Cyber...
..is SO 1970s....
Seriously, doesn't anyone wonder about the continuous bureaucratic inventing of things to justify spending out taxes on?
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...I don't know where to begin.
But I'm sure that it will be another weapon the Police use to terrorise us. Effectively, it provides the Government with a giant moderation power of ALL online discussion - which effectively means ALL DISCUSSION in the UK.
I have fought against thought control in the UK all of my life, and I've never seen it get so close as it is now...
Jerome K Jerome (he of the 'Three Men in a Boat' fame) once described an embarrassing moment in Germany where his English tourist was trying to buy a cushion from a shop run by three girls, using the word "kuss" (kiss) when he should have used the word "kissen" (cushion)
...and burn that Good Clean Coal....
I might mention in passing that the US is the ONLY country in the world that has fully achieved its CO2 reduction target under Koyoto. It has dropped its CO2 output greatly - almost entirely due to fracking for natural gas.
All other countries have failed abysmally. But they still shout about how green they are, and how evil Trump is.
What would you rather, a hypocritical country which shovels vast amounts of taxpayer money into bogus green projects that make the environment worse while polluting everywhere and claiming it's green, or a straight talking country which cuts back on green project spending and manages to pollute much less?
...Part of the problem is the way most food-grade CO2 is produced: as a by-product of ammonia production....
When I was at school, ammonia (NH3) was made by fixing the nitorogen from the air using the Haber Process. N2 + 3H2 => 2NH3 (200atm pressure, catalyst hot iron). I can't see any CO2 there at all.
Hydrogen was typically made using Lowes process. H2O + C => CO + H2 (high pressure steam run over hot coal). The CO can be further reacted CO +H2O => CO2 +H2. Perhaps that's where the CO2 is coming from?
It may be associated with ammonia production, but I wouldn't really call that a by-product of ammonia production. More a by-product of a percursor - hydrogen.
Unless, of course, they have a new process nowadays....
..This kind of policy is not there just to prevent the company from being sued but to try to protect both managers and the managed....
That's just what's wrong with modern life. Too many people trying to protect other people from something that they want to do on the grounds that it could be misused....
Sex is by no means the only way someone can have a relationship with someone else. People can simply be good friends.
I assume that American companies would want to ban that too. Otherwise, they are simply saying that the act of sex is the key thing they are uncomfortable about. Which fits with American puritanism....
I don't think that the Americans understand these things.
You don't need to 'avoid the appearance of favoritism'. You need to avoid favoritism.
The English have the concept of 'gentlemanly behaviour' - which covers the situation completely. Perhaps the Yanks could try it?
...Labo joins a host of build-and-play toys already on the market...
...from the model boats, planes, trainsets and Meccano which were standard fare in the 1950s and 1960s, and which you had to put together before you could play with them?
A case of re-inventing the Wheel, methinks....
Interesting points to consider - #47:
a) Mr Justice Roth said: “If you think of a witness who is not giving truthful evidence, you can, on that basis, say you don’t find them convincing....
b) HMRC refused to do this, saying that it had a duty of confidentiality to “the taxpayer” (ie, its opponent, Aria) and told us we would have to make a formal legal application to see it, saying that ATL had refused permission for it to be handed over. When our barrister, Greg Callus of 5RB, turned up, Aria Taheri readily agreed to show us copies of both his own brief’s skeleton and HMRC’s....
...More than 80 previous studies have found that risk follows a J-Curve, where moderate consumption rewards drinkers with a lower risk ...
So, incidentally, does the risk from ionising radiation. A small but 'greater than safety limits' amount appears to be good for you. Plants raised in a zero-radiation environment grow significantly worse than those in a radiation environment.
I wouldn't be surprised to find that the embarrassing statistical 'glitch' of smokers surviving illnesses better than non-smokers was associated with such a curve.
Of course, the anti-activists are never going to admit this....
...[A strong labor union or two, as well as some noisy environmental wacko groups, might actually do them some good... I hate to admit]...
Such groups don't last long in a country where the penalty for causing a fuss (also known as state sabotage or disagreeing with the Dear Leader) is execution...
...I saw a good infographic about exposure to brexit (worse case)...
If you haven't noticed by now that ALL the predictions about economic effects have been wrong so far, and that they are ALL made by people who have an interest - either pro or anti - so are going to be biased, then I suggest that you start to learn rapidly...
...They just don't believe that immolation is the best approach for dealing with it....
Then they're gluttons for punishment. People have been trying to improve the EU for many years. Every time, it just gets worse. The facade of democracy has long gone, and been replaced by Commission punishment - look at Greece and Italy and Ireland and Hungary. The Euro cannot function and is held up by constant rule-breaking. The trading bloc is protectionist, and becoming sclerotic.
And there is NO interest in addressing these problems at all. That's why leaving is the last option open. We don't want to be there when the ship sinks...
Given that internal protectionist trade stifles innovation, while world-wide trade encourages it, I suspect that the EU would MUCH rather be in the UK's position of finding new markets in the real world rather than having to support the French and Easten European inefficient agricultural economies....
...Are you suggesting the EU should invade to try and bring the UK back in line? Well it's a thought I suppose....
Didn't work too well the last two times they tried.
The way the dynamic works on the Continent is that the Germans hate the French, want to invade them, and can't see why the Brits don't join in on their side.
Perhaps we ought to. So long as the Germans get Alsace/Lorraine, Paris and the Riviera for their towels, I guess that they would be happy to let us have Normandy, Brittany, Burgundy and the Loire Valley. We'll want Calais back, of course...
...The above is not a comment about Brexit being a good or a bad thing....
That's the way it's been interpreted, though.
You have to remember that, for a Remainer, ANYTHING European is perfect. That includes European politicians.
This is not because they're stupid. It's a cognitive dissonance thing. They HAVE to believe that the EU is a success, which means working hard to avoid any criticism of it whatsoever. Psycologists have found that providing accurate information actually strengthened misperceptions among the subjects most strongly committed to error.
It's all documented here: https://www.dartmouth.edu/~nyhan/nyhan-reifler.pdf
....The globalists took a pasting in the Brexit and 2016 US elections, the lost because they could not control the narrative on the internet. ...
Interesting. They control the narrative on the media totally but that didn't seem to help them. All that happened was that people became deeply suspicious of everything they said...
...This is because 90% of the time, an electric car owner, charging at home, doesn't NEED to be charging it at specific times - (s)he simply needs it to average enough charge to handle the daily commute over the course of a week - if it happens not to get charge on a windless night, but then gets a charge instead the following windy/bright evening then that's fine....
if it doesn't charge on a windless night, then you don't go to work in the morning. Welcome to the Green world of unreliable inefficiency....
...There are plenty of other cheap sources of renewable electricity available other than just wind and solar. But even without those, when was the last time an entire day didn't have the wind blowing and didn't see any sun somewhere within 1000km from you?...
Er. no. Cheap, yes. 'Renewable', no.
It is common for the whole of Europe to have still periods of several days duration. And the last time there wasn't any sun within 621 miles of me was last night....