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I’m going to say only one thing about this.
I used to be very active on Facebook. After the vote, I was even more active, and very vocal. I voted Remain. Several people unfriended me, and relationships with several old friends became very strained. Indeed, I stopped being included in group nights out.
In recent times, bridges have been mostly mended. One of the people in the group, who was perhaps the most put out by my outspoken views, has now gone from “Out, out, out!” to “I blame Cameron. We should never have been given a vote in the first place. No-one knew what they were voting for.” He’s right. It’s clear that he now has a very different perspective of Brexit from what he had a year ago. It’s not what he thought it would be. He went so far as to say he wished there’d been no vote and that the issue hadn’t been raised and that we’d all been left to continue as before without knowing any different.
That’s a considerable change of view. I consider this chap to be salt of the earth. The voice of a large part of the population. Is his change of heart a singular event? It’s impossible to believe it is. It’s much more likely that his viewpoint is fairly typical. I admire this guy greatly for basically admitting he was mistaken. He’s seen the fantasy for what it was and isn’t ashamed to say so.
(I haven’t been on Facebook since last year. I can’t say I miss it.)
I agree with Dave. My lad and his friends just have standard laptops — sometimes a Chromebook — and manage just fine. Anything they don’t catch in lectures — for a recent lecture on SQL, only four of about 50 actually turned up — can be grabbed from the uni’s website. I don’t know anyone who records lectures.
“Food Technology” reminds me of a very (in)famous Lincolnshire female with a Food Tech degree, who invented soft ice cream, as in Mr Whippy and Mr Softee. None other than Maggie Thatcher, who invented the way to efficiently insert air into the ice cream mix, thus enabling those two companies and others, to make more profit out of less material. And I think it is correct to say that she patented it, which may answer several questions about the Iron Lady.
Fake news, I’m afraid. She did no such thing.
With an attitude like that, it’s dead already. 🙁
Thanks. I hadn’t looked up when it started. I’ll be watching.
I understand. Given the low number of users, is there not a cheaper hosting option? That seems like a massive amount of money, out of all proportion to the usage model, but as I say, I know little about these things.
I think you will struggle to cover those costs even with a £3.50 monthly fee. I reckon you might start with maybe a dozen subscribers, but those will steadily drop off. The user base is highly unlikely to increase.
Think of it like this: at the end of MM, most forum users didn’t even buy the mag, not even the odd issue at £2.25, with a free forum thrown in. Are the same people likely to pay £3.50 per month just for a forum? I can’t see it. I don’t know what the solution is, but that’s not it.
That’s a non-starter, then.
What about an annual donation drive to cover the hosting costs?
Well, I’m not knowledgeable in how sites operate. It’s not my field. I just know that other forums are free. I guess ads pay for the costs. I think it’s a cast-iron certainty that a subscription will see half the current users leave and no new users sign up (especially if they can’t view the forums first). After all, there are lots of other forums available, plus social-media sites. I’m not trying to be argumentative, just realistic. Some current members are also on the breadline (myself included). It’ll die very quickly, unless the few who are left are happy to be part of a very small, closed group (they may well be).
Would it not be possible to work out the minimum cost for hosting the site for a year and see if a donation drive can’t raise the funds? Then it’s free for all.
In the last half hour, the national threat level has been raised to the highest level, critical, meaning that another attack is possibly imminent. This is based on information gained from the investigation into the Manchester attack. It would seem that means the terrorist wasn’t acting alone, and the others are in the wind.
I fail to see why Farage and Nuttcase are given so much airtime. UKIP’s vote share has every likelihood of being lower than the Green Party’s, yet the Greens barely get a mention. I suppose Farage and co. make good TV, but have we really sunk to the point where being informed comes second to being amused?
Too late for that. There will be, and already is, a wedge between us and our neighbours. Indeed, that’s exactly what some people voted for.
Close to home, this one. I was at a gig in effectively the next venue across (Liverpool Echo Arena) on Saturday. Iron Maiden (very good gig, incidentally). Security was at is should be in an ideal world — show your ticket and you’re in. No checks whatsoever. So I suppose it was inevitable that something like this would happen eventually. Expect massive queues from now on.
Terrible, terrible business. 🙁
Not sure the system is completely dead. Most youngsters would know what was what if they were told something was two-foot long, some liquid or other was a pint, some town was 100 miles away, and someone had lost a stone in weight.
I believe from my own science studies that “mol” is the SI symbol for mole, just as cm is the SI symbol for centimetre, so the original comment was not incorrect.
Well, at least they’re offering something noticeably different to the Tories. There’s a real choice. That’s not to say I’ll be voting Labour, but the (leaked) manifesto has a lot of very popular pledges, and at least some of them seem to have viable funding behind them. People wanted a real choice. I’d say they’ve got it. Will they take it? No.
My prediction is a 75-seat Tory majority.
Network Rail is already back in public ownership. Privatisation there was a miserable failure, though that’s always brushed under the carpet. The infrastructure is already ours. All that isn’t is the right to run trains on it. Given the massive subsidies we already pay to the franchise operators, it really isn’t much of a stretch to believe that having the whole lot state-owned wouldn’t make much difference in terms of public cost. The extra expense would be offset by pocketing the rail fares.
It may well have been a new CPU. That doesn’t mean the old one was actually faulty. Incompetence is everywhere. Those errors are RAM-related or possibly SSD-related.
To be fair, it *is* standard practice that drives are wiped when returned, regardless of the retailer. It’s difficult to test drives without writing to them. I expect this is detailed in Scan’s terms and conditions. Ultimately, it’s up to the buyer to back the data up. One could argue that if you were keeping daily backups, it wouldn’t matter that you couldn’t boot the system to make a backup prior to return.
The service sounds average. I’ve had far worse, and far slower. And by “average” I mean “pretty poor”. That’s just the way it is. It’s an industry that survives on wafer-thin margins, and good service costs money, money that would be added to the prices, meaning customers would just shop where prices were lower. And then complain about the service.
Glad you’re up and running again. 🙂
PS — I’d be amazed if it really was the CPU. The errors you were getting were classic RAM errors, which could also be caused by a shafted motherboard. I’d wager that the RAM or motherboard you received back weren’t the ones you sent.
Depends on the version: http://www.metrolyrics.com/stranger-on-the-shore-lyrics-andy-williams.html.
I thought it might be that the song title doesn’t appear in the lyric, but that doesn’t apply to Stranger on the Shore.
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