* Posts by Lars

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Florida man accused of hoarding America's secrets faces fresh charges

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Anybody here

From across the pond, who also believe Trump won the election and not Biden.

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's pop artifact stash now heads to a museum

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Aviation

Is what comes to my mind regarding his later life, he got quite a collection of airplanes.

Thames Water to datacenters: Cut water use or we will

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Re: someone please explain

@jdiebdhidbsusbvwbsidnsoskebid

""and turned back into drinking water again"

I wonder if that is actually true.

Some countries are more lucky, of course, for instance the Nordic countries use very clean water from lakes and rivers (not sure about Denmark) and than that water is made even cleaner. Waste water is then cleaned before it's let into the Baltic

Could Britain be that different.

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Re: Beware apologist Commentards

@AC

"using clean drinking water to cool and flush bogs: Stupidity."

Why would a water company provide anything but clean drinkable water. You seem to assume it's cheaper or easier to deliver both types of water.

I don't think it took anytime at all to accidentally mix that water.

But I could imagine there are countries where that could be true, but I don't think Britain is quite there yet, then again two taps instead of one is still so popular.

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Re: someone please explain

@anothercynic

"they can barely afford their debt payments." Yes but looking at the bright side, they can still pay good dividends.

PS: You wrote "district heating is still a thing", it's not going away, quite the opposite, for good reasons and I suppose you agree.

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Re: Usual rip off

@Missing Semicolon

Where I live we have water meters because we pay according to use, like with electricity.

It's not a very complicated meter at all, no internet connection yet.

PS. We never needed cars before either.

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Nobody in charge

Reading these comments of water companies dumping shit in rivers and the sea to their owners delight makes me wonder if anybody is in charge.

One would think, and I am sure there are examples in many countries where the governments won't allow things like that at all.

And then one AC writes "be afraid", that is silly, rather do something about it, for a change.

£214m effort to modernize SAP ERP in UK govt systems marked Code Red

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Re: It's a laudable idea, handled by a bunch of bumbling gasbags

Yes, that would be normal, but then again those department could also have their own IT departments and this had been done long ago, perhaps.

ESA sees satellite-based air traffic monitoring on near horizon

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Re: Is this a breach of ESA's rules ...

@UCAP

ESA is cooperating with the USA since a long time in fields like

Space science

Human spaceflight

Satellite navigation

Meteorology

Earth science/ Earth observation (other than meteorology)

Space exploration.

https://www.esa.int/About_Us/Washington_Office/Cooperation_with_the_United_States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Space_Agency

Always on the Horizon, UK must wait for megabucks EU science deal

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Re: becoming a global science superpower

@Justthefacts

After the war countries like Germany, Japan and also Italy had to stat rebuilding the industry from scratch.

Meanwhile Britain fell a sleep content with an outdated industry and political system believing that once world leading is for ever world leading.

And there is more to it. It's all conserved in a guy like Mogg and similar.

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Re: And the haemorrhaging continues

@Justthefacts

"Commission don’t answer to anybody".

That was a lot of rubbish. I must recommend this as it's the EU made easy for Brits by Radoslaw Sikorski.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI54yarKz_o&t=561s

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Re: And the haemorrhaging continues

@Justthefacts

What has the Blue Brain project to do with Horizon.

" EPFL’s Blue Brain Project is a Swiss brain research Initiative led by Founder and Director Professor Henry Markram."

The Blue Brain Project (BBP) is supported and funded by the Swiss Government and distributed by the governing board of the two Swiss Federal Institutes (ETHZ and EPFL), with around $22 million per year.".

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Re: The ECJ (and to a lesser extent ECHR) are the issue

@LogicGate

No that would not be fair, an Italian car for all 27 different member state judges.

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Re: The ECJ (and to a lesser extent ECHR) are the issue

@LogicGate

As you ask, I have started to use RCS on my Amdroid and it has this "damned" feature of "suddenly" doing a word full capital due to something you did without noticing it.

RCS stands for Rich Communication Service, and is fine when you learn to use it. It's also possible there is an Emacs feeling to it, though.

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Re: Good old Brexit

"I'm sure some media outlets have been able to spin this".

Sadly just read the header - "UK must wait" when it should read - "UK wants to wait".

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Re: The ECJ (and to a lesser extent ECHR) are the issue

So unfair, but I guess not many countries wanting to trade with the UK have members in say the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom perhaps.

Hats and coats.

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Re: The ECJ (and to a lesser extent ECHR) are the issue

Every member state has a SEAT on The ECJ.

