Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Only tricky part is that you don't find out the rules for trade with the Eu until 30Dec - then you have all night to implement the business logic

Re: Brexit is coming

>why didn't this investment happen before Brexit?

Because of evil Brussels burocrats of course.

Don't you remember a tearful Margaret Thatcher pleading with the Germans to be allowed to help the industrial north, but being told Nein?

Re: Every country cannot be self-sufficient in everything

>prices will fall

Except that in response to Japan will tariff Korean products so Korea will respond by blocking Japanese products and so you'll have less choice and higher prices in each country

But this is totally Trump style electioneering. S Korea has been stirring up anti-japan rhetoric for a while to boost nationalist politicians

Re: Can't identify the smell

Quite surprised that any superpower would consider that the UK's foreign policy was significant enough to be worth influencing

Re: WTF ....... Is the service demented and infiltrated?

You can't just make things up in an intelligence dossier - that sounds dodgy

Re: This is not a real controversy

>Defence is necessary.

Defence against foreign aggressors = ok

And internal terrorists (until you have a peace deal and then they become part of your support agreement)

What about environmental protesters ?

Or police brutality protesters?

What about people who might just be voting for the opposition?

What about politicians in your own party who might be after your job - are they a legitimate target for your security agency, with the support of the tech companies ?

I might support work on an ICBM or nuclear weapon that I know is only going to be used against a real threat, but not on bit of software which is intended to target pro-abortion voters from their Netflix habbits

Re: once the encryption is broken...

Remember this law doesn't just ban encryption - it makes the tech giants subject to state laws as well as the feds.

Some jury in East Texas rules that Amazon can't show Chinese goods or California votes that Google can't show results for guns or an Alabama church sues Microsoft because their kid saw porn on a windows machine

But we need this law to fight (checks list) the British, Nazis, communists, Hippies, Terrorists, child porn

Re: once the encryption is broken...

Or the first state to require this gets targetted.

No Google, no Facebook, no Netflix, no Amazon, no iTunes, no Gmail - Arizona goes back to the 1970s

See how long it lasts before its voters revolt.

Re: Pssst... wanna buy some strong crypto?

There is a campaign to reclassify encryption as a munition - then the 2nd amendment would guarantee people's right to it and make it impossible for any republican to object

Harvard will have a single in-person class, social distancing 101, and skip the requirement.

Nobody from India/China is paying $50Kyear to do youtube lectures without the opportunity to earn immigration resident years

Re: Too many Americans

Although if you're Facebook it should also be 98% twatish

Re: I'll just leave this here

The difference in the southern USA isn't that there are statues of people who did bad things by the morals of today. It isn't a question of Guardian pulling down statues of Ghandi or Simon De'Montfort because they didn't support #metoo.

In these southern cities these statues were deliberately put up to mark neighborhoods as white. They are the equivalent of a ring of burning crosses not a question of renaming Waterloo station because it is offensive to Napoleoists

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Re: Thin end of the wedge?

>Do you really think a black person sering the word "slave" in a technical context will feel insulted that you're mocking all his murdered brothers?

Possibly not, but if every wrong answer in a math textbook was historically labelled "Jewish" answer and every correct one "Christian" answer - my math department might have a different ethnic makeup.

Re: Thin end of the wedge?

Yes if you go down the rabbit hole of being offended by daemons.

But I think it's reasonable to remove some examples such as where "white " is a synonym for good and "black" for bad

Re: No problem with most of it, but...

I think those were five "masted" sailing ships. A sailing ship with 5 masters would be about as effective as a software project led by 5 different stakeholders.

Re: Not the solution

Obviously they won't orbit the whole world - just Britain

Re: It Could Be Made to Work ???

That's the brilliant part of the plan, made possible by ignoring experts, we don't launch them into orbit

The satellites will be placed at strategic points around the coast on top of tall buildings previously holding lights, from which they will broadcast a radio beam. By intersecting two of these beams one will be able to perform long range navigation

Re: For something one must have.... or for something some think no one should really have?

With the previous incumbent you coudl get twice that for putting on a bowler hat and shouting NO

Re: Educate me please?

Laying fibre is expensive, the backhaul is by utilising existing infrastructure with these perfectly good 56k modems we got cheap

Re: You want to sort

The eu did propose this for bikes.

Apparently millions of people were being killed by riders fitting go-faster parts and or somebody needed to protect BMW's margins

Re: Deep-rooted prejudice

>In any case, those delicious tandoori dishes -- what caste is associated with those?

The pork and alcohol-free meat dishes from the bit of the sub-continent next door to Iran? Have a guess.

Re: General concern

Except you can't call out racism of HK VS mainland or Singapore VS Taiwan or Indians VS everyone else (including other Hindus) - because that's racist.

In my experience in tech, it's mostly Indians and mainland Chinese who are openly racist. Some of that is selection bias, these aren't the Indians with US graduate degrees, but it's also background - I don't think Indian state schools do a lot of diversity training.

In the UK I think the only open racism I saw in business tech was sectarian - but that was in NI

Re: General concern

In the same way than anyone from Lancashire is basically sub-human?

Re: "We have robust processes"

Unfortunately the public seem unhappy with the idea of salary tied to income:

Hedge fund managers makes $Bn in profit is paid $100M bonus = crowd with pitchforks

Facebook make $3M/programmer is paid $250K = mob with small garden trowel

Miner produces coal worth $20K, is paid $50K = universal support

>Actually the "no ferries" shouldn't really have been a problem. They could have been leased when needed.

The no PPE/ventilator stockpile wasn't a problem because we could always buy all we needed from our normal supplier in the event of a global pandemic

Re: Cut your cloth...

Unless you want to bomb Slough

> Israel and Argentina bought Mirages from France

I don't think they 'bought' any - as in actually paid for.

France refused to sell them arms and so the IAF 'obtained' a set of plans and built them themselves.

How complicit France was in the 'obtaining' isn't clear - it was trying to compete with the USA as an arms supplier and so was similarly adept at working around it's own embargoes