Posts by Al fazed 569 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Jul 2009
These criminal gangs operate on a world wide basis. It said so in the article.
Just because you personally haven't read about, you refuse to believe it. It does not mean that it is not happeneing.
The real scale of illegal immigrants working in captivity in the UK has yet to be discovered, but the police are having to deal with these issues in connection with things like cannabis farms - throughout the UK.
In London's surrounding suburbs including Oxford, children as young as 10 years old are being dropped off with a quantity of heroin etc at a local dealers pad. This is where the stay until they have sold the "merch" in £10 bags............. Repeat this cycle........
Some drug dealers in UK cities (it has been discovered) move in to the "sheltered accomodation" which is being rented to one of their customers. It could be a single parent, the person often has a mental health disability, characteristics which keep them in housing, until the dealer gets caught and they are charged with "assisting" the dealer. The victim loses their "protected tenancy" and ultimately they end up back in the hands of the local authority and social services.
Recently it was reported that a bunch of folks living on a "travellers" site were discovered to have enslaved a chap who had downs syndrome. They had him working for many years, in exchange for a wrecked caravan for him to live in....
These are the tips of a fucking iceberg.....
Wake up !
ALF
Turning to AI for creative inspiration seems very much like an individual artists aspirations to exploit any novel medium out of sheer desperation to be noticed............er, I suppose by those who do not know art from their elbows and need to be informed.
In AI's case dismally.
I've seen stuff that was made by chimps which had more aesthetic appeal.
AI is more of an anaesthetic.
If it's (the AI) engine is merely trawling a data base of artists styles, surely all that the AI can produce will be a melange of the oevre of previously notable producers of "art" which has been sucked into data set, Anyway ART is something which has still not been adeqautely defined. As "art", generally speaking seems to reflect the processes of evolution. So the data set in use is sadly - incomplete. So any "art" produced by it must be inherently flawed or inadequate in some way. It would certainy have to rank some what lower in terms of "beauty" than anything that was wrought of the passions wot stirred the original artist to make a mark.
It ain't sculpture and there's no audio.......
Does it (the AI product) warrant any financial value at all when it can be replicated interminably ?
Just asking.
ALF
They haven't even watched the film about NASA attempting to race the Ruskies to the moon, "Hidden Figure". The USA has a totally fucked up state of mind, why are we aeven paying any attention to these self defeating muppets. No foriegners need apply in a CUNTRY made up almost entirely of foriegners...........
ALF
They are all corrupt swindelling bastards, the politicos have been seriously under funding the NHS before COVID, since COVID they already sold the Health provider at the lowest price to the lowest moral scumbags on the planet.
Why are we even discussing this sordid shite.
ALF
Tough second place goes to Geoffrey Swindell, caught after 20 years preying on female students and female members of staff as a sex pest ceramics tutor at Cardiff Art College, still producing pots.
Must be the family name goes hand in hand with sick behaviour and mortal corruption .....
ALF
Or 10 hours spent using the NHS 111 service, sends you to the web, which sends you back to your phone call. Oh yes and when they answered....some smarmy twat insisted that I had to pay £40 up front in order to book an appointment for emergency dental treatment for a painful abcess.
I would have to wait from Friday afternoon until Wednesday to get the "emergency" treatment, travel 40 miles to Huddersfield at my expense to have said treatment. I am 69 years old and have a certificate which entitles to free dental treatment, but not according to the NHS 111 receptionist.
I needed anti biotics to prevent blood poisoning making my condition more complex to treat, but with the existing NHS app, that is not possible. Will making everything go through the mobile phone change this shitty emergency service ? I very much doubt it.
ALF
I suppose you think that sharing all of your persnal data with unknown company(s) or individual(s) is NOT silly - this is your world. IT certainly doesn't make any sense at all in mine.
For a start and I have said this before ......... the NHS system does not record anything to do with personal visits to a Choropractor, purchases of essential oils for the treatment of everything from athletes foot to sciatic pain, or the use of none prescribed medications such as, comfrey for the treatment of bruises and broken bones, never mind the effective use of cannabinoids on skin cancer and psilocybin for depression and anxiety.
