I'll pay for me and two others! 34p a day not your DHL bill.Thus beginneth the lesson
Brexit:1:1
And it works both ways
102 Euros including import duty. Not good for trade either way is it?
CBI estimate EU membership cost us 34p each per day
Brexit, for once some facts.
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He's right of course. As I posted in late 2019. we've got a Corbyn government, faithfully following Corbyn's policies from nationalising Northern Rail through to large scale borrowing by former chancellor Sajid Javid to rebuild the economy, even before Covid and that borrowing.
Even the dithering is familiar!
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Elsewhere I see people saying the are incensed at YouTube's action - free speech, don't ya know!
Problem is it seems the Tories are in the process of funnelling vast amounts to fund covid projects directly and indirectly to pop up private companies / chums.
Do I detect some frustration?
Breaking it down a little, the problems seem to be:
1. crap signal due to mast objectors
2. crap Motorola phone design
3. crap smartmeters
4. crap Dr. IQ app
1 is not the fault of mobile operators. Look to idiot Britain.
2 is definitely poor, I agree. I recommend Apple both for the quality of their physical and their straightforward UI design. They purposefully limit themselves to things that 'just work', which you hanker after. They also have the best radio alogrithms - if there's a signal, an iPhone will find it. Oh, and switching an Apple off is easy - long press for 5s and then just swipe once for off - no other options.
3. If point 1 is fixed, this is fixed. Smartmeters could also easily support WiFi, but that would mean setting up each one to hook up to a local (and therefore unique) WiFi point. Not going to happen, really. The only solution there might be to have them search for BT FON.
4 is specifically the fault of that developer (and your local practice for forcing it on you). I'd agree that for such a vital service, there should be a web interface too. Tell them!
Unfortunately Wiki is a lost cause now. It completely misrepresents the truth now on anybody political. I'd advise you not to use it as a source of information if you want the truth.
Look on the bright side. You can sue Paypal now as they've been forced to set up a UK reguistered office to comply with FSA rules. Before, they hid in Luxembourg or somewhere like that.
Can I sue them retrospectively for the fake watch I got last year, which they asked me to send back to China at huge expense, saying they would cover the cost, then they wouldn't refund me for the item nor the shipping because I didn't give them the tracking number, which I gave them in theire returns system, and separately to their CS by phone three times and by email twice? In one phone call, the guy even checked it while on the phone and said that it was sorted, then the next day, I got an email saying that I had lost my case.
Can I sue them retrospectively for the fake watch I got last year, which they asked me to send back to China at huge expense, saying they would cover the cost, then they wouldn't refund me for the item nor the shipping because I didn't give them the tracking number, which I gave them in theire returns system, and separately to their CS by phone three times and by email twice? In one phone call, the guy even checked it while on the phone and said that it was sorted, then the next day, I got an email saying that I had lost my case.
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Have you not thought about getting a decent phone? What you're saying about wifi dropouts doesn't make sense. It should be using your home wifi. How can that drop out? You can make free calls anywhere in the world using any of the popular VOIP services, like What'sapp, Skype, Facebook, etc.
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Maybe they don't want the British virus
- Poor Moohen Ali on the England cricket tour of Sri Lanka has ended up in the naughty hotel room after bringing it with him. Not sure he should be trusted with scissors.
There is definitely much sense in checking more than just one source, but I generally find Wikipedia isn't too bad - misguided very occasionally, rather than actively misleading.
Unfortunately Wiki is a lost cause now. It completely misrepresents the truth now on anybody political. I'd advise you not to use it as a source of information if you want the truth.
You shouldn't believe everything you read, as you've just said about Wikiepdia, so where do you go to validate websites such as Project Veritas?
Thanks for your detailed reply, I've responded to those below.
Agreed, but knowing the cause doesn't make it any less an impediment.
