Posts by gandalfcn

UK's proposed alt.GDPR will turn Britain into a 'test lab' for data harvesting

Re: @Doctor Syntax

"Guess its a matter of perspective." Interestingly that is what followers of the Flat Earth cult endlessly parrot. Go figure.

From cage fight to page fight: Twitter threatens to sue Meta after Threads app launch

Re: Twitter's biggest Trade Secret

Put your tinfoil hat on and stop drinking the fantasy juice.

Re: Whoever wins ...

As most people are not on either and don't give a gnat's fart, other than to laugh, you need to rethink that.

". The BBC, at least, made reference to privacy concerns" That's mainly the EU, the UK will just do what the US tells it to do.

Brits negotiating draft deal to rejoin EU's $100B blockbuster science programme

' the country is full of thick people.' And the poor things downvoted you!

Re: Some balance?

The EU did not make that abundantly clear, quite the opposite. But then the Daily Excess, who you are citing, is not known for its honesty in such matters

Re: Some balance?

'I know of many who just get their information from the Daily Mail.'

And Excess and Torygraph, not forgetting Gammon Broadcasting™ News (“Bacon’s News Channel”),

Re: Some balance?

When the UK entered what became the EU it was the poor man of Europe. Being part of the EU enabled it to become the 5th largest world economy and the 2nd largest in Europe. Now Brexiteers gloat about the UK being better than half the EU and 9th in the world. This latest move is basically an admission that Brexit was a disaster.

Re: The enemy is both too strong and too weak

Seems comprehension is not your strong suit.

From a Tory grandee "After Brexit, the Irish border will be the only EU-UK land border.”

However, the UK ~ Irish border is the only UK land border, regardless of the EU. The UK has never had another land border. One could consider the tunnel to France as a sort of land border, but that will still be there after Brexit.

All of which proves to me the man’s an idiot

Re: seeing the way they have punished the UK for wanting to leave

"It was all over the news." You mean the Daily Brexpress, the Daily Fail and the joke that the Telegraph now is.

The Daily Express deleted 70 archived pro-Brexit news stories from between 2017 and 2020 in a failed bid to deny its lying.

Re: Citation please ?

"I got 6 A* at A-level, 4 S-level grade 1, starred First (top ten in my year), and a PhD from Cambridge. I have fourteen patents to my name. What are your qualifications like?"

And I'm the Virgin Mary.

Re: Citation please ?

RegGuy1, Oh dear, you really have upset 'spoons and Gammon.

Re: Citation please ?

Total bollocks from CJ, as usual.

Re: Some balance?

"So, yeah I would like to eat my cake and have it with cherries on top. I'm still on the fence about the whole thing." ROFL.

Re: Some balance?

'After seeing the way they have punished the UK for wanting to leave, it has cooled my opinion of them somewhat."

You mean the UK being treated as a non-member with no rights until it negotiates some deals, just like all other non-members?

How dare these bloody foreigners treat us the same as our ex colonies!

Re: Some balance?

Correction.

It also seems that the vast majority of people do not think the EU is the very best thing that's ever happened or the very worst but somewhere in between, where on balance it can deliver a lot of benefits, but also has very few really big problems.

Meta's data-hungry Threads skips over EU but lands in Britain

Re: Eh?

codejunky continues with its obvious trolling.

No open door for India's tech workers in any UK trade deal

Re: Visa-free travel

One major factor being totally ignored is India's cozy relationship with the Putin SSR.

Re: Nothing economically beneficial will happen until the Tories get kicked out.

"when germany becomes like the UK" When they keep electing governments of entitled, incompetent Tory types? I think not.

Re: Nothing economically beneficial will happen until the Tories get kicked out.

The problems you cit are a direct and inevitable result of Tory policy so stop blaming immigrants.

Re: "Negotiating a trade deal will be easy"

Rees-Mogg and Dorries likely to be named in ‘contempts of parliament’ report.

Boris Johnson’s allies are expected to be named in a report published on Thursday about potential “contempts of parliament”

Re: This isn't the Brexit we voted for.

"They already spent that money on the NHS" Lie.

" But we have already saved £191 billion by not being in the EU" Lie

Re: I want COMPETENT, not cheap workers

'Define successful countries....' In the context it's blatantly obvious, other than to a Brexiteer.

Re: "Negotiating a trade deal will be easy"

'They're not Torys they're "New Labour" self identifying as Torys'. I see, so the right wing of the Tory party are now "New Labour"? Really? Time to lay off the hallucogens.

Re: "Negotiating a trade deal will be easy"

'Only if you have incompetent corporate shills in charge of making the meal, wouldnt you say...' You mean the same liars who lied about how great Brexit would be?

