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Steve, I am sorry if I did make myself clear, if I am selling an image product (god forbid and whatever that is) I would believe that part of my image would come from associations with events, news whatever. So my product’s image would be hugely vital to me and if a negative arose I would probably be worried enough to withdraw, at least for a while. This has happened in the past and some publications have been threatened that if they accept adverts from some, e.g. cosmetics then other expensive high spending ones will walk.
Now out of a billion mugs, how many target customers will there be? OK I made a wild guess at 0,00001% who are likely real customers. Given the huge user number I have little doubt that figure is not too far from the mark, it is still a few 100,000s. Some will not give a flying fig about Facebook being a pile of mouldering dung, though mouldering dung may not be what an advertiser wants as an association… I still wonder what conversion rate adverts have on FB. The industry is very coy at the moment with huge arguments already suggesting it is rotten value for money – some promoted by alternative media it is true. I am very glad I am not an advertising person these days, it must be a high stress occupation.
I have reread the BBC accounts, nothing I read is in any way in conflict with what I wrote. To clarify a quote reads:
‘The hospital said: “This is not the end of her treatment but marks a significant milestone.”‘
The BBC also suggested that the headache of dealing with any ongoing issues including diplomatic fall out, was one that the UK would be happy to reduce and preferably avoid. A ‘fact’ with which I would have no trouble agreeing.
Does Putin believe she is innocent or more to the point would he care?
No and No.
Can he expected to use anyone he could any way he could? Yes and yes with bells on.
For easy reference this is what I wrote about the conspiracy theory band wagon, note the reference to a visit from a family member, not a companion spy.
If a UK ex-spy had defected to Russia, then lived happily until a member of his family visited and both were poisoned allegedly by the UK we would ‘expect’ to be given free access as the suspected murder force. Is that what some actually believe?
Sorry but if you believe we should, let alone would be given access in that case, then you are welcome to that belief, just do not expect me to agree, no CIA required. Having spent periods of time in hospital in a foreign country in the past, I wanted peace and quiet as soon as possible, e.g. after my month’s confinement with a very tricky broken lower leg portion, – fact.
Being well enough to be released from an acute care establishment is not the same as fully recovered a ‘fact’ that appears to have been swept aside. Still look on the bright side, she is not bed blocking!
I am not privy to CIA thinking, nor do I wish to be either. I spoke solely of my view of very unusual circumstances. I have not stooped to suggesting you are falling for Putin’s FSB lines, please do not assign false motives to me.
This is not the first Eastern Block originated poisoning, e.g. those carried out in London on Markov, and the more recent polonium case being two well known facts.
Plausible deniability was once a fact, now we have the distorted reality of the internet where facts no longer matter and everyone can be an instant armchair theorist.
Steve, no you are missing the issue, are the billion all users of a corporation’s product? If the advertising is marginal at best and if the adverts push the 0,00001% who are real customers off ‘ by association’, then is it worth a candle anyway?
Corporates do worry about their corporate name and any associations with undesirable material that could damage the name. They frequently stand away from suspect items and lean on ‘publishers’ to restrict such material. They will take what they believe is a balanced, will being associated with and part funding with dodgy outfit do more harm in their addict base or will cutting the umbilical cord of finance cause more upset? Only they can call that one. However, should enough money not (l)users walk, then the FB finances would take a hit, but I have no angle on that one, I don’t care much either way. Who needs a lot of junk designed to inspire jealousy anyway? I do not.
The wonderful thing about conspiracy theorists is that they can never understand reality. So let us sit down and think about the one you have just copied down. If a UK ex-spy had defected to Russia, then lived happily until a member of his family visited and both were poisoned allegedly by the UK we would ‘expect’ to be given free access as the suspected murder force. Is that what some actually believe?
Frankly, if I were to be a spy in that position the very last people I would want anywhere near me would be anyone from ‘the wonderful motherland’ whichever that might be, that had been reported to have tried to kill me.
Only someone already committed to a malign cause could see any reflection on the honest host country.
There are unconfirmed stories that the daughter has asked for, or might desire asylum, I find that infinitely more believable. I personally find the ‘telephone call’ reports with the cousin hard to believe, though I have no idea what was really said.
Putin’s game is miss-information and, I have to hand it to him he does play it like a pro, but then he is a fully paid up professional.
The point is that history is full of these highly destructive forces as sometimes second rate vandals invaded, wreaked and destroyed leaving ground to be recovered later. There is evidence that even brain surgery was practised, millennia back, but if the ‘inferior’ natives of an area had a culture, it was always to be despoiled and replaced by the ‘superior’ version proffered by the invader. Africa had its cultural areas but they were ignored, destroyed or abandoned as were those of South America, in fact every continent has seen such events. Alexander the (not so) Great
iswas seen in a very unflattering light in Iran for his vandalising the great history structures of Persia. Every historical invader tried to expunge the culture they encounter lest it became a basis for future trouble. The liberation of Europe followed on from a far less savoury episode while Germany and much of Europe was under ‘alternative management’. Then it was the current philosophy that came under attack as history well retells. Currently, I am uncertain about the ruthless restriction of wartime mementos and records as though the Nazi era should be wiped from record. It is part of the historical fabric of Europe. A tainted, soiled and stained part, but one that caused consequences. We have to understand historical contexts, if you were a Vandal, Thuggee, Roman, Greek or whatever, invading a land you would wish to subjugate the native population, so what better ways than to destroy all they held dear. Sadly such mindsets still exist, from the cultural destroyers of DAESH, through Boko Haram with their love of illness and objection to decease prevention so it runs lower and lower. The South London OAP robbing business still takes some beating in my book. It is a great illustration of what is still wrong with chunks of what some want to think of as society. Sick and depraved barely does it justice – justice being something for which they have nothing but contempt.Ed, you make the assumption that such acts were an act of policy by the people rather than an act of drunken, even if only power drunk bravado. Sadly the trend has long been a feature of invaders actions along with the actions of many celebrating hordes, look at the Nazi book burners.
