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I believe the smartcards and USB readers our bank supplies us for authentication of online transactions are supplied by Gemalto

Are they affected as well ? I would expect so

"At present BT already covers most of the UK with hybrid Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC) technology"

That's bullshit for a start, the rest likely is too

Where's the link to the source and the schematics instead of the PR pieces ?

Big goose migration stop on the other side of the hill from me. Used to have a couple of power outs a year due to bird strike on the line until they finally wised up and put it underground

Nope, an IP address isn't a unique identifier.

All it might do is identify the person who pays the ISP.

What did they pay so much for if not the brand recognition ?

Much easier to use an existing brand than try to create a new one

The government get no tax from this, what they have taken from you, they have given to the charity.

as I said, you've donated the tax you would have paid on it to charity. The government is only involved as a middleman passing it on to the charity

You're not paying tax on it, you're donating the tax you would have paid to the charity

Why not do charity donation like the UK ?

You sign when donating to say that you paid tax on the money you donated and the charity gets the tax refund, increasing the value of your donation

The amendment you mention says

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Can't see anything there that affects a private companies ability to include terms in a contract which would restrict your free speech, perhaps you could point it out to me ?

Minor but important point.

They're not refitted at Faslane. When they were sited at Faslane the quid pro quo for hosting them was supposed to be that they would be refitted at Rosyth on the Forth.

Sadly Rosyth got screwed over in favour of refitting them at Devonport to try to prop up some marginal seats.

Surely municipal broadband would establish a basic minimum level of service. After that private companies just have to compete in the market based on speed, price and a better service.

Sorry, can't say that last bit with a straight face....

If there's one thing that experience has tough me it's this.

There is no such thing as being pedantic because assumption is the root of all fuck ups.

NEVER assume anything

You seem to be a little confused.

"Working software [is valued] over comprehensive documentation"

You then go on to state that this means UX takes priority.

UX does not take priority, the ability of the software to perform its function takes priority. Pretty software that is easy to use but doesn't do what it's supposed to is useless software.

I've used the software, it was OpenERP in its previous incarnation. I've ploughed my way through the developer and user documentation.

The documentation is abysmal, much of it is not updated between versions and can refer to settings, functions, etc that no longer exist. In some cases I've seen it refer to whole sections that no longer even exist like report design and outlook integration. There are numerous places where it refers to things that do not exist unless a specific module is installed but at not point does the documentation ever mention that the module should be installed.

On the developer side, there appears to be much that is broken by design rather than by error. For what is supposed to be a piece of critical business software, the inability to do something as basic as a bank reconciliation and print off an aged debt report out of the box is unbelievable.

Perhaps working on the core competencies of the software instead of diverging into including web site builder and CMS systems ? Your product can't do something as useful as calculating the cost price of a Bill of Materials assembly, so get the basics working and documented clearly before you do anything else.