Munzy

Such a funny guy…

I’d add Vechain (VET) to the list too, good fundamentals.

Yep, great, movie. Haven’t seen it in a few years, will have to give it another watch. If you like Jake G then two other recommendations are Nightcrawler and Velvet Buzzsaw. The latter is a random horror set in the world of high brow art. He’s great in it.

The Beatles... the most overrated band of all time.

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So sorry to hear of your loss. You are in my thoughts this evening.

When I say “targeted” I use it in the sense that we in the Advertising & Marketing world use it. A brand considers who their customer is and builds a profile. The brand then targets that profile which, using online tools, is very precise and cost effective. I assume I am target market for this new venture since I do some day trading, my Google search history is filled with ticker searches and I frequent various financial news sites. So, ignoring the fact that I think your comments were facetious and you took me for a mug without knowing the industry I work in... Yes I am confident I was targeted and no, I don’t feel the need to seek help; I’m ok with the way advertising works.

Errrr... if I was targeted with an advert for his new venture I would say that is exactly what he was asking me to do. That’s kind of how advertising works.

The Godfather

Funnily enough I saw an advert on YouTube earlier for it. I had a gander at his site, looks dead ropey and very dated. Always ask why someone is giving this information out. Any self styled “guru” selling a book or a course on a particular subject obviously isn’t very good at the subject otherwise they would be doing and making money rather than sharing the trade secrets. With some specific exceptions, it is of no help to a trader to be sharing stock tips which introduce additional buyers into a market unless the sale of the knowledge brings in more than the profit making ability of the trade. The only reason you would want to share knowledge is to pump stocks you’re already bought into either for a delayed dump or as part of a short squeeze. In this case he doesn’t seem to be selling his advice so there is no direct remuneration for sharing his tips. That says to me your data is being sold OR you will be pitched stock that someone has bought into already and the additional demand will drive the value up (for them). Whether there is a genuine exit in mind or new buyers will be dumped on and left holding the bag who knows. Would I trust him? Hell no!

Caught me out too, it’s normal for this version, youve done nothing wrong!

“On the Vodafone router, log in and enable expert mode. Go to Internet and then DNS & DDNS. Switch DNS Configuration to Manual, and enter primary and seccondary IP addresses of any server you wish. They are better than Vodafone's IMO. Cloudflare is fast and secure, and is on 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1. You could use Google's on 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 just as examples.”

What make and model router do you have. We might be able to find some step by steps instructions for you. You won’t need any input from Vodafone so wouldn’t waste your time talking to them!

As @ShootingEggand @discobob have already said, it sounds like Vodafone’s DNS servers are slow. I had exactly the same with Plusnet. I went round and round with engineer visits, new routers, new micro filters all driven by Plusnet who refused to admit it was their service that was the problem. In the end I heard about OpenDNS on a forum and updated the DNS IP address on the router and BOOM, internet issues gone. I had exactly the same issues as you with browser hanging when loading a new page. Infuriating!

I bought a triangular plot from my neighbour last year. Weirdly the little patch (20m x 20m / 2 - it’s a triangle!) was adjoining my garden but belonged to the guy across the road so not attached to his plot. Literally useless to anyone but myself and my immediate neighbour on my side of the road. I offered him £10k plus costs. He said he couldn’t accept it but would take £7k if I covered the fees. Proper nice old boy, felt my starting bid was too high! He sadly passed a few months after the deal was done. So as a guide I paid £20 p/m for land that was pretty useless to anyone else. Land is worth what you’re willing to pay. For you, knowing the farmer has eyes on it I’d say £10k is a no-brainer.

@steve_b_wales If you can get a digital copy to me (best quality will be from the negative but a scan of the print on a high quality scanner will suffice) I am happy to crop it down, clear it up a bit and bring some colour and sharpness back in. I can then email it back to you for you to print. Just drop me a PM. Dom

A great movie no doubt but for me the Corleone’s win!

Pure coincidence, don’t worry, you’re system hasn’t been compromised. These texts are so frequent at the moment I imagine there are hundreds of people asking the same thing across the country having received one just after setting up a new payment.

No not at all. Netflix is churning out a lot of its own produced stuff but most is bought in.

Yep we’ve been doing the same. Moneyheist was good as was Cocaine Coast.

Transit van in the background of a battle in Braveheart. Zulus wearing Casio watches in Zulu (many of the extras were paid with them). Bruce Willis’ t-shirt changing colour in Die Hard! In the Godfather (greatest movie of all time) when Sonny beats up Carlo for beating his sister he throws a couple of punches with the camera in the wrong angle and misses by a mile. Makes me cringe every time! In Titanic the ship sails off with steam coming out of all exhausts but actually one of the funnels was an intake. Any late 1800/early 1900 scene with migrants sailing past the Statue of Liberty where it is green... it should be copper coloured.

Loved the film and thought Hugh Grant stole the show. I heard him in an interview a couple of months back saying it made him fall in love with acting again because he was given free reign to develop his character.

These guys are good, used them a few times for different family members. https://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/st/refurbished-laptops Last refurb I got for my parents was a Windows machine from Lenovo I think and was less that £200. That was 7 years ago and it’s still going strong.

Ah, sorry I misread that bit! Probably a combination of the two then, hope you’ll click the link to something dodgy and at the same time clean the data. Yes, exactly.

If there is no link in there it may be to “clean” an old email database so that it can be sold. What might be happening is that an invisible image is included in the email. When you open the email the image is downloaded and your email address is flagged as being live. It’s a process known as “spotlight tagging”. There are millions of email databases floating around online which can be obtained for free. Most of the addresses inside are dead; think of anytime you’ve had to sign up for something and entered “x@x.com” instead of disclosing your actual email. Other addresses are genuine but for accounts that are never used other than to sign up for things. If someone wanted to make a few quid they could download a million-odd addresses, run an automated blast to send out some random text and then filter out the good addresses that actually opened the email. You could then sell this data as live, tested and active.