Posts by Loyal Commenter

400 million Chinese people can't speak Chinese: Official

Likely Lingua Franca

It used to be that French was the 'lingua franca', used internationally for diplomacy and trade. These days, English seems to have taken over. Interestingly though, it appears to be a subset of English, with simplified grammar, pronunciation and syntax that is used commonly between non-native English speakers, to the extent that native English speakers themselves find it hard to understand. Languages have a habit of obtaining words and phrases from each other (for example, English has 'beef' from the French boeuf, and French has 'le shopping'), so it is likely that if we do ever all end up speaking a common tongue, it will be a conglomeration of several languages, taking the grammar and words which are most useful, and easiest to master from each.

BAN THIS SICK FILCH: Which? demands end to £1.50-per-min 'help' lines

Public bodies such as local authorities certainly shouldn't be exempted

I recently received a demand with threat of legal action from my local authority over a council tax payment, which I had made, but they had managed to mis-allocate. The letter had on it an 087-something number. I'm glad I managed to find the local number to call instead, buried on the council's web-shite, as once I managed to get through the near-impenetrable automated system to get onto a queue, I waited for almost half an hour before being cut off and having to start again. Even if it had been at 11p a minute (plus VAT no doubt), the call still would have cost me near a fiver to make, to sort out someone else's error.

Headmaster calls cops, tries to dash pupil's uni dreams - over a BLOG

Re: inculcated

Russell Brand and George Galloway know long and unusual words, I would contend it's not a sign of intelligence or skill, just of knowing some words the other people don't know.

I would contend that both Brand and Galloway not only know long and unusual words, but are also highly intelligent individuals. That intelligence tends to have no bearing on common sense, or on morality is the only thing that can really be inferred from this.

That you have failed to recognise this, and the fact that both of them have had very successful careers by a number of metrics implies that they are probably both of higher intelligence than you are.

To quote a certain Mr Fry:

"Swearing is a really important part of one's life. It would be impossible to imagine going through life without swearing and without enjoying swearing... There used to be mad, silly, prissy people who used to say swearing was a sign of a poor vocabulary -such utter nonsense. The people I know who swear the most tend to have the widest vocabularies and the kind of person who says swearing is a sign of a poor vocabulary usually have a pretty poor vocabulary themselves... The sort of twee person who thinks swearing is in any way a sign of a lack of education or a lack of verbal interest or -is just a fucking lunatic... I haven't met anybody who's truly shocked at swearing, really, they're only shocked on behalf of other people. Well, you know, that's preposterous... or they say 'it's not necessary'. As if that should stop one doing it! It's not necessary to have coloured socks, it's not necessary for this cushion to be here, but is anyone going to write in and say 'I was shocked to see that cushion there, it really wasn't necessary'? No, things not being necessary is what makes life interesting -the little extras in life. "

Re: Knowing your place

Teachers operate in loco-perentis, they are required to act as if parents and it doesn't stop when outside of school hours.

That's exactly wrong. Parents / legal guardians have the job of parenting their kids when under thier supervision. The job of the teacher stops at the school gate (with the exception of school trips, etc. where the parent has given written authorisation). We don't yet live in an authoritarian state a-la North Korea. Lets try to keep it that way, eh?

The Solar System's second-largest volcano found hiding on Earth

So how come...

three separate and distinct peaks here make a single volcano, but the five volcanoes that make up the island of Hawai'i are considered separate? What is the criterion by which they are considerd to be the same volcano?

Gov IT write-off: Universal Credit system flushes £34m down toilet

Re: Cost

is estimated to cost

Judging from the typical final costs of various gov. IT projects, I don't think it would be unreasonable to add a zero to that figure to get what it's really going to cost.

Re: fixed this for you

Maybe because those in need of social housing weren't given a choice of where they were put when the local councils put them there, and they aren't being given the choice of a house with fewer rooms now, they're just having money taken from them instead. Painting those who live on the bread-line as the greedy perpetrators is just sickening when compared with the well-heeled thugs who are pushing them further into poverty.

The truth is that whilst there are scroungers in the benefits system, they make up a small number of cases, and in terms of parasites on society, those in control are worse, cost the tax-payer more, and live in much bigger houses. Most people on benefits, believe it or not, aren't claiming them out of choice, but out of necessity. Put down your copy of the Daily Mail, start thinking for yourself, and stop blaming the poor for the greediness of the rich.

