Posts by codejunky

Re: @elsergiovolador

@elsergiovolador

"There has been some research that the best spacing to have children is 3 years. 5 times 3 gives you (15+3) 18 year span in total, where the older siblings will be able to help with care for the younger ones and typically after 18 years you would get tired of having more children."

Ah ok. Never heard that one (I can believe you). So you would place a maximum on 5? What about those larger families?

"This is nonsense. You may as well not pay the workers and say they can go foraging or hunting if they want to eat."

How is it nonsense to suggest proper management of money? And I even accept that some of the blame is on a lack of financial education. In the richest part of the world where poverty is all but eliminated and so has been redefined to a relative measure you dont think that could be an issue? Instead of maxing out their mortgage, car, spending habits then crying its expensive to have a child it wouldnt be better to manage the finances better and have a kid if you can afford to have one? It isnt even comparable to 'not paying enough for someone to eat', just because the person cant afford to shop at Harrods each week doesnt mean the company is paying them too little.

Re: Shock

@AC

"Wall Street firms that got hundreds of billions from the government due of the 2008 financial disaster would laugh in your face." ..."These were the same people who created the crisis in the first place."

Not exactly. The gov (Bush) was pushing for more home owners. While the banks came up with a solution which should have been bullet proof based on the entire history they had to work with (housing not crashing all over the US at the same time) it was the government agency who signed it off as safe too! It was the sub-prime low grade investments that failed, the more secure ones were as expected more secure.

"They paid themselves ridiculous bonuses from that cash pile and were able to pay it back with interest in 2012 to get the government out of their hair."

If they paid themselves well and paid off the gov loans they probably earned their pay.

Re: @elsergiovolador

@elsergiovolador

"Up to 5."

Where does this number come from? Is it arbitrary or is there a reason?

"You can choose to not have this many children and use money for something else like buying a guitar and spending 18 years learning how to play."

True. So better money management (or education to be fair) would be more responsible than begging for daycare.

"Why have a job that doesn't cover the basics?"

That is also valid. They could go get a better paid job if they are able to contribute to a higher value job.

@elsergiovolador

"If a worker can't afford such a basic need as childcare, then they are simply not paid enough. Anything else is just smoke and mirrors."

Up to how many children does this apply? What other life choices does this apply to? I aint paid enough for a lot of things I might like to have but is that on my employer or me?

If they dont earn enough to hire a servant to look after their child then they will have to look after the child themselves. Dont like that idea? Why have a child?

Re: You know ...

@Disgusted Of Tunbridge Wells

"Unfortunately it's the best option available so we should do our best to keep those popular people from administering more than they have to."

How on earth do you get a downvote for that comment never mind 7? With the amount of complaining people do against government how can they mistake government as not terrible at their job?

Re: Will this cover

@Jamie Jones

""What do you mean? People can meet in private, and have private conversations???? We'll have to ban that right away!""

Tested with covid lockdowns

Re: Hmm

@gandalfcn

"Amazing how much junk you post, Who pays you?"

Are you the AC posting garbage? Tell me what upsets you about me wishing a positive contribution? Or are you just the latest stray pet troll I have picked up who must respond regardless of my posts contents?

Re: Amazon advertising

@Arthur the cat

"People who had a kidney removed also bought: a lawn mower, a novelty door mat, a year's supply of cat food."

For a number of conditions there are publicly available treatments, devices and items that can help with discomfort/pain so it is plausible that a recommendation system based on experiencing the same problems could help people.

Re: Hmm

@AC

"Improve what situation? More choice of movies & boxed sets? Instead of scanning the headline mabe RTFA, Hmmm?"

A service provider merging with a logistics, analytics, service provider of scale and skill. Did you read the article?

Re: Scientific collaborations like sausages

@CrazyOldCatMan

"Why should they be allowed?"

And this is the problem. The EU has no right to dictate. Or as it was the twit who caused the issue for the EU side. The gov was happy for UKIP to be there, the EU had no rights to be awkward. You have it backwards.

"And the EU had every right (as the other party) to object to the presence of people"

Absolutely not at all without any margin for moaning. UKIP had every right to be there as they were allowed to be there by invitation. The EU idiot had zero right to demand otherwise.

Re: The Horizon replacement money ...

@AC

"That's one of the few things we'll agree on."

This is the regularly forgotten fact that brexit was supported from left and right, just as remain was. One of the complaints about brexit is how everyone had a different vision of leave, which is true. Just as remain was made up of many people with wildly conflicting visions of remain too.

