Posts by Roger Mew

BT, Sky bury hatchet with deal to sell each other's telly channels

Manure in bulk

There are so many "opportunities" to re watch something I have given up. The manure shown falls into the really cr4p situation with now repeats of repeats and even specialised channels of repeats. For example Pick does exactly that, it picks something that it has shown before in the last week and replays it, how about drama, all are more or less repeats of repeats already shown. Even the Beeb has jumped on the bandwagon of showing repeats of repeats. Frankly anybody stupid enough to pay for a TV licence needs his head read and pick and watch only on the internet and save the money for buying a collection of DVD's. To have a licence you only need to watch a program that is simutaneously being transmitted over the air and is receivable. You can therefore sit in a tunnel watching live TV as it cannot be received off air. You can also watch US TV being broadcast as again it is not possible to watch live off air. Watching though french TV on satellite in the UK needs a licence.

Auto auto fleets to dodge British potholes in future

Mmm wonderful, and how do motorcycles fair, oh sorry they just fall off or into and the auto car system will miss them. The UK has one of the highest vehicle taxation systems in the world and some of the worst potholes. I can therefore only think that ripping the vehicle operator off is logarithmic, rip them off once for car tax and then again for the defective road and then again for going faster than the 20 miles an hour the potholes demand and so on. We pay no car tax in France, have less potholes, and cheaper fuel. Having the vehicle operators pay so much causes everything to go up in price.

Voyager 1 fires thrusters last used in 1980 – and they worked!

Re: Good old electronics

Yes modern solder is absolute manure, most electronic failures today are apparently due to crap unleaded solder. Now here is a thought, is it better to have an item last for 30 years, or have a one fail every year or so and be thrown away. To me even though the lead is a bit more harmful over all surely 10 or 20 times more rubbish is worse.

I have a vintage Land rover, she smokes a bit however how much pollution is created for making a new car. say a modern car lasts 15 years, then there is likely to have been about 4 new cars and the scrapping thereof just to equate to my Land Rover that incidentally is easier to maintain, does not have technical bits that go wrong (poor solder) and just keeps going.

Oh dear your physics is really not good, it and nothing cannot rust, no oxygen, no water, and very very cold. Slow down, it cannot, it is not driven, it is now a celestial unit just going at its current speed, direction etc unless it is affected by something else eg smashing into something or being pulled by say a planet.

There is a caveat, perhaps you also think the moon is driven by gasoline, and that it has its steering set on going around a bend! Look out folks the earth is running out of gasoline! Duh!

What is speed relative to?

Question and one that used to wind my physics teachers up. What pray is the speed relative to. To have a given speed then it must be able to be compared with something that relative to the moving object is stationary. So please pray tell me in the universe which object is stationary. For example, if a gun on the satellite was fired say in the direction of travel at 700mph, is the bullet going at the speed of the satellite +700 or is the bullet going to come out of the back of the rifle. it cannot go backwards it must go forwards so if light was projected back to earth would it be at what speed.

You see the radio waves which travel at the speed of light get to the unit and come back, therefore in space there must be a "stationary" whatever that may be. A point in time, a geographic point. There now some body explain that. No person not even serious boffins have been able to explain it.

What will drive our cars when the combustion engine dies?

Re: fossil fuel - we're addicted. @katrinab

Thats good for you, however as we have night storage electricity, live in the country, have a limit on the amount we can have, and need the vehicle to get to the store some 10 mile distant, it seems that we will be phucked, worse I am registered disabled.

Can some one PLEASE tell me why all these city types that are totally stupid have not legislated that by next year every town and city bus route will start to be converted to trolley bus working. Little infrastructure problems, minimal other problems and the biggest hit on less pollution as buses in town cause more than most other REGULAR traffic! OH the reason why not, well its like this, it is government money, causes government problems with lack of electricity, and does not create any where near as frightening scenarios as saying the car has to bear the brunt.

I have an answer. everybody forsake the towns, do not visit, use out of town shops, get bosses to move businesses out of town and then there will be no town, just an empty derelict area with no pollution, magic!

