Brexit, for once some facts.

Barry Shittpeas

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I don't belong to or use any social media sites and as for FOMO, I really don't want to know what they get up to, dirty beasts.

I'm involved in activities along with like minded people, much more communicative than peering at and tapping a 5 or 6" screen. I'm on the dozen strong committee of an organisation assisting the Borough Council in running our nature reserve. We have around 40 volunteers assisting us, some 240 paying members we meet regularly in the reserve and communications through our website etc with some 100,000 plus local residents and even a few in various parts of mainland Europe.

We provide a species identification service for all local people and provide a website page for their photos of all that they spot of interest, plus a photo competition with prizes up to £50. We distribute a monthly news sheet and conduct a number of monthly nature walks that anyone can access free. We also provide a term time nature walk service for local primary schools, our chairperson being an retired teacher from one of them, and we have an annual Summer holidays bug hunt with an entymologist and myself identifying finds for any local 5 to 10 year olds accompanied by a parent or guardian.

So I don't need or want facebook or the like, I live a real life.
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FOMO, Fear Of Missing Out. Apparently it’s a social media inspired condition that people suffer from.

I know, there is no hope for the future of mankind.
 
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oyster

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Good news - in a minor sense.

Former Cambridge Analytica chief receives seven-year directorship ban
Alexander Nix handed penalty for ‘potentially unethical’ behaviour linked to scandal
Alexander Nix, the former boss of Cambridge Analytica, has been banned from serving as a company director for seven years over “potentially unethical” behaviour linked to his position at the centre of a global scandal.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/sep/24/cambridge-analytica-directorship-ban-alexander-nix

How about a gaol sentence as well? This is just a minor inconvenience and slight embarrassment (if he is capable of that feeling).
 
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oyster

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Many companies insist you have a Facebook page to help promote their product you cant say no, and if you do then you're out the door all part of the contract you've signed.
Whilst I really would like to see the end of facebook, I am realistic enough to know it ain’t going to happen in the next few months!

But, I really would like to see some real progress in the fundamental approach so many companies have towards their web presence.

For example, companies should at least buy a domain. Have an email address on that domain. (Many don’t even realise that there could be an issue with ISP-domain email addresses.) Have a website, even if one page. Even if it doesn’t do much beyond redirecting to facebook.

Accepting they will also want facebook presence, some way of linking a non-facebook website and their facebook existence could be very helpful. For example, a linkage such that changes they make to facebook get reflected on their non-facebook website – and vice versa.

This would allow access to them by facebook refuseniks (like me). And resilience if ever they are in dispute with facebook and get thrown off for some violation (real or imagined). Or facebook quits the EU.
 
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RossG

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There's a way you can view Facebook pages without having to sign up (cant remember offhand how) which I've used in the past, but sign up myself ... no thanks.
 
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oyster

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There's a way you can view Facebook pages without having to sign up (cant remember offhand how) which I've used in the past, but sign up myself ... no thanks.
I know there are techniques - but I want it to be natural, you look up company on a search engine and go to their site - even if that is a window onto facebook.
 

flecc

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Many companies insist you have a Facebook page to help promote their product you cant say no, and if you do then you're out the door all part of the contract you've signed.
They wouldn't be the only idiot company I've told to get stuffed. As I said to one, "Thank you for letting me know you aren't a company I'd want to work for".

For the one I did go to instead, in four years I halved the staff and multiplied the turnover to ten times that when I joined.
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Have they not spent a fortune buying a fleet of low orbit satellites to implement a UK GPS?

Ministers 'seek alternatives' for UK sat-nav
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-54283493
Russians are messing about with GPS spoofing cos they can...

 
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It‘s the under 40s who are mainly responsible for spreading the disease. The under 30s even more so and under 20s only care about themselves. They are weak and failed generations, totally lacking self discipline and control, capable only of whining and looking for things to blame. It’s not a big ask to say please don’t mingle and associate in large group, but they aren’t up to the task. No resolve to get the job done.

From your stats, now they appear to be paying a price, which is very sad.

The disease isn’t the plague or the Spanish flu.

its ridiculous what is happening.

its your generation that are ruining the economy with fear.
 
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oyster

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Russians are messing about with GPS spoofing cos they can...

And aircraft have been affected - or the reporting of aircraft positions have been affected.

But it seems next to impossible to have a GPS system that cannot be spoofed or jammed.
 

RossG

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They wouldn't be the only idiot company I've told to get stuffed. As I said to one, "Thank you for letting me know you aren't a company I'd want to work for".

For the one I did go to instead, in four years I halved the staff and multiplied the turnover to ten times that when I joined.
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Good for you flecc, efficiency make the wheels turn smoother. On Facebook I was referring to viewing the pages of an individual rather than a business, the law when trying to track a villain always turn to social media first to gain intelligence on someone. It always amazes me when somebody nicks a car or bike then go online to try and shift it, might as well stand on a street corner and stop passers by.
 
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Barry Shittpeas

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The disease isn’t the plague or the Spanish flu.

its ridiculous what is happening.

its your generation that are ruining the economy with fear.
What people are being asked to do isn’t a big sacrifice, but under 40s have generally shown themselves to be weak.

I’m pleased with Sunak’s latest measures. The old Furlough scheme was a payment to do a job for the country. That job was to stay at home and not spread the disease. Instead the under 40s treated it like a big bank holiday and were $hitting in spent burger boxes on crowded beaches.

They have now ****** themselves. These latest restrictions could have been avoided by taking very simple measures, but they just couldn’t do it. And now they are paying the price.

Property rents are going through the roof at the moment. I re-let a property during July and easily got an extra 15%. Once again it’s under 40s who are paying because of their weakness.
 
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