This is why it is extremely wrong (not even a grey area) to say brexit was a right wing thing and remain a left wing thing. The negotiations were carried out by the Tories but the referendum and support for remain/leave crossed parties and ideologies

Re: Scientific collaborations like sausages

@Roland6

"UKIP didn't have an MP in Westminster and do you seriously think the UK Government would have stepped aside to allow a bunch of unelected, self appointed nutters (*)negotiate on their behalf?"

Nope and I didnt even say that so what have you been smoking? UKIP were invited to a meeting and the EU refused to discuss anything while they were in the room. The EU twits had no right to demand so and it was even brought up at the EU (thats how I know about it, I watched the twits laughing as the issue was brought up. Little children they are). Hopefully I can find the video again from years ago because it is worth a watch but facts matter little if you keep smoking the wacky stuff

Re: Scientific collaborations like sausages

@Adair

"CJ, you make my case for me. ;-)"

Ok I am reasonably sure you are trolling now. But just in case, how is you not reading nor understanding my comment making your case?

Re: Scientific collaborations like sausages

@Adair

"What the hell have UKIP got to do with anything"

Read my comment you may have a hope of understanding. I cant make it any clearer.

"They were never even in the room, let alone serious and responsible players."

You are so close to reading my comment. Its really close.

Re: The Horizon replacement money ...

@AC

"The aforementioned few token useful idiot Lexiteers never made it meaningfully cross-party."

Amusingly Corbyn pre-leadership was anti-EU and during leadership showed little leadership. He is a marxist who's second in command was a commie. How right wing were they? I suppose from the perspective of Kim Jong maybe. And the brexit vote only carried beyond 50% due to labour (and left) voters also voting leave.

"Brexit is- and always was- driven by those on the Eurosceptic right of the Tory party (i.e. the right of the right) and the likes of UKIP dominated by defectors from the latter. Cameron only called the Brexit vote as a woefully (and contemptibly) misjudged sop to the latter he hoped would shut them up once they'd lost as expected."

Yup. That and UKIP gained a serious support from both tory and labour voters who saw little difference between the parties and none of them acting on their offer of a say over membership. Blair was elected on a manifesto of giving a referendum over EU diktat (never happened of course). Cameron with his cast iron guarantee built like a chocolate teapot.

This is the tribal stupidity of things I like = left, things I dont like = right. The answer being nope.

Re: Democracy

@Adair

"There you go, making your opponent's case for them."

Eh? Elongated Muskrat made a bogus claim and I burnt it down for being drivel.

"Once we wipe away the extremist froth from both sides of the 'Brexit' argument what solid points are we left with."

Exactly. We remove the bull from both sides (and there is bull from both sides). So when someone spouts garbage like that it should be corrected or people reading it might think there is merit to the comment.

"In reality, not very much on the 'exit' side, especially given the totally shambolic way it was actually done and continues to be mishandled"

Eh? Are you in the UK? Yes it was shambolic, and yes it is still mishandled and yet the benefits of brexit were meant to materialise over years and yet we already saw immediate benefits. The FUD of doom didnt happen and instead we still came out of it pretty good even with the mess of the negotiations.

"while on the 'remain' side actually quite a lot of well founded and now substantive realities"

Where? Few of the claims actually happened and didnt overly matter. It took excessive gnashing of teeth and the government actually threatening the UK population to make a case for remain! Leave didnt have that. Leave didnt have the power of government to work around the rules and abuse the tax payer/voter. The reality was a disappointment to remain that the world didnt end

Re: Scientific collaborations like sausages

@Adair

"So what was the 'bad faith' of the EU over NI?"

The EU negotiators were called out for insisting UKIP were not allowed in the room for negotiations. They had no right to dictate such. They stalled negotiations until NI was dealt with against the very rules of the negotiations that no one part can hold up the rest. In the spirit of the NI agreement the UK can send to NI with little friction which the EU refuse to abide.

And this is with help from remainers to get the best deal they could. God help them if a brexiter gets in charge, the EU will panic.

Re: Science vs Morons

@NXM

"Your loyalty to the morons does you credit, but you might consider treatment for your hard-of-thinking problem."

You misread my comment. I am not supporting the 'experts' who seem to think the gov should deliver what the EU refuses. Its not in the UK's power to give. Try thinking about it again.

"I made the post above because I personally think we need the worst possible Brexit outcome so morons are shown the results of their approach"

You mean to remain? That would be the worst brexit outcome. Unfortunately NI was screwed by remain but it seems the gov is finally waking up to not being under the thumb... a bit slowly but getting there.

