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New comment by hdgvhicv in "CBP updated its electronic device search directive in Jan 2026"

hdgvhicv — Sun, 24 May 2026 19:52:09 +0000

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New comment by hdgvhicv in "SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket"

hdgvhicv — Sun, 24 May 2026 07:15:20 +0000

Yes reusing falcon 9 was hard too.

Being a cynical naysay isn’t hard.

New comment by hdgvhicv in "The death of the brick and mortar toy store"

hdgvhicv — Sat, 23 May 2026 20:15:28 +0000

Then you collect the tax from the bank.

Can’t avoid a land value tax as the land is forfeit if the tax isn’t paid. Doesn’t matter who owns it.

New comment by hdgvhicv in "Wi-Wi is wireless time sync at 1 nanosecond"

hdgvhicv — Sat, 23 May 2026 10:23:40 +0000

TC are fine for the typical number of devices at home, and are very cheap.

New comment by hdgvhicv in "The death of the brick and mortar toy store"

hdgvhicv — Fri, 22 May 2026 20:51:32 +0000

Let’s assume that 10m is the land and it’s a 5% tax. That means the bank is paying 500k a year to keep an empty property. That’s real cash flow problems.

New comment by hdgvhicv in "The death of the brick and mortar toy store"

hdgvhicv — Fri, 22 May 2026 20:39:30 +0000

> by the way, I have no quarrel with.

I do. Shops, cafes, pubs are closing left right and centre because the median person can’t afford labour intensive unskilled jobs. The majority of the public are earning little more than minimum wage (1.6 times). 25 years ago it was 2 times.

Wages compression means shops, cafes, pubs closing, as exemplified today with Morrisons closing 100 local shops, putting people out of work, denying people easy access to local shops.

New comment by hdgvhicv in "The death of the brick and mortar toy store"

hdgvhicv — Fri, 22 May 2026 20:02:33 +0000

Then it’s worthless and the state will take abandoned land for $0.00.

If the land is worth less than nothing (contaminated etc) then there should have been a bond involved to ensure the clean up fee was collected.

New comment by hdgvhicv in "The death of the brick and mortar toy store"

hdgvhicv — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:58:52 +0000

On which case it’s owned by the state and the state can do whatever it wants. Like rent it out for $10 a year to the local knitting club.

New comment by hdgvhicv in "The death of the brick and mortar toy store"

hdgvhicv — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:49:00 +0000

Who’s that we? Because that’s exactly who America put in power time and time again.

New comment by hdgvhicv in "The death of the brick and mortar toy store"

hdgvhicv — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:40:50 +0000

And you need to run them back to back all day, every fay. Not just at lunch time or before after work, with no down time, no quiet days because it’s nice weather and people are out enjoying it.

New comment by hdgvhicv in "Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans"

hdgvhicv — Fri, 22 May 2026 07:20:47 +0000

Good example. In the U.K. many guns are illegal and schools don’t get shot up. In the us they are legal and school frequently get shot up.

New comment by hdgvhicv in "Michael Keating has died"

hdgvhicv — Thu, 21 May 2026 22:28:57 +0000

Red Dwarf had a tiny budget initially, you just need good writers and actors

I can’t imagine Yes Minister’s budget was particular high either.

And it’s not just confined to the 70s and 80s. The IT crowd budget was pretty low, gave us some classic relatable episodes.

You don’t need a big budget. Even the “big budgets revival of Doctor Who with Edleston in 2005 paled in comparison to the budget of the most recent series, but the quality was so much better.

New comment by hdgvhicv in "Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD"

hdgvhicv — Thu, 21 May 2026 22:10:01 +0000

My oldest server is on 8.04.

New comment by hdgvhicv in "Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video]"

hdgvhicv — Thu, 21 May 2026 08:03:49 +0000

https://youtu.be/ebGLFVzvdfM?si=kJNHWJ5zuF3s9JIb

Turns out it’s not a major thing

New comment by hdgvhicv in "The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers"

hdgvhicv — Tue, 19 May 2026 22:00:14 +0000

Maybe I should rephrase it

Only America loves having unaccountable private companies collect data but hate it when the accountable government does.

New comment by hdgvhicv in "The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers"

hdgvhicv — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:27:08 +0000

James Bond had a solution for this decades ago

New comment by hdgvhicv in "The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers"

hdgvhicv — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:25:05 +0000

Only america can think there no harm in mass collection of data, and actively is against any attempts to limit it (gdpr for example) because it’s “anti growth”

New comment by hdgvhicv in "Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools"

hdgvhicv — Sun, 17 May 2026 22:39:43 +0000

Fuck@off.com tends to work but I’ve sometimes had portals give refuse that as a “fake”, same with bob@bob.com. Billg@microsoft.com is my fallback.

New comment by hdgvhicv in "VoIP brings back old-fashioned pay phones to rural Vermont (2025)"

hdgvhicv — Sun, 17 May 2026 22:35:22 +0000

I know half a dozen. All from the 80s and 90s, and only two which actually exist today.

Other than that I know mine and my wife’s.

Oddly enough I knew a company which had a phone number which was two digits transposed from my home number - 818614. My number until about 1993 was 818641. Didn’t realise the company was still going until a couple of weeks ago when a lorry pulled up outside my window with the name and phone number on.

The other number I remember is my school number for some reason, I can’t think of ever have rung it. It’s still the same number today, 30 years later.

New comment by hdgvhicv in "Tesla Solar Roof is on life support as it pivot to panels"

hdgvhicv — Sun, 17 May 2026 22:07:59 +0000

Certainly isn’t today. In the U.K. solar panels have about a 14 month payback, no incentives other Thant hey are currently tax free (like food. Electric from the grid has a 5% tax)

On top of that there’s an inverter, and if you can’t use all the power immediately you’d need a battery too, which tends to increase the cost.

The biggest cost though is installation.