Posts by Dan 55

Re: Would you ignore the referendum?

EEC/EC/EU has always been a political project as well as an economic project. The cry of "we were tricked, it was only supposed to be a common market" is a false one, the UK joined knowing it was a political project.

All you're doing is complaining about the sign above the shop door, where you believe European Community was a perfectly acceptable name but European Union isn't.

Re: Would you ignore the referendum?

I would recommend Steve Analyst on Twitter whose timeline is full of newspaper scans and TV interviews with government figures who are on the record time and time again stating that the ECC/EC was a political project, and then people voted in favour of that in 1975.

The "Common Market" was just one element of ECC/EC membership, not the be all and end all. It was just as much a political project as the EU is now.

Re: Would you ignore the referendum?

Why are you talking about "young people" and "old people" if the data proves the eldest are about as pro-EU as young people?

Re: Would you ignore the referendum?

So you're going for Rees-Mogg's 50 year wait before judging the result, or perhaps longer?

The only thing is nobody said before this advisory referendum in 2016 that everyone would have to wait 50 years or anything like that before judging Brexit. These kinds of things were only said after the referendum by one minister. Is the entire country being forced to do something because of something said by one minister really democratic? I would disagree. Which is my right, as this is a democracy, isn't it?

Re: Would you ignore the referendum?

No solution, then.

Also, the war generation were pro-EU. What makes the post-war to 70s generations views on being part of the EU untouchable and set in stone for all time even when many aren't even around any more and the rest who are still working are changing their minds as they are finding out the hard way about what leaving the EU means?

You couldn't even say that that these generations fought in the Second World War, that was something done by the pro-EU generation which came before them. All they had was a potent mix a) delusions of having had something to do with the Second World War, b) loss of empire, and c) a willingness to believe a press peddling utter nonsense.

Re: Sounds like marketing speak, I wondered why...

She might have heard of the Conjoined Triangles of Success.

Re: Would you ignore the referendum?

Polls consistently put rejoin ahead so the referendum is already out of date. But what's your solution?

That is what the councils are fighting for. They are fighting for their right to gouge the public by forcing them to use the shops.

Central government funding has been slashed over the past decade, council tax bands are based on property values as they were 32 years ago, this is the end result as money for services has to come from somewhere. It would be a surprise if the system wasn't completely broken.

The one thing that does work though is that central government has successfully directed everyone's ire towards their council.

This is the way it usually works, the flow of payments goes towards the content producer. Twitter should be paying NYT for its content if there is going to be payment.

Re: There's a browser extension to fix that....

Anyone would think there are about a handful of developers left who don't really understand the system and are just messing round with the HTML and CSS but daren't touch the backend.

Re: "there may not be a lawful basis"

The mistaken idea that common law permits everything which is not specifically illegal and napoleonic code bans everything which is not specifically legal is one that just won't die.

Re: I think I can safely say ...

I'm unsure which other language would have done a good a job of getting people into programming and would have fit in 4, 8 or 16K ROMs of the time.

Also, you may be thinking of the Microsoft version instead of e.g. BBC BASIC or SuperBASIC which are pretty structured.

And here are the PDFs if you don't.

AMOS2 is now AOZ Studio. Spread the word! They seem to have glossed over most of the history linking AMOS with AOZ but the bug tracker has lots of tickets where the aim is to make things work in a compatible way with AMOS.

Seems to work on many devices.

Not sure if it was a completely wise idea to stop using a name which has a history, that's what they've done.

If it's that high stakes, why can't IT get half-way serious and buy Yubikeys for employees? They start at 25-35 currency units (dollars, pounds, euros...) each and are more secure than any mobile phone.

The only people who are responsible for USB's crazy naming scheme and connectors like Micro-AB are the USB consortium. Nobody forced them to rename protocols. Twice... or is it three times now?

Re: Shitesung

Samsung is scientifically proven to write crappy software, but a fight between Exynos and Mediatek is like two bald men fighting over a comb.