E461, thickener. Non-toxic, non-digestible, essentially dietary fibre.

SomeoneSomewhere:

 

E461, thickener. Non-toxic, non-digestible, essentially dietary fibre.

 

Sure, but Exxx is not a quality characteristic for food and this stuff is the main ingredient of wallpaper paste. I don't want to go into detail now about what goes under "natural flavour" in such a harmless way - it could be interesting in some cases. :-)

Something completely different but worth the W.T.F.

Sony is suing Quad9 DNS resolver (here in Hamburg!)

How brainless do you have to be to drive a 15m long articulated lorry with trailer into a one-way street parked on both sides in a residential area and expect to make a 90 degree bend in the middle with the thing without any problems? You could still hear it for hours with its millimetre reversing beep and the honking of the cars behind it in the street. He didn't have to go there at all, he just wanted to take a „shortcut.“

Charities Services needs to change their name.

I am Chairman of the Board of Trustees for a Charity. I rang CS this morning, a government organisation paid for by our taxes.

They are - officially - not answering phone calls. What sort of service do they think that is?!

Geektastic:...They are - officially - not answering phone calls. What sort of service do they think that is?!

The service of a typical Govt. Dept. these days?

msukiwi:

 

Geektastic:...They are - officially - not answering phone calls. What sort of service do they think that is?!

 

The service of a typical Govt. Dept. these days?

 

Perhaps we should all just put a message up saying "Due to economic pressure, I will not be paying my taxes this year. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your kindness and understanding at this difficult time."

Geektastic:Perhaps we should all just put a message up saying "Due to economic pressure, I will not be paying my taxes this year. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your kindness and understanding at this difficult time."

Don't forget the bit: "We apologise for not answering the phone at this time"!

Geektastic:

 

Charities Services needs to change their name.

 

 

 

I am Chairman of the Board of Trustees for a Charity. I rang CS this morning, a government organisation paid for by our taxes.

 

 

 

They are - officially - not answering phone calls. What sort of service do they think that is?!

 

Why cant you email them?

richms:

Geektastic:

Charities Services needs to change their name.

 

I am Chairman of the Board of Trustees for a Charity. I rang CS this morning, a government organisation paid for by our taxes.

 

They are - officially - not answering phone calls. What sort of service do they think that is?!

Why cant you email them?

When an electrical signal is not an electrical signal. I tapped the button to open the garage door and the light on the opener turned on, but the door didn't open. Bizarre...

Behodar:

 

When an electrical signal is not an electrical signal. I tapped the button to open the garage door and the light on the opener turned on, but the door didn't open. Bizarre...

 

There's actually so much human knowledge and decades of development in something as 'simple' as a garage door opener (mastery of electricity, radio waves, maths, coding, semiconductor manufacture, battery technology etc etc) that the fact that 'we' have the capability to do this at all should be a W.T.F itself.

Well, when I saw we, I mean everyone else who has a functioning garage door opener :-)

^ Like entering an airport and arriving in another country thousands of miles away within hours yet people complain about a 5 minute delay at customs.

elpenguino:

 

Well, when I saw we, I mean everyone else who has a functioning garage door opener :-)

 

Just to clarify, pressing the button a second time worked. The foxtrot was more that it obviously received the signal since the light came on, yet made no attempt to open the door. I'd only tapped the button gently, which shouldn't make any difference... but who knows?

Possibly a debouncing issue. It receives two presses, causing it to wake up and start opening, then immediately stop again before it has time to actually move. Although most openers would then need several more pushes as the next push would make it start to 'close'.