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Iceland magma drilling project may revive giant UK power cable link - Reuters

Looks like we had the plan pre-brexit to power 1.6 million homes.

Iceland are sitting on enough to fuel the whole of Europe, they've always said this and always wanted investment; sure there'd be huge losses, but it doesn't seem ridiculously expensive to setup and looking at those pictures they don't seem to be awful massive eyesores.

 

A. Follow the money. Spending overseas development money in places like Kuwait and Oman doesn't seem to have much to do with poor Africans.
B. Giving those poor Africans energy via gas or oil may be cheaper in the short run but they need to import it and are more exposed to price volatility than we are; solar is currently more expensive per kWh but the direction of travel is down (whereas long term gas and oil are inevitably up) and can be capitalized and be much less price volatile. And y,know, lots of sun and shit. Plus, when developed economies (plus China and India) start trading and pricing on the basis of cradle to grave environmental costs (which is inevitable), hydrocarbon powered economies are going to be doubly fucked. So we're not doing them any favours.

 

He's IT support.

Not IT security.

Not his job

 

Exactly. If he needs to do something on your profile then you login and hand the PC over to them to do what they need to.

 

I'd sit with him while he did it and enter the password when required.

 

How do people actually ride bikes?

I just feel my bollocks getting slapped around and squashed. It’s fucking horrible.

Do you guys just have really small bollocks or can you suck them up into your body?

 

I'd sack him for asking the question.

 

You on a road bike?

I occasionally feel a bit of bollock hang - but then I never wear pants.

In general I've taken a few years to get a seat thst fits my seat bones well and only buy that model now. Comfy and supportive of my nads

Of course, mountain bikers stand up way more than road bikers - especially when going downhill, so nads aren't as much of an issue.

 

Road bike?

Fuck knows. I’m at Center Parcs with the kids. I’m not having fun.

/edit: Cracking the 4th beer of the day for the bollock-agony.

/edit2: I bet my arse is bleeding too.

 

View: https://youtu.be/OACjYGw6BkA

 

Our IT guy plugged in his laptop but a paper clip had become jammed between the plug prongs in his bag...there was a fucking massive bang and the entire office PCs dropped out, you can imagine the carnage.

Well you should have backed up while you were working

 

Outright demanding the password? Big no-no.

With us, more than 50% of our users leave their password with us out of carelessness and "fck standing in the IT office for until he needs my password input", so they just scribble it themselves and chuck it to my guys, then fck off to wherever.

Not that it's ok, and we even advise them to change it once we're done. But if they didn't participate in this complacency, it'd take ages to get things done.

 

What IT tasks require access as the user nowadays?

 

Answering to @MYstIC G aswell:

When someone receives a new laptop (or replacement due to old/broken), setting up his profile on the new laptop requires the user to logon. As most don't want to wait until the IT guy gets to that step, they just leave their password. Or, they just walk in claiming x or y doesn't work, and then they want to fck off to wherever and not wait - you can only properly troubleshoot from within his profile, and with automatic lock at 15 mins and potential reboots, you kinda either need him to be physically there to input the pw, or he just chooses to leave it with the IT guy.

Like I said, we always advise them to update their password - some do, most don't. And yeah, we have local admin user, but it's useless when the work requires the user to be logged on.

 

So your users are lazy and not prepared to spend some of their time ensuring that your IT systems are secure - treating IT seriously.

We sack them people. But then I work in banking

 

Every thing in my company is self service. So pc comes with a global base image pre installed from the manufactuerer. You just need a internet connection and an hour or so to have it all up and running.

Its why we have about 4 it staff to support all the end users on site problems for the whole of the uk.

 

The exchange rate

 

Yep.

I'm thinking of taking everything I have and sticking it in a stock market tracker for the short term - if the pound tanks even more on a no-deal Brexit then at least I'll be hedged against it

 

All my shares are in dollars so I can't complain about that. Still another 99 reasons to bitch about Brexit though.

 

Yep. My tiny portfolio has gone up 20% in the last 10 months.

Not because of appreciation of value, just because the pound has dropped like a fucking stone

 

I got a bank account with dollars in it from dollar places so no worrys for my usa holiday this summer

 

People who don't give way when you're getting off the subway car.

 

Hordes of commuters who surround train doors rather than creating space to let people off first. A big arc of them. Like diving into a swimming pool of dickheads.

Of course, they do it because they're anxious to get one of a limited number of seats...

 

They could have some decency and self-respect, but that’s a far cry for some.