* Posts by codejunky

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Hacktivists attack Japanese government over Fukushima wastewater release

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Re: Hmm

@CrazyOldCatMan

"Won't someone think of the shareholders? And those poor people in the C-suite - they *need* their bonuses!"

Build some energy generation, let the price of energy fall and the shareholders and bonuses all around would still be cheaper than what we have now.

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Re: Hmm

@ChoHag

The 'impartial' BBC reported with a picture of a mushroom cloud. I am amazed at the recent shift in opinion over nuclear which is a 180 turn from a few short years ago.

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Hmm

I wonder if these 'activists' are leftovers who wanted the plant to go boom because nuclear is scary. So much hysteria was pumped up at the time and even the German gov bought into the insanity at the time. But now nuclear looks like a golden child for 'saving the earth', maybe these guys never got the updated memo?

Florida Man and associates indicted for conspiracy to steal data, software

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Re: The smell of desperation

@AC

"Criminals get investigated and prosecuted all the time."

How about have fabricated dossiers, The FBI breaking procedure to investigate and wire-tap including altering an email to directly change its meaning to get permission to spy on a political candidate. That was 2016. In the recent ellection the FBI spread misinformation (aka pushed lies) as exposed by the twitter files while actively protecting his opposition from criticism of crimes in the family. You say criminals get investigated and prosecuted all the time but this is against a political opponent, seemingly not against a criminal.

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Re: The smell of desperation

@jmch

"t's terrible for the state of US democracy that the 2 presumed candidates would potentially be 82 and 79 if taking office in 2026"

I am not sure it is so terrible if they are in fit enough health to go ahead. I dont know of Trump suffering any particular problems and the democrats keep telling us Biden is in good health. While there are problems of older ages there is also the knowledge that comes with experience. But I do understand your point.

"Are there really no competent politicians under the age of 70 in the whole of the US, on either side of the divide????"

The democrats seem to throw themselves behind a single candidate and the others are just filler. I doubt they consider Biden to be a good runner but who is there to replace him? As for republicans there seems to be a field of people the GOP would like to race and Trump who is the popular candidate that people would actually want. In 2016 there was a race on the republican side and the dems chose Hillary even though Sanders was popular with the democrat voters. This time there seems less choice.

*dunno who downvoted but upvote from me

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The smell of desperation

Another! No way! I am shocked! The guy who has so far been constantly attacked with the desperate lawfare effort to keep him from running again has yet another one to the collection. Is it any wonder he is leading the polls to be the republican candidate? And if he is facing off with Biden I would be shocked if it was even a contest.

I do understand the fear of Trump winning the presidency though. They spent so much time and effort trying to damage the guy that he would be fully justified to tear his way through the corruption and kick them out hard if not have them all on charges.

They are already trying to prepare for such a situation with Hunters plea deal trying to pardon him for all his crimes not just the one he was being charged with. Luckily it didnt seem to work.

TSMC and pals chip in for €10B German fab

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Hmm

Are there still people who think the UK should have done this too?

We need to be first on the Moon, uh, again, says NASA

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Hmm

And reading this I hear the theme tune to space 1999. However its probably useful that the previous president created the 'space force'.

Telecom giants dial up the heat on suppliers: It's not you, it's your CO2

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Erm

This is something to boast about? Ok. I hope the other 7% focus on delivering the service they provide.

Aspiration to deploy new UK nuclear reactor every year a 'wish', not a plan

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@Potemkine!

"Opposing nuclear and renewable energies is a mistake"

I agree. Thats why I didnt say renewables I said unreliables. Technology that works and is grid ready and economic makes sense and that is why green opposition to nuclear but support for wind/solar has made no sense and wasted a lot of resources. Imagine the money spent on deploying these unready technologies onto the grid going towards energy generation.

"They are complementary and both are required to get away from coil + oil + gas."

Unfortunately unreliables have caused the opposite. Germany and the UK falling back on coal and gas being a requirement to use unreliables on the grid. All of this is before the dream of electrifying everything which is going to require more actual energy generation.

Unfortunately the corner we back ourselves into is nuclear taking so long to deploy and not being cheap so we have to fall back on the old reliable.

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Re: Summary of the UK's future climate/energy strategy

@Dan 55

"It was because privately-run US passenger rail failed. All private train operating companies either ended up joining Amtrak or went bankrupt."

