Posts by Dan 55

Re: Brexit got done

Basic geography will tell you why the fishing rights disputes are occurring just with France. Or it should do.

I did not mention anything about "sea border" or "unreasonable". What are you talking about?

The issues with the NI protocol are largely due to the over-zealous enforcement of checks by EU officials.

I'm afraid you've inadvertently mislead (as they say) the commentariat, it's actually done in NI territory by NI port officials following UK's legal framework and backed up by NI courts. It's the UK which is tying itself up in knots over this - civil servants and courts following the law and ministers rattling sabres and giving illegal instructions:

Edwin Poots’ order to halt NI Protocol checks at ports suspended by High Court judge

Re: Why not borrow from the NHS Brexit bonus ?

There's Covid track and trace and PPE contracts that have gone to chums, and then there's a wizened underfunded husk of the NHS which is being prepared for selling off cheap.

Re: Brexit got done

Why must the UK be broken up for the EU incompetence to solve its porous border problem?

The border would not ordinarily be porous were it not for the special circumstances on the island of Ireland. The CTA was originally set up in 1925, then Ireland followed the UK into the EFTA in 1960, and then it followed the UK into the EEC in 1973.

Ireland is obviously not going to follow the UK out of the EU as above 90% of the population want to stay in the EU. Brexit should have taken into account how all of the UK territory was going to leave the EU while allowing the UK to uphold its side of the GFA, but obviously as it was an invention by half-witted loons who couldn't even decide what form Brexit could take without arguing about it, we are at this juncture.

They couldn't even decide to stay in the same SPS area as the rest of the European continent from Iceland, the Azores, and the Canary Islands to the Ukraine/Belarus/Turkey border - apparently the loons believe more difficult trade is freer trade. This is why upholding the GFA is needlessly more difficult than it should be and why the instigators of Brexit have no idea how to do it unless they pretend the problem doesn't really exist. The EU aren't willing to pretend the problem doesn't exist as it is a legal agreement between 27 countries + EFTA countries + EEA countries and pretending the problem doesn't exist would undermine it.

Re: Brexit got done

The problem is that some French boats are still unable to provide the proof that was agreed in the TCA but France is demanding that the UK grant them licences anyway.

Nowhere in the agreement does it say that Jersey (aided and abetted by the UK) have to demand a record of GPS co-ordinates between 2012 and 2016 from applicants and not accept any other kind of proof (P913 in the PDF, P926 in the footer, article 2.1). Small fishing boats don't keep those kind of records and there are other ways to prove they've fished in waters. It's funny how they're being really strict over this and want the exact opposite over the NI protocol.

France is demanding that the UK grant them licences anyway.

This is being sold as it's just being France being France and it's only France kicking up a fuss, but basic geography would tell you why there are only problems with France.

If threatening to invoke Article 16 (which is not "ripping it up" but using an option in the agreement) is the only way to get the EU to play fair then why should it not be used?

The EU is playing fair, it's sticking to the agreement. By itself A16 does nothing more than start off another legal wrangle, it's not the panacea for the UK to demolish the doors into the single market and claim their sovereign right to trade.

Re: Brexit got done

Fishing and NI protocols are also part of the TCA.

We can't rip up 250-odd pages out in the TCA because they're "overly legalistic" and "heavy-handed", hold up a few remaining sheets with Horizon written on them, and then get stroppy and say "Johnny EUers just aren't keeping their side of the bargain".

It would be immensely arrogant and hypocritical to do that... which they are doing.

Re: Why do British universities think they're still entitled to EU funding?

We are all in the Brexit but some of us are looking at the Horizon.

Re: Funding

It just does not fit with the instant results culture that we have.

Instant results and not paying a single penny if it can be spent on chums instead. And if we pay money then it's got to be for proper tangible things like property.

Re: A Cool Billion ! Roll Up, Roll Up !

Since the chances of a work, environmental, or building inspection are infinitesimal in the UK, it makes no difference how world-beating the law is. Also, no checks are done when registering companies at Companies House.

Re: That's obviously got no possibility for mis-use then....

They already had Henry VIII clauses in the EU Withdrawal Act. I distinctly remember one of the reasons for uproar was that a minister could extend the sunset clause at whim as it was subject to the same Henry VIII powers.

However it would be fitting if this shower couldn't even do evil right because they forgot to change the sunset clause and now they have to go back and get the Henry VIII powers added to another bill.

Re: simple websites

So, efforts like this do seem a bit pointless, because if you want to use or host an "ancient" web site, you can just...do that.

You can but others don't, and there's no client where you can flick the switch to the old web and be sure that every page downloaded is readable and lightweight.

Re: Sir Tony Hoare

I don't know what the hamburger approach is, but the link you've given states Algol had null pointers before C.

Re: Valgrind

Valgrind is obviously only supposed to be used in development environments as it's a development tool. Once you have caught the bugs, the penalty in the release version is in the order of 0%.

Re: Protectionism ?

We have to remember that this was done under the Trump administration, so I guess the judicious use of brown envelopes from one of the interested parties solved interference problems. Sadly Ajit Pai and friends left and took the knowledge of how this works with them, so that option is no longer available.

Re: Desire Each Other

Anyone want to guess how many millions Bobby Kotick and friends will be paid off to walk away from that wretched hive of scum and villainy?

They know that if Steam Deck (Linux + Proton + Steam) works and Steam on Chromebooks (ChromeOS + Proton + Steam) works, that's a huge kick in the balls for consumer Windows.

Microsoft's solution: Buy huge triple-AAARGH games corporations for billions, make them churn out Call of Duty for Windows and XBox forever.

The available until date is set to 18th of January 2038. So someone, for whatever reason, deliberately set it to one day earlier than 0x7FFFFFFF, either at 00:00:00, 03:14:07, or 23:59:59 (pick your poison).

Maybe the new guy wasn't aware of the value to get it to say "for more than a year", which might be -1.