Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People

Spirit_2

lostinrates wrote: »

Like many young solicitors, DH has written several uncredited chapters in books no one reads and are now outdated anyway. I think he has his name on two books though, I'll ask him to remind me. .

Some years ago I had designed and implemented something that was capable of being transferred on a national scale and seconded to a Govt Dept to share my knowledge in contributing to designing a national pay system for a very large workforce.

I was asked to meet & brief ministers and the PMs office. The reputation of my employer in this field became known in Whitehall and my then Chief Executive was feted, spoke at conferences about it and then he was offered a job in Whitehall leading on the implementation of this.

zagubov

tomterm8 wrote: »

It's actually a criminal offense to do that... s13 of the Theft Act 1968 (Abstracting Electricity). You're only contractually allowed to use the current for telephone equipment. They used to use it to take hackers to court before the computer misuse act (the modems they used took power from the telephone lines, and contractually you weren't allowed to use the telephone for illegal purposes).

The telephone line voltage when I was a kid was IIRC very low and was meant to just power the bell. It couldn't cope with more than 4 phones (each phone in those days had a Ring Equivalent Number or REN of 1 or 1.5 and your home current couldn't cope with a REN of over four).

What modern phones use is a mystery to me.

lostinrates

Spirit wrote: »

Some years ago I had designed and implemented something that was capable of being transferred on a national scale and seconded to a Govt Dept to share my knowledge in contributing to designing a national pay system for a very large workforce.

I was asked to meet & brief ministers and the PMs office. The reputation of my employer in this field became known in Whitehall and my then Chief Executive was feted, spoke at conferences about it and then he was offered a job in Whitehall leading on the implementation of this.

Stink, stinks, stinks.

And they rarely get found out because the people around them don.'to know what's what else they would have thought of it too. :rotfl:


My mother wrote a book when I was a baby and she was stuck at home for a couple of months and it was published under publishers own label with no author credit...I.e. Stolen, pictures added etc) she wanted to pursue it but my father who didn't want attention about it talked her out of it. I think that might have been the beginning of the end for them!

Spirit_2

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

My parents say no dogs upstairs. My Dad tries to make sure Yossie's not upstairs either, because he has a penetrating yowl that could wake the dead, and a frequent desire to change location at about 3am. So if he's upstairs, he yowls until someone wakes up enough to open a door for him.

I do not like dogs upstairs either - although our previous dog as he got older would come up and sleep in our bedroom - this one does not. Dog wind eugh is not an aphrodisiac.

The cat however sleeps on our bed and wakes us up when she wants something/company. She creates a racket of we shut her out.

Pets observing marital activity is one thing, worse was twenty odd years ago when a very small voice was asking why daddy was on top of mummy:eek:

tomterm8

zagubov wrote: »

What modern phones use is a mystery to me.

I think that it may depend on whether you've got a fiber optic line, or conventional.

Google says for conventional less than 50 volts DC, which might be enough to charge a mobile. Or that link may be a lie

lostinrates

zagubov wrote: »

The telephone line voltage when I was a kid was IIRC very low and was meant to just power the bell. It couldn't cope with more than 4 phones (each phone in tjhose days had a Ring Equivalent Number of REN of 1 or 1.5 and your home current couldn't cope with a REN of four.

What modern phones use is a mystery to me.

we'll look at it at the weekend, It must have some sort of screw or bracket and we can just lay it on the floor if need be. Who knows they might be in tomorrow to sort it out, . Its a short job I think. No big deal. But I've reached that slightly mad stage they do on grand designs, you know that bit when you start saying ' god , what berks' when they are pushed by a tiny issue. That's me, this week. I will not have that pole removal held up ( somewhT ironically as the heating engineer is on holiday next week and won't be back till week after unless company move someone else onto the job, :rotfl::D)

tomterm8

Spirit wrote: »

Pets observing marital activity is one thing, worse was twenty odd years ago when a very small voice was asking why daddy was on top of mummy:eek:

Always better to lock the door FIRST, before you give your kids a couple of grands worth of therapy bills.:D

lemonjelly

Well, on the positive side, I've kinda made a start on the course. Not a great one, but a start. I hope to do a little more this evening.

I need to get my backside into gear to get a structural survey sorted too. Last time I looked on the rics website, & got nowhere.

procrastination. I do it so much, even though I hate doing it...

Nikkster

lemonjelly wrote: »

Well, on the positive side, I've kinda made a start on the course. Not a great one, but a start. I hope to do a little more this evening.

I need to get my backside into gear to get a structural survey sorted too. Last time I looked on the rics website, & got nowhere.

procrastination. I do it so much, even though I hate doing it...

I'm still making my way through the pre read so I'm sure you're ahead of me. It's been a busy week. I think (hope) it's going better than I thought it might, but there is still plenty of potential for the rest of this year to be very tough indeed. We shall see.

Lemonjelly - did you decide not to go with the surveyor suggested by the solicitor?

Nikkster

Hope all goes well tomorrow (today?) Gen.