You are getting closer to the answer. Cmon keep going logically.

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Re: John Bull presents Little Englander Nuclear

@Phil O'Sophical

We are from the government and we are here to help

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Re: Summary of the UK's future climate/energy strategy

@blackcat

"In the US the original private investors were given HUGE land grants and other freebies along the route and made a mint from that."

That doesnt surprise me

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Re: Summary of the UK's future climate/energy strategy

@Dan 55

"Tell me more about private US passenger rail."

Why? I have already said something you cant seem to respond to.

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Re: Summary of the UK's future climate/energy strategy

@Dan 55

"They already tried that in the US and it didn't work."

How does it not work? Rail exists because of private investors creating it and deploying it.

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Re: Summary of the UK's future climate/energy strategy

@Dan 55

"Perhaps something as vital as rail infrastructure should be run by the government"

One of the most vital requirements for life is food. Why dont we privatise food? Growing, delivery, selling, processing, packing, etc? Because we dont want to starve to death.

"that way train companies wouldn't need to receive bailouts from the government, make only the minimum legal investment, and sell tickets at a higher price all just to make a profit to distribute to shareholders."

So why bother giving them money from government then? And why bother setting a minimum legal investment? Just let them sink as companies until someone buys it out and runs it effectively at a rational price.

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Re: Technical marvel, but it's the economics, stupid

@Headley_Grange

"People don't buy renewable energy because it's cheap, they buy it because they want to reduce the amount of CO2 that goes into the atmosphere."

Wish environmentalists especially in government would agree with that. Would be great to watch all these virtuous people actually pay for their expensive energy instead of forcing the rest of us to pay for it. Of course those virtuous people would be paying for the gas when unreliables dont supply enough.

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Re: Technical marvel, but it's the economics, stupid

@LogicGate

"May I suggest that you stop bombasting with the repeated use of "unreliables".. It is easier to have a discussion without name-calling."

Then what can I call the unreliables? When I am name calling I say they are monuments to a sky god in the hope that it farts and mirrors for a sky god in hope that it smiles down. That is the name calling piss taking of technology that is not mature enough to be deployed on the grid right now.

When I say unreliables I am differentiating between green, faux green and sky god stuff. Green tech includes things like geothermal and hydro and faux green being Drax wood chip burning. I used to say green tech meaning the useless monstrosities of the new religion but then people would bring up things like hydro (quite rightly) because I wasnt clear enough.

So in place of saying 'wind and solar' every time I say unreliables, which is accurate and honest and only upsets dreamers who dislike the fact. So what alternative but truthful word do you think I should change it to?

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Re: Technical marvel, but it's the economics, stupid

@LogicGate

"the nukes that codejunky insists on as being the only reliable option"

Just to correct, I dont insist nukes are the only reliable option. We have plenty of reliable generation methods but the deployable ones get blacklisted for the MMCC co2 theory reaction. We know how to create electricity by various means. We also know how to do so reliably. We also have people who have the believe that humanity must be destroyed, modernisation rejected, wealth a sin, and romanticises peasantry.

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Re: Technical marvel, but it's the economics, stupid

@Len

"The thing is that the fuel cost only plays a part role in the total cost of producing a MWh. Obviously fuel cost for wind and solar plants is zero per MWh whereas gas or uranium or coal cost money but the total cost of construction, operation, maintenance, decommissioning etc. is where the real expenditure lies."

Sounds like a lot of theory in the comment however in practice Germany has severe issues for applying unreliables and had to fall back on coal and nukes. France uses nukes and keeps the lights on for the surrounding countries that use unreliables.

It seems the push for unreliable energy and banning working forms of energy generation (fossil fuel) has backed everyone into a corner to suddenly accept nukes as the option that is left. Hell the only way to get monuments to a sky god in the UK was for government subsidy and abusing the market to favour unreliables and 25% of our energy bills went to subsidising the nonsense. The outcome was not falling energy prices. They went up.

And thats before the war which showed how little the unreliables matter because it sits on the availability of gas generation.

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Hmm

It is interesting to see the vast change from anti nuclear to pro nuclear in such a short time. Imagine if we had already moved onto nuclear instead of blowing money on unreliables. We could have seriously cheaper energy and be conducting R&D on new energy technologies if we wished.

