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Trump tariffs transform into bigger threats for Mexico, Canada than China

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>It is also 100% certain that any country we impose tariffs on will impose tariffs on us in exchange.

Mostly they won't - that's too obvious

Instead all Chinese state farms will simultaneously decide they aren't buying American soybeans anymore

The Eu will decide that Tesla is temporarily suspended because of safety concerns and twitter is fined $Baziilion for 'reasons'

Nothing to do with tariffs or retaliation

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Re: Just more taxation

>People will just put off buying things unless they have to

That's why you need the tariffs on food

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Re: Don't worry.....

But the nice thing is that even if the company is exempt from tariffs it can still charge the same markup as its competitors that are paying.

Everyone(*) wins

* for limited values of everyone

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Re: Bring it on

"There are already Asian majority suburbs in Vancouver. "

Just think if Britain hadn't only let English people from Hong Kong then it could be a hell hole like Vancouver.

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Re: You keep using that word...

Isn't that the replacement for NOAA?

The national napkin

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Re: If I said "Tariff" is AKA a "Sales Tax"

In the words of the Great American Philosopher, "what are you reading for?"

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Re: As a Right Pondian...

Build a bridge

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There are going to be more illegals crossing the border in January.

Subaru drivers clutching their NPR tote bags trudging across the border in Birkenstocks

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Canada should introduce 35% tariff on illegal guns from America

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But it's a sales tax that China pays on fruit from Mexico remember - Smart Wink Emoji

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> That Vietnam will magically start producing iPads?

Foxcon Vietnam can never start assembling iPads. there is something deeply inherently Chinese in the iPad that mean only Foxcon Chengdu can ever really understand them.

Starlink gets FCC nod for space calls, but can't dial up full power

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Re: I imagine Trump's FCC will do what Musk wants

> could bully the FCC

Pseudo-President Musk will just abolish it along with the FDA and FTC

Microsoft hits back at claims it slurps your Word, Excel files to train AI models

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Re: Let's say that Microsoft is lying...

>Fairly easy to show that it's leaving your PC

The majority of people using Office are using Office365 so everything goes to the cloud. Ironically those users with the most sensitive data are more likely to be using Office365 vs a local copy

>And say you do prove a badness, who goes to jail?

Did you do anything hacker-ish to prove this ? Like running wireguard or a VPN or Kali Linux or anything else "cyber"?

Then you do

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At least it's not Disney small print.0

The only reason. Oracle's license doesn't allow them to kill you in your sleep is the delay in getting more fees from your will

UK council still hadn't fully costed troubled Oracle project 2 years in

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So payroll for a tractor company is different from payroll for a bank. but both manage to use ADP, you don't hear of John Deere or Goldman Sachs spending $Bn on a payroll system.

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Re: £40M

No that would be ridiculous

This is an entirely different spreadsheet cell

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But the computing process of doing this in West Sussex (failed) and East Sussex (success) are so very different that really no lessons can be learned.

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Re: £40M

Yes, we have fined Birmingham council £40M

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Re: Beware of hidden reefs when navigating waters prepared by yachtsman

>I believe the correct methodology for costing Oracle is know as "sunk costs".

I believe the correct methodology for costing Oracle is know as "robbery"

Intel locks down $7.86B in funding from US CHIPS Act

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Interesting times

A ban on communist government interference in the free market and a 20% tariff on ASML machines.

Russian spies may have moved in next door to target your network

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"Enterprise" edition that cost $550 for six months of "unlimited VIP support."

Sounds like a bargain compared to certain vendors - how do I sign up ?

Trump taps border hawk to head DHS. Will Noem's 'enthusiasm' extend to digital domain?

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Except regulation will be down to the States and California is unlikely to defer to S Dakota for certifying cyber security professionals

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Re: I would so like ...

Backbenchers will quickly remove a PM once they look like being an electoral liability. Impeachment because the polls look bad is a lot less likely

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Re: Noem idea at all

It used to be economic textbook that inflation benefits the poor at the expense of the rich because it destroys debt and devalues savings.

That's why all governments will do anything, however painful, to keep inflation low

Persuading the poorest that inflation is bad for them and higher interest rates are good for them is brilliant

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Re: I would so like ...

The big difference is that the PM doesn't have that much power when faced with backbenchers, the civil service, judges etc

Imagine if David Icke became PM and had the ability to hand pick every chief constable, judge, general and could shut down government depts on a whim.

BOFH: The devil's in the contract details

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Re: Never a truer word...

So you're proposing a Pol-Pot style Year Zero for anyone caught with a copy of PowerPoint ?

