100% this.
In fact, I'd specify in the agreement that no work whatsoever could be started on the main project until the 'Public good' element has been all but completed.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again:
In the days before the vote, Brexiteer In Chief Nigel Farage stated "In a 52-48 referendum this would be unfinished business by a long way. If the Remain campaign win two-thirds to one-third that ends it"
So why was a narrower margin of victory for leave not treated as "unfinished business"? Farage went on to say that a narrow win for Remain would lead to a second vote, but according to Brexit favouring voters, that would be undemocratic and against the will of the people.
It's long past time for the second vote that Farage promised us.
As ... someone more than capable of doing 99% of their IT departments jobs
Oh really? And what are the IT departments jobs jobs at a large unitary authority? And if you're so amazing, why don't you work there?
It always amuses me that people who've never worked in the public sector assume the people who do in fact work there are simultaneously useless and get huge amounts of renumeration. If everyone there is so awful and the job is that cushy, why don't you do all you can to get a position there? Clearly the obvious choice, right?
If anyone can point me to a How-to guide for keeping my Windows Mixed Reality (I know, the clue's in the name right?) VR headset going with Linux, than I'm there. Otherwise my Win10 gaming box will find itself firewalled from the rest of the network and anything sensitive removed
"I can argue that crashing in to the fire truck is not my fault because I was using Autopilot!"
"A superlative suggestion, sir, with just two minor flaws. One, autopilot is a poor marketing gimmick and not something any sane person would put their life in the hands of, and two, autopilot is a poor marketing gimmick and not something any sane person would put their life in the hands of. Now I realise that technically speaking that's only one flaw but I thought that it was such a big one that it was worth mentioning twice."
So... No innocent until proven guilty then?
I'm not sure that running from the police and leaving the country in which you're accused (which had no extradition agreement with the US) for another country (which very much DOES have an extradition agreement with the US) is the best look for someone claiming innocence.
Everything he was arrested and imprisoned for in the UK was entirely his own doing (running from a European arrest warrant, breaking house arrest etc) and was very much not innocent of.
I've been waiting for this:
The ability to speak does not make you intelligent as given to us by the sage Qui Gon Jinn twenty five years ago,
It'll have a very good future in politics.
I wouldn't count on it
Joking aside, I'm wondering why you think there was ever a need to move a 200 ton rock? Best estimates say the heaviest stone in the Great Pyramid is somewhere in the region of 80 tonnes. Large steam locomotives weigh nearly 100 tonnes, and people have been craning those around since they were first built.
The problem you have is that none of what you claim is as difficult as you make out. Plus current estimations are that each pyramid took 20 to 30 years to complete. That's literally a lifetimes work. It didn't happen quickly.
Modern day example. People were discussing the possibility of using the Saturn 5 to move large loads in to orbit once again. The problem? All the people who built, maintained and otherwise worked on them have long since retired so no-one now knows how they work. That doesn't mean they were built by aliens.
And we see paintings in stone-age caves that we say are just amateur images of people but maybe aliens have been visiting the Earth for the last 40,000 years? And then there are other things that we try to explain but fail ... how were the Egyptian pyramids built?....
Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! I've been waiting for this one!
*Ahem*
They had massive whips, Rimmer. Massive, massive whips.
I don't know anything about space rockets, so to listen to Elon Musk speak about them, I think he's a genius.
I don't know anything about electric cars, so to listen to Elon Musk speak about them, I think he's a genius.
I do know at least something about tech stacks, website coding and web hosting servers, so when I listen to Elon Musk speak about them, I realise he's a freaking charlatan.
As a result, I now have zero faith in his space rockets or electric cars.
If a person was recorded on video booing, and then viewed the recording I think they would feel the full cringe.
FYI kids don't say 'cringe' anymore since they realised the adults started using it.
Cringe got yeeted.
(And yes, I know no-one says "yeet" anymore either)
There is a saying, “You can’t fool an honest man,” which is much quoted by people who make a profitable living by fooling honest men. Moist never tried it, knowingly anyway. If you did fool an honest man, he tended to complain to the local Watch, and these days they were harder to buy off. Fooling dishonest men was a lot safer and, somehow, more sporting. And, of course, there were so many more of them. You hardly had to aim.
Interesting, I didn't get that from the headline at all:
"Creator of spec for melting RTX 4090 cables urges Nvidia, others to 'ensure user safety'"
I always thought Nvidia was the manufacturer? Sure, previous reports (listed in the article) stated that Nvidia blame end users, but from this I took it that that body who came up with the spec in the first place is telling manufacturers it's their responsibility?
