I don't listen to the radio either - my phone is plugged into the USB cable. However, when driving through the blackwall tunnel in London recently, my radio stopped playing my music and instead broadcast a warning (that was also being broadcast on speakers in the tunnel) over and over.

So it's definitely possible.

Have they stopped using the BIOS to force-load bloatware / junk into Windows yet ? Is there any way to turn that off ?

This is quite clever of the established ruling elite. Their data is exempt and will not be collected or retained. But people new to politics running against them are not covered by this until they win.

So anyone feeling challenged by a new player will now have an additional valuable tool in keeping their job.

Ok, cool - you got any names for decent fibre suppliers in Togo ?

I believe that politician's history may be excluded from being retained. They're thinking of the children in Westminster.

> And if their profitability falls below what investors demand as a return, then those companies move to China

How ? This whole discussion is about Apple products being sold in countries across the EU, and those countries getting no tax benefit.

Do you really think that Apple would stop selling in the whole of the EU ?

Docklands Light Rail in London. They have a guy on the train who can drive it if need be, but I can't remember the last time I saw anyone in the driver's seat other than a passenger, and I use it twice a day, 5 days a week.

My least favourite word in the English language is just. "Just do ...", or "It's simple, just..."

You hired me for my expertise and the quality work I deliver. I have a track record with this firm spanning several years of high-quality delivery and being right about nearly every technical and process call I've made. But feel free to walk in and denigrate all of that value by telling me to just ...

It has names. My mother in-law got two of these a few days ago. They had her name with correct honorific, home address and e-mail address. It was the most real phishing attack I've ever seen.

You can use + notation. Then you can deal with all the companies that accepted your address using that at one point, then changed a load of their code and no longer accept it. Or some companies where one part of their organisation will accept a + in your address, but another part of the same org won't - Microsoft was an example of this until recently.

I've found it to be more trouble than it's worth in the long run.

Remind me - how many times did Labour attempt similar controls ? Oh, yes, loads.

How long did Labour want to hold people without charge or trial ? 90 days I seem to remember...

It's just politicians - Labour, Conservatives it doesn't matter. They all want one thing - control (which leads to more power). I've never seen a politician here roll back an abhorent policy that they fought massively against when they were in opposition. Because when they're not in opposition anymore, it's too useful to them to get rid of.

It wasn't private property - it was a farm / ranch where cattle were raised for profit IIRC. This meant that farmhands who were working there heard the radio.

Thomson did this to staff just before the Reuters merger too.

> to any single freaking taxi ride i have ever taken

How many taxis have you ridden in, in how many countries ? Because I've had some great rides. Pricey, but lovely.

Really ? I've been able to replace loads on Apple laptops over the years. More modern ones are harder, but so are the comparable windows machines. That's because to make them small and light, they're soldering things to other things.