Re: fossil fuel - we're addicted. @katrinab

We frequently do an all round trip of 1500 miles, going 750 one day, and return 2 or three days later. now if we were to rely on public transport, bring our shopping back would be untenable, we would not be able to recharge, and the whole thing will be a fiasco as pubic transport would take as at present at least 3 days going, no hotels available, I am disabled, impossible to carry ought, frankly a no no. Therefore the whole thing is going to crash.

Incidentally, aeroplanes eg Cessna run on 101 grade gasoline, they have to fly at 10,000 feet. The guarantee is for this fuel to be available for about the next 40 years. Now heres the rub, currently the fuel has a life span and after expiry has to be destroyed, so it is burnt. Yes burnt, at least 10,000 gallons a month, in the UK, France, Germany, Italy and so on. Why cannot the fuel be used in vintage cars! No its far more politically correct to burn it. Now let us go 1 step further. You have put shit gasoline eg with bensol in it and after about 3 weeks it should not be used due to water absorption and such like. so where do you dispose of this time expired gasoline. You cannot. I know how dangerous this shit is, I am badly burnt through it. I can go on but believe me it is politically better for you to be burnt than use time expired leaded gasoline.

Re: fossil fuel - we're addicted.

Whoa up there, LPG is not good, not good at all. The particulate from LPG is very small and gets right into the pores of lungs. Some years ago Calor in the UK did some experiments with Calor into diesels at max speeds and found the particulate was not good but the engines ran clean, guess where the particulate went!

Bring back trolley buses and there is no reason why lorries cannot run for delivery in say central London at night!

Other power, trolley, Veggy oil and methylated spirits.

Hi, currently I am looking at renovating gasoline powered vehicles, they will be in demand especially for vehicles that burn vegetable oil straight form say lidls and those that run on methylated spirits. It is not hard for me for example to convert my land rover of 1969 vintage, I just put it in which is exactly where our used chip pan oil goes, now I am looking at motorcycles, not FI types but older ones that run on carburetors.

it will not be economically worth while to stop vehicles like that as they will be vintage by then and changing regulations for old vehicles will just not be worth it! However, as unfortunately I am 72 I guess that will be a problem for the future horse and cart brigade. You are aware that the pollution from horse buses was worse than the diesel.

Incidentally, when are trolley buses being reinstalled, one bus creates a lot of pollution and the diesel engines in a bus are not being run economically or ecologically!

London mayor: Self-driving cars? Not without jacked-up taxes, you don't!

Re: What about the downsides?

What about trolley buses. They are cheap to make, easy to drive and make no pollution, asuming they are using wind power!

They are going on about diesel, well funnily enough diesel buses do not run the engine in the best way so the exhausts get all black and full of soot. When the bus is going for its test they take off the exhaust, put a new one on, then when it comes back from being tested they take off the new exhaust and put the old one back! However what is the date for all London buses to be trolley buses. All of the diesel buses will not pass the centre of London regulation! 1 Bus will make loads more fumes than a small car or motor bike, yet the small car pays no tax, the small bike pays more than a lot of cars, and buses, the biggest polluter, nothing.

When are the buses going to have to be trolley buses?

Kill animals and destroy property before hurting humans, Germany tells future self-driving cars

Many moons ago I was put on a skid pan in a truck to stop us swerving to avoid an accident, however, it will not be really possible and take the following scenario.

A small child runs out in front of you from the pavement side. you will automatically swerve as will the auto system. On the other side of the central reservation hedge there is a bus queue of kids. You will swerve into them killing several and maiming more. The auto vehicle can NOT be programmed to do this otherwise it will kill the toddler! The vehicular situation on terra firma is not the same as trains or planes and the reliability will not be sustainable. How many of you have remote key locking on 433.925, Mhz, and how many do I block when running 50 watts into a radio repeater. A range of 50 miles may be good. All radio systems are potentially subject to interference. Put the freight on railways!

Do we need Windows patch legislation?

You are also forgetting that the vendors are assured by MS that the software they issue is new, however software people may spend 5 years on developing a program to run on say Vista and then another year testing and the programme is put on the market when MS announce the projected new software. No the blame has to be on MS. I have had this discussion with a vendor, and he is as pissed off as the end users.