Indeed

That is only the figure that has been written off. Wait until one or two years down the line, where the rest of the money that has been spunked on this attack on the poor is also written off when the project is cancelled. It's a seven-figure write-down at the moment, but who's tosay it won't end up being nine figures that are written off (read funnelled into contractor companies). I wonder how many directorships or other financial interests the vile IDS has with the suppliers?

Microsoft's $7.1bn Nokia gobble: Why you should expect the unexpected

Re: Run away!!!

Quite frankly, those Apple ads that showed the "PC guy" pretty much nailed it: these people are creepier versions of "PC guy".

I always raise a wry smile when I look at how the respective careers of Mitchell and Webb have gone since they did that advert. Other than Pepp Show, and their joint venture, 'That Mitchell and Webb Look', David Mitchell, the 'boring PC' has had great success on a series of comedy panel shows, has a column in The Guardian, and has married Victoria Coren. Robert Webb, the 'trendy Mac' seems to have been consigned to a series of bit-parts, and a terrible 'look at the tiny mistakes that nerds have spotted in films' series. It's subjective, I know, but to me this perfectly exemplifies the 'style over substance' of Apple. Not that Microsoft are exactly a paragon of anything, mind...

Science fiction titan Frederik Pohl dies, aged 93

Maybe someone up there is 'collecting' them?

Dopey dope-growing dope smoked out by own dope dope-growing vid

Re: "manufacturing a controlled drug".

If a child were to eat 2 or 3 of these (or an adult for that matter) in about 2 hours time they will be on a trip to the hospital and assuming their heart doesn't stop beating they'll be totally tripping for days and probably psychologically damaged.

A slight exaggeration, perhaps? The LD50 lethal dose is significantly higher than you suppose - apparently 42mg per kilogram of body weight in rats. The more likely outcome would be hallucinations for several hours. It's not like people have never eaten cannabis before and documented the results. Whilst I'm not reccomending that people do this, you are being needlessly alarmist.

Boffins lay bare exotic Lara Croft meteorite element ununpentium

I always preferred to fire the blaster bomb straight up, over the top and down through the roof into the control room.

Tesla tops $20bn as Elon Musk claims arm-wave design tech

Re: Battery life

Well... you're basically looking at a 20 fold increase in battery performance with a 20 fold reduction in car price.

Unless you pay $100 000 for your cars (in which case I have a bridge you might be interested in buying), isn't it more like a 2 to 5 fold decrease in price the OP is asking for. I don't think it's unreasonable to think that car manufacturers could produce a basic model car (although probably not an electric one with the current state of the technology) at this price and still make some profit. After all, a basic car is just a metal chassis, four wheels, engine, steering and transmission, plus regulation safety measures. It would be interesting to see the costs.

Also, I don't think it's unreasonable to ask for a battery which lasts for more than 5000 miles; again I don't think the OP was asking for this in a single charge, but rather referring to the lifetime of the battery itself, and I don't think such improvements are beyond the reach of near-future developments in battery technology.

Brits: We can stop trolling if we know where they live - poll

Re: Anyone see a Trojan Horse here ?

"Never touched them, you have all convinced me that I never will."

In other words, "I don't know anything about it, but I sure as hell will have an opinion on it anyway."

In thi situation, it is always best to base such an opinion on facts and first hand evidence, rather than shite spouted by politicians and the press. That way, you can avoid looking like a complete idiot. I believe the adage is, to paraphrase, "It is better to keep quiet and risk looking like a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."

Boffins claim Voyager has already left the Solar System

Re: It kind of makes sense

I take it that you are not aware that the sun's magnetic field inverts every eleven years or so then?

Solar Cycle

Boffins harvest TV, mobile signals for BATTERY-FREE comms

Re: And is illegal in the UK

I did hear one anecdote, years back, where BBC technicians were trying to track down the reason for a large radio shadow on one transmitter. This turned out to be someone who lived close to the mast using the power received through a large aerial in his attic to heat his domestic hot water. I believe the gentleman in question was prosecuted for causing radio interference, although the story may very well be apocryphal.

Cameron demands Brits BOYCOTT angry-troll-infested websites

Re: Ideally, he wants the websites to allow people to block abusive netizens.

