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According to their forum, at least 25 nutballs^H^H^H^H psychics have had a go. There are some incredible abilities out there. "Subluxation Identification", "Paranormal Urination" and "Breast abnormality detection" being among my favourites...
(Pardon me, madam. No, it's okay, I'm qualified to do this. Hold still, please...)
I mean, someone actually had to summon up the will to call the lawyers and tell them about this. Obviously, once invoked, the attorneys are going to go at it (that's how they earns they's Benjamins) but even on speed-dial someone had to initiate this action with an actual button-press.
Who-the-fudpuckin-hell actually did this? How did they get (and, more to the point, keep) their job? Is this some kind of care-in-the-community thing or what?
Sorry, I'm despairing about what humanity has become again. Must be Christmas.
He's not saying "Woo, I gets teh big bucks!" I think he's pointing out that, whatever you wear within the confines of your own soya-scented solution exploration space, when you venture beyond that into the realms of traditional business (and there's a heck of a lot of that still going on, believe it or not...) it makes sense to adopt appropriate dress and tone. Nothing wrong with that; most people working in real business realise that, and are sufficiently mature to realise it isn't selling out, and it isn't going straight, it's just dressing appropriately.
You don't have to do it, but if you choose not to you'd better be exceptionally good in some other area, or prepared to fail to engage more often than you succeed.
Anyway, I don't see the problem. Everyone looks good in a half-decent suit. These days, you don't have to do up the top button and wear a tie... ;)
Think about it. A bunch of extremely odd beings - bouncy gas giants, a neat-freak with affinity for rocks, an intelligent, graceful flower creature, some dissonant flashers with three genders (Un, Ooo and Eee) not to mention the tiny red overlords (welcome!) with their near-identical tiny blue neighbours, and the intelligent transports, all taking place in the night sky? Some classic Sci-fi tropes in there...
What are the Beeb trying to prepare our youngest generation for, I wonder?
I'm just trying to work out who I could have offended with that one. I'm guessing either a student with an overdue paper, an arms merchant who's worried his dirty little secret is out or a pixie who wants to discourage the wholesale consumption of his housing stock.
Which was it? Go on, come clean...
It takes a surprising amount of guts to intervene in a fracas that happens to occur nearby (I know, I've done it) but there's a difference between such have-a-go heroics and actually dressing up like Batman's poorer cousin and going out looking for trouble.
I agree that his intentions were good, and it seems wrong to punish someone for sticking up for that in which he believes, but I can't help speculating how long his career would have lasted around throwing-out time in Sunderland or Pompey.
Wish him luck, and premature baldness. ;)
...and it's one which B2C businesses ignore at their peril. If you can spot a trending issue and provide a good response before it achieves "antennagate" levels of public awareness, then you reap the twin rewards of blocking the detractors before they get started, and providing an answer for future users searching t'internet for a fix for the same issue.
In essence, you need the ability to skim off relevant posts, comments and tweets and feed them into your helpdesk in the same way that your support lines and web pages do. These technologies exist, and they work.
If done properly, it's powerful. If done badly, well, you end up with customers finding themselves in a backwater, ignored and pissed-off because they're not used to looking beyond the first match on Google. If you're lucky, you'll lose a tiny proportion of your client base this way. If the ignored backwater is something the size of Facebook, on the other hand, then you probably need to re-think things...
...quite an important point of the plot was that the second death star was, in fact, already functional (if poorly-defended) - hence the whole "It's a trap!" thing.
Your homework is to watch the trilogy again, and pay attention this time.
(Oh dear. I just weighed in to an online argument over Star Wars plots. This is not a good sign...)
This is an extremely interesting idea; I'd be curious to know how it'll work with the physical SIM being lodged in a particular handset, though. Maybe the service provider will supply five handsets and five SIMs which share their combined talktime / data / messaging allowances dynamically.
Ouch. Head hurts.
I'm offended by all those ridiculous cosmetic ads. "Inspired by Gene Science" means precisely nothing. They could equally well say "inspired by potato waffles" or "inspired by the thought of gullible idiots giving us silly money for cold cream."
But these are ads that really, actually, do harm impressionable folk who end up believing that a box of hair dye from Asda will give you the results that Cheryl Cole has to rely on four hours with stylists and hair extensions to achieve...
Go figure. Then consider lodging a complaint with the ASA. ;)
In the sense that Apple don't support them, you're right.
On the other hand, most users on most other platforms seem to find them useful, on the whole. Leaving them out of something like a handset smacks of a plan to charge a tenner a gigabyte for upgrades...
Nice reference model. I'll wait for the production versions, I think. Without butter.
You weren't joking.
With any luck, your daughter's basic education will be entrusted to people with a little more perspective and common sense.
(and, although your question was rhetorical, my answer is "five minutes ago" and it's something most people do all the time. Simple reason for this: boot time for a pen / pencil / crayon / burnt stick is zero seconds, they rarely run out of batteries and a reasonable scrawl is still, for most people, the fastest way to transcribe information. Also, doctors notwithstanding, there's rarely a format incompatibility issue...)