The timescale needs to be as per vehicles, at least 10 years for maintenance after last sale. It is not the launch that should be used otherwise the clever little urchins will then run the sale for the period of the maintenance and then just stop. by making it from the date of the last sale or at least the last date of 1st time registration or activation of the software.

As a lot of software for Vista was only released 2 years before the stopping of issue, and the last registrations only as recently as 5 years those people should rightly be feeling ripped off!

It's amazing the UK Parliament agreed to track 22bn Brits' car trips. Oh right – it didn't

You will all report to the monitoring fitment station to have installed in your head a chip, every time you pass within 20 ft of a recorder, all information of your life will be downloaded from the last download. if you do anything wrong, a severe head ache will be initiated and you will need to report to the local agency where your crime will be assessed. If your crime is minor, illegal parking etc then you will be guided to the relevant department. criminal acts are automatically recorded and subsequent penalties applied. naughty thoughts will require brain restructuring.

Hasta la Windows Vista, baby! It's now officially dead – good riddance

It was and still is the most stable platform that I had.

It was and still is the most stable platform that I had, reliable and never let me down. I have been forced to upgrade to 7 as I had a copy unused so far so good, and it seems faster than the Vista. But frankly it was not bad and I am sorry that MS gave me all the problems with updates at the end and the last 3 months.

How UK’s GDPR law might not be judged 'adequate'

I have tried to obtain information about Dacorum councils complaints about highway speed bumps and basically have been told to go away as it would cost too much to find out. I now have to take them to court to get my vehicle repaired. I recovered one of the lumps that hit my vehicle, incorrect fixings, incorrect substrata, Ie not concrete but tarmac, and insufficient fixings, 2 not 4.and knowing there was problems did nothing. So now, county court. as the FOI was just rejected. FOI, lies and blocking and a waste of time.

Microsoft kills Windows Vista on April 11: No security patches, no hot fixes, no support, nada

Why replace, My vintage ex army Land Rover still has a function and parts are available... .

Why rest? Many of my acquired software will not run on later stuff, and why the f.... would I want to buy something that means I will have to buy another load of software that only does what mine does now! It would also have complexities that are not needed and also need retraining. Sorry I guess you are also the type that buys a new Ferrari when the tyres need changing!

Who says Vista is hated?

I do not get why most hated, I have found it the most stable platform if you get the software and build the computer yourself. I have not had BSoD's etc and it has been very reliable, not so the rubbish that has followed. If you think that vista has been bad, why? This machine has run reliably since it was built some 6 years ago and the only thing that has had a problem is down to MS updates in the last 6 months which I perceive as deliberate. I have programs on here that run music modification and design stuff all without problems. One only has to read the items about Vista to know that. I am guessing that those with problems had ready built items with loads of advertising rubbish etc included. I cannot run some of the stuff on 10 and in fact as 10 is so prone to problems (although it has improved) so Vista will continue to be used with the help of private companies like AVG, Sophos etc. In fact it seems that as MS are "washing their hands of it" some private companies are taking it under their wing. So if Google chrome want also to lose users tuff bye to them also R

UK to block Kodi pirates in real-time: Saturday kick-off

If you get a good VPN then you can go to india where these UK things are actually available...for nothing. The ISP cannot "see" what you are recieving, just that it is moving stuff, not even what, it could be a home movie, skype, etc.

Smart meter firm EDMI asked UK for £7m to change a single component

Oh yes

868 is supposed to be the frequency that the government want phase out. Certainly over about the next 10 years the use of 868Mhz is supposed to be being given to something else. In any case even that will not give full coverage of the UK.

Higher tech prices ARE here to stay. It's Mr Farage's new Britain

Re: In the dark ages

Yes but what you did NOT say was that the peripherals like the computer, the injector manifolds, the intercoolers and the like have been cheapened. One only has to look at something like the injector pack for the ford, buy the Peugeot one for the same engine, its cheaper and better, now also go and change the computer and map it. The Engine may be a standard, but the badging is totally different. Also the niceties of the engine. Try the economy for example or the emissions after 3 years. It is the same with a Fiat or a Renault, they all have differing other bits.

