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This is something to propose for Wikipedia’s April 1st front page…
This is something to propose for Wikipedia’s April 1st front page…
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April 2020 - wasn’t this when bidding on as much PPE as possible was basically the government’s only hope?
These were the headlines at the time. Any minister worth their salt would have been on a Turkish runway with a suitcase full of treasury bonds and instructions to buy whatever is available.
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From 2005: “The Israeli Defence Ministry will appeal against a supreme court ruling banning the use of Palestinian human shields in raids, officials said.” - it used to be policy. They wanted to continue.
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That, and hosting & domains got expensive. It used to be a trivial cost to have a website, now the prices are all “introductory offers” with asterisks.
Once several different instances have downloaded the same video, they could share information on which segments are the same?
Ads would change for each download based on all the factors used in the automated ad auctions.
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Had a “pay as you go” contract since 1997 (not with T) - they told everyone that you need a new SIM for a network upgrade which required deactivating the original SIM. New SIM didn’t work in normal (Nokia 1110) phones. Then they sent SMS saying that they weren’t going to honour the original PAYG phone contracts.
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Look up “Leo P at the proms” for a great example of this
In English is this why we say fifteen instead of tentyfive?
yeah, when you turn off a shower so good that the tap turns freely and water is flowing again, that is an expensive time!
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