Microsoft’s Dublin DC power plant gets the, er, green light

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Re: Potentially greener?

@Jellied Eel

I am all for green energy including nuclear but why such a weeping voice in your comment.

Vattenfall is a large energy company owned by the Swedish state active in many European countries. Why would they start building something if the numbers prowe it's not worth it.

And I am sure they have the right to skip it too without braking any promises.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vattenfall

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Re: Potentially greener?

@Lurko

You mention Denmark as low carbon but that is not quite true. Right now they get 75% of electricity from wind but the rest 25% they get from thermal power which is worse than in other Nordic countries and they also mostly have to import.

You find the Nordic grid here and it also includes Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

https://www.svk.se/en/national-grid/the-control-room/

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Re: Potentially greener?

"It's strange given Bill Gates has been promoting SMRs that they don't propose using those".

The SMRs are simply not quite here yet even if a few installations are coming up within a few years.

Obscure internet boutique Amazon sues EU for calling it a Very Large Online Platform

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Re: Fairness

Zalando is European but indeed small in comparison to most of the rest in that list.

Alibaba AliExpress

Amazon Store

Apple AppStore

Booking.com

Facebook

Google Play

Google Maps

Google Shopping

Instagram

LinkedIn

Pinterest

Snapchat

TikTok

Twitter

Wikipedia

YouTube

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Brits negotiating draft deal to rejoin EU's $100B blockbuster science programme

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Re: Citation please ?

@codejunky

The EU is in that list referred to by Wikipedia. The British GDP (PPP) is apparently below the EU average.

Surprising, not so sure.

You find the list here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita

I suggest you start to listen better to how your countrymen speak about Britain, there is a lot to be amused about at times.

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Re: Citation please ?

@codejunky

"one of the richest countries in the world,"

Yes no doubt but then again what about the people.

GDP (PPP) 2023 estimate per capita $56,471 (28th in the world)

Behind for instance Ireland, Switzerland, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Iceland, Austria, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, Finland, France, European Union.

GDP (nominal) 2023 estimate per capita $46,371 (22nd in the world)

Behind for instance Ireland, Norway, Switzerland, Iceland, Denmark, Netherlands, Austria, Sweden, Finland, Belgium, Germany.

(both smaller and bigger countries in Europe)-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom

I have no need to downplay the importance of Britain, but I wonder if there is in the world a people more prone to over estimate themselves like the English.

Words by Nick Clegg a long time ago about some of his countrymen come to my mind - "..a misplaced sense of superiority, sustained by delusions of grandeur".

I don't think it's a good attitude for improving the reality.

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Re: seeing the way they have punished the UK for wanting to leave

@AC

If you cannot spot the "border" in this sentence, try again, or perhaps you think it disappeared just like that, and fully unrelated to the agreement.

"he multi-party agreement committed the parties to "use any influence they may have" to bring about the decommissioning of all paramilitary arms within two years of the referendums approving the agreement. The process of normalisation committed the British government to the reduction in the number and role of its armed forces in Northern Ireland "to levels compatible with a normal peaceful society". This included the removal of security installations and the removal of special emergency powers in Northern Ireland. The Irish government committed to a "wide-ranging review" of its Offences against the State legislation. ".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday_Agreement

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Re: Never forget that the original had the emphasis on "my"

@EvilDrSmith

Dosn't matter now at all but we find this text here (https://fullfact.org/europe/was-eu-referendum-advisory/).

"Start with the law

The referendum was not legally binding. There’s no one source that can prove this statement true (although here’s a respectable one). That follows from the fact that the European Union Referendum Act 2015 didn’t say anything about implementing the result of the vote. It just provided that there should be one.

In other countries, referendums are often legally binding—for example, because the vote is on whether to amend the constitution. The UK, famously, doesn’t have a codified constitution.

A UK referendum will only have the force of law if the Act setting it up says so. In practical terms this would mean someone would be able to go to court to make the government implement the result. The Alternative Vote referendum in 2011, for example, was legally binding in this way.".

So according to my understanding it was not legally binding.

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Re: seeing the way they have punished the UK for wanting to leave

@AC

"False. There is no reference to the border in the GFA.".

Not false just your stupidity not to grasp it.

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Re: Some balance?

@Steve Button

That was a lot of rubbish.

