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Post by crabbyoldgit on Dec 11, 2023 19:23:59 GMT
As an ex telecoms engineer who hates the concept of the always connected always available world , get a new mobile and give the number to nobody or as near as possible. I have a cheap tablet purchased from Facebook with cash, loaded with only one email address from some strange Dutch provider who is a bit security mad , never sent or received an email on it , never purchased anything on it , not loaded with any social media sites or banking details. Only used for browsing using an onion browzer.Now I am sure somebody somehow can identify me from it but it will be hard. Use it to access sites that I see recommended on my main device but feel uneasy in any way about and as a kind of get your noses out of my life to the large data gathering companies. The number of sites I cannot enter because the site cannot access my data or my IP address is frightening. And no I do not use it for porn the security settings on the browser mean I cannot stream any video content , something to do with security flaws in the video software used. So how safe is my device, any thoughts from any ex software experts out there.
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Post by crabbyoldgit on Dec 4, 2023 20:32:43 GMT
£0 this month just like every month for the last 30 odd years Have you tried buying some? Yep got about £200 worth and won nothing , ever! In probably over 40 years and yes I am starting to take it personal.
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Post by crabbyoldgit on Dec 3, 2023 14:28:22 GMT
£0 this month just like every month for the last 30 odd years
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Post by crabbyoldgit on Dec 2, 2023 9:39:30 GMT
Ilmoro sorry to ask but the default figure you give Does it include or exclude unrecoverable loans. Thanks for your work on this I find it very useful.
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Post by crabbyoldgit on Nov 29, 2023 12:38:34 GMT
Trouble is, if reports received are correct the big bucks institutional business is a busted flush.So where does that leave AC to go.No retail or institutional trade at a profitable level and they sure cannot try and jump back into retail. You know sorry it's all been a big misunderstanding here gbba 3, surprise!
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Post by crabbyoldgit on Nov 27, 2023 9:23:58 GMT
I respect different views on the way forward and way I see it we all have very little if any control over the way AC play this out. Personally intend to withdrawal weekly from now on instead of monthly as not sure if money in the cash account is ring fenced away from grasping administrators or can be used to cover their fees. As for the last 2 votes it's b every time, don't trust the transfer of assets into property holding company, why and any loan that can be brought to a conclusion before a potential administration the better.
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Post by crabbyoldgit on Nov 24, 2023 15:45:46 GMT
Making some assumptions that the complainants are successful and AC call in administrators to the retail arm, I don't think it will bother AC at all. Representational damage will be controlled by A C absolute control of the narrative to the only audience that matter to them. IE we wanted to do the right thing, pursue a managed wind down until the end in the best interest of lenders and borrowers but contrary investers forced us into administration. A C directors will get large retainers to assist the administration and refunds/ fines will never be payed as they will be unsecured creditors in the administration. Harder banking investors will just see AC disposing of a uneconomic retail arm at no cost a good business decision. What are we achieving here , I do not get it, hope I am wrong.
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Post by crabbyoldgit on Nov 20, 2023 18:54:13 GMT
Um I do wonder if those comparative homicide rates are more about the availability of weapons than the existence or non existence of the death sentence. Here couples hit each other or on occasion stab which the injured party will probably will survive, a 45 calibre weapon at short range however, fatal . Unless you're suggesting that the death sentence be available for all serious assaults... No on balance I am opposed to the death sentence. 1 Do not believe in the infallibility of jury,s or the legal system 2 Uneasy moral feelings
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Post by crabbyoldgit on Nov 20, 2023 12:44:34 GMT
Um I do wonder if those comparative homicide rates are more about the availability of weapons than the existence or non existence of the death sentence. Here couples hit each other or on occasion stab which the injured party will probably will survive, a 45 calibre weapon at short range however, fatal .
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Post by crabbyoldgit on Nov 9, 2023 15:59:22 GMT
Sadly a girl I went to school with ran 2 sub post offices on the island and horizon wrongly lost her both businesses , her partner , house and came close to freedom. Even worse only a couple of months ago she was begging on Facebook for rented accommodation as her landlord was selling up. She has never recovered, luckily local people on the island remembered her story and the when I last heard had sorted accommodation out for her . Post office managers I hope were jailed for the way continued to pursue sub post masters when they knew of the system issues.
