Posts by Chris G

The government is only obliged to 'discuss' the issue raised by a petition that has enough signees, that does not mean that they will in any way concur with the petition.

The ICO is not a he, it is Elisabeth Denham, who, if you read the article is more in line with the government's plan than against it.

Legally, I doubt the government has ever worked for us, though that should be the case.

I also diubt that any in the government consider that they work for us beyond allegedly receiving a mandate each election time.

Even in the Fifth Republic, where there is a constitutional requirement to listen to the people, they have slapped down most of the demands from Les Gilets Jaunes with ever increasing force.

@Alister.

I was thinking the same ting. Perhaps it has really good stealth capabilities, if a NATO member can't find a continuously flying plane in ninety hours, their membership may need a rethink.

Re: Who would work there?

I know too many consider it 'socialism' but this is where collective bargaining comes in.

If workers had some general agreement and cohesion as a group they would stand a better chance of negotiating beneficial terms for all of them.

I have always been lucky enough to be skilled enough that I could negotiate my own terms or walk but for those who can't, working vas a group would be their best bet. Just avoid picking union leaders who have political axes to grind that may be beyond the immediate interests of those they represent.

Re: I'd be perfectly happy if ...

The quality of grass fed cows depends a lot on the quality of the grass they are fed on.

The varieties, percentage of red clover and even sward height, all make a difference to quality of both milk and beef.

Re: But..

"ZuckFart is a spyware company."

I have always maintained that a clever government agency that wanted to keep tabs on it's entire population would have invented Faecebook.

I doubt they are that clever but I have no doubt they have the wit to see the value in using Faecebook now someone has invented it and I have no doubt that they can have full access to anything if they want it.

I suppose crime like burglary might be down at the moment.

With empty streets, a bloke in a stripy jumper with a jemmy in one hand and a swag bag in the other will attract more attention than normal.

Re: BO lander

I wonder how many trees are used to make Amazon boxes wnd packing paper each year?

Re: Er ...

It may be worth somebody looking for a reason for the AG to subpoena everything fron ICANN and have a good browse through it.

Re: up until 1991,

Really good rock, for me, seemed to have mostly disappeared by 1980.

Lately, if I am in the mood for some serious rock I go back to the years before 1980, but then I can lay claim to having seen the likes of Uriah Heep and Ground Hog in the sixties and did security at Lemmy's first Motorhead gig.

Re: never buy IoT kit

Absolutely that!

I suspect IoT kit will eventually be worth buying and secure about six months before it is phased out for something new.

Re: HP printers

@martinusher

The pay per print model is as old as Xerox (and others) copier deals, the leasing deals I was asked to sell when I took a six month stint as a copier salesman in the '80s was already old then.

In those days the top commission was paid on some of the crappiest models if you could get some poor sod to sign a 5yr lease with a monthly cap on copy numbers and a toner/paper/ maintenance deal. The print quality would drop steadily well within the leasing period, the copying requirements would go up and any changes to the terms or upgrades and extra maintenance would cost an arm and a leg.

The printer manufacturers now are only extensions of the old copier industry.

Trying to sell that crap to people made it difficult to sleep at night, I moved on as soon as I found an alternative.

Re: WFH ...

My stepdaughter is a motorcycle dismantler for a recycler, she can work from home but has trouble getting the bikes up three flights of stairs.

Re: "political, diplomatic, and trade factors"

So not at all like the PATRIOT act or the UK's RIPA and it's successor or Australia dismantling the laws of mathematics and Canada evesdropping on it's citizens, to name just a few.

Re: Electric planes?

As far as I know, all aircraft are designed to be manoeuvred by tugs, I suspect there is a relatively standard nose oleo design to accommodate this. I worked on light aircraft in the seventies and used to earn extra money at weekends pulling and taxiing aircraft in and out of the gangars and parking and orpping them for owners. The different models of which there were many only needed a few adapters for the hand operated tug to connect to them, the tug had a 5HP Honda mower engine. That would pull. Cessna Golden Eagle with ease at about 2MPH.

Re: 5C 5G Coincidence?

5G is also proif the Earth is flat.

The signals can only travel in staight lines, so if the world was round it couldn't work.

The other thing I heard this week is that the CV19 vaccination being promoted by Bill Gates will include a nano mind control chip in the injection.

Presumably if you think bad thoughts it will explode or something.

In other news, has anyone noticed that Gates is spelled with a capital G as in 5G?

Re: Bound to occur

Probably not, I suspect most rural Indians live in houses in villages that have never had formal registration, the same my wel go for the land they farm.

Often there are no issues until governments make them, once officials start going round registering land, that is when the arguments will start because up to that point the land had no official owner an those families living on and farming it have probably been there since the year dot.

This is largely an exercise to increase revenue so the poor will likely suffer at expense of those who can pay the taxes.

Re: Another thing...

In other times, the majority of those applauding will be the same people who complain about waiting two hours in A&E on a Monday morning to have a cut finger from the weekend's pursuits seen to.

The big question

Exactly my thinking.

Who could possibly lobby Mr Pai to elevate satellite safety rules because they already have them and would like to make it harder for a newcomer to get a foit in the door ?

Re: Extraordinary surveillance powers set to be injected into govt orgs

I may have to eat some of my words; I live in Spain, Sanchez has just announced that even after the lockdown has finished, the borders will remain closed to tourism and restict travel for the rest of the year if I understand correctly.