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I did not further pursue the aspect of our Parliament historically outsourcing the detailing of regulation to unelected bodies as it is factual and probably dates back to Guild Hall days. In my view our membership of the EU did not change that very much at all. However my point was that we have a long history of using unelected appointed bodies to finalize laws and regulations. The EU performed much of that leg-work in drafting regulations which were then handed over to our Civil Servants and Regulators for their additions and finalization. If anything our Regulators were over-zealous and often unnecessarily made EU regulations over-prescriptive.
As our MEPs had already gone through any regulations as part of their roles and duties, then I would hope that our domestic MPs only looked at principles and left it to our own regulators to do their duty in enacting such regulations.
If only Brexiteers had fully accepted May’s proposals then perhaps there would be less to argue about, but instead they keep banging the Hard Brexit drum against which I am implacably opposed. I would however point out that in May’s deal putting a time limit on a backstop is utter madness as logically it is no longer a backstop when that limit expires.
However May’s proposal is just the end of the divorce settlement it does not even start the much harder trade discussions, and for example how we do or don’t pick up the 170 odd trade deals that the EU has already signed. There I could well have more arguments.
Dave, if you put a new local device on any Wi-Fi network it needs an open port to perform its initiation, get passwords etc. Is that port 10001? It is normally reserved for SCP configuration, which I guess includes new devices.
Incidentally this thread implies the Ubiquity may not be totally water-white.
The problem generally arises because Home/Echo/Alexa is continually listening to everything that is said – no matter where the source. One case in point arose because the software heard the alert keyword on the TV, misheard something else and forwarded some of their slightly embarrassing voice messages to a third party. It is not so much the Big-Brother privacy issue but rather the problems that arise in a noisy home.
I am personally much happier using a mobile touch-pad to manage appliances, or getting up and physically performing the necessary.
I note that once again Allen you switch topics when once again your ‘Brexit at all costs’ position becomes unsound. It is always the fault of Johnny Foreigner or those who would rather deal with them pragmatically. It is never the fault of the group of people who successfully mis-sold Brexit as a way of getting back our EU contributions without any negative impacts.
Be careful if you use it for phone calls there have been lots of problems caused by Echo/Alexa’s habits of listening to everything including voices on the TV. You may want to think about using the microphone mute button in the more ‘public’ areas.
Allen you talk about the ‘bombings’ but skirt the fact that the threat of a Hard Brexit is starting to raise that evil spectre once again. We had a situation where the old divisions were starting to disappear despite the DUP lunatic fringe but Brexit has brought it all back with a vengeance and May does nothing to smooth over fears and it must look to outsiders that her Government is ignoring the issue.
“Also if you are a Remainer then by definition you are not in favour of the UK having a firm border status like Oz does.” You seem to think everything is black and white. It isn’t. . . .
It is also untrue – Kiwis can go into OZ, work and collect benefit (and vice versa). They effectively have a mini-EU!
Allen in your follow-up post you did not add that many UK only laws are only outlined in parliament – the full detail is undemocratically (but quite practically) put together by appointed (unelected) bodies such as Accountants or the CAA. I really see no practical difference between our regulators and those of the EU.
What Brexit has done is to identify the very large percentage of incompetents in the Conservative Government. Starting of course with May, then Bojo, our worst ever Foreign Secretary, then Grayling who hires dubious shipping companies without first checking on Calais’ post Brexit capabilities. Not to forget clueless Brexit Bulldog Davies and slime-ball Mogg, or other incompetents such as our previous ill-Health Minister with the unfortunate rhyming name and used to good effect by Nurses and Junior Doctors.
It was all just another May ‘kick into the long grass’ ploy. One day soon she is going to have to ante-up as I sense the MPs are losing patience, just like the rest of the country.
Comment deleted, but there are a LOT of Windows ring zero exploits floating around.
Allan do some research please – the EU worries about VAT fraud. Export an article from Eire to Ulster reclaim the VAT, smuggle it back into Eire and rinse & repeat. It has nothing to do with BMWs as these have too many ID marks, something as simple as lorry-loads of detergent will do much better.
Roll on anything except this shambolic Government and kicking decisions into the long grass. May has a reputation to live up to — everything she touches turns to crap.
Just to respond to Allen, I’m not sure that there is ANY labour intensive industry left in the UK – that started disappearing in Maggy’s days.
All the Tory whinging about low productivity never looks at the investment/person. The French have much higher investment/person and much higher productivity (and wages) than British workers. Brexit has now pretty much killed investment, so productivity will slump as inflationary pressures kick in.
Great economic mismanagement yet again.
If Free Trade destroys British jobs, then that appears to destroy most of the Brexieer’s arguments that we need to go towards a free trade zone in the manner espoused by Rees-Mogg.
It is not Free Trade we need but investment in both our work force and education, these are the things that would make us competitive. The Malthouse group would have done better to look at Estonia as well as Singapore for their economic models.
Depends what scares you most. Looking after teeth (i.e. caries) covers the heart disease aspect.
Having seen a number of friends turned into living aggressive vegetables, it is dementia/Altzheimers that scares the crap out of me, and it appears that gum disease and cold sores are two things to avoid. You cannot avoid eventual death, but the period before most affects the ones you leave behind, and dementia can be extremely cruel.
You are right Richard it is probably too late for us old Pharts but dental care maybe something that younger ones should make a priority.
Having been on an emergency committee many moons ago, all sorts of scenarios are examined and plans made for each. Some take time to effect and many different people can get involved.
As Richard alluded in many cases this will involve transportation and logistics planning, and having had personal painful experience of Grayling’s organizational skills it could be any one of tens of thousands who leaked the info!
The ‘proof’ for a dementia link is fairly recent and based on studies in mice and people with dementia. As usual the old saw of correlation <> causation and proving causation will need many more stats and postulates for the mechanism. The same holds for heart disease but that emerged about 10 years ago and afaik the causation theories are still unproven, but more likely.
Hopefully they will evacuate May and her cohorts and we can get on with life!
The Cold War ‘plans’ were alluded to in the Times article. Good luck with using the old UK funk-holes as many are highly insanitary or taken-over by Marijuana Growers!
Looks like no honours for any Hard-Brexit MP, as the Royals are going to be uprooted from London to Canada if they actually follow the Cold War plans. link
From what I can see a number of ISPs are having troubles as they piggy-backed either on BT or directly to Google. (Google have fixed their issue).
I’d guess if you used OpenDNS you saw no problems.
I think you can use the Softpedia fix for OpenDNS with the following settings: (please correct if I made an error)
ipv4
208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220
ipv6
2620:119:35::35 and 2620:119:53::53
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