So, there are those of us who still believe in the NHS and those of us who are apparently stuck with it, shit as it is and are already well used to looking elsewhere for our treatments and remedies.
So if I don't want chemotherapy, physiotherapy or prescription drugs, or use their equally crap app on my phone or computer etc, it isn't silly ...........
ALF
Yes, stolen from under our feet, by the leftpondian reporters, who can't even spell "centre" properly, there'll be tears for sure, Dabby's removal means there's so much less relevance in el Reg reflecting a UK way of thinking about IT, or science, or what is important in life in general ...........
And it ain't the f*cking bottom line.
ALF (anti-rightpondianishmarshymindmergesof51ststate)
Whilst studying for my BSc in Information Technology I remember reading some stuff that had been written by IBM researchers with regard to software development and cycles of development which are intended to continually improve the application being developed, by removing bugs.
Apparently there becomes a point in any project's development cycle where entropy gets a say in the matter, because there's a point arises where following this method actually starts to introduce more issues than are being solved and after this there's a definite downward trend in overall product quality as a consequence.
Wish I could remember the term that IBM employed for this issue, without needing to look it up.
ALF
I think that re inventing the desktop over and over is a big mistake.
There are fucking serious security issues unresolved in evry OS and some are being re invented with each new batch of hardware/firmware. Why aren't these desktop developers skills being diverted into some useful area like solving OS and application security issues ?
ALF
What an wonderful article.
Someone actually lambasting the shite we have to use these days. When I tell people I do IT, they move along to talk to someone else. That's how fucking bad this has got. Once upon a time people would queue up to ask me, "how do you do such and such on my ****** (name of device). Now they know before hand that after 30 years in the industry, my response will be, "how am I supposed to know that ?" or "what makes you think that I know how to fix it ?".
Every criticism I read in the article is absolutely true, it's a sodding pain every time, relearning what RIGHT CLICK doesn't do any more.
I used to think that computers would help to level the playing field for someone with a disability, now their disability is made worse by their choice of computer hardware amd accompanying software.
One good thing has come out of all this "messing about" though, it's called MX Linux. It's free, it leaves the other OSes that I have tried - in the ditch.
The only point of concern being that the STOP/START button is now at the top left corner of my screen - at the far end of a vertical task bar.
Vertical task bar ? OK, no real issue.
But why move the START/STOP button ? Because they can........
ALF
There's so much rubbish in IT these days, it's hardly worth the effort or cost of installing IT and learning how to be used by the stuff, over and over again !!!!
For some reason, "Here we go around the mulberry bush", keeps popping into my mind.
Information Trust has evaporated.
ALF
If that wasn't a hard right manouvre then it appears that we no longer know what "hard right" actually means.
You had to work without PPE, you were not entitled to 80% of your previous wages, you were not entitled to Universal Credit, or Housing Benefit.
The ones that did work, on the front line, all the way through that facsist decision that you should "stay at home", whilst others do not.
The they got called BAME, but it wasn't racist. Just overworked immigrants doing jobs white English people won't do.
The my daughter is told that she cannot enroll at college to midwifery.....Why ? 'cos she hasn't had all of her jabs. 9 months later, it doesn't matter of you had your jabs or not, you can go on your holidays (?) and come back to work in the office. Or lose your job !
Telling us that kids don't et COVID, so they can go to school with the kids of BAME folks. NOT telling us that your dog can carry COVID and spread it.
As long as you have enough money, in Britain the laws do not apply to you. You can fly out of Stanstead on a private jey bound for the F1 in Brazil and can bring back Brazillian variety of da bug.
Hoestly ? A "jab" in the arm is all you need............
A tap on the head wouldn't do you any harm either......
ALF
It's your personal opinion.
I am sadden that you feel so strongly about it from your own experience that you are quite happy to prevent others from using the same treatment which you tried but were unhappy with.
Personally I can say that I am today able to work and enjoy lige because of Mc Timoney Choropractics which were not available on the NHS.
The accident happened in the 70's whilst doing cross country running. I was offered opiate pain killers and anti inlfamatory medicine, but had to wait three years for the NHS to give me an examiniation. The examiner did not touch me, just recommended physio therapy which I still needed to be on medication to attend the clinic which told me there was nothing wrong with me.