The most appalling example of mob rule and the lowest level of behaviour is the ‘shrine’ to the thug who paid the price for his heinous crimes against OAPs. With a long history of trying to deprive others of their property, including his crime family stealing a widow’s home, he went to one place to many and was stopped. Now he has a band of sordid camp followers seeking vengeance for what he did to himself. Why the police are allowing it and not removing the trash left there I do not know. I can only hope that those ‘tribute payers’ are being photographed and logged for follow up action.
Steve, I agree with you for all the reasons you state. I honestly believe there few of the great mass who will change anything as a result of this ‘minor’ upset. Many do not really understand the fuss and even more do not care. A lot might well say who are these ‘high profile’ users. When I hear some of the ‘bloggers’ talking about their promotional activities for hotels, ‘clubs’, bars, make-up, etc. I wonder if space aliens really have landed.
We can but trust that is the case at this stage.
Ed, the spat has been all over the place as FB squirm on the end of their own baited line. I saw nothing of any adverts – I do not use FB. To me anything that was done was scarcely different to the usual stuff that clutters up physical as well as electronic boxes. The biggest problem is that even more so in the electronic age mud that sticks on an ever wider scale. I almost* feel sorry for the Canadian outfit for the way they have been muddied. I do not feel any sorrow for the vindictive multicoloured one, Chris Wylie who clearly holds an intense grudge.
*’Almost’, because I still think of the advertising mob as an off colour bunch of carpet baggers and snake oil sellers. I would not trust them to hit a barn door at 50 centimetres.
In between 101 other things that are going wrong or wanting to go wrong I have also been wondering about Bob, it has now been longer than he hoped to be away. I am trusting that the electronic gremlins have upset his plan and nothing else.
Some, maybe all Mercs also have a switch in the centre console connected to the control systems though that normally ‘only’ brings up an alarm. Sorry in my earlier message the word ‘rest’ should have read reset, some of the error messages could predate the clearance of the OBD issue that prevented its use. As Ed said wiring problems can cause a whole host of errors and bad, high resistance or flaky connections are the very worst, remember, what you can see might only be part of the issue, corrosion can affect connections within any sheathing.
The clock fail is no doubt due to the loss of battery at some point and easy to overcome.
On some cars the loss of battery power can upset the anti theft devices and some form of rest can be needed.
Now you have OBD working have you done a rest of the system to clear the alarms, which may have come from a series of failures prior and during the current situation?
I am sorry, I misunderstood the postings trail, if the OBD is now back on line you have sorted something out. As there are so many reports is there any commonality to them that point to a specific area? For example, fuel pressure, no fuel flow, fuel injection systems alarms could all come from e.g. a pump not getting fuel or no fuel, or even no power. A dumb example I know, but it does serve to point to a possible logical way through what otherwise feels like a maze.
The fact that the OBD port has stopped working is real issue in my book. Since it appeared to work when the problems started, but stopped as the problems built up suggests the me a major issue with power circulation. ECUs can and do fail, I would check to see if there is someone in your area who could check it over for you if all else fails. While I used the term ‘major issue‘, because the effect is deadly, it could be as simple as an earth, a bad connection or a damaged wire, all of which will cause major grief until they are found. As you have done things, could it be that for example something needs to be reset?
Frankly, we are all guessing wildly and I strongly feel the this one for a good auto-sparks, who knows the ways of the model
Pull and guess as a way to find electrical problems is a mug’s game. A Google search suggests that the DME relay originated as a Porsche term, it may or may not be correct in this case and if it is faulty it would seriously affect a car’s ability to start. In the Porsche context it appears it starts both the engine management system and the car’s fuel pump(s), it is a safety part that cuts fuel pressure in the event of a shunt to avoid fire risks. I fear that you might need a little more in the way of electrical checking to confirm where the get up and go has got up and gone. Electrical systems on more modern cars are fearsome, unless you have both good tools and the skills to read a car’s fault you may fail. I have had garages fail to find electrical problems – the symptoms pointed at this device or that device according to the computer codes, both were replaced and the problem in the wiring remained. A single dodgy break in a wire was the cause of the (expensive) trouble. A clued up auto electrician found, and fixed the issue, (others had failed) it only needed wire and cable terminations, plus the time to trace and fix the issue. You have not defined the symptoms as you know them, in this case is there fuel pressure, where is power reaching or not reaching, is the fuel injection system working, etc. Note, I am no auto electrician, but it does sound as though you do need a leg up in that league to point you in the right direction.
Yes, that’s close to perfect.
The scam factories just will not give up, the same old rubbish keeps swinging by, if not via email it is via the telephone, pushing non existent government schemes, internet service problems or any other old rubbish.
Wow, you are right, the CPU is about ten years old, even older than my i3, which I have no current plans to change, as it does all that I currently want. I guess any really useful upgrade would retain little more than the monster case, perhaps that is why it is for sale, thus answering my original question. All in all it makes me feel old, (I am) and shows I am off the pace, (I am that also).
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