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proper scum poo poo sorry just emailing my mum NotJustANumber99 fucked around with this message at 23:57 on Feb 26, 2022 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:It's like the 1970s all over again. It's a feature that's been built into phones and radio access networks since GSM, it just needs a little bit of back-end work to integrate with the providers. It's *effectively* just an SMS sent to everyone connected to a particular mast or set of masts, I assume it's a little trickier to set up in the UK because we have 4 independent radio networks and a huge amount of micro- and picocells so properly targeting it regionally might be tricky, although probably doable if you stick to the city/county level.
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# ? Feb 27, 2022 00:02 |
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NotJustANumber99 posted:proper scum I wondered what that ping was.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:I wondered what that ping was. cos my mum is pegging you?
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# ? Feb 27, 2022 00:07 |
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:I wondered what that ping was. Wait, you're N99's mum? Someone update ukmt.xlsx
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# ? Feb 27, 2022 00:07 |
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went different ways with that
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# ? Feb 27, 2022 00:09 |
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Lungboy posted:Can you recommend some excel vids? My skillz can't pay the billz, so I'd like some quick and easy videos to boost my ability. https://excelexposure.com/ is great, what got me to where I am today. Starts very basic, but really helpful for a beginner.
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# ? Feb 27, 2022 00:36 |
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Mourning Due posted:https://excelexposure.com/ is great, what got me to where I am today. Starts very basic, but really helpful for a beginner. where are you today though?
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# ? Feb 27, 2022 00:47 |
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the us and canada also sends out regional AMBER alerts on the emergency notification system when a child is abducted in ontario a few years ago there was the infamous "EVERYTHING IS FINE AT PICKERING NUCLEAR PLANT" that got sent out out of nowhere by accident lol while annoying on the whole i think it's a good tool to have
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# ? Feb 27, 2022 00:50 |
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UK will opt to go with the preventative system of an ANDREW alert.
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# ? Feb 27, 2022 00:51 |
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Guavanaut posted:UK will opt to go with the preventative system of an ANDREW alert. is that where they send out the alerts to whatever region he's in that day
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# ? Feb 27, 2022 00:52 |
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12million quid for everyone affected!
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# ? Feb 27, 2022 00:53 |
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mediaphage posted:the us and canada also sends out regional AMBER alerts on the emergency notification system when a child is abducted Well regional isn't exactly true since they decided to not geolocate amber alerts. So because Canada deliberately decided to only use the highest level of alert for everything, if there's an Amber Alert 14 hours away at 1am you get the same alarm as if a nuclear missile was incoming. So nobody pays attention to them anymore.
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# ? Feb 27, 2022 00:54 |
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NotJustANumber99 posted:where are you today though? Three fingers deep in the bowels of the Excel beast
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# ? Feb 27, 2022 00:55 |
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mediaphage posted:is that where they send out the alerts to whatever region he's in that day
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# ? Feb 27, 2022 00:57 |
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Guavanaut posted:It worked out cheaper than putting up the signs. lol and my lads lads lads whatsap chat/old uncle finlay finally meet up wih this thread
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# ? Feb 27, 2022 01:09 |
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the monarchy needs to end
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# ? Feb 27, 2022 01:12 |
Apparently the "committee" that manages the shared ownership of the communal gardens in our street is v. keen on having a Jubilee party this year. My desire for Brenda to cark it has only increased.
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# ? Feb 27, 2022 01:19 |
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:Well regional isn't exactly true since they decided to not geolocate amber alerts. So because Canada deliberately decided to only use the highest level of alert for everything, if there's an Amber Alert 14 hours away at 1am you get the same alarm as if a nuclear missile was incoming. i mean i don't get amber alerts from BC, but i do get them in ontario, which i don't mind since people get trafficked along the 401, that's regional Guavanaut posted:It worked out cheaper than putting up the signs. lmao
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# ? Feb 27, 2022 01:24 |
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Liverpool's £1 houses experiment. To qualify you had to live and work in Liverpool, bring them up to decent standard within 12 months and not sell for 5 years. Over 100 houses were included in the scheme. https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/life-liverpools-1-houses-went-23206941 quote:Life in Liverpool's £1 houses that went from derelict terraces to family homes
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# ? Feb 27, 2022 01:38 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:It's like the 1970s all over again.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Liverpool's £1 houses experiment. To qualify you had to live and work in Liverpool, bring them up to decent standard within 12 months and not sell for 5 years. Over 100 houses were included in the scheme. That’s tremendous. I love that.
