Posts by Lars 4260 publicly visible posts • joined 21 May 2007
"Fix the tax law, and you have solved the problem.".
Yes you got it, and I think the dear lady is actually trying to do just that including forcing available laws. Some, like I, like it, some will oppose it, and then there are all the moaners.
"sitting on the fence over the Catalonia referendum".
This seems to be a popular topic right now, at least on the BBC. "Dear EU why don't you do something". Which I find a bit funny to say the least. Those same people complain about the EU having to much power in domestic politics but now suddenly demand more power.
Would they really like a EU wide referendum on say Scottish independence, Wales perhaps, or NI or the status of one cliff in Spain, of course. Or would it be enough if the EU parliament had a vote on it.
Dear Brexiteers it's never too late to think, provided the "hardware" is in shape for it.
One advice, you could have tried a search for "IBM and the nazi", Google gives you 422 000 results for that. That does not prove anything but it will provide some proper links, (try "Microsoft and the nazi" and you get 787 000 results).
Lets not mix the past with the present, I, for instance, recently drove a Ford regardless of the fact that Henry Ford sent gifts to Hitler on his birthday, and I never accused the guys at the garage of having Nazi sympathies because of him.
@Mike Richards
Hopefully more widely known facts.
Below are the 15 countries that exported the highest dollar value worth of aerospace products during 2016:
United States: US$134.6 billion (41% of total aerospace exports)
France: $53.4 billion (16.2%)
Germany: $44.6 billion (13.6%)
United Kingdom: $21 billion (6.4%)
Canada: $10.3 billion (3.1%)
Singapore: $6.7 billion (2%)
Japan: $5.1 billion (1.6%)
Spain: $5.1 billion (1.5%)
Italy: $4.9 billion (1.5%)
Brazil: $4.8 billion (1.5%)
Ireland: $4.1 billion (1.2%)
China: $3.4 billion (1%)
India: $3 billion (0.9%)
Netherlands: $2.6 billion (0.8%)
Israel: $2.4 billion (0.7%)
The listed 15 countries shipped 93.1% of global aerospace exports in 2016 by value.
From a continental perspective, North America accounted for the highest dollar value worth of aerospace exports during 2016 with shipments amounting to $145.5 billion (44.3% of global total). In second place were European Union exporters at 43.3%
http://www.worldstopexports.com/aerospace-exports-by-country/
"The aerospace industry of the United Kingdom is the fourth-largest national aerospace industry in the world and the third largest in Europe, with a global market share of 6.4% in 2016".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerospace_industry_in_the_United_Kingdom
Rather call it a Canadian family company as the family still controls 60% of the company. A problem for the Canadian government when giving them state subsidies. May may huff and puff (and should) but it's a case between a US and a Canadian company and should be dealt with accordingly. The 220% is of course ridiculous. The company has an interesting history with ski-doo and what not.
I have no doubt Russian interests meddled in the US election and in France and Germany, but what about the UK. Do people assume Brexit had no Russian help. Any information about that.
Have we by accident created Monsters with Facebook and Twitter because we are so weak at spotting disinformation.
He looks at Putin speaking to his people who adore him, they smile and laugh, he is the boss, he is rich and powerful. He will stay in power as president, prime minister, president, prime minister ... as long as he wants.
And then there is that bloody fatman Kim, same story, for as long as he wants.
Poor Donald, less than eight years left, max. People make fun of him on the telly, nobody obeys him, not getting richer fast enough, perhaps forced to use own money next time, what the fuck, I am the worlds strongest and most important man, what is going on here.
"JET's future was handed to the UK Govt on a plate and .......". Some more down votes than up votes including my down vote.
Could it be that AC is not aware of "JET, the Joint European Torus":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_European_Torus
Which makes the "the french to take .... under our noses" so damned silly.
Or could it be that AC is in the belief that tokamak is somehow a British invention.
Quoting the Wiki:
"Tokamaks were invented in the 1950s by Soviet physicists Igor Tamm and Andrei Sakharov, inspired by an original idea of Oleg Lavrentiev".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokamak
I wouldn't really mind about this topic but I did something I haven't done ever before months ago.
I spent about 12 hours during two days listening to the "lords" (not capital letters?). I was actually quite impressed by that house.
More for the EU than against it, some very good and decent speeches and people with good knowledge of trade and business. (Not the impression I have about May and her Don Quixotes.)
A very decent atmosphere with some guys at times in deep thoughts, not at all like that other house I have started to associate with the "whack-a-mole" game.
And then there was this question about Euratom and Brexit.
A topic a lord started with the "World Leading British Nuclear Technology" and an other who politely asked him to get serious and return to earth. Which he slightly reluctantly did.
