Posts by nijam 1153 posts • joined 4 Nov 2011
> The large supermarkets often bring out "own brand" versions of new products, copying the product and packaging, but seldom the quality.
In my experience, own brands are usually quite easy to distinguish, but are by no means always inferior quality - surprisingly often they are are better.
Maybe changing an injector was that simple 20 years ago, not so much these days.
> I own a car it is my duty to know how it works.
I doubt many people have the time or mental capacity to apply that principle to everything they own. Knowing how something works is - very obviously - not the same as being able to repair it; how far down the rabbit hole do you think people should be expected to go, I wonder?
> Majority of the UK population? Growing support?
Maybe not now, but at the time, definitely so. Don't forget they polled more votes than the SNP, who have many more seats in Parliament.
The only reason they imploded is because they were set up to fight the battle, not clear up the mess afterwards. Neither UKIP, nor Cameron, nor any sensible person, expected the vote to go in favour of brexit. Cameron thought, along with apparently politically-informed people, that offering the brexit referendum was an empty promise to silence the whingers. Not his fault he was wrong about that, though you seem convinced that blaming him as an easy target (because he's doing something else now?) is better than blaming those more directly responsible. There's a long enough list still active in UK politics, after all.
> ... Ringworld creator's civilisation failed because of an errant bacteria being accidentally introduced that ate all of their superconductors.
As I recollect, it was not accidental - it was a deliberate act by a (different) alien civilisation.
Which somehow makes all this talk about enzymes and the (presumed) bacteria that produce them slightly more scary.
> There is no way to read the original court order to imply that it asked for anything remotely resembling a "universal skeleton key..."
And yet, as should be evident to all readers of this august journal, the court order was based on a request from the FIB that they knew full well could only be done in such a way as to be a universal lockpick. I'm surprised that even needs to be pointed out.
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> if you had a Notes "evangelist" in the company you would find pockets of little Notes based apps all over the place doing clever (and sometimes not so clever)
Yeah, we had one of those. "Sometimes not so clever"? In fact, usually not so clever, we found.
> ... because there was no easy replacement for what those apps did
Our experience was that the main difficulty was in finding out what they did (what they were meant to do was often somewhat different), so they could be ported to an actually-supported system.
> Might as give up any attempts at rehabilitation.
In this particular case, it's been stated that the SELF-PUBLICIST gave interviews about his activities after being convicted. Rehabilitation may well have ridden off into the sunset at that point.
It may also be a sound reason for this case not to set a general precedent.
> Like many here I was deeply involved in fixing Y2K issues
Whereas, like many others here, I was involved in wasting my time confirming that none of our software or IT equipment would be affected by the Y2K issues. (And just to make the point, I'll point out that it was repeatedly hyped as a "millennium bug", when it was merely a "century bug".)
> 1) the stuff is not available on the internet
Actually, it probably is.
> 3) the staff are key to the selection process
I take you haven't actually been in a store recently
> 4) buying across internet is otherwise impracticable - DIY materials (pots of paint, length of 2 by 4)
DIY and builders merchants do online sales and they deliver
> 5) browsing is fun (allegedly) - garden centres etc
I refute that allegation
> 6) I need it now!
... so I order online instead of having to wait until the store opens? (Maybe you closer to that particular store than I do, though.)
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