Florida man accused of hoarding America's secrets faces fresh charges

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Re: You sure are preoccupied by Trump and Musk!

@DS999

"It was certainly proven that multiple people in Trump's orbit were working with Russia, they even convicted of it by a jury of their peers. And plenty of Russians were indicted for interference, but will of course never leave Russia so they won't be extradited to stand trial."

Are you going to try and claim the Steele report was true? You said he is committing high crimes and I pointed out that for all the desperate attempts to show that there doesnt seem to be facts to back the claim. Trump being so corrupt that a document had to be fabricated and against FBI procedure an investigation opened. You say other people may have been working with the Russians, but that is not Trump working with the Russians?

Compare that with the information (not fabricated dossier) coming out about the 'big guy' and his criminal son and where is the investigation?

"The obstruction of justice in hiding documents from a lawful subpeona is alone enough to put Trump deservedly in jail."

Obstruction? For the FBI raid they wanted the cameras off and no witnesses, lucky the cameras stayed on. And in the active investigation photo's of folders with classified markings (staged) are leaked to feed outrage. Is that not illegal?

"The thing is, your lot doesn't even believe he should stand trial and that it is all a witch hunt."

I have highlighted the important part you may wish to reflect on. Your tribal us and them, we do no wrong but they do perspective. To claim there is no witch hunt is to deny the obvious and blatant actions done in public. Imagine Trump did wrong and gets convicted for it, who is going to believe its true? A fake dossier, investigations that shouldnt have been started, security services interfering with social media platforms to promote lies, 2 desperate impeachments and continuous allegations even Alvin Bragg trying to create a case that he and others already deemed didnt exist, and so on.

The fact that there is a witch hunt creates a lot of noise of no substance. Remember the tax returns embarrassment for Rachel Maddow and many others that can be symbolised by the idiot on her knees screaming 'NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO'. That doesnt mean he shouldnt stand trial in a legitimate circumstance but so far we have seen so many desperate and power abusing attacks against him that maybe eventually there will be a luck of the draw jury to convict him regardless.

You even make it clear with your stupid claim of insurrection which has never added up with the facts. Like Trump or not should the state and legal system be used as a weapon like this? I say not. If that is 'my lot' and you are in the 'other lot' who thinks the state should be used that way then yes we are on different sides.

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Re: You sure are preoccupied by Trump and Musk!

@Jellied Eel

You will never get them to admit being wrong but reading your factual responses to the irrational 'typical answer LOL' comments put a smile on my face. Have a great day

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Re: You sure are preoccupied by Trump and Musk!

@DS999

"Nevermind that Trump is committing high crimes like espionage and insurrection"

Is he? I thought this was the claim yet to be proven. Kinda like the certainty of him working with Russia thanks to the Steele dossier. Your remember that damp squib? Or the 2 damp squib indictments. Remember this active investigation has already had leaked photo's of documents showing classified markings (isnt it illegal to leak this? Could even affect the ability to prosecute).

Of course it is inciting insurrection to tell people to protest peacefully. Just as a sealed building which can only be opened from the inside let people in and actively escorted people around. An unarmed woman was shot by the police and an investigation swiftly brushed under the carpet. Did they ever discover who placed pipe bombs? Or investigate the 'totally not FBI actors' who were caught out? So on so on. But at least the dem house put on a show kangaroo court for entertainment.

Like Trump or not the stinking desperate efforts to attack Trump should terrify any American. This can be done to anyone the state decides it doesnt like.

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Re: Big Sigh

@Mitoo Bobsworth

"Is this stupid game still going on?"

What does the democrats or established rulers have to oppose Trump? Ignore the republicans for the moment, what do the dems have? A sitting president who is a vast liability at best especially as his son is easily trashing the Biden reputation. So if not Biden who could the dems run? Anyone? Is there a single candidate anyone would want to vote for?

But the next best thing for the established rulers is a republican candidate, except none of them have the pull to win against Trump. He is vastly ahead in the polls and after many attempts to stop him running through legal means they can only go after his reputation. Except as with the impeachments there is a requirement to demonstrate he did wrong and sufficient enough for prosecution. As with the Alvin Bragg show, they have nothing so can only try to stretch Trumps resources and keep slinging mud.