Actually, on FaceBook, you'd be better off pressing the 'report abuse' button. Maybe Cameron should focus on educating people instead. Unfortunately, his idea of education probably revolves around the idea that anyone who didn't go to Eton then do an Economics and Politics degree at Oxford is scum.

Cameron you twat

Firstly, it's not trolling - it's harassment

Secondly, if it's already illegal, track down and arrest the perps, rather than expecting the carrier to do so. If someone sends an abusive letter, you don't expect the Royal Mail to open everyone's mail to check and make sure it's okay, you find the person who sent the letter and send the boys in blue round to have a little chat.

In other words, stop trying to get other people to do the job of the police for you because you cut their funding, you revolting little weasel.

Super-SVELTE BLUSH-PINK planet goes too far with star

Re: Orbits shmorbits

My money is on it having an elliptical orbit, due to the gravitational influence of another similar sized body slingshotting past it at some point in the past.

Re: At last, real scientific method!

Climate scientists take note, this is how you do science!

What, you mean like come up with a hypothesis, test it, model it and tweak it until it fits with what you actually see, in order to make predictions. Y'know, exactly like what climate scientist actually do, when they're not too busy fighting propaganda and disinformation?

Horrific moment curvy mum-of-none Mail Online spills everyone's data

Re: In praise of the Daily Mail

It's not necessarily that straight-forward. In this case, the Met were, as you say, wallowing in shit, rather than properly investigating a serious crime, and because of this, publishing the names of the suspects may have helped. It wasn't, however, the right thing to do.

Publishing the names of suspected killers has a serious effect on justice, not least of which is that it can prejudice any trial, and make it harder to find unbiased jurors. If the suspects are later found to innocent, they will already have been found guilty in the court of public opinion. This is why there are very strict rules on reporting of such things, and rightly so. In other words, it makes it harder, and more expensive, to convict the guilty, and it stigmatises the innocent.

In this case, the Mail got the right names, but what would have happend if they had made a mistake and published the names of five innocent people, or get the names of the five killers, plus the name of a sixth, innocent, party. There are plenty of idiots out there who will say, "there's no smoke without fire".

It's not even like the papers have never done this. I don't think it was the Mail, but at least one of the national red-tops who, during the investigation of the Jo Yates murder, published the name of her landlord as a suspect. He was later cleared, but suffered a great deal as a result.

Re: Before long...

Don't be silly, if it's about Diana, then it will be in the Mirror.

Smashing your phone? There's an app stupid game for that

Re: Surely...

practice = verb (in US) and noun

practise = verb (outside US)

An entirely made up example might be, "David Cameron is a practising eater of babies, although the practice is frowned upon by members of our species."

ditto with licence and license, as in, "James Bond is licensed to kill, especially when he sees how much he must pay for his TV licence."

...and stop calling me Shirley.

US feds: 'Let's make streaming copyrighted content a FELONY'

Re: Why not just abolish copyright altogether?

The prisons are full enough.

Don't be silly! There's money to be made from forced labour, and at moment only a shockingly small portion of the US population is in prison - around 1 percent! Think of the profit to be made if they can manage to get that up to five, or even ten percent!

Jimbo Wales: ISP smut blocking systems simply 'ridiculous'

Jimbo claimed to C4 News that it was "highly unlikely" – despite claims to the contrary – that US spooks could decrypt HTTPS

However, if they use a man-in-the-middle attack to intercept the key exchange, they won't need to, and unless you can guarantee the integrity of the route between your computer, and a server on the public internet (hint: you can't), then they are in exactly the position to be able to so. Most likely, at the ISP, where your ADSL line, or fibre, or whatever meets the switching gear. All they need is access, and (possibly) a court order to do so.

Of course, if certain elements in the Home Office were to get their way, they certainly wouldn't need a court order to be able to do this to everyone, all the time, they would already have unspecified equipment monitoring everyone's connection all the time, 'to fight terrorism', and they wouldn't be doing their job if it weren't capable of this sort of behaviour.

Something to ponder on...

Addendum - This does, of course, require the interception device to have access to the SSL certificate that each site that uses https will have. These are issued by a certification authority. It is left as an exercise for the reader to work out how agencies such as GCHQ, or the NSA might obtain these in order to spoof the key exchange process.

