Posts by Mage

Re: when they owned Nokia?

They never owned Nokia.

They bought a temporary licence for the name, a phone division ruined by mismanagement before Stephan Elop came and factories that were going to close.

Some other company licences the Nokia name now for phones.

Nokia realised they'd messed up by sticking with S60 (killed better S80 and touch based GUI), messed the Trolltech/QT buyout instead of outsourcing GUI to them, messed up the Linux tablet by switching to Intel version. Internal competition in Phone division sowed seeds of doom from about 2003.

Nokia ate Siemens Networks and Motorola Networks.

They have done welly boots, paper, TVs, satellite boxes, computers before phones. No-one expected them to succeed at phones and MS paid them over $10 Billion to take away the dying division. MS didn't get any IP either. Only liabilities and temporary use of the brand.

Re: Burned

They bought Danger Inc because of the Sidekick. Burned by 2008.

Re: BBC still coming in "loud and proud" in sunny Spain.

BBC scrapping red button despite it being scaleable broadcast. Web news and streams are complementary, not a replacement.

Online BBC became unusable years ago in Ireland, even www.bbc.co.uk is now blocked outside UK.

100% R4 LW coverage and after dark, BBC regional & 5 Live.

100% Satellite FTA too.

Re: I see not a few pascalisms...

Or Modula-2 like, a much misunderstood and undervalued language.

I may take a closer look.

Re: Ireland sovereignty in the past 500

Maybe closer to 800, see Henry II, though true that Elisabeth I consolidated English rule, due to practically an Irish Civil War* removing the last independent rulers. She also instigated the idea that British included the English to bolster her transatlantic claims in France, though it was in James's rule that there was the first successful English/British North American colony.

Notes:

(* The William&Mary / James III thing was an English rebellion fought in Ireland. William was backed by Catholic troops and Mary was James's daughter. 1690 was not a Protestant Victory over Catholics, some Irish people had backed the English Rebel who had agreed to pass reign to Mary. The Cromwell thing was the English Civil war spilling over to Ireland, not nice. The 1920s Irish Civil War was the worst, more people killed than in War of Independence. SF/IRA lost that, but continued the tradition in the North till 1998).

Re: *only** EU country with native English speakers.

Malta

Re: welcome to move their European operations to the UK

Their Europe HQ, for tax purposes has moved from Ireland to Jersey. As has some others in Ireland since this case started.

Re: Ireland's taxes are within it's [sic] remit

Apple and Eircom have moved their Europe / Ireland HQ's to Jersey. UK has refused to implement some EU directives on Transparency, Money Laundering, Offshoring etc. See also Isle of Man, Gibraltar, Bermuda, British Virgin Is, Cayman etc. There is a reason that some Elites in the Tory Party want a No Deal Brexit and why under Theresa May a motion for a deal without a backstop was also defeated. The problem is that all the Anti No Deal majority can't agree on what deal they are for, which is why EU is worried about a Singapore off the European mainland.

Singapore and Panama are actually reforming.

The Swiss have passed most of the EU banking & tax legislation into law.

This case is about historic underpayment, where Apple didn't even pay a tenth of Ireland's Corporation Tax. The manufacturing is now virtually gone in Cork, Apple has most stuff made in China now. They borrow money using offshored assets as collateral to spend in USA to avoid USA tax, then claim the interest as an overhead of doing business in the USA!

Re: You can make beer with milk?

Certainly you can put some milk into malt when fermenting beer. However it simply sweetens it.

"Mackeson Stout is a milk stout first brewed in 1907. It contains lactose, a sugar derived from milk. Because lactose cannot be fermented by beer yeast, it adds sweetness, body, and energy to the finished beer."

I prefer Murphy. Proper Stout.

Milk on its own would be tricky, though yogurt and cheese are lower lactose (the milk sugars) than the source milk due to the creation process converting it. However fermenting milk into yogurt is using a bacteria not a yeast, so it's not alcoholic.

I don't know of any yeast that will convert lactose to alcohol, though such might exist.

Vegan Beer

Unless you are using mysterious processing and ingredients to "clarify" or "remove sediment", most beers are vegan.

I thought a beer / ale / stout as minimum is a malted grain (almost any grain is possible, not just barley), yeast and water. Hops is an almost modern innovation and actually optional.

Almost anything with carbohydrate (sugars) can be fermented, though not all fermentation is alcoholic. However being alcoholic doesn't make it be a "beer". This sounds more like a thickened wine? It's absolutely not beer.