Posts by Doctor Syntax 42421 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jun 2014
Our council have also started that lark, including withdrawing the green bins from offenders (which does great things for the overall recycling figures!). Part of the problem is that some households don't have anywhere to keep their bins away from the roadside so passers-by who can't be arsed to take their litter home just dump in any bin they pass so householders are being blamed for stuff they didn't put into the bin.
"I put mine out last night because it arrives at around 6am."
We used to have something similar - but quite such an un-earthly time - which meant that the empty bin could be removed from the gateway to get the car out. Now it's quite unpredictable. The bin needs to be left out overnight just in case but there's a distinct probability that the car has to be manoeuvred round it in the morning because it's still full.
"t was deemed cheaper and more efficient to employ data entry clerks who would type in the code on our behalf"
I don't know about your experience but in the days when I used coding sheets it was because data entry was via humongously expensive card punches and nobody was going to give a programmer one of those each. Although, being a university, when the data entry ops. had gone home we could use them in the evening.
"Each and every purchase is a single discrete event"
This is something marketing people just can't get their heads round. The local village hall uses a ticketing site. It's reasonable that such a site has an email address for e-tickets and retains it long enough to notify of any last minute changes. It's very much more doubtful that they need a password and they have no business whatsoever spamming that email address without explicit opt-in. So now the email address will be useless for notifying changes, it's set to bounce and, should they bother to read the bounce notices, it will tell them why. If I ever need to use it again the non-bouncing window will last just long enough to get the tickets.
management often knows what they have to do but are unwilling to implement it....See "downsizing" or any of the horrid words IBM chooses to use to make it sound more appealing.
At risk of taking the thread severely OT does however many quarters of shrinking returns we're now up to suggest management had any idea of what they ought to have done?
"I've spent enough of my life dodging IRA bombs that they just don't scare me."
I've spent enough of my life dodging IRA and Prod bombs - and seeing the consequences at far too close hand. I definitely don't want to see all that return, even watching from a hopefully safe distance.
@ Simon Hobson
Your entire argument is based on the Leave assumption that there's the EU and there's us. This is a false premise. Until October 31 (according to the current schedule) we are part of the EU. Let me state that again. It's not the EU and us, it's us as part of the EU.
Have we maybe not, to your way of thinking, had quite our fair share of influence in the EU? If not, maybe that's been due to the refusenik MEPs that we've all too often voted to send to the European Parliament.
Nobody wants "no deal", and certainly not Boris.
To believe that requires a good deal of trust in Boris. A number of people ranging from several people who have served alongside him in cabinet to former editors who he has worked for have seen fit to not trust him. Perhaps it would be wise to take a lead from them.
"But as we are constantly reminded, the value of the pound has dropped relative to the Euro since the referendum."
You say that as if it's a good thing. The value of the pound is the market's assessment of the health of the UK economy. The value of the pound's dropping means that the market thinks we're going to be in the shit. Is that really such a good thing?
"Democracy is being able to change your mind."
OTOH some things in real life are not so easily changed. Getting back into the EU might prove rather difficult and come at a cost of such things as adopting the Euro. That's why insisting on a large majority for a change to the status quo would have been the right way to have run the referendum.
"Tool-less battery removal".
Let it go. It's never coming back.
Maybe it never went away.
I finally replaced my pre-smartphone Nokia with a new Android Nokia a few weeks ago. It has a removable battery almost like the old one. The only disappointment was that it wasn't the same size as the previous model so I couldn't use the old battery as a spare.
"It seems that at least five people think that the Fairphone people can't go bust, but decline to state why Fairphone should be immune to the laws of economics."
Other manufacturers are also not immune from the laws of economics. From that point of view it seems a tad unreasonable to aim this as a specific criticism. The previous point was a fair one; it makes no difference how long a manufacturer remains in business if they're not prepared to support their products with spares.
"All those tarrifs do is hurt the economies of everyone including America by forcing the _customers_ to pay more for the goods affected."
US does not rule the world however much it might think it does. The tariffs are paid by US customers. Here in the rest (i.e. most) of the world they have no effect.
Article 3 of the GDPR states "This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data of data subjects who are in the Union by a controller or processor not established in the Union".
So if the data subject is an EU citizen
No. By virtue of what you quoted, all the subject has to be is in the EU. It doesn't matter whether or not they're a citizen. Of course if the Prime Numpty gets his way it won't make any difference to those of us in the UK after October 31st.
As you said, the relevant figure for petrol stations is number of pumps. Then, in order to make a sensible comparison, divide the count of chargers and pumps by the time needed to load up a unit distance's worth of juice. I doubt that charging capacity will be more than a tiny fraction of refueling capacity.
