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The other thing I would do is to unplug  any USB peripherals. I’d then go through all the hidden USB drivers and remove these too.

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Assuming you did nothing else to the old drive, swap back to the old drive (as it had a sort of working system) then start in safe mode with networking and visit the Intel site and install their Intel Driver and Support Assistant (iDSA) tool. (you should be able to download the tool to a usb stick using another pc if safe networking does not work). Then update your mobo’s Intel Drivers on the non working machine.

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Do not get into the Falklands row without examining the role played by the US. As the Wall Street Journal makes clear our special relationship means sweet FA when the chips are down.

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The VFM Addict wrote:

I seem to recall the Yanks gave us Lend-Lease when we needed it in WW2

They GAVE us sweet FA, we had to pay in terms of servitude and money. In fact iirc we only finally paid it off in 2006.

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Bob Williams wrote:

I thought that SO2 also set up the conditions in the stratosphere for the formation of acid rain, Ed.

It does and that together with its impact on lungs is why it was banned, but it probably also helped give us those miserable winters of the 40s through 60s. There is a theory that when low sulfur ships bunker fuel is mandated that global warming will kick in once again, as ocean area SO2 is thought to really help sun-screening cloud formation.

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I trust an EU army in preference to being forever a US colony and ‘unsinkable’ aircraft/missile carrier and forward supply base like Guam.

In any case there are more than two choices, even a soft Brexit is preferable to the guaranteed medium term misery of trying to survive with no trade deals at all. (It takes on average 5 years to cut a trade deal from scratch – and US State as usual contradict POTUS in saying that they could not quickly cut any deals.)

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Les – look up the CERN Cloud experiment – there are external factors too.

Another one is the amount of interstellar dust, if we have passed from a dusty area into a clean one then less sunlight would be absorbed in its passage to the earth.. (Global warming has been observed on Uranus). That is not to say that humanity does not have an effect witness all the forest burning by the Indonesians and Malaysians. (Indonesia’s recent burn put out more CO2 than the US put out in car exhaust in a year). Paradoxically the removal of sulfur through the various clean air restrictions has increased global warming as SO2 aerosols do form clouds and cool the earth.

see link on non-CO2 impacts.

 

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Sounds as though you do the sensible thing – you manage your account in an Administrator account, but you have another low level account which you use normally and where necessary ‘use as Administrator’ and slot in a password.

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The problem is the selective use of both science and facts.

Take for example the Sulfur hexafluoride used as insulating material in the electrics of the much vaunted windfarms. Unfortunately despite supposedly being a sealed system, many ‘leak’ and SF6 has a greenhouse potential some 25000 times higher than CO2, and there is currently no economic alternate, and ripping out existing equipment will likely cause more harm than good.

Beeb link

A historical note SF6 replaced  PCBs in many instances, and that substance is a known killer!

We therefore need care when rushing to increase windpower generation, even if the need for backup to no wind on a winter evening is ignored.

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Dave, the QC representing the Scottish MP’s branded the mendacious BoJo as ‘The father of lies’. BoJo has a track record starting in his school days through to his working days as a journalist of telling lies, so it is an easy slur to support.

The Scottish court stated their view was that the main reason for proroguing was not the constitutional need to discuss the Queens Speech but to stymie Parliament. It was afterwards that the Scottish MPs stated that he had therefore lied (by omission) in the stated constitutional reason given to the Queen for the proroguement.  (Bojo’s press quotes)

The incident is compounded by John Major saying that BoJo’s supposed account ‘could not possibly be true’. In the circumstances, this of course is just a polite way of saying ‘a pack of lies’.

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The link still works for me, but the site was this:

https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/chromebooks-vs-windows

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I’m not firing bullets at LastPass’ security, but rather the cloud storage concept as any web-based store of all your passwords could well be a target for web-based exploits such as man-in-the-middle attacks.

Your browser is probably the biggest source of insecurity especially when coupled with someone doing a spear-phishing attack. The latter is probably not specifically a worry for you, but it could be for others if they handle sensitive information.

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The link I eventually gave explains why we cannot strip BoJo of his citizenship but then goes on to explore setting up an uninhabited island somewhere declaring it a republic, and giving him citizenship of that before we revoke his UK citizenship.

However I REALLY liked the post on the second page:

“Well, the elderly are always being warned about being conned by dodgy characters

Perhaps the Queen should have been more careful about who she let into the Palace”

 

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Somehow the DigitalSpy link went missing:

link

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On a slightly lighter note (re the mendacious BoJo found by Scottish Court to have been lying/misleading to the Queen), I found this thread in DigitalSpy quite entertaining.

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For a reasonably dispassionate comparison with a Windows laptop, check out this review. I guess you need to define ‘study aid’ a little more thoroughly to see which fulfils the requirement best.

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Graham, what holds us back is lack of investment. Paradoxically perhaps, economists point to low UK wages as being a main contributory factor when comparing our relatively poor productivity performance in comparison with our main EU competitors.

We do not encourage innovation with investment, and previous Government measures to encourage it through tax breaks have just turned that area into yet another tax shelter for fat cats.

Brexiteers say they want the UK to become a ‘Singapore’, having lived there long enough to get PR (Permanent Residence), I can say that we have neither the technically educated Government or Civil Service who are able to identify trends and quickly move to take advantage of them.

We also do not have the anti-corruption laws of that country with their swingeing impact on those (and their family) who squirrel undeclared money away off-shore, or take bribes. Rot starts at the top and that is where the UK is rotten in comparison to that island.

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Wheels-Of-Fire wrote:

Dear Bob The UK is a MASSIVE island with skills spread all over. We need to develop ALL of them but we can’t do it if the EU says NO.

OK, you have the platform. Please DETAIL exactly which skills and in what manner, the EU curtails them. CAP and fish are the only two areas which I know have limits placed on them for sound reasons.

I hope we do not need to argue about the need for conservation of fish stocks as the French could weigh in about Cornish fishermen raping their scallop beds!

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Sorry, I meant the mendacious one, perhaps doing a BoJo would have been better.

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John – the problem with UWP drivers is that the yellow exclamation mark sometimes does a ‘Boris’, and does not tell the whole truth. You could try working through this simple list of possible remedies.

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