Re: "has promised to pay £900 per claimant as part of reasonable legal fees to prepare their claim"
I had a QC charge more than that (£1200ph) to just be on a phone call and not even say anything
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not that long ago, I had to manage a reputable estate agent (are there any) through selling a 10-bedroom house, as their in-house designed system didn't cater for anything over 6. the a week later a 45 bedroom £85m mansion came on the market in Guildford.
you'd be lucky to get 6 for £85m nowadays
the name Cloud is far too clean for what it is. It invokes pictures of white castles in the sky unassailable by mere mortals
when the truth is closer to
Dodgy Dave's lockup down the road with security cameras that worked at some point, the fire exit propped open for ventilation and some bloke saying your data will be safe if you pay them $ExhorbitantAmount, making it apparent if you don't it definitely won't be.
I prefer the acronym OPT (other peoples tin)
the whole point of H2, as a storage medium is you can reuse most of the Petroleum infrastructure with a little modification, it's also a far more environmentally friendly storage medium than lithium-ion-based batteries.
the ideal situation is large offshore wind farms that are expensive to connect to the grid, use the energy generated to electrolyse hydrogen, which is stored locally, and collected by modified LNG tankers that take it to shore, where it is expanded and transported by pipe to distribution hubs, then in pressurised tankers to modified filling stations, for rapid transfer to vehicles, or in re-fillable hot swappable fuel cell units.
the technology is there, the problem is the petro industry need to get on board. there are viable solutions to the problems, the problem is you need another Telsa to prove them.
I always go back to what the Airfield Fire team told me, their job is to get the pilot out because including fuel and training it costs more than the £100m+ the aircraft cost.
The other thing is the meat bag in the cockpit has the need to breathe and survive so anything over 6G is an issue
hate to keep harping on about this but:
EMIS Health was bought by UnitedHealth Group EMIS's cloud-based patient record system cunningly titled EMIS Web, contains about 50% of GP and community records.
if your GP app is Patient Acess, this is you and your records
it's not C's fault people are using it for stuff it's not supposed to be used for
it's an ultra-low-level language designed for those applications, ie single core applications running at highly efficient speeds on highly limited resources, where you need to control the memory space and re-allocate it to get the required performance or capability from the limited hardware.
if you don't need to use C/C++ then don't use it, if you do, you make your trade-offs and know how to make it work for your situation.
Dane Fiona Caldicott (the former NHS data Guardian) is currently generating 1GW while spinning in her grave.
Who else saw this happening when NHS DIgital got absorbed into NHS England ...
this is definitely against GDPR, as Health Data Is "Special Category data," and very difficult to Anonymise, especially when you have a unique identifier like an NHS number or an uncommon condition.
As has been said above, this system is broken, you can see it in all the figures, the NHS got into trouble in about 2014, which is when the Lansley reforms of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 kicked in, it wasn't perfect before then, but it was better than this.
The NHS doesn't exist, its 2700ish organisations that get to put the badge on, that are all independent fiefdoms, which have their own boards (full of people on multiple 6 figure salaries)
no, they are offering a wage they think they can get away with, not what they think is fair.
And where exactly are you supposed to work when they have systematically undercut and put out of business every other game in town?
Amazon's distribution organisation only has people until they can invent machines to replace them.
She's been in jail since Jul 2019 and has release conditions on probation for 5 yrs, which will get her sharp back there, she has been punished, more so than anyone not causing death would be under the UK Computer misuse act.
she has taken an oath to be a productive member of society, and if at any point in the next 5yrs she isn't, its back behind bars
look at Wind power as a percentage of total consumption, and you will find the UK considerably higher than all the other mentioned nations.
In fact, Scotland produces more electricity than it needs, as do the Orkney and Shetland Isles
Wind generation is approximately 30% of UK capacity, carbon neutral at over 53% (that includes DRACS "Bio-mass" (trees) which is on shaky ground)
There is a long way to go worldwide, but the Uk is far from behind, and while the manufacturing companies might not be UK based, the Manufacturing is. The majority of UK turbines and blades are made in the UK. there are large production hubs in the north of England and up the East coast of Scotland, that are transitioning from rig building and maintenance to turbines.
public company owned by no-one in particular
or co-operative owned by all its licence holders.
unless someone in a totally unrelated business wants to shell out for it
Thoma Bravo, Berkshire Hathaway or someone of that ilk.
or it could be a complete odd ball like Associated British Foods ownership of Primark
and see someone like Coca-Cola, Disney or McDonald's buy it up from Masayoshi Son
Apparently there is a thing called Known Issue Rollback, where (once MS deign to release one) allows the OS to run the old code instead of the patch.
TBF it would be easier rather than including double the code for everything if they hadn't sacked their QA and testing bods, and actually shipped stuff that worked
In my previous role, I authored 100s of documents in multiple areas, I think I was only the owner of the ones in draft.
I was the person who went to a meeting, and everyone else at the table was accountable for drafting policies procedures and the like, but muggins was responsible for doing the work.
the TGV is based on the technology employed in the APT.
This was sold by the British Government to Alsthom and made the difference between the TGV002 and TGV001, some of the engineers from the APT project actually worked on the SNCF team to create the TGV as they had already solved a lot of the issues, and in the spirit of the Concorde agreement, there was a lot of co-operation on the project.
the Pendolino system in class 390 is directly based on patents sold to FIAT (who merged them into Alstholm)
their TGV was basically designed by British Rail, they own a large part of several franchises, as do Deutsche Bahn
Basically, SNCF through its Kelios subsidiary runs a whole load of the network
state-owned rail operators from France Germany, Holland and Italy run approximately 90% of the UK rail network