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Then it was noted incorrectly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGKVQNtkdzw

https://loudwire.com/rolling-stones-once-wrote-rice-krispies...

Current versions of MacOS allow you to have a slideshow for your wallpaper

This is a fairly loose thing to say. Firstly no the UK doesn't have a judicial system. There are separate legal systems in England & Wales, in Scotland, and in Northern Ireland.

Amongst many other issues, The Post Office has a historic freedom to investigate, pursue and prosecute criminal cases on its own behalf- no need to persuade e.g. the police. This has been shown, for anyone with any doubt, to be a massive conflict of interest. Another repeated occurrence is the discovery that the Post Office claimed, but would not provide evidence and used this 'position' to bully people into accepting plea bargains. Essentially the Post Office dishonestly and deliberately abused its position in numerous cases to bypass the legal system in each of the home nations so that defendants would simply turn up in court to plead guilty and be sentenced. Had these cases been required to meet the standards of a conventional criminal investigation and trial in any of the UK home nations, many more of them would have failed to convict.

And which of those is a marketable IBM product that 'normal' people have heard of? Red Hat was an acquisition.

Struggling to understand why this is relevant for discussion on hackernews

You make it sound like AOL was cool before the Time-Warner merger and people didn't joke about e.g. the free trial CD's

So there was a single specimen ever seen - in 1862. Can we really be confident that this was a separate species and not some mutation of some other species?

I get all the 1000 variations on the same shit product with ridiculous brand names on Amazon UK

Everything old is new again. I used to think that the Etherkiller was a joke... http://www.fiftythree.org/etherkiller/

Definitely not in the UK either

I think that the elephant in the room here is "Why are cover letters required at all?". If it is relevant work/career/etc. experience then it should be in the CV. CV's are expected to have a clear structure and address specific points. Nobody looks sideways at parsing them without reading every word or searching for keywords. What's the argument for some fancy high-effort redraft that's hard to parse? Spoiler- headhunters very rarely request cover letters.

So an illustration of the sheer inhumanity of some work environments

Madoff pleaded guilty, was sentenced to 150 years in prison, forfeiture of US$17.179 billion, and a lifetime ban from securities industry. He died in prison after serving 11 1/2 years.

Sam Bankman-Freid was orginally arrested in the Bahamas in December 2022, extradited to the US and bailed before being remanded in custody in August 2023. His trial is due to start this week so he still accused but not convicted or sentenced.

What exactly is the different manner that you are referring to here?

Not sure why you're talking about US law here. USA doesn't even recognise ICC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_the_Internat...

You realise that the subscriber count is typically showing only the subscribers from your own instance?

A 'Delta Force' if you will

My solution: https://github.com/tombonez/noTunes

(i.e. I use this. I did not create it)

"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." --James D. Nicoll

Parents said "ground breaking" which is fair. 'Innovative' though? Apple are fantastic at making success out of a polished second entry to the market, e.g. the iPhone wasn't the first mobile phone, nor the first touchscreen personal device; the iPod wasn't the first personal digital music player, etc. I don't really see a first device in the 'mixed reality headset' space- I wouldn't count Oculus or Google glass

This is blogspam from a life coach/ influencer isn't it?

A lot of commenters seen to be missing that the question is being asked with reference to a Starbucks in France.

iPlayer applies geofencing comparable to many other streaming services. Yes they pursue people in the UK regarding watching without a licence. No I've never heard of them extraditing people from other countries for breaking a UK specific law. Bear in mind that you can't get a TV licence for outside the UK. I struggle to see how that would work. My guess is that this is a Starbucks specific rule.

This is unlikely to have been an Apple pay specific issue. There's a lot of transaction pattern matching on card payments in the UK. You may get your transactions blocked if the card provider thinks they're suspicious. You can contact your provider and get it unblocked again.

In this case it's pretty clearly uncharacteristic behaviour by any measure, including the geographical movement between transactions.

You're comparing Google how it was then. Not how it is now

It was an honest attempt on the crawlers' part and it was a more level playing field. If you didn't find what you wanted on lycos, you could look on Yahoo or Alta Vista or WebCrawler or something instead. For a time there were meta Search engines that allowed you to search other search engine amalgamated results.

Not really everyone's familiar with the example of cooking recipes being breakfast with the author's life story in order to improve their position in Google rankings, but it's far more prevalent than just recipes. Today I tried to look up something about a feature in a particular piece of reasonably popular desktop software. The top hit that wasn't an advert was several years out of date. The second hit was clearly artificially inflated to long form journalism to try and get me to read a thousand words where 10 would do. Duck duck go linked me to some actual recent results, just like I would have expected with the crawlers of the previous era

IIRC this is similar to the experience with Windows where people have been struggling for years to get consistent patch states

Captain: Move 'ZIG'. Captain: For great justice.

> basically eligible for the notice period, which is 2 weeks

That depends on the contract. 2 weeks might be typical for a US contract but it can certainly vary.

> You could perhaps sue for other losses due to breach of contract but it wouldn't be wrongful dismissal and it would be a major departure from the British way of doing things.

I'm sorry I don't know where you get this idea of 'the British way of doing things' I've lived here my whole life and I've never heard this. Regardless, it doesn't constitute an argument. Consequential loss is absolutely a thing.

This is a really terrible example for your argument considering that the digital camera was invented at Kodak but they refused to market it https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/1...

> It's like, imagine that I arrange to meet a friend in a pub, but he suggests a phone call instead. I can go to the pub and make the phone call from the pub. But why?

Brilliant! I'm stealing this!