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Post by Three Litre on Aug 2, 2021 16:04:54 GMT
We ae actually going backwards in terms of fraud preventation I think. Same with car security where high spec cars can stolen without them even needing to touch the keys. You should be able sue the car manufacturers for thousands for that.
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Post by Sparky on Aug 2, 2021 16:30:38 GMT
We ae actually going backwards in terms of fraud preventation I think. Same with car security where high spec cars can stolen without them even needing to touch the keys. You should be able sue the car manufacturers for thousands for that. Totally agree 3L.
It isn't hard to create devices to jam key fobs and the like - anyone with a pretty good sense of electronics (car data is available) and also someone with a good knowledge coding/software/firmware/programming can make these devices.
They may be available via certain internet auction sites and most likely the "Dark Web".
Criminal gangs would pay quite a bit for someone to come up with devices that can unlock high spec cars.
There are "teams" who will back engineer security equipment.
40 odd years ago - there were some criminals who specialised in Safes, others in Intruder Alarm equipment.
One of my neighbours is a Detective and he once told me that as fast as Police/Fraud prevention teams find ways to detect/prevent such crimes - There are criminals that are always 10 steps ahead and devise another method.
I'm not too set on Smart Meters (way too many reasons why, to list here) - though one of them is the fact someone with a laptop can "read" a streets meters by simply driving up the street slowly. This was promoted by smart meter manufacturers - telling consumers that someone didn't need to visit the house to read the meter.
I read a tech spec manual for one meter - and it's quite disturbing just how much monitoring & control can be done remotely. That is open to exploitation by criminals - all they need is a laptop and some software.
I'll be sticking with my tried and tested meter for now.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Aug 10, 2021 19:47:29 GMT
No doubt it's the same all over England but what does it say about people that they stop wearing masks because the government says they can, but ignore requests from supermarkets & other places to keep wearing them for the sake of others?
I went to the post office today & there's a poster on the door saying 'please continue to wear a mask to protect the vulnerable', yet people, mostly youngsters it seems, go in without one. The staff are wearing masks all day long in post offices, supermarkets, etc. so if I was them I'd resent the hell out of customers not wearing one, how much of an inconvenience is it to wear a mask for 10 mins?
I actually think wearing a mask is probably not going to offer much protection in real terms, ironic then that since we've been told we can choose not to wear one I've kept mine on!
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Post by Nightfly on Aug 10, 2021 22:24:44 GMT
I went to the post office today & there's a poster on the door saying 'please continue to wear a mask to protect the vulnerable', yet people, mostly youngsters it seems, go in without one. The staff are wearing masks all day long in post offices, supermarkets, etc. so if I was them I'd resent the hell out of customers not wearing one, how much of an inconvenience is it to wear a mask for 10 mins? I've been into work as normal since the start of the pandemic and that has included a 60 minute daily train commute. I still have the same handwashing and mask wearing regime as I had 17 months ago. As far as I'm concerned, it's a tiny mild inconvenience to do the right thing and protect myself and others. The other advantage of mask wearing is that the unmasked family who piled onto the train last week, all with smoker's coughs (and that included their kids) who not only loudly chatted about which one of them had Covid first but also mentioned contact with someone with HIV, couldn't tell which one of us that were wearing masks was calling them a set of ***s ;)
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Post by Sparky on Aug 11, 2021 8:04:53 GMT
I went to the post office today & there's a poster on the door saying 'please continue to wear a mask to protect the vulnerable', yet people, mostly youngsters it seems, go in without one. The staff are wearing masks all day long in post offices, supermarkets, etc. so if I was them I'd resent the hell out of customers not wearing one, how much of an inconvenience is it to wear a mask for 10 mins? I've been into work as normal since the start of the pandemic and that has included a 60 minute daily train commute. I still have the same handwashing and mask wearing regime as I had 17 months ago. As far as I'm concerned, it's a tiny mild inconvenience to do the right thing and protect myself and others. The other advantage of mask wearing is that the unmasked family who piled onto the train last week, all with smoker's coughs (and that included their kids) who not only loudly chatted about which one of them had Covid first but also mentioned contact with someone with HIV, couldn't tell which one of us that were wearing masks was calling them a set of ***s ;) Not against wearing masks, I still do. Though, I assumed (quote - Matt Hancock circa March 2021) "Most if not all of the Vulnerable had been jabbed with his wonder vaccine"
My youngest son is exempt from wearing a mask due to being Autistic and he struggles to breath and gets into a panic attack.
