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Mr Phillby posted:Very cool that Virgin Media is making GBS threads the bed and taking out our Work From Home VPN once every hour. Branson's Revenge
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Mr Phillby posted:Very cool that Virgin Media is making GBS threads the bed and taking out our Work From Home VPN once every hour.
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Apr 27, 2020 23:31
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Virgin beans, never flicked.
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Apr 27, 2020 23:40
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The Branston Pickle Man and The poo poo Rocket/Cola Man are the same, right? Otherwise what I just posted does not make any sense.
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From the political editor of the Observer: https://mobile.twitter.com/tobyhelm/status/1254485412015456256 https://mobile.twitter.com/tobyhelm/status/1254494115833798661 E: lol i forgot what day it was this is from yesterday. happy 27th april everyone time has no meaning anymore Angepain fucked around with this message at 23:50 on Apr 27, 2020 |
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Apr 27, 2020 23:45
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That's Fascism! *jazz hands*
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Apr 27, 2020 23:49
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thespaceinvader posted:Very few of the people who have lots of guns are likely to be rioting AGAINST billionaires. They'll just be against certain billionaires and as far as elections are concerned that is tech billionaires so could be a net posutive?
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Apr 28, 2020 00:11
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Guavanaut posted:If the other end of your VPN is Virgin it still works, within the same county at least, so they've essentially turned it into a series of regional LANs (MANs? RANs?).
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Apr 28, 2020 00:14
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Angepain posted:From the political editor of the Observer: On the one hand, this is Johnson having a hissy fit because Rupert isn't being nice and he's taken too much coke to remember where the phylactery is, so this is just pettiness writ large. On the other hand, if Corbyn had decided to literally ignore the BBC for all of 2019, I'd have been fully on-board with that decision.
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Apr 28, 2020 00:26
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University of Salford in partnership with other universities are doing a survey on the impact of coronavirus on mental health / quality of life. https://beta.salford.ac.uk/news/new-survey-examine-impact-coronavirus-mental-health quote:In partnership with the Oslo Met University of Norway, the University of Michigan in the USA and the University of Queensland, Australia, Salford researchers are asking members of the public to complete a ten-minute, online survey. The responses will help the team to understand how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting our quality of life and mental health. The survey will also look at how people are using social media to stay connected.
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Apr 28, 2020 00:33
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Load of free non-fiction books from Springer: everything from computer touching / physics / maths / business / theatre / social justice etc etc. https://link.springer.com/search/pa...st&showAll=true
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Apr 28, 2020 01:17
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Quick Start Guide to Verilog... Are they trying to hurt people's brains during lockdown? Some of those do look good though, thanks!
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Apr 28, 2020 01:27
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oh but seriously I posted:The Branston Pickle Man and The poo poo Rocket/Cola Man are the same, right? Otherwise what I just posted does not make any sense. The Virgin bellend is Branson. Not going to lie though, I always thought they were linked when I was younger. Yeah, Branson is the murder rocket and megastore guy. Famously called the company Virgin because he was a "business virgin" and had (supposedly) never run a business before. Now he's just a "tax virgin". Jaeluni Asjil posted:Load of free non-fiction books from Springer: everything from computer touching / physics / maths / business / theatre / social justice etc etc. Ta!
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HopperUK posted:Just noticed your excellent avatar. I barely saw the programme but I spent hour upon hour in the Spectrum game as a kid. I think most (?) of it is on youtube. I watched a load last week. It gets dark in places  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1feYxwwn0eM
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Apr 28, 2020 01:29
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:University of Salford in partnership with other universities are doing a survey on the impact of coronavirus on mental health / quality of life. They hosed up their survey design with mandatory responses to conditional questions, so I don't know how valid their data is going to be.
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Apr 28, 2020 01:37
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Jedit posted:They hosed up their survey design with mandatory responses to conditional questions, so I don't know how valid their data is going to be. Yes I noticed that here and there (I didn't do the survey til after I posted the link). I find that so often with surveys though trying to force this/that answers in some cases where most of my answers to anything are 'it depends' (on the full situation being faced). I think every question in any survey should come with a 'none of the above' or 'other' box.
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Apr 28, 2020 02:00
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I don’t think Branson has owned Virgin Media for quite a while? Or maybe I’m imagining that.
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crispix posted:I think most (?) of it is on youtube. I watched a load last week. It gets dark in places Its got a banging theme tune too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wandkZSmpE
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Apr 28, 2020 06:37
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Not to respark air chat. But when thinking about global industrial travel, one idea I had was swapping VAT for a tax based on miles travelled. Want to make something all in the UK great stuff have basically no VAT to pay, want to ship your chickens to China to be prepared and shipped back to sell? Get hosed massive tax. Tell me why this idea is dumb.
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Apr 28, 2020 07:01
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The real problem there is that the taxes would go to line people's pockets rather than to address or offset climate change
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Apr 28, 2020 07:19
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the lockdown seems to be weakening more each day in my city. roads and streets gradually filling up again. where are they all going, there are no shops or pubs or anything open anywhere.
