Posts by Dan 55

Re: OK...

David Cameron who got a £25,000 one?

I was going to put "who bought one for £25,000" but I guess his advertising mentioning the company bought it for him.

UK.gov could do something and just pass a damn law or two, but the mass of PPEs are incapable of formulating what it should be.

The 13 year old limit only exists because someone in the US decided to pass the COPPA law, if it weren't for that kids in the UK would be completely defenceless.

Re: @ Lysenko

Ahh so this is only an insult against the Irish. Thats ok then

No, it's only an insult against the DUP.

And are you getting them onside with this?

I really think I have very little bearing on the Brexit negotiations.

What is your side of this? Do you want a border or no?

I am able to recognise that a Brexit which includes exiting the CU and SM logically means there will be border which in turn means the Troubles will restart. Therefore the UK's best options are cancelling Brexit or staying in the CU and SM.

Ok. The point is still pretty solid that we voted brexit and so we are doing brexit. No amount of goalpost moving negates that.

Not really. If as Davis says it's "regulatory alignment" for all the UK then that's as good as the EEA. All Brexit was then was a vote to give a lot of money to the EU, to have no say in the SM and CU rules, and to pay yearly EEA subs which are a little cheaper but get you much less.

And at that point, many people will start to ask the question, "why not stop Brexit"?

Re: @ Lysenko

Part of the reason for Brexit as proposed by Leave was taking back control and slowing down immigration. How do you propose that gets done without a border?

Every country has a customs border except for those countries in a customs union who have a customs border around the outer edge of the countries that make up the union.

What would happen if, as threatened by the likes of Farage, the whole of Turkey went through Northern Ireland, do you think the DUP, the Tories, and people who voted leave would be okay with that?

Oh wow is this a religious thing now?

I didn't make it up and it's a good name for a bunch of backward God bothering types who want abortion to remain illegal and homosexuality to be illegal.

"Won the vote" is enough. Where do you get 1% from? The difference was greater.

Your quote is wrong, you've changed the text. 1% was the DUP's share of the vote in the elections and as remain won in NI, they cannot be said to be representing NI.

NI doesn't want a border. The DUP said they didn't want a border. The government struck a deal without a border. The DUP, who don't represent NI, rejected the deal and forced the government to backtrack.

There is no way you can describe the DUP as anything other than a minority, and they don't even represent wishes of the part of the UK which they claim to represent.

Re: @ Lysenko

By definition a customs union has a hard border. It has to, otherwise goods could go from the countries outside the CU over the border to the countries inside of the CU avoiding any and all tariffs and controls. If the UK wanted out of the CU, this is the logical result.

Ireland is an independent country, empire is no more, your suggestion that they stop being upperty and do what the their betters in the UK do is not realistic or useful.

By the way, the DUP have just scuppered a deal. They wanted no border, this was a deal which kept NI inside the CU, and they didn't want that either citing differences between NI and rUK, as if 12.5% corporation tax in NI and the GFA and all that entails aren't differences. Brexit is being driven by the Protestant Taliban which won less than 1% of the vote. Has there ever been a worse government in modern British history?

Re: @ Lysenko

I do wonder if Lysenko would disagree with your suggestion as it allows a few to dictate to the many, something he accused of England in this UK wide vote.

However you measure it, England is not the few.

Second if it requires all 4 to vote leave then what you are saying is we can be held hostage by the few and that the UK wouldnt have a choice.

Sort of like 37%* of the electorate voting for Brexit, the Tory government deciding leaving the EU would mean leaving the single market and customs union too despite only receiving 29%* of the vote in the 2017 elections, and what the DUP are doing now when it comes to how the Irish border will be implemented?

* Taking into account abstentions.

Re: @ Lysenko

Perhaps the referendum should have been set up so every part of the UK had to vote leave in order for the UK to leave.

There are after all four geopolitical regions and if some vote to leave but others vote to stay then the first question that immediately arises is about the break-up of the UK.

Re: @ Lysenko

First you say it's a UK vote when obviously due to numbers it's just England which decides the outcome of the vote (as seen by the immediate constitutional crisis on the 24th which is still running till this day) then secondly you say if he doesn't like the English he should go and live in his beloved EU.

Way to prove his point.

Re: No longer laughing

To those people I say: Pack your bags, close the door behind you and good riddance! We don't need fareweather friends.

There's so much to choose from, where do we start.

- We did it to ourselves. But perhaps we do need friends who stick with us while we have some kind of collective national nervous breakdown.

- Are you complaining about his wife and kids? NI is part of the UK.

- Are you complaining about him? He could be British and born in rUK.

- Are you complaining about foreigners? Oh dear.

Re: But google insist!

There'll never be a clean "no Google" option out of the box. Play Store terms and conditions don't give OEMs (or end customers) a choice.

I do hope it's not the Google Gallery app which is always bugging you to upload your photos for places you've just been to.

What's worse than it existing is that people actually do what it tells them to do.

It's called The Phone House on the continent.

Re: Yahoo! has a reputation that can be harmed!?

It's the long tail.

Re: few substances stronger than alien liqueurs

We've already been treated to that in Discovery.

Re: Well Discovery has the occasional swearing

I don't even consider myself a hardcore Trekkie, but do you know why hardcore Trekkies hate Discovery? Because until then it had an optimistic vision of the future. Even Seth MacFarlain's effort is better to watch than Discovery.

Star Trek: Discovery could have done well enough if it were called something else and not trying to fit into a universe it's not made for.

And if Tarantino gets to make a ST film then we might as well stick a fork in Star Trek because it's done.

Re: Smug

Unless things have changed recently, you have the option to opt out of iCloud on the iPhone. Updates and backups can be done with iTunes.

I really doubt the Play Services binary does nothing if you don't sign in. It will still probably send WiFi and cell tower info to Google without asking permission.

Re: Can you please...

If it's any consolation Google have just fixed 47 bugs which you can get by buying a new phone.

Re: root as the password?

If you enter root twice as the password, that's the password too.

It's any string you enter twice.