
Re: Life in plastic is fantastic.
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There’s a fair few on this site that a) don’t like management, and b) don’t want to work 5 days in the office.
So given that Amazon are going to increase days in but reduce management does that net out better for you?
I have 90 min each way commute which costs £450 a month, so I’ll deal with management and just come in twice a week.
Said like a gaslighting Tory fan boy.
There’s been a £322bn underspend on NHS funding since 2009/2010 according to the BMA. Hardly a left wing bunch.
https://www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-support/nhs-delivery-and-workforce/funding/health-funding-data-analysis
Or just ask one of the 7m on a waiting list.
"8 year olds can consent to life altering medical procedures" - Sounds like a typical bullshit Daily Mail headline. 8 year old children with gender dysphoria *can go to a clinic for support not for 'life altering medical procedures'.
*They will probably be adults by the time they get seen by a professional because the tories have fucked the NHS (again).
@Roland6 - an upvote for you.
My grandparents and my father (who was 4 at the time) emigrated from India to the UK in 1948. They always considered themselves British even though my Grandfather was born in Germany (but was in the British army during WW2) and my Nan was mixed race English and Indian but never ever thought of herself as Indian.
People think of migration in today's terms rather than how the world was in the colonial and post colonial era. Up until 1949 citizens of any colony or dominion in the British Empire were automatically considered British subjects but this changed with the British Nationality Act 1948. After the act you could still register to become a British citizen even if you never came to the UK.
You know that *car you bought new 2 years ago? Well, we’ve decided to launch a new model in three months time you’ll need to buy the new one. And, before you ask sir, the old one will be decommissioned as it’s no longer supported by our service network.
*exchange for house, TV, washing machine,etc.
I get your point but the DCs should have correct monitoring for those possibilities. Also inert gas fire suppression isn't compatible with meatsacks.
I once got a bollocking for being in the DC of a catalogue based high street retailer. They didn't know we were working in there. They also didnt think to question how their security had let us in tho.
“ I'm an angry, resentful luddite and I say no to this silly shit, period. I'll be driving a gasoline vehicle for the rest of my lifetime”
You do Luddite’s a disservice. They get a bad rap but supported workers rights and the skilled guilds in petitioning the government for better conditions.
You are not a Luddite but you are ignorant.
"Ingenuity sets a record on every flight – by adding one to the number of flights taken by a (known) helicopter sent by humans to the Red Planet."
I love that fact that the Reg has to include '(known)' in the article, just in case someone chips in. Those pesky unknown helicopters keep breaking records ;)
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I’m OK with subscriptions provided I know up front what I’m getting into. What concerns me is when I also have to fund an expensive upfront cost for a device which can only be used with a specific provider - I’ve avoided this so far.
In this article it’s disgraceful that they introduce the subscription after the purchase. I’d refuse to pay even if I was cutting my nose to spite my face.
I have a very uncommon surname which I didn't like when I was a kid. However, it made it easy to buy the domain so my mail address can be firstname@surname.co.uk, which is pretty handy.
My name is not Tarr and I'm not a doctor either. I could have been professor Fether instead.
In my current job it took three months to get paid through the normal salary run. Eventually the problem was resolved when some HR bod realised that when they entered my sort code into excel it truncated the first number, which was 0. I don't need to explain anything else on this forum :)
The HR peeps always made sure I got the salary in my bank next day when I raised the problem so props to them.
I understand your sentiment but they all signed disclaimers stating that this was as experimental sub and, as we’ve seen in these comments, an easy bit of research would have highlighted significant issues and risks in the design.
If i were an experienced explorer or billionaire then I’d be doing my due diligence before any high risk activity.
All the same, it’s tragic for those left behind.
That utopia is the UK, although it's not often I'd ever consider it that way ;) It was originally an EU regulation.
The fees you're paying a extortionate though. AFAIK there isn't a PSR equivalent in the US and it's not a role the any of the Fed banks fill. At least not to the same extent.
You're being lied to about the cost of using cards. Check the PSR website for the facts. Interchange fee cap: 0.3% per transaction (credit cards), 0.2% per transaction (debit cards).
There is a misperception that cash is free. It's actually higher cost, especially for small retailers, than cards. They can also choose to avoid putting cash through the books which pushes the tax burden onto others.
I'm not advocating for the removal of cash though.
In a previous job the CEO (also founder and chairman) was asked how he stayed motivated. His answer was "as soon as i wake up the first thing I think of is how to increase share holder value".
He then went on to tell us why we should use increasing shareholder value as our motivation.
What a twat.
Those stats are horrific but you are choosing to be somewhat economical with the truth. 16 of the released killers were in prison for manslaughter not murder so would not have faced the death penalty.
From DPIC, although the stats are readily available.....
"The death penalty carries the inherent risk of executing an innocent person. Since 1973, at least 190 people who had been wrongly convicted and sentenced to death in the U.S. have been exonerated." https://deathpenaltyinfo.org
That's exonerated cases and does not include cases where the defendant was innocent (or would have had the punishment downgraded) but no one has made a case for them. And how many more would have had a long / life sentence rather than death if they were a different colour or from a different social background.
Deterrence only works on people who are unlikely to commit a crime in the first place.
And add into the mix:
1) a culture where 'fake it till you make it' seemed to be an acceptable attitude
2) central banks / gummits pumping billions into economies through QE making cash cheap
3) FOMO on the next Apple, Amazon etc
4) messaging from young entrepreneurs and reality tv pop stars that if you want it bad enough you WILL succeed. And you're a loser if you don't.
Maybe she actually believed she could make it work at the start and then her biases took over.
The fact it's not practical is largely influenced by there being no requirement to make it practical. If there was a requirement to ensure devices were repairable for a defined period (you could argue the time period required depends on the device or machine it's being applied to) then the designers would consider the points you raise. As it stands there's no need so no solution.
As I understand it the bill’s child safety duties include obligations to prevent children from accessing content that the Culture Secretary considers particularly harmful – even if such content is legal.
The opinion of what the culture secretary deems appropriate is arbitrary and deeply worrying. The current DCMS Secretary has only been in the role less than month so too soon to comment on her. However would you really trust Nadine Dorries in deciding what's harmful? Given her blind faith in the honesty of Johnson would she block children / anyone from see information that contradicts her view? I absolutely would not trust her.
Would content be blocked for children investigating whether there are any similarities between the language being used to describe immigrants today and that of Germany in the 1930s?
The role seems to have a short term tenure regardless of the appointee. It's a low risk role to give to a supporter of the PM. This is far from ideal on such an important issue.
The examples I've given are for the current government but I wouldn't trust any government with this. All governments who are polling poorly become desperate and will try anything to stay in power.
If you want a mortgage which doesn't cost you anything then get an offset - arranged without fees. I have one where the value of the savings account = the amount of mortgage, so no interest is charged.
The mortgage is paid by DD from my current account and the same day a SO is made from the savings to the current account. This keeps the balances equal.
It also means I've had £100k (now down to 50) of free money, a perfect credit rating of 1000, and an emergency pot in case of the unknowns.
The mortgage was originally taken out for home improvements which came in under budget so that portion was paid off quickly.
I also buy as much as possible on reward credit cards but always (this is absolute especially with Amex @ 70% apr) pay them off.