Re: Don't feed the trolls

I don't think NomNomNom is a troll; I think the part of his brain that is supposed to critically evaluate the world doesn't work, and he has compensated by replacing it with editorial from the Daily Mail.

Buy a household 3D printer, it'll pay for itself in months!

Re: And I wasn't kidding about the copyright and patent issues either

Well, you shouldn't be - it's a serious issue. If I spend money designing something to sell and someone scans it and gives away the specs, this is a problem.

On the other hand, if you buy something, and a cheap plastic part inside it breaks, because it was designed to wear out to fleece you for money for a replacement part, then being able to make your own replacement is the opposite of a problem, n'est-ce-pas?

Re: A lot of luddites with no imagination here

All the commentards here and the OP taking potshots because they don't get it really are the biggest dissapointment.

I think the reason people are taking pot-shots is that the usages which have been put forward (i.e. a crappy plastic case for a $400 phone) are laughable. True, there are plenty of good uses for such a device, such as, as you say, rapid prototyping, or replacing broken plastic parts. For most people, however, these don't justify the cost.

Re: I've a busness model!

Bernie, is that you?

Re: Terrible waste of resources

Yes because the world is being deforested because of demand for paper. Get Real.

Even if the trees to produce the paper are grown sustainably (and many are), paper production is far from good for the environment, with many impacts, including waste from the pulping and bleaching process (hint: wood pulp is not white), and the environmental impact of inks, toners, and coatings commonly in use.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_paper

Beam me up? Not in the life of this universe

Human flight is fine; it's the landing that's problematic.

Robot cop called in after MAD BONGER blown up in LIQUID MARIJUANA EXPLOSION

Re: Not so much stoners but thieves

Actually, it IS what the research says. That abstract says that the review of previous studies found an increased proportion of mental health issues amongst cannabis users of 1.41, with a 95% confidence.

To put this in laymans terms, if 1 in 1000 non-cannabis users is a psycho (and this is probably an overestimate), then 1.41 in 1000 cannabis users is. In other words, around one in 2,500 people who take cannabis go crazy. In reality, the proportion of people suffering from severe psychosis is probably much lower, so this figure also would be lower.

QED: very few people who take cannabis go crazy.

Research for other drugs may show other results...

The real problem is that you can distort anything with statistics, particularly when it makes for good headlines, eh?

Re: Not so much stoners but thieves

NomNomNom, At this point, I would like to conclude that you are trolling. Reading of some of your past posts makes me doubt this however, so I shall address each of your points in turn.

I think I remember reading that stat about a single inhale causing violent behavior from a newspaper, it was either the local paper or the daily mail

Firstly, you can't remember where you read it, and the sources you quote that it might have come from are an unspecified local rag, or a paper with a less than reliable reputation for unbiased reporting of the truth. Remember which paper it was that was very supportive of the German National Socialist Party in the 1930s, and hasn;t really changed its editorial stance since.

If you are going to make assertions about the effects of drugs, then I think it is perfectly reasonable to ask for an authoritative source on the matter; for instance an academic paper, properly peer reviewed without the bias and selective reporting you will get from a newspaper.

But still if cannibis[sic] wasn't highly dangerous it wouldn't be illegal

There are a lot of reasons something could be declared illegal, other than its being dangerous. This argument is a complete nonsequitur. Furthermore, I suggest you read up on history of cannabis becoming illegal (in the US, this was as late as the 1930s, IIRC), including the geopolitical reasons for doing so, which are not entirely unrelated to competition between hemp and cotton growers.

You hear all the time about these users prowling the street looking for their next hit.

No, I don't. Seriously, I have NEVER heard of a cannabis user, 'prowling the street' looking for a 'hit'.

And when they can't get it they lash out, possibly (although we don't know this for sure) bolstered by the violent effects of the drug itself

Don't know for sure, or don't know at all? Again, I have never heard of this happening, even anecdotally.

Then in addition we have addicts all over the place getting strange ideas from the drugs that don't fit in with the way society should be.

Firstly, cannabis has never been shown to be an addictive drug. If you don't believe me, investigate this for yourself, rather than simply believing any rhetoric you read. Secondly, who is to say how society 'should be'? Not you, I seriously hope.

I mean look at that woolwich murder for example, how can we justify that?