Trouble is I don't want to pay Apple prices for something I'll hardly ever use. Being retired and rarely travelling now I really genuinely have virtually no uses for a smartphone, preferring to use my computers for their many online advantages including the large screen, and my cameras for my specialised photography. As for phone calls, trouble with living a very long time is contacts dying all the time and by the start of 2020 I was down to 3 people I phone very occasionally. But two have died, my brother in May and my longest term friend on 8th December, so I now barely need a phone and anyway have my DECT phone. Any smartphone is just the hassle of keeping it in action with occasional charges and making a phone call every couple of months to keep the PAYG SIM card from being cancelled as I know with the one I do have. I'd be better off binning it and sticking with my old simple mobile which works much more reliably.
The energy companies with expressed confidence tried for over three months with all our smart meters, but in the end confessed in letters that they had failed. They included the energy giant EDF, hardly an inexperienced company. Again, knowing the cause doesn't remove the annoyance with this enforced silly program which has cost us all over £18 billions adding to our electricity bills.
We have all told them and even their own receptionists side with us and openly defy the practice policy by encouraging us to phone instead. But we are totally ignored with not even the courtesy of acknowledgements to emails.
It's an example of how smartphones and their whole subject seem to have a peculiar psychological effect on many people. We all know of the many who individually become obsessively addicted to one and are using it continuously from dawn to bedtime, but this seems to extend to various organisations wanting to use the networks. There's the councils insisting on parking meter access only via an app, excluding many from parking. There's the electric car charging point companies insisting likewise with apps that often prove so unreliable that people are stranded. The government felt compelled to threaten them in the end with law if they didn't provide the obvious commonsense of reliable contactless card access to charge and pay. Yet so obsessed they are with wanting us to use smartphones that after complying with that they now charge much more for the electricity if the App isn't used. And of course there's the idiocy of those like my medical practice who cut off website access to try to enforce app use.
There's many more examples and I could go on for ever, but hopefully my point is understood.
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I very much agree that no-one should be disadvantaged by not having a suitable, charged, mobile on a working network, so far as possible.
In particular, I hate using my mobile to pay for things like parking. The complexity of the few I have used is reason enough. But for many areas, the idea that a flat phone battery can have such a profound effect on people is wholly ridiculous, unfair, and discriminatory. (I have recent changed phone - the last one would sometimes require charging three or more times a day by its demise.) Things like air and train travel.
Looks like Trump has worked his magic in Georgia.
Both senate seats going to Democrats:
Georgia Senate election: Jon Ossoff declares victory in race against David Perdue
‘It is with humility that I thank the people of Georgia for electing me to serve you in the United States Senate’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/georgia-senate-election-ossoff-result-perdue-b1783218.html
Both senate seats going to Democrats:
Georgia Senate election: Jon Ossoff declares victory in race against David Perdue
‘It is with humility that I thank the people of Georgia for electing me to serve you in the United States Senate’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/georgia-senate-election-ossoff-result-perdue-b1783218.html
It is, and well argued.
They want your data - as simple as that - to use to their advantage, not yours. And as an app developer that's the part I dislike, and it worries me in terms of freedom. The Wild West of the internet is rapidly becoming a Corral instead. But that's a dicussion for another forum.
James O'Brien played this on LBC radio this morning. Not long after, he had people contacting him saying they agreed with the caller.Maybe they don't want the British virus
Perhaps see my reply to Richtea99 on this post which explains much.
I'm well aware of VOIP but don't use social media, it gets bad enough in here without that supplementation. Skype demands all parties use it and my contacts, now down to one only, don't.
I agree my home WiFi problem is baffling, you tell me why the drop outs. It may be that my router is at fault since I've never used it's wireless facility, having it switched off previously and my internal network hard wired for security. Or it may be that the Motorola only wants to connect to an unspecified BT WiFi but then mostly doesn't, telling me there is no internet connection.
If I had some genuinely useful applications for a smartphone I would pursue the use of one until eventually successful to some degree, but I don't have any uses. Therefore I'm not going to spend large sums on a smartphone I won't be using and which will only have nuisance value. Equally I'm not inclined to spend a lot of time on accessing something of no use to me.
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I see Sainsbury is stocking Spar products in Northern Ireland. Because of supply chain issues.
Good brexit result - Dutch chain supplies British supermarket.
Good brexit result - Dutch chain supplies British supermarket.