMT
Just deserts Nob.
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Post by banjo on May 30, 2022 20:47:11 GMT
Those Amazon PhuckWits are going to withdraw access to its market place for its own product Kindle e-readers that are ten years old or more come July or August- I forget. Best Beloved's Kindle Keyboard still works just fine, especially since I replaced the screen last year after she trod on it whilst changing the bedsheets. I know it's a pointless exercise but I still have to ask "Why?" of Amazon. Does anyone think the Hippy will "upgrade" to a newer P-O-S safe in the knowledge that they'll retire that one down the line too? "Fool me once ..."
"As green as the driven slush."
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Post by nob on May 31, 2022 6:44:58 GMT
They can do what they like Steve, there are ways round it.
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Post by banjo on May 31, 2022 23:04:43 GMT
Sure there are. You will still be able to order through a PC or whatever via your account, but why FFS? It's not as though they are excluding piracy- it's fare paying passengers they are shafting. Also, you can acquire other e-Reader books and convert with Calibre, download pirate books etc, but why can you not simply carry on ordering on a perfectly satisfactory working device from their own product line? Do they really think affected folks will lemming their way into an "upgraded" device in the knowledge that the next episode is inevitable down the line? Endear people to Amazon?
They aren't the only ones ghosting good kit though, Viewranger was bought out by some Kraut outfit called Outdoor Active and they have forced their sh1ttie offering onto Viewranger customers who paid considerable sums of money to have offline Ordnance Survey maps. Even The Ordnance Survey carry some guilt because they were happy to take licence revenue from Viewranger but stuff all those folks left in the lurch. TomTom shafted customers with perfectly adequate prattnavs by encoding the software so it won't run on older devices of their choosing. Then of course we have our very own Proboards who ghosted the Android app in favour of the shytefest that is Tapatalk because (IMO) the revenue stream dried up with the so-called lifetime licence. They think we're stupid, well I have news for the lot of them. Don't come to me crying wolf about piracy, they get all they deserve.
Phew!
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Post by banjo on Jun 1, 2022 9:00:39 GMT
I erroneously put this into t'other thread, so deleted it and inserted it here in the interests of continuity if not sanity.
>>>In fact the emperor of ghosting has to be M$ with Windoze 11. I imagine most financial institutions that furnish us with fraud protection at the behest of the authorities insist upon fully updated operating system software, so if you carry on with Windoze 10, at some stage you'll be riding bareback with your filthy lucre? So M$ invoke a hardware solution to a sieve of an operating system and let us fund it rather than fix their own endless shortcomings. Cheers Bill.
An octogenarian friend underwent a knee-jerk reaction to this and following M$ links found some enterprising start up that furnished him with a daughter board that provided the absent TPM. £100 gone for the privilege of being able to fly the Windoze 11 flag on a 3 GHz / 8 Mb machine. Disgusting. >>>
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Post by duyuthinkysaurus on Jun 18, 2022 13:52:47 GMT
Just got a new computer running windows 11. Easy to set up but scarily fast and sensitive the download speed is so fast that a page starts almost instantly. Just got to get used to it now, had to replace the 8yr old one cos it keeps freezing.
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Post by nob on Jun 18, 2022 14:22:30 GMT
I got one last year Dinky, these solid state hard drives are the business. Just waiting for my fiber to the property broadband 900Mbs to be connected but when ??.
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Post by duyuthinkysaurus on Jun 18, 2022 15:48:49 GMT
Fortunately we moved into a new build with full fibre the speed is scary.
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Post by banjo on Jun 18, 2022 17:31:43 GMT
I am running two laptops with SSDs but I have my reservations. The "trim" command needs to be implemented correctly due to the inherent limit on write numbers with SSDs. I'm afraid I have little confidence in M$ to cross all the TEE-s and dot all the I-s in respect of that. They are both OK so far, but neither of them work very hard and Redmond has form.
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Post by banjo on Jul 6, 2022 9:43:41 GMT
Yesterday, an imaginative yellow peaked traffic vulture decided to make my day because I had parked well off the carriageway in a layby not marked as a passing place, with no visible "no parking" signs and no clearway indicator that I could see, and above all, causing no obstruction. Actually, it was so far out in the boonies it had to be a bored officer of the law (travelling in a vehicle because you hardly ever see one out of a vehicle unless it's at an RTA) because it was too far out and too high up a steep gradient for a moped goon. Happy holidays, welcome to Cumbria, please come again and bring your cash to bolster the local economy. What's so wrong with this disgusting scam is that you cannot pay the reduced fine if you want to dispute the ticket. Subsequently paying a reduced fine closes the appeals procedure instantly. It's just another tax.
No, if you're going to appeal you have to man-up for the full monte, and of course it's the easiest thing in the world for the nobhead looking at the appeal to say "up yours pleb" from his or her remote location and shielded by the implied further expensive and convoluted appeals procedures.
What really irks is that I try my hardest to obey laws. I walk long distances from parking spots to avoid this carp and what is my reward? Some scumbag cochon with a glove compartment full of tickets and a spare moment to kill before turning on the nee-nah because he or she's heard something that's piqued curiosity on the radio and joined the apparent ubiquitous blue swarm. Dear Mr. Policeman, what do you think goes through my mind whenever I see an appeal for help? I can't remember ever having any information to assist in these appeals, but at the same time I inevitably remember the assistance I've garnered on the rare events I've ever needed such.
Not related to the above, but on a similar vein, the so-called "sleeping policemen" or traffic calming road humps. Not infrequently they are outwith the proscribed size limits. Who suffers from this spawn of beelzebub? Not the commercial users / company car or van drivers that are the worst offenders because their suspensions are repaired and paid for by companies (who incite such behaviour by laying down unrealistic job targets) who then pass it on to consumers. Nope, once again yer law abiding citizen suffers because every time he or she crashes into one that has faded or absent markings it puts another nail into their suspensions, and not having a bank rolling employer they have to dig deep. Very deep. And your county council responsible for installing the stupid things couldn't GAF.
Tip: avoid the temptation to scoot along with nearside wheels missing the humps because that puts all of the vehicle's forward inertia onto the offside wheel(s) alone. Same total vehicle mass but concentrated on just one side. Better to travel at the intended road speed fair and square over the speed bump and spread the shock load across the suspension. Similarly, accurately aiming your vehicle to straddle bumps in the carriageway will wear out the inside edges of your tyres faster, and being on the inside of the tread pattern it is not so obvious.
Have a nice day Folks!
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Post by nob on Jul 6, 2022 14:32:59 GMT
I remember when they were knocking down the Beehive pub in Doncaster early 70s. I parked from collage at the time and the yellow lines were covered in mud and crap. Parking fine. The joys of motoring.
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Post by banjo on Jul 6, 2022 22:30:42 GMT
I got one in The Con Club this year. Me- an unbroken 44+ years member, and the (stuck) up their own passage shysters didn't send me the eMail to register my reg. plate that others received. I found that out from members I know. S'funny that because they manage to send out carp eMails detailing putridly boring attractions for the coming months. Did I query? Of course I did (or rather I tried- who wouldn't), but the 'phone number listed on The Club's website just kept dropping the line after a single ring, and the mobile number I had and left a message on was never answered. Tories. Sodium of the earth.
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Post by duyuthinkysaurus on Jul 21, 2022 15:04:47 GMT
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