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20 minutes ago, andykeenan said:

This will be 8pm will be onTNT Sports 

That seems unlikely. It would be 9pm over there with the possibility of extra time and penalties.

6 minutes ago, sidcow said:

To be honest it just sounds like more soundbytes from Sunak. I expect this morning there's a lot of red faced Gammons shaking their Daily Mails in the air shouting about finally sorting out the spongers. 

But will he ever actually get to implement anything? 

It's a dog whistle to their (dwindling) base.

4 minutes ago, ender4 said:

When is the next round?  Before Chelsea and before Liverpool?

The match forums have already been created. May 2nd and 9th, around Brighton

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UECLQF: Lille v Villa

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10 minutes ago, Rolta said:

If anyone has broadband recommendations I'd be grateful!

I love it how I trust villatalk more than the internet. 

I'm still completely happy with Zzoomm. If they are in your area let me know as I have a code you can use for a discount.

1 hour ago, Deano & Dalian's Umbrella said:

There is a very long Daily Mail article published at the end of last month called "why Premier League Clubs want to kill off season tickets". 

It says how the clubs want to get rid of season tickets and sell tickets at full-price every week.

Villa get quite a few mentions for how they are pricing fans out.

And yet almost everyone renewed. Sounds like a typical piss poor piece of journalism from that rag.

1 hour ago, Deano & Dalian's Umbrella said:

I can copy and paste the article if someone can tell me this is allowed?

The posting guidelines are linked at the top of every page.

29 minutes ago, chrisp65 said:

Fascinating when you come across these people that rate Facebook comments by Linda from Hull above what they could actually google on official government websites. 

It's up there with people that insist that stealing tv services is not illegal.

12 minutes ago, Stevo985 said:

Short of a lie detector test that’s the best evidence it is possible for us to have. 

Lie detector tests don't work reliably. It's why they aren't admissible as evidence in court. Might as well go with the "look into their eyes" method.

2 hours ago, rodders0223 said:

I had some wireless headphones bought about 5 years ago, lasted me until now. Brilliant.

 

Bought some new ones, same brand. They're great but unlike the old ones , they don't shut themselves off after inactivity. You have to remember to click them off after you've used, which after 5 years with the previous pair and just taking them off my head has proven impossible.

 

5 years of technology advancement and they're worse than the old ones.

They're constantly dead.

There's usually a setting for this in the companion app.

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1 hour ago, fruitvilla said:

It should not bother me but ...

things like

show a fundamental lack of understanding of how the game works.

Bookies are not rich because of any particular game or result. They are rich because:

1. People bet with bookies
2. Bookies are really good at doing the math
3. They take money out of the pot, called the 'vigorish" or "vig". Typically 5 to 10 percent 

Now bookies can screw up if they do the math wrong, or if there is a sudden change in betting patterns ... horse racing comes to mind here and there is a slow exchange of information regarding the change in betting patterns.

It's like with casinos. The only way they don't make money is if Trump runs them.

30 minutes ago, wishywashy said:

Angelakis is listed as a "Commercial Director" within his occupation. To compare, Nas and Wes are "Businessmen" and the others are just down as "Company Director". Rather indicative of what Atairos' input is going to focus on.

Or maybe it's just a mistake given the above error!

I can't see the shareholders getting upset if the (job) titles aren't correct. No-one is investing based on this information.

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Arsenal v Villa

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2 hours ago, blandy said:

Google has just settled a huge case where they’d been tracking users activity in incognito and then using the data they collected to sell ads.  They’ve repeatedly been found to breach users privacy for profit, over the years.  As you’ve said yourself in the past “you’re the product” with google.

Are you saying that Google securely storing data was a breach? A breach is usually considered a loss of data. I'm not aware of Google ever using data outside of their stated AUPs. That people don't read these is routinely portrayed as Google's fault.

However, everyone's ISP records all incognito activity unless you use a VPN - and I don't trust ISPs to keep that data secure. Also, I'm a paying customer of Google on all my accounts, so my interaction with them is far less as a product.

