Posts by First Light 502 posts • joined 13 Jul 2019
"was rumored to be relying on the nation for early supplies of this year's new model iPhones"
I spend alot of time in India. I was approached by a local to buy an iPhone in the US on his behalf as the locally-produced ones were known to be of a lesser quality. It will be interesting to see how this works out for Apple.
The quote from Ms. Hoggett was shockingly inarticulate from someone with such a senior position:
"I describe the energy that I have to winning anything as being that we have to be young, scrappy and hungry… We should absolutely fight for anything that we think we have a compelling strategy to propose."
The UK protects its own murderers, ie the paratroopers from Bloody Sunday among others such as the many loyalist terrorists who were on the payroll of various UK and local NI government branches (RUC, UDR, MI5 etc). Investigations into those crimes have been consistently obstructed (especially by "disappeared" records) or hampered by inadequate resourcing, and now may be outlawed entirely by Westminster.
The ROI government is not, and has never been, synonymous with the IRA.
Further, the border between the ROI and NI is now the only major land border between the UK and the EU and is of great importance not just to the Republic but to the Single Market
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-32887445
https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/issues/collusion/stevens3/stevens3summary.pdf
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/feb/26/northernireland.ireland
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-8352/
https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/app/conversion/docx/?library=ECHR&id=001-70236&filename=O%60LOUGHLIN%20AND%20OTHERS%20v.%20THE%20UNITED%20KINGDOM.docx&logEvent=False
No he has done considerably more than that by signing legally binding agreements which he will undoubtedly vigourously contest in court for several years up and down to various appellate levels. The lawyers are licking their lips and they are about the only people to benefit from this shambles.
I guess you didn't hear about the vote to legalize in Ireland in 2018.
"The Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 is signed into law by President Michael D Higgins on the 20th December 2018. The Act provides the legislative framework for the provision of abortion care in defined circumstances from 1 January 2019. So long as a 3-day waiting period has elapsed, abortion care is lawful on request up to 12 weeks of pregnancy. Abortion is also lawful for reasons of risk to a woman’s life or of serious harm to her health and in cases of fatal foetal anomaly. Abortion remains criminalised in all other cases. However, the criminal provisions do not apply to a woman in respect of her own pregnancy. Abortion is free to persons normally resident in Ireland."
https://www.ifpa.ie/advocacy/abortion-in-ireland-legal-timeline/
Writing from the Emerald Isle, I have suspicions that the ROI might be one of the three EC countries agreeing to go along with this plan. After all, Ireland has two preclearance sites for US customs and immigration in Shannon and Dublin Airports. (One of only six countries in the world to have them). And considering how compromised the Irish Data Protection Commissioner already is at enforcing rights against private operators, that's a scary thought. The Irish government historically has tended to align its policies (and enforcement thereof) with US governmental and private interests. If I'm right, our only hope is that the rest of the EU will save us from ourselves.
https://www.cbp.gov/travel/preclearance
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/ireland-is-worst-bottleneck-for-enforcing-eu-data-privacy-law-iccl-1.4672480
This is a site reporting on the industry and the story is an example of an industry screwup. It's legitimate to report on and comment about it. At what point does it become a big deal? Is there a threshold number of hours for it to become one?
It was daytime in India and the outage lasted til 1pm. So it had a bigger effect on that country of 1.2bn people. Not exactly a nothingburger.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/stocks/news/retail-investors-hit-by-global-cloudflare-outage-as-services-of-zerodha-other-brokers-affected/articleshow/92357392.cms
"Facebook did develop two AI-powered chatbots to see if they could learn how to negotiate. During the process, the bots formed a derived shorthand that allowed them to communicate faster."
This is from a factcheck of a story claiming the bots created their own language. Despite the story stating this is "a common phenomenon observed among AIs" I find it fascinating.
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/07/28/fact-check-facebook-chatbots-werent-shut-down-creating-language/8040006002/
He moved Tesla to Texas in part because of Alameda County's audacity in demanding he protect his workers from COVID (and they even backed down and let the factory keep working when they shouldn't have). He wants a light-touch regulatory environment (except for abortion of course, which is heavily regulated in Texas).
But a woman's right to choose, environmental and labor protections and even a functioning energy grid appear to be meaningless issues for His Greatness the Genius Man-Child.
Although it's some years ago, I'm not sure how much more secure it is now, it only cost 500 rupees to pay for illegal access to the Aadhar system. The journalist who broke the story was charged with a crime and it took three years for authorities to investigate and drop the case.
https://www.india.com/news/india/aadhaar-details-of-millions-available-at-just-rs-500-could-be-printed-for-rs-300-reveals-investigation-2827394/
https://indianexpress.com/article/india/aadhaar-numbers-for-sale-report-delhi-police-closes-case-on-the-tribune-journalist-7259028/
We will never know the full toll of the Chernobyl disaster, because no proper death count was kept and the tens of thousands of workers that came and went to clean up after the disaster and engage in construction, etc. were never followed up on. The Soviet government was committed to downplaying the disaster, as are some posters on here.
I'm not trying to make some competition here about what was the worst disaster ever, but I do find trying to minimize the destructive effect of Chernobyl an ineffective argument for nuclear power. Another poster has pointed out that the type of reactor matters in terms of safety, that's a much more effective argument than trying to dismiss what has been a nuclear clusterf**k for the generations, both literally and metaphorically.
Chernobyl is still causing problems, not least for the untrained, uninformed Russian soldiers who are now dying of radiation poisoning after visiting and digging trenches in poisoned earth. Not to mention the Ukrainian workers who were kept inside at gunpoint for 24 days instead of being swapped out at 15 days to prevent radiation exposure. Not sure your sunny and flippant attitude to that disaster is in any way rational.
Fukushima is still causing problems.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/18/un-to-review-japans-plan-to-release-fukushima-water-into-pacific
When nuclear goes wrong, it goes really, really wrong for a very long time, and that is what grabs people's attention. Trivializing those issues doesn't help your cause.
My first memory of ever using a public payphone in NYC in 1993 was that the handset was covered in human faeces. Those were the days!!
I remember during September 11 in NYC when all the masts were on top of the Twin Towers and we couldn't call locally for some days after their destruction. I also remember having to rely on shortwave radio in 2003 for information when the big unexplained (chinese hackers, allegedly, I never bought the pole-went-down-in-Ohio explanation) power outage happened. My point being that NYC should know better than other places that redundancies matter and old tech can occasionally be very, very useful, or possibly even essential. I suggest they leave a few legacy boxes around.
The UK has in the past derogated from the European Convention on Human Rights, but most Human Rights treaties have provisions for derogation contained as part of the treaty language. Almost all of the UK's derogations were related to NI issues.
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/jt5802/jtselect/jtrights/89/8911.htm
This may be the first time the UK has knowingly decided to enact a law to violate an already-agreed treaty - by bringing a bill to disapply parts of the NI protocol which this same government passed into law. Afaik, there is no provision in the NI Protocol agreement to allow the UK to do so legally.
However, in reality it will be months before the proposal is brought into law. It's a weak attempt to mollify the RWNJs of the Tory party and encourage the DUP to share power at Stormont (which they have shamefully refused to do, considering that kids are dying on hospital waitlists due to inaction by the devolved government. One of those was the 18-month-old grandkid of Doug Beattie, the UUP MLA).
Congrats and welcome to the comments section!
The XR people that I know are basically quite "bougie". Trying to block the Tube in London a few years ago was tone-deaf and stupid, which they had to acknowledge later. You WANT people to use public transportation! What are they supposed to do, walk?
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