"Then, and only then, can we remember the damage they've done is all (including themselves) and charge them with treason."

I think that would be appropriate for the scum who without being elected to government took it upon themselves to hold meetings with the EU to undermine brexit.

Re: Do as you are told, slaves

@heyrick

"Downvote because more and more states are starting to take privacy seriously"

This is a big difference between the US and EU (that some in the US fear is closing) that the US is made of states. So if some states want to do things differently they can, and the strength is in the difference. The EU as command from the top doesnt much care for such differences and so its members are to comply with a stricter structure. That some states are doing different is a good thing. Experimentation finds the more optimal solution.

"so no, they aren't happy with it."

you need a sub note of *in some states

Re: Do as you are told, slaves

@VoiceOfTruth

"A clue from the clue bag: the EU's economy is bigger than the USA's. If American companies want to lose that, fine."

Is it? I thought the EU was in third after the US and China. And the EU is a falling portion of the worlds wealth. But either way if the EU want to make tighter rules they cant assume others will want to change their rules to match. Why does this upset you so?

@jmch

"I believe the US were in favour of EU energy independence from Russia* so that the EU could become energy-dependent on the US or its vassal gulf states."

That is possible but I would like to point out the unpopular opinion that Trump was against it, made the case that Europe was too dependent on a hostile and was laughed at. There was a bit less laughing when he said NATO countries should contribute their part or not expect the US to do it for them.

Re: Do as you are told, slaves

@VoiceOfTruth

"No, the problem is the USA wants EU customers but does not want to abide by EU laws. Fine them $1billion a day, each offending company until they comply."

Do they? Not saying the US doesnt want the customers but if the US was so desperate to sell to the EU then this wouldnt be a repeated problem. That the EU needs US services is the problem the EU struggles to reconcile with what it feels is right about privacy.

"Fine them $1billion a day, each offending company until they comply."

And watch as the EU crashes. All that technology and service people require to live or run a business suddenly vanishing. The US will probably notice it as something minor.

Re: Is the UK going down the same path ?

@alain williams

"Were told that one of the Brexit bonuses was to get rid of 'pesky' EU legislation such as the GDPR.

I just hope that the mob in Parliament keep 100% alignment with the GDPR and prevent us all a huge headache."

If the bonus was to leave GDPR then why would we wish to align to it?

Re: Do as you are told, slaves

@VoiceOfTruth

"The USA is at fault here"

Why? Disregard if you agree or disagree with US laws on data, it is their law on data for the US and has been how they have worked for however long. They are happy with it and that is their law of their country.

The EU decide they want more regulation and legalities. Again disregard if you agree or disagree with such regulation or legalities. The problem is the EU want to use the US products and services but dont like the US laws. Its up to the EU to decide what it is willing to accept, but knowing it is the EU that needs something from the US.

This could be any countries about almost any product/service and the same applies.

Re: >Where's the Brexit bonus?

@Michael Strorm

"Despite the endless hucksters telling people whatever they wanted to hear and people picking and choosing from the (often contradictory) lies to match whatever they wanted to imagine Brexit would be"

Somewhat correct, which I have addressed with someone else recently. There is no common image of what brexit was to be but also no such common image of remain either. The EU ranged from being great to being crap but we need to remain to fix it and more besides.

"In itself, that complete absence of any planning was why voting Leave in 2016 was a fucking stupid idea."

Almost as though brexiters should have conducted brexit.

"Regardless, the UK has since left the EU, it has delivered Brexit. You got what you *actually* voted for, and nothing more. You have no basis for complaint."

Who is complaining? Not me. I responded factually to your comment and you continued the conversation. We have brexit to a good enough extent that the UK can break free quite easily. Thats why the EU keeps squealing when the gov talks about changing anything.

"And this is where (as I also predicted back then) it goes beyond simple blame shifting and finger-pointing and into the outright demonisation of Remainers as enemies of the people and traitors."

Nope. Having an opinion or belief is not being a traitor. The direct action of working against the country and undermining the government to a foreign power is.

"Your language and tone is disturbingly reminiscent of the man who killed Jo Cox, calling her "one of 'the collaborators' [and] a traitor"."

And in losing the argument you now wish to throw me in with a murderer? Step back from your ideological presumptions and go back to what actually happened over brexit.

Re: >Where's the Brexit bonus?

