Re: Someone tell Sainsbury's
"Yet they still put sell-by dates on bottled water."
That probably has more to do with the amount of time taken for toxins to leach into the water from the plastic bottle.
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"The only real heist is the one perpetrated against the-rest-of-us"
Including the allowance of purchasing voluntary carbon credits with private pension pot funds for a huge markup.
Not only that, but if you were unlucky enough to be conned into buying them (they're practically worthless - just try and sell them!) there are also boiler room scams out there ready to pounce on anyone who is desperate to sell them to try and claw back some of their money.
Doing some research on it I was amazed at the scale of the rip-offs and there are people out there who are close to retirement that lost *everything*.
They are seriously hazardous to your pension health and is a national scandal that rivals the banks playing roulette with poison risk bundles.
It doesn't apply to everyone with mental disorders, but if it does it tends to be significant.
I work in a complex field, and there are things I can do without much thought that others have a struggle to do at all (I have severe ADHD-combined).
On the other hand, there are things I am really bad at.
Like now for instance. I have to create a complex design in a complex environment based on vague requirements within a very short time-scale. Most people would just 'knock something together' and blame the lack of requirements if it goes pear-shaped later.
I can't do that, I *have* to do the best job I can, I can't put my name to something that I don't think will work - and if I don't know enough yet to know whether it will or not, then I have to spend the time learning. This slows me down *a lot*. I have a hard time thinking of things to put into the design if it isn't based on hard information.
It causes a lot of stress.
The hardest thing is the train-track thought processes. Like someone has mentioned - it *is* possible to change them, but only with the proper motivation and context. At all other times changing your mind mid-stride is the equivalent of de-railing a freight train. It takes time for the wreck to stop before you can even think about picking up the pieces :(
Considering the logistics of asteroid mining, I don't think it would be too much additional overhead to ensure that the resulting hulks are left in a non-threatening orbit.
Bear in mind that the mined asteroids are probably already in a stable orbit (otherwise we might have trouble finding them).
"Proud to be British: Bloody Sunday.
I don't agree with a lot of what the IRA did, but I don't think the actions of our armed representatives on that particular day is anything to be proud of, do you?
1 thumb up & 8 thumbs down " <- as of 15:20
Well, it looks like there are at least 8 people who are proud that we (The British) shot civilians.
From the wiki:
"British paratroopers "lost control", fatally shooting fleeing civilians and those who tried to aid the civilians who had been shot by the British soldiers. The report stated that British soldiers had concocted lies in their attempt to hide their acts. Saville stated that the civilians had not been warned by the British soldiers that they intended to shoot. The report states, contrary to the previously established belief, that none of the soldiers fired in response to attacks by petrol bombers or stone throwers, and that the civilians were not posing any threat"
"But be proud that throughout it all the British response was to ignore the cowards for what they are/were > spineless gits."
Proud to be British: Bloody Sunday.
I don't agree with a lot of what the IRA did, but I don't think the actions of our armed representatives on that particular day is anything to be proud of, do you?
I reckon it's more likely due to non native English speakers having a better grasp of English grammar than native Brits do, so the obvious mistakes in spam emails are, well, obvious (to the non-natives).
The grammatically challenged chav-generation may well not notice the glaring mistakes that set the spam-bells off.
"So - to all those commenters trying to justify copying in the thread above - get over yourselves and accept that you just do it because it's easy and you don't want to pay what is being asked of you."
I'm not sure I read any posts in the thread above that tried to justify copying, but there were a lot that discussed the difference between copyright infringement and theft.
Here's something else for you to fail to parse..
"Reading is not thought, but comprehension requires you to think."
I read a news story yesterday about one of the 'celebrities' that was part of this 'fappening', some kind of gymnast who was underage when her boyfriend took the picture of her - so there were warnings that they were kiddie porn.
The bit I couldn't work out was that she also claims they were fake, which leaves several questions, mostly relating to
'if they are fake how do they know they were taken when underage' and
'if they're not then isn't the gymnast and her boyfriend in trouble?'
I saw the list of who was supposed to be part of this image dump, the only one I recognised was Kirsten Dunst and that put me off right there and then.
Or M$ are admitting they are clueless.
"For reversibly-encrypted codes that use a strong algorithms, crackers would need the relevant decryption key. Without it, they would have no effective means of offline attack even if the users' password was 123456, the duo wrote."
Ok, so technically accurate, but misleading. Even if I couldn't crack the password offline, there's no reason I couldn't just 'have a go' at entering 123456 as a password, which would obviously work.
Having a gnarly password doesn't just make it harder to crack, it makes it hard to guess, and if you re-use passwords from other sites, it only takes one of them to leak the password in a weak manner and all of your accounts are screwed.
Have M$ got a product launch relating to passwords coming up soon or something?
"But then facts are never as emotional as fiction, now are they."
Oh that's right, because they haven't done anything illegal. However, they were still arrested for an unknown charge and face extradition back to the UK, leaving their sick child in a Spanish hospital and half a dozen others at a loose end.
The only reason I can see for this whole fiasco is to push the Rotherham 1400 scandal off the news lists so that someone very high up can bury it completely (until the next time the public gets reminded).
"It's these senior people who we need to get shot of."
Considering that you can now be subjected to an international man-hunt and arrested for trying to get medical treatment for your child, this comment could be construed as incitement to terrorism. Gotta be careful there old sport, remember 'they' aren't afraid of criminals, 'they' are afraid of YOU.
I'm Sparticus and so's my wife.