I had some bonehead leap on me on Monday, telling me I was a poor parent, very irresponsible by letting my son swan around without a mask and was putting him and everyone else at risk.
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Post by Nightfly on Aug 11, 2021 10:10:36 GMT
I've been into work as normal since the start of the pandemic and that has included a 60 minute daily train commute. I still have the same handwashing and mask wearing regime as I had 17 months ago. As far as I'm concerned, it's a tiny mild inconvenience to do the right thing and protect myself and others. The other advantage of mask wearing is that the unmasked family who piled onto the train last week, all with smoker's coughs (and that included their kids) who not only loudly chatted about which one of them had Covid first but also mentioned contact with someone with HIV, couldn't tell which one of us that were wearing masks was calling them a set of ***s ;) My youngest son is exempt from wearing a mask due to being Autistic and he struggles to breath and gets into a panic attack.
I had some bonehead leap on me on Monday, telling me I was a poor parent, very irresponsible by letting my son swan around without a mask and was putting him and everyone else at risk. I sympathise with anyone struggling with an exemption and whoever challenged you should have have made the connection in that if the family are wearing masks but one isn't, then it's a fair assumption that one of the group has a medical exemption. I've no doubt there are some mask wearers who probably get off on creating conflict. I've never challenged anyone myself and wouldn't dream of it, but I have occasionally moved away/distanced from others if I have felt uncomfortable and have sometimes overheard comments "What's up with him?" etc as I've been walking away.
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Post by Sparky on Aug 11, 2021 13:19:28 GMT
My youngest son is exempt from wearing a mask due to being Autistic and he struggles to breath and gets into a panic attack.
I had some bonehead leap on me on Monday, telling me I was a poor parent, very irresponsible by letting my son swan around without a mask and was putting him and everyone else at risk. I sympathise with anyone struggling with an exemption and whoever challenged you should have have made the connection in that if the family are wearing masks but one isn't, then it's a fair assumption that one of the group has a medical exemption. I've no doubt there are some mask wearers who probably get off on creating conflict. I've never challenged anyone myself and wouldn't dream of it, but I have occasionally moved away/distanced from others if I have felt uncomfortable and have sometimes overheard comments "What's up with him?" etc as I've been walking away. My son has a sunflower lanyard and a badge in it which explains why he is exempt. This was provided by the National Autistic Society. What angers me is the fact he wears a lanyard, has the badge - and still we get aggro. It certainly isn't the first time.
I agree - there are those who get off on causing conflict. I wouldn't bother approaching someone - unless they are coughing in my face of course.
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Post by Cartman on Aug 16, 2021 18:13:47 GMT
Culture wars and this "cancel culture" which has crept in fairly recently. It will actually be the end of culture if it is allowed to go unchecked. I can maybe see the sense in new n material, if the publisher thinks there is some content which might not fit current sensibilities, but applying it retrospectively to tv/films/music etc from earlier years I think is wrong.
It's reminiscent of what you get in authoritarian regimes, imagine you are a publisher there and you can only out out stuff the government allows, you get a submission..
"What's the theme of this work?"
" it's about a worker who starts to doubt the values of the people's republic, but then realises that the state is, in fact, fantastic "
"That sounds great, it's just what the state culture bureau will want, just wait here, while I risk arrest by the Stasi by listening to Abba, the Clash, ELO and The Dooleys in my secret hiding place"
No one is cancelling Fawlty, Ferris, Collier, Regan, Trotter, Fletcher, Rigsby or Butler, these are heroes!
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Post by Nightfly on Aug 17, 2021 11:12:09 GMT
"That sounds great, it's just what the state culture bureau will want, just wait here, while I risk arrest by the Stasi by listening to Abba, the Clash, ELO and The Dooleys in my secret hiding place" Getting caught listening to The Dooleys is almost as bad as getting caught by The Dooleys Agree with everything you said, Cartman. Apply the necessary standards when making current stuff but you can't airbrush history. Leave the Carry On's alone too (which, to be fair they have for the most part)
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Post by Cartman on Aug 17, 2021 20:01:06 GMT
If it continues we will end up with just state sponsored rubbish like in East Germany or wherever. There's the odd thing from the past that's possibly best forgotten, Love thy Neighbour is the obvious example, it was, in my opinion, crap anyway and isn't any great loss, but otherwise leave classic TV/film/music alone.
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