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And yet the rate of executive pay in many organisations has risen. These being organisations that haven't succeeded as such, how does this reward success?
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Robert400andKay
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Sexpert
Whilst you may have a mirrored computer system in the event of Fire, Flood etc, maybe they should have more than one.
If RBS do an upgrade in future perhaps they should have one disaster recovery system, and another system with a copy of stuff before the upgrade is applied? That way if the upgrade goes pear shaped they could just switch back to the spare copy?
This might cost some money, indeed possibly Millions of pounds, but I have seen reports suggesting that the cost of RBS' glitch is about 1.7 Billion.
If RBS do an upgrade in future perhaps they should have one disaster recovery system, and another system with a copy of stuff before the upgrade is applied? That way if the upgrade goes pear shaped they could just switch back to the spare copy?
This might cost some money, indeed possibly Millions of pounds, but I have seen reports suggesting that the cost of RBS' glitch is about 1.7 Billion.
Sexpert
I spent about 15 minutes in a phone queue last night to one of RBS competitors. I held on partly because of the 'RBS vodka horror' scenes played out in the chat room on Friday night. Now then fortunately my debit card still seems to work but I also found the suggestions of problems at RBS were due to CA7 scheduling software. I also found the advert for RBS CA7 operators in Indian which seems to have gone now, maybe they found somebody? A glitch in a banks computer systems you can just about understand but 6 - 7 days?
Any road d'up not being overly impressed with the customer service at this other bank I did think about giving up the wait on the phone. Having eventually got thru' it would seem that the 15 - 20 minute delay was due to an unprecedented no of calls from people wanting to transfer bank accounts. Funny that.
Now it would seem according to the FT it is Computer Associates fault. Well I assume if RBS are going to sue them it must be their fault. Looks like it wasn't a problem in India at all. Oh well I guess RBS aren't going to replace the CA7 system any time soon so hopefully their computers will stay up long enough so they can transfer my account.
Any road d'up not being overly impressed with the customer service at this other bank I did think about giving up the wait on the phone. Having eventually got thru' it would seem that the 15 - 20 minute delay was due to an unprecedented no of calls from people wanting to transfer bank accounts. Funny that.
Now it would seem according to the FT it is Computer Associates fault. Well I assume if RBS are going to sue them it must be their fault. Looks like it wasn't a problem in India at all. Oh well I guess RBS aren't going to replace the CA7 system any time soon so hopefully their computers will stay up long enough so they can transfer my account.
Sexpert
Whilst it would seem that RBS have indeed outsourced a lot of jobs to India the one statement they have made about the failure is "the software error occurred on a UK-based piece of software". Mind they chose not to comment on where the staff were located who patched and maintained the software. Not quite sure what to make of that one myself.
Sexpert
It would seem that a computer glitch has caused a large chunk of the RBS groups banking to have a few problems. Looking around this would seem to have been caused by systemic management failure at the bank.
Whilst this hasn't affected me personally yet, I wondered if anybody had any other opinions? Also if anybody has ideas on better organisations with whom to have bank accounts?
Whilst this hasn't affected me personally yet, I wondered if anybody had any other opinions? Also if anybody has ideas on better organisations with whom to have bank accounts?
Sexpert
During my time as a single man on here, I found that you got more girls watching the cam by errm doing the ironing on cam, rather than cock. As I started getting together with Kay I also got quite a few single men watching by ironing various items of her clothing but she soon put a stop to that when she found out.
Sexpert
It would be nice if Vince Cable did get some of these plans through, particularly as the average rate of executive pay has risen 12% this year. Also unlike footballers these rises seem to be totally unrelated to performance.
Sexpert
I have just read this one -
Oh well. Looking like we may well end up the 51st State?
Oh well. Looking like we may well end up the 51st State?
Sexpert
The fresh juices of a virgin ...... back to reality.
Soap for everywhere, apart from my hair. Hair is washed with what ever bottle of stuff Kay has left closest to me when I go in the shower (note the effects can be odd if that bottle is labelled conditioner).
Soap for everywhere, apart from my hair. Hair is washed with what ever bottle of stuff Kay has left closest to me when I go in the shower (note the effects can be odd if that bottle is labelled conditioner).
Sexpert
Quote by MidsCouple24
sorry but at the end of the day who gives a shit about an island 8000 miles away from the uk ffs?
to mean the same as
"who gives a shit about the Falklands Islands being British"
My daughter, who has also been asked to do the security at the Olympics. On the one hand, I am hoping she has nothing to do with the Argentinians, and on the other bring on the latex gloves, lube etc..........
