Posts by IsJustabloke 881 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Dec 2010
"Well just as the US immigration are asking for people social media account before they can get a visa"
I recently visited the US (albeit on the visa waiver programme) you still need to apply for an esta and at no point was any mention of my social media accounts made.
My travelling companion required an actual visa and again no mention of of her social media accounts was made....
"6S+ 128GB"
Why did you feel the need to exactly specify which phone you were using?
Why not just say "I use my iPhone to....."
The only time I ever refer to the make / model of a phone is when I'm differentiating it from the one I'm currently using in conversation...
IE "Well, I had a sammy and it didn't do *thing* but this one *holding up my mobey* does"
I'm genuinely curious
"There's still the question of why, if there was a case to be investigated, it wasn't investigated in the UK where it would appear that the alleged act would have been committed."
See title...
if the government really does feel it saved them a headache they may have well decided it also saved them a headache in not prosecuting him themselves.
"I can't imagine for one minute any other nation ally or not, who would be willi g to put their expensive toys at risk to protect ours. Not in a real war."
I guess it's because you don't understand the way these things work perhaps you should read up on some military history?
A bunch of countries with different capabilities "ally" themselves. These "Allies" provide different bits of any given task force...
Country A has a bunch of Frigates (say) but no Air cover, country B has a load of air cover but not many frigates... so country A says to country B "Hey, give us some Air cover and we'll protect you with our Frigates!" That's how being "Allied" works... for other real world examples see pretty much any armed conflict from history.
For what it's worth, I seriously doubt that we would ever find ourselves in a shooting war with either Russia or China. Russia's only aircraft carrier is followed around by a bunch of tugs and a ship full of spares.
4G on Three's "feel at home" has never been included but other than that it's as speedy as it can be.(I've used it without a problem in New Zealand, Hong Kong and the US)
It's just the usual suspects taking the piss... EE, Vodashite and O2. So no, you won't be live streaming your mate's Mediterranean wedding to the rest of the UK.
Interestingly, there are several sites that I would be happy to pay a nominal monthly fee to browse but we all know that even if a site is behind a paywall it will still serve ads and that's the issue right there. As a consumer I'm willing to play fair ad slingers aren't, so fuck them. Unitl relatively recently I paid to subscribe to the Telegraph online... still had ads.. Guardian wants me to subscribe... still has ads., I'm willing to be that the Times still serves ads behind it's paywall.
And we know that Sky customers have an entirely ad free experience.... ho ho ho...
"I am not sure there is anything other than GIMP to replace Photoshop "
GIMP is not even close to being a replacement for photoshop.
yes, there are alternatives to lightroom and photoshop but nothing integrates with my website or social media channels as well as lightroom. I can publish directly from LIghtroom into my portfolio, dropbox, facebook, instagram, twitter, I don't need to create multiple jpeg copies of any given image, I simply publish the raw files using lightroom, they are converted to the correct format on the fly.
This is such a huge advantage over everything else. all my images are contained within a single environment and greatly simplfies my workflow.
"is this just Three being skin flints"
I'm not sure that is a charge you can level at Three... they included as standard 4G while every other network was charging extra and they've had "feel at Home" as a no cost extra long before it was mandated , not to mention they have it in many more countries than just the EU
The no tethering is more likely to be a restriction placed on them by their partners
"The dev has to sit beside the secretary first, before any dev work commences and watch what she does"
That is *not* the dev's job, that is the job of a BA. The problem I've found (speaking as someone that has done both) is that a lot of BA's don't seem to be able to understand how a person's business process works although to be fair a lot of users don't understand how to explain what they do but a BA should be able to get the process out of the user even if the user doesn't realise they're explaining!
The dev can only dev what he's/she's been asked to via the spec.
"Carrying 2 phones in this day and age is nuts,"
I couldn't disagree more strongly with this sentiment!
my phone is *my* phone I don't want work shit anywhere near it. So what if I have two phones? it's not like they're the size of a brick. At the end of my working day I throw it in my lappy bag and walk away.
Every friend of mine that uses his personal phone (or work phone for personal stuff) for work related stuff is constantly harassed with work stuff, well frankly... that can fuck right off.
"Do I feel like I'm missing out on anything"
How would you know?
I think you've misunderstood the use of "must see TV" it simply means that a person will make time in their schedule to watch a particular programme rather than watch if there's nothing else going on. The imperative is a personal thing.
"only get one bill that would be less than the individual subscrtiptions"
And here is the flaw in your plan.
There is simply no way I can see any Apple product being sold for less than a single competitor yet alone a bunch of them.
I use Freesat / Netflix total monthly cost 9 quid if I were to add Amazon my monthly cost increases to 18 quid a month.
How can Apple provide me with the same services as both of those for enough of a saving to me to make me switch? I'd say they can't.
single sign on is not a deal breaker for me, I'm quite happy to switch between apps because its not exactly complicated and they are already both in the same place IE my set top box.
"We have a secret ballot"
Do we?
In my polling office they always write the number of the ballot paper I've just been given against my name and address on the roll they have in front of them, a sufficiently motivated person could in fact find out exactly how I voted.
They do this despite my patiently explaining to them the problem I have with them doing it.
NB I do not consider myself important enough to sufficiently motivate someone to find out my vote besides they could always try asking me :D
"...it's just yet another example of the arrogance of some of *some* voters,"
Unlike the A/c above I have actually FTFY
Neither the Tories or labour (or any other party for that matter) have a monopoly on dickheads in their ranks and the sooner the wider electorate grasp this simple fact, the sooner we'll be able to start doing something about it.
"Alternatively with a decent Linux GUI you just rotate the screen 90 degrees."
*sigh* because the drivers for my card would *never* allow me to do something like that on my non-*nix desktop....
Seriously, why do people feel the need to to turn *every* fucking subject into "linux rulz! windoze sux!" competition? Just try growing up FFS!
It's not like there isn't enough actual shit in the world to get arsy about
ummm.... they do still have to pay for it though and of course, those shows are made not speculatively but because someone [at the BBC] has commissioned it.
I know it's unfashionable but I think the beeb is pretty good value for money particularly when you compare it to say, Sky, that charges you twice as much money and still throws a large amount of adverts at you while showing a lot of programming that has been commissioned and paid for by the BBC.
Beeb plus Netflix / Prime is all you need for a full spectrum of stuff. It can be yours for less than the price of a Sky sub and is mostly advert free.
@Potemkine
And you can attest to the state of mind of those people can you?
religion? honor? LOL...
You don't think someone in constant pain hasn't had their mental health affected?
You don't think that someone with a mental health problem can be manipulated?
You're an idiot.
"So unless this guy had some proved weaknesses as mental illness"
Do you know of anyone that killed themselves or tried to kill themselves that couldn't be described as "having a mental illness" ?
There is an awful lot of bollocks being written in this forum.
people with depression / anxiety / low self-esteem can be manipulated into pretty much any state of mind.
This girl made a determined effort to push this guy in a direction she wanted him to go in, for whatever reason (and only she'll ever really know the answer to that question) The content of the texts are clear and damning . There can be very little doubt she did what she's accused of, this trial is about how much of the responsibility she bares.
"Yet it's your fault that guide is wrong?"
Actually, the story quite clearly says he *didn't* follow the document. he should have used the credentials generated by the script, instead he copied the credentials from the document.
The fact that the document contained the production credentials is an error but the implication is that he would have been ok with those.
Of course, he should have been supervised so that's also an error. should he have been sacked? Probably not. and certainly not in the way he was.
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