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If groups split into fractals wouldn't there be an unending sequence of ever finer divisions of opinion until every individual was arguing within themselves?

Oh, I see your point

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Re: Telephone Systems

Or if you bury them head down - as bike racks

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If OpenSource was really written by communists every project would immediately split into fractions who did nothing but argue about tiny details of design that nobody outside their group cared about

Opensource projects aren't like this - except for Gnome and fsck those tankies

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Re: Checking the boxes

>Oh that can be arranged.

Although it does require pressing 4 keys in Emacs

AI hiring bias? Men with Anglo-Saxon names score lower in tech interviews

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Re: You can't add arbitrary data to remove bias.

Don't bank call centers prefer Scots accents because they are more "trusted with money"? IIRC Yorkshire and Geordie were more "friendly"

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Re: AI hiring bias?

Just add an invisible middle name

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Re: Anglo-Saxon names?

So Mr Cthulhu you are obviously qualified for the role of Unix admin (in fact rather overqualified) I just have some questions of how "that is not dead which can eternal lie" fits with our pension contribution

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Re: You can't add arbitrary data to remove bias.

That's rather the problem.

1, Everyone knows that nobody hires [black/northern/ginger/women] for job X. So if I'm [black/northern/ginger/female] it's not economically sensible for me to spend years and $$$$ qualifying for job X

2, Everyone hiring for job X claims that they aren't against [black/northern/ginger/women] - it's just that there are no suitable [black/northern/ginger/women] candidates

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Re: Anglo-Saxon names?

>Yes, it is a bit of a Cnut isn't it?

Bloody vikings, coming over here, raping and pillaging, sprouting sagas and stealing our jobs

Stop the Long Ships

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Re: Nae bother

I think counting Scots as people is an example of 'Woke'

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Re: Anglo-Saxon names?

I'm normally against positive discrimination but it's about time there was an effort to promote Anglo-Saxons over the Norman ruling classes

Chinese ship casts shadow over Baltic subsea cable snipfest

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Re: As I was saying...

Have they made a theme park ride of the movie yet ?

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Re: As I was saying...

Given the ludicrous delays and overspending on any modern military hardware, perhaps we should take a lesson from the glorious days of His Majesty's Navy

Copies of HMS Victory should be easy to manufacture and have a proven record against the French. As a bonus they would be carbon neutral

A generation of crews can be realised by making the Master and Commander series of novels set texts in schools

Then there only remains the difficulty of other naval traditions, but we can find other sources of rum after Brexit.

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Re: So...

Presumably they wanted a naval operation where they get to reuse the ship.

The Russian Navy tactic of sinking is certainly effective against undersea cables but is a tad expensive

Now Online Safety Act is law, UK has 'priorities' – but still won't explain 'spy clause'

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They control everything, along with the Potato Council, but nobody talks about the potato Council

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How do you ensure that the YAAC you are encrypting the message for is the real YAAC ?

How do you do mass email ?

You can do encrypted mail to/from the email server but that just means the MMB have one tap at Google/Outlook/Apple, rather than having to tap the connection of every dissident el'reg reader

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Re: His Majesty's Stationary Office

Only if it's Organic Dutchy Original

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His Majesty's Stationary Office

Have been required to design new versions of the 10 and 20 pound note which contain methods to prevent their use to fund, child abuse, terrorism, immigration, purchasing of Phil Collins CDs at car boot sales, and anything else bad.

Chinese cyberspies, Musk’s Beijing ties, labelled ‘real risk’ to US security by senator

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Re: @Cliffwilliams44 - Blinded by Ideology!

Everyone knows that President Biden is funded by the Northern Independence Party and VP Harris is a tool of the Batley Towns womens Guild

El'reg is a British publication and supports British conspiracies

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Obviously there will be exemptions for vital donors strategic companies

BASIC co-creator Thomas Kurtz hits END at 96

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Re: The bit of the brochure which gives me the shivers:

Hands up anyone who's written self-modifying code.

Deliberately?

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 struggles to take off

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Rail-replacement Bus Service simulator

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Re: Obviously...

Flight Simulator - Southwest edition ?

America's drinking water systems have a hard-to-swallow cybersecurity problem

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Re: Easy Fix Incoming

>Disband the EPA.

That seems rather drastic

The clearly thought out, well.researched, political solution is to fire 75% of the staff based on their SSN, cut the budget by 75% and have a law saying that companies can ignore any of their rules unless they win in court.

And then appoint a leader who believes we need to ban DiHydrogen Monoxide

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