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Quote by starlightcouple
i think the water companies especially in the south should invest more into getting more water from up north to down south. :thumbup: instead of appeasing there shareholders and there chief execs bonuses.
Why should the North of England :-x have to be shipping precious water ..... errm then again given that, apart from Tuesday, it never really seems to stop raining
Starlight :thumbup: Might actually dry the place out a bit. Sexpert
What all employee rights including the use of the 'Employee Benefits Trust' (EBT)? 
I admit to having almost no knowledge of football, so much so in fact, that I do think Liverpool should have signs saying 'Turn back now Robert400' :) But I did find a blog about this one a while back -
I was just astonished that the administration of Rangers thought that they could get away with this Tax avoidance scheme. Oh well, probably the last time I will be commenting on a Football issue :)
I admit to having almost no knowledge of football, so much so in fact, that I do think Liverpool should have signs saying 'Turn back now Robert400' :) But I did find a blog about this one a while back -
I was just astonished that the administration of Rangers thought that they could get away with this Tax avoidance scheme. Oh well, probably the last time I will be commenting on a Football issue :)
Sexpert
Same here, in the North West of England as well.
I have to agree with Starlight last time I heard United Utilities had issued a 'drought order' was about 3 years ago and it hasn't stopped raining since. Well apart from today (there may have been a couple of other days in the last few years that it hasn't rained).
I have to agree with Starlight last time I heard United Utilities had issued a 'drought order' was about 3 years ago and it hasn't stopped raining since. Well apart from today (there may have been a couple of other days in the last few years that it hasn't rained).
Sexpert
Quote by little gem
Well, my gaydar is broken and I can't find any ball point pens...
Does this mean I'm fucked? (or not as the case may be?)
It would seem so, well at least from your Gay BFF, who now turns out to be as straight as a 10 bob note.
Sexpert
Looking back at the original post which I do agree with as in, plenty of laws to apply to all of this, the question being 'Why hasn't somebody applied them?' the answer now seems to be:
Nobody applied the laws because the whole lot of them would be prosecuted, Met Police, Government, Tony Blair, and Gordon Brown as well as the various media organisations.
Nobody applied the laws because the whole lot of them would be prosecuted, Met Police, Government, Tony Blair, and Gordon Brown as well as the various media organisations.
Sexpert
I think that the banks and the FSA (or what ever they were called at the time) got a lot more interested in the capital reserves of banks after Nick Lesson bankrupted Barings in about 1995.
Kay's response was a description of politicians, but yes can be applied equally well to capitalism, and socialism to my mind.
Kay's response was a description of politicians, but yes can be applied equally well to capitalism, and socialism to my mind
. Sexpert
I want one, but with a disk drive. Getting stuff to save and load from a cassette player was just nasty and would be far too hard for work .
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Quoting these medieval wars as evidence that Britain either did or did not consider French soil to be British is a deceptive argument. At the time we probably all spoke either of French, or Anglo Saxon, and didn't think of Britain as a country anyway. On the French 'side' of the channel the same would also be true.
Most of the European countries that exist now didn't get going until the 17th century, these wars were much earlier.
Most of the European countries that exist now didn't get going until the 17th century, these wars were much earlier.
Sexpert
Looking like Greece will be leaving the Euro. So at least they have voted with their feet as it were and said "No more austerity".
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Quote by foxylady2209
At hardware which is twice the price. For most of us any perceived improvement is irrelavent when compared with the cost.
You could try Ubuntu Linux. It also comes with all the open office loaded which saves a bob or two as well.
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H,
my phrase 'the United Kingdom's Mastercard' was very much a metaphor for Public Sector borrowing. But it is interesting to see that you then go on to raise one of points that I would point to as a major 'policy reversal' (more of a monumental piece of stupidity than reversal really) of the last Labour Government.
Whilst the responsibility for failure of the capital adequacy of RBS, and a number of other banks, can in part be laid at the doors of various bankers. A good part of the responsibility for that failure should be attributed to the government at that time. At the point that the government could have done something I believe the phrase was the banking system only needed 'light touch regulation'.
Given that it was subsequently agreed when Labour bailed out the banks that these organisations were too big to fail, wasn't it a bit stupid not to have done something before the banks did in fact fail?
As I mentioned above against the monumental waste of pretty well all of the points you raise above are in fact pretty small beer? Do you not agree that as a 'U turn' the statement 'we have ended the cycle of boom and bust' to then having to chuck of public money to stop the failure of the banking system is a bit of a corker?
