Posts by markr555

Singapore's sovereign wealth fund regrets investment in crypto-villain FTX

Eh?

Diabolical non-sequitur.

Dyson moans about state of UK science and tech, forgets to suck up his own mess

Re: With two-faced "friends" like Dyson, Britain doesn't need enemies

Halfwit is a single word, at best you can hyphenate it, you half-wit

Re: With two-faced "friends" like Dyson, Britain doesn't need enemies

How many times are you gonna post the same iname shit comment in a single thread you trolling wee fuck-nugget? Your bigotry is showing.

Re: With two-faced "friends" like Dyson, Britain doesn't need enemies

Who dafuq is US? Doubting that you are an international lawyer, so who the hell will YOU bail out? I'm unconvinced that you could bail out a frigging dinghy

Miffed Googlers meme on CEO's $226M pay award amid cost-cutting campaign

Re: @AC capitalism

Oh yeah, then why is it The People's Republic of China?? You're either disingenuous or a halfwit; possibly both.

Pornhub walls off Utah in age-verification law protest

Keeping porn from eager teenagers?

They'll never pull it off!

Elon Musk actually sits down and talks to 'government-funded media' the BBC

Re: Propaganda

"Que all the clowns"

Is that you Manuel?

Parts of UK booted offline as Virgin Media suffers massive broadband outage

Re: Fare thee (not so) well, Virgin

"Said chat started at 15:40, and didn't finish until 19:00"

There's your problem right there. Don't allow them anything like this amount of time. Either they can beat it or they can't. Once they've failed to beat it, tell them your contract is cancelled and put the phone down. Once you've sent an email informing them of their failure to cancel according to contract you're free to cancel your direct debit. Screw giving them any more than 10 minutes of your time!

Amazon mandates return to office for 300,000 corporate staff

Re: Cat ... bag ...

Unfortunately they do have some sway, at least over any early retirees, because it is they who make the rules. So instead of requiring 35 years' NI contributions to qualify for a full state pension, they'll simply increase the number of qualifying years required. You must be fortunate enough to have youth on your side if you think that the populace ever gets on over on the government.

Time to walk the talk?

Looking forward to opportunities at Amazon now that all the people who said 'over my dead body will I return to the office' will be tendering their resignation, or perhaps they won't? Time for all the naysayers to put their money where their mouth is....

Most Londoners would quit before they give up working from home

Yeah, this. People are talking the talk at the moment, but would they walk the walk if every employer demanded at least some time in the office, I very much doubt it. All this talk of 'oh, I'm way more productive in the office' is a red herring. Individuals may be more productive, but teams as a whole won't be. Imagine starting a new job as a graduate at the moment, with a steep learning curve, and no-one in the office to ask those 'off the cuff' questions from which so much can be learnt. As a profession, if we work from home all the time we are conning the younger folk out of their career progression, and it's our failure, not theirs.

Too bad, contractors: UK government reverses decision to axe IR35 tax reform

Re: huge news really

Snarky little sh@t strikes again, as usual you appear to have lost your balls and posted AC.

Quit worrying about 5G C-band and crashing aircraft, US govt eggheads sigh

Said with all the conviction...

of an anonymous coward :-P

Good news for UK tech contractors as govt repeals IR35 tax rules

Re: Contractors rejoice

My job's going great thanks,

Just because I think you should pay your taxes doesn't mean that I have a chip on my shoulder, I earn an excellent salary and pay my way in society. You, on the other hand, seem proud that you are scamming society out of the contribution that you should be making. Your tax regimen i(f it matches what I described in my OP) may be legal, but it's immoral as hell. How's your conscience?

Re: Contractors rejoice

They didn't get shafted, they got exactly what they were legally entitled to based on what they indicated they were earning. Karma's a bitch ain't she.

Contractors rejoice

Yay say all the contractors, now we can go back to paying ourselves minimum wage, employing the wife/hubby as a director, and paying a big juicy divvy. All while simultaneously berating big tech for not paying their taxes, and being indignant at anyone who questions their own tax regime

BT strikes to start this month, 40,000 workers to down tools

Re: Go for it

There you go again, complaining that a comparatively high salary is not enough. 80k (top 5%) is a decent salary by any standards, it's over 4x minimum wage, and well over half the population dream of earning only half of that. Also, the 'if you count how much effort it takes to earn it' really exposes a quite deluded attitude, sitting on your arse for 8 hours a day, toiling at the keyboard (which is what I do too) is hardly 'hard' work. It's sometimes tiring, and can be stressful, but it's not roofing in the middle of summer, or mining coal is it? We get paid extremely well for what we do (in comparison to the vast majority), stop bloody whinging!

British motorists will be allowed to watch TV in self-driving vehicles

Re: too poor to ever own a car.

Eh? How are cars subsidised in any way?

Dell trials 4-day workweek, massive UK pilot of shortened week begins

Re: There is no such verb as "to trial"

That's bullshit, dogshit.

US imposes sanctions as Russia invades Ukraine

Re: @martinusher - Sanctions and Resources

Dickhead, that is all.

