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| Thought I'd have a browse at Black Friday deals on Amazon before bed... on 08:30 - Nov 24 with 2830 views | chicoazul |
| Thought I'd have a browse at Black Friday deals on Amazon before bed... on 01:02 - Nov 24 by J2BLUE |
With something like an echo that is a reasonable suggestion. You can't opt out of the internet or CCTV. I could opt out of internet banking and carrying a mobile phone but it would be a major pain in the arse and after the last 5 years my family has had I need the peace of mind of being contactable 24/7 so with those two i'm weighing up the pros and cons and deciding it's worth it. |
I would love to opt out of the internet. I was much happier before I knew what people I don't like think about everything. |  |
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| Thought I'd have a browse at Black Friday deals on Amazon before bed... on 08:31 - Nov 24 with 2830 views | J2BLUE |
| Thought I'd have a browse at Black Friday deals on Amazon before bed... on 07:39 - Nov 24 by GlasgowBlue |
£100 off a sonos playbar which is a bit of a bastard as I bought one two weeks ago. GRRRRRRR
Edit. Beats Studionheadphones eighty quid off. Tempting. Maybe a few hints to the Mrs fir Crimbo. [Post edited 24 Nov 2017 7:54]
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No idea why people buy things in the weeks before Black Friday. I was amazed to see a pop up on Very on Wednesday saying 56 people had bought the Kindle Fire 7 in the last 48 hours at £49.99. Amazon reduce this to a minimum of £34.99 every year. |  |
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| Thought I'd have a browse at Black Friday deals on Amazon before bed... on 08:35 - Nov 24 with 2828 views | J2BLUE |
| Thought I'd have a browse at Black Friday deals on Amazon before bed... on 07:29 - Nov 24 by BanksterDebtSlave |
"Underneath the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me !"
......does any of the above make it ok ? |
No but as the world becomes more connected and technology advances we're going to see everything on the 'internet of things'. As GB says you can already control your lights and heating with Alexa. We are going to make more and more progress which sacrifices privacy. It will be a major trend as as admirable as trying to avoid it really is, it will become increasingly difficult.
Of course there are certain things which can be avoided. No one needs to put their lives on Facebook or Twitter etc. | |
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| Thought I'd have a browse at Black Friday deals on Amazon before bed... on 08:37 - Nov 24 with 2829 views | Reuser_is_God |
Why isn't Black Friday just on the Friday anymore? It's all p1ssing week now.
More American tripe that we don't need in this country. |  |
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| Thought I'd have a browse at Black Friday deals on Amazon before bed... on 08:40 - Nov 24 with 2824 views | J2BLUE |
| Thought I'd have a browse at Black Friday deals on Amazon before bed... on 08:37 - Nov 24 by Reuser_is_God |
Why isn't Black Friday just on the Friday anymore? It's all p1ssing week now.
More American tripe that we don't need in this country. |
The country as a whole probably doesn't need it. For individuals it's brilliant if you use it wisely. I've targeted several things I need and got a great deal on all of them. | |
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| Thought I'd have a browse at Black Friday deals on Amazon before bed... on 08:41 - Nov 24 with 2820 views | StokieBlue |
Surely as someone who wants everyone to pay all the tax that they should a cashless society would be something you would embrace?
If all the transactions were done cashless and recorded in a cross-bank blockchain ledger (or a future, more scalable iteration of that technology) then every transaction would be traceable. Each person would have an address and the tax could be automatically calculated. It would also cut down on fraud and make accounting far easier.
I hardly ever use cash, I honestly don't see much of a point in it anymore - why maintain a load of metal and paper at a cost to the state? Eventually it will be cashless and for the better in my opinion.
I'm actually the opposite to you, having cash in my wallet doesn't make me spending it slower unfortunately. If you have an app like Monzo you can keep exact track of all your cashless payments in real-time with allocations for what you are spending money on that day/week/month making your spending totally transparent.
