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I can understand your issue. I never use a real Town High Street, though I do go along the ‘main (one way street) with the shops in the village’. A lorry safe highway it is not! It is a narrow road with overhanging buildings and a sharp right angle entry and exit at each end. Happily few if any large lorries ever need to use it and the lack of crowds in general means you would be safe from gawpers.
For me a bigger issue is the number of clowns in largish vehicles driving about our private road. While some, including the current crop of ‘municipal waste removers’ are highly skilled, others do deserve to be exposed. For them a reminder that gardens are not part of the highway is certainly in order. The main recipient of their attention now holds a silent ‘Rock Event’ with large stones to mark and possibly upset short cutters, one of them ripped the mud guard off a small trader lorry. The Biffa GP racing clowns using the road as a turn round point when collecting from a nearby property have been a real issue and they are not even especially large vehicles.
My understanding is that technically it counts as an altered or falsified document. As such it could and likely would arouse suspicions. I guess it depends on how obvious the overwriting is if it was perfectly done by possibly a marginally wider nib/ball point the second time so that no old impression showed it ‘might’ not be noticed. However, I cannot say that it might not show up under special lighting when the different inks might for example show two different florescence patterns. At best you might suffer a delay and things could range up from there through denied boarding to detention ‘for enquiries’ or loss of the document through confiscation.The latter could be subject to a whole can of other worms.
Since the HMPO ‘recommends’ rather than ‘demands’ black ink, it might have been better to leave it unmolested.
You might like to try its use for some ‘non threatening’ activity, e.g. not involving a border crossing to see what trouble it causes. The results would not be binding and would be nothing more than indicative.
In the past I saw people have the total lack of a signature pointed out to them at a border point with a suggestion that they should correct the mistake. However, that was a long time ago, when I could turn up at the police post, sign a book and get an airside pass to the airport and go anywhere for any purpose at any time, day or night. Times have changed since then.
Yes, it made a big song and dance about taking care of my interests with a message on screen, but at least it installed quite quickly, though with a reboot. I did not want to keep it hanging about so got it done while I brewed tea or something else. At least the services all restarted without a problem, this has not always been the case so manually starting them has been the order of the day.
Ed, it is not so easy to cherry pick from what appears to pass for a system in other countries. We have our own ‘financial services issues’, the USA has their own financial/legal ‘system’ issues as does, for example Japan, et al. While vulture capital companies exist in other jurisdictions with the USA having ‘Venture Vultures’ to boot. Raising cash on such as AIM or as a private share or bond sale which has been a regulated industry that has been used here for years, usually small investors are barred. The point is that a bank would not be my prime choice for finance in any country.The problem is that a bank can recall the loan at any point leaving the borrower high and dry, other finance methods can usually be free of such problems.
In fact with the exception of a mortgage taken out in 1975 and paid off by 1980 I cannot recall taking out any loans in this country. While overseas I did buy a BMW via a series of promissory notes signed over to the dealer, which they later discounted with a bank when the dealer wanted cash in a hurry. I then bought them back from the bank. As an aside, my UK bank told me that I had been a very naughty boy as the then Labour Government had tight exchange rules which the UK bank thought could/should restrict foreign loans. As I was paid in currency had signed the notes in that currency, the deal had no UK involvement plus the matter had almost concluded and I had not technically had a loan anyway, I considered that issue moot.
No bob, like me you should not punt more than a tiny proportion of risk ‘capital’, – currently my proportion is zero. That is why I shall probably also make a gain of close to zero. Punting on wild shots is NOT for small investors, I am not even a small investor.
It is late, I am not at my best, good night.
If the grass is really so much greener in the US banking industry perhaps WF should have borrowed there rather than from Russia. With overseas borrowing the foreign exchange risks tend to apply and I think I raised issues about the levels of ‘innovation’ developed by RBS, Halifax Barclays et al. I knew a company accountant who brought out the head office accounts need for smelling salts years back via his then ‘innovation’ of placing short term spare cash on overnight deposit.
How well your eulogy sits with the USA banking innovation of such bold ideas as Ninja mortgages and all the other banking issues across the pond is another issue all together. In this regard the banking and stock exchange bubble travails of Japan with its innovation of re-cycling loan securities also deserve a noteworthy mention – that also did not end well when the bubble burst.
Sometimes a little more banking balance and a bit less commission hunting could be a superior answer, what is wrong with some equity financing where the investor punts the cash, carries the risk and hopes to make a return?