Love or hate your IT dept, money talks – and tech workers are getting more of it

Re: Laugh

I don't have an 'I'm lucky to have this job' mindset, I have an 'I'm lucky to be in a position to be able to negotiate a good salary (according to my skills, ability and experience) in a profession that I quite like' mindset. It helps keep me grounded enough such that I don't start to believe that I'm trapped in some sort of indentured servitude when I earn more than 95% of the population. It also helps me to negotiate well with new/existing employers such that I don't feel that I'm underselling my contribution. The way you complain is to leave and get a better job, either pay or conditions, or even both. Or you actually start that business in spite of the IR35 laws, rather than use them as an excuse for inaction and bitching.

Re: Laugh

Did you really just equate a salary of up to 150k with modern slavery? While they are not monumental, these salary bands are double the national average at a minimum, so calling them laughable is an insult to all the poor buggers who get by on minimum wage, or at best an actual 20-30k. Poor you that you can only stuff your isa through the years. I don't suggest that they are high salaries, but I'm lucky to be in one of the bands that are mentioned and live a dammed sweet life in comparison to the great majority of folks where I live. If you think your salary is too low then why don't you just Jack it in and offer yourself to the highest bidder? Or stop whining and start that bloody business? Entitled much?

Electrocution? All part of the service, sir!

Re: Shock ! = Death

Tosh! Electrocution, anywhere in the world is death by electric shock.

Shock ! = Death

Can we please stop referring to electric shock as electrocution? You wouldn't call a blocked nose asphyxiation would you?

Ah, I see you found my PowerShell script called 'SiteReview' – that does not mean what you think it means

I can only assume he meant 'Armageddon out of here! ' - pure genius

Advert for coronavirus 'destroying' air 'purifier' exterminated by UK watchdog

Coronavirus 'cells'?!

Hmmm, sounds like the manufacturer is really well up on virus physiology </sarcasm>

UK watchdog fines biz £130k for 900,000+ direct marketing calls to folk who had opted out

Re: Cost of doing business or a fine?

"if my napkin maths skills are still up to scratch"

They're not.

Norton dodges UK courts after telling Brit watchdog it will be nicer to consumers

Re: Norton auto-renewed my contract in March

"Had Norton on this laptop since I bought it in 2013, with an I7 cpu and upraded to 16GB Ram and a 2TB EVO 860 SSD, converted the optical drive to HDD, runs perfectly for what I need"

That's the IT equivalent of putting your cock size at the end of a PM

Pakistan's Punjab province tells citizens to get jabbed or have their SIM card blocked

Re: Momento mori

Nice little dog whistle there, how did the fact that they were Pakistani warrant a mention? If they were white would you have said 2 English men? Sounds like you're blaming those pesky immigrants!

Seriously?

Are there really a majority of commentards supporting ostracisation of people who decide not to have the vaccine? It is a personal choice, and those who refuse it will eventually gain immunity or death after catching covid. Keep your condescending opinions to yourself and let them make that choice. I've had my vaccines, and if you've had yours then why the bloody hell do you think you have the right to force/coerce (or whatever word you want to use) others to bend to your will.

It's the UK contractor tax factor: IR35 outsiders gaining leverage in skills market, survey finds

Re: Oh here we go

I see your pathetic little vendetta against Jake continues, although as per usual you post as AC. Here's a thought; either grow a pair and use your handle, or STFU, you petty little prick!

Dominic Cummings: Health secretary's 'stupid' targets delayed building UK test and trace system to combat COVID

Re: Colour me surprised.

Nice strawman there, your analogy isn't correct at all, I wasn't praising him for anything other than showing up Hancock for the knobhead that he is, and he certainly hasn't been a despotic dictator at all. I found the Barnard Castle thing appalling at best, and definitely indicative of the entitlement that you mention. However, he's said these things as part of a parliamentary inquiry, with those who he mentioned also as 'witnesses' in this enquiry, so we'll soon see if there is any truth if anyone corroborates his versions of events. You seem to imply that Cummings is a tory, he is at most a tory sympathiser, but we don't actually know that do we? He certainly isn't a politician! I tend to hate tories with a passion, so please don't imagine I would ever truly support one, but Cummings is allegedly shining a light on all of this corrupt and crappy government, so I don't really understand why you think his speaking out is not a good thing, regardless of whether it comes from a personal vendetta.

"I will bet the former Prime Ministerial string puller utters not one word to implicate himself as a part of the covid cluckfuster"

Well he did actually say that he was included in the group that had utterly let the country down, and also gave an explicit apology for that, so it's better than anyone else has managed. Still wouldn't trust him though :-)

Colour me surprised.

Anyone that shines a light on the incompetent liying half-wit that is Matt Hancock goes up in my estimation, even Cummings. We've seen Hancock obviously lie time after time, we've seen him utterly demolished on political TV programs, we even seen him pathetically pretend to cry on national television when the vaccination programme started (I still struggle to watch that, makes me squirm with embarrassment). Now we see that hancock is single-handedly responsible for old people being sent back to care homes to pass on covid to other residents, after assuring the rest of government that this wouldn't happen, and resulting in many thousands of premature deaths. He shouldn't just be sacked, he should be jailed!

