Posts by fruitoftheloon

@Steelpillow: Re: Still, one day...

Sp,

would i be wrong in assuming that you either a current/former employee thereof, orthat you also own shares/stocks in one of the many companies providing this bleeding edge combat ready solution (my words, not theirs, with added irony)??

@Teiwaz:Re: @AC:As she is 14 years old

Teiwaz,

methinks my point skimmed your head by a few inches, I DID NOT state, imply, or suggest that there are NO countries/states/communities in the world where a 14 yo may be assumed to be 'between' that of an adult and a child.

The world is not binary to me, but how I interact and parent our son is [most of the time].

FYI wife no 1 &I went throught the whole formal process of being approved as adoptive parents here in England, to say that opened my eyes to having a sprog is a bit of an understatement...

Ymhv.

Thanks for your input (not being sarcy btw!)

Jay.

@MrT:Re: @MrT:Numpties

Mr T,

thanks for the suggestion matey, he has a Samsung Note 8 he could try it out on.

Have one on us!

Cheers,

Jay.

@Roland6

Roland,

for the last twenty years or so I have used many variants of laptop - all plugged in for 99% of the time, which has had no detrimental effect on the batteries.

Ymdv!

Cheers,

Jay

@Hans 1:Re: Haa Haa Haa

Hans,

I am not being sarcy here btw, would you be so kind as to detail specific reasons as to why 40% of our GDP is about to go walkabout?

And when, inquiring minds would like to know!

Regards,

Jay

@ Throatwarbler Mangrove: Re: Not me . . .

What he said!

@Disgusted: Re: Can't we get rid of May?

Disgusted,

a little question for you, I was wondering how you came to your conclusion about why so many folk [me included] voted to leave, did you spend a ton of your own money on some statistically valid research or jump to conclusions and trip over your own prejudices?

Btw my vote to leave had 'nowt to do with immigration, but I can understand why some folk would hold that opinion...

Hey-ho!

Jay

@Dr. Mouse

Dr M,

me too....

Regards,

Jay

@Packet: Re: I was using FaceId (or whatever)

Packet,

are you having a laugh or just not terribly bright???

I mean, having quite a few GB of music stored (inaccessibly) in the cloud out here in the countryside just makes so much more sense than HAVING IT IN THE F'ING PHONE, doesn't it now?

Has it ever occurred to you that some folk may have different reqs to you, e.g. I f'ing hate touchscreens, so guess what - my phone has a keyboard!?

Cheers,

Jay

@nagyeger: Re: embrace... extend... bloat?

Big G's new idea may not be perfect, BUT some of us who live in the country have shite mobile signal at home, plus the walls of our house are 2-3 ft thick.

Bizarrely Visa have introduced sms 2fa for my wife's account - she doesn't get ANY signal at all near the house.

The net result of which is that visa won't get used as much in our household - silver lining etc.

Cheers,

Jay.

@John Smith 19: Re: "removing Facebook extends battery life...

JS19,

I picked up my keyone from carphone warhouse - it has zero annoying clutter, incredible battery life - with light use it gets charge up about twice a week, which isn't too shabby, and the keyboard is AWESOME - especially the whizzy shortcuts.

Cheers,

Jay

@Anne-Lise Peach

Anne-Lise,

I charge my Blackberry Keyone about every three days, I find the BB keyboard (which doe lots of VERY useful stuff) to be a fabby 'droid.

Ooi Carphone warehouse usually stock them if you wanted to give one a test drive...

Ymmv.

Cheers,

Jay.

@AC:Re: I've thought of this often

Ac,

well it's not quite a mill house, but our 16c thatched cob cottage [literally] in the middle of Devon has the BT Infinity thingyamabobby, which methinks isn't too shabby...

Cheers,

Jay.

the-triggerer: Re: Green statists' silence speaks loudly

t-t,

I have tried to figure out what you are prattling on about.

I failed...

@Ken Hagan: Re: Who'd be a web designer?

Ken,

err wrong, I do.

Jay

@AC

Dear AC,

yes, there's this whizzy thing called VBA, which you can do some awesome stuff with!!!

Here we run a business, not a church that worships everything not made by Microsoft.

Ooi Win 10 drives me nuts and the ribbon in office is one of the stupidest 'improvements' I have ever seen on a bit of software.

Ymdv.

Jay

@DougS: Re: @fruitoftheloon

Doug,

yup, agree with you almost completely.

Whizzy tech is great [it pays my bills], but 9X% of the population hereabouts aren't going to be spending £30-70k on a new whizzy autodoodical vehicle at any point in the future are they now???

Cheers,

Jay

@J R Hartley: Re: Poor Design

JRH,

even worse, if Microsoft built a car, the handbrake would be in the boot [trunk] and you could only turn left if you had a pink bobble hat on and yellow socks...

Cheers,

Jay.

@wolfetone

Wolfetone,

if I remember to deliberately keep my mouth open whilst chopping onions, the effect is lessened - presumably I am breating in more of the compound in the immediate atmosphere - so less 'lands' in my eyes...

Cheers,

Jay

Re: AC:Re: This seems similar to the global snooping (encryption) issue.

AC,

there is not-a-littie irony in that someone hiding behind the cowards curtain thinks that it is OK for any form of fishing expedition to be used to 'pin the dirt' on someone

Which btw is the logical conclusion of your [I label it this reluctantly] "thought process".

Civilised [for a given value thereof] countries have due process, and there is a jolly good reason for that...

Been on any marches recently???

Regards,

Jay

2+2=5: Re: @Michael H.F. Wilkinson: Your thinking about it wrong...

Well, you would hope the lucky bunny would get overtime for each 'sheesh' too...

@Allan George Dyer: Re: @King Jack:

AGD,

ah, but bearing how fast them there particles come out of the linear accelerator, look at the options for long-distance treatment eh?

Cheers,

Jay

@itzman: Re: Market research

Itzman,

yup, I'm one of them....

Have one on me!

Cheers!!

Jay

@Haldus the minor

Haldus,

are you old enough to use a computer without a grown-up making sure you don't venture into dodgy waters?

I was going to ask if you were a virgin, but that may have been inappropriate...

@Dominion: Re: @Sabroni

Dominion,

you haven't quite thought this one through have you matey???

So you think that people who own a bit of a company (via their shareholdings) should pay more tax.

So what happens to companies or organisations (such as pension funds) that own shares in other companies, should they be paying more tax as well??

Jay.

@andy 103: Re: @45RPM

Andy,

it's a shame I can only give you one upvote! I say this not in jest, have you considered going into politics?

I'd vote for you matey...

Cheers,

Jay