Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26124 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
Or it could be a double bluff by the Norwegians.
Just look at the statistics.
1st millenium, no internet, lots of viking attacks
2nd millenium, limited internet, reduced viking attacks
3rd millenium, universal internet, no viking attacks
The vikings have obviously moved into cyberwarfare.
It helps if the other country is in the Eu so there is no import duty.
So Mr Romanian president, lower the rate to 10% and we will pretend to invest billions of $ and create 1000s of jobs in your country. Or at least put up a few brass plaques outside lawyers offices
Right upto the point where some other European country decides to make it 10% or 5%
It used to be that Ireland did very well with US corporations: between the language, golf courses, whiskey and the "Mr Obama - come and meet your ancestors, the O'bamas" angle.
But with $$$bn at stake I'm sure a few CFOs can face having their euro-headquarters in Luxembourg or Romania.
Ireland is short of money
It appears to have one of the worlds most profitable companies in it's backyard.
Why not just nationalise it?
It could even pay compensation - although since the company is mostly irish and most of their business is in Ireland - you wouldn't allow them to repatriate the money to any other tax haven.
Yes they do help get over the crap handwriting = thick hurdle. So much so that schools have "allegedly" been classifying lots of kids as Dyslexic/Autistic/etc so they can use word processors in exams.
But that's a long way from deciding that if you can write a story and use different fonts you are not only doing better at the story but you are learning computers as well
from anybody who has even the least justification for an opinion - ie anybody who has been in a school.
Is that computers are mostly a complete waste of time. From the days when we had a BBC micro and a laser disk to learn about the UK in the doomsday project - to today's make a web page in Word showing why you didn't do your maths homework.
By all means put some computers in a library, along with some books, in the hope that some student discovers them and learns something (very much like the books) - but don't think that a power point replaces a teacher
I recommend that we surround the entire planet with several miles of protective gas which will convert the meteor's energy into heat and dissipate it safely.
We should also arrange that large areas of land in big countries along an east-west axis are mostly uninhabited or filled with people we don't really care about.
"If there were a better way to get around, something would have evolved it."
Evolution only works if it benefits an individual - the problem with wheels is that they need roads, it's hard to evolve a gene for building roads that other individuals use. Social insects might manage it
So the ads would now be sold by Google-Sark or Google-IOM and the 1000s of people workign in London still wouldn't pay any tax.
However the rest of the Eu would ban Google-UK from selling to them, or introduce a 100% import duty, so Google would close it's UK office and open one in Europe.
IIRC the reason for the charge was a nominal sum to cover the pharmacists cost of handling the prescription. Since this new computer system will reduce the cost dramatically (all computerised systems do ) the fee can be abolished.
Alternatively anybody who doesn't have to pay can prove that by registering a 90quid e-passport in the new system on every visit
You wont have a choice of pharmacists because your doctor (or semi-autonomous grant holding patient acquisation unit as he is now known) - is signed up to GooglePreScript which has an exclusive contract with
Easypharm, who unfortunately only have branches in London and the Caymens (for tax reasons)
They will deliver the drugs to your home, for a moderate extra fee, and in only 28 days.
Yep - if you are a human/environmental/animal rights campiagner all you have to do is be better at cybersecurity than the combined technical resources of any government that may oppose you.
You should also assume that the same government owns the OS and hardware you are running it on
That will be why everybody is rushing to build Concorde replacements then
If it's vital that cockneys and brummies meet face to face to discuss the massive West Midland-London trade deals then it shoudl be vital for me to supersonic to Shenzen everytime I need a circuit board making.
>I could, in theory, work in London for several hundred quid/day more than I do in my home city.
But once everybody from your home city can work in London - that rate drops.
It will however increase the price of houses in your city when Birmingham becomes a London commuter suburb
>This present venture seems to have some similarities.
Except for the educational aspects and local yoof
This is subsidized office space for big companies who are frends with the government to stick a bunch of call center people in with a couple of felt tip web designers upstairs to get the digital-britannia bit and the occasional school party being shown some of this "multi-media stuff" to justify the educational tag
Because each "digital social creative media cloud government relations consultant" requires a barrista, a personal assistant, a life coach, a yoga instructor, a nanny .....
So you only need a few government website concepts to be concepted about - to easily create 6500 new jobs
The drones are autonomous, they can navigate by GPS, intertial, TFR and Infrared mapping.
And if somebody does does shoot one down - what have you lost?
The main problem is that using them as a bomber is silly. If the mass you have to bring back to the carrier to reload is so much larger than the bomb load why not leave the plane at the target - ie a cruise missile.
The real reason that it will be dropped is that the navy like having big impressive carriers with 5000 crew all serving 2 dozen fighter pilots. Replacing them with a converted container ship and 3 techs launching disposable drones doesn't do much for your political career once you stop being an admiral
Except manned fighters are cool, so they get the pick of the best (or at least best connected) pilots
Those same pilots rise up the ranks of the air force and government - where they are in charge of the purchasing decisions
Ever wondered why the head of the RAF is always a fighter type?
But what is the barrier to complaining?
If Madonna or similar have a staff complaining about every "Madonna can't sing" "Madonna looks like an XXX" multiplied by 80million Germans it's going to have to basically block all names.
Then with libel tourism does it count if somebody in England types in the name of a German on the .com site?
So the same governments that want drone strikes on Mr Assange for reavealing super-ultra-top-secret classified info (like Isreal and the palestinians don't get on, or some people in Pakistan don't like the US) - are quite happy to use use this illegally obtained info to claw back money
