innit?

When did you go all saaf laandan?

The only innit I expect to see here is an incorrect abbr. of initialisation.

Nationalise

Not only do the competitors get the last mile at below cost RM also deal with returns for free.

So, let's say a company called shittylink decided to collect a whole bunch of mail (the easy and profitable part) they then take the post to RM, who sort it and deliver it (the last mile) if the mail is marked undeliverable by the occupant and put back into a post box then it gets picked up sorted and returned not to shittylink, but the actual sender. In any normal B2B relationship the stuff would be dumped back on to shittylink as (in my opinion they are) the sender of the mail.

There would at least be some recompense for this sort of thing occurring.

I don't really understand where things which are national services get privatised in order to compete, I've not seen it work for anything.

Since British Telecom went has service improved? Not as far as I can tell, the service it once supplied has developed a new Delhi accent.

Same for electricity, gas and railways.

I suppose the counter argument could be the NHS, but I think that there's a certain amount of movement towards privatisation which has buggered that up too, people can choose which hospital they want to be treated at etc. The whole NHS database setup is likely to be a sweetener paid for by taxpayers companies wouldn't have to come along and do any administration work they could just charge for healthcare and make profits, ultimately "competition" in these sorts of things is an illusion, profits go up as a result of standards decreasing. For some reason there HAS to be constant growth of profits, the profits don't have to be consistent, they have to grow, otherwise you're losing money apparently, I never understood the maths there.

Competition on the railways? I know I won't travel from Cambridge to London to go to work, instead I'll go on a different network... doesn't really work.

Competition for RM? Nope, no such thing.

The sentiments are right

I wouldn't quite go so far as hate, but apathy is about right.

I was thinking the exact same thing, what would happen in this country? I just don't think a £300 fine and a letter of apology would happen, people wouldn't laugh it off as a drunken prank, there's the minority (who seem to hold so much sway) who would be incensed and his life would never be the same again, criminal records, sex offenders register (just thinking about it's bad m'kay)

Sounds to me that in Australia his life's going to go back to normal in a matter of weeks.

And Toby Maguire

can play Arseface.

perfect :-)

logic pedant

If you get caught AND don't have a judge in your pocket.

um...

How is that actually different?

Person 1

I'm outside the US, their law doesn't apply to me.

Person 2

I'm outside the US, they can't enforce that law on me even though I'm apparently breaking it, not really sure why their law applies to me.

US changes law resulting in Person 1 & Person 2 getting arrested.

Suppose the UK decide to enforce their extreme (or just the ordinarey non-extreme?) pornography laws to the extent the US has applied their anti gambling laws.

Will the porn barons who may holiday in the UK get arrested on arrival?

The rules are different in each country, go the Australian way and have "The Great Firewall" to block stuff in other countries your govt. thinks is bad (or is losing them revenue) either that or go the UK way of prosecuting the customer rather than the purveyor.

Can you though?

Maybe my imagination is just crap but try as I might, when I'm reading a book I just can't smell anything, other than maybe musty book smell.

Nothing against books, but film can get a lot more information across to the brain in a lot shorter period, they still haven't got the smell thing going on though, which is probably fortunate.

I like reading and watching movies and they both have their place, some things might work better in books, some work better in comics and some work better in film.

Sean of the Dead I don't think would be a particularly good book for instance, I don't think it even makes a particularly good comic.

Watchmen makes a better comic than it did a film, and is better as a comic than a book with no pictures.

Jasper Fforde Thursday Next novels make better books than they could film or comics.

ORLY?

One word -

Preacher

Conversely

You want me to work from home then you can pay for the bandwidth. It's surprising the amount of employers who think contracts only work in one direction.

I think probably one of the points is that they didn't specifically say that downloading of porn is prohibited, just that he should "refrain from attacks on the personal dignity of their co-workers, and to exhibit the highest moral standards at all times"

So unless one of his co-workers was photoshopped into the pics then he had to exhibit the highest moral standard, and as we know, studies have shown that basically everyone of age has seen/used porn so morally he's with the majority.

So the alternative?

Instead of a handfull of well connected businessmen making money (and authors) it'll be just Sergey and Larry?

The greeds of the few outweigh the greeds of the many?

Curse you AC for making me reply

I get along quite well with a lot of idiots, most of them are project managers.

Anyway, the point is why should they give a flying fuck what I think of them, I couldn't give a flying fuck what they think of me outside the realms of whether we're doing our jobs (to the best of our abilities)