Posts by ScottishYorkshireMan 122 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Feb 2010
How about we leave the potentially dodgy data alone for now and focus on an AI that is trained on the activities of politicians, their backers and ultimately those who would benefit from their actions. Maybe if it was good enough it might track down the £21B that Sunak pissed out the door.
However, this won't happen as it would likely benefit the common good, when all the common good is there for these days is to be shat on.
"Bad news always sells, that's human nature", says everything about how shitty humans are then doesn't it?
Thing is now though, Leon Skum (anagram for the hard of thinking!!), can just sack the people who are investigating him, or at least tell them his case isn't important.
humans have proven that they are not capable of owning large amounts of money, seems to make them, shittier, if not just downright assholey.
Upvote, downvote, don't give a shit, earth never had any problems until humans came along.
someone or for that matter, a few.
Hold shares in Oracle, somewhere. Maybe a pension, maybe actively.
Usually find that the reason that government (central or local) does or doesn't do something is down to someone being on the gravy train.
After all, Streeting took £175k from Private Healthcare, so I guess there is something in this. (https://www.thenational.scot/news/24250557.wes-streeting-takes-175k-donors-linked-private-health-firms/)
Corruption seems to be a human trait, not a political one. Too busy fucking each other over to do the right thing.
Upvote, downvote. Whatever.
which politician is getting the coffers of their offshore increased by this deal.
At least this time, the owner of the coffers is likely to be a red tory.
Go on, mark me down, don't give a fuck. Humans are buggered anyhow, just a matter of time before the greed finally closes the door on the species.
So, which round is it decided which politician gets the brown envelopes ?
I guess we could have thorium-salt reactors but hey, you can't make bombs from what they use, can you? and after all, they clean up their own shit so no tasty expensive decommissioning needed.
Lets face it, the only things that ever go ahead in terms of Government projects, are not always what are needed, its what the politicans get a kickback for.
Go on, flex your muscles and vote me down, then feel pleased with yourself as your little dopamine splat slowly declines.
Well its really the viewer.
If the viewer hears news that meets their own internal belief system, then that's great news. They like that and will parrot it out to whoever will listen. However, if they hear a story that lets for now say is factually true, but it doesn't fit their internal belief system, then whoa there, the viewer decides its BS. Very few go beyond the realms of the Daily Distress (Express for those regular buyers and the hard of thought) Daily Heil (Mail for those hard of thought and regular buyers) and in Scotland, well the Scottish Daily Distress is a fabulous source of the most random bullshit around, but usually angled to slant the SNP, in similar guise to The Herald and The Scotsman.
But we are talking TV here and since the likes of every eugenics supporting member of the 'Tory' party is now a Gammon Bollocks News TV star I think it says a lot both about the quality of what is broadcast and in a lot of cases, the viewer.
As with beauty, the news (or truth) is in the eye of the beholder (or viewer).
Given we know that the UK newspapers are shite, but when your broadcast world requires every single sentence to be fact checked, what the fuck is the point of watching?
From recent conversations it seems that Adobe have an ace in the hole.
People seem to be real happy to be gouged by Adobe because:
1. It meets their workflow needs.
2. They don't have time to learn something new.
3. It is the standard that all the others try and replicate.
4. No other package or suite has everything that Adobe offers.
5. Their work is so pish, they don't give a shit whose AI hoovers it up.
Pick from the above, whatever you need to avoid having to say, You were stupid in signing up and wish you hadn't. It's ok, people take fuck all responsibility these days for anything, especially personal choices which we see in software, politics and life in general, people just don't have the intelligence or personality to say 'jeez, I really did fuck up choosing that'.
Upvote/downvote, don't give a shit, but I guess the downvotes will be from those with who I have struck a nerve. Ha ha.
when you get a government hell bent on getting all the money it can from private healthcare, and reducing the spend dramatically for the NHS. This is the sort of thing that happens. After all, the NHS gets a pile of cash, but how much of that cash is diverted to private companies with an MP as either a director, major shareholder or having received a bung (yes Mr Streeting, its been well documented) https://www.thenational.scot/news/24250557.wes-streeting-takes-175k-donors-linked-private-health-firms/ ( A touch of hail the new boss, same as the old boss????)
Which makes me wonder about the NHS, its quite apparent that it needs the private assistance but is the NHS getting the right private assistance or is it getting the one that was provided by a brown envelope stacked with cash? Probably not cash though, wouldn't get thru ALM would it. Probably just into an offshore account and His Majesties Recovery Company don't see it either.
Things will only be done as long as said 'things' don't affect profits. We see this with the climate change situation. Those with the profits will end up holding their breath whilst they count their money.
There again, things seem to get done when there is a politician in the money chain, invariably not the right things, but something gets done and then sold to the proles as being the best ever possible solution. strange that innit?
So, likelihood of being prepared for an asteroid hit? Small, real small. Until we mature enough as a species to move away from financial and material gain.
Go ahead, do all the researchy things you need to do.
However, a few kg of something or other, can't be allowed to affect the profits. You have to think of the poor shareholders.
They will be fine in the future, holding their breath whilst they count their money....
I think that will be ceasing from me if this is how people are treated.
I always felt I was fighting a battle for Firefox as the RoW told me I should be using chrome, credge or something else.
I guess, for once, the RoW was right, but not for any other reason than this being piss poor behaviour from an organization that relies on donations.
Well, like Adobe, they can GTF!!!!
Thought Fartage was too busy selling crap gin to his munters who live of his/trumps every word?
