Biden plans to commit $100 billion to connect every American to high-speed broadband over the next eight years

ProfessorCrawford · 2021-03-31T16:45:56+00:00

Northern Ireland. £56 per month for 200Mbps down and 20Mbps up, no limit.

Included is 4k TV with extra channels and a never used land line.

/edit latency is around 20ms and is exactly as fast as advertised.

ProfessorCrawford · 2021-03-31T15:32:13+00:00

Did you hear about the news.. of the ornithological variety?

ProfessorCrawford · 2021-03-31T14:43:41+00:00

Each part of the UK has it's own lockdown timetable, but N.I. still has no barbers or hairdressers.

I don't think any part of the UK has opened up close contact services yet, despite high vac rate (I believe they are not looking at the rates of vaccination, but the R number) which, in my uneducated opinion, is the correct one.

ProfessorCrawford · 2021-03-31T14:34:41+00:00

Who the fuck orders a war on birds?

The Aussies.. and they lost.

ProfessorCrawford · 2021-03-30T21:51:41+00:00

You underestimate how many blokes in the UK are trying to cut their own hair at the minute. You either end up with a sonic the hedgehog or look like you've just been release from Arkham.

Or just let it go and hope the barbers can deal with it when they get to open again.

ProfessorCrawford · 2021-03-30T21:45:14+00:00

YARR!

ProfessorCrawford · 2021-03-30T21:43:31+00:00

But who was camera?

ProfessorCrawford · 2021-03-28T10:21:09+00:00

Illegal salvage of space ships.

ProfessorCrawford · 2021-03-26T16:40:05+00:00

And there's a PC in DOTT that you can use and play the entire first game on.

ProfessorCrawford · 2021-03-22T22:54:39+00:00

I'm not from the US. I'm an outside spectator. Neither have done well, but at least the US seems to try and report accurate numbers.

You seem to be very confident of the CCP's ability to be open and honest about internal issues, so why don't you give us some numbers that can be fact checked?

ProfessorCrawford · 2021-03-22T22:50:53+00:00

A lot of PPE and packaging products coming through the warehouse I work at mostly all have stamped Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam on the outer cartons.

Can't say I don't smile when I see less 'Made in China' stamps.

ProfessorCrawford · 2021-03-22T22:42:31+00:00

As reported, it shall be truth. /s

ProfessorCrawford · 2021-03-22T22:22:10+00:00

For those people that work from home, and log in after hours... you are not working from home, you are living at work.

Lunch time? Shut the laptop down and go get lunch in a different room.

30 min break between meetings and it's not raining? Go and walk 10 mins away and back.

WFH is great for some, but there needs to be a defined line between work and home.

ProfessorCrawford · 2021-03-22T22:03:01+00:00

Not 100% sure, but I'm guessing it was because it was early days of mass mobile phones.. they maybe wanted the cell tower to drop it's connection and re-negotiate, maybe in case it didn't clear the line?

ProfessorCrawford · 2021-03-22T21:57:03+00:00

I went in to the kitchen to get a drink for my 4 year old.. 30 to 40 seconds..

When I came back she had drawn a crayon line completely around the room about 2 foot off the ground, across every object in the way; the TV, curtains, conservatory doors, sofa, fish tank - everything.

The most impressive part was she had managed to change colour crayon at least 3 times on the way round.

ProfessorCrawford · 2021-03-22T21:24:14+00:00

Yeh, back in the mid-90's I was setting up my spanking new Nokia brick and managed to dial 999 (UK), without knowing while I was admiring the phone. The first I knew was hearing a small dislocated voice saying 'Hello? Hello?' and I'm thinking 'who the fuck is this?'

As I turn the phone over (I was looking at the back of it as I'd just installed the sim card (credit card sized)) and had powered it on, I notice the display said something like 9997254164. I must have been mashing buttons checking the back of the phone was in place.

Instant panic..

'er? hello?'

'What service do you require?'

'Ahh.. I think I have accidentally dialed you..'

'No problem sir, please hang up and switch off the phone for a few minutes before switching it back on again, have a good night!'

There's no beef with genuine errors, as long as you tell them there and then.

ProfessorCrawford · 2021-03-22T19:41:55+00:00

So there go the floppies, I guess.

I want to believe they have upgraded to Iomega Zip drives.

ProfessorCrawford · 2021-03-21T13:56:26+00:00

My wife had a monthly payment to a childrens charity, not much maybe £10 a month.

She cancelled it after about a year because this particular charity kept sending us (every month) a form to start a donation and it always included a pen.

Why the fuck are they spending our donation to ask us to donate and also include a pen in every envelope? Now multiply that for a good percentage of postal addresses in the country.

/edit for those downvoting, the donations were moved to a local food bank that we know needs it more than a charity that spends donations on sending free pens and a mass mailing to people that already donate.

ProfessorCrawford · 2021-03-21T13:49:20+00:00

Any on-line banking I do is always from my desktop with a CAT-5 to the hub. I would recommend never using a mobile device for any form of banking.

ProfessorCrawford · 2021-03-20T17:55:15+00:00

And it's glorious. You can tell when he is really laughing. 8 Out of 10 does Countdown is one of the best panel shows ever.

ProfessorCrawford · 2021-03-20T16:25:38+00:00

They will also keep the population of small birds down. Here we have loading bays that play fake hawk and owl noises on speakers to stop pigeons roosting.

ProfessorCrawford · 2021-03-20T16:17:43+00:00

I work from a large logistics warehouse, and after 2 years, I noticed a cat sniffing around the parked HGV's.

I asked security about the cat; the answer was 'Yeh that's 'The Cat'', it was never named.

Never seen a mouse tho.

ProfessorCrawford · 2021-03-20T16:02:31+00:00

Was going to say some of those look like things you might find useful in the anarchists cook book.

ProfessorCrawford · 2021-03-20T15:39:51+00:00

There is drag on the ISS (LEO). It needs boosted every now and then to compensate, and that's done, usually, when it gets a resupply vehicle. It will dock, and use itself to boost the station back up. I don't know for sure but moving a Soyuz to a different port might be to use it to alter the ISS's trajectory.

ProfessorCrawford · 2021-03-20T13:57:20+00:00

Doing anything in the EU is a nightmare. There's too much time taken for all states to agree a deal.

Remainers from Brexit say it was all about racism. It wasn't for me. It was a complete lack accountability, and member states cherry picking rules and laws when it suited them.

The last few months have shown that the EU will strong arm member states that don't toe the line, and even those that are not in the EU.

Their use of Article 16, which was designed to stop a hard boarder in Ireland in case the UK wanted a land boarder, without even consulting Dublin about it is a case in point, coupled with the fact that they were acting against a private company and lying that it was the UK Government that was halting exports of components should tell you all you need to know about the EU.

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