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None of them – not one has a mug of Thatcher’s Gold clenched in his deathlike grip!
February 27, 2019 at 8:35 am in reply to: Will our tech even work if ever we have a confrontation? #31154Who needs the Chinese to make our hardware super vulnerable, the West is quite capable of doing it on its own.
This Ars Report is headlined “Supermicro hardware weaknesses let researchers backdoor an IBM cloud server” , but if you read the detail it could all come down to sloppy policies and procedures. i.e. bad management control and bad QC — the bane of the West and the UK in particular.
“the fact that the CIA actually began in the wartime UK and was initially set up in the USA by a Brit”
Was that the OSS?
Once upon a time there were tons (literally) of OSS papers lodged at the London Patent Office. This detailed all the patented stuff that the OSS grabbed from the Nazi war machine. Quite amazing what the Germans felt needed to be patented, rather than just kept in some secret research location, including for example the pulse jet engine of a V-1. It was also quite amazing to find all this stuff in the public domain at the height of the Cold War, or more likely no-one in the OSS/SIS had read it and realised what it contained.
Malthouse has naff all to do with PR. It certainly does not represent a consensus for the country, just something some Tories can agree on, and not even the majority of Tories! As your question does not even contain PR as a subject why on earth would I express an opinion on it?
I responded directly to the only question(s) that I could find:
” So why not accept the softer backstop offered in Malthouse? Crikey if you were offered by your employer a slight
reduction in your terms of employment or no job at all due to adverse trading conditions what would you accept.”
With the following response that more or less corresponds to your question assuming it was me and not the MPs you refer to later.
“I can accept or agree nothing because the public have no say in this whole mess, and anything you, or I say means damned all.”
Perhaps a Brexit Bot is writing your responses and you have not had time to read them yet!?
Recent mass imigration the the UK has not happened since the 16th century
Corrected. Economic migration has always happened when it is either feasible or driven by wars or persecution.
Blame Camaron for foolishly taking out Gadaffi and turning Libya lawless, Bush/TBLiar for treating Iraq in a similar fashion, and the US/UK for deliberately destabilising Syria. You could probably throw in the US destabilising the states of former Yugoslavia but that is more difficult to prove. But please throw in some blame on Soros for good measure!
I can accept or agree nothing because the public have no say in this whole mess, and anything you, or I say means damned all.
Which is why this whole process is extremely frustrating and unfortunately reveals the flaws in our broken ‘Elected Dictator’ system of democracy. In an ideal world the public would be able to say enough of this costly charade and to the tumbrils with the lot of you. Let us have anarchy instead – it cannot be much worse!
Through political inaction we have wasted far more of our National Wealth than was ever fictitiously supposed to be gained through Brexit
@VFM – we have not actually suffered from Brexit yet as it has not taken place and no-one knows what the hell Brexit is! BTW we have not lost all the Financial jobs because The City has cut a regulatory equivalence deal with its EU counterparts that nearly preserves the pass-porting status quo (the politicians do not want to publicise this at the moment). However GDPR and the UK Government’s habit of not honouring privacy could still bite us.
Where we have been hurt is in the uncertainty of this appallingly badly managed Brexit process. This has most certainly affected business confidence and recently has impacted on investment and capital formation. It has also affected national wealth by allowing idiots such as Greyling loose with our funds. To date we have wasted close to £1Bn on preparing for a Hard Brexit case that only a political idiot could want, and only flies due to misguided judgement that it provides bargaining leverage.
You split hairs with Dave purely for meaningless rhetoric – is or is not Japan in a FT agreement with the EU?
If using your argument it comes down to us versus the Germans in a Hard Brexit case – who loses most? Obviously we do overall – that sounds like a pretty carp basis for saying that we have a good poker hand.
Too many Troll Hunters around.
However, I hear FaceBook offers unrestricted Troll hunting at the moment as the company has demonstrated it is incapable of doing it. ?
BTW the key stat to look for is economic inactivity (not unemployment, but essentially unemployable for one reason or another). That runs around 20% for all regions and was excluded (by sleight of hand) from the historic unemployment figures.
“Over the year, the region with the largest increase in the economic inactivity rate estimate was the South East at 1.1 percentage points, followed by the East of England at 0.3 percentage points. The region with the largest decrease in the inactivity rate estimate was Wales at 3.2 percentage points”
Try ‘overloading functions’ rather than rewriting/templating it often covers a multitude of sins. (I personally think that it makes it harder to read!)
