Posts by John Smith 19

"bring half the stable governments in the Middle East down "

Yay. Let's hear it for dictatorship.

Because if you want "Strong And Stable Government (c Lyton Crosby 2017)" that's the Gold standard.

"Repeat after me "Government finances are not the same as Personal Finances""

Damm right.

For example could you imagine coming to an auction to buy an IOU from me. Unlike normal auctions however the winner is the one nearest to the face value of my IOU. So if yours is the highest bidder for, say £1000 of my debt for say £950 payable (by me) in say September. I get £950 to spend for the next 3 months.

Nobodies like us can't do that but Treasury Bill auctions are SOP for most countries with relatively stable governments.

And then there's there's the selling off of assets that they only might own, like the TSB sale, which was (debateably) a mutual organization and therefor owned by its members.

"his idea should be taken a step further and be implemented with property and cash. "

The problem is not large landlords.

It's the obscenely expensive flats bought as investments by foreigners who will never live in them but want a bolthole in case their best mate "El Presidente, " or WTF he's called gets deposed and they want to run to where they've stuffed the money he's helped steal from the state Treasury.

You might think this is irrelevant but the prices they will pay jack the price up for every other would-be home owner in every city where this happens.

"TCS are shit "

Sounds like they've got real potential for joining "The Usual Suspects" for government outsourcing contracts.

" No British government..contemplate such a ludicrous idea..could only be of benefit to India. "

"Trade deals" are just that

Deals.

You get something. We get something.

Did you not see the speech David Davies (the "Minister for Brexit") tell Hungarians not to worry because the UK would be dependent on foreign IE EU workers for years to come?

The problem was never about foreign or local workers.

It was about local authorities not having the resources to cope with (relatively) rapidly shifting demographics, because central government (IE The Home Office and Dept for Communities & Local Govt) could not get their collective fingers out to deal with such situations.

"Free movement of labour would be of negligible benefit to the UK."

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha

Yup those who voted Brexit to stop those Europeans having unlimited access to coming into the country will now have unlimited access from India instead.

What, did the kiddies not realize that was going to happen?

I often wonder what it will feel like as more leave voters realize how well they've been played by what were basically a bunch of "Tory posh boys." (Farage, Johnson etc).

You wonder how big a currency deal Farage had down on a Brexit leave vote.

Meanwhile West Wales, Cornwall and the Scilly Isle will lose > 1000 Euros/ person while the Tees Valley around Middlesborough will lose about 300Euros/person in aid.

Better hope "President" May's new govt will make up the shortfall, eh?

"but what could it possibly have thats worth 25k per month? "

Niche market, gets the job done, no FOSS competition, backhander to PHB on contract.

Take your pick.

Apparently some NHS S/W really was written by a one man band that can't afford the time to upgrade his tools or OS.

Unf**kingbelievable. You know management either set this up to fail and "prove" only the "Usual Suspects" can handle hospital IT or he knows someone on the inside.

"Reality strikes again."

Nice.

On the basis that shorter is better.

"Reality bites"

"undermines public faith in government." "I thought that was Trump's job!"

And TBH he does it damm well.

1324 days to go.

"Reality Leigh Winner."

Sorry. I just can't get over the name.

"Reality Winner" really does sound like a highly secret piece of NSA written malware whose very purpose is unlisted.

Or maybe a game show contestant in a new series on the SF channel?

"Years of that Blairperson shrieking about his Man-Date "

Well that's one way to describe his bromance with the W.

"With respect, winning by the rules is what having a mandate is defined as."

Isn't that this report suggests the GRU targeted the US election SW suppliers a big hint that maybe Trump did not win by the rules?

Seriously let's play a game.

You are a foreign Intelligence organization. You specifically target a company (at least one) who write the software used in US election machines. You are doing this because

a) You want to be able to influence US elections at will

b) You want to get advance notice of who is winning

c) You want to steal the software so it can be used in future elections in your own country without buying it.

All of the above are possible.

Which do you think is the more likely?

Re: "The former policy wonk -

Is looking for a govt contract?

And it seems the 3000 "suspects" MI5 was supposedly watching has now "grown" to 6000

I guess 3000 was not a big enough number to terrify the people.

I seem to have acquired a serial downvoter.

I'm curious as to what has pulled their particular chain but such people seem to lack the ability to engage with other human beings except by doing this.

Presumably I've pushed a little too hard and collapsed some part of their world view, but who knows?

Since my posts on this thread have loosely been about the UK electoral system I'm guessing they either don't like the idea of voting tactically and voting in someone you don't like to get rid of someone you don't like even more or they didn't like to be reminded that when UKIP had a solid gold opportunity (highest leave vote in that region of the UK) they still lost.

To which I'll say the Lib Dems got an election referendum out of the Conservatives. Did you vote for BAU, or did you not bother? If you chose either of those that is the outcome you got.

Or perhaps it's something else. If they can't string the words together for a post then I'll just have to live with the ignorance.

@AC "WhenTRUMP held MAYS Hand in AMERICA I saw a STIFFENING."

Another quality piece.

Keep up the trolling.

"It's way past time to go after the paymasters of ISIS and radical Islam - the Saudi's ..."

Logical and sensible except for the huge f**king lake of oil they sit on.

"you'd ask anything on comp.lang.lisp and get flamed to death by Erik Naggum. "

But on the flip side on the sci.space. Henry Spencer was a model for polite and informed comments on the groups subjects. One which I've tried to follow (obviously with varying degrees of success :-( ) ever since.

There are reasonable and unreasonable people everywhere.

" Step away from IT for a minute - Induction 101 "

Dumbest f**king orientation I ever had was along the lines of (on day one)

"Ask me anything"

At this point I know s**t about s**t.

How would I know what I need to know since I have been told nothing?

"rulez"

Yes.

What they really mean is "Don't use your initiative, unless the instructions are wrong, in which case do."

When I put it that way it sounds like bu***hit, because it is.

"PS: Backups are a sign of weakness."

Ahh.

Klingon DevOps.