Posts by Dan 55

Re: Ok... I have to ask

Windows calculator actually does phone home. I think it's just a data fetish at this point.

Re: Now there's a challenge

The Tories successfully manage to get away with repeatedly claiming the previous accumulated clusterfucks have nothing to do with them after every change in leadership. It was wearing a bit thin but then luckily for them Truss came along.

Re: So how does that work then ?

Signal don't actually have anyone's phone number, just a hash of it. The change would have to be made in the client.

Re: You know ...

So making left wing policies for different reasons make them right wing? Okay.

Different parties with different places on the political spectrum can have have the same policy for different reasons, yes.

Regarding the medical cannabis, thousands of people are now using it as it is possible to get a private prescription

That is right, and using the law to carve out a new market just for the private sector is definitely not a classic left-wing policy.

The linked FT "study" is simply bollocks, as they are just parroting the WEF narrative

... and yeah, I can tell this is going to be a productive thread. I'll get off here if you don't mind.

Re: You know ...

The small business thing is easy to understand. The Tories' biggest donors are now from the financial sector, they want tax cuts and fewer regulations and that's what they get. The welfare state is sacrificed, small business is taxed to make up the difference. That is not left-wing.

The things you list that you claim communists are over the moon about are also things that authoritarians are over the moon about.

In practice it is impossible to get an NHS prescription for cannabis. It seems to have been a law made for just for two children who needed it in 2018 to get the public off the government's back, since then the NHS won't fund or prescribe it.

Finally same-sex marriage was passed into law relatively late compared to neighbouring countries and opposite-sex couples couldn't even enter into a civil partnership until 2019. It took a long time for the UK to allow something as common sense as civil partnerships and marriage for both same-sex and opposite-sex couples. Nothing particularly left-wing about that.

When Truss had her mayfly-like premiership an FT study found this:

Study names Tories as ‘most right-wing government’ in the world

Since then the Tories have inched back, but only because they realised they were boiling the frog a little too quickly.

Re: You know ...

Please highlight a left-wing policy from the Tories, if you would.

The only reason some people call it left wing is their Overton window has sadly become unhinged and they're now under the impression that Atilla the Hun was a centrist dad.

Re: So how does that work then ?

How would this even work if you're at the Scottish border? One step north to apply Scottish law, two steps south to apply English law?

Re: I suppose we should be thankful for an actual UK story, but...

Someone burglarized El Reg's dictionary.

Re: So how does that work then ?

Not even that, if it's on an England-and-Wales based device.

I'm sure the Home Office have got it all thought out, there must be an IP subnet reserved just for E&W or something.

Re: Cease and desist

This behaviour 20 years ago wouldn't have been tolerated, MS and Google need to up the ante and start playing properly dirty instead of all this tipsy-toeing around. Each one putting "our results are better and return this" on each other's search pages and stuff. Make each others platform's unusable. Not so their behaviour gets to them taken to court, rather to make people see what's more-or-less already happening now and get them to look for alternatives.

Re: Probably one good reason for the UK not to have such a system.

After the cold war those were left to local authorities to either maintain or decommission, most eventually chose to decommission.

Re: my biggest single issue is to get the Tories out by any means necessary

If the Tory party were either of those two things then they wouldn't be the continuation Austerity party, they would be come to an agreement over Northern Ireland without having a collective nervous breakdown, and the Home Office wouldn't be run by someone slightly to the right of Genghis Khan.

Re: Cat ... bag ...

The minimum yearly income to retire in France as of last year was €19,237. The full UK state pension for 2022-2023 is £185.15 a week.

You've already got your foot in the door should you want to retire in France thanks to the Withdrawal Agreement, well done you, but I'll leave you to work out the rest of the maths to see if new British retirees can or can't retire in France post-Brexit (i.e. as a plain third third country national).

Re: Complete stop

it could mean you couldn't stop in time for that jaywalking pedestrian

And here it would be remiss not to point out that making crossing the road a crime was done in the US after lobbying from the automobile industry in the 1920s. 100 years later it's still illegal which is good value for money.

Re: Still Is

Android is not Linux, it's the kernel with a lot of things bolted on to ensure you can't get at your own data. You know, that stuff your apps save in /data/data that is not readable by you, the device owner, and can't be backed up by adb backup as adb backup has been allowed to rot. Google's cloud transfer does work though. Fancy that.

MacOS... well, it's allowed to call itself a UNIX™ because Apple paid money for that.

iOS, are you kidding? What next, your Samsung TV is also a UNIX?