[The Duke]

You’d think by the mess, that the referendum wasn’t well thought out, And the the question open to interpritoin, and more importantly, manipulation!

So when you have almost 20 million people seemingly voting on a simple yes no question, actually turns out that half of them was all voting for different outcomes.

Maybe the offical leave campaign should of shown some backbone, and stood tall and told the Pubic all the handger on unofical leave campaigns was talking shite about their objectives, as they had zero clout to make any happen.

The majority of the 51% was sold a lie. If the bublic doesn’t get a second vote on the final terms, ie facts, it would be criminal, and un democratic. The very thing that some of the leave side find so sacred to them. So ironic they are terrified of another poblic vote.

Personally I’m finding the whole proccess boring now, I just want if over one way or another, so we gan start to move forward again. We are stuck tredding water atm, and slowly sinking.

 

[The Duke]

No issues like that for me. Chrome on Android, or Chrome on Windows. Or Chrome on Chrome os.

[The Duke]

Richard. This is the exact same issue as I nthr other thread. I have iirc 3 or 4 ssds, all but in sales, and put to one side for the day I needed one. But way will likely happen is the day I need one, I want be able to find that ‘safe’ place I put them, and with the prices so low and amazon’s next day delivery, it will be far less effort to buy one.

Story of my -hoard- life.

[The Duke]

Oh Richard your so right. I have had things in draws for years. Usally as I’m clearing it away, I’ll think damn I could of dont with this last year when I had to buy one. Then two weeks after I’ve got rid, guess what… Yep I need to go and buy the same item.

Sods law.

[The Duke]

If the houses are older there is a good chance you won’t needed to drill through the attic, my nan lived in an old workers Terri e house and you could walk between the houses in the roof space.

My current home (1911) isn’t full sealed either. It’s mostly bricked up but towards the top you could early feed wire through.

We have a a cottage in the lower village, that has solid cobble stone walls and it destroys masonry bits. So figures crossed you can loop wire through gaps in the loft space.

[The Duke]

@tadka customer service and sub 24h delivery.

Now if I want cheap electronics or cheap tat I wouldnt use Amazon if not in a rish, I did use eBay, but now for my cheap non rush tat I’ll use wish. I don’t have noting against eBay, but wish and alibaba is cheaper, and amazon faster.

I rather like alibaba express offers a good a decent delivery time. And the items it sells is endless. Wish is…. Well wish, you’ll get it, eventually… But for their prices you don’t mind. I find I quite like wish, as they take that long to arrive, and because it wasn’t a must have item, I’ve usally forgot I’ve ordered it by the time it arrives.

I usally treat it like a Xmas pressie, I’ll give t a feel, look to see if the customs tag gives it away, then open. 9/10 times I’m happily surprised at what’s in the brown bag. The other 1/10 is me not remembering or knowing why I bought said item.

[The Duke]

I think Richards last paragraph can sum all companies up. (touch wood) I’ve never had a big issue in probably 10 years of TT usage, but I don’t know another person that shares my same view. But given a couple of said people live very close to me, on the same stretch of copper, I think given they struggle with tech it’s them and not TT…

Nut on the whole, you’ll see a split with most people regarding all business. I like the amazon haters, who hate Amazon with out using it because, they killed the higjstreet, pay no taxes.. ..

The reason the killed the high street (which they never) is because they are great at what they do. If they was garbage, your (incert shop) would still be open. And I can’t blame any outfit for maximising the tax laws. Blame the MPs that could close them rather quickly.but don’t cos they either use the same loop holes, or know peopel that do.

Anyhow, I can’t remeber what I was talking about. Lol

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Please don’t like to the Sun Lee, or I’ll have to ban you ?

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This is a real shame. I use g plus almost everyday. Always preferred it to fb. Nice communities.

About the only good news is g plus doesn’t handle any financial data. Just your profile data that you set to not be public was affected by some dev api. Ie it ignored the not pudlic flag and supplied it to the dev. Cheers Google. But why you’d have a real Dob or input your house and phone number is beyond me. Especially if your then gonna set it to be private. Seems stupid on all levels. The user and Google.

Google messed up big time with g+ out the gate. It should of been  and was touted to be, the back bone for android. Oh well.

[The Duke]

Edx is where I done the C+ course about 5 years ago. It was quite good as it was live (weekly release) and a good community popped up, so we could build ideas when stuck.

Though if me, given tippin knows his end goal, I’d first work theitgh a you tube tutorial for converting a website to an app, and then when I know what I needed and why, I’d then go to the likes of edx to expand my knowlaged on each disapline.

[The Duke]

My girl has a black box, its knocked about 25% off her insurance price. Not that it is even remolty cheap!

Richard – I’m currently waiting on a SEAT so will defo keep an eye on the belts. My kids and dogs sort of need them. Lol.