The reason research like this tend to be international projects is not just the money but also the fact that the "brains" needed are not always born on an island. The results are better shared openly too and there is a better buffer against the politics of the day in one or an other country.
Yes, that reminds me of a teacher I had long ago. I think the topic was called "business mathematics" then. His main occupation was with the stock exchange, why he bothered with us I do not know. Anyway, he told us he had this dream of some day being invited to the "parliament" to teach them how to deal with this magic % sign. According to him the country would do x % better then. I am inclined to believe he had a point there.
"when you cannot sell to the EU". Much rubbish has been written, the Brexiteers well in the lead, but please, there will be trade between the UK and the EU in the future too, but the deal will be different. How different no body knows yet.
As for the debt, gentlemen pay 100% of their debt, remember the "British Gentleman" (coined in Britain though).
"and will get special treatment in exchange for it". Special treatment for not paying 80% of its debt, that would, in my opinion, be special indeed.
@Christian Berger "special rule after special rule for the UK". Those special rules were to the advantage of Britain like not being the second biggest contributor to the EU budget regardless of then being the second largest economy in the EU.
Some Brits seem to think they are very special indeed.
"I do concur, that a jury of random people is not the best version. In our country we do not have jurys, but the "the people" anchor is provided by 2 lay judges in every criminal trial".
I was indeed referring to such a system but I would claim "a jury of random people" is what the British and the Americans understand as a "jury" system. And the Wiki has all about it, of course, and including the history.
To add the IT link, think about the SCO case where they tried and tried to get a jury because in practise it's more or less a lottery with a 50/50 chance of victory due to a random bunch of people who know nothing of the case and the technology.
Add to that the risks involved with intimidation, blackmail and even murder, as has been seen.
"Twelve brave men" was indeed a nice movie but also more or less a fairy tale.
@codejunky
You are such an optimist, EU in shock and such, do you hear in a similar way as Trump. Should I point out that Britain like many other EU countries belong to NATO and that Britain does not have any specific British rules regarding NATO. Then there are EU countries outside of NATO who have newer claimed anything regarding the military service from Britain.
I still think you just cannot comprehend that the EU is not a "country" but a union of 28 independent countries.
As for British exports and imports (the world 2016 est) $412.1 billion and $581.6 billion.
About 4-5 months ago on Yahoo there was a Brit so frustrated about the prospect of EU countries trying to "steal" some of the euro clearing from London that he started his rant with "We (the British) invented the world". Could it have been you.
Hello Pompous Git, have an up vote for helping all those confused Brits I manged to fool, and for not mention anything about spell checkers.
All well down there I hope, up here it's getting cold wet and dark too early. I wish I could join all those noisy birds shouting at each other about how to travel south in style. And why not for the birds too.
@Stork, same in Finland, but sounds a bit the same in Germany too as this story claims "For what it's worth, Germany still relies on manual counting for final tallies: electronic systems, for now, are used mainly for predictions and exit polls.".
As for decades, a century by now in Finland and for longer in Denmark I would think, that must go for the UK too.
Quite frankly I know too much about programming to let it anywhere near our voting systems.
"I think I can see why quite a lot of the EU would be happy to see the back of the UK".
Let me rephrase it like this as the nice and modest optimist I sometimes pretend to be, more true too.
"I think I can see why quite a lot of the EU would be happy to see sanity back in the UK".
What I do believe other EU countries are pondering about is if their countrymen also could be as gullible, fall as easily for blatant lies and be as ill informed about even the simplest facts.
Quite frankly I think I should stop here but I believe the two party system was a problem, and a very British problem at that.
"Unions are not needed and a source of revenue for corrupt individuals."
Ian Michael Gumby, your brush is too wide your example too narrow, try a ballpoint pen like this "A union as a source of revenue for corrupt individuals is not needed". See how it helps to understand it all.
"The EU have been gagging to get euro clearing into the eurozone before we decided to leave".
No that's total rubbish, Try to check the reality before you write.
One or several EU countries (i cannot remember) argued against London as the UK is not in the Eurozone. The EU did not agree as the UK is in the EU.
With the UK outside the EU London will be on its own and not protected by the EU, nor a member of the EU or the Eurozone.
Hardly surprising that London voted remain and for a number of other reasons too I would claim. What will happen next is anybody's guess but London's position will no doubt be weaker.
It seems to me that many Brits think the EU is a country like say India, could it be that those same people have also forgotten what the United Kingdom stands for and mentally think and behave in the same way.
So much shit.
@Codejunky "Article 50 wasnt written by us".
Some comments on that from our commentards, but I feel the point was lost. So lets start again. It was written by the EU for the EU by a guy who was a member of the EU. Any problems with that.
Could it be that you have forgotten that it's not the EU that has decided to leave the UK.