I am not sure Trump would be allowed to win. Can you imagine the potential clean out of the corruption? The serious and vengeful removal of those who dedicated so much time and effort to attack Trump. But the weaponised state should not be cheered on by Americans, they should all be seriously concerned by this. Even if they hate Trump the fact that such blatant and obvious vilifying and attacks by the state could be used against any citizen should be scary as hell.

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Something doesnt add up

So Trump wanted a server wiping and couldnt have it done? Trump was unable to get the server wiped when Hillary could. I have an amount of disbelief that Hillary could achieve that yet Trump couldnt.

Has the reg been keeping up with a certain drug and firearm felon who has admitted to taking money from the Chinese (linked to the Chinese government)? Something directly refused by the current president back when debating with Trump? I hear the FBI are refusing to release any documents concerning the cocaine investigation they quickly concluded. Yet the J6 investigations are ongoing.

But yes you keep crying that Trump not only was president but is likely to be the Republican candidate as the clear front runner.

Wafer shipments still down, but chipmakers are looking up

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Hmm

And there is this push to throw money at fabs which will cause a glut if they come online. Again I am glad the UK did not join in the spaffing money at fabs.

GlobalFoundries claims German chip subsidies will 'distort competition'

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Re: Poor Me

@SundogUK

'The market' needs to be taught in schools. If only the teachers understood to teach it.

Germany raids climate piggy bank for €20B to bankroll chip fabs

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Re: Hmm

@AC

You paint a vivid picture there. The only problem is I am now hungry

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Hmm

The climate emergency involves producing chips. Who knew

Always on the Horizon, UK must wait for megabucks EU science deal

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Re: He's blaming rival Brexiteers, not

@AC

"Brexit has failed. Move on."

Such a stunning response of epic proportions and of course shows the extent of your wisdom. Dont hurt yourself trying to understand the sarcasm.

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Re: He's blaming rival Brexiteers, not

@AC

"To date, there has not been a single instance in which isolationist behaviour has actually benefitted a group, region or country other than for political machinations."

This is the perspective issue. Remainers argue leavers are isolationist. Leavers look to rejoin the rest of the world.

"The UK had the best of both worlds"..."It was a bloody good deal that many in the EU were rather envious of."

Another interpretation of this being that the EU was so wonderful, stunning and amazing that we in the UK refused to fully join it. The remainers panicking that leave would mean we never rejoin because we as a country would not agree to fully joining the EU. We saw this argument play out when people were absolutely gagging to be part of the Eurozone and we eurosceptics argued against it based on known economics and reality. I havnt heard the term eurosceptic in years as we were right.

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Re: Good old Brexit

@AC

Assuming you are the same AC as made that comment previously, this is actually in the right context of Roland6's comment. So yes.

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Re: Good old Brexit

@Roland6

"I had long been of the opinion the problems were more in Westminster than in Brussels and here is a clear example supporting that viewpoint."

I am pretty sure you would get a lot of people agreeing with that for varying reasons. Well said

'There has never been a realistic plan' for UK's £11B Emergency Services Network

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Re: Hmm

@Roland6

"The shame is we can be sure very little of the monies reach the pockets of ordinary people and so get spent in ways that benefit the broader UK economy."

Well said

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Hmm

Tax money wisely invested in the infrastructure of the future for the benefit of the population. And yes I was laughing as I wrote that

Time running out for crew of missing Titanic tourist submarine

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Re: Hmm

@Mooseman

"Er, this is the same as avoiding taxes how? I suspect most people use a window cleaner."

You really dont grasp what you read do you? I make a comment about people employing people and you ask if that means the employed avoid tax.

"And of course the concept of humour glides gently over your head. I should have known better."

Read what I just wrote above. It is really difficult to tell what is your humour and what you actually believe. Both seem as surreal as each other.

"No, you haven't highlighted anything of the sort"

The sections in bold. Sorry if you missed them (ffs).

"And you are a constant apologist for Trump, whether you admit it to yourself or not."

You are right because you are right because you cant think beyond that! Why do you bother typing when you argue with your own little world?

Tesla plots entry to Britain's stagnant energy market

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Re: If I win the lottery I'm escaping the stone age and buying a house with aircon.

@Binraider

"It's almost as though state ownership of this kind of stuff is a good idea... (If the state itself is competent)."