That isn't the burn you believe it is.

Re: This isn't the Brexit we voted for.

Which could have existed anyway. So still a lie.

Re: This isn't the Brexit we voted for.

Mr Gumby from Monty Python springs mind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrCPIrs90eg

Re: This isn't the Brexit we voted for.

"So you prefer the useless idiots in the EU then" Now your 'unelected bureaucrat' lire has been exposed you change to another patent lie. The only country doing worse than the UK is Putin's SSR.

Re: This isn't the Brexit we voted for.

JE spouting more bollox. As usual.

Re: This isn't the Brexit we voted for.

Poor old Nige mtold lots of porkies about Coutts' wealth standards and other things, but Brexiteers somehow still refuse to accept he is nothing more than a lying con artist.

Re: This isn't the Brexit we voted for.

'Or anyone from the batshit crazy wings of the Conservative Party.' They're pretty mainstream nowadays, which could explain their low ratings.

Re: This isn't the Brexit we voted for.

What a load of untrue fascist propaganda.

Re: This isn't the Brexit we voted for.

Nothing artificial about it at all, for example seasonal jobs have been common for decades, long predating the EU. Ever heard of strawberry dodgers?

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-49019716

NHS conditions were poor because of Tory policy / wilful underfunding.

'Even your salary is being supressed' By powerful corporations and Tory policy.

Deloitte wins deal worth up to £100M for UK border platform

Re: Epic Chaos, General Chaos imminent

"has been fined in last 3 years for mismanagement, lax procedures shall we?" Spaffers, just like the Tories.

Re: I'm struggling...

"So the question has to be why it has taken so long"

Tory incompetence. Rees-Mogg, Bojo, Truss, Dorries et al, and none of them actually understanding reality.

Re: I'm struggling...

LOL, downvoted by a gullible,Bojo believing Brexiteer. What a surprise.

Missing Titan sub likely destroyed in implosion, no survivors

A classic case of FAFO.

Re: A fitting epitaph

Classic cases of FAFO.

EU tells Twitter 'you can run but you can't hide' from disinformation policy

Re: Erm

Why do you spread so much bs and lies?

Re: Erm

Infantile. = Pineapple Chunk Bollocks

Re: Erm

'You seem to be confusing "[social] media" with science.' You most definitely are. And spouting bs.

Re: Erm

Which planet have you been living on for the last three years? Planet Murdoch it seems.

Re: Erm

The downvoting MAGAts et al strike again!

Murdoch has a lot to answer for.

Re: Erm

The downvoting of what scientists stated simply proves that some believe politicians' and Murdoch lies to reality. And these people are supposed to be science savvy ffs

Re: Erm

Correct, but most Regites are blind to SARS facts.

Thanks for proving me correct.

Re: Erm

Bless, still tr0ll1ng the rubes I see.

Re: Erm

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp8715

Re: Erm

'A number of early cases of the outbreak in Wuhan were tied to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market. Later, researchers took environmental samples that suggested the virus had landed on surfaces in the market. But in the period since, tissue samples from the market's animals have revealed no trace of the virus. For the virus to jump from animals to humans, the animals have to actually be carrying it.

"None of the animals tested positive. So since January, this has not actually been particularly conclusive. But this has developed into a narrative," he said.

Carlson said his colleagues in China have been careful and precise in their work, publishing data according to international regulations that any scientist anywhere in the world can examine, and that strongly supports the conclusion that the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market wasn't the source of the virus.

One reason this idea has gained such traction is that it dovetails with conservation efforts. Many wet markets sell exotic, endangered and highly trafficked animals such as pangolins. And it would be a victory for animal conservation, he said, if markets like this one were shut down after being blamed for the disease. But that doesn't mean that the evidence is there.

"This is an animal-origin virus that made the leap, maybe from bats to humans, maybe through… another animal, maybe through livestock. And we don't have the data yet to know where or how," he said. "That takes time. The study that really definitively showed the bats that SARS came from was published in 2017," roughly 15 years after the outbreak first occurred.'

Re: Erm

'The evolutionary virologist Michael Worobey is trying to bring the pandemic-origins debate back to where it started: with the notion that the coronavirus made the jump to humans at the Huanan seafood market, in Wuhan, China. Last week, he argued in Science that, contrary to official timelines of infection, the “first known” patient was a market vendor selling shrimp. For Worobey, it’s telling—to say the least—that this confirmed case, and most of the other very early ones, was linked to Huanan. In an interview with Jane Qiu, whose excellent rundown of the new analysis appeared on Friday in the MIT Technology Review, he calls a natural spillover in this spot “vastly more likely than any other scenarios based on what we now know.”

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