Full Fibre?
Boris will probably squirm out of his promises, maintaining that he meant some form of breakfast cereal.
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Eventually I am sure you will find a case for its use, especially once it becomes commonplace.
Even as a (once) committed fanboi I refused to touch the iPhone until iPhone 5 was introduced. I would therefore be quite content to wait until the Galaxy 21s in transparent aluminium (or ‘aloominoom’, depending upon your side of the Atlantic) comes out, with wafer thin folding screens that unfold to a 40” TV ... perfect for watching Game of Thrones prequel season 42.
Inverse rules: the worse the bog paper the higher the rate at which pens, staplers and paperclips disappear. Never used to touch anything government related, but I have a whole home office stocked with logo-emblazoned cups, mats and pens from one particularly nasty company I once slaved for. Suffice to say their loo paper was like rubbing sandpaper on your backside.
Jail would be nice, in an not so nice sort of US penitentiary way. Even better would be the board of Facebook unanimously voting to remove Zuckerberg permanently from Facebook and its offices and then embarking on a restructuring to remove his "method" of management from the company.
Umm, that does seem to be the stated criteria for EVs in London. The local authorities really hate you running a power cable outside to the car.
Before there were such niceties as EV charging points. I applied for planning permission to be able to run a cable up from the under-pavement through what used to be the coal hole in the street but was denied. Only way to charge the Tesla then (late 2014) was to park it in the Park Lane underground car park for 24 hours.
Worse than that,
Firstly it suggested making a permanent secretary fully accountable for delivering projects.
After I stopped laughing my backside off I realised that these so-called ‘informed’ twats are actually serious: they really do think that they can find a senior civil servant to accept responsibility for government wasted spending?
Excuse me while I go out to feed the pigs as they have a long flight tomorrow.
Well, he learned how to be a complete and utter self-centred bastard on the playing fields of Eton.
Further refined by learning how to make a complete twat of himself and treat women like dirt on in the dining rooms of the Bullingdon Club.
And finally how to further his own finances, yet bring down the economy, in the Westminster kindergarten ... aka ‘The House of Commons’
When people start using "Better Workplace Programme" terms you:
1) Look out for "agile working" ("of course there will be enough desks for everyone")
2) "Motivational" on-brand messages and logos being splashed everywhere (think W1A)
3) "But wouldn't you much rather retire? After all, 50 is such a good age to go at"
All of the above have been used by BT before.
Please take ""international coalition formed to strengthen deterrence against hostile actors in space and prevent the spread of space debris in orbit" and come up with a suitable military-sounding acronym for this. Answers such as "Space McSkywalker" or "Kevin Spacey" (hostile actor in space, geddit?) are not acceptable.
Agree, this also sets a very dangerous precedent where the 3 ghouls (Serco, Capita and Steria) could collude to defraud taxpayers by each demanding settlements where they have ‘failed’ to win contracts.
My experience with all 3 is that where there is a way to easy money then they will take it.
We have now mutually agreed an out-of-court settlement £10m which provides better value for money for the taxpayer than an uncertain and costly court case,
As a taxpayer I didn't agree to this, so kindly ask Serco to put my money back in the bank please.
Try doing that in the UK as well. I gave up trying to sponsor developers to come to work in the UK from India or Ukraine following the huge increase in bureaucracy. Nowadays we just sponsor 1 month visits, which have to be organised at least 3 months in advance.
So, having decided to cull long-serving and experienced staff they are giving the most junior staff a pay rise. Apart from that what else did Prospect gain directly for BT employees, because it sure as hell looks like they didn't help those 13,000 (could actually be 25,000) on the chop list and only seem to have used the negotiations to secure better terms for. ..err .. Prospect?
Icon: because there isn't one for the poor adults, even BT ones.
I feel it is only right and proper that I set up a comparable service for Lotto suckers potential billionaires to be able to redeem their inherited goods and gold. I shall therefore create an online portal called "We Buy EVERYTHING of yours" such as your car, your children's university trust fund, that little nest egg that you thought you could hide. In return for our carefully audited appraisal (we have engaged a leading auditor in London) we will give you 1 bitcoin for everything you own, which you can then spend on the Crypto Lotto, since you are bound to win anyway.
Remember the value of bitcoin can go up as well as plummet to new unforeseen depths.
All that will happen is that I will say that "sorry, your daily rate is not enough and you need to add another 25% to that figure". So long as Accenture, Capita, Speria etc. all understand that then my only regrets are with the poor bloody taxpayer/client as it is they who will ultimately pick up the bill.