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@catkin

"Swiss entities CAN participate in most Horizon Europe calls. Funding is provided by the Swiss government as long as Switzerland is not associated to the programme."

https://www.euresearch.ch/en/horizon-europe/more-horizon-europe/status-of-switzerland-in-horizon-europe-367.html

I suggest you get a mirror and remember the - "break international law if only in a british way".

Europe's Euclid telescope launches to figure out dark energy, the universe, and everything

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The way to do things

Enabling Euclid has involved 3500 people in 21 countries from more than 300 institutions and 80 companies according to the video.

Well done ESA & Co.

Missing Titan sub likely destroyed in implosion, no survivors

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Re: A fitting epitaph

More about Trump and the virus here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N1ZMLvEsMI

Woodward on moment in Trump interview that was like a 'thunderclap'

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Re: A fitting epitaph

" the steep price difference between europe and the US is striking.".

It is, but there is a difference also between the USA and Canada.

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Re: A fitting epitaph

@SundogUK

Like "it will disappear when it gets a bit warmer", that was bollocks indeed, and so was the guy too.

Mark Zuckerberg would kick Elon Musk's ass, experts say

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Brats competing

It's the size and number of yachts, sail and no sail, that will determine the winner and those two brats have nothing in comparison to the Amazone.

I have to go with the "Joke alert" although..

Another redesign on the cards for iPhone as EU rules call for removable batteries

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Re: I'm not sure what problem they are solving

@DS999

It's more like 30% of Iphones that are sold in Europe.

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Re: UK specific model?

"an EU spec phone because it came with dual sim,".

Given the history of dual sim I find it a bit odd to connect it to the EU like that.

""The first phone to include dual SIM functionality was the Benefon Twin, released by Benefon in 2000.[7] More dual SIM phones were introduced in about 2007, most of them coming from small Chinese firms producing phones using Mediatek systems-on-a-chip. They started to attract mainstream attention.[8][9]

Such phones were initially eschewed by major manufacturers due to potential pressure from telecommunications companies,[10] but from about 2010 Nokia, Samsung, Sony and several others followed suit,"..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_SIM#History

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@DS999

No problem for Apple then if it's already easy to replace the battery, or do you think this is all about Apple. Or perhaps you believe American consumers are all against it because of the EU.

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Why not all of it, case, screen and battery. I have extended the life of three Nokia phones and one Samsung. If you want to put a negative spin on it why not claim they should have demanded it 30 years ago. It's just common sense after all.

NASA to tear the wings off plane in the name of sustainability

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Re: Not this again

The point is that the speed has to messured in a reliable way, and also from ground, and I think that can be said about Chuck's effort.

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Re: Interesting design

@Paul Hovnanian

When they are strong enough with full tanks to taxi on ground and take off I am sure they are strong enough in the air too.

Also it's easier to put fuel in the wings instead of passengers and luggage. But there was indeed a plane with passengers in the wing once.

Florida man insists he didn't violate the law by keeping Top Secret docs

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Re: What I cannot understand ...

@codejunky

Trump is not a sane person, just listen to that "little kid's" voice of his.

I fully agree wit Steve Schmidt about him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teqjsHHmHLQ

Steve Schmidt reacts to Donald Trump's "declaration of war"

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Re: What I cannot understand ...

@codejunky

Would you vote for him again?

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Re: What I cannot understand ...

@AC

I don*t think the "don't look here, look at Biden instead" works anymore, but then again you forgot Hillary. Try again.

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Re: What I cannot understand ...

He is obsessed with power and understood that there was power among those documents.

He actually spoke about how much was payed for such documents to such and such persons. If there was any truth to his claims I have to doubt.

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Re: Not a flight risk?

"The guy has his own intercontinental capable airliner.".

So lets hope he takes off never to return - "Russia, if you hear me".

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Even a turd

Even a turd can become President in a two party system, goes for PMs too in a similar system.

Recipient of Europe's largest ever seed round doesn't even have a product

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A lot better than nothing

Something similar in Britain and we would hear about the "world leading.." from Sunak and the rest.

James Webb spots the early galaxies responsible for tidying up the universe

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Re: Great Science!

Great science yes, but as the article says it does not conform to all earlier assumptions but introduces new questions.

Leftover black holes from the previous universe for instance and stuff like that.

German finance minister says nein to more Intel subsidy cash

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Re: AMD

@Elvi_

It's not about no subsidy, it's about putting a cap on it. But we will see how it goes, eventually.

Boeing discovers Dreamliner defect, delivery delay decided

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Greed and shortcuts above anything else to please the market and the owners.

It's a long time since Wilhelm Böing and his son William Boeing.