Posts by Roland6

Re: Fuck business

The government funding was promised, the doing of the paperwork was not a priority and so monies didn’t materialise and without paperwork the promise could not be used to underpin borrowing…

From experience in the 80s of getting monies out of (a Conservative) government, it does look like nothing has changed. Dealing with the EU, whilst bureaucratic, was alot less stressful.

Re: Fuck business

And proceeded to walk the talk by f**king up the funding of Britishvolt with the not unexpected inevitable outcome…

Re: Fuck business

>” These tariffs serve no beneficial purpose to either the UK or the EU.”

At this stage they do, their intent is to get manufacturers to build manufacturing capability in the UK and EU, rather than simply depend on China, which the US will almost certainly target to protect its onshore EV industry, just as it is doing in IT and mobile telecoms…

Re: This may suit car makers

>”EVs don't appear to last that long. This may suit car makers because if EVs are disposable, they'll sell more cars.”

It also suits governments because they can profit from the greenwash.

Firstly, that’s increased tax revenues and reflects in the headline GDP figures - “oh look how our economy is growing, so much more than country xyz’s”.

Secondly, the very poor secondhand value of EVs will help to keep Core inflation down.

Thirdly, they can point to the reduction in ICE sales and tailpipe carbon emissions (and thus better air quality on our streets) to congratulate themselves on their green credentials, carefully overlooking the increase in factory energy consumption and power generation emissions (because the much talked about new nuclear is still being talked about).

>” There are about 95% recyclable”

In to what and at what cost?

From what has been published about the large scale battery recycling scheme in Norway, recycling basically means grind up and use as lithium ore. So yes recycled, just not in the way many envisage.

Re: "thin cable thickets"

Basically, replace Cat xyz with fibre… So there is now overlap between 802.3 and 802.11…

Re: It is a Television

>” when I press the 'on' button they come on almost instantly”

That is once you’ve found and powered up the device, logged in to the app, selected your room…

Basic light switch is easy to use, especially i the middle of the night when you are half asleep…

Re: Wrong

>” Everyone is adding options to simple TVs so they can justify a much higher asking price.”

Prime example of this is the Sky Glass..

>” Twitter owned IPs that perform some kind of system function that is now broken.”

Would not be surprised if one is monitoring use of the poo emoji…

Re: I blame Microsoft

Part of the problem is cloud.

Before cloud criminals needed to search for individual exchange servers, with cloud they are all behind a publicly known address…

Re: Splorf!

“Acquired” doesn’t necessarily mean “stolen”…

Re: What a coincidence

I thought that was a striking example of why you don’t use certain materials known for their poor performance under compressive pressure…

Re: Fairness

Surprised MS and eBay aren’t on the list.

Re: Overlap

> “I can't see the demarcation of indoors/outdoors working at all well.”

You are forgetting Ofcom’s objectives and bias with respect to spectrum are mainly commercial; as we saw with their reallocation of TV frequencies to release licensed spectrum to the mobile operators, they will do much to realise a (licence) revenue opportunity.

The mobile operators will have made the case that WiFi is for private space, which is mainly indoors, and that (5G) satisfies many outdoor use cases, plus in 2023 (compared to 2008) many more people have mobile phones with mobile data services, thus play down the importance of WiFi connectivity.

Hence expect a DFS approach to be proposed as it will allow Ofcom to be seen to be fair, but poorly/conservatively implemented so as to favour mobile network usage, making actual WiFi usage problematic…

Re: The enemy is both too strong and too weak

>” The withdrawal agreement explicitly refers to the UK continuing its participation in many EU programs, and calls out Horizon as one of them, subject to the UK paying the agreed money.”

Selective reading?

What the UK failed to ensure was in the Withdrawal Agreement was that the UK would continue, without a break in membership, being a member of the Horizon program. Without this the UK effectively left the Horizon program and now needs the EU to sponsor its application for readmission. It seems from the fuss at Westminster, Westminster forgot to fill out the application form…

Re: Some balance?

