Posts by Triggerfish 2452 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Feb 2010
I'll look at that, I did see one fact that was fascinating, that most of the Afghans do not know why we turned up, and had not heard of 9/11. I've never believed what we hear about the wars, too many friends in the UK millitary trust a lot of the news, plus the facts/ causes are usually delivered by politicians.
Do think you guys into the US need to look into why your police need to be so heavily armed, although things like the Norco and the North Hollywood shootouts, makes me think maybe thats what you need when you have a heavily armed populace,
I think you missed the rest of my comment.
Nice one, you obvioulsy have a deep understanding of the criminal mind, can you explain what threat the 12 year old kid carrying a toy gun in the park was? BTW thats the one where they rocked up and the copper was firing the gun before they even stopped properly.
Just if we are picking individual cases to prove a point, then come one justify this one, also please explain why they did not think it neccessary to attempt first aid immediately.
Yeah I have made a similar comment before the police in general are good. For me it's the fact they will not admit mistakes.
For most people you expect the law and it's reprasentatives to be shining examples, whiter than white, but these are big organisations you always will get bad apples.
Problem is the authorities are so worried they don't appear whiter than white, they cover up or close ranks on fuck ups. I'd have more faith if they admit there's some that are just wrong uns and absolutely hunted them down and punished them, as soon as they found them for bringing them into disrepute.
Do think you guys into the US need to look into why your police need to be so heavily armed, although things like the Norco and the North Hollywood shootouts, makes me think maybe thats what you need when you have a heavily armed populace, tricky one that makes you wonder on the psycholgy of a traffic stop in the US, must be a bit tense.
You know I always wondered if we did this abroad how it would work out?
Off topic I know. But we often have had our forces wandering through Afghanistan burning opium fields. I can't help wonder, what would have happened if we bought it?
I mean we get our opium at the moment from places like Australia for medical drugs. Surely if we had bought it off a bunch of poor farmers in Afghanistan we would not only have been edging out the drug trade there, raw opium kg price in places like that is low, we could have probably beat it, and said we will not pay these prices if you sell a little extra to a dealer (and why would you anyway if you make less). But we would have also been making the sort of contacts that would have helped bring stability to the region, it's a lot harder to make believe westerners are evil and turn people against them, if they have only turned up with cash to spend, and maybe then started investing in infrastructure that improves the country and the future for your children. Considering a lot of people fighting out there are doing it for cash as well and could not give a shit whose side they are on, the boost to the economy may have saved that as well. Can't help feeling we miss the trick because we want to promote our war on drugs.
No, disparity of income doesn't cause crime. People having more stuff than you doesn't make you go out and kill people.
Please explain the reasoning behind that because it goes against what I thought, that poverty can be a major factor in the cause of some crimes. (I'm not talking white collar stock fraud, or say running a bank ).
They are still getting the $350K armoured vehicle and $200K worth of fancy shootin' irons to poke out of the gunports but there just wasn't any money for cameras.
And that sort of choice of priorities just makes me wonder if they really know they are the police, rather than say a millitary occupation force.
As a project manager,
Assume everyone above you is hostile to you completing the project not usually because of enemy action so much as crushing idiocy.
Nix any suggestions out of habit (maybe think about them later (but fuck me don't let someone senior actually think their idea might be worth it by showing too much enthusiasm, murphy says you will be forced to follow the dumbest one)).
Get everything in writing.
Don't let board level guys talk to your techies the techies don't deserve it or for that matter need the frustration of dealing with the illogical.
Be kind to the techies and engineers. You were one once, you may be again.
Always lie about how much time and budget you will need you can only look good delivering under budget and before deadline, you can never win if it's over even if it was not your fault.
Gin and Tonic looks like water when in a water bottle.
Always wear sunscreen.
Worked a week on a two week subcontract, nice pay, worked hard for it though my employers who I was working for seemed happy. The beggining of week two, the companies big cheese comes up and decides that actually he has changed his mind and he would like it all this way now. That's a new contract my employers say. But I have already paid you says the cheese. No that's the old contract they say, this is a new contract. Then one of them turns to me and says in front of the cheese, this is obvioulsy going to take some time to sort out, go home, paid my second week in full, watched TV.
