Posts by andNonBreakingEmptySpace 10 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Jul 2016
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- Shame it's not true.
When will toothless (and this is obviously a pretty toothy example by their standards) watchdogs learn to bite HARD and bite ONCE?
I mean it's not like the whole history of the world is littered with examples to learn from, is it...?
You don't want VM's postcode lottery service, based on massive caching to get those speeds, and not real network connectivity. Try connecting to a known-good-global-connectivity-and-bandwidth server in somewhere less mainstream, like Greece or something, and see what I mean. Or even watch youtube and bbc websites break because the caching server is glitching. Sky Broadband does the same.
Well, nobody was making any money from certain UK areas until they put railways into them in the 19th century, and it made a massive difference. Yes there was an economic imperative to access, e.g. mines to extract materials, but that wasn't the whole picture at all, was it? Now if broadband based working from home becomes viable in the countryside (arf! arf! this being 2016 not 2006), then a larger proportion of people would move there, as well, the city is unpleasantly crowded and apparently you can't even get good broadband THERE. It would make a large difference to local economies, including taking commuting traffic off rural roads and increasing quality of life for hundreds of thousands or more, if done on the widest scale. Sometimes we have to LEAD the economy, not follow received quarterly-results-focused "economic reality". Reality is that some things are currently impossible but just need the right person at the right time to push things forward. Then there's the things that are easily achievable but just need a tiny bit of reorganisation. The UK government is the opposite of useful in this, watchdogs on all levels are toothless (by design) and everyone knows it. TalkTalk should be out of business immediately for such a breach of data protection as to plain refuse to use encryption on ALL customer details. Like encryption is that expensive! Yet they weren't even found in breach of the DPA last time I checked. What drugs are the responsible people on to think that it's 'reasonable' care of data to NOT encrypt it then let yourself get hacked, when it wasn't inevitable?! Just one example. Lies rule the UK, that's the underlying cultural problem. What on earth is government for if not to make the tough strategic guidance decisions that pure economic forces won't make on their own?
Er, try suing them for not providing a fit-for-purpose landline? No broadband should cut-out just because the kids get home from school or whatever peak time (and surely the adult-derived peak is at a different time to that, like 6pm to 8pm?)
Oh silly me, can't upset BT, because they have a monopoly on landlines, since Vermin Media don't count as acceptable quality either. Use Samknows and thinkbroadband and speedtest.net, pingtest.net get evidence, and if it's your house's cable that's likely at fault (i.e. next door or a couple of doors down can get proper speeds), then force BT to check your cable properly. That can take some doing, but an 'accidental' damage to the cable that you happen to know nothing about can either make things worse if they don't fix it properly, or reveal underlying issues, if they do fix it properly and test properly. Of course this monopoly is only held to the 28kbps standard, still, right? I have family in rural Wales who get faster than that, 5km from the exchange.
Eh? Since when is Zen's Fibre 2 (up to 76Mbps/19Mbps) just £25? I just checked as it seemed too good to be true and I was about to recommend everyone I know move to them - and it's actually £25.00*
per month when taken with £17.00 monthly line rental, which isn't the same contract at all. I believe in separation of service leading to better quality of service as one is free to leave. BT leading the monopoly market has caused us idiots (OK, not us, the people in the market who AREN'T Reg readers) to go for all this triple-play scam marketing. They don't get that only FORCE will, er, force ruthless capitalist entities to provide customer service. The companies that profit from this ignorance are utter scum because it's part of the horrible ignorance-culture we have in the UK. Which affects voting, as obvious recent events have revealed. So the last thing society should tolerate is people so dedicated to maintaining the ignorance of others that it becomes a massive part of the UK economy. But it arguably has. So this detail about line rental in the price is important.
Bah Virgin Media were and probably are hopelessly oversubscribed in my area, to the point of it being a criminal offence to sell that which you knowingly cannot provide. Virgin weren't interested in their network's integrity. Expected customers to wait MONTHS for router capacity upgrades, which were the issue. This is after waiting HOURS and lots of hassle to find out what was on their network engineering database the whole time - they oversold capacity. So they waste significant money on support (sent engineers out when it was a capacity issue? Clever). Everyone else over the years has said it's a postcode lottery. That lack of integrity and oversight is the problem, not the technology. Toothless watchdog, of course, is the real problem. Politicians box-ticking as usual.
This guy was an 'engineer' and not more intelligent than this? His emotions must have been an utter WRECK to be so susceptible to such scams. What kind of idiot sends material help to someone they've never met in real life who can't be verified (unlike a genuine charity)? Another example of technology-derived mental illness... sad.
If you remove one or two drops of water from the ocean, does it suddenly get easier to cross without a boat? Our ocean is a mass of doublethink and groupthink. It'll take more than that, thus these people being banged-up is insignificant. They wouldn't have existed without abusive Western policies, and we aren't so perfect that those policies are irreproachable, are we? So we've the wrong end of the stick. Human Rights Laws are a pain, and make much money for lawyers... but in the context of Muslims, that's the West's fault. The modern Muslims didn't start it. Oil companies and Zionists arguably did...
That's really pertinent, good. Same reason we don't legalise drugs - because regardless of government we vote-in, the illogical drugs laws (so illogical they're a form of forced institutional mental illness, in effect) are made by treaty, also. The 1961 UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is one major example. How many voters in the UK know these facts?
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