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| Thought I'd have a browse at Black Friday deals on Amazon before bed... on 08:44 - Nov 24 with 2813 views | GlasgowBlue |
| Thought I'd have a browse at Black Friday deals on Amazon before bed... on 08:31 - Nov 24 by J2BLUE |
No idea why people buy things in the weeks before Black Friday. I was amazed to see a pop up on Very on Wednesday saying 56 people had bought the Kindle Fire 7 in the last 48 hours at £49.99. Amazon reduce this to a minimum of £34.99 every year. |
Never even thought about it tbh. Got the sub as well which is fifty quid off. Annoying. |  |
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| Thought I'd have a browse at Black Friday deals on Amazon before bed... on 08:46 - Nov 24 with 2809 views | blue_oyster |
| Thought I'd have a browse at Black Friday deals on Amazon before bed... on 08:41 - Nov 24 by StokieBlue |
Surely as someone who wants everyone to pay all the tax that they should a cashless society would be something you would embrace?
If all the transactions were done cashless and recorded in a cross-bank blockchain ledger (or a future, more scalable iteration of that technology) then every transaction would be traceable. Each person would have an address and the tax could be automatically calculated. It would also cut down on fraud and make accounting far easier.
I hardly ever use cash, I honestly don't see much of a point in it anymore - why maintain a load of metal and paper at a cost to the state? Eventually it will be cashless and for the better in my opinion.
I'm actually the opposite to you, having cash in my wallet doesn't make me spending it slower unfortunately. If you have an app like Monzo you can keep exact track of all your cashless payments in real-time with allocations for what you are spending money on that day/week/month making your spending totally transparent.
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Every financial transaction is traceable now. But it's the desire to trace it that will always remain the issue. Blockchain will remove responsibility from the chain, and you will not know who is even involved. Unless you're the government. |  |
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| Thought I'd have a browse at Black Friday deals on Amazon before bed... on 08:48 - Nov 24 with 2809 views | Pinewoodblue |
| Thought I'd have a browse at Black Friday deals on Amazon before bed... on 08:41 - Nov 24 by StokieBlue |
Surely as someone who wants everyone to pay all the tax that they should a cashless society would be something you would embrace?
If all the transactions were done cashless and recorded in a cross-bank blockchain ledger (or a future, more scalable iteration of that technology) then every transaction would be traceable. Each person would have an address and the tax could be automatically calculated. It would also cut down on fraud and make accounting far easier.
I hardly ever use cash, I honestly don't see much of a point in it anymore - why maintain a load of metal and paper at a cost to the state? Eventually it will be cashless and for the better in my opinion.
I'm actually the opposite to you, having cash in my wallet doesn't make me spending it slower unfortunately. If you have an app like Monzo you can keep exact track of all your cashless payments in real-time with allocations for what you are spending money on that day/week/month making your spending totally transparent.
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Why would anyone who wanted everyone to pay their taxes even consider buying from Amazon or Apple? |  |
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| Thought I'd have a browse at Black Friday deals on Amazon before bed... on 08:49 - Nov 24 with 2802 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| Thought I'd have a browse at Black Friday deals on Amazon before bed... on 07:45 - Nov 24 by GlasgowBlue |
You can use them as an intercom which is easier than hitting the ceiling with a broom to tell your teenage son to turn the bloody noise down. |
.......or you could throw it at the ceiling ! |  |
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| Thought I'd have a browse at Black Friday deals on Amazon before bed... on 08:50 - Nov 24 with 2804 views | StokieBlue |
| Thought I'd have a browse at Black Friday deals on Amazon before bed... on 08:46 - Nov 24 by blue_oyster |
Every financial transaction is traceable now. But it's the desire to trace it that will always remain the issue. Blockchain will remove responsibility from the chain, and you will not know who is even involved. Unless you're the government. |
That's not true at all.