I suspect that WF management were caught between a rock and a hard place when it came to financing. With experience they might regret relying on the previous source of finance. What most people would desire from a financier is stability, they did not get that from their Russian bank. Would they have got it elsewhere? I am not sure that they would. Bank financing does not fill me with happiness., relying on a foreign bank would be more likely to cause me nightmares.
I agree with ED on one point, if they can re-establish themselves on the market and with a good campaign behind them, their customer service track record should paper over any cracks. Most punters will not want to know about financial services games.
All of that said, I understood that the bank in question did encounter some uniquely Russian issues, though RBS created some uniquely UK ones and Barclays ploughed (and tilled?) the furrow Ed despises. My previous experience of contact with Russian businesses would make me avoid anything within Russia but everyone’s experience guides them.
It does appear that you should be safe, though I did not aim my comment at any particular target. By the way, I am sure that you know that if clothes are slightly damp and heaped up with such stuff on them they can be a very real fire hazard. A restaurant suffered an ‘interesting’ fire from that cause a week or so back. Not quite the same but a department store I knew back in the 1950s had the painters in. Unfortunately they tossed their rags in to a bin and went home. There was no need for them to rush back to work the next day. There was precious little of the store left to paint.
I well know those stockings, I have had them for a number of years, ever since I had some nasty encounters with things that bite and my legs swelled up so I could not move the foot, of it was also blooming painful as it went funny colours. At least that went back to more or less normal after a while.
Bob, sorry to say this only as half a pun but the dotty thing, well it just about drove me dotty trying to follow the article. OK I am feeling well off the pace today but I could see a device with that as the access method becoming a wall breaker very quickly. The exercise might be good for my arm though. Still it is good that some attention is being applied to security as you said too many just do not bother.
On the question of security, well personal security and safety if you or anyone you know uses emollient creams there is a stern warning about fire risks arising from the product getting onto clothes and bedding, especially if the person smokes or has contact with smokers. I Understand that a hidden number of deaths are now being ascribed to these creams and the flammable residue that can build up in clothing.
Bob, I totally agree with your view of Nick.
As for fingerprint sensors, I suspect that there are a couple of issues those already spelt out and secondly the tiny subset of data used to define a true match. The extreme lack of data ans the power to process it in a meaning time is a serious constraint.
Bob, well spotted on the date, though I suspect my comments still stand with regard to the issue of other methods being more likely to work and to yield useful results. I also share your concerns about the tactics of some defence lawyers.
Sadly having seen real events play out and the rubbish copy that the newspaper’s writers filed I very much doubt doubt that Ed’s story about statistics was anything like the whole story. Twenty years ago the issue of DNA was new and any reporter or news desk editor would happily have landed on the head line, ‘one in a million’ as a tag line. Any other evidence probably got lost in the editorial wash. There are many markers that might lead a line of investigation towards a suspect or suspect. A witness being one that can be equally or more suspect when there is no other evidence. The recent £3 million wasting Operation Midland following the ‘revelations’ of ‘the credible witness Nick’ on his way to take £50,000 out of our tax payments and traduce the names of many innocent people being just one. Apparently having falsely landed his claim of abuse, he is now assured of life time anonymity though he has been arrested for paedophile offences after indecent images of children were found on a computer. He even became a school governor, though the weight of that role that has apparently been removed from his shoulders since his court appearance.
I’m not sure, a trawl through the web suggested mixed results, some were very happy and others said they had problems with e.g. credit card fraud or stuff not working. It could be good or a gamble.
ED, The report was interesting in that given perfect conditions transfer is possible. For me the greatest risk uncovered was that even a less than perfect transfer could more easily be good enough to fool the current techniques for finger printing. However, as has been shown in the past other techniques can be used to place finger prints at crime scenes. It appears likely that for finger print copying both parties would usually have some sort of relationship so other methods of incrimination are also possible without needing to ‘forge’ prints. This is why what I will term both ‘for’ and ‘against’ evidence needs careful assessment. I share your doubts about a case that relied on one item of evidence might be uncomfortable without some other support.
In the case of DNA and any other laboratory based evidence there are several issues hiding in the wings. There are issues over the reliability of some labs and the buying and selling of staff based in them, to me these issues are a great concern since it chips away at one of the foundations of the process. I am not sure I even want to use the word ‘justice’ any more.