Now, don't get me wrong, I'm the first to criticise the americanisation of the register (lower case all intentional), the shooing away of Dabbsy and them generally getting rid of all that made this publication unique, but in this case I think the headline is fair enough.
The requirements for a full flying license are also incredibly onerous, which creates a bottleneck in the supply for qualified pilots. For most European airlines, you need 1,500 hours flight time before you get a full license. Until then, you're on provisional terms and need a fully qualified pilot operating alongside you.
So coming up with a solution which eliminates the primary training opportunity (ie co-piloting) is the way to train more pilots?
Computer scientists affiliated with Canada's North America's University of Guelph have found that..."
FTFY
https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/14/university_staff_and_students_voice/
For the same reason the article starts "The UK’s University of Edinburgh. This is now a US centric publication and accuracy in or sensibility towards any other region is entirely by accident.
Oh and FYI, that noise you can hear is the crowd of angry Scots coming to complain their premier university is being lumped in with England and the rest.
So if we want a change, all we have to do is change our voting habits. Stop electing 'these people'.
Which is exactly my point, and yet people insist on voting for these imbeciles and putting them in power, despite all previous experience. If people still want conservatives in charge in spite of the last few years, no amount of "someone I never heard of" putting their name on the ballot is going to change masochistic tendencies.
That being said I would gladly stand against them, care to lend give me the £500 it costs to do so? Unfortunately I can't afford to throw that kind of money away.
In the scheme of "UK Gov Shitshows so far in 2022", this is a non-issue.
I'm pretty sick of this kind of attitude. "Everything else is so awful, this thing that's a bit shit doesn't matter". Of course it matters, if I'd done this with sensitive company documents I wouldn't be retrained, I'd be fired for gross misconduct. The fact it was done 6 times in such a brief tenure ask Home Sec means this is not a mistake, it is a habitual way of working for her, it's just this is the first time she's been caught it's been detected.
I'm beyond the point of accepting "I know our politicians are beyond useless, but we accept it because we tell ourselves the others are just as useless". Why do we think this is OK? Why as a population do we accept it? These people are meant to be the best of us, the wisest of us and yet I wouldn't leave them alone for 5 minutes unsupervised in a room with a pair of safety scissors. The excuse "We think others are as bad" is not a reason to accept it.
"It's pathetic watching you grind away on your own day after day. It's like a dog that's missing it's masters leg. That groinal attachment's supposed to have a lifetimes guarantee, you've worn it out in nearly three weeks."
I don't think I need to add anything else.
Johnson didn't eat any of the cake.
Or drink any of the champagne. In fact he wasn't even there. Wait, there are photos? Ok, he was there, but only for ten minutes. Well, twenty minutes. Plus the speech he gave. But he didn't realise that was a party. Or the other one. That was a work discussion. The cheese and wine were there by mistake. Why is no-one blaming the caterers for this? Really it's their fault that Boris kept accidentally finding himself at parties all through lockdown.
Actually on that last point, given as Johnsons view of home working is, and I quote "My experience of working from home is you spend an awful lot of time making another cup of coffee and then, you know, getting up, walking very slowly to the fridge, hacking off a small piece of cheese, then walking very slowly back to your laptop and then forgetting what it was you’re doing", then it's hardly surprising he thought a cheese and wine party was work.
Also, did no-one notice that he basically admits he can't be trusted to manage his own time?
While the sub-header initially made me snort my coffee across my keyboard (it's not often I get a meme reference, maybe it's because it's quite an old one? Anyway...), further inspection caused me despair. Why go with the shorthanded and, dare I say it, lazy "Posture, posture, posture, posture, posture, posture, mushroom, mushroom" when it wouldn't have been that much more effort to go the full "Posture, posture, posture, posture, posture, posture, posture, posture, posture, posture, posture, posture, mushroom, mushroom".
Declining standards, I tell you! Dabbsy would never have stood for it.
Would I rather the car stopped if in any doubt or plow on regardless until 100% certain it had hit something.
Next time you're in busy highway traffic, and for absolutely no reason whatsoever, stomp on the brake pedal as hard as you can until the vehicle has come to a complete stop and see what happens.
Unfortunately and wandering off topic....
I've just received this as well, so please feel free to off topic as much as you like. I've always been a huge fan of the SFTW column and am very sad to read this. If Bofh goes as well there will be little worth coming here for. Tech news I can get anywhere; the Reg was always light relief for me.
I find myself conflicted as to whether to up or downvote your post. Downvote for the message itself, but upvote for making it known!