I must confess that 'Harnessing Amanda Holdem' made me pause for a moment.
Working for the intelligence services is akin to Hotel California.
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Is produced from mostly volvanoes that have low silica lava which is low viscosity but has a high percentage of gases dissolved in it.
The gases coming out of solution are what provides the pressure for the eruption in the first place.
I can't see how a similar mechanism would function on a low gravity planetisimal, shirley it would more likely be an agglomeration of particles loosely held together to account for the porousity?
I doubt if that makes any difference to Amazon's T&Cs for British sellers, worth investigating.
Every time I look for something on Amazon it is usually 10-15% higher than other places.
In addition Amazon's shipping in rural Spain is rubbish, at least hslf the time goods are sent back to the sender without contact, an SMS or even a thought.
This is an exceptionally blinkered move by management driven by bean counting.
A company at the top of it's game and a desirable acquisition destroys the morale of the people who put it there without explaining anything to them.
Then is prepared to hold itself in stasis for a yearand wont even fill vacant positions that are possibly crucial.
Still, what do I know? I haven't got an MBA.
I have no specific knowledge of passerine pooping propensity bit I do remember once reading that a robin can eat 14ft of worms in a day.I would imagine 14ft of processed worm produces a not dissimilar amount of poop.
Try mounting one of those electrified fly swats across the window opening.
They are calling it digital, everyone knows proper UK gov' systems are called cyber.
One other stumbling block may be that shouting at it will not necessarily make it work.
Other stumbling blocks could include civil liberties, travel agencies in the UK and abroad being unable to make it work correctly or unable to understand it, and of course it's lack of competent leadership.
I would recommend looking for a job seeking baroness.
Not so much 'Are you looking for anything' as 'We are going to sell you X based on your browsing, viewing and social media history.....
There's a fair chance that a Google shop will double as a purchasing behavioural lab where they will analyse every step, eye movement and finger twitch, so that they can sell your in store shopping behaviour to other shops.
Does that mean you will be greeted by (user) name as you approach the entrance.
Then you will be 'invited' to provide fingerprint, retinal, stool and blood samples to make your entry and journey experience in the store more rewarding.
I can only think they have decided that having scraped your entire online identity, it isn't enough so they want a physical presence to scrape too.
The first thing I thought too.
The description of why they are extracting everyone's data is also deliberately misleading, some of what they say may help to support or improve healthcare in some way but at no point do they make clear, the data is being passed on to third parties.
Those third parties may not be a part of the Health Service and also may not be limited as to what they can do with the information.
VAT?
Ah! Now that the UK is free of it's Euroshackles it can charge and abolish VAT.
Introduced in 1973, the old purchase tax( a wartime introduction to discourage spending on non essentials IIRC) was replaced by VAT and administered by HMC&E was more draconian than the Inland Revenue.
I wonder what could replace it?
The entire system and how work and employment is thought of needs to be revised.
Why shouldn't each and every individual have the right to decide whether they want to ne an employee or sell their services/labour as an independent provider of that work or service?
The main reasons for things like IR35 and similar rules designed by HMRC and before them the Inland Revenue are because they are terrified someone is saving a couple of pennies and it means the HMRC has to work a bit harder, surely thay is what WE pay them for.
Maybe there is room also for a total rethink on how to tax and produce fair contributions from contractors and self employed persons.
Since 2017 there has been work ongoing developing a bio-supercapacitor at UCLA, using the charge from ions in bodily fluids.
That makes far more sense than relying on a body spending enough time in range of a wifi source.
Think of instances like the Texas cold spell and the consequent failure of all services, using energy sourced from the host body is a more obvious route.
First was a crime against British culture in calling that British tea ( I suspect she couldn't point to Britain on a map if it was union jack coloured).
Second was crime against humanity, whatever that was in that bowl it was not a tea, possibly it consituted a threat to US national security.
I can only feel sorry for the child following her instructions.
Add to that any campaigns that were prosecuted for a year or more and have never had a conclusive outcome.
If there is ever a large scale and serious war with a comparable enemy, satellite Comms among other things will not last long. Things will rapidly devolve to who has the the best people on the ground using reasonable kit effectively or all out thermo nuclear war.
"allows the content of programmes to change according to the requirements of each individual audience member."
Fantastic! Does that mean when I am in front of it, it will switch off, delete itself and slap the director?
I happily weaned myself off of regular TV some twenty years ago, I was getting tired of repeats, poor programming and predictable scripts etc etc.
But then I have always been a miserable bigger.
Paula Venells, all of the Post Office staff who aided her, the post office lawyers and Fujitsu including the individuals involved should all be in court for their malicious and criminal actions to cover up the shortcomings of the system and the failures to address them in a an honest and professional way.
However, in my crystal ball all I see is a bucket with a brush sticking out of the top.
" prioritises posts that provoke positive discussions"
It all depends on who decides what the priorities are and what constitutes 'positive'.
There are many publications that use the 'Does not conform to community guidelines' as a takedown mechanism for anything they dislike or that conflicts with their particular stance.
I presume there must be a way to set parameters, otherwise how can it work for each and every use?
The three different organisations mentioned in the article can hardly be using exactly the same parameters and Yahoo Japan is zapping 20,000 posts a day which seems a lot to me.
This is a system of censorship that seems to be used to promote a narrative or theme.
While the need to vet and moderate comments is both useful and necessary, the article's description of this moderation Algorithm gives me the impression that it is being used to direct conversation rather than encourage open discussion.
The licencing, as a service business model is comparable to loan sharking, you never get to own what you are paying for and support and updating is often uncertain and sometimes a mine field
If I was still in business, I would do everything I could to avoid licenced products.
I like to be in control of the tools I use.