The role of statistics has been contentious for some times and that is one that I find hard to simply accept. Certain cases are almost a given. Every ‘body’ has eaten, drunk some fluid or another and breathed most would accept that as fact without needing statistics to prove the point. The further you move away from that certainty the less comfortable I feel about statistical justice. I guess you might be referring to some of the recent shaken and broken bones baby cases which in spite of the expert’s statistics turned out to be down to such issues as issues genetics or underlying illness. This is quite apart from any use of flawed techniques or understandings. In my belief statistics can only define possible directions of doubt or possible certainty, (an oxymoron there) should I say probability, but probability is not certainty and could it ever be beyond reasonable let alone all doubt?
Bob, having been involved in several investigations in different countries, I am well aware of the long boring times gathering evidence or just waiting to see if you can find any evidence. One resulted in 43 arrests, about half of whom skipped the country to go back home – to Switzerland. The arrests and the court phase were almost momentary compared to the time spent uncovering and cataloguing the crimes. Just finding somewhere to store the boxes of evidence became a task in itself.
It was not exciting or for that matter risky unlike your experience which was far more hair raising. I was aware that some mass strikes brought out a range of responses and score settling ‘events’ that continued long after the main event. The miners strike was one of the worst on all sides. With hindsight fighting to keep dying industries on life support was a waste of time, emotion and money, fighting for retraining and new industry was needed – and is still needed. Replacing skilled, though muscle based industry with almost unskilled female clerical work has been shown up clearly as not the long term answer.
I should not have been shocked to see machinery built in the 1890s still in industrial production use in the mid 1960s. Machinery, management, workers and buildings born from the horse and cart era were all a liability by then. No wonder emotions ran high on all sides.
The last time I had a problem like that I did as you did and removed the HD. It was back in the XP days. When I connected the drive as an additional drive in another PC, the PC announced that the disc had some issues with the OS install. It promptly fixed them. Replacing the drive in the original PC showed all was well once more. I have no idea what had caused the corruption but it ran for several more years without trouble.
Lets all remember that these are ‘programmes for entertainment’ and nothing else really – accuracy is a vague requirement. The more you have been involved in ‘the real thing’ the more cringeworthy what you see on TV becomes. But then if they depicted it as per real life, it would be soooooo b****y boring!!
While I understand that playing out the boring nothing happening times, paperwork, seeking authorisation etc. is a no-no as are long lectures in the sequence should someone do something wrong. In general there are a few boundaries over which I feel that it is unwise to step. Using the wrong fuel in a vehicle (unless part of the plot line), playing with electrical devices that have not been isolated etc. it takes no time to flip a switch or pull a fuse or point guns away from the ‘collateral’. The ‘experts’ might be no more than characters in a fantasy, but they should show at least some minimal professional safety awareness. In my view it would not destroy the plot to handle tasks the way they should be handled.
The almost subliminal message about the side effects of irresponsible pill popping was sensible inclusion. Though even prescribed use is not always without risks.
Normal as far as I know. I ended up on the ‘several steps behind schedule’ for a while until I forced the major updates to resume via the download of the update package on a USB key. I cannot now remember which one was very slow to arrive but most of the family machines stepped over one because they were all out of synch. Since then updates have arrived more or less normally. I delayed and delayed doing daughter’s machine and then just as I was thinking I must act it woke up and went ahead anyway. My wife saw the different screen, had a mild panic attack but most things were OK. Only the WHS launcher is abnormal it runs faceless, but still backs up ok. I tried the old uninstall and re-install but it still sulks perhaps I should try an uninstall a restart and go again. Because of her state of mind I worry about going near her machine unless the hounds of hell have been unleashed.
For the record, the school in question in my comment above has no special signage and is only covered by the school sign, flashing lights, double white lines and traffic several islands.
Not withstanding that collection I have still been passed by a fool dodging the island and crossing the double whites to pass me outside the school. Hopefully one day soon, he will meet something more like a large truck not like a small child.
It appears that the laws and rules for the various UK countries may differ and that councils can follow the agree procedures to seek permission to introduce specific sign posted variances.
Steve, you are correct, however, while I would more readily accept finger prints, DNA and being found in possession of stolen goods I suspect others would more readily accept pictorial evidence. I am not sure about the current rules for evidence, several recent cases have failed through withheld evidence or more accurately not traced but available evidence. Who can, or cannot bring evidence forward and under what circumstances? It is much harder to trace evidence when it is within something held by the other party, such as the mobile phones apparently held by the police as (unused) evidence. Happily those cases collapsed due to the sloppy pursuit of what are now declared as innocent parties. Sadly the CPS is justifying its sometimes alternative title of the Criminal Protection Service.
Wow I am on 1709.16299.214, does this mean I am ahead of the game?
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