Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

GDB2222

Generali wrote: »

Cheers viva, actually I hadn't seen that.

I have some pretty grave doubts about blockchain, most specifically about how to unwind fraudulent transactions. Proponents keep telling me that isn't a problem but TBH I think it's an insurmountable one.

If you can't explain why it's not a problem to someone that spent over 15 years in banking and 2 decades in finance without resorting to jargon then I think it's an unresolved (unsolvable?) problem.

The question of unwinding fraudulent transactions pre-supposes that there is somebody "in charge" who ought to have the power to do that?

To put it another way: If I were that 'somebody' in charge, I don't see why I would want to use a blockchain? I would want to be the only one with the keys to the database. People would send me their transactions, and I would add them to the database. I might publish the database, so that everybody could see what was going on, but I don't see why I'd want the rest of the blockchain concept?

Wheezy_2

PasturesNew wrote: »

EDIT 1: Oh, hang on, an unexpected twist!

Is it Pamela Ewing finding previously deceased Bobby alive in the shower???

hjd

Re footballer haircuts - am I alone in hating Gareth Bale's hair do?
I think that hairdo would be/is wrong on any man (and also on many women).
Not proposing to link to a photo though; no point in inflicting unnecessary mental suffering on those currently in happy ignorance!

oldandhappy

All long-winded though ... as it's furreners


Aumoniers came over from France in the late 1600's so all the ones I am looking at where born in London.....around spitalfields . I missed an Ann born 1771 baptised at La Patente.


Thanks a lot for your input....giving me ideas on searching for....


Mary Ann (Aumonier)Woollams married to William(wallpaper fame)Woollams one of there other Sons Thomas 1812-1862 he married also a Mary Ann (Todd)Woollams (dont know her birth and death years as yet) and took themselves off to Australia with there 2 year old son Frederick James Woolllams1870-1935(This would have been Husbands Grandfather he never met because he was born 1945!)there 2nd child Clara Louisa born NSW Australia 1876 but died in HACKNEY London by 1879 so it might be just the Wife and children that came back because Frederick b1849 seem to go missing....


so it goes on......BW Dianne

CKhalvashi

oldandhappy wrote: »

All long-winded though ... as it's furreners

I'm furren, as is at least one other NP, and at least one other (possibly former) NP (I haven't seen her post recently)

Wheezy_2

PasturesNew wrote: »

.... and not about "hairy little furreners"

Here's a hairy little furrener for you.

Pyxis

I've been thinking about differences between people etc., and two things sprang to mind.

Firstly, it seems to me that in Europe at any rate, the things that make us different from each other are dwindling, certainly in cities and urban environments. The same old chain stores, similar stuff in supermarkets. The same songs on the radio, etc.
Forty years ago, the differences were striking; now they're not!
It's a shame in some ways, good in others!


.**Secondly, there are parts of Britain where I have felt more alien than when I've been abroad! :rotfl:



When I visited Sri Lanka in February, I felt strangely at home. Not just due to the fact that signs, notices and shop names were all in three languages including English, not just the legacy of British colonialism that was apparent in building styles, post boxes and tea plantation names, but also due to finding a mind-set that seemed familiar. It contrasted peculiarly with the free-roaming monkeys, the Buddhist temples and the exotic foliage!


Edit. ** (Just had a horrible thought that people might have thought I meant I felt alien due to ethnic origin differences! I didn't! :eek: I meant due to the particular mindset of the people living there being very different from mine.)

oldandhappy

Wheezy wrote: »

Here's a hairy little furrener for you.

worn out after all that ironing;)

bugslet

hjd wrote: »

Re footballer haircuts - am I alone in hating Gareth Bale's hair do?
I think that hairdo would be/is wrong on any man (and also on many women).
Not proposing to link to a photo though; no point in inflicting unnecessary mental suffering on those currently in happy ignorance!

Yes, but I then had to look - no telly and no interest in football meant that I hadn't been subjected to anything untoward. Then you mention it.....:p:D

oldandhappy wrote: »

worn out after all that ironing;)

Pressing need to sleep......

ukmaggie45

Bargain Hunt is in Herts!