Posts by Dan 55 15445 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jun 2009
So the problem is not that the funding per patient was cut, it's that there were too many patients. If there were fewer patients... er, funding would still be cut, and in a way which even looks blatently obvious on a bar graph.
Your PFI comment makes no sense as all governments have indulged in it since the early 90s.
No, it's not because it makes the UK more important in the world, it's because it is something which makes the UK better than it would be if it didn't exist.
The NHS is not terrible, just chronically underfunded for years and it can't be long now before the government inevitably announces that privatisation will be stepped up as that will be the only way to improve it.
Take away the BBC and other Freeview channels from Sky and you're left with very little unless you pay more for films (£18 extra) and/or football (£23.50 extra).
Only the hard of thinking would pay Murdoch £22 more a month for Sky on top of the licence when most of the content worth watching is on Freeview anyway.
Unless government IT security is given its own department and some real powers to order the others about, instead of just something else a politician who studied PPE is placed in charge of for a year or so does before moving on, NHS pwnage will be the order of the day.
You know, like what's done in Germany.
I doubt it was just a beginner developer. This was probably the entire team collaborating on a set of documents.
And I bet no bank put "Do not upload everything to github" in the contract. If someone did, Tata would probably have gone to Sourceforge instead.
If it were a proportional vote, just Labour with 40% and Lib Dems with 7.4% could have agreed something, obviously not a coalition, and won. Tories had 42.4%, DUP 0.9% (which gave them a massive 10 seats), and UKIP 1.8% (who ended up with no seats at all).
FPTP is obviously not a good system, people might claim it avoids extreme parties getting into power but there probably wouldn't have been all the instability over the past 3 years if there were a more a proportional system anyway. Unfortunately the AV vote got rejected in the 2011 referendum thanks to the two big parties campaigning against it.
Anything remotely contentious is going to be dropped in an effort to stop the Tory party imploding, for which we can probably be thankful (e.g. backdoored encryption).
But Europe and Brexit will get them knifing each other in the back again, there's no way 10 DUP seats can cover that. So, elections again in six months' time?
Whackypedia says that by the late 1980s it was illegal to encourage suicide in every state (link) and she was over the age of criminal responsibility when she was sending the texts so it should be an open and shut case.
Why does the headline suggest the law needs to be updated because texts?
1) It also happens when they are on desktop. And are you seriously telling me that on mobile of all places where there's a high chance of patchy coverage, Lync can't cope if a message is not immediately downloaded by the app?
2) There may be a case for not displaying if the message has been read or not, but not sent or received. That long-winded message above has just told me it hasn't been received yet. Or sent properly. Or something went wrong, and I'm left copying and pasting the same text (C&P doesn't always work either) and sending it again, wondering if I look like an idiot if the recipient gets two or more messages on their client or two or more messages copied over to e-mail (another worthless Lync feature).
Bollocks. It's pretty crappy where I am too. And if it so much as loses one packet it has a funny turn, telling me that messages may or may not have got through.
If WhatsApp tells you when it's been sent, received, and read, why can't Lync?
And it makes no difference where I am as I'd need to use e-mail and Lync anyway.
And I guess the same is true in IBM and HPE too.
The thing is once Yahoo, IBM, and HPE have these great ideas it sets the ball rolling for CxOs in other companies to have them. If it happens in mine it won't improve my morale.
Well if they vote Tory they haven't voted in their own interests - the Tories announced ending the triple lock, introducing the dementia tax, and means testing winter fuel allowance. If the Tories get a majority the NHS will end up a shadow of its former self (link).
I supposed we should be cheered by this mass act of selflessness.
If you upvote, then downvote, it copes with it - good.
But you can't upvote, downvote, then upvote again, you have to refresh between the downvote and the second upvote. Then after the second upvote, your previous downvote is not removed immediately from the total, you have to refresh again.
This is on the mobile version.
Then there's a feature request: If you downvoted in error you can upvote to cancel out the downvote, but if it was not really good enough for an upvote it would be nice to be able to downvote again to have your downvote removed from the total.
And now repeat all of this post again but back-to-front (replace down with up and up with down).
Sorry, you're dealing with obsessive geeks here. But I guess you knew everyone would be testing it like a bull does a red rag.
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