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therattle posted:That’s tremendous. I love that. I'm a big fan of the first comment being "IT WAS THE EU THAT MADE THOSE HOUSES BE EMPTY ALL THAT TIME". Even when you've got an article literally stating that it was the Tories that withdrew funding for the homes to be demolished and rebuilt, there's a brown-noser trying to blame someone - anyone - else.
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kingturnip posted:I'm a big fan of the first comment being "IT WAS THE EU THAT MADE THOSE HOUSES BE EMPTY ALL THAT TIME". That wasn't there when I posted it, LOL. I've seen so many comments similar to this in the last few weeks blaming the EU or Labour for things that are done entirely by the tories. How on earth do we counteract this complete ignorance (not meant in a pejorative sense but in the literal sense)?
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# ? Feb 27, 2022 03:29 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:That wasn't there when I posted it, LOL. I suspect a lot of it is just bullshittery, i.e. trolling. Otherwise... well, you don't. The Tories are making life increasingly hard for younger voters, so the best move really is to try to make your case to younger voters who will hopefully take an anti-Tory voting stance into the next couple of decades of General Elections. The other approach is to look at where funding comes from. The Tories have actually done a really good job of devolving responsibility for their spending cuts by firstly giving the money they're about to cut to local government. This has given them a very handy degree of separation from the impact of their spending cuts. Mr gently caress-the-EU blames the Labour council for cutting the number of bin collections, but the council did this because the Tories cut the amount they give to local government by 40%, and local councils have a very limited number of ways they can raise income. The most equitable is probably parking fines, but that just results in rage from all quarters, so cuts to local services it is. There is scope for you to make some inroads with this argument, but it does rely on the person you're discussing it with not being a complete moron. Which, well, this is the UK after all...
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mediaphage posted:the us and canada also sends out regional AMBER alerts on the emergency notification system when a child is abducted Yeah these are a pain in the arse. I think they send them out province-wide for any child abduction and of course, each of the provinces is bigger than the UK. I'm in Ontario which is like 2000km wide so 99% of the alerts we get (which often seem to happen at like 3am) are for miles and miles away. They make your phone make a loud horrible siren noise that freaks my cats out if it's not muted, or do the max-strength big vibrate thingy if it is. Cause we're on the border with Quebec we sometimes get ones in French if we're connected to one of their masts, too. Also it seems like most child abductions are like, one parent has taken the child away without telling the other parent. Also they're usually saying like "Look for them in a [vehicle description], license plate ABC123" but sometimes they literally don't even have that, or even a description of the person or child so like... what are you supposed to be looking for? ... That said, I did receive a genuinely useful one telling me I was possibly about to be merked by a tornado. I wasn't, of course, but there was a big tornado in 2018 like 6 months before we moved here that destroyed a load of stuff. I didn't know when I bought my new house here but we have this huge tree in the front garden, it's about 20m tall (like twice as tall as my house). Well apparently there were two of them before the tornado. The other one fell over into the road, and the city gave the previous owner 24 hours to remove it or get some huge fines, so he got a bunch of people who lived on the street to help him chop it to bits with chainsaws. WhatEvil fucked around with this message at 05:53 on Feb 27, 2022 |
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# ? Feb 27, 2022 05:49 |
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Lungboy posted:Feck, sounds great but out of stock everywhere. Can anyone recommend another one? For anyone still looking for one of these Amazon are currently selling for 130 and have stock, allegedly, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Meaco-20L-Energy-Dehumidifier-Condensation/dp/B00HO963A6/
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# ? Feb 27, 2022 08:27 |
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kingturnip posted:I suspect a lot of it is just bullshittery, i.e. trolling. If only there were an anti-Tory party for them to vote for.
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Lemurtron posted:For anyone still looking for one of these Amazon are currently selling for 130 and have stock, allegedly, I just bought the smaller one
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# ? Feb 27, 2022 09:35 |
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I've been browsing through the Ukraine news today and it's striking just how bad it all is. I've searched in vain through all the bullshit of strident comment pieces, breathless announcements that Russian vodka is being withdrawn from sale, thinkpieces about whether Putin is a Stalin or a Hitler and feel good stories about Ukrainian grannies shooting down helicopters with catapults and nowhere can I find the most basic news about the actual military situation i.e what main detachments are operating in the region and what's going on with them. Reading between the lines, it sounds very much like Ukraine's central military command has disintegrated and their soldiers are fighting in small, local formations while the Russians roam the countryside at will... was the Iraq invasion reporting as useless as this, I can't think back to it.
