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Dont think there have been any financial bail requirements in the UK since the late 1800s.

I had two Nokia 1020s. Yes Windows 8 was a nightmare. The 38Mpix camera sensor at 1/1.5 inches, Zeiss lens, OIS coupled with Pureview software rendered stunning images. Especially low light. 9 years on I've never quite got the same joy out of Pixel Pro or IOS images.

Rally car lighting systems have more in common with aircraft lights. The landing lights on a 757 are standard GE units with 600w, 28v, bulbs, costing $50, that produce 750k candle power. Narrow beam. As bright as the sun. Wider beamed taxi and runway turnoff lights still use 450w.

I had a You Tube Developer account for a year or two. I never saw an advert anywhere.

"According to Eurostat, we pay €0.2246 per kWh here which is 22% higher than in the UK." Unmitigated drivel. Current UK prices are, i pay, euros €0.39 per kWh, charge before Government subsidy is euros €0.59 per kWh.

Mmmm. Imagine the horror of living in a society where gunshots are the norm. Sana'a, Eritrea, Detroit, Memphis, West Bank..... grim.

The Soundstage of TV and cinema 20+years ago was better. Today's Soundstage doesn't favour voice, instead we are aurally assaulted by staged, sfx, background noises to lend some semblance of reality. It's god awful. I've stopped torturing my aural processor and reparsing mumbled phrases to make sense of the dialog. I've unplugged the bass, I don't want to be shaken off the sofa. AND best of all it's subtitles all the way. Easy ro read, comprehend and no more " WTF did she just say?"

It doesn't take too many esoteric texts at $100 plus to make the university library photocopier a very attractive proposition at 5c per A4 page. Copyright law flexibility. Or there's LibGen.

Oh there is a god in heaven. When Asustek ran out of overpriced RT AX86Us I bit the Mikrotik bullet. Bought a hAP Ax3. Works like a dream, medium painful learning curve.

Where oh where do these figures come from? UK. I pay toda, domestic tariff, USD 0.42 per pKWh. Plus 5% Vat. That ignores the Standing Charge of USD 0. 56 per day connection charges, plus Vat at 5%.

I recently looked at upgrading my two laser printers to models that were ethernet and wifi. I got burned so badly by Epson and Inkjet I'll never look at that technology again.

Got the shock of my life at wifi printer hardware prices. Expensive.

I've an ancient, tank like, Dell 5120cn that I bought new from Noahs Ark or was it eBay in 2005ish? Its lifetime page count has only just exceeded its monthly duty cycle. It will not die. A set of mfg. CMYB toners costs under $100 if purchased carefully. That's once every 3 years or so.

The back up laser is a donkey slow but reliable HP laser jet 2605dn. Solid, dependable. It was donated to me, free with a 1200 page count. The mfg. toner prices are still steep, so I avoid, and go for 3rd party cartridges. A set of CMYB is $60. I've only just put one set in since 2010.

I'll use these lasers till they or I die. Or I forget their lan IP address. Wifi connectivity is for the very rich.

I'm of the opinion that if printer manufacturers in the EU try pulling any 'use only my ink or toner' stunts they'll be facing a very very expensive showdown with Brussels or Strasbourg.

I used the Libre FreeStyle 2 system for 6 weeks. A revelation about diet, especially carbohydrates and blood sugar levels. Not sure it picked up my only Hypo and erratic data capture/loss over the whole period. Unexplained by Abbott. I'm Type 2 self inflicted. I'd like to use but not sure it's value at GBP 1500 per annum.

Arise Virtual Solutions Bastion of slave labour practices. At Barnes and Noble near you. I'll not be giving them my money. Ever.

Zwangsarbeit

Nazi Germany all over again.

Shameful America.

177 Questions in Quiz At first scan I have one answer. Hangs head in shame.

I found that work and relationships interfered with my professional drinking career. I didn't really have to worry as alcohol removed both of these impediments. It took many months before I was given insight. A moment of clarity. I am a CPA and various PG degrees. I could not execute cursive writing or read more than two sentences at the end of my drinking career. My first job in sobriety was painting white lines on roads, marking out carparks and asphalting (hard). I found all those tasks challenged me to my then limits. Many years later I reflect that all, yes all, of my life's difficulties in those dark days were rooted in my addiction to alcohol. I stopped drinking, ten minutes, one hour, one day at a time. All my birth family have died of alcohol related causes, asphyxiation on own vomit, alcoholic cardio myopathy, untreated perforated ulcer with sepsis. I don't have to prove them right.

You'd think he might have more value as a turned cyber asset than indicted? Perhaps a DoJ stake in the ground to encourage others to recant when they find themselves in EU territory avoiding Russian cruise missiles ?

Yes. I moved other way from FM to Gmail six years ago. 2016. The FM spam filters were not up to it back then. I preferred the FM UI but..will revaluate decision if Google monetise me (more). I also use Proton Mail, excellent free account.

If your drinking is costing you more than money its usually a problem. Alcoholism is an equal opportunity employer. Are you Willing to take action to stop drinking ? You are not alone; there are many who have similar experiences. Many of these problem drinkers made a decision that today was going to be the day that they started to save their own lives.

I have never been able to sigh into Flickr with anything other than by Facebook ID. All attempts by me/Yahoo to create an Yahoo ID that wasn't locked in some self defeating loop failed.

I've never been a fan of Yahoo or for that matter Hotmail; they force an ID on you which is then hijacked by their email servers to spam all your contacts...again...and again.

Why can't Yahoo just die gracefully ? Why do they have to inflict their death throes on Flickr Users ?