Rob
PS. I have used your figure above for money to bail out banks, this is in fact the level of support available to these hand maidens of Beelzebub, I think the actual tax payer money spent to date is between 100 - 150bn.
PPS. Kay just asked what I was up to and suggested that I should put that 'they're all t**ts who try and screw you over'. Can't argue with that one myself :)
my phrase 'the United Kingdom's Mastercard' was very much a metaphor for Public Sector borrowing. But it is interesting to see that you then go on to raise one of points that I would point to as a major 'policy reversal' (more of a monumental piece of stupidity than reversal really) of the last Labour Government.
Whilst the responsibility for failure of the capital adequacy of RBS, and a number of other banks, can in part be laid at the doors of various bankers. A good part of the responsibility for that failure should be attributed to the government at that time. At the point that the government could have done something I believe the phrase was the banking system only needed 'light touch regulation'.
Given that it was subsequently agreed when Labour bailed out the banks that these organisations were too big to fail, wasn't it a bit stupid not to have done something before the banks did in fact fail?
As I mentioned above against the monumental waste of pretty well all of the points you raise above are in fact pretty small beer? Do you not agree that as a 'U turn' the statement 'we have ended the cycle of boom and bust' to then having to chuck of public money to stop the failure of the banking system is a bit of a corker?
Rob
PS. I have used your figure above for money to bail out banks, this is in fact the level of support available to these hand maidens of Beelzebub, I think the actual tax payer money spent to date is between 100 - 150bn.
PPS. Kay just asked what I was up to and suggested that I should put that 'they're all t**ts who try and screw you over'. Can't argue with that one myself :)
Sexpert
Good Morning H,
I was going to comment on this last night but having noticed the news article on the Daily Mail web site about a Linked in password snafu then spent some time changing passwords.
A couple of things quickly (20 minutes and counting until work) -
1. Most of this list of policy revisions is pretty minor in the grand scheme of things? Particularly when compared with some of the policy revisions of the last administration?
2. George Osborne, and indeed David Cameron may be quite so definitive in their statements about reducing the United Kingdom's public sector borrowing to appease the credit ratings agencies? A triple A rating is quite handy if you are running a very large public sector borrowing requirement.
I may appear to be supporting this administration but the motive for my comments has more to do with my opprobrium for the policy reversals of the last lot So far a lot of the critical chaff coming from the Newspapers about this government is just that, there as yet doesn't appear to be much of any real substance.
As I see the bottom line for George Osborne at the minute the United Kingdom's Mastercard had reached it's limit. This leaves two possibilities either, pay some of it back, or decrease the value of sterling by printing money. Since the mechanism for introducing newly minted sterling into the economy is to buy bonds also this end's up paying back debt.
Rob :)
I was going to comment on this last night but having noticed the news article on the Daily Mail web site about a Linked in password snafu then spent some time changing passwords.
A couple of things quickly (20 minutes and counting until work) -
1. Most of this list of policy revisions is pretty minor in the grand scheme of things? Particularly when compared with some of the policy revisions of the last administration?
2. George Osborne, and indeed David Cameron may be quite so definitive in their statements about reducing the United Kingdom's public sector borrowing to appease the credit ratings agencies? A triple A rating is quite handy if you are running a very large public sector borrowing requirement.
I may appear to be supporting this administration but the motive for my comments has more to do with my opprobrium for the policy reversals of the last lot
So far a lot of the critical chaff coming from the Newspapers about this government is just that, there as yet doesn't appear to be much of any real substance.As I see the bottom line for George Osborne at the minute the United Kingdom's Mastercard had reached it's limit. This leaves two possibilities either, pay some of it back, or decrease the value of sterling by printing money. Since the mechanism for introducing newly minted sterling into the economy is to buy bonds also this end's up paying back debt.
Rob :)
Sexpert
It appears to me a lot of this is the newspapers. I guess where the government have decided on a few policy decisions and a wider audience highlights the flaws, the newspapers don't put 'After a public consultation the Minster wisely decided not to carry on with Plan B ....... ' .
Sexpert
Quote by Mr_Lilly
will you still have to type " " in DOS to get windows running?
GnV,
nah, DEL *.*
Unfortunately, the crappy ntfs file system won't let you do that because of file locking. a good idea that as usual, MS mucks up.
I think you can put the ' ' in the files on Windows 7
? You could also type either 'del .' or 'erase .' which had the same effect as 'del *.*'.I agree Mr Lily I too have noticed the 'good then bad .....' releases with MS as well. The other thing I noticed of MS Windows is that every new version takes at least 5 times as long to start as the previous version. Now then I tend to buy a PC then use what ever version of windows is on it until the the computer breaks. So, having bought a shiny new computer at least 1000 times (and on one occasion 1000,000 times) faster, this just seems wrong :-x .