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Pistol_Pete posted:I've been browsing through the Ukraine news today and it's striking just how bad it all is. I've searched in vain through all the bullshit of strident comment pieces, breathless announcements that Russian vodka is being withdrawn from sale, thinkpieces about whether Putin is a Stalin or a Hitler and feel good stories about Ukrainian grannies shooting down helicopters with catapults and nowhere can I find the most basic news about the actual military situation i.e what main detachments are operating in the region and what's going on with them. If we can read it, the Russians can.
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# ? Feb 27, 2022 10:25 |
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Yeah the absolute last thing you should do to help the ukrainians is publish information on the fighting beyond russians getting occasionally dunked. It is a very good thing that ukrainian opsec has been as good as it has and dipshit journos have refrained for publishing their force disposition for a story.
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Pistol_Pete posted:Reading between the lines, it sounds very much like Ukraine's central military command has disintegrated and their soldiers are fighting in small, local formations while the Russians roam the countryside at will... was the Iraq invasion reporting as useless as this, I can't think back to it. This isn't the Ukraine War thread. Why don't you try there?
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OwlFancier posted:Yeah the absolute last thing you should do to help the ukrainians is publish information on the fighting beyond russians getting occasionally dunked. It is a very good thing that ukrainian opsec has been as good as it has and dipshit journos have refrained for publishing their force disposition for a story. Unlike most wars in recent memory, "our" side is actually in the right and so doesn't need a constant stream of positive PR so doesn't feel the need to have Geraldo Rivera in a tank. Also of course "our" side isn't just taking potshots from hundreds of miles away so security is actually a thing that can change the course of the war. Doesn't help that journalists have completely forgotten how to do anything that isn't copying and pasting from official sources - there's not even a Martin Bell out there with a camera crew trying to get images of the fighting (and getting shot because wearing an Our Man In Havana white suit in an active warzone is a loving stupid idea).
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Rust Martialis posted:This isn't the Ukraine War thread. Why don't you try there? english speaking media output is very much a theme of this thread
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# ? Feb 27, 2022 10:42 |
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Well that and Russia is doing this so poorly you dont even need propaganda to spin it. Russia is literally sending unsupported tank coloums full of their special forces into obvious ambushes and getting them blown up. I genuinely Putin has been sat huffing his farts for too long and accidently believed all the propoganda and disinformation his regime was putting out and actually believed Ukraine would instantly surrender and all the civies would be waving little russian flags to celebrate the russians restoring freedom to Ukraine.
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# ? Feb 27, 2022 10:44 |
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Pistol_Pete posted:I've been browsing through the Ukraine news today and it's striking just how bad it all is. I've searched in vain through all the bullshit of strident comment pieces, breathless announcements that Russian vodka is being withdrawn from sale, thinkpieces about whether Putin is a Stalin or a Hitler and feel good stories about Ukrainian grannies shooting down helicopters with catapults and nowhere can I find the most basic news about the actual military situation i.e what main detachments are operating in the region and what's going on with them. This doesn’t tally with the general view, which is that the professional Ukrainian army (roughly 300,000 troops) is doing a good job of maintaining opsec and is getting a *lot* of intelligence and logistical support from NATO. Russian material is getting taken out by drones and anti-tank missiles (the UK has uncharacteristically given a couple of thousand extremely effective modern portable launchers - NLAWs) not grannies. Although the grannies have been issued AKs.
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Drone_Fragger posted:Well that and Russia is doing this so poorly you dont even need propaganda to spin it. Russia is literally sending unsupported tank coloums full of their special forces into obvious ambushes and getting them blown up. I think it's fair to say that most people are surprised at 1) the fact he went as far as kyiv at all, and 2) the scale of resistance. All these millionaire world champion boxers and poo poo going back to fight is a hell of an image too
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jiggerypokery posted:english speaking media output is very much a theme of this thread I am surprised the English still think if it's not in The Times or the Beeb it's not happening. The OP is clearly getting poor info based on his claim the Russians are running wild, maybe sticking to UK media is the problem and not the answer.
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Filboid Studge posted:(the UK has uncharacteristically given a couple of thousand extremely effective modern portable launchers - NLAWs) Paid for with public money, bought off someones mate.
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