Re: An unfortunate necessity
It's not going to happen without legislation and budget from the government. And none of those actually care enough to do something.
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Our shiny new office was built with super mega 8ft tall doors everywhere. Except the machine room, where they were normal height, and we bought 7ft racks.
They went through the door OK at an angle, it was just super annoying that IT was treated badly by artichokes ('tects) yet again.
I worked for a race car manufacturer. One of our Dell servers underwent unscheduled altitude change and unapproved chassis reconfiguration. The bits and bytes inside seemed OK, but it wouldn't go back in the rack.
The shop floor lads thought it hilarious when we went to borrow their user adjustment tool and a bench to pound against.
Yes, how dare people in "menial jobs" want a living wage. They should be grateful for the scraps and huddle together in hovels, like good little serfs.
There are no "menial" jobs, just ones you don't want to do because of snobbishness. Everyone working deserves a living wage, and those who can't shouldn't be forced to starve either.
Looking at their "trending" or "news" pages is depressing as hell.
Only joining subReddits that are specifically interesting and appear well moderated, is the key. Don't look at the weirdos and attention seekers, do not stare at the car crash on the other carriageway, and it is a valuable resource.
Anyone who did get through to an agent this morning was told "no, no problems, everything is fine here, it must be a problem with your house or localised sunspots. have you tried changing those hideous curtains?"
Spoke to 3 users this morning and PRTG shows them all losing connections during the early hours, getting it back briefly and dropping off around 06:45.
Still, if they don't admit it, nothing happened, right?
"no thought for the people who would have to live in them"
Complete nonsense. They were carefully thought about and planned to make things easier and nicer for the people who would have to live in them.
This is estate is for housing, it has a mix of house types, paths away from the roads and they link to other estates, large amounts of greenery, with a local shopping area, local schools and a pub within walking distance.
Compare this to the developer "designed" hells with no shops, no schools, no surgeries, no greenery, no pavements and no parking.
Next to the housing estate is a commercial area, within walking distance of the houses but separated.
Compare this to the old towns with factories sitting next door to housing. Ugh.
From your link:
"This makes this cover great for preventing those with dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, special needs and children from tampering with dangerous plug sockets and switches."
It doesn't say they protect from the dangerously stupid though. Or those in need of a proof-reader.
The one that says "woohoo we freed all the slaves, we are the best country ever, USA USA" except for the part where someone quietly whispered "what about the money? we need slaves for making the money" and the bit about "except for those guys, they can still be slaves"* leading to the prisons for profit system and the most incarcerated nation on earth?
*note for Septics without a sense of humour and other literalists: I was paraphrasing. Giving the gist of. Simplifying for effect.
We have a whole government of Baldrick level thinkers.
"I have a cunning plan - we'll make our own data protection laws, that'll save us pennies and show those EU who's boss!"
"yes, except if we do that, we won't be able to trade with them, which will cost pounds. Go away Baldine"
Pathworks on Macs!
Eventually it worked, mostly. Huge amount of network storage available for Computer Aided Drawing people on Macs, down to the main servers. Lovely.
except when the Mac crashed and showed the Sad Face of "I have ennui" instead of, say, an actual error message.
My Haynes manual story is getting to the reassembly part and finding a note "You would have noted the orientation of this part on removal."
No, I did not, because you did not mention in the disassembly part that this was critical. One way round stops the motorbike from starting, the other is fine.
Thanks Haynes!
Apart from needing a replacement battery (cheap ones don't last. Who knew?) my Note4 is not terrible. A bit slow maybe.
I was waiting for the Psion/Gemini thing, but the reviews say it just isn't as good as the Note. The note taking bit is very useful and so is the camera - why replace it with something equipped with a rubbish camera?
Back to waiting...