Seems incredible that people still give this gob on a stick airtime, after he gets his Brexit, then goes on TV telling people how brilliant the French Healthcare system is, because it will likely pour money into his and his mate Aarons coffers.
The UK Will get exactly the Government it deserves, because voters don't seem to realise that politicians aren't there to make things better for those who elected them.
Upvote/downvote, don't give a shit. The UK needs an enema and the hosepipe needs to start in Wastemonster.
Plenty of options, just seems that some want to be seen using 'Adobe' products. Can't think why, other than its the 'Tesla' syndrome of 'look what I can afford to buy'.
Luminar Neo, Affinity Photo, ACDSee et al all good options.
After the licensing shambles I experienced I got shut of them, never looked back.
Aye right, and the Government then sells the data this organization holds to the likes of their favourite lobbying org and we are back to square one.
These problems exist because there is a politician making a buck out of the situation. Red Tory or Blue Tory, its just going to be different hands in the till.
the tory chunts to sell to palantir, who with their NHS data will be able to build quite the picture of everyone they want.
The UK always gets exactly the government it deserves, because it outsources the thinking to the Daily Heil/Distress/etc etc etc. - Delete as you see fit, or as you are told.
They used to call this country Great Britain... well the ASA would have a field day with that one.
I know totally irrelevent title but nothing relating to Government ever seems relevent to real life anymore.
Those supporters of Blue Corruption will likely baulk at this but lets be sure these days, whatever is going on, if there's money changing hands, there's a tory chunt in the cash flow somewhere.
Just how it is, maybe next year it will be a Labour Chunt, doesn't matter the UK always gets EXACTLY the government it deserves, and for the last 40 or so years, that's been shit ones.
Its well past the time that these enormous companies were fined. No, its time to put the figureheads in prison, after taking their assets. Fines just get passed on to Joe and Josephine Customer.
Problem is, those who make these kind of laws are either shareholders or are in the brown envelope workflow, so it will never happen. Fines it is.
"permanent salaries in UK government roles are not high enough to attract anyone good or competent"
Yet the corporate world is eager to sign up these incompetents in their droves post politics. BT took Tebbit (after railroading thru its privatisation of course), A plethora of companies took Ruth Davidson (no idea why but can't wait to see what companies sign up Douglas Ross and Andrew Bowie( nuclear minister - guffaw).
How many Government projects would fail if they were funded from the Politicians Pension fund, rather than the treasury itself? The fund takes a portion of the success, if there should be any and of course it takes the fall if it doesn't work out.
Would those ministers be so eager to make changes to just 'leave their mark' would they be so eager to agree budget increases?
Of course any Government Contract should NEVER be given to any company where a Politician or close family member of said politician is a director of that company, but I am sure there are those on here who quite like corruption as long as its 'their team' doing the corrupting and will mark this down. Yet, HS2 trundles on at £B's per mile yet other countries seem to be able to do everything so much better and so much cheaper. Wonder why that is? Perhaps we should ask Matt Hancocks landlord....
Why the hell would I pay for XYZ's opinion on the latest doodab, widget or whatever? If I am being offered actual knowledge, I will pay for it, and in a number of cases I have until I learned that even subscribing to the likes of a YT channel, YT take their cut of any subscriptions.
I think your expectation that we should pay for any old shite, deserves the Kevin Bridges response of "Enjoy your night, mate".
I can only assume that from the paultry sum, that Sunak and Goons haven't got their shares bought yet, otherwise the figure would be much higher. After all, there's no purse, like the public purse. Look at the NHS, shed loads of cash poured into it, but its actually poured out of it into both Red and Blue Tory shareholder pockets. Why would AI be any different? Given the massive success this government has with IT projects, expect an absolute ballsup when it does happen, but at least the goons will have their shares by that time.
Go on, have a poke, pretty sure you'll mark me down whatever your favourite colour of corruption happens to be.
> wouldn't it be more beneficial to direct resources towards research into regenerating cells in the human body to reverse cell damage or finding cures to reverse disabling conditions?
Pretty sure Big Pharma just had an ecoptic heartbeat at the thought of research into finding cures. - There's no money in cures, treatments however....
Can't have anything amazing that will affect profits or destablize the greed cycle.
Pretty sure, if it works, no one will get one beyond Musk himself as the cost will be made massive.
I guess if you downvote, you must be one of those 'Muskolytes' who pander to his every breath.
I have the VM 1Gig service and to be honest, its been pretty damn good. My area was the original united artists fibre that they never lit, but Telewest did and can't really fault it. The price is a bit much, but its a fast service and only recently have there been any issues which is quite a funny process.
You can check the status on their app, which will say everything is fine, the problem is with your kit, we will send an engineer, in a week or so and an appointment is booked. Because you know the problem isn't with your kit, you give it an hour and by then downdetector is screaming with people that their broadband has gone AWOL. Next comes the text message to say that an engineer is en-route to fix the problem which has an SLA of 8 hours. To be honest, the last 2 faults have been sorted pretty quickly. So, can't really complain.
I guess I am just lucky with my area, I hear nightmare stories about other areas. The service though was definately better when they had their local centres in Glenrothes and Knowsley, you could ring them and chances are get a support person who did actually know their stuff. The good old days.
Now, the greed cycle is engaged to gouging raises every 12 months, well, I am out of contract so I guess when that bites, I will be off to another vendor. Shame there isn't anyone local that can offer data at a speed faster than an asthmatic pigeon. Don't fancy putting money in Musks pocket either.
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