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Bojo is many odious things but he is not thick – he received an Upper Second in Ancient Literature and Philosophy. However throughout his life teachers all lamented his laziness. He started his career in dissembling by portraying himself as an SDP candidate when standing for the Oxford Presidency despite being a Conservative up to that point. He was sacked from his first job at the Times for lying.
According to Ladbrookes it is a crap-shoot between Bojo and Corbyn, both are joint favourites. Some bookmakers put Bojo slightly ahead.
Imo both are a disaster but Bojo would be worse as he has proven himself to be untrustworthy both in his private and political life.
According to Shannon, information has an entropy value. i.e. in simple terms accumulating information (as compared to mere data) requires energy. Slightly confirming that, the brain is one of the larger consumers of energy in the human body.
[edit] it has since been shown that accumulating data also has an entropy value.
Boeing seem to be proceeding on the lines of ‘add another sensor, and display the contention’. However aircraft engineers point out that this ia well away from the accepted requirement of triple redundancy on critical systems.
It was also pointed out that if you only have two sensors — which is the faulty one! According to rumours three sensors would need a major refit and has been rejected on cost grounds!
You appear to be correct on Soros’ recent behaviour, but that wasn’t his earlier position.
Imo Bojo is unelectable – too many enemies, and the ‘conservative’ faction will have viewed his clownish, rude behaviour as Foreign Secretary to be unstatesman-like and disqualify him from the job.
I dunno Dave I tend to agree with Drezha. The manual for my wife’s NUC implies that the Optane connection can be used with an M2 SSD to give a superfast SSD. There are restrictions on the M2 drive i.e. an Intel SSD so I never bothered to try and use it, and she does not really need it.
I dunno about the end of May but it looks like Bojo et al are going to lose the millions they have speculated on a Hard Brexit. I also hope that they and Soros get stuffed with their probable speculations against the Pound.
I’ll believe it when I see that result at a General Election.
How exactly are the Commission to apply pressure on member states? If anything it is the other way around and it was exactly that which caused the Santer Commission to resign in 1999.
We have never had a true democracy, just a way of maintaining control in the hands of a few with a pablum to keep the masses happy. For that reason I really do not give a fig about illusory sovereignty. I trust the inertia of 27 countries far more than I do our often corrupt lot. In any case your comment about removing Commissioners is totally misleading.
“In addition to its role in approving a new Commission, the European Parliament has the power at any time to force the entire Commission to resign through a vote of no confidence. This requires a vote that makes up at least two-thirds of those voting and a majority of the total membership of the Parliament.”
Sure the UK alone could not do it, but it would be naive to think that one member of a club would ever have such power.
Although removing the Commission is obviously not easy, just try removing an inept Civil Servant or Grayling Clone who refuses to resign.
Btw Bob, Churchill is held in nowhere near the same reverence in South Wales. When I was young and in the 1950s the feeling was still that of him being a war-mongering, barsteward who sent the troops in to crush the miners in Tonypandy. He was certainly not a beloved figure-head in those days.
The UK’s equivalent of Juncker et al all sit in Whitehall. For example our Politicians were unable to sack the hapless Oliver Robbins, second permanent secretary at the Home Office, even after a Keith Vaz on the Select Committee threw him out of the room!
Good luck to you both – I hope that you have a happy Easter together.
Sorry, I cannot help.
You scared me half to death when I read your title of Postfix. I thought ‘Oh no, Polish Postfix has risen from its grave of old Forth programs or HP calculators and has come back to haunt us!’?
Les, I think you have to give up and do a complete reinstall including formatting your boot drive.
First however copy the contents of your Home folder onto a Flash drive. I doubt that your Home is bigger than 128GB and such drives are available for £15 or so, with 64GB drives under £10. Do NOT copy the hidden files with the exception of Mozilla and Thunderbird as I suspect that Kodi or something has messed up your boot configs.
Bob, I guess Spreewald was in East Germany in your days, but it is the self proclaimed capital of Gherkins. If you tour around in the area every farm/shop seems to be selling them. link
May’s Hissy Fit – it is widely reported in the Sunday’s that May is threatening her party with a General Election. It is also widely reported that she will not get the Commons two thirds majority to do so. Turkeys do not vote for Christmas (except possibly Grayling eyeing his Ministerial redundancy payment). A Tory vote for a General Election is to say the least naive given the ever increasing swing towards Labour. (Labour currently lead the polls)
Cameron must be really regretting ever trying to heal Conservative divisions with his referendum move. He has probably managed to sow the seeds of complete destruction in the Union and the Conservative party. Nice one Dave!
Happy Birthday – enjoy your evening celebrations!
Its always bad news day for the Flying Turkey. The Project on (US)Government Oversight (POGO) has just issued a report on the security of the Turkey’s highly integrated software that enables the plane to fly and (according to its design specs) to be a potent fighter/fighter bomber.
Unfortunately if you read the POGO report, the plane’s software security has more holes than a sieve.
“As in previous years, cybersecurity testing shows that many previously confirmed F-35 vulnerabilities have not been fixed, meaning that enemy hackers could potentially shut down the ALIS network, steal secret data from the network and onboard computers, and perhaps prevent the F-35 from flying or from accomplishing its missions.”
It was reported in El Reg that “Testers could take control of weapons with “relatively simple tools and techniques.” In fact POGO reports that many items of software still use the manufacturers default password!
The simple measure of what percentage of aircraft could in theory be combat ready is a mere 26%! The figure for Britain’s Lightning is half that number!
All in all the readiness of this excuse for a plane is so bad that a Chris Grayling clone must of played a key role in its procurement!
I guess everyone has read about the ‘keyless’ car theft problem. (Normally a two person theft, first one stands by the car with a keyless clone fob and second by the house amplifying any lock opening signals from the house.). My only reason for raising it is that my son’s FIL got done today. Car was parked on the drive, thief opened the car and stole everything of any value from the car. He couldn’t take the car as the gate for car was locked shut, they could however just walk in and out through a side gate.
Moral of story is to either park your car in the garage or buy an RFID wallet for the car fob.
I do a lot of driving on twisty, undulating country lanes – often early morning or evening, and the one new gimmick I REALLY like is auto-dipping headlights. Especially when it is on the cars coming towards me!
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