@Michael Strorm

"tl;dr paraphrasing of what you just said- "If Brexit hasn't been the roaring success promised, it's all the fault of Remainers for their [alleged] sabotage, incompetence or inadequate enthusiasm and support.""

You seem mistaken. Thats not paraphrasing, that is straw man or also more accurately called bull. If you want to talk to yourself do so without me.

"Back in 2016, I predicted that we'd see this *exact* excuse- blame shifting and finger pointing towards remainers- when Brexit (predictably) didn't deliver the promised unicorns and rainbows."

And yet throughout the negotiations it was entirely clear the remainers were the ones hacking up the negotiations. You can cry all you want that they buggered you but dont blame brexiters who were negotiating far better when they were allowed to.

"While I'd like to be able to claim credit for some genius-level prescience on that count, the truth is that it was utterly obvious."

If you tell me your foot will hurt then shoot it you are not an oracle. If you watch remainers try to negotiate BINO when people voted for brexit you cant claim some sort of oracle. You basically predicted what we predicted due to the scum publicly trying to shaft the UK.

Re: >Where's the Brexit bonus?

@Michael Strorm

"Not sure what you're trying to say here. If the EU were the ones as desperate for a deal as you say, surely they'd have rolled over at the first hint of pressure on that...?"

Why? They had a brexit vote under a remain PM (Cameron), desperate idiots in the UK willing to challenge anything the gov did to stop brexit (amusingly the legal challenges caused brexit to pass through impasse in gov), traitors not in government but opposition parties publicly going meeting the EU to undermine the gov and May who wanted BINO. Compare that to when we had brexit negotiators and they were the ones negotiating, you could hear the pips squeak as our negotiators handed the EU a bill to be negotiated if they would like.

"On the other hand, if the scare quotes are implying *they* were pressuring the UK into implementing the NI agreement... well, the fact they were in a position to do so rather suggests that they were neither the ones "desperate" for a deal, nor in the position of weakness that Brexiteers promised."

Except NI wasnt an issue. Nobody but desperate remainers seemed to believe so. Actually NI was an issue but for the EU, the UK resolved it very quickly by saying we didnt wish to create a border. The EU could have made one and forced ROI to implement a hard border (some consider breaking the GFA) but the UK was easily in the clear. Trying to remain in but technically out to try an appease both remainers and brexiters is why May was such a failure.

"Remind us who was "desperate" here again?"

Remainers. Or did you sleep through the entirety of the negotiation period?

"You're *still* trying to argue that the EU was so desperate for a deal they would have delivered the moon on a stick to the UK if only that pesky ex-Remainer May had done a better job at negotiating?"

What moon on a stick? Only idiots seem to think that way, the same stupidity as believing the UK was in a bad negotiating position and would have to take what it was given. Moronic stupidity which is down to ideology instead of what actually happened. I am amused you call her ex-remainer as if disowning the one who delivered most of the agreement can be excised from remainer hands.

Re: >Where's the Brexit bonus?

@Michael Strorm

"As someone noted, Brexit made the fatal mistake of killing the scapegoat"

Maybe mistake for some, intentional for others. The role and responsibility of governing falling on those elected instead of the EU.

"But let's remember we were told that it was the UK who held all the cards and the EU was the one who would be desparate for a deal, rolling over and doing anything the UK demanded."

Not entirely accurate but the EU were desperate for a deal as shown by the NI 'negotiations' and absolute fear of causing another Eurozone crisis. That is why it grates so much that BINO May screwed up so badly but does leave hope that a politician with spine can improve the situation fairly easily.

Re: @Potemkine!

@werdsmith

"When will you face up to it?"

Hang on. Are you saying the UK doesnt buy chips from abroad? Do you believe the UK doesnt trade? Go on how delusional are you?

Re: Hmm

@AC

"F-16s do not land on carriers."

Sorry if I wasnt clear but I wasnt just talking about F-16's landing on carriers. I was mentioning a difficulty of aircraft that did and now I think about it I might have been thinking about the F-35-B not Typhoon.

Re: Hmm

@AC

"Someone been watching 'Stealth' over the weekend, Hmm?"

As much as the film gets slammed (I get why) I dont consider it a bad film if you are willing to accept it as the kind of daft thing it is. But no the last one was Maverick which did mention the issues of G forces on the body.

Weight matters a lot on aircraft landing on carriers (was this a Typhoon issue years back?) where the payload had to be dropped to perform a landing? Probably got some of the details wrong on that one. Might even help with fuel consumption too if the pilot and 'life support' is removed. From my armchair position of never flying one and only ever reading about such aircraft.