GoodbyeMrChips

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by GoodbyeMrChips 5y ago
> your identification of who is in the minority here might not be accurate Are you seriously suggesting a students speech should be curtailed because they are in a minority! (Or a majority for that matter). You are either trolling, or yo
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by GoodbyeMrChips 5y ago
Because universities are culturally regarded as havens of free speech and the sharing of ideas. If I don't want to listen to somebodies ideas (or read their books), I will make that decision thakyou. Not the students union! What is is
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by GoodbyeMrChips 5y ago
Ummmm Our UK students unions are repeatedly preventing people speaking on campuses because they object to their views [1]. This IS 'cancel culture' and it is not healthy for our democracy. Whatever happend to "I disprove of w
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by GoodbyeMrChips 5y ago
Only a small portion of the worlds Hams are subject to the FCC. Digital experimentation is wide open and active here.
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by GoodbyeMrChips 5y ago
In the UK, credit cards are free (some specialist cards aside), including an automatic direct debit so you never forget to pay it off, so you never get charged interest. Never paid a penny in fees or interest in over 15 years.... and an ann
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by GoodbyeMrChips 5y ago
Join the club. The email formatting was so shite, I'm pretty sure any savvy reader assumed it was pishing (even though the URL appears legit).
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by GoodbyeMrChips 5y ago
Except we don't have a "credit score" in the UK. Credit reference agencies instead report credit history. The difference is a subtle but very important one, as it allows companies to assess your individual circumstances, rath
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by GoodbyeMrChips 5y ago
> future, where every company makes a large slice of its profit from selling user data Which is why we have the GDPR to prevent this dystopian shite! The only people on HN who object to the GDPR are those whos scummy business model explo
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by GoodbyeMrChips 5y ago
UK also. I reported a minor crime and had armed plod turn up on my doorstep as they were "in the area". I rather politely told them to fuck off. (We can do without militarisation of our police service thankyou.)
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by GoodbyeMrChips 5y ago
> Amazon delivered a laptop to my house that I never ordered Common scam here in Blighty where a "courier" later turns up to collect the laptop from you. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49450485
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by GoodbyeMrChips 5y ago
Your sir, have just described the Chilling Effect. It's a very powerful reason to oppose monitoring of legitimate communications. The Rational Wiki has a good write up. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Chilling_effect
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by GoodbyeMrChips 5y ago
Pirates in a Norwegian fjord? Don't be daft!
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by GoodbyeMrChips 5y ago
> I've been in a sailboat and had Coast Guard machine guns pointed at me and ordered to leave the SF shipping channel Why on earth is American law enforcement so braindead macho? Does anybody think this is acceptable?.... To do some
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by GoodbyeMrChips 5y ago
Heh.... UK = England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland. None of these accents sound remotely alike. Back to the drawing board with this methinks. > So a posh southern English accent would be the same category as a northern one? I&#x27
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by GoodbyeMrChips 5y ago
> And then again optimized thermonuclear weapons Here in Blighty, during the early cold war we built fall-out shelters and equipped a civilian force with "Green Goddess" fire engines to enable them to extinguish fires from nucl
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by GoodbyeMrChips 5y ago
You say that like it is a bad thing! It's lightweight, has the information I need with no spammy advertisements.... yet has a quirky, slightly fun design. Looks good to me! EDIT: And best of all, it isn't optimised for a sodding 1