Posts by Dan 55

Re: Call me a cynic but....

Instead working on the basis that the state exists at the pleasure of the people not the people exist at the pleasure of the state.

Windrush and the Home Office says you're wrong.

They have no way to prove what group they belong to and until a few years ago no need so really that's the maximum expression of what you say, yet that very excuse is used to by the state to say they must leave because they can't prove they're British. 50 years of work and pension apparently don't count.

EU citizens are also being wrongly categorised as pre-settled status instead of settled status, and EU children in care are not being allowed to apply for any status. This will also blow up a few years from now.

We can't run a residency database to save our lives or give people a simple way of knowing and showing that the state recognises their rights. But, hey, we're better than the rest, right?

Re: Call me a cynic but....

In Spain you can just quote your ID number and they can get the info and give you a half-hearted talking to about not leaving the house without your ID card knowing that everyone at the beach does just that.

As it's the same number which follows you around from 14 (at the latest) till you die everyone can parrot it off, it's not like Germany which does something sane and gives you a new number every time you renew your card. Changing the ID number if you've suffered identity theft is not supported by the system, which is not very clever, but I guess they're still working out how to cope with every business under the sun asking for it even though they strictly shouldn't. Spanish passports used to also just have the ID number too but that changed to a passport number which changed after every renewal.

Re: just a scenario

The talks were chaired by George Mitchell, it was a Clinton administration policy to get an agreement, and the US became known as the guarantor of the GFA. Mitchell also said it couldn't have been done without the EU.

Re: Brexit, the never-ending story

"What's the worse that can happen? Write it down, then we can prevent it."

If Brexiteers are against pen and paper and writing things down, could they please go forth back to the stone age and leave the rest of us in peace?

Re: What's in a name?

Page 25 from the House of Commons briefing paper, number 07212, 3 June 2015:

5. Types of referendum

This Bill requires a referendum to be held on the question of the UK’s continued membership of the European Union (EU) before the end of 2017. It does not contain any requirement for the UK Government to implement the results of the referendum, nor set a time limit by which a vote to leave the EU should be implemented. Instead, this is a type of referendum known as pre-legislative or consultative, which enables the electorate to voice an opinion which then influences the Government in its policy decisions. The referendums held in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in 1997 and 1998 are examples of this type, where opinion was tested before legislation was introduced. The UK does not have constitutional provisions which would require the results of a referendum to be implemented, unlike, for example, the Republic of Ireland, where the circumstances in which a binding referendum should be held are set out in its constitution.

Debates confirming that MPs know it's advisory are to be found in Hansard.

After the referendum, confirmed by the High Court:

Following the 2016 referendum, the High Court confirmed that the result was not legally binding, owing to the constitutional principles of parliamentary sovereignty and representative democracy, and the legislation authorising the referendum did not contain clear words to the contrary.

This means it's the PM's choice to go ahead with Article 50. In the Wilson vs Theresa May case it was found that nothing can be done about Article 50 notification even though irregularities were found in the referendum campaign and the PM knew about them as the court said there was no legal link between the referendum campaign and the PM's decision. Establishment's gonna establish.

Re: just a scenario

We can now only leave with the EU's permission, and on the EU's terms, which is a disastrous outcome.

Nope, it's pretty much the UK's fault. It tied itself up in red lines, and this is what you get - the red lines are incompatible with upholding the GFA.

Re: What's in a name?

It would have implemented immediately as there was nothing to implement, it was the status quo, but Nigel Farage said if it were 48-52% the other way it would be unfinished business.

Re: What's in a name?

I believe the referendum question was clear, the result wasn't a knife edge, and there was an enormous white paper on sale everywhere so people knew what they were voting for.

Nobody published a 500-page Leave plan, they just spent several months saying Brexit would cure every ill the UK had.

Re: What's in a name?

As everything is tradition, it's probably not a crime. I guess everything, including the sense of shame, will all have to be legally codified.

And to be honest I would have expected Parliament to be unsuspended the next day after the finding in the Scottish court was published and the government then appealing to be able to prorogue it, not them carrying on with Parliament suspended regardless while appealing. But, hey, I'm obviously one of the little people.

Re: Brexit, the never-ending story

I will reply to the paragraph which lept out at me, since this is about Yellowhammer after all, the rest has been done to death already and who can be arsed repeating the same thing over and over again:

If pro-remain people want to end the idea of project fear it would really help if pro-remain people made the modicum of effort to present a truthful assessment of the situation, rather than providing the distortion of the facts that justifies the concept of project fear.

Yellowhammer is and always has been a government-produced document over post-Brexit outcomes, by definition it can't be "project fear".

Re: What's in a name?

Jacob Rees-Mogg admitted last week on the radio (LBC) that he doesn't want another referendum as if there were one, Leave would lose, so Parliament is doing its job.

Re: facebook

There's no way Demonic Cummings would let that happen, he needs it to influence the electorate and get his sock puppet to spout unaccountable nonsense.

Re: Yellowhammer

You heard wrong, the rumour is they're going to finally shoot 28 Months Later in post-Brexit Britain.

Re: What's in a name?

It is actually the same apart from the title and random censorship.

So, yet more legal action for misleading parliament on the way.

Re: Skype stays online too

If you must have Skype, Skype Lite only starts up when you open it and stays dead when you kill it.

Re: "Robert uploaded a single photo of himself"

From the Twitter thread:

https://www.thispersondoesnotexist.com/

The perfect way to test apps like this, fill in profile photos, etc...

I just checked now (after logging in again, natch). I want just my tickets in one specific project, the profile page shows every change in reverse date order (so each ticket could appear several times) from all projects and then I have to keep clicking show more.

I'm sure there's a magic query one can write on the issues page, but I can't find it. And as for the output, it doesn't help that Order By dropdown field name search doesn't search by substring and there are 140-odd field names.

The last time I criticised Jira I was told that it was good for project lifecycle management (I think that means the pretty dashboard for PMs) and Bugzilla wasn't. Oh, and any tickets struck in the wrong status are apparently a site problem, not a Jira problem. So all we need now are excuses for the crappy search, no easy way to get a list of tickets you've contributed to previously, and it continually forgetting the login session.

Re: Keeping Win7, can pry it out of my cold dead hands...

The Gigabyte USB 3.0 Driver Injector makes it easy to slipstream USB 3 and SSD drivers onto a Windows 7 install image.

Edit: I didn't see the post by Carl D below until after posting, but the link might be useful.

Your bedtime read:

What has EU climate and energy policy done for the UK?

Are you saying the UK can't decide where to invest and doesn't have tax policy leavers now?

I think it's more of a case of won't, not can't.

Re: Really?

They have an agreement. It seems Johnson and Cummings have decided that an agreement is not important for the UK, so that means there will be no money for UK research projects.

Also, they have decided people don't need to know what will happen after Brexit either.