Re: "throughput of goods is in excess of the usual Christmas peak"
"running out of toilet paper sucks"
Pass the mind bleach.
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"My experience is that the better educated people are, the more they tend to understand that some problems are very complex and require a lot of consideration."
It depends in what they were educated. An education at Eton and Oxford in classics, PPE or whatever doesn't seem to encourage that understanding.
"Having checked with companies house there seems to be no exception to UK Law as one of the articles."
The Companies Act has a section of on directors' duties. I can't remember the exact wording on fiduciary duties but it makes reference to Common Law. Presumably a director causing or allowing the company to do something contrary to Common Law would be failing in this duty. There is also a concept in law of "piercing the corporate vei"l which seems intended specifically to prevent the hiding of criminal acts behind a limited company; otherwise you'd have every thief in the land incorporating and trying to pass off their thefts as those of the company.
See points 6* and 3 respectively.
* No matter whether it's spoofed or not the originator's telco knows the originator and if a telco is passing on a call that originated elsewhere it still knows the telco it got it from. They need that for billing. They'd have a problem if they were obfuscating the origins of the calls in which case they'd be - deservedly - on the hook themselves.
OK, here's this once again:
1. Allocate a number such as 1476 (nicely away from miskeying 1471.
2. Dial that after the nuisance call.
3. Until a threshold of reports has been reached your telco holds a record of your report.
4. Once the threshold has been reached your telco credits your account with a few, say £1 for each call or £2 if you're registered with TPS.
5. The telco charges whoever originated the call to them and adds a handling charge. If it's the actual caller it goes straight on their bill, if not it's up to the telco who forwarded to yours to keep records and charge their source, along with their handling charge.
6. If some telco along the line didn't keep track they're on the hook and won't be doing it again.
7. The telcos are given notice to prepare for all this.
8. The telcos realise there'll be upfront costs plus even if they don't kill the practice stone dead with credit control to protect themselves the costs will kill the rogue-calling industry and their upfront costs won't e recouped in handling charges.
9. The telcos suddenly discover previously unknown ways to stop the problem at source so there's no need to incur those costs.
Requires only will on the part of government to empower the regulator.
"My brother went for a job, in the late 90s I think. At a listed company. And was told his CV had to be hand written. Turned out they employed a graphologist to spout bollocks about what your handwriting said about your suitability for the job."
The interview is also your chance to evaluate the company.
"I mean, you could."
Ultimately the internet runs an a mutual agreement to trust a particular root service and sync all the mirrors to it. That implies that a mutual agreement to distrust it and trust one of the mirrors would be possible. If that were to happen the US would have the options, after all the shouting, of accepting it or cutting itself off from the rest of the world.
“We at Rotherwood Group take the protection of personal data very seriously. Once we became aware of a security issue affecting some data held on our cloud-based system, we took immediate steps to rectify it."
Rectifying after someody else finds your mistake is not taking protection seriously. Taking protection seriously is not making such a mistake in the first place.
"I am happy to report that at my current workplace the hand dryer is actually perfect; warm, resonable volume and timed to perfection. Its the more tradtional style dryer with the push button and the rotating nozzle."
And only slightly less effective at distributing microbiota into the air. Use disposable paper towels instead.
"That's not to do with PR, but Civil War politics"
The two are not mutually exclusive. AIUI one of the effects of FPTP is to exaggerate* the ratio of votes when determining the ratio of seats. That's likely to make a stalled outcome less likely.
* I remember reading a long time ago that the ratio of seats is proportional to the ratio of the squares of the votes.
"From what I understand, the $50M worth of bitcoins aren't all proceeds of crime. He doesn't owe all that money to the police/courts does he?"
Good question. AIUI the original investment was from the proceeds of crime. It would be a function of Irish law as to whether he'd have been able to keep the gains on the Bitcoin value.