Also worked for one guy on a project trying to sort out various manufacturing problems which were a nightmare, decided to take an extra two weeks after factory shutdown and have a month off for sanity. MD paid me a grand in to convince me to return. Same guy also paid me and GF on retainer when we went travelling for 3 months after finishing there. Never called us once.
There was so much more spare cash around before the bankers screwed it all.
I've noticed with foreign friend their grammar is often better I think it's because they are taught it as a second language and so are more formal. A couple of Dutch friends used to come over for the summer they spoke multiple languages fluently (one training to be a translator), and their langauge teacher used to bemon the fact they lost the Queens English and started being all Cockney in how they spoke, slang, phrasing etc. Have noticed it when trying to learn other languages as well, there's the language you are taught, then there is the language spoken like the natives.
I would have thought the re-usable bit means you can remove it rather than leaving it permanently installed so would not worry about the speaker grill. The rest of your assesment about usefulness is about right though.
Although then again at 20 euro it's the sort of thing I might shove in something like a earphones case and carry about when travelling just for novelty.
Actually there were a whole lot of laws about slave ownershiup in the US, strange they enacted them when they had no slaves.
If Blacks would stop breaking the laws, then they would not get arrested. However, MOST of the crimes in the USA are committed by blacks and you just don't get that fact either.
You show an epic grasp of the complexities of a social system there, are you a troll or just um a bit stupid?
Yes I have a chavvy neighbour like that, luckily he does it on motorbikes, in an area with really narrow country lanes and really solid stone walls, so I am guessing he will be donating his organs at some point.
Also the amount of people I see taking overtaking risks on these roads, (I'm talking blind brows, big drops in the peak district, some of these roads make snake pass look safe), to gain a car length or maybe two how much time does that really shave off your journey?
One of the most enjoyable things I find is when someone comes up behind you flashing lights, even though if you were to get out of the way it would be putting you at risk or someone else. I once was next to two lorries overtaking and to be fair it was very late at night and I was doing 80-85 to overtake them, so not like I was dawdling. Some guy pulled up and tailgated me, obviously thinking it perfectly natural I should run under the lorry wheels to clear a path for him. In a purely sublime moment I dropped speed and the lorry drivers all matched speeds and rolling roadblocked him for a few miles.
Oh I can see the point of feedback, I am providing it.
Here it is:
When the ad industry makes sure the chain that supplies the ads has been vetted and will not deliver any malware, virus or ridiculous level of tracking cookie to my pc, then I will start looking at your ads and judging them on the asthetics. Until then I will not run your ads. This is your feedback, clean your act up.
Just trying to work out how it works here. Vaguely remember when looking at setting up an ecommerce site for someone looking at payment options, e.g be a gateway to something like Verisign or actually retain CC data. I seem to remember the CC retention data requirements to be pretty strict including things like pen tests.
Now I have just looked on the PCI complaince site and looked at their different Merchant levels seems if you are low enough, under 1 million transactions you can self assess, or use a PCI approved ISP such as 1&1!.
So whats going wrong? Should all people retaining CC data, have to comply with the strictest standards? Are the higher level approved PCI pen testers, and ISPs not good enough?
I mean I know it happens and it's always an arms race but you see places that have this sort of data falling to outdated cracks. Why is this? Why are they being allowed to keep CC data?
Went to Barra in the Hebrides for a survey two hour job their airport is um interesting it's on a beach and you can only land when the tides out, winter storms left us stuck there for four days. The first night in I think the only pub on the island started off with us being introduced to the only protestant on the island by the other locals who were obviously bored with just seeing each other for god knows how long. My boss at the time was also happily making quite a lot of money from the contract we had licence to use the company card for booze, it got a bit messy.
Was all in all a rather good tour of Scotland turning up at remote places where they see tourists in the summer and just each other in the winter you get really welcomed (it may have helped I was also working with a rather attractive female architect). At one hotel near a loch somewhere, the place was being run / caretaken by two brothers who were back from uni, while the rest of their family went on holiday. I woke up stretched out on the bar and vaguely remember abandoning the architect in the corridor later as she laid out on floor with the contents of her handbag around her trying to find her keys.
You miss the bit where he has brought generations up watching and learning about wildlife and inspired a fair few scientists and such to take up their craft, seriously have you seen a lot of other wildlife programs? Plus as a wildlife geek Attenboroughs programs are some of the few I tend to learn or see something new.
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