funeral parlors!
I've never heard of Undertakers in the UK being called "funeral parlors" we've enough Americanisms already thank you. Funeral Directors.
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At first I thought it was: "Type LA supernova" but it is "Type ia supernova" With my default browser font upper case 'i' is indistinguishable from lower case 'L' : e.g. IlIlIl !
I hate fonts like that, I should change it. Any recommendations for a similar easy to read font with distinguishable upper case 'i' and lower case 'L'?
e.g. "Smart suppliers and customers are already adapting their contracts" I suspect this is the contract between the old and new employer. Employees just need to know are they being transferred as per their current contract, offered a revised contract[1] or not transferred.
[1] AIUI if the revised contract is significantly different the employee can opt for redundancy. From which employer old or new would depend on the contract between the old and new employer. If the old employer sold a subsidiary that they were contracted to they would have no choice but the new owner would have to honour their contract, offer a revised one or make them redundant.
Secured creditors, those with a claim on specific assets
Administrator/Liquidator fees
Preferential creditors like employees for wages and certain HMRC debts,
then unsecured creditors.
BUT employees preferential entitled is arrears of wages is up to a maximum of £800, and holiday pay!
"It's all part of the dismantling of the state and it's agencies the people voted for." Not all Americans voted for him! 77,302,580 49.8% did but 75,017,613 48.3% voted for Kamala. They have my sympathies!
I've realised Trump has done me one favour. I often buy goods priced in US$ they are now about 10% cheaper thanks to his undermining of the dollar.
"What I wish I could find is a keyboard with the number pad and/or function keys on the LEFT side". Left or 'both' handed keyboards are readily available. I've been selling an a4tech one for well over 10 years.
If you can learn to use the mouse with one hand and a numeric keypad with the other I'm sure some data entry could be much quicker!
For VAT returns I use the free service available at:https://mytaxdigital.co.uk/
It only takes a couple of minutes to enter the 9 boxes!
There are other similar sites I believe.
HMRC have just sent me a letter saying filing Ltd company accounts is changing next year. I've always submitted on line via the web but the suggestion is I'll need to buy software.
For the partnership I'm in I use Andica.com software, about £25 a year.
The link to send "expressions of interest to has "The ESA Space HPC will allow you to boost your projects by performing complex computations and processing massive datasets more efficiently and rapidely"
It also says "We will come back to you shortly to 'exchange' on your needs." what’s wrong with the word discuss?
In 1984 SCL were making 6502 CPUs and building them into an authorised BBC Micro clone the 'SCL Unicorn'! I bought and sold one a few years ago. More details and photos at:
https://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/Computers/SCL_BBCB.html
In 1984 6502 weren't that far behind the curve I expect India couldn't keep up with the vast investments needed for chip manufacturing.
If automated i.e.
Caller: This is your credit card company Please confirm the following payment to Amazon.... or other scam. Press one to speak to an agent...
Me: Redirect call to Daisy
If a human i.e.
If automated i.e.
Caller: I'm calling from your credit card company Please confirm the following payment to Amazon.... or other scam.
Me: My wife does all our finances please hold the line and I'll get her
I then Redirect call to Daisy
I did wonder if there was something to look forward to, so looked up Putin's age, he is 72.
I am disappointed to report that according the UK's ONS a 72 year old's average life expectancy is 86 years/
"However there's a chance you might live longer. There is a 1 in 4 chance you will live to 92 years.There is a 1 in 10 chance you will live to 96 years.There is a 2.8 percent chance you will live to 100."
So no comfort there, I do wonder if he keeps away from windows and balconies...
In this and the 2021 case It shouldn't be too hard to find out who the accident claims management company was! Even if they were paid in cash surely they just need to ask those people who's details were stolen who contacted them?
I know many people will just have put the phone down or ignored the email but a significant proportion must respond otherwise it wouldn't be worth the money.
"Nowadays it is just as easy as opening a web browser, go to google, chatgpt or bard (or whatever) and asking for assistance, and most of the time you'll have the answer." I wouldn't trust ChatGPT to provide an answer that involved several steps and trying to use google search to confirm it, would probably be a self fulfilling prophecy whether correct or not. I'm reminded of: "Just because it's in a newspaper doesn't necessarily mean it is wrong!"
"(And then there's the "we are in the cloud" where they just run the same workloads on VMs in a cloud, instead of VMs in Hyper-V / VMWare on prem - again, not cheaper and mostly the same people needs)"
And adds a single point of failure that you have no control over!
"It is impossible for such a business to not have the money to pay all merchants in full without there being some sort of fraud going on... right? " Well that is how it should work but many companies don't use a separate 'Clients funds' account to their own account and even if they've not been profligate with spending they could end up with cash flow problems. It could be fraud, extremely bad management or just poor management we just don't know yet which.
I know that but it is only affecting Windows PCs and many users won't know if they are using CloudStrike's anti-malware product. If it would be correct to say this will probably only be effecting organisations that are big enough to have an IT department then stating that will reassure many people!
It's not affected our 4 Windows 10 PCs (mix of home,pro,32 & 64) it might be helpful to know which systems are failing!
If a Windows PC hasn't yet been turned on today is it safe to turn it on now?
I suspect old Windows xP, 7 & 8 might not be effected, if so that might help people with old normally unused systems.