"Blockchain will remove responsibility from the chain" - this makes no sense
"and you will not know who is even involved." - this also makes no sense. Every address would be allocated to a person when you open an account, it wouldn't be anonymous.
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| Thought I'd have a browse at Black Friday deals on Amazon before bed... on 08:50 - Nov 24 with 2796 views | StokieBlue |
| Thought I'd have a browse at Black Friday deals on Amazon before bed... on 08:48 - Nov 24 by Pinewoodblue |
Why would anyone who wanted everyone to pay their taxes even consider buying from Amazon or Apple? |
Not really sure what that has to do with anything I posted about a possible future cashless society.
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Edit: I see you are referring to my first sentence and not the rest of the post. Do you think that buying it from some other retailer will mean all the tax is paid? [Post edited 24 Nov 2017 8:53]
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| Thought I'd have a browse at Black Friday deals on Amazon before bed... on 08:53 - Nov 24 with 2782 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| Thought I'd have a browse at Black Friday deals on Amazon before bed... on 08:35 - Nov 24 by J2BLUE |
No but as the world becomes more connected and technology advances we're going to see everything on the 'internet of things'. As GB says you can already control your lights and heating with Alexa. We are going to make more and more progress which sacrifices privacy. It will be a major trend as as admirable as trying to avoid it really is, it will become increasingly difficult.
Of course there are certain things which can be avoided. No one needs to put their lives on Facebook or Twitter etc. |
'You' can tell her how much fatter you are getting due to not turning things on and off and then she can tell you to get off your fat arse ! | |
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| Thought I'd have a browse at Black Friday deals on Amazon before bed... on 08:55 - Nov 24 with 2775 views | blue_oyster |
| Thought I'd have a browse at Black Friday deals on Amazon before bed... on 08:50 - Nov 24 by StokieBlue |
That's not true at all.
"Blockchain will remove responsibility from the chain" - this makes no sense
"and you will not know who is even involved." - this also makes no sense. Every address would be allocated to a person when you open an account, it wouldn't be anonymous.
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Indeed, I look forward to receiving my payment from @MickeyMousesMum. | |
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| Thought I'd have a browse at Black Friday deals on Amazon before bed... on 08:56 - Nov 24 with 2768 views | Pendejo |
| Thought I'd have a browse at Black Friday deals on Amazon before bed... on 06:57 - Nov 24 by Benters |
I know what you get if you search wedding photos.. |
Which wedding? Am on 2nd marriage but have been married 3 times.
What do would I get if I search my wedding photos? Definitely weren't digital photography and we paid the dwarf well to keep his mouth shut. |  |
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| Thought I'd have a browse at Black Friday deals on Amazon before bed... on 08:57 - Nov 24 with 2764 views | StokieBlue |
| Thought I'd have a browse at Black Friday deals on Amazon before bed... on 08:55 - Nov 24 by blue_oyster |
Indeed, I look forward to receiving my payment from @MickeyMousesMum. |
Did you even read what I posted? Do you open accounts now with the name @blue_oyster_super_troll?
So once again you are either trolling or being obtuse.
Don't really care which one, either one tends to fit with your MO.
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| Thought I'd have a browse at Black Friday deals on Amazon before bed... on 09:01 - Nov 24 with 2748 views | caught-in-limbo |
| Thought I'd have a browse at Black Friday deals on Amazon before bed... on 07:51 - Nov 24 by GlasgowBlue |
I completely embrace all of this stuff and use it for everything from turning the heating up or down, turning the lights off and having access to more music than my lifespan will allow me to listen to. I think it’s great.