[The Duke]

Any estate would take both,easolly. I had a laguna estate when I had both. If you want mental space a skoda superb will get a a fridge in there too, with the dogs and buggy.

I’d imaging your thinking of a stroller and not a buggy. A buggy would not fit in a jazz. Or any car of that sive with out dropping the seats. You have pram, buggy, then inevitably buy the £15 argos stroller. Because they fold up small and are light.

We have had 5 kids, and the with had 5 chances to figure out the buggy wasn’t nessissery. But we ended up getting a frigging buggy evey frigging time!

Thinking about maximin space for your money, the bilingo (or its other two siblings by the other oems) have to be cheap, given their looks. Are brilliant cars.

FiL driven one as his work car for years, untill early this year when it died, and swapped for an Octavia estate. We all took the mick out of it, calling it the pope mobile. But brobaly one of the best all round functioning cars for the money. His was super basic entry level, so had no carpets, so it could be hosed relativly easy. And given its hight you can stack them high. You could even fit a washer in it stood upright. And have room on top.

Skoda sell the best one in that segment (just discontinued it ?) but that has a premium over citeron, pug and Renaults (all the 3 the same car) . My FiL was a non turbo diesel that couldn’t of been more powerful than the KA, so may be cheap to insure, and give tomes of space. Would make a great car for mountain bikers. Or people that drag round tones of crap. Which is what the FiLs ended up being. Turned into the family shit moving machine.

A zarifa would do too (the balingo replaced his Zafira), but they are not a cheap, and probably more expensive to insure.

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This is somthing I’ve jumped in and out of over the years, I learnt the basics of html and css as an extra credit in college when ding my access course. I really enjoyed it. 6 mints earlier I’d never owned a pc, so it opened my eyes to computers. Though back in early 2000s websites was much simpler.

Since then I’ve babbeled in c+, done an online course, enjoyed it, however my biggest issues with getting into it properly is highlited in this thread. Just decided how to aproch learning coding is a huge minefield. Ask a 100 programmers, and you’ll get 150 different answers of where to start, and what to learn.

You may be better, getting on YouTube, finding tutorials on making apps, or turning sites into an app, following that exact tutorial, of turning their fake Web page into an app (or mobile site). You’ll get a basic idea of what disipins (and more mainly why ) you’ll then need to learn.

It’s easy for people in Thr know to say, you will need html, css, then some one to say also java, the next person to say sql and so on. As when you don’t know about coding, you don’t know why you’ll need this and just get overwhelmed and ultimately abandon the idea, as you will struggle to know where to begin.

So my advice is fund a youtube services thst closely fits what you need. Get a basic lime understanding, then expand on your knowalge of the dispilens you need, why you needed them, and how they mesh.

I’d hazard a quests thst many of the older coders here, started by coping out free game code from computer magazines, then manipulating the code, to see what the effects was. Then as theircinterestd peaked, they they got sucked into the world of programing and there knowalge grew and new disipins was learnt as they knew why they needed them. Today’s youtune tutorial series, is basically the pc magazine game code. A way to wet your whistle.

[The Duke]

It’s always hard to sell an older car and not have to spend 3 or more times the price just to get a similar car is slightly better condition. It’s why I have in the past always kept cars past their best.

Back to the van, once you go over the 2 seater size, the insurance evens itself out, so if you need more than two seats, it won’t be for you. In my day (lol) the police had no issue prople Sat in the back. I think the law may off but I never got any issues for it. And had a few road side stops with both mates and my kids sliding round the back. Looking back now hardly safe, and wouldn’t dream of it today.

Also, be ready for whatever you buys insurance to jump through the roof once you pass! This was a new one on me I found out this year my girl passed. Her insurance more than doubled on passing.

So while you’re checking for insurers, play with the provisional costs, and a brand new full licence cost..

Insurance is classed in groups, and tax in bands. Btw. Also just cos the insurance group is lower, doesn’t always directly correlate with its premium price. Newer cars are always cheaper than older cars of the same greoup, there is now to many variables, personal, and both car spec.

A car is grouped by model, but the entry level of said model will usally be more expensive than a higher spec model. As the higher spec will have sometimes updated saftery features.

This is even more true with N-cap ratings. Don’t just dismiss a 3 star car, over a 4 or 5 syst one, on face value.also a 5 star car thst is 6 years old, is likely to be less safe than a 4 star car today. To get a 5 start rating each year they add features they must have. I know today a car loses a star for not having padestrian saftey detection on  It. Or additional “soft” impact zones between the engine and bonet for pedestrians to bounce off. All good things, but hardly top of a list when in a budget.

I also have a fealing now daylight running lights are mandatory, older cars withoit DRLs, may now of had a premium bump. But that one just speculation on my part.