Alexander Armstrong is a very funny comedian, Richard Osman has a sense of comedic timing and quick-fire humour which is almost as laboured as mine. Other than that, no criticism of the show was intended, it was just an attempt to show that the General Public’s knowledge and interest in the Politicians is pretty dire.
I can’t say I blame them given the calibre of our present shower of incompetents.
I am going to swallow my pride and get Bjarne Stroustrup’s book on programming practice using C++. Why ? Because much of the C++ stl library is written in C++ and I need to know how to modify it !
Why?
You may want to look at what Stroustrop says on it: link
It was outpacing on a percentage basis because it has slipped so much in the last three years. 3022.82 in 2014 down to 2622.43 in 2018 — does not seem so good when you see it that way heh!
February 25, 2019 at 2:26 pm in reply to: Is Labour now "#&cked" as was overheard yesterday during the TIG Launch? #31103She also had the most incompetent bunch of Ministers that can be imagined. She tried to put together a Cabinet to represent a cross-section of views and finished with a bellowing Camel.
She was also badly advised. The EU certainly had a history of caving in at the last minute but not when things mattered to it. It rightly assessed that the impact on individual EU members would be less than the UK as a whole. Sure Germany would be affected worse, but much less than the UK. In this situation preservation of the EU as a whole wins through. This is a theme echoed by the Irish who also have a lot to lose. They correctly assessed that the potential for a hike in UK food prices of 40% is electorally unacceptable in the UK.
The UK hand just was not good enough when it was exposed. Commercial Negotiations are NOT a Chess Match they are a Poker Game, and if someone tries to draw a gun they get shot or ostracised.
If you have ever worked for a Marketing Organization the one mantra you will hear from the bosses is that clinching the deal is what counts, all else is irrelevant noise.
+1 too many old pharts have been protected by the Conservatives at the expense of the future. There is an old saying : “You reap what you sow”.
Maybe this link will help some understand why many of the young generation are close to revolution.
However, if one thinks of one’s own younger years ……
Actually no, as I was brought up in the generation of protest. Many young people knew just as much as the older folk and probably more about the world in general as our teachers served in the War years, but the pressures to conform were huge and suppression was palpable.
Friends who joined in protest movements were noticeably less likely to get employed, and there was a well-whispered (and subsequently proven accurate) questionably legal black-list of such individuals. This blacklist ranged to my knowledge from political firebrands to naive fellow travellers. This was mainly applied in the engineering industries particularly construction. It was not applied equally as Jack Straw featured on that list!
@VFM I think you are wrong to just criticize the young.
The General Public in general have very little interest in politicians. If you ever watch the inane ‘Pointless’ TV show at 5:15 and name an MP ‘who has done this or that in such and such years’ then at least 80% of the general public haven’t got a clue if it isn’t TBLiar or Churchill as an answer. Name (say) any Home Secretary and the correct responses drop to 15% or lower.
‘Pointless’ state they use representative samples from the UK population.
February 24, 2019 at 7:39 am in reply to: Is Labour now "#&cked" as was overheard yesterday during the TIG Launch? #31077We do not live in a democracy, All Governments treat manifestos to be ignored if ANYTHING changes. Often what is actually enacted bears little representation to the manifesto.
This whole Brexit shambles has upended the cosy little relationship between the Political classes and the masses. It has become clear to all that the election system produces incompetent blunderers of the May and Greyling class, or self interested ones like the Moggites and Left Wing extremists who just represent those who slip enough money into their political funds.
To get a system where we vote for the ability and integrity of the representative we need PR. If we stumble into the 40% hike in food prices of a Hard Brexit the masses will be baying for change of that nature.
February 22, 2019 at 7:03 am in reply to: Is Labour now "#&cked" as was overheard yesterday during the TIG Launch? #31033If anything is now “#&cked, it is the stupid May/Moggite EU negotiating strategy with at least 30 (some reports saying 100) Conservative MPs stating that they will vote for an extension to Article 50. I’m not actually certain they can do that without EU agreement but they can easily withdraw Article 50 i.e. No Brexit!
Can I take it that you would not be in favour of lowering the voting age given you strong views on the gullibility of impressionable youth?
You infer a valid point, but it is a pity that our broken system does not contain a mechanism in which 16-18 year olds could vote on candidates of their age, with such junior MPs dealing with issues for which they had insight and experience, and otherwise given a voice on national issues (but no vote).
The danger we have is that the young feel disenfranchised by the system whereby old Pharts have the greatest clout as they tend to cast a greater percentage of votes. It comes back to PR again, but with an age-group dimension.
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