Paid Members Lenin Posted September 26, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted September 26, 2016 Arnold Palmer dead at 87. 2016 is taking them all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members bAzTNM#1 Posted September 26, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted September 26, 2016 I'm just hoping Roger Moore makes it through the year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Lenin Posted September 26, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted September 26, 2016 Yeah he too has been conspicuous by his absence at events & functions this year. Horrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Maverick Posted September 26, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted September 26, 2016 He's been touring with his after dinner speaking q and a type thing. He seems alreet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikehoncho Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 Smart-phones can be hacked/cracked/accessed, all thanks to an Israeli company. Â http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37441109 Â *shudder* Â They unsurprisingly decline to comment on their customers, but you just *know* that they'll be selling to the intelligence services, for starters, plus individual police forces everywhere eventually. Â It's not God watching you masturbate, it's Mossad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members SpursRiot2012 Posted September 26, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted September 26, 2016 Eh. Google based phones are notoriously susceptible to that sort of stuff. And private messaging services that advertise end to end encryption may claim that shit is the bane of law enforcement but you gotta watch what messenger service you're using. Threema and Wickr are the best bets. Telegram works as well but is a bit dodgy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted September 27, 2016 Author Moderators Share Posted September 27, 2016 What's dodgy about telegram? I switched to that because threema was a piece of shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members bAzTNM#1 Posted September 27, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted September 27, 2016 Wickr is what the fine, upstanding people of the Dark Web use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Sergio Mendacious Posted September 30, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted September 30, 2016 The dodgiest thing about Telegram is that until this thread is only heard about it as a preferred method of communication for ISIS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted December 5, 2016 Author Moderators Share Posted December 5, 2016 Does anyone have a link to a good, balanced article about Southern Rail, RMT, ASLEF etc. and why we've got to the point of constant strikes, what they're for and generally what the fuck is going on? Â It affects me continuously but I haven't bothered to take an interest yet, because I'm a slack idiot. Â Or maybe one of you knows enough about it to give me a bit of an explanation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Gus Mears Posted December 5, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted December 5, 2016 The argument centres around the wish of Southern Rail to make services operate with drivers being responsible for the opening and closing of train doors, not conductors.  This does not necessarily mean conductors will be fired (numbers would stay the same initially), but according to Southern Rail they will be able to offer a better customer experience if they are not required to also operate doors.  The RMT claim it will endanger passenger safety. Reading between the lines, Southern Rail want to eventually can some of the guard staff and are lying and RMT are lying if they think for one second this is about passenger safety instead of protecting jobs. They would both do well to stop being fannies and actually admit to each other what the issue is rather than continuing this hopeless charade which only damages passengers.  Incidentally, for my two pennies worth, Chest, rail staff do get a ridiculously cushy number in some respects i.e getting overtime on a Sunday and drivers being given an inflated 'Walking Time Allowance' for, seriously, the journey they make betweem the crew room and the train they are driving. From an RMT perspective, they have had great success bending over companies/the gov before so this makes complete sense, because it may well work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted December 5, 2016 Author Moderators Share Posted December 5, 2016 I didn't imagine it would be something that mundane, and also seemingly unrelated to their general shit levels of service when strikers aren't happening anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Gus Mears Posted December 5, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted December 5, 2016 Both sides are looking at the long term ramifications of this basically. Hence why it's highlighted an issue that no one in their right mind could care about that much. RMT are scared that this would be the start of some 'Thatcher and miners' style burning of benefits, like the couple of examples I gave above. Southern Rail are desperate to start curtailing some of those benefits to recoup money and, long term, increase the efficiency of the train service so we aren't spending about 30% more on rail staff than other countries with far better services (Germany and France for example). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted December 5, 2016 Author Moderators Share Posted December 5, 2016 But what they're recouping is years of their own under-investment having mounted up, right? Their shit running of the service has just caught up with them.. Or is that not the case? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted December 5, 2016 Moderators Share Posted December 5, 2016 If they are getting rid of conductors wouldn't that meant they lose a shitload in unpaid fares? I reckon a fair amount of people aren't going to buy a ticket if they know it's not going to be checked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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