As for BMW, the main reason for that, and I hate Badly Made Wagons, is that the maintenance is not carried out properly, and that most Fix Or Repair Daily are used by companies that maintain to a high standard.

Look at Fords after about 5 years, the emissions may make the car a write off.

Re: Brexit means brexit.

Down and down you go just like all past large colonizers, Italy, Greek, Egyptian, Byzantine. Just look at Greece and Italy now, fundamentally broke, exactly the pattern for the UK . Lets go on, French Empire, German Empire, even the dear old US of A is having its problems, and of course Russia.

Soon there will be people scavenging in dustbins for food.....Oh that is right, they already are! Total reduction of employed people, the rich getting richer and the poor...well they will not be getting a car too soon, an increase in the prison population, racial tension or better. Look at the US. In part almost civil war, whites versus the rest!

It is coming to a road near you. You voted for it if you voted Brexit. You were lied to, the NHS does not get any of the savings, there will not be any, just a greater expense.

People did NOT do their own research, contact large companies etc. Companies like JCB who build around the world to avoid import duties are loving this. Cut back UK production and do it in Germany. Enjoy, by 2018 Xmas your costs will have increased by about 10 to 15% and your wage will not, but unemployment is set to go up in 2019 by about 10%.

Enjoy yourselves its better than you think,

poor England now ,is going down the Sink

The UK is done,

you haven't done the sum.

Enjoy yourself enjoy yourself,

Its the poor that will be done!

you got what you wanted, or what you will get!

Hi all, the lies told to you are going to come back and bite, Those that were silly enough to want brexit are either politicians or of a lower intellect. If you could not see it coming then you are not a politician. It will pan out like this. For a new car going to the EEC there will be a tax, about 5-10%. That will be paid for by the UK buyers. This will increase the cost of a new car by about 15%, parts also will go up. Other items may only incur a lower tax, possibly about 3-5% guess who will be paying that, for example electronic programs etc..So that will be added to the UK item cost to stop the items increasing in the EU. Now add that to things like UK cars having to comply with EU laws, if not they will not be allowed into Europe, not even on holiday. Now, stuff coming to the UK may need to pay an exportation tax, especially food stuffs. That already happens to stuff like fresh fruit from African countries. There will almost certainly be a tax on planes coming from or going to the UK, guess who will be paying that.For instance coal from Germany.

So people happy xmas and do remember some price increases will hit immediately article 50 is signed but the rest will hit when you depart. An approximation of unemployment increase about 2% but with a rising amount. This will not happen immediately as there needs to be built the large complex for incoming stuff at ports especially Dover and the complex at Calais is now earmarked for both housing and factories.

Enjoy! That is exactly what those who cannot see voted for, not the majority, many thousands were blocked from voting.

get what you want, or rather did not but gonna get

Hi all, the lies told to you are going to come back and bite, Those that were silly enough to want brexit are either politicians or of a lower intellect. If you could not see it coming then you are not a politician. It will pan out like this. For a new car going to the EEC there will be a tax, about 5-10%. That will be paid for by the UK buyers. This will increase the cost of a new car by about 15%, parts also will go up. Other items may only incur a lower tax, possibly about 3-5% guess who will be paying that, for example electronic programs etc..So that will be added to the UK item cost to stop the items increasing in the EU. Now add that to things like UK cars having to comply with EU laws, if not they will not be allowed into Europe, not even on holiday. Now, stuff coming to the UK may need to pay an exportation tax, especially food stuffs. That already happens to stuff like fresh fruit from African countries. There will almost certainly be a tax on planes coming from or going to the UK, guess who will be paying that.For instance coal from Germany.

So people happy xmas and do remember some price increases will hit immediately article 50 is signed but the rest will hit when you depart. An approximation of unemployment increase about 2% but with a rising amount. This will not happen immediately as there needs to be built the large complex for incoming stuff at ports especially Dover and the complex at Calais is now earmarked for both housing and factories.

