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You have to feel sorry for the FSB/CIA/MMB agents taking down the transcript
Comrade, I have hacked the zoom feed but they seem to have some secret code....
"Wiff-waff, crikey, bit of a sticky wicket as we used to say in big skool. Well my old motto, scribi bolloxi on omnibus"
Or a best of both worlds.
Keep the fee to pay for BBC news and make "celebrity strictly come dancing in the jungle on ice" a subscription.
Then the government would be assured there was fair and unbiased reporting of their triumphs, rather than having to rely on the dailyMail and Fox news, without the taint of popularism
Why does there need to be announcements of takeovers?
HP is traded on the market, Xerox can buy all the HP shares it wants at the 'true' price - but for rules stopping it.
The rules are in place to stop shady consortiums of buyers picking up a company without anyone knowing about it, but it's not clear who this rule benefits (except protecting large corporations)
The only legitimate objection would be monopolies concerns, but the 15% rule applies even when there is no competition question
In the UK expect to go to jail for typing in the top-level name of the website
>As other posters have pointed out, a mobile 'phone's location can be triangulated from nearby cell masts.
Yes and all they can track is the phone number of a bought-for-cash PAYG sim
With a smart phone they (goverment/online ad agency) can tie that phone to your facebook profile, everyone you have ever received and email from and every website you ever visited.
"Far back in the mists of ancient time, in the great and glorious days of the former Galactic Empire, life was wild, rich and largely tax free" .....
"In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri."
The original deployment as to take snatch landies from N.I. and paint them sand coloured while making smug statements about how their experience in Belfast meant they knew how to deal with Johhny Terrorist
But don't take my word for it, there is rather a good display at that bastion of hippie communism - the imperial war museum. The high court recently allowed group of families to sue the MoD for negligence in not equipping with the same level of armoured protection other forces had
Giving a $Tn in tax cuts to billionaires helped boost the economy to it's current state to giving away $1000 to 200Million adults will only have 20% of the effect.
Could we give away another $Tn to hedge fund managers? Can we ask more of them or have they done enough ?
>Companies had at least two decades to explore the world of a free and open source OS
And they concluded that swapping Word for Emacs+Latex, Excel for R+Fortran and Powerpoint for Ascii-art+screen wasn't really viable.
Now they are exploring swapping Office365 running on a chrome based browser running on an OS they pay for and has to be totally replaced when Redmond decides to end support - for running Office365 on a chrome based browser on a free OS with permanent support
> to explore and evaluate alternative non-proprietary software
If customers want to use a free operating system while paying Microsoft for Office365, cloud and support services I don't think any shareholders in Redmond would be upset.
In fact if Microsoft kept all the profitable service operations while axing the expensive "writing and supporting an OS" operation they would be laughing all the way to the Lamborghini dealership
And decades before the Kobe earthquake took out the one chemical plant in the world that made the plastic that encapsulated chips.
The problem is that it's expensive to have multiple suppliers. Having a copy of your multi billion $ fab in another country and buy half your wafers/reagents/etc from the more expensive supplier.
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