Posts by IGotOut 5324 publicly visible posts • joined 29 May 2019
Get to see the sunrise over misty valleys, looking into the valley with its sheep, cows and horse, but having to dodge to occasional deer, pheasant or suicidal rabbit that's wandered into the road can keep you on your toes.
Sure the tractors and combines sometimes slow you down a little (although plenty of modern tractors will happily go as fast as you), but its no big deal.
Hell I even get to run along a steam train from time to time, although rarely being eye level with the pilot of a Chinook can freak you out.
Yeah I'm on shit pay, but would I swap for £150k a year to live in London? Not a chance in hell.
Because he his speaking about its impact on the creative arts, a thing he probably knows a lot more than most.
Add into the fact you can have the greatest expert in the world, but if that person is so dull and dry, that you give up after the first paragraph, it's often best to choose a better orator, even if less "qualified".
Love him or hate him, a section of one his latest shows summed up this government (in that case related to farming)
To summarize.
Government: "We're going to fund farming similar to the EU"
"So what do we need to grow / do to get this funding?"
"We'll let you know"
"But the funding is about to run out, we need to know now"
"You need to <insert meaningless and completely vague description>"
PLEASE come back Altavista :-(
I always preferred HotBot
Pretty sure AskGeeves was the first time I encountered terrible paid for results.
Search: BBQ
Results: Buy BBQ with Goldfish credit cards.
Search: Who is Google?
Results: Buy Google with Goldfish credit cards
Search How to dispose of a body
Results Buy disposable dead body's with Goldfish credit card.
"Can everyone please stop suggesting duckduckgo"
Totally agree. I've always found it to US centric, it's content filter to aggressive (you often have to turn of safe search for even slightly offensive sites) and it's not better than Bing, probably because it uses MS back end.
I've always found StartPage much better, although it can be a tad slow sometimes.
The issue is, you are using an English dictionary definition to question a phrase from a foreign language. It may be a literal translation, but have a completely different meaning in the native tongue. A in the complexities of a different legal system (look up the Julian Assange questioning for an example) and it probably makes a lot more sense.
You could migrate to Google. But they will get bored, close it down and try something else until that gets boring.
If you import into Apple, it will be incompatible with anything else, except other Apple sucks
You could got Open Source. It will be rock solid, but the will GUI suck and you best that Dave doesn't get pissed off with all the whining end users and big corporations constantly finding obscure issues, none of whom contribute a dammed thing to help out.
"... thinks they are super-powerful and can bully all of their neighbours, except the Russians. ....If they were really smart, they would first and foremost polish their relationships and the trust with their neighbors"
Are you on about China... or the USA with much of Central and South America?
This is total marketing bullshit.
The plans are based on the number of simultaneous streams.
If you "share" your password with a thousand people and you're on the base plan, only one of those can watch at a time.
I pay for 4 streams so that my parents and my kids can watch it.
Why does it matter where they are based?
If the bring it in,my parents will not be bothered, not will I.
So they will actually LOSE money as many people like me, will drop the higher plans.
If you want to see how to lose customers by changing the way you provide service and screw your customers over, head over to the Amazon Music reviews.
I love how you flip from "Japan has loads of tidal options" to "Europe wide electrical grids"
Do you have ANY clue how things work? How do you get all the electric from the western side of Europe to the Eastern side (and vice versa) without
A) losing so much in electrical resistance that you need a huge amount of extra of generating capacity to compensate.
B) Not starve the local supply to such an extent that the whole of Europe suffers rolling brown outs?
How do you cope with Winter months, when winds tend to be lower, light reduced and demand is increased?
You are one of these conspiracy nuts that claim people are paid by the oil / nuclear/ big pharma when ordinary people look at annoying things such as facts, to point out the flaws in your arguments.
I presume when you praise tidal, you have looked at the issues with interruption to marine and coastal life?
Or using water storage, I e. dams the ecological damage this does?
There is no magic panacea and we are a very, very long way from 100% renewable for 100% of the time.
"No search engine should be run by a corporation that monetizes results."
And how the **** do you fund the 10's of thousands of servers, the massive amounts of bandwidth required and the, let's face, almost incomprehensible amounts a storage required?
Love? Pixie dust?
I love how I got the thumbs down.
For starters, it's a junk account, the same account I use for signing up for crap like forums and the like
Next, it's not under my real name so that'll stand out a mile.
The account gets about 20 spam mails a day.
You see not all of us use the same account for everything, in fact I have a separate accounts for most stuff, that way it's easy to dump the unimportant stuff.
How about for people like me. I have NOWHERE, and I mean nowhere to charge one.
I park anywhere from 20m to 200m from where I live, in a village (approx 3000 people) that tends to have a minimum of 5 power cuts a year, I've even had 10 in a day!
There are zero charge points.
At work on an industrial estate that has hundreds of cars, 25% are just parked on the roads, there are ZERO charging points, and I know for a fact, the estate is pretty much maxed out when it comes to power.
The supermarkets (think 3 places the size of your typical Aldi) have a total of 6 points.
Pretty much most of the town,has no parking by the houses and it's a first come first served parking situation.
We have no trains (unless you count steam trains) and hardly any buses
If you think cycling is a option, feel free to try the route, even the most hardened cyclist end up in a pathetic heap
So tell me, where are the thousands of cars going to charge.
So what will I do? Simple, I'll give up buying super economical 1l petrol and go buy a 7.5 tonne diesel truck instead.