Enjoy! That is exactly what those who cannot see voted for, not the majority, many thousands were blocked from voting.

BT will HATE us for this one weird 5G trick

They have an easy option, paint the lens. They all have a lens cover in a plastic to protect them from idiot problems, a lens is relatively cheap, a lamp is not! So paint the lens!

Re: LED street light fail

That is down to the incompetence of the lighting people. Almost exact matching could be done, colour, light emission etc. Complain, and vociferously. There are actually laws about light intrusion to property in the UK, they will have to reduce the intensity or make a guard. I remember at Gold Hill in Gerrards Cross in the 1960's going up and painting the inside of the lens in thick black paint to protect the houses further down the hill. (Terrifying going up on the useless bit of kit on that steep hill, Ugh.0

Re: Sodium Lights

Having been an electrician and completed to my design a large street lighting system in 1967 controlled by electronics and also taught for one of the manufacturers as a teacher, think I can comment on the lighting. All these lamps were to get a high efficiency with available technology, which they did and well. SON, that is HP sodium improved its colour rendition over the years but was not exactly economic but was good for roads as the clarity was good, lamp life excellent and could replace the MBFU ghostly white from the late 30's almost like for like with a huge increase in usable light. The lamp though has a comparatively huge start up current, does not like low voltage and is expensive. The SOX, low pressure sodium, is extremely cheap to run, and has normally a long life but expensive to make and colour rendition is poor BUT does not cause night vision to deteriorate therefore very good for security lighting. There is no reason that LED cannot be construed to equate to a warmer light, they do not have to be cold white or blue etc. there are many available in shades of warmer white and there is no reason why as existing lamps fail or for that matter existing stocks used up, that an equivalent value and colour rendition and light output LED should not be available or used. I have for example several 6' fluorescent tubes that are not available here in France, so I shall use those up and then change to LED. I can get coolwhite, colour matching, white or warm white. Incidentally do not use "white" in home or office enviroment, use coolwhite or warm white.

Britain must send its F-35s to Italy for heavy overhauls, decrees US

gifts

Exactly the reason the US offered to take the UK on as a state in the 50's they got, the nuclear bomb, colour TV, TV, the UK version of Jet engine, missiles, rocketry, to name a few.

" Down and down you go, the little ol' Britain we love" ode to the ss little Britain.

So where are we

Back in the 1950's the UK was heavily in debt and the US asked/ suggested that the UK become part of the US, but the UK refused. We could have been a totally separate but state of the US and all our debts therefore wiped. However, our empire was shrinking,...fast, and our only option was to remain basically bankrupt or join the EU.

So here we are, full circle, no engineering, no empire, no eu and in debt and forced to not fix our own kit. the UK has basically 2 options, stay in the EU or be a totally unsupported state of the US without the benefits just like the Philippines was. now look at them. The model for the UK, possibly not, but not far behind. Not allowed to fix our own kit!

Either we start building our own kit again as we cannot afford to pay others, or we just go down the plug hole.

have the Brexiters started to smell the coffee yet! seems many politicians are starting to realise that leaving the EU will drop us right in the cacky, Pay the Turks to repair our planes, tell 'em to get f....

Don't use a VPN in United Arab Emirates – unless you wanna risk jail and a $545,000 fine

Re: Legitimate use of VPN fine?

the use of a VPN is not illegal, many insurance companies, and other financial concerns use a VPN address to conduct day to day business. Therefore the identification on what is being used will be a problem. For example if the insurance office in Dubai were to contact head office in say London then it would not be a problem. Also to use a VPN in itself will cause untold aggro for businesses in Dubai that I guess that airlines, insurance companies, banks and the like will be clamouring to get clarification. Either that or Dubai will grind to a halt. Worse, if you use OpenDNS this stops outside sources plugging in to your routing effectively also being a sort of VPN and many commercial and educational sources use that. This is one of the silly laws drafted by a non technical person on a high tech world.

Due to something I did here in France (totally legal, it just pi55ed off FT) and went thru OpenDNS, FT attempted everything in the book to hack my system and block my internet without cutting it off. They failed and went away knowing that the system of OpenDNS worked. They knew because I told them but they did not like the result. (basically the old "dead" sorry live box did not work too well) However, it is not and was not illegal but they knew not what I was doing!

