Gripe of the day - What is yours?

[maviczap]

Originally Posted by BanannaMan

It's hard to put into words how it feels to live in a country where little children are being locked away in cages because their parents may or may not have committed a misdemeanor crime.
Just as bad is hearing people who support it.

With a global trade war looming with every ally and trade partner we have, it's a sad day to be living in the US.

If only I could win the lottery my first stop after collecting the winnings would be the international terminal at the nearest airport.

The once mighty symbol of freedom to the world is now a global disgrace and on the UN's list of countries with human rights violations.

Feel your pain Bill. Looking from the outside, this is sooo wrong, but I can't believe some things I've read supporting him! Has echoes of previous dictators?

[Red ones]

It doesn't take many people to get this going. Don't forget it was not the majority who voted for him, Clinton got more votes.

He fed a fear of immigration, then started shutting press coverage down with fake news claims and then barring critical publications from conferences. Now he's using the Bible as justification for an unkind and inhumane application of law and wants 'his people' to 'sit up at attention' like an unstable, ruthless, killing dictator's.

It all sounds too horribly familiar. I'm sure he will stop short of the Night of the Long Knives.

[SV650rules]

EU needs to understand Trump is right (some countries are now waking up from their sleepwalking) and do something to control their uncontrolled tsunami of economic migrants. Norway, Italy, Austria, most EU former Soviet states and Germany the latest to realise, Merkel may well be out before this month ends because of her ill advised 'all welcome' policy. Virtue signalling is fine when it does not result in the destruction of your countries own culture and hard fought values, but otherwise.......... (Sweden is a very good example of wrong-headed thinking).

Maybe Clinton did get a few more votes, but as a percentage it is negligible. Maybe Clinton supporters did not understand what they were voting for (argument often used by anti brexit crowd, but brexit got more votes LOL ).

[timwilky]

Gripe. The rush to cloud host everything.


I have an invoice processing system linked to several ERP systems and export some data to a file share that is picked up by BI systems.


Now one of the BI systems is being scrapped and its functionality built in the "Cloud" suddenly the people that made the decision have discovered they cannot pull from the internal file share and want me to change my systems. No budget, no resource, no change approval. I am making data available that can be consumed by the current solutions. They do not understand that it is THEIR problem if they want to read my data. Grrrhh you would have thought data source was a key question prior to deciding to cloud host an app!

[ophic]

I feel your pain Tim. The Cloud is the latest buzz. A bit like virtualisation was about a decade ago - the "must have" thing. Now I'm not saying in the right circumstances these aren't brilliant and useful technologies but like anything else you need a good reason to migrate.

It seems many companies just skipped the cost/benefit analysis entirely cos er... well everyone else is doing it. And the benefits are obvious, right?

[Popy Fresco]

I returned from the TT Friday the 8th, my ferry arrived at heysham at 23:15 or something like that.


I started driving down and after 2h I started to feel sleepy, so stopped and took a nap as I thought it was the right thing to do. I was more tired than I thought as I didn't heard the alarm and woke up 3h later.
I had a coffee and a mars and kept going to arrive home at 7 am


Today I received a letter containing a fine for being parked for more than 2h at the rest area. 100£, if I knew taking a rest would be so expensive I'd get an hotel room because keep driving with the risk of falling sleep wasn't an option

[admin]

Originally Posted by Popy Fresco

I returned from the TT Friday the 8th, my ferry arrived at heysham at 23:15 or something like that.


I started driving down and after 2h I started to feel sleepy, so stopped and took a nap as I thought it was the right thing to do. I was more tired than I thought as I didn't heard the alarm and woke up 3h later.
I had a coffee and a mars and kept going to arrive home at 7 am


Today I received a letter containing a fine for being parked for more than 2h at the rest area. 100£, if I knew taking a rest would be so expensive I'd get an hotel room because keep driving with the risk of falling sleep wasn't an option

That's bloody annoying.

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[Red ones]

There is legal precedent in challenging these overnight charges. A lawyer well known for fighting parking charges received one at a service station but fought it and won in his lunchtime.

Is challenge on basis that they probably don't have compliant signage (it has to be clear and large print as well as being posted), they probably didn't suffer loss of income.

[kaivalagi]

Originally Posted by timwilky

Grrrhh you would have thought data source was a key question prior to deciding to cloud host an app!

Bloody security headache...more firewall rules, VPN links, account details to securely store yada yada...all cause we should no longer host software or even hardware in the company network...complete waste of money, much like most off shore outsourcing solutions...the IT world has gone nuts, too much bull**** management...

[Sir Trev]

Unfortunately all of the rest areas and motorway services are like this. I actually wandered back down the road once and skimmed through the small print on the warning sign you drive past and cannot possibly read - two hour max or pay or face a fine via ANPR. I can see how it stops "travellers" and freeloaders but an arbitrary time limit seems a bit unfair for someone like yourself that does not need more than forty winks.