How the tables have turned: Bloke says he trained facial recognition algorithm to identify police officers

Re: AI face recognition of cops

"Is Snake Plissken now living in Portland?" - I heard he was dead...

Microsoft to charge $200 for 32 GPU cores, sliver of CPU clockspeed, 6GB RAM, 512GB SSD... and a Blu-Ray player

Re: will either of them do 4k/60fps?

"but I can certainly tell when things get busy and drop below 60" - unless they drop below 30, Bullshit! That is all...

Dating apps swiped left on Pakistan’s request to clean up their acts, bans followed

Morality?

A country that murders apostates, homosexuals and rape victims wants to talk morality? FUCK OFF!

US govt proposes elephant showers for every American after Prez Trump says trickles dampen his haircare routine

The problem with water consumption limits is..

That they don't take into account local factors. I live in a part of the UK where there is very rarely (every 20 years from experience) any shortage of water, yet I'm still forced to have showers with poor flow and toilets that barely shift the detritus from the bowl, nevermind down the 10m of soil pipe to the sewer. Water is in plentiful supply where I live, but because it can get a little short in and around the capital, we all have to suffer.

You had one job... Just two lines of code, and now the customer's Inventory Master File has bitten the biscuit

Re: Defensive Coding

They are still very useful in java, as if (literalSting.equals(nullRef) is far more preferable to if NullRef.equals(literalString) - try it and see...

Re: Adding a comment sometimes caused compile failure

I can't believe that David Bowie's wife isn't in there!

UK data watchdog having a hard time making GDPR fines stick: Marriott scores another extension, BA prepares to pay 11% of £183m penalty threat

Re: Falling on sword time?

Downvoted for telling a story - are there Parking Eye employees on this forum?

Re: Falling on sword time?

Yep,

Don't take on Parking Eye, they manage to do what other parking shysters can't, successfully getting prosecutions thought the courts. I took them on after a 26 minute overstay. While at the 'court' I saw the magistrate/judge laughing/joking/flirting with the Parking Eye solicitor multiple times before my case, but yet they told me they hadn't had any discussions before the hearing. The judge wasn't having any of my defense of the fact that no loss had been incurred and I was promptly ordered to pay 3 times the cost of the original ticket. After paying the 'fine' I requested multiple times a receipt to prove I'd payed it, for the purposes of avoiding a CC judgement on my credit record, but they ignored every request. I therefore got an entry on my credit record which has only just been removed after 6 years. I would recommend never parking on a car park operated by them, they are a complete scam organisation.

Singapore to give all incoming travelers wearable tracking device

Re: Looks like Singapore's off my travel list

A sociopath because I don't like the idea of constant GPS tracking? - WOW. I'm not american, I come from the UK, where fortunately this sort of surveilance isn't yet happening. These measures are currently temporary, my assertion is that they won't remain that way. My original post indicated that I won't be visiting Singapore while these draconian measure are in place, hence I added it to my list of 'don't visit' countries, how the hell is that sociopathic? You can visit if you want to, so why does my decision not to hurt your feelings so much that you accuse me of bigotry? I do stay home, and I take effective measures to limit my exposure to COVID, just because I don't like the idea of being constantly tracked doesn't mean I want to murder people on the basis of their skin colour, you utter plonker.

Re: Looks like Singapore's off my travel list

I'd need to drive over the pond first.

Re: Looks like Singapore's off my travel list

Not one with GPS continually enabled, no. Yes, my phone is tracked no doubt, but that's a far cry from being mandated to be tracked. You know I don't by law need to have a mobile don't you? It's even got a power switch that doesn't cost me $7500 if I use it. You Pillock.

Looks like Singapore's off my travel list

I don't care what the current crisis is, I will NEVER be tracked via GPS, so unfortunately Singapore now has to join Dubai et al as one of the places I will never visit again. You could argue that they may remove this restiction in the future, but I doubt it very much, it will no doubt be a 'storming success' and continued for all travellers for all time.

Struggling company pleads with landlords to slash rents as COVID-19 batters UK high street. The firm's name? Apple

Re: We should all pull together

Whenever anyone mentions the Lira now, I always think of the great Dennis Pennis put-down to Joan Collins - "I love the dress, you look like a million Lira"

US prez Donald Trump declares America closed to those flying in from Schengen zone over coronavirus woes

They'll see the worst of it

It's quite obvious that in a country with no protections for workers, no free healthcare system, and no bloody kits to test anyone, you are likely to see a much bigger spread of the virus than anywhere else. So in fact, this is the best thing that could have happened to Europe. As soon as the virus takes hold fully in the US of A there is absolutely nothing to stop its inexorable spread.

Review of IR35 is in: Quelle surprise, UK.gov will forge ahead with controversial tax reforms in the private sector

Re: Completely wrong

"The company that EMPLOYS them"?

EU court tells prudish IP office to fack off for balking at 'fack ju' trademark application

Oh, get a life!