Tesla autopilot driver 'was speeding' moments before death – prelim report

Laws on road safety.

Actually something else the EU forced on the UK. Are all these to be removed from lorries if Brexit goes ahead. So now we have laminated windscreens back to zebra zone, car headlamps back to sealed beams, all these were laws forced on the UK by the EU. However back to the guy in the car, just having the lorry with markings would have made a difference.

UK's education system blamed for IT jobs going to non-Brits

Funnily enough I was tasked to investigate something similar, to wit education for children of expats. The following I discovered, in East Anglia, take that to mean Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridge. Job availability in the area for young people in techy type jobs, CNC machining, radio design, heavy machining like radial drilling, multi head drilling or spark eroding. Many, in fact in Norfolk over 20. Schools teaching anything similar 1 at Kings Lynn but even that was limited. However subject being enforced taught, and one school demanding subjects as extra curricular sociology and photography, almost all the schools. Job vacancies, nil! Yes that is correct NIL. In fact I asked Watton High school and others how many courses they have for heavy engineering seeing as the area is high for the oil industry under the freedom of information act and it is illegal for them not to answer, and I am a discriminator of information media, yet got not one response. So please where are the students going to get jobs (oh yes like one I knew he had a degree in something like the above and became a forklift driver) or from else where in the EU that teach this stuff like eastern Germany and Poland.

(sorry if the silly machine has done this twice!!)

Don’t let the Barmy Brexiteers wreck #digital #europe

Re: This:

It would be nice if you actually stated your qualifications to state the situation not just state that of what he is. He may well be biased where as you just do not understand. Saying that someone is talking rubbish does not expand or subscribe to anything. One needs facts to be elucidated and made comprehensible not just some derogatory swear words. Where is your factual information about his comments and his reasoning.

I am guessing that the man has put more thought into the situation than you have in your whole life, not being able to digest and consolidate information and just using derogatory words indicates someone who has been brainwashed.

Re: Short sighted idiocy...

But you are missing some things, first, the UK border force in Calais will have to go, almost immediately. There is no reason to stay as far as the french are concerened and in fact the cas and pas de Calais authorities in whos domain the area is have said openly that the Brexit would mean that immediately the border force area would have to close and the situation will be in the UK NOT in France. In one fell swoop the French have gotton rid of the immigrant problem around Calais, and also a large area that they want for industry will be opened up. It was also stated on French TV.

Now, all these immigrants in lorries, with no passports will have to be stored, agh yes in the UK.

Now there is a bilateral agreement with France for pensioners and medical set up before the EU with France, BUT not with any other country. Many from Spain retirees will be coming back as their pensions will be fixed, no medical cover and so on.

Ireland will probably accept the Shengan agreement so by walking from Eire to NI unless a wall is built will be easy.NI will not be happy due to the cross border trade so many in NI will have to vote to stay in the EU.

What is frightening is that it is the number of lower IQ people that are far more likely to be sucked in by the likes of Boris who was not exactly good at school, and that is possibly the reason that he cannot do sums!! It does not take a genius to work out that the UK income will be less over all in the event of a "brexit" and that therefore monies for other things from the government will go down due to a loss of revenue. The fact that the UK is not paying the EU will be dwarfed by the increased loss of revenue, probably double what is paid to the EU. Add to that the many more that will be on the dole and the NHS will be in the merde. Now add to that the many retirees from the eu who may feel that they are now also in the merde, loss of medical, and other costs attributed to living in a country that no longer is prepared to pay for their assistance, lets guess at 2,000,000 that could mean that the UK has also to find retiree residences for about 1,000,000 with the infra structure to suit and of course the hospitals dealing with this influx so dear old dozy Boris will be having to pay for all this.

Better off, the bloke is dreaming. In France alone there are approximately 1,000,000 permanent residence, and add to that those that are best described as partial residence, they live in France all the time but have a convenience address, daughters flat, sons house etc, that has no chance of being an address where the extra people could live, so probably another million as well.