Indeed, how also can we justify Rwandan genocide, bailing out the bankers, the unabomber, and any number of other bits of human nastiness that bear no relationship whatsoever to the matter in question?

Re: Not so much stoners but thieves

I'm no expert either (never been near the stuff, and have no plans to do so in the future either), so what drug would cause someone to make statements like that? :)

"I don't know what I'm talking about, but I sure can hold an opinion anyway!"

FYI, the principal active ingredient in cannabis is a compound known as tetrahydrocannabinol, the principal pharmacological effects of which are listed here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrahydrocannabinol#Effects

Also, to respond to your question of what drug would cause me to make the statement above; currently the only drug I have ingested today is caffeine. Whilst I was a student, some years ago, I may have experimented with other substances, which does offer some balance to my perspective. Whilst I was at university, I also gained batchelors and masters degrees in chemistry, so, unlike you, I am qualified to hold an opinion, rather than just parroting any old rubbish I happen to have read.

Re: Not so much stoners but thieves

The problem is it often only takes one inhale of cannibis to turn an otherwise normal person into a violent rage.

I'm sorry, but what? The usual effect of 'one inhale of cannabis', assuming you inhaled enough to actually get you high, would be to giggle a bit, and possibly fall asleep. I don't think I've ever known a cannabis user to become violent from using cannabis alone. If anything, the effect of smoking too much is to turn an otherwise normal functioning person into a boring and unproductive lump.

Now, if you want to see drugs that would turn an otherwise normal person violent, I would suggest one of the following:

- Alcohol (but probably only if the person already has violent tendencies)

- Amphetamine (again, probably requires pre-existing violent tendencies)

- PCP (not that it's so popular, or easily available AFAIK)

- Methamphetamine

- Cocaine (more likely to turn someone into an arrogant and annoying prick than actually turn them violent)

- Crack cocaine

Of course, if you knew anything about the effects of common illegal substances, or about psychopharmacology, you wouldn't be suggesting that a substance with the primary effects of being a mild euphoric and mild hallucinogen in large doses can turn people violent.

Banknote campaigner's Twitter rape threats ordeal: Bloke, 21, cuffed

Re: Get rid of images of people

So you are saying you would have a problem with banknotes having images of black people or homosexuals on them? Personally I have no problem with images of people on bank notes - if the person has made a contribution to the history of this country, I see no problem with them on the back of a bank note.

The real problem is that until relatively recently, pretty much everything in this country was run by upper-class white males (some woud argue that it still pretty much is), which means that when you make a list of famous people from this country, that one particular socio-economic group is over-represented.

I think it's only reasonable to put more women on bank-notes, as there are a fair number of women who have made a valuable contribution to this Country.

Alan Turing would too have been a good choice, not because he was homosexual, which should be considered an irrelvance in such things, but because of the contribution he has made to computing.

I think it is wrong to suggest that ampaigning for such people to be on the notes causes division, except amongst those who are already prejudiced. In a way, it helps society by allowing us to see who the arseholes are.

At the end of the day, it can be summed up as two questions; should we have people on our banknotes, and personally I think we should; and who should they be, and I think they should be anyone who has made a positive contribution, regardless of colour, creed or gender.

Re: Well, if this is specifically about the rape threat....

Absolutely agree, it sounds as if this was a credible, repeated, and particulalrly nasty threat made by a thoroughly unpleasant individual. The medium is irrelevant, other than forming the means by which the perpetrator is identified.

Compare and contrast with the ridiculous case some time ago where a totally non-credible and clearly jokey 'threat' was made on Twitter about Robin Hood airport, where the prosecutors jumped in with both jack-boots, and cries of 'terrorist' without thinking.

The sort of unpleasantness exemplified here illustrates the real perils to our society come not from oveblown terrorist threats, but from the much less publicised sociopathy that we seem to allow to go unpunished. I'm glad to see that this is not the case here. Lets hope that the individual involved gets more than a slap on the wrist.

Samsung wins not-so-final 'final' pinch-to-zoom patent decision

As ever

The only winners here are the lawyers. On both sides.

Australia threatens Adobe, Apple, with geo-blocking ban

Re: Grey importing??

Pay the UK license fee and I'm happy for you to stream all the Eastenders you like.

Or, pay the license fee, and we'll stop streaming Eastenders at you.