I have had corsets and wedges made for my shoes, and had two specialist orthopeadic officer chairs since then so I can still use a PC. Still no word from NHS on a treatment that will work.
In the meantime I have one chiropractic each year and I no longer need a diet of opiates to kill pain, I do not have any.
Maybe you should have tried McTimoney rather than a British Chiropratic qualified person. Good luck with you problems, NHS doesn't have many of the answers.
FFsake cannabis without THC ?
No magic mushroom tea for my anxiety ?
ALF
I'm getting the feeling that Cambridge Anals is fiddling with this junior news outlet, 'cos I am unable to affect the number of upvotes by clicking on the up arrow ????
I can click the down arrow to transfer my vote to it's opposite the down vote, but am unable to add an upvote.
How odd ?
ALF
But their attitude is being reflected throughout UK society as a whole. I will use as illustration the 5 Managers of Together Housing Association Ltd and their legal counsel (barrister) who felt that the COVID rules in play at the County Court Bradford should not apply to them..
So they got together to conspire how they would win they case that they shouldn't. Three times over a two day period, these arrogant twats went in hand in hand five at a time into a meeting room which had a large sign on the door which said "no more than two people to use the room, AND wear a MASK".
Did they take any notice of the court usher the first time they were reprimanded ?
No, did they heck ...
Of course these laws are written to control mere muppets, and are not for the facsist pigs who are prosecuting the mere unfortunate muppets.
I think YOU should remain out of Europe and suffer the consequences, as YOU won't learn any other way
ALF
Now that we aren't part of it, what's all the copncern about ?
Comparing European politics to UK politics is a waste of time, unless you start to count all of the good things that we have already lost, and then look at all the good things that are about to be washed away, and be replaced with an American model, derived from a country that cannot tell the truth to it's own politicians or voters.
We have lost Legal Aid for tenants fighting unscrupulous landlords, we have landlords who can now hold their own sudo legal Reviews to enable repossession of their rented property without taking the tenant to court.
We have American products replacing European household name brands with dodgy stuff that requires you to start a class action against the company in order to get your money back, or a trifle in compensation if you are lucky.
The milk we now import is full of puss and antibiotics, your health data has been sold to American pharmacuetical and health insurance companies, without your permission.
Boris's mates were even talking recently about not having to follow the legal codes of practice as were laid out in the European Conventioin on Human Rights............
FUCK OFF YOU NIT WIT.............
SOZ. ALF
I see the Prime Mincers job is up for grabs ...........maybe a foriegner can do the job better ?
What's wrong with puttin' Putin into the UK Parliament ?
Surely he couldn't do any worse than the last lot of Tory twats at selling out UK soveriegnty ?
ALF
Surely someone must remember this one GIGO.
How much is the not complete NHS data set worth ?
How much info does the NHS actually hold on patients, er which is actually relevant ?
I have attended chiropractics treatments for many years, which the NHS does not have any record of.
I have been successfully using Cannabis oil to treat skin cancer, but I did not get it on prescription via my GP. Numerous friends buy cannabis products (full spectrum) for health and well being, which are unknown to the NHS record keepers.
If a friend is suffering from depression or anxiety I am far more likely to suggest any number of efficacious treatments icluding Psylocibin, than I am likely to say, "you should see your doctor about that".
Nuff said I think, the illustration is clear, the NHS data set isn't really that "complete" or "useful" to USA drug companies and USA health insurance markets, that is ..... going forward into our none NHS health future.
ALF
How will reading encrypted messages will keep children safe on line ?
Children go on line without encryption.
Stopping other people from sending illicit content does not protect children on line.
This plan is another half baked attempt to improve something, which in doing will screw up so many more things, but that isn't a worry for these under-educated, part time, tech wrangling MP's........
Humiliating that the UK doesn't have a better IT outlook.............
ALF
Well it took Apple many years to admit that MACstuff can actually get a virus. Now they are admitting that it takes them years to reintroduce a virus that MAC Users couldn't get.
FFS !
The future sure isn't rosey, unless that's from the glow of burning software houses...........
ALF
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