spilldig Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 I prefer to conduct transactions online using a smartphone, such as shopping, banking, boarding passes, cinema tickets, etc. 71% of adults have a broadband connection, fixed and/or mobile, baring some technological disaster that figure will surely increase. http://media.ofcom.org.uk/facts/ I do enjoy the irony of some complaining about online usage using an internet based forum. What irony ? If someone uses the internet to say that they object to other people not being given any choice about it then they are just showing consideration for other people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyclone Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 They're complaining about it with regards to themselves though. It's a complaint about technologification (neologism, remember you saw it here first), using an example of that technologification. Ideally he should have written a letter, using a fountain pen and sent it by Royal Mail to a paper or agony aunt (or maybe his MP). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnailyBoy Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 What irony ? If someone uses the internet to say that they object to other people not being given any choice about it then they are just showing consideration for other people. How about getting the Town Crier to do it? It would have reached your target audience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longcol Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Have they taken the opportunity of this 'upgrade' to cancel out free-passing periods (before 06:00 AM iirc)? No - still free between 10pm and 6am - so won't affect me on my annual trip abroad as I usually cross about 4am. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davyboy Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 All tolls for roads/bridges/crossings should be abolished.! When first opened in the early 1960s it was announced that when the cost had been recouped the crossing would be free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longcol Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 When first opened in the early 1960s it was announced that when the cost had been recouped the crossing would be free. That was the tunnel that opened in 1960 - they built a massive suspension bridge that opened in 1991 for the North / South crossing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spilldig Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 How about getting the Town Crier to do it? It would have reached your target audience. A good idea. It would at least get the message to everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alchresearch Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 my daughter wouldn't be able to do a large portion of her school homework without a computer, internet access, Microsoft Word and a printer. The school just assumes you have all these things. Most, if not all, schools are required to have something called the "Pupil Premium" to ensure that all students have the necessary equipment. https://www.gov.uk/pupil-premium-information-for-schools-and-alternative-provision-settings When there's a refresh of IT equipment in a school, the old equipment can be offered to parents for scrap value or even free. And any school which uses Microsoft products has long been able to provide students with Office for under £8, and now Microsoft are giving away Office 365 for free. And, as has already been said, there are alternatives like Open Office. A school's IT department will put the software onto a CD if there's no internet access at home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimmyR Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 Everyone can get access to the internet somewhere - be it in a cafe or a library. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No User Name Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 Given the link in the OP's signature, I assume he has resisted the move to Digital TV then, given it is needless technology and all that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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