And I’m completely relaxed about it listening to my conversations at home. At worst it may target market me for stuff I like. |
You're happy with it because you trust and support the establishment. You generally support our government's foreign interventions because you trust that their reasons for intervention are honest and for the good of normal people in those countries, despite the fact that their lives are immediately endangered by our intervention. Google's ranking system algorithms effectively censors alternative viewpoints and opposing opinion so you are never likely to change your views because they are constantly being reinforced by whatever you read. The only opposing voices are people like mine, certain independent journalists and possibly members of the labour party. Your openness to the opinion of such voices is to join in with the media and label them all sympathisers for- or bots of foreign leaders your government doesn't like, or simply dangerous or mad. That makes you a very good citizen as you keep the echo chamber loud and vocal. Of course you embrace all this stuff - and this stuff embraces you too. |  |
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| Thought I'd have a browse at Black Friday deals on Amazon before bed... on 09:05 - Nov 24 with 2732 views | GeoffSentence |
| Thought I'd have a browse at Black Friday deals on Amazon before bed... on 01:13 - Nov 24 by J2BLUE |
I considered getting a very basic phone.
If you don't use Google you'd need to use Bing or similar if you want to search for anything? |
Duckduckgo is a viable alternative, it's a search engine that doesn't track you. I don't find its results are as good as google but you can use duckduckgo to proxy your search request to google by adding !g on the end of the search terms. |  |
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| Thought I'd have a browse at Black Friday deals on Amazon before bed... on 09:07 - Nov 24 with 2729 views | StokieBlue |
| Thought I'd have a browse at Black Friday deals on Amazon before bed... on 09:01 - Nov 24 by caught-in-limbo |
You're happy with it because you trust and support the establishment. You generally support our government's foreign interventions because you trust that their reasons for intervention are honest and for the good of normal people in those countries, despite the fact that their lives are immediately endangered by our intervention. Google's ranking system algorithms effectively censors alternative viewpoints and opposing opinion so you are never likely to change your views because they are constantly being reinforced by whatever you read. The only opposing voices are people like mine, certain independent journalists and possibly members of the labour party. Your openness to the opinion of such voices is to join in with the media and label them all sympathisers for- or bots of foreign leaders your government doesn't like, or simply dangerous or mad. That makes you a very good citizen as you keep the echo chamber loud and vocal. Of course you embrace all this stuff - and this stuff embraces you too. |
"The only opposing voices are people like mine, certain independent journalists and possibly members of the labour party."
Independent journalists also have bias as do you. No idea why you've stuck the Labour party in there - most likely to poke GB.
Actually, I can't be bothered to get into this, you'll just say the stuff that you get in your echo-chamber.
Have a lovely day.
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| Thought I'd have a browse at Black Friday deals on Amazon before bed... on 09:34 - Nov 24 with 2688 views | factual_blue |
Mate of mine had to put up with a loud conversation on a train of some bloke trying to harangue his HR department to find a way to sack a woman because, basically, he just didn't like her.
As my mate got off, he calmly said to the bloke (who'd finished his call) 'that was my sister you were talking about'.
(It wasn't, but the bloke's face was a picture). |  |
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| Thought I'd have a browse at Black Friday deals on Amazon before bed... on 09:36 - Nov 24 with 2690 views | factual_blue |
'Nothing to write home about unless you're after one of those devices that spy on you in your own home'
Amazon sell wives?????!! | |
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| Thought I'd have a browse at Black Friday deals on Amazon before bed... on 06:54 - Nov 24 by Pendejo |
Let me get this straight, you searched "boobs" on your own phone and were shocked to see your own photo of your wife... were you expecting to see Chesty Morgan? [Post edited 24 Nov 2017 6:56]
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| Thought I'd have a browse at Black Friday deals on Amazon before bed... on 06:57 - Nov 24 by Benters |
I know what you get if you search wedding photos.. |
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| Thought I'd have a browse at Black Friday deals on Amazon before bed... on 07:39 - Nov 24 by GlasgowBlue |
£100 off a sonos playbar which is a bit of a bastard as I bought one two weeks ago. GRRRRRRR
Edit. Beats Studionheadphones eighty quid off. Tempting. Maybe a few hints to the Mrs fir Crimbo. [Post edited 24 Nov 2017 7:54]
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