They can't go to far down this line, they'll have antitrust issues. They're a mature company doing what mature companies do and letting the middle (marketing) managers who couldn't run a bath, run the company by focusing on cost reduction not earnings growth, and bury it.

We saw this with HP. Remember how we all used to buy HP printers for Linux? I still have my 1990s - please god - LaserJet and can still get toner.

Utterly appropriate that the BBC should report it.

"I'm afraid that you will not be allowed back into your home today. The Met Office [or whatever it's called] has said that the weather pattern is for snow. Unfortunately, it's the wrong type for your locale. Please make alternative living arrangements until further notice."

Why not? They've failed miserably at delivering cost effective rail transport - it's cheaper to fly from your local airport on Ryanair to Spain and back to the local nearest destination airport - they might as well have a go at fucking up housing.

Guessing that the 'houses' are actually train carriages that have been continually stuck in sidings since time immemorial.

Well, well done, western leaders for trying to stop us using currency and move to traceable electronic funds. They're only looking after us. Bless.

Do you use Netflix or other services/products with DRM?

That's your answer.

(P)icked-a-piece-of-pickled-pepper.

Ftfy

Well they've proved themselves more interested in low hanging fruit, rather than criminality.

America is so done. The overcompensation is palpable.

This is the best advice. Bloody hard for me to do, however. Not sure why.

.. And that's why average men and women got the vote in (UK) Representation of People Act 1918.

You'll find it much easier to bathe in water. Bathing cats in fleas is counterproductive.

There is no such thing anymore as a job for life anymore that ended in the 80s. I don't honestly think that's there's a career for life anymore either, that ended in the early years of this century.

Asking someone to choose something to do for 50 years (if they're lucky) at 16 or 18 is folly.

Build yourself a portfolio of skills which you are proficient in and enjoy doing. I would include (1) languages in that and (2) the technique of communication over and above any technical skills you possess.

I say languages because a second language awakens a different mode of thought, maybe not too much if the languages are closely related.

I'm Gen X and was probably never conventionally employable. Company Roles I've had seemed to seek me rather than me them. I wish I had been much more aggressive about a second language much earlier on.

It's not the language itself. It seems to assist in fluidity of communication. I'm not sure that I can explain what I mean by that: the structure of French sentences differs wildly from English sentences sometimes, but about 30% of English words are French in origin. It seems to encourage me to thing about how I am conveying my idea in words without me being cognisance of that happening.