Comments by the leader of the Scottish Christian Party on the secular, scientific, political and ecclesiastical scene
When you buy a new electronic device, do you consider how you will dispose of it? When your computer dies there are implications for identity theft if you do not dispose of it properly. You may have heard about hard drives from disposed computers being examined in distant countries to discover the identity of the …
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Do you know when you are filling in a Market Research survey? Some people are happy enough to do so, but what if you do not know if you are doing so? Today I was asked by a well-known retail chain for my email at payment. Okay - it is in the public domain. I …
From referendums to climate change, secularists will not tolerate differences from their opinion. The failure to accept election results is a manifestation of the teenage tantrums of modern society – recent well-known examples being the Scottish Independence Referendum on 18/9/2014, the Brexit referendum on 23/6/2016 and Donald Trump's Presidential election victory on 8/11/2016. The secularist …
Can anyone explain why editing an email in the Gmail editor may look okay when you send it, but the recipient may receive it with altered editing - font, font size, broken lines, etc? This is a general problem known since at least 2011 but never solved by Gmail. It is so unpredictable that one …
Many public bodies think that their authority allows them to call the public to jump to attention. Take the tax office. One will wait weeks and even months to get a response from them, but they expect you to answer them within so many days, with the threat of penalties - even although you may …
Following my blogpost on cold calling, another issue is the problem of identification. Occasionally British Telecom (BT) phone me. The most recent call was to remind me to renew my broadband with them. This needs serious consideration because tonight I sent an email which did not go through. What was the reason? This is what …
Many of you have probably had cold callers wasting your time. Rather than putting the phone down on them, you might want to waste their time. My most recent call (the second one today) went like this. First, he asked about 'my recent minor car accident'. So I asked him what made him think that …
Opinion pollsters are organising a post-mortem on why the opinion polls were so completely wrong in the recent General Election. There will be much huffing and puffing, money and time wasted in trying to reach a conclusion. For my part, a good part of the answer will be found in the tick box mentality of …
I have spent about 1½ hours on a BT help call to determine: 1. those wanting to move away from BT will have their former BT email address supported for free for one month; this has been recently reduced from three months. After that, it will cost £1.60/month to continue to use it. 2. domestic …
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