Guinness: Have a quick bonk over the bar and receive FREE BEER

Re: good things come to those who wait

*Guinness marketing hype. Everyone in the industry knows that they are a UK company.

I guess you don't live in Dublin then. AFAIK, the Guinness brewing that used to be done under licence in the UK was moved back to Dublin some years ago. Still tastes like it was dredged straight out of the Liffey mind, but it's better than a lot of what passes for beer in Eire. Admittedly, what is known as 'craft beer' on that side of the Irish Sea is starting to gain some ground, albeit slowly.

BOFH: Don't be afraid - we won't hurt your delicate, flimsy inkjet printer

Re: What was that plotter...

IIRC, LOGO was the language, the plotter was called a 'turtle', because of its size and shape.

'Wandering Dago' tuck truck ejected from NY race track

@Charles 9

That whooshing sound you just heard was the point passing over your head at 60,000 feet.

I think most people, the OP included, know what 'fag' means in the US. You do seem to be, however, a remarkable example of why a lot of people on this side of the pond think that Americans have no understandng of irony.

Re: See also...

Funny isn't it that somehow it is okay in the US to stereotype the British as either clueless poshos or cockney thugs, when it is well known that those groups make up no more than 70% of our actual population.

Re: "..who would self-reference themselves in a deragotory manner?"

Is it bad that I initally read that as 'NRA'? Maybe it's the Elmer Fudd brach, the National Wifles Association?

And before antone points it out, yes I DO know who NWA are/were.

You MERCILESS FIEND... you put that audio file on AUTOPLAY

Re: Hellraiser

To be fair, having both read the novella, and seen the film, there can't have been much re-writing to make it into a screenplay, other than inserting a few stage directions. The two are pretty much identical versions of the same thing, only in different media.

PHWOAR! Huh! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing, Prime Minister

I, too, have a personal phone on Voda. It never used to block anything, until I changed my contract a few years back tog et a better price and new phone, at which point they started blocking 'adult' content even though I had been a contract customer for around fifteen years. I had to phone them up to get it removed, which they quickly did over the phone. TBH, any child with the motivation could probably impersonate an adult and do the same.

It is worth noting that what they deem to be 'adult' content is not just pronography, but a much wider definition, such as gambling sites (including the national lottery) and some news outlets.

There is a significant difference between the blocking of adult material on a single mobile device, which has a very good chance of being used solely and unsupervised by a child, and blocking specifically pornography on a fixed line which is shared by a number of devices. There are plenty of filtering products out there for those who don't want to supervise their child's internet access, and most ISPs offer an OPTIONAL filtering service.

The issues most people have are the default stance of blocking things and people having to opt out, the creeping censorship this entails, the list of people who have opted out, and the uses this list may be put to, and the implication that it is the state's job to supervise the parenting of children within the domestic setting. These are but a few objections, I'm sure you can find plenty of other reasonable ones.

WAR ON PORN: UK flicks switch on 'I am a pervert' web filters

I shall certainly be doing this. My local MP is actually likely to be opposed to this bill. Being a Liberal, and also the first openly gay member of parliament, I expect him to be reasonably open-minded.

My recommendation is to try to present a well argued, polite and concise missive to your MP, explaining exactly which points and assumptions in this bill you find objectionable. At the very least, your MP's office has to acknowledge receipt.

Re: Well my English cousins...

Although Labour isn't much better, they aren't messing with your porn

Actually, they were the ones who enacted the particular piece of legislation that makes some cartoon porn illegal, the making of which would have involved no abuse of any real, living organism in any way.

Just because most of us will find such images at best puzzling, and morally objectionable, it doesn't justify our political overlords classifying it as what is essentially thought-crime.

In other words, it doesn't matter what colour tie your elected member wears, (s)he is still most likely an utter arsehole with at best a tenuous grasp on reality.

The cynical amongst us

Will see straight past the fact that this sort of censorship iteself if highly immorral and unjustified and understand that it is also impractical and unworkable, and that whoever is given the contract to implement it is essentially being given a blank cheque to work on a project that will never be completed and which will suck up billions of pounds of taxpayer's money before eventually beign abandoned. We will then wonder who will end up with the non-executive directorships on said company with the six-figure salary.

Follow the money, I bet it leads back to Tory HQ.