Finally this changed with Windows 7 which is the only version where the boot up time was faster than the last computer
. So just maybe Windows 8 is going to be a major lemon?I did think from reading around that the 'Metro Interface' was going to be the default, and not very usable if you didn't have some form of touch screen (phone, tablet, or errm 'touch screen').
Will await the HnS reviews :)
Sexpert
The latest release of Microsoft's Windows software, version 8, is now available for download.
Described by the BBC as the 'biggest redesign since Windows 95',
and there is another description here -
In summary it would seem that this version of Windows has been designed primarily for phones, tablet computers, and PC's with touch screens.
What do folks think ?
Described by the BBC as the 'biggest redesign since Windows 95',
and there is another description here -
In summary it would seem that this version of Windows has been designed primarily for phones, tablet computers, and PC's with touch screens.
What do folks think ?
Sexpert
Quote by bayboy1664
Despite what the frankly barmy mad idiots at The Guardian say the male sex drive is, has and always will be larger than the females. So yes ever since man first learned to paint pictures on the wall of a cave we have had porn!
When married to my 'ex' I would have to agree with you, but now I'm not so sure.... I would say the 'sex drives' of men and women are different, and in particular the way that the different sexes become aroused.
Quote by bayboy1664
Having said that the internet is on such a different level to anything that has ever come before that addiction to it will become a serious issue. Already now there are cases in South Korea, Japan and China becoming so immersed in alternative reality games that they neglect themselves and their loved ones in real life! Cases have involved both sexes.
Having read the original article posted by Inanna I agree with the title, and some of the observations, in that men in their teens and early twenties do seem to be emotionally maladjusted. I'm not convinced that the cause is either the Internet, nor indeed the availability of pornography.
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Quote by MidsCouple24
Are you really that good at spotting sexual orientation ? or do you just think your good.
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If you went to a Greenhouse (gay saunas owned by the same Company that owns Chameleons and located in 3 areas of the Country, how many men do you think you could you identify as being Gay as opposed to bisexual ?
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Yes I believe Gaydar exists in equal proportions with both men and women having the ability but would be surprised that it is so accurate when based only on facial pictures
My gaydar is spot on, every time, no worries. Also I have been to the Greenhouse as it happens before I got together with Kay.
I was going to a BBW meet for the first time at Chameleons and phoned to book a room. As Chameleons was fully booked the folks at the other end kindly suggested that I stay at the Greenhouse instead. Duly provided with the telephone number I phoned up and booked a room. Before phoning I had thought it was just a B&B, but they mentioned towels during the call so I assumed it was another swinging club. Oh well I thought in for a penny ......
Having traveled down to Darlaston I found the Greenhouse, checked in, and left my bags in the room. Rooms at the Greenhouse by the way are in chalets at the back and separate to the main complex. I then walked back to the reception area in the main building to ask for a taxi down to Chameleons.
Having ordered the Taxi the male receptionist suggested that I might like to go and wait in the main bar. I did think this a bit strange at the time as the Taxi was due in a couple of minutes. But anyway I walked down to the main bar area.
As I sat down in the bar area I looked up this was the point my Gaydar kicked in, I think it was largely the gay ambiance of the bar, but then again it could just have been the enormous sign which read 'Gay Sauna 2009'.
Gaydar now fully alerting me I said 'OH I'm in a Gay Sauna'....
At which point the receptionist (who must have timed the whole thing to perfection) appeared and said 'That's right babe you are quite safe here there are absolutely no women'. I guess the fact that both of the receptionists were very very camp, and had consistently called be either of 'hun' or 'babe' should have suggested something earlier, but you knows it's not all that gay, errm is it?
Now then I confess to some nerves about going to Chameleons in the first place, but by the time I had inadvertently checked into a Gay Sauna, getting the Taxi to Chameleons was just not a problem.
This would be the end of this story, but having arrived at the BBW meet and having explained my predicament. One of the sweetest BBW's very kindly offered to come back and stay with me at the Greenhouse. What a babe! Sadly she spoiled the whole thing by adding 'to hold my cheeks for all cummers'. Scratch babe, total bitch! (Without starting another story, she is one of the most friendly and funniest ladies I have met on this site and would consider bitch a compliment)
Oh yes my unfailing Gaydar goes by another name 'Kay'. Just one of the many reasons for getting hitched
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