Re: More police state
For certain values of oppression... First they came for the foreigners, then they came for the NGO's.
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But how would you feel if you lost your job due to at best sloppy practises and at worse absolute lies on the behalf of 2 media organisations?
If I had his cash and influence I'd be suing for libel. Especially the been after that mealy mouthed "apology".
It will be amusing if Shapps ever gets a job in the ministry of fun (culture, media, sport)
Pretty much. Greece shouldn't have been lent the money they needed as their current system is still f*cked, better to let them out and fix themselves.
Greece is a spendaholic and we are their enablers.
In the interests of balance though - letting Greece goto the wall earlier would have resulting in the Eurozone imploding - Portugal, Spain, Italy and Ireland all would have gone in a massive mega implosion and a significant destruction of the Eurozone economy. So by that measure even if we get nothing back from Greece (and we'll probably get something eventually) its a bit of a bargain.
Intel drivers seem particularly prone to this problem - I don't think I ever had an oem set work perfectly installed over vendor wifi or graphics drivers.
Whilst I don't condone what Sammy did sometimes the settings ui's need rewriting so a normal human can use them.
If there is a particular subspecies of Yank who thinks the UN is a force for Evil or if it's all of them.
Talk about one of the greatest lies ever sold, whilst it's light years beyond perfect I would trust the UN far above the U.S. gotv, the UK Govt, and the EU. Compared to the long since stopped being funny show that is Congress it's a model of enlightened decision making.
What's the motive for the FUD? Who gains? Look very close to home Mr Yank.
Ps do you have a large gun collection and a compound cabin in the hills?
I suspect you will find that most people just leave their thermostat (in the uk at least) to a constant temperature regardless of whether they are in or out. Especially if someone is not working and in and out all day.
Your point stands in that it just requires some discipline to manage your heating - but most people don't have / or want to develop that discipline even when its costing them money.
That all the phone/bb providers (yes including virgin as they have even less excuse) should be mandated to provide same day turnaround on transfers, or even a constant service provision like Gas and Electric.
Im not saying its as important as those but its certainly going that way....
if you dont actually get why your statement is completely irrelevant I pity you. Hint none of them are above the laws of the countries they operate in, especially when most countries require you to have a banking license before being able to touch consumers money. They all caved when it was merely about censorship what on earth makes you think it will be different when moolah is involved.
Even Paypal has US, EU and OZ banking licenses.
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I do feel some sympathy for Elop - there were definitely no good choices left when he arrived.
Having said that history shows us of all the options he had - he chose the worst, everyone else from Blackberry to Sony are bleeding red ink but still in the game - unlike Nokia.
Maybe time will show that the survival of Nokia the parent company was far more important than Nokia phone company - but the jury is still out on that one. Sony's fate in particular is worth watching.
Burning platforms was a cockup of Gerald Ratner proportions though.
Depends on what get them for. I've just moved house and currently have nothing feeding me a TV signal. One Roku streaming stick later I have great quality iPlayer and Game of Thrones from sky with a free 3 month Now TV trial that will keep me tided over til I install the freesat Satellite dish and kit. Then it will probably go into the office as a backup TV source for those rooms without a satellite feed.
Bit of a bargain really.
Moron. Do you realise how infinitesimal the likelihood of getting killed by a terrorist is? Hint even at the height of the IRA campaign it was tiny. They could drop their budget by 50% and it barely change the odds. On the other hand those few beellions might appreciably bring a cure for cancer or heart disease a little closer. For sure it would extend the lives of thousands who currently get no access to drugs or new treatments coz the NHS can't afford them.
If its about saving lives (I think its actually about control) then give the budget to the NHS, Ministry of Transport (road safety), hell even the MOD before GCHQ and their ilk.
Assuming Ross' analysis is accurate. There are 2 really worrying parts of the NOAA data that any science or maths grad should be able to see.
1) Some of the NOAA data uses a 90% confidence interval. Real scientists consider p=0.95/95% a good rule of thumb for the start of talking about something statistically significant. In contrast the Higgs Boson results at Cern were not announced until they were at 99.9999% confidence.
2) Most of the argument seems to centre around how NOAA have added 0.12 degrees to some of those readings. Regardless of where the actual addition is made the margin of error according to Ross is 1.7 degrees. i.e. the average change may be 0.12 degrees but the entire range of changes would be on a distribution between 1.82 and -1.58 degrees.
Or to put it a much simpler way, the margins of error on most of their plots would be much much wider than most of the trend seen to date.
It really does make you want to spend some time looking at the raw data sources and some of the assumptions being made.
@Davidmb the usb-c on the current macbook doesn't support thunderbolt and won't unless a Firmware update of some sort is released.
Its blindingly obvious that Apple knew this was coming though and maybe the next macbook refreshes in Oct will get it across the range.
Just wondering coz you get the frequent peak oil rumour that the Saudi's say they have X reserves but are really lying and we are going to have Oil-o-geddon any minute now.
Assuming
a) it's not true.
b) it's not deliberate panic mongering.
Does it maybe come from a variant of the Fridge analogy? Ie the Saudi's have very little Reserves, but they are reasonably confident they have a metric fuckton or 2 of oil resources.
Firstly Euro SUV's are generally smaller than their US counterparts, particularly in Width which is the most important.
Secondly most of Britian and Europe have roads that are wide enough tiny historic towns are quite few and far between.
Thirdly SUV's have a huge Psychological draw that appeals to families - they look fashionable (mostly), they look safer (bigger = safer), they look like they can swallow a family and luggage, and the high driving position inspires confidence.
Correct me if Im wrong but has the CST flown in any real capacity? Contrast that with SpaceX who have been flying regular flights of the cargo version, and have been testing the escape system on the real thing.
Thats without mentioning the fact that Boeing are being paid almost twice as much....
In this particular respect David Davis is a Tory with some conscience around Civil liberties. There are a few others as well.
Infact there were 10 Tory MP's who voted against the last time, 20 odd labour and the whole of the SNP.
Plus the lords have kicked it into touch on numerous occasions inspite of a large Tory majority.
There's plenty of fight in the dog yet....
We need to write to our MP's saying we will track and remember how they voted on this issue when the next election comes round.
Donate money and time to Liberty, Privacy International, Big Brother Watch and any political party who comes out against it. Then tell your MP about that too.
It can be fought if we are passionate and articulate enough.
As techies we need to educate (but not lecture or hector) the rest of our society on why this is such a bad idea, something we do badly currently - because we know it so instinctively that we dont provide good examples to that the general public care about.