Posts by Graham Dawson

Re: Fun fact.

You have to get very technical to claim the m6 was built first. It was a bypass around preston which only later was incorporated into the m6. The first dedicated motorway to be built was the m1.

Whence m1.

Re: geez, the ignorance about systemd here is astounding (rtfazeberdee)

First among them: poettering, to declare his ignorance.

Re: Gilgamesh

And a comedy is always a tragedy for the antagonist.

Re: Clarke correct beyond the military

They should have built the pane with devops somehow.

Re: So wrong

I don't see why I got downvoted. The Euro parliament has no legislative authority. It's in the same position as the House of Lords. It can reject or accept legislation and suggest modifications, but it has no power to enforce them. It can't legislate. That means it has no legislative authority.

Legislative authority rests with the Commission and the Council. If the Parliament rejects the Commission's legislative proposal or proposes amendments that the Commission or the Council aren't interested in, the two bodies can turn around and say "we're passing it anyway."

Re: Finally!

That's because tables were evil. Entirely inflexible and semantically retarded, and they made screenreaders throw a fit. They also couldn't be reshaped for differing screen resolutions and broke up the flow of content in arbitrary ways.

Some of the replacement techniques have been nearly as verbose, but they at least separated content from presentation and are easier on screen readers.

With this, all you need as a set of divs and a few css rules. The flow becomes entirely natural and there is no overlap between content and presentation at all. They're nothing like tables except in the final appearance.

Ahhh, that old west-country charm...

In their defence, they did get around to offering ssl by default after a few years complaining about everyone else not offering it.

They'll get there.

Eventually.

Re: Getting old ...

Yeah, old enough to mix up Rogue One with TFA, obviously.

Re: Obviously

Nazi symbols aren't illegal in Germany. What's illegal is their use in glorifying the nazi regime, and only that use.

Re: What an asshole

Clear proof that you have ignored the rebuttals entirely. But that's par for the course, really.

We do have the tech, though. All our subs are nuclear.

Re: Don't call it "re-used"

The shuttle had unanticipated costs. The entire vehicle had to be refurbished, which included removing the engines and shipping them to a separate facility to be completely rebuilt.

A great deal of the cost was in replacing the heatshield tiling, which was an extremely time consuming process. It had been originally planned that the shield would be made from generic tiles over most of its surface, but they ended up having to construct custom-shaped files for nearly the entire shield, which massively inflated the costs there as well.

@ ZSn Re: Good going cobber

I don't speed. I pay attention to the road and drive at an appropriate speed within the posted limit. You'll rarely see me doing more than 65 on the motorway.

Re: @Graham Dawson

SpaceX was founded in 2002, and has only managed a successful launch since last year. That's 15 years of (intense) work.

Re: Driverless Upgrades

Insurance doesn't just cover collision accidents. Theft, fire and if you're fully comp, breakdowns and other issues with the vehicle are also covered.

Yes.

The only question is how we intend to go about it. We could transition to the EEA/EFTA for continuity and then use that as a place to negotiate long-term deals, or we could do it the way May wants: run around gibbering, jump off a cliff and shoot ourselves in the face on the way down.

Re: all part of their grand plan

Nah, he stopped because he has the choice.

For now.

(Although I'm not so worried about the possibility of Amazon getting a monopoly, I can easily understand why others might be. They're trying.

Re: -0.8

Mathematics jokes are serious business.

Re: Limiting the sample size...

The salt is real.

@nuff said Re: I'm worried they'll outlaw Kodi in some unenforceable way...

Brum.

Had to move for work.

I miss my bleak moors and dark, satanic mills.

Re: Cue the Mobile companies

They won't have to lobby for it to be revoked, if May's blather about leaving the single market comes to fruition.

It works like this:

May claims that the existing acquis - all the regulations, laws, customs and the like of the EU and the single market - will be translated into UK law in the "great repeal bill" - a farce on its face - on the assumption that it would allow the UK to continue to operate under the same regulatory regime as the EU, until such time as those laws are updated and replaced.

However, when the UK leaves the EU, any mutual recognition of those regulations etc ceases. Instantly. We can create animal passports and implement the roaming charge caps and the like, but they wouldn't be recognised in the EU. Nor would EU compliance with regulations be recognised in the UK. The end result is that UK companies would be able to impose roaming charges on customers travelling abroad as they always have, because the Community-oriented wording of the regulations would render them effectively meaningless in the context of an independent United Kingdom, and EU-based companies would be able to impose roaming charges on citizens visiting the UK, just as roaming charges have not been capped on EU citizens travelling outside the EU.

Net result: no need to lobby.

In every single regulatory area you dare to look, this same problem will arise: the regulations are worded to apply to members of the single market (which would be EU+EEA+EFTA) and by definition would not apply outside of that context. We can't enforce compliance of the EU with our regulatory regimes without mutual recognition, which is a function of the treaties implementing the single market, and as we would not be a member of the single market, the regulations so worded would no longer apply here either. Re-writing the entire acquis to apply to the UK only would be an impossible task in two years, and would still not solve the problem of mutual recognition.

May had a sensible course before her: join the EFTA, remain in the EEA, use that position as a transitional space to negotiate long-term disentanglement from the EU. There would be continuity and minimal disruption to our economy, we would no longer be under the aegis of the ECJ and would be free of the customs union, and there would be no need for grandstanding bills with the word "Great" in the name...

I suppose that's the problem. Politicians are egomaniacs to a fault. Give them a chance to get a "Great Reform Bill" or "Great Repeal Bill" or "Great Steaming Turd Bill (2017)" with their name attached and they'll strip naked, swing on the chandeliers and and firebomb their own children to enact it before you can say "rational debate".

Wesley appeared in the pilot episode and was a regular throughout season one. That's the season where his reputation as a sue was developed.

Re: Just the Guy We Need

Hijacking the top comment:

The website was replaced as part of the transition. The previous site is preserved at https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/ under the provisions of the Presidential Records Act. The current website removed everything under the provisions of the same act. The same thing happened to the Bush whitehouse website when Obama was sworn in.

I don't recall anyone complaining then.