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You spotted that then Dave. The £39bn cost is one of the things I like least about the deal. Much less money for sunny uplands. Ho hum.
Its ‘only’ £33Bn now due to all the time that has been wasted, but the actual cost to date of this fiasco is gigantic even excluding lost opportunity cost. If you want an example – the billion or so wasted by that poor excuse of a Minister, Chris Grayling.
I’m glad that the Brexiteers now have no one to blame but themselves if they fail to convince Parliament that this is a good deal. I’m with the Scots Nats this is a great deal if you are not English but it does risk breaking up the Union and places the whole Brexit risk on England. (I exclude Wales as I’m sure Plaid would like the same deal with customs posts at the old Rebecca toll booths on the Wye, Severn and A547.)
Wouldn’t that stop it from installing rather than activating though?
Sounds a reasonable guess unless the drivers are part of the WIM system, or similar.
I’ll leave the law to you, as that is your expertise.
Switching emphasis I found it interesting that the Scots Nats are saying on the radio that they would be very happy with the Ulster deal if it were also applied to Scotland, as it would keep them in the EU and they would still enjoy close links with England. A hard border supposedly would not bother them. I could also see the Welsh wanting a similar deal as that would meet their sheep farmer needs. Looks like Brexit really could break up the UK – not something the Conservatives normally tout!
As I read it BoJo’s deal is unlawful. See here at s.55(1). And the legal challenge has already been filed. Anyone want to guess how the Supreme Court would rule if and when it escalates to them?
Isn’t this just another law that will need amending? I don’t see anything unlawful in this until a Brexit deal is actually enacted.
Subsection 54:2 looks like it allows the appropriate Minister to do what he likes, provided it is a part of a deal with another territory.
“Subsection (1) shall not apply if the Treasury declare by Order that arrangements have been entered into by Her Majesty’s Government and that government under which that government will account to HMRC for those duties and taxes collected in that country or territory on a reciprocal basis.
BoJo is starting to both sound and act like Trump with his ‘great new deal’ for Brexit which in all but name puts a border down the Irish Sea. It is impossible to see how the DUP can ever agree to this deal as their so-called 4+ year veto is meaningless. If they reject the EU customs union then its an immediate hard border in Ireland, if they accept it then its the soft border in the Irish Sea with Ulster pretty much staying in the EU.
However the EU have apparently just now rejected any Benn Act extension so all hell is likely to break loose on Saturday. It looks like either the UK is fractured into England plus three unhappy federal states or the Conservative party is fractured, and a vote of no confidence is passed. What then is pure speculation as all shades of results (except a Hard Brexit) are equally likely.
I think a Hard Brexit has now been recognised as throwing the Conservatives into political purgatory due to its dire economic effects in the short/medium term. I therefore think that they would rather revoke Article 50 than be forced into that position.
We live in interesting times.😵
Les I would recommend that you start again with the LaCie drive connected to your PC then work through the earlier linked procedure. GParted includes routines to format the drive in ext4, so no need to use another formatter (usb formatters often use a fat32 format). The vital steps I think you are missing are the ‘mount’ steps included in the link.
I get a little confused on your setup – I assume that you are using the LaCie as some sort of supplement to your home drive. Try following this procedure.
btw the fdisk command in the procedure is followed by a lower case L (for list)
Use GParted. It should let you do anything you want – but you may have to wipe out what’s there first.
+1 but do not forget to unmount (right click on the partitions) anything it finds on the drive before attempting to delete all the partitions.
If you are not familiar with GParted run it without the LaCie drive connected just to familiarise yourself and note the details of the drive you do not want to remove. Mistaking similar size drives can be a disaster – been there and done it!
Although both SSH and VNC offer good hands-on control, do not forget about the possibility of using Samba file sharing, it also has the merit of being OS independent.
Tippon don’t forget there are some cpu/gpu gotchas which make Win10 impossible for machines in the Vista and earlier era.
Interesting – it reads like an early attempt to develop a scsi-like device bus for i/o devices. (the paper mentions cdrom and disk drives in passing). All good stuff for a soho machine but only the ST managed to approach that ambition with its paper-white wsiwyg word processor. (it beat IBMs attempts into the dust and rivalled the Mac of those days). Unfortunately through poor marketing Atari never could kick off the toy games machine reputation.
a so of basic abt the termonitor
Sorry – could you please spell that one out – I tried, but could not completely guess my way through the typos.
If it was something about a basic max/min thermometer – yes of course that can be used, as could a simple thermostat. It depends what you want, and what you think you could do with the info generated.
This sort of set up could be very handy for (say) controlling an automatic hydroponics setup for year-round green salad in your greenhouse by just adding a water/water level sensor and drip valve control.
Mark, you probably need to remember to pull off your chip before any MOT as my guess is that your NOx levels are now way up!
VNC is very picky and seems to be very dependent on wifi quality. I’m afraid the onboard wifi is Pi’s poor especially if you are using internal Bluetooth as well. I found that a cheap TPLink adapter improved things together with switching off the internal wireless services. Add the following to /boot/config.txt:
dtoverlay=disable-wifi
dtoverlay=disable-btThen add the external adapter.
Your local incinerator (200mg/NM3) meets current standards but does not meet the new proposed standards of 180mg/NM3. That said it is a significant margin better than London’s incinerators where the Mayor has been trying to reverse BoJos approval for yet another one.
I must admit hard data for London’s incinerators is VERY hard to find – it is almost as if it is being deliberately concealed!
Good job that Drezha is not with Vodaphone — £000’s in roaming charges. That could dent your credit score pdq! link
I guess as you posted the topic you already knew about the sub-rosa side of this. As usual p0rn drives technology on the Internet. link
[edit] btw – do not bother to follow the FakeApp or Reddit links these were quickly banned when the politicians realised that they would be the next lot of victims!
They often run tours around such facilities. If you want to be very unpopular ask what steps they are thinking of taking to meet the latest EU recommendations on NO/NOx emissions, and if they regularly test for dioxins in the flu gas.
If such facilities only burnt clean sorted waste there would be no issues. Unfortunately all sorts of crud ends up going to the incinerators – including fairly high levels of radio-active materials! Unfortunately the pigs breakfast of stuff that typically goes to the incinerators means that the older facilities are high level producers of a wide range of nasties including carcinogens such as dioxin (Vietnam’s baby deformer — Agent Orange).
The radioactives and other non-inflammable nasties such as Chromium end up in incinerator ash – its always interesting to know how/where they dispose of that!
It was not just industrial relations that killed Rover, but also poor management and a complete lack of quality control.
I bought a brand new ‘Friday’ Rover in the mid 70s, and within 50miles of taking delivery the back axle seized up solid as ALL the lubrication was missing — everything including the grease in the wheel bearings! As we were in the boondocks I had to drive the car with a red-hot back end until it completely seized. (no mobiles in those days)
I told everyone I knew about my experience and vowed that dog of a car would be my first and last Rover, and it was. As a result they lost not only my own future purchases but also everyone I managed to influence. I suspect that Rover lost even more sales in similar circumstances.
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