If those that think that the UK would be better off then I suggest an IQ test. It seems that apart from politicians many of whom are purely after their own agenda, those of us with an IQ less than about 95 are likely to vote Brexit. However, those with a higher IQ realise that it is not as simple as boris thinks and are more likely to think that whilst the EU has problems we are better of staying and changing the rules. In fact many countries will back the UK about changing the rules.

Brexit? Cutting the old-school ties would do more for Brit tech world

Oh what now THAT is French, they have highway laws yet we are taking our Mairie to the Tribunal d'administration for infractions numbering over 100 according to the Hussier (bailiff who is supporting our concerns) then we are going after amny other towns and organizations including the Gendarmerie and the police for failing in thier duty of care and not prosecuting these infractions.

All they care about is getting money from motorists, not even if you report something will they do ought. So really your comment is really French! Not the British way!

Incidentally, I was in a pub in the west country, you had to go down a river to get there in a car or wellies, and the police turned up at silly oclock one summers evening when the harvester vehicles had just finished. They knicked the publican, and a load of vehicles for no tax or MOT etc.It was the first time the police had been there for many years, before the war in fact. Most of the vehicles got off as it was found that the road in the river had not been adopted by the council and the police car actually was in infringement of its insurance limitations!

I do not know where you come from ethnically, as most proper brits are derived from somewhere on the mainland eg France, Holland or Germany, and going back Italy. Now in my book these are European. OK those with shades of skin different to those countries are not of EU ethnicity, however the likelihood of being European if your skin is white is extremely high.

So, if they do not consider them selves European where the phxxck do they think they are. Eastern asian are slant eyed, middle africa are black, and so on. So believe me there is not much considering to be done. Both my wife and I have names that trace back to French, many of our friends have names that are either Celtic or Dutch / German! Presumably they should allow themselves to be thought of as European, yet the majority of inhabitants of say Southall, Leeds, Peterborough and so on may not.

For information, it seems that apart from politicians, the electorate with an IQ of above say 95 are voting to stay whilst an electorate of less than 90 are wishing to leave, bouyed on by politicians who really want to leave for their own reasons. Better top of a small heap than bottom of a large heap! The immigration is a sop, a ruse as the immigration will get worse, well for a while until the UK sorry britain, sinks in stature, as the borders will be even worse as the French will almost immediately throw out the UK border controls in France, therefore lorry passengers will become endemic, from all ports. Also until the wall is built and manned between Eire and Northern Ireland the populace, can if they wish, just walk across.

Financially the UK, sorry, britain, will be phucked as it is probable that Scotland and for that matter NI will want to depart from the UK leaving britain to sink on its own.

For those of lower interlect, Oxbridge is a name given to the two cities of both Cambridge and Oxford. The name Oxbridge is often referred to when subjects common to both cities are being discussed.

Ireland's tech sector fears fallout of Brexit 'Yes' vote

Re: Ireland, they know what they're doing

Russian roulette is in the end always fatal! A foot injury can be normally repaired!

Voting its 15 years!

It was 15 years and is due to or has changed, I have a letter here from the MP confirming that. What has a tent got to do with it?

The thing is that countries trading with EU countries will want to continue to trade with EU countries. So, Honda, Toyota, will probably have to go, and then of course many of the computer designers etc will want to continue dealing with the EU and their trading partners so they will go. EU banking will go, Mobile phone companies will have to sort their lives out and of course they will no longer be controlled by the EU. Transport will still have to comply with EU rules but a tax on the vehicles may be imposed, and vice verse which will harass trade as well. The fish exports will collapse due to non compliance with EU quotas. Now, lets see about airlines, as they will still have to conform to EU stuff they might as well be EU based. The ss britain will be a sorry place to live for about 20 years and it will never catch up. It will be like when the Romans left. Britain spent many years in the dark ages. I am not suggesting that the british would return to grub huts, but many will be homeless due to the high influx of retired, and often needing medical support, expats.

Yeah good idea that.

So you think you know, well hopefully you think that it will be a stay. The breaking up of the UK to individual countries will almost certainly be the result in the event of Brexit getting their way.

