Posts by Insert sadsack pun here 139 posts • joined 21 Nov 2017
"Sure it's a serious pain in the ass, but it's not impossible to beat them at their own game."
All you've managed to do is prove that it's possible to steal a scooter. It's also possible to steal library books, bowling shoes, supermarket trolleys and cars. Despite that, we still manage to have libraries, bowling alleys, supermarkets and hire car companies. (Well, not Hertz, I admit).
"So broadly speaking the young aren't coping and the old are doing just fine. It turns out then that sitting about i...[tedious list of stereotypes goes here..."
You're being wilfully silly here. The real reason the young are doing worse during lockdown is that they're more less likely to be able to access furlough (as gig workers, students etc), more likely to be put on furlough if eligible, more likely to be living in cramped city centre housing, more likely to be sharing with people, less likely to have a garden, less likely to be able to work from home...
When buying wireless headphones for the purposes of Teams, Skype for Biz etc, it's important to check not only that they connect with the PC but also that they're compatible with the software. bought a perfectly good pair of JBL headphones off ebay last week, connected immediately with the laptop - totally incompatible with Skype for Biz. Googled it and it's a common complaint. Bugger.
I don't love Facebook but asking there is any good reason to use WhatsApp just shows a degree of ignorance and a lack of imagination. Not everyone has a phone contract (plenty of people esp in developing countries) just use their device on wifi, not everyone has texts and data included in their contract, not everyone has international texts and calls in their contract, its easy to use so grandma gets it, it's got free video calling, its encrypted (to a degree...).
Author is a verb in UK English. It's in the dictionary and everything. Interestingly, "gullible" is not officially a UK English word.
author
verb [ T ]
UK /ˈɔː.θər/ US /ˈɑː.θɚ/
formal
to write a book, article, etc.:
He has authored more than 30 books.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/author
"so what if Chinese, German, or Russian company wants to buy something? The Cold War has been over for 35 years now, but some people can't seem to look past it."
You can tell how the Cold War is over because Russia isn't invading its neighbours (Ukraine, Georgia), isn't an authoritarian regime (how many doctors have fallen out of windows for criticising the COVID response?), and isn't undermining weak democracies (Hungary, Guinea). No reason to examine why Russian companies might want to invest in dual use technologies at all...
"Britain was build on laissez faire"
Are you having a giraffe? There's no laissez faire economics under imperialism. The Brits destroyed the Indian textiles market after invading. Those slaves, cotton, rum, steel etc that flowed through Liverpool, Bristol and London weren't being freely traded with willing buyers and sellers.
This is good news for consumers - not just from a safety perspective, but also because it will shatter Uber's monopoly in one of the biggest European markets. If Uber is banned and binned, it will open the door for competitors like Bolt, Ola, Kaptan, Wheely, Careem, Gett and others. Equally, regulators should find it easier to regulate multiple weak companies than one behemoth.
The Uber bubble is going to burst. You can't carry on losing money on every ride forever, and there's no way for Uber to make money other than total domination of the market, which is both impossible for them and bad for us. The Uber app was great - it's time to move on to other providers.
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As a bitter former "professional advisor": because that's what the client wants. No-one ever reads the fucking reports in which you painstakingly explain what you've found, how you reached that conclusion, and what it means. People can barely be bothered to read the one page executive summary for a $200,000 piece of work. And these are the bastards who are running the companies in which your pension funds are invested!
"another entity, say, the EU, who will guarantee academic freedom and foster intellectual endeavors."
How's academic freedom doing in our sister states like Poland, where it's a criminal offence to contradict the government's position that "Poles did nothing wrong in WW2", or Hungary, which recently shut down the Central European University for getting too uppity? Or even here in the UK, where people like Peter Hitchins (who's certainly a disagreeable windbag, but hardly a Nazi) gets no-platformed at universities?
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