If you have a pram or buggy, the likes of the jazz won’t fit a young family, as the boot is no bigger than a ka. You may fit the phase 3 buggy in, (the £15 one every one buys when they realise how stupid they have been with there original £400 pram come buggy choice), but that would be a squeeze, and then the shipping would have to be piled on The kids.

I always ford saloons was cheap to insure. My rover 420 sli was only about 150 dearer than my escort van. And that had some go in it. But by then I’d had about 4 years experiance. But it was cheaper than a hatch of the same era and price. Probably down to safety kit. Plus saloons (non German) come with most of the luxuries as standard.

For the love of god avoid German. The quality is marginally better, for a larger premium and larger maintance costs.

[The Duke]

Not quite media related but in the said vien, confessions of an economic hitman by John perkins, is probably the one book that made me see the world differnt after reading it.

I’d do a short review, but Googl’n it would save me time and save you dysphering my short hand! Fantastic and eye opening.

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I’m not sure ed, I suppose you’d have to either prove it was pre planned or prove that someone connected was buying or selling in an unusual manner at the time.

I don’t think the is any insider laws for press, they would get to hide under the “safe harbour” rules. Ie you can’t be prosecuted forvatlctions that happen (or happened) after or before you published.

So than you’d have to circle back to my first two points. Someone connected to you (or yourself) would have to directly gain from your news. Bit probably ony if your news was fake.

So in short, I doubt it ed.

[The Duke]

Hell yes, edd is correct. My first car I had, was a van (lol) as insurance was super expensive in Liverpool, and vans are cheaper to insure. So I had an escort van 1992 plate. My first insurance was ysrt over £700 and when I changed address to north Wales, it dropped to just under 400, iirc I had 2 years of driving then, and under 25 so nothing to reduce my premiums other than location.

Now every car I look to insure its 280-320. That’s mostly saloon type 2litre jobs. Out of interest, I did look at the price of insuring my girls ka, I thought 180 was a little steep. But a faction of what she has to pay!!! She is basically working after college (bar) and weekends (OAP carer)  to pay insurance. I’m feeling really sorry for her as in the summer she worked almost every day for the care agency and got nowhere as the more she worked, the more she driven (house calls), and she had to buy more miles for mthe insurer, as she didn’t have the job when she bought the miles, so we estimated 8k would be more than enough. She ate 4k in the summer driving door to door. The company pay £15 for fuel, which was costing in her £60 plus wear! Then her insurer wanted another 4/500 for an extra 4k miles. Because she was using them too fast, she other had to buy more, or get the contract terminated at a cost of £600. So she she came out of the simmer about even!

Its an f+img con, both the job and insurance companies. ?

[The Duke]

That has to be illegal. If not unefical as shit. That’s dicusting. And jus backs up, capitalises and underlines my view on the media. BB should and will be avoided by me from now on, if this is true. And from that report it is.

But how credible it this company they reporting this. I wonder if the writer here gets a bonus if BB takes a dive.

I’m looking forward to the hardware back door story to hit mainstream, usally takes a week or so after we hear it, I bet this side of the story doesn’t feature. If that comes true, we will also get to see what other news outlets are broken.

 

Lots not just us nerds that gets heads up on news, my wife love the gossip crap, and she is always telling me crap about people I don’t care about a week before it breaks as news. She has been following the Ronaldo rape aligations  for a good week before it hit the main stream. And given the number of girls alleged involvement, and distances apart (iirc my wife a number from Spain, UK and USA) and the span of yeas, the girls have very similar tales of what he said to them.

Added to that, he has apparently amited to a couple on record and has also paid off Atleast one lady. With all this potential evidence floating aroind, I’m amazed when the new finally broke, it’s was so small. Like a mouse darting in the wind.

I often watch a comedidian called jim Jeffery and he has told a gag witxh has a chart about how much a celeb can get away with, and ‘correlates it’ to the more your liked the more you get away with. The likes of kl Jimmy Saville, Micheal Jason, and Bill Cosby top the list. I’m getting the feeling ronny is getting social leaniancy, untill proven guilty by the press. If this was an unlocked player like diago Costa, he would be getting hammered by the media.

[The Duke]

Yes they still do, but I’ve found even in the same band, prices varies wildly.

Also if to you use compare the market fro your rough quotes, you only have to fill your info out once, then simply change the reg, to quickly get quick estimates.

 

[The Duke]

The bank do usally offer tea and biscuits. I’d imagine if you was crying that too would at least offer some form of tissue. I doubt they are monsters, also it’s the polite thing to do.

I’d recommend not accepting coffee, as when me and my youngest lad was opting him an account last year, it’s was the most bitter, heartburn enduring, cup of hate, I’ve ever had the priverlige to pretend to like. Get the tea.

 

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