X201
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Post by X201 on Jun 2, 2023 13:29:37 GMT
Woke lefties the lot of 'em
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2023 15:28:31 GMT
'Mr Speaker - this morning I had meetings with a bunch of absolute fucking cunts ...'
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Lizard
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Post by Lizard on Jun 2, 2023 22:08:02 GMT
I hope he apologised to NZ as well |
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Post by Vandelay on Jun 2, 2023 22:56:22 GMT
I assume this was after he gave an apology to the aborigine people... |
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Post by Danno on Jun 2, 2023 22:59:29 GMT
I assume this was after he gave an apology to the aborigine people... You mean the "watermelon faced piccaninnies"?* *he literally wrote this. |
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Post by Dougs on Jun 3, 2023 5:58:47 GMT
Who on earth is advising that this sort of thing is a good idea? Mad.
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Post by Reviewer on Jun 3, 2023 6:44:24 GMT
That might be the worst voice over work I’ve ever heard.
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Post by sport✅ on Jun 3, 2023 8:20:32 GMT
That was WICKED!
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Post by Whizzo on Jun 3, 2023 9:05:02 GMT
Fucking hell that's dreadful and, on a point of punctuation, when the fuck has waiting lists been hyphenated?
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Post by Dougs on Jun 3, 2023 9:07:49 GMT
Also wrong and probably why it was deleted. £18m didnt sound quite right.
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Post by Whizzo on Jun 3, 2023 13:37:32 GMT
Yeah it was supposed to be 18 billion, 18 million is a lot of money to us but pretty small change for the UK economy.
I do wonder who signed off on that.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Jun 3, 2023 14:01:40 GMT
Screw Barry and Ted Lasso and the rom-com about the australian dog, that was the funniest thing I've seen in ages.
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Post by Rich on Jun 4, 2023 11:21:51 GMT
The Sunaks continuing to show just how much they love the UK.
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Post by Trowel 🏴 on Jun 4, 2023 18:42:46 GMT
This thread on the Post Office compensation scheme is heartbreaking
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Post by Whizzo on Jun 4, 2023 18:55:14 GMT
The way the Post Office failure was handled should get those in charge on prison as part of what happened, there should be a full public inquiry the whole affair.
People went to prison for doing nothing and some even killed themselves over it.
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Post by peekconfusion on Jun 4, 2023 19:21:09 GMT
I don't get why the maliciously incompetent bellends got to run their own compensation scheme in the first place. Given how they treated the postmasters throughout all this, they should have been forced to hand it over to an independent party.
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Post by Dougs on Jun 4, 2023 22:07:37 GMT
Private Eye have been covering that for years. Without it, I doubt we'd even be close to knowing what went on. A genuine disgrace and tragedy. Some people lost everything - money, houses, marriages and their lives. Blows my mind that the company are still being awarded contacts.
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Post by Danno on Jun 4, 2023 22:08:07 GMT
I dealt with 3 bankruptcies that fell out of this. 2 of them were absolutely broken, 1 was furious beyond all reason and we had to get her arrested before she would cooperate.
I didn't believe them at the time. 50% of my cases were from institutions like HMRC, Trading Standards, HSE, for violations of this that or the other (and all of those were justified) so the Post Office saying postmasters had been stealing just felt like another bit of public money being nicked, I guess.
Nationwide, there must have been a pattern that could have been spotted but lol government agencies.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jun 4, 2023 22:38:05 GMT
As far as I can tell, they knew the computer system was screwed from the jump but anyone who could do anything about it went into arse covering mode and left them out to dry.
It would be bad if it was just incompetence but it’s both that and malicious.
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Post by Dougs on Jun 5, 2023 5:23:22 GMT
You might buy that a handful of postmasters had their hands in the till, but at some point it has to look very suspicious.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Jun 5, 2023 6:19:31 GMT
Fujitsu should be coughing up a lot of the money. I assume they weaseled out of it?
Why anyone would hire a big Japanese Corp to do a software project is beyond me.
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Post by X201 on Jun 5, 2023 8:23:07 GMT
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Post by X201 on Jun 5, 2023 8:30:43 GMT
The way the Post Office failure was handled should get those in charge on prison as part of what happened, there should be a full public inquiry the whole affair. People went to prison for doing nothing and some even killed themselves over it. The statutory inquiry is still underway at the moment.
It's now getting to the meaty phases of who knew what and when along with the possibility of people actually ending up in court for lying under oath, lying to Parliament and just general lying.
Along with the Met not wanting to disclose interviews under caution in case it harms future prosecutions.
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Post by Whizzo on Jun 5, 2023 9:47:44 GMT
Fujitsu should be coughing up a lot of the money. I assume they weaseled out of it? Why anyone would hire a big Japanese Corp to do a software project is beyond me. Fujitsu bought up ICL, which had tons of public sector work.
From personal experience they were brought in to completely revamp the college that I worked at network and PC setup that I had been one of the original architects of. Apparently the IT team that built the fucking thing couldn't be trusted to update it.
The shitshow they installed limped along with constant firefighting for the academic year until the following Summer when pretty much everything bar the hardware was binned and the in-house team changed everything.
One example of their inexperience with systems that have to face students was they said they'd locked down the Windows workstation build and asked us to try it with a student account. I crippled it in under 10 seconds, they'd not set the access rights properly on C:\Windows so I just del *.* it.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jun 5, 2023 10:03:41 GMT
They went on a big expansion push in the 2000s and most of their products/services were a shit show. We took a load of servers from them on a big discount and the RAID drivers only worked properly on one particular flavour of OS with a specific service pack. They were absolutely fucking useless.
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Lizard
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Post by Lizard on Jun 5, 2023 10:10:44 GMT
Fujitsu provide our IT support and they're fucking shite
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Post by Whizzo on Jun 5, 2023 10:14:49 GMT
It's "nice" to see nothing has changed in the 20 odd years since I dealt with them.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Jun 5, 2023 10:21:06 GMT
I remember reading a blog post about 10+ years ago about (i think) ICL and how they won all these big public service contracts and then did awful work for massive prices, and how if they just hired a small startup company / freelancers the could probably do far better work for 1/100th of the cost. Mainly talking about web apps and web sites.
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Post by dam on Jun 5, 2023 12:19:29 GMT
My mate managed to get a job with one of the big consulancy companies in Aus, then moved back to the UK. Was working on big social security systems. PhD in Biochemistry, zero coding experience, but was let loose on it. No real insight into what effects the changes he made would have elsewhere on the ancient legacy systems.
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Post by sport✅ on Jun 5, 2023 12:35:52 GMT
PhD in Biochemistry, zero coding experience, but was let loose on it. Sounds like the next Team Lead for Neuralink. |
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