>” What would be lovely is if we could have a slimmed down version where they just focus on trade”

That would be The Single Market, championed by Thatcher. However, the rules for the (new) market were set by the (new) EU, so to be at the table that set the rules for the Single Market, you also needed to be a member of the EU… Thatcher understood this and joined the UK to both…

Re: Some balance?

Uk industry, in the hands of traditional upper class conservative twits, always was going to wither and die; Thatcher merely provided the coffee and the wake up kick…

Trouble is much of the UKs current problems are down to misplaced romanticism to a failed class system and traditional Conservative economic mumbo jumbo.

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

>” In the UK parliament is sovereign”

Nice sound bite, evidence, since the referendum, shows the Executive can and does bypass Parliament…

>”In the past, Horizon hasn't been used as a political hammer.”

The EU are only able to use Horizon as a political hammer with the UK, because the UK team under Boris, didn’t do detail.

The situation could be a lot worse if the UK had done as the hard”no deal” Brexiteers wanted…

Re: Citation please ?

>The white working class voted for brexit because they hated foreigners.

A number of surveys taken at the time, showed that a significant proportion of the white working class voted for Leave because they felt "left out" and "forgotten" and hence saw voting Leave as bloodying the nose of an uncaring establishment who wanted them to vote Remain. Not saying a hatred of foreigners wasn't a factor, just that it was one of many that fed a mindset that caused certain demographics to vote Leave.

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

>"An impact assessment should have been created ahead of the vote to enable the reasonable debate we never saw (before or after)."

Disagree, remember the question was: "Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?"

The mistake was jumping straight from the (advisory) result to action and making it up as you go along, without reasonable consideration and consultation...

I'm sure with Sir Humphrey Appleby's help the government can redefine Indian tech workers as being wholly different to the unemployed tech workers and thus identify a shortage of "tech workers" which can only be satisfied by importing (cheaper) Indian tech workers.

>But you can leave out all that stuff about ox-bow lakes, nobody needs to know that.

However, everyone does need to know about the Battle of Agincourt and how the plucky English won against the French. Although, for obvious reasons, there is no need to for the siege of Orléans to be taught.

Re: Land of the long white shroud?

Trouble is once you take out financial services - the pre-eminent "export" of the UK, there probably isn't much to differentiate the UK economy from NZ, other than the UK probably has fewer sheep...

Re: Observation

And both defending the indefensible...

Trouble is, as events in Ukraine have shown, it doesn't really matter whether the UK is in or out of the EU, European security requires the UK and the EU to constructively engage; for which we need the adults to sit at the table...

Re: This isn't the Brexit we voted for.

> the contract went to the EU...

With post-CoViD PPE scandal hindsight, it does seem strange that this contract actually went to a company actually capable of delivering...

>And UK industry is in such a shape after Thatcher

The existing UK-based supplier lost because of price. Which suggests the problem isn't Thatcher but that the Conservatives still favour supposedly cheaper overseas businesses to the detriment of UK industry and then complain the welfare budget is too big because the British are lazy and overpaid, whilst awarding themselves a bigger slice of the tax take pot...

>” The main use for services is usually for a toilet break, and stretch your legs a bit, not to fuel up.”

That’s because an ICEV typically has a significantly better range on a “full charge” than an EV…

Need to stop comparing apples with oranges…

>” We're in a position now where we don't have the time to take a generation or two to transition away from ICE vehicle (to whatever).”

We are also in a position where we cannot incur the additional emissions necessary for the large scale EV production to effect a rapid transition to EVs, hence the “to whatever” is the question we really need to define, as we really needed the answer a few decades back…

Re: Ah yes - the "there aren't enough charging points" defence...

>” Prices of used cars will probably go up, hitting drivers on lower incomes with a triple whammy”

Prices of used cars are already going up in the UK, for a number of reasons including there being a number of businesses vying for market share and so offering better prices for used vehicles. What many don’t realise is that used car prices was one of the big contributors to the increase in “Core inflation” that the Bank of England were worried about and so put base rate up by 0.5 points to 5% last month. Which the banks immediately passed on to their customers even though their exposure to BoE interest rates is circa 10% of the value of their loan book…