Unfortunately I dont think that option is available. The state for a couple of decades at least have funneled the money for energy into monuments to a sky god (unreliable and useless) instead of energy generation. Their policy for energy generation had been to not generate energy, not even close to competent. Finally public opinion on nukes are changing but for over a decade even I have been pointing out green madness doesnt lend itself to many other options and always had the usual opposing arguments.

The state doesnt really do much until its back is against the wall. Our energy predicament is due to the state so while state ownership might work in a hypothetical world it doesnt in the real world. It isnt just the UK in this position of course and Germany is the easiest to point at because they made themselves the poster boy for green. The profiteering is from the state picking winners and funneling our money while reducing our energy supply and energy security.

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Re: Reminds me of China

@David Hicklin

Thanks for posting but they dont care. Its one of my pet troll cowards that follows me like a stray dog begging for a scratch. If this topic came up in future and I said something similar they would post the same reply.

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Re: Reminds me of China

@blackcat

"Battery storage and pumped storage can overcome short term variability but there is no solution for the longer term variability such as very little sun during the winter."

We might be in for a bad winter too as the coal plants we have been relying on for the last few winters are not going to be available this winter. They are finally being closed down. I wonder how long until the green dream is dropped so we can actually keep the lights on.

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Meh

Wont this make people suffering green madness happy? Not the mud hutters but those who believe they are saving the world with this stuff?

Obscure internet boutique Amazon sues EU for calling it a Very Large Online Platform

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Re: Hmm

@jmch

"The major issues with regulators isn't that they aren't 'benevolent' ."

Pretty much my point. Either busybodies over-regulating because it gets them off, regulation made toothless (as you mention) or regulation made to stop the competition. We do need some regulation but trying to keep them from corruption or exuberance isnt something I have seen achieved

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Re: Hmm

@desht

"Came to see what ridiculous anti-EU bollox choadmonkey had to offer about this article."

Hope you enjoyed yourself for the moment before I burst your bubble. What anti-EU bollox? Sorry if it hurts your feewings that the EU isnt special here but I was talking about regulators and regulations. We have them here too.

"Wasn't disappointed!"

Remember to clean your keyboard before your mother visits the basement and looks at you in disgust

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Re: Hmm

@Dinanziame

"Do tell us"

Really? I didnt think it was controversial to not believe in the benevolent regulator. I do hope you are trolling

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Re: Hmm

@Ken G

Nice marketing speech but thats not really how it goes with regulation

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Re: Hmm

@AC

"I imagine that any technical victory would result in an update to the regulation with a more detailed definition of what a VLOP is."

Probably because regulators have to keep themselves busy somehow. There is some amusement watching regulators trip over their own regulation.

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Hmm

I would be surprised if they win but it would be really funny if Amazon does win this.

UK's proposed alt.GDPR will turn Britain into a 'test lab' for data harvesting

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Re: @Doctor Syntax

@GioCiampa

"We also voted for parties at a European level (back in the day)"

And nobody had any idea who anyone was bar Farage. That is how great we cared.

"and it is those very MEPs who approved von der Leyen's nomination (by 383 votes to 327)"

The only candidate? As we already discussed and so very different no matter how many times you say its the same.

"If anything, it could be argued that her election was more democratic (at that stage)"

No. How many people at all voted for Ursula as the EU system is a presidential one. The UK system is a party system and the UK voted for the party.

"Did I say I was happy with the process? No."

Thats ok we have left and so dont suffer under it anymore

"Are you calling one "good", and one "bad", when the process is essentially the same? Yes"

Except its not the same. Lets just install Farage and that would be the same. Not a party, not elected, just someone installed in the position.

Tech execs turn to drink and drugs as job losses mount

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Terrible

Is this the explanation for what happened in the white house with the white powder?

Brits negotiating draft deal to rejoin EU's $100B blockbuster science programme

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Re: Citation please ?

@Lars

"The EU is in that list referred to by Wikipedia. The British GDP (PPP) is apparently below the EU average."

Thats ok, wikipedia does have its inaccuracies so worth pointing out the fact that the EU isnt a country.

"I suggest you start to listen better to how your countrymen speak about Britain, there is a lot to be amused about at times"

Often enough it is putting the country down (in my experience). We like to moan about everything from the weather to the politicians and assume we have a terrible existence. Yet my stint living in Europe they were wanting to leave their country and saw the UK as a vast improvement.