Perhaps you think it would be nice and fine and normal if say Scotland could write the rules for leaving the UK as they please when they please.
So try again, why should the UK have written that article.
"How about Airbus and Rolls-Royce".
R-R is indeed a company to be proud of but Airbus is a rather different animal to what I think you believe.
Quoting the Wikipedia (something I would warmly recommend you to use too):
"Airbus is an European multinational corporation........
...The company's main civil aeroplane business is based in Blagnac, France, a suburb of Toulouse, with production and manufacturing facilities mainly in France, Germany, Spain, China, United Kingdom and the United States. Final assembly production is based at Toulouse, France; Hamburg, Germany; Seville, Spain; Tianjin, China, and Mobile, United States."
"Owner as of September 2016
France – 11.1%
Germany – 11.1%
Spain – 4.2%
And the rest public (free float)".
The guys producing wings in the UK (Wales?) are worried and I would guess some Americans are hoping for the best as Airbus uses US made engines too.
So far Jacob Rees-Mogg is one of the few whose desire and motive to leave the EU I think I can understand. I reckon he believes the class society England still is will prevail for longer outside of the EU, and he is probably right in that belief too.
Trying to make sense of the "follow the money" is just impossible so it has to be about keeping or getting power. What the majority of the Brexit guys believe in is total fantasy based on lies and feelings I can understand too, only the pill is the wrong one.
Yes, it's worth remembering that when sailing ships where given this "right of way" those ships were often big square rigged ships and tacking them was something totally different than turning the wheel on a ship with a motor. I bet those guys did not think of pleasure yachts under sail at all, then long ago.
My advice and experience under sail is to keep away, if possible, not only to stay safe but also in order not to behave like a dick.
The good, if perhaps unwritten law, is that pleasure ships give way to commercial ships (and the navy).
"the container ship was deliberately trying to ram them. Check the traces of the two ships movements". There was this confusion at first as Fitzgerald, for some odd reason, reported the wrong time for the collision, a later time. What the container ship did was to turn around after the collision to offer assistance, as they should. This has all been cleared up.
"isn't it always the vessel that can get out of the way fastest that must change course to avoid the collision".
No there is no such law, but that is what you do unless you are totally mad.
This is all very embarrassing for the Navy. Regardless of who is at fault it should be totally impossible to ram a navy ship even if they dried to. I would advice the Navy to look at things like attitude, Do those guys feel too big and important and "untouchable". Hopefully not, Then there is the question of boredom, nothing is as boring as a ship without sails at sea in the night. And the bridge even more boring, no streptease, no card games, no booze. A yachtsman to my soul but I was in the merchant navy and a short time in the navy too. And then there is the important question about how situation information is transferred from one watch to the next. I Wonder are those guys in tee shirts and unable to have a look outside because it's too cold.
While my comment might not show it, losing ships mates at sea is a lot worse than losing friends in some car accident. Lets not be too harsh towards those sailors and rather concentrate on training for the future.
And for those who do, or do not, understand the difference between boring and not boring ships at sea, have a look at this. One of the very best you can find on YouTube. And there is some Alan Villiers too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icnjC_gJOLQ
There are some nice clips about 22yr olds in France entering the WWI happily singing,
I really hope our 22yr olds have more sense in their heads. It's also good to remember it was the fairly old farts who started the war (every war).
As for the sentence "Robert Watson-Watt, widely regarded today as the father of radar" I would mend it to "..regarded today mainly by the British as...." or simply "Robert Watson-Watt a British radar pioneer".
Reading about the radar in the Wiki we find that the story starts:
"As early as 1886, German physicist Heinrich Hertz showed that radio waves could be reflected from solid objects. In 1895, Alexander Popov, a physics instructor at the Imperial Russian Navy school in Kronstadt, developed an apparatus using a coherer tube for detecting distant lightning strikes." .......
"the German inventor Christian Hülsmeyer was the first to use radio waves to detect "the presence of distant metallic objects".
And "The term RADAR was coined in 1940 by the United States Navy as an acronym for RAdio Detection And Ranging".
And "Before the Second World War, researchers in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, the Soviet Union, and the United States, independently and in great secrecy, developed technologies that led to the modern version of radar. "
And, as always those who have absolutely no experience of war are more obsessed with it than anybody else.
Used by the Vikings too as a good luck charm (ended up in the Finnish Air force because of that, but that was years before it was adopted by the Nazi) and there is one in the floor mosaic in the ruins of a house from the time of the Romans in England. Should we feel happy they did not adopt the circle or say the cross.
"A truckload of dead rats in a tampon factory". Unless a Google translate "feature" one has to assume it's a comparison between rats in a sausage factory and rats in a tampon factory claiming they are more easily detected among tampons. Or perhaps it's just a silly thing to say.
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