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Post by crabbyoldgit on Nov 5, 2023 14:36:25 GMT
Sadly I think Ukraine has lost the war, well to accurate we having promised the world the west are going to run away and lose it for them. Just looked at sky news and bbc features for the last few days and cannot see a single mention . Even the ex air force air chair general has given up and only seems interested in the middle east. So what can Putin learn from this , the Americans cannot and will not be relied on, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq prove that. So if he wants Poland , East Germany , and the rest back just make it difficult and expensive and it's his for the taking. If we want security in the UK sell those carriers and build boomer subs fast do not rely on the American nuclear umbrella and be prepared to use them if pushed , nothing else will deter him.
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Post by crabbyoldgit on Oct 29, 2023 18:43:09 GMT
Many years ago I went as a telephone linesman to a complaint of people cannot hear me to an old single farmer. The handset mouth piece was a solid plug of spat tabaco juice from his chewing tobacco habit. The house was Mrs Haversham on steroids , all the lamp shade coverings peeling off , draped in cobwebs , curtains rotted away in tatters in the windows. I fell through the living room floor in the window bay it was so rotten. Nothing had been cleaned in probably 40 years, he apparently ate at the local pub , though if he ever cleaned his clothes God only knows. However he was from enquiry a good and successful farmer and probably worth more than I ever will be or espire to.
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Post by crabbyoldgit on Oct 29, 2023 9:20:48 GMT
I did not choose BG , I was transfered upon failure of my previous supplier. Seems I am bad news for energy suppliers, I become a customer and they go bust again and again. However my latest monthly meter readings due and I go on online to fill them in. As every month I have to do password reset for some dumb reason BG have the email address/I'd on a different page to the password so the password safe does not work and I can never remember it from the previous month. But the password reset will not work so I spend 15 mins on hold to be told I have been transfered to the new improved , better platform, use this link to reset password , the person I am talking to can only deal with old platform customers they do not have access to the new platform?. Why evertime is it an organization improves my customer experience with a new software /platform version I get a deep feeling of dread . So I go on the new password reset get the reset email which has to be used within 24hrs, but it instantly expires instead upon receipt. Phone the new platform help line ,I am 1453 in the que and a quick check of the speed that number is dropping I can't expect a reply in under 10hrs. My mobile battery is not going to last 10hrs . Email complaint it's the only way I am ever going to make progress, I have had an auto response estimated time to deal 3 weeks. Checking online of others experience of the new improved platform, credit balances from old platform gone missing , meter readings on bill no longer representing figures on smart meter because someone's other smart meter is now attached to the bill, smart meter no longer working at all, unable to log on, no bill history, direct bebit gone missing it goes on and on. Please leave me alone it is not bust stop trying to fix it.
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Post by crabbyoldgit on Oct 25, 2023 9:08:13 GMT
I am not sure the boat will float as high again, the young I meet simply do not believe in the home owning dream as much and are certainly unwilling to make the sacrifices required at present. For example a friends son with 2 children has a very good job for around here. A very skilled marine engineer working all over the world for a major marine engine manufacturer , think container ship size engines,on a salary of £50000 a year no over time payed. His rent for an ex council 2 bed terrace house is £ 1500 pounds a month going to £2000 soon , plus rates and power bills. So he needs £26000 plus a year out of his net income. He took a cold look at rarely seeing his family working commonly 14 hour days living on board or in hotels in sometimes dangerous locations and is planning to walk and go on the dole or a local national minimum wage job with housing benefit. His college got stabbed for cash returning to the hotel in Brazil after their complaints to head office of being in a location where all the other guests were prostitutes or drug dealers, refused a move as there was to little profit in the job to move them. So on his last job the companies Turkish division took on a engine rebuild turned down by other international sections of the business as unable to resource. Then they found out they could not resource it even by dragging in engineers worldwide so many were walking away. So it ended up 18 hr days with a lot of the people in the team unable to share a common language, not safe and 3 weeks of it finished him.
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Post by crabbyoldgit on Oct 24, 2023 9:00:55 GMT
Is this a scam ,I think so. So daughter has 1st grandchild and her partners father is not in a good financial position , as a present he buys a session for baby photos marketed at grandparents ,I kind of guessed prints will be charged for and may be a little steep. But wow, the minimum order is £250 for 3 prints and as a special offer £750 for 18. So instead of a nice present the new parents are looking at a big bill or possibly offending grandad by wasting his money and walking. This possibility was raised by the photo business to apply pressure, but thank God they walked. So if your thinking of doing the same present for your child ,don't. The parents have invested in a extra lens for their digital slr and are just going to keep pressing the button until they inevitably get a few good ones that are individual and special to them.
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