Scotland almost unanimously want to stay as does NI. Wales it seems also are for staying. So ss britain would be out in the briny.

I have a letter from the MP about the voting and they were SUPPOSED to have altered that, further if you have not registered by now you cannot. also make sure you do it by proxy. A stra poll of those allowed to vote and had a postal vote in the last election of 1000 questioned, a 1000 did not get votes counted due to late arrival. To me that is a whopping 100% failure!

Do you know I could have written that except I live in France. I bet your IQ is higher than 100

Re: "no fixed controls on the land border between Northern Ireland and the republic"

They did they called it religion!

The thing is that mostly, apart from politicians, if the IQ of a person is over 100 they will vote stay, if they live in scotland they will almost certainly vote stay, and NI will vote stay. Also the people that are most likely to vote stay cannot be bothered to fill in polls etc so the likelihood is that the vote to stay will be above 55%.

If Britain votes to come out there could be a liason between Wales, Scotland and NI and leave the UK and put in to rejoin the EU. That will be fun, ss (slowly Sinking) britain on its own and the rest back in the EU.

The cost of coming out is likely to cost British people about £2-4000 each, so effectively, the poor will be so poor that they will really be in the shit. Many elderly expats return to UK and will want proper rented accommodation so the people that are most likely to vote leave will be homeless. Many will not be able to pay the higher rents.

My worry living in France is the pension situation, I may have to co rent with other expats so we have a UK address that has been vacated by the aforesaid poor to keep our pensions.

Look at the losses in leaving, jobs, - nurses, technical engineers, car plants, computer developers etc and where is there another English speaking country in the EU, oh yes Ireland. Rumour has it that the car maker that makes the car you are always stuck behind its a T..... is looking at Southern Ireland.

Photographer hassled by Port of Tyne for filming a sign on a wall

This is NOT government, this is stupid jobs worth and boredom. My job meant that I went to places that were really secure, and I used kit that was really secure. I needed to test and use film for evaluation and I just asked my bosses at the various establishments and away i went, planes, boats, trains, kit etc. Little can be gained from most photos like this, and in any case the item can be viewed publicly anyway.

Some years ago a civvy truck broke down outside a friends house, It was being escorted by police, British soldiers and US Airforce officials. I knew the lorry was carrying a nuclear bomb (probably not with the radio active bit in it, but who knows) but to show someone a piccy would have meant nothing. Do the zombies really think that the stuff you can see is secure. I carried more important stuff in the back of my Morris Mini and in an army lorry with a convoy had almost nothing.

Essex cop abused police IT systems to snoop on his in-laws

How about the Suffolk police using the computers for internet porn and child porn. That was never supposedly found. It has to be realised that the bill is just another cross section of the community just that more criminals migrate to them. That is the reason why you get a lazy could not give a fig 30% a very good 30% and the rest just bent to a greater or lesser amount. A copper who tells kids off for scrumping, takes the apples and eats them is just as bad as the one who is having it off with an officer of the opposite sex in the cells or one that is taking back handers.

North Dorset Council hit by ransomware, flips the bird at miscreants

Raise the churchillian I think.

Pay up, Lincolnshire, or your data gets it. Systems still down after ransomware hits

Why

What I do not really understand is why these type companies etc allow control computers to use the same connections as things that can be accessed. For example, a computer that can only deal with company data cannot connect by anymeans with one that deals with say emails. It is real easy to stop any data going to a system that is blocked from receiving that data. So for example a machine control computer cannot by reason that it does not identify emails or for that matter any other stuff like jpg, etc just control code. It can still pass info from one machine to another but not if its routing cannot pass that sort of file. I have just had to do that for an individual, no emails, no messaging, no skype etc. JUST and only data with a certain mix. No internet search engines, nothing just its own codes. Then use another for stuff like emails that can only load certain things like a straight email, none of the sending a PDF as that can hide something, yet loads of companies send that sort of rubbish out. I got one of those from an electrical supplier, scanned with AVG before I opened it and it had malware on it. They were not happy, if they sent one to a council... Case rests.

OK it means 2 or three machines, but data is secured.