Hasbeen

The other innovation I’ve been driven into by successive disasters, ie hacking and straight forward theft of funds, is the need to abandon credit cards entirely and replace them with debit cards.
After failing to convince the bank of the need to reduce over the top credit limits, I gave them up in frustration.
But I think you indicated that you have done that too. That’s an essential innovation.

I also had trouble with pay pal, but they were effective in remedying the rare problems.

The broken camels back prompting me to abandon credit cards, was the result of giving the card numbers to an overseas supplier of music.

During that final of all transactions, I was plundered for the cost of two plane tickets from Los Angeles to London which took six weeks for the fraudulent transaction to be refunded from the bank.

Don’t feel alone on this one.

Dan

Hasbeen.

This is an aside to topic, but I post this link for comment since you’ve mentioned in the past flying experience.

This video involves two Russian mig jets performing an indefinite vertical stall at ground level.

Worth watching. I’d be interested in your comment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_Cgxy7N-V0

Dan

Diver Dan : I believe you will find that it's computer graphics and that the video is from a remote control flight simulator on a home computer.

diver dan,
I cannot believe you believe this to be real footage although there is footage out there of real planes doing that.

We prefer not to do online banking.

We've been scammed in the past - people
claiming to be from Telstra are the worst.
We prefer face-to-face contact when shopping
or "click and collect."

And we definitely don't deal with overseas
purchases.

I was forced overseas Foxy, by our wonderful government effectively outlawing the most successful treatment for covid, Ivermectin, & the Ziverdo kits the the Indian province of Uttar Pradesh used to effectively wipe the virus out of it's 220 million population. Indian pharmaceutical companies don't accept PayPal. Dan it was my debit card that was hacked twice, each time I used it on the net. I tried a separate A/C with the same bank, but they would not, [said they couldn't] totally separate the A/Cs. Finally have an eftpos A/C with another bank, into which I only transfer money when required.

No Dan, not possible, even with the latest computer control. There is a section of the remote control aircraft flying population who actually specialise in flying that way, but they do it with models with extremely large control surfaces, & large slow revving propeller power giving sufficient prop wash over those control surfaces.

A jet would have to have swiveling nozzles to be able to even take off vertically. This was never achieved, even with Harrier technology, which required multiple outlets to effect control.