When Apple got caught tracking location data on IOS devices when Location Services was turned off, they declared it was a bug and fixed it months later.  Apple's AUP allowed them to do this. There are many cases of law enforcement using this data. Apple still download WiFi SSIDs for networks which are none of their business, without consent, for providing location services.

2 hours ago, blandy said:

Pretty much all these big tech giants are horrible in much of what they do and how they do it and how they behave. We’re all hooked to an extent because they also make/provide things we find incredibly useful.

I agree completely. It's why I'm on the side I am. They are collecting the data either way, I'd rather get something out of it.

25 minutes ago, Genie said:

Apple, Google, Meta & Microsoft own us all now.

Just Google and Meta for me. I may drop Meta when we get unified messaging standards later this year.

13 hours ago, T-Dog said:

I'm guessing our paths have crossed haha

Just never cross the streams.

4 minutes ago, blandy said:

General privacy, yeah there’s loads of stuff. Google it, actually don’t. Use a different searcher, to protect your privacy 

It's closely related to what I do for a living and I don't think there is the slightest difference between the two.

Some people like walled gardens and lock in. Some prefer a more functional experience in return for targeted ads. Neither has had a significant breach. Both have had scary problems with consumer stuff. One is more open than the other. One fixes bugs more quickly than the other.

It always used to be that Apple was "more secure", but that claim has been long dropped by Apple while Google have ramped this up as their claim. Apple moved to the more nebulous "privacy" but in reality, this serves two purposes. To block third parties doing things in their walled garden (all browsers on iOS are still wrappers around Safari, because they don't want better, faster browsers showing up their pet one). And to make people keep buying devices with more and more local storage because cloud is scary (but we can sell you our special privacy cloud).

1 hour ago, Vive_La_Villa said:

 I went on 35 minutes to get a pint yesterday. The queues after the 40 minute mark in the upper Doug were a shamble. Went all the way down the concourse.

Is the beer that good that you'd miss the event you've paud for the sake of getting one?

2 hours ago, blandy said:

Air tags have a built in thing so you can tell if you’re being stalked with one, like in the instance described. Whatever their failings and strengths overall, privacy is one thing where Apple is better/less bad than other providers like Google, for example.

So Ample cares about privacy, but only if you are a (recent) customer of theirs? Wow.

Do you know of any evidence supporting Apple's privacy claims outside of their marketing and the places that regurgitate it?

32 minutes ago, meregreen said:

Consultants making time to see patients privately is one thing, using NHS facilities for that work is another. If they want to do private work after they have fulfilled their contracted hours, fine. Let them use private facilities then. It’s an issue of principle for me. I haven’t paid my taxes to enable their private moonlighting.

If the NHS aren't able to use them for what ever reason, I'd rather they were rented out for use. I don't know whether this is the case or not.

21 minutes ago, blandy said:

There's a couple of obvious things. Firstly the private medical staff are in place right now. And they've got the beds and capacity to treat people right now. The NHS doesn't have either the staff or the capacity. So sure, invest in the NHS, wait while they build the hospitals, recruit and or train the staff...all the while there's these patients, or would be patients needing treatment. Sod the ideology, make the injured and ill healthy as soon as possible. That's what hospitals and health providers (of whatever ilk) are there to do.

The second thing is because of staff shortages in the NHS, the NHS is spending (as you point out) an absolute fortune on locums, so using private facilities is not much different in cost terms, either.

Make people healthy so that they can get earning (and paying tax) to offset part of the bills. Insist on British based private sector companies so that their taxes are paid in the UK.

17 minutes ago, markavfc40 said:

I don't know if this is the right thread for it but I noticed when I looked across from the Holte last night that every box in the Witton Lane stand was empty. I know the club are apparently very much focused on increasing revenue from this side of things but they have a long way to go if they can't sell out these existing areas for a European quarter final.

It's been discussed in this thread before, but the short notice nature of these fixtures makes them harder to sell. However, many are taken for the season, but  "owners" can't arrange guests for midweek games at short notice. In that case, they've already been sold and can't be sold again.