Also reported on by Private Eye. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/special-reports/looting-with-p...
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WOW! Comments pointing out that this is illegal in the UK and Europe under the GDPR removed! What gives?
> you had to pay ..... just to get a bottle of water. The fact that somebody even tried to do this suggests the organisers were dangerous fuckwits. The outcome was unsurprising.
WOW! Posts removed for saying OP's statement that "UK isn't exactly known for its food" is both outdated and prejudiced! Explanation needed methinks.
> The IRA were terrorists. Seconded. To see such a plainly factual statement being down voted on HN is deeply worrying....... I suspect the Americans doing the down voting have never been cought up in a terrorist attack…
Pah Let me introduce you to the endemic Parakeets of London....... and the urban legends they were introduced to the city by Jimi Hendrix and/or Catherine Hepburn.…
Eh? One buys sports cars and wine for enjoyment. The idea of buying the most expensive offering for its own sake is laughable. One doesn't order an expensive claret to drink with fish!
> No matter if you made millions, unless you have pedigree, you don't belong. It works the other way also......... plenty members of our upper class aristocracy are penniless, but are, and remain, upper class. I always…
> The obsession with linking your real life to your online life is the most toxic change to internet culture since the web started. Seconded. As the saying goes; "What is the difference between posting something on the…
> the nuclear power plant I worked at ran mostly on LabView Jesus wept! -Signed, a physicist with 20 years LabView and Fortran experience.
> British and Irish English only? Others can correct me here. You are correct.... Unlike 'merkin English, in British English saying 'half nine' [meaning 9:30] is fine and one would only say 'half-past-nine' if they were…
>Do Europeans just not have analog clocks or watches anymore? Not in Britain we don't. Analog clocks were abolished by Henry VIII. Since then we kept time using sundials until digital watches were invented in the 1970's…
> you generally pronounce it as military time WTF is 'military time'?
> Are there any Metamates I can't be the only one who laughed at this!
> How could a prison system ever really do that? It's a punishment. Reading this, I'd bet £1000 to spat out sweet you are US-American? Because elsewhere, most of the civilised world treats prison as rehabilitation.
Tracking you and storing the data without good reason and without up-front transparency is very clearly a GDPR breach. When will these idiots learn that you simply cannot go gathering personal data on the off chance you…
> "What if F Scott Fitzgerald came up to earth, said "It's pronounced Jatsby", then left?" Oh what you don't know! Robert Louis Stevensons 'Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde', the pronunciation of Jekyll should be…
> being offered stock in your own company Off-topic from the thrust of this conversation, but I always considered the above extremally risky. If your company goes tits-up, you loose your job and your savings. This…
> once back in England, he and most of his crew volunteered to serve in World War One. A very sobering account is, after being cut off from the rest of the world, arriving at the South Georgia whaling station he asked…
heh In my youth, fixing a bug on factory machinery that had broken down (downtime costing £10,000 ph) with senior management and CO standing behind me watching what I was doing.... ..... I told them if they wanted to be…
Also reported on by Private Eye. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/special-reports/looting-with-p...
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WOW! Comments pointing out that this is illegal in the UK and Europe under the GDPR removed! What gives?
> you had to pay ..... just to get a bottle of water. The fact that somebody even tried to do this suggests the organisers were dangerous fuckwits. The outcome was unsurprising.
WOW! Posts removed for saying OP's statement that "UK isn't exactly known for its food" is both outdated and prejudiced! Explanation needed methinks.
> The IRA were terrorists. Seconded. To see such a plainly factual statement being down voted on HN is deeply worrying....... I suspect the Americans doing the down voting have never been cought up in a terrorist attack…
Pah Let me introduce you to the endemic Parakeets of London....... and the urban legends they were introduced to the city by Jimi Hendrix and/or Catherine Hepburn.…
Eh? One buys sports cars and wine for enjoyment. The idea of buying the most expensive offering for its own sake is laughable. One doesn't order an expensive claret to drink with fish!
> No matter if you made millions, unless you have pedigree, you don't belong. It works the other way also......... plenty members of our upper class aristocracy are penniless, but are, and remain, upper class. I always…
> The obsession with linking your real life to your online life is the most toxic change to internet culture since the web started. Seconded. As the saying goes; "What is the difference between posting something on the…
> the nuclear power plant I worked at ran mostly on LabView Jesus wept! -Signed, a physicist with 20 years LabView and Fortran experience.
> British and Irish English only? Others can correct me here. You are correct.... Unlike 'merkin English, in British English saying 'half nine' [meaning 9:30] is fine and one would only say 'half-past-nine' if they were…
>Do Europeans just not have analog clocks or watches anymore? Not in Britain we don't. Analog clocks were abolished by Henry VIII. Since then we kept time using sundials until digital watches were invented in the 1970's…
> you generally pronounce it as military time WTF is 'military time'?
> Are there any Metamates I can't be the only one who laughed at this!
> How could a prison system ever really do that? It's a punishment. Reading this, I'd bet £1000 to spat out sweet you are US-American? Because elsewhere, most of the civilised world treats prison as rehabilitation.
Tracking you and storing the data without good reason and without up-front transparency is very clearly a GDPR breach. When will these idiots learn that you simply cannot go gathering personal data on the off chance you…
> "What if F Scott Fitzgerald came up to earth, said "It's pronounced Jatsby", then left?" Oh what you don't know! Robert Louis Stevensons 'Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde', the pronunciation of Jekyll should be…
> being offered stock in your own company Off-topic from the thrust of this conversation, but I always considered the above extremally risky. If your company goes tits-up, you loose your job and your savings. This…
> once back in England, he and most of his crew volunteered to serve in World War One. A very sobering account is, after being cut off from the rest of the world, arriving at the South Georgia whaling station he asked…
heh In my youth, fixing a bug on factory machinery that had broken down (downtime costing £10,000 ph) with senior management and CO standing behind me watching what I was doing.... ..... I told them if they wanted to be…