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Apr 28, 2020 07:59
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Insert that bit from dawn of the dead about "they don't know what they're doing, they just know they want to be here"
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Apr 28, 2020 08:06
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No idea what was going on with virgin atlantic lately, but I flew them first class like 2006 to jfk from london that someone else paid, and we both agreed it had been a waste of money and the staff and crew tried too hard being edgy, we returned in an american airlines coach flight and to this day I still don't know what was so amazing about virgin atlantic
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Celexi posted:the staff and crew tried too hard being edgy
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Celexi posted:No idea what was going on with virgin atlantic lately, but I flew them first class like 2006 to jfk from london that someone else paid, and we both agreed it had been a waste of money and the staff and crew tried too hard being edgy, we returned in an american airlines coach flight and to this day I still don't know what was so amazing about virgin atlantic It's still only worth it if someone else is paying, but seats that recline all the way down to totally a flat is the only real game-changing thing about flying first class. Everything else is just whatever.
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Qwertycoatl posted:It's still only worth it if someone else is paying, but seats that recline all the way down to totally a flat is the only real game-changing thing about flying first class. Everything else is just whatever. That probably would have made sense on the return trip, as on way there was entirely during daytime and didn't want to sleep so I could just fall asleep after arriving.
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Cast_No_Shadow posted:Not to respark air chat. But when thinking about global industrial travel, one idea I had was swapping VAT for a tax based on miles travelled. Want to make something all in the UK great stuff have basically no VAT to pay, want to ship your chickens to China to be prepared and shipped back to sell? Get hosed massive tax. Long haul flights are more efficient per mile travelled so you want to do something to stop frequent short haul flights rather than singular long distance travel. Miles travelled also doesn't take into account how its travelled - if it's all going to cost the same to get it here from China then environmentally worse but quicker or otherwise cheaper options become more popular. Supply chains are also a huge mess of lies so prepare for a large amount of rice and tropical fruits to suddenly start being claimed to be grown in Ireland and other absurdities.
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Qwertycoatl posted:It's still only worth it if someone else is paying, but seats that recline all the way down to totally a flat is the only real game-changing thing about flying first class. Everything else is just whatever. Without wanting to reignite the crazy air travel argument from yesterday. The now bust flybe flights I used to take to glasgow were ridiculous. I am a normal height/weight guy and I barely fit in the seat. I remember one year all these guys from a rugby team were near me. The guy in the window seat was attempting to sit normally. The guy in the middle seat had his legs bent and knees pointed towards the aisle in the space that the aisle guys legs should have been. The aisle guy had to sit with his entire body facing towards the aisle with his legs in the aisle. Obviously those guys were abnormally big but it's still crazy even for a 45 min flight.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Load of free non-fiction books from Springer: everything from computer touching / physics / maths / business / theatre / social justice etc etc. This will be useful 
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Apr 28, 2020 09:02
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lol, this is super shady: https://twitter.com/cori_crider/status/1254745523329863681?s=21
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Apr 28, 2020 09:09
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Yes it's a pain. My tinfoil hat theory is that by the time you reach your 40s say you have done a handful of temporary jobs squashed in between uni vacations or between 'proper jobs' that you will trip up, forget to mention one, and then they have an excuse to fire you at any time for lying. I mean I completely forgot until a couple of weeks ago that I took 3 weeks vacation once when I had some outstanding, and went temping as a typist in a surveyor's office instead of holidaying on a beach somewhere. So the CEO my work who has final say on all technical hires is really big on this, not to try and trip you up later but to see if you're actually reliable. If you have lots of jobs with short stays or random gaps in your employment history then he wants to know why. We had a great candidate in who had a 3 month gap because he broke up with his girlfriend, quit his job and when backpacking*. It can be unfair but that's why is asks. *He did end up getting the job because he said it was unlikely he'd do it again.
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namesake posted:Long haul flights are more efficient per mile travelled so you want to do something to stop frequent short haul flights rather than singular long distance travel. Miles travelled also doesn't take into account how its travelled - if it's all going to cost the same to get it here from China then environmentally worse but quicker or otherwise cheaper options become more popular. Supply chains are also a huge mess of lies so prepare for a large amount of rice and tropical fruits to suddenly start being claimed to be grown in Ireland and other absurdities. Jose posted:https://twitter.com/inzyrashid/status/1254846651472150529?s=19
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Darth Walrus posted:lol, this is super shady: Also it's called Palantír ffs
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Jippa posted:Without wanting to reignite the crazy air travel argument from yesterday. The now bust flybe flights I used to take to glasgow were ridiculous. Fun fact - you have more legroom on the top deck of a London bus than you do on an Easyjet flight.
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The only possible overlap of electrical systems engineering and spinal surgery I can see is that you're planning to build the Matrix. Don't build the Matrix
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Apr 28, 2020 09:47
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Lmao at this story they just let some anonymous person watch the whole zoom meeting instead of banning them https://twitter.com/mowords/status/1255051858579795970?s=19
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Failed Imagineer posted:The only possible overlap of electrical systems engineering and spinal surgery I can see is that you're planning to build the Matrix. Don't build the Matrix Build the matrix but program communism into it.
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