Posts by The Axe

Should've added "because the previous people who ran the business didn't think to have a dev environment".

Re: "an emergency response and would be unwound"

Income tax was brought int as an emergency measure during the Napoleonic wars in the early 1800s. When that came to end in 1815 there were many petitions to repeal it and it was abolished in 1816. However it was re-introduced in 1842 as a temporary measure to allow for import/export duties to be cut. Now look where we are with income tax. It's grown and grown and grown.

Re: Charges?

"failing to "Repect mah authoritah!" is an altogether more serious matter."

This is the key thing about this case.

Re: Bring manglement to book

"DFS can't pursue a criminal prosecution against you, only a civil case"

Nope. Anyone (including businesses) can open up a criminal prosecution. Has been done a number of times. Not often as not necessary. Once the criminal case has started the CPS will usually try to take over. DFS is unlikely to need to pursue a criminal case since they will just leave it to the police and CPS to handle.

One case I can remember involved a police constable who head butted a driver in a road rage incident and then arresting the driver he assaulted and the constable claimed that he was the victim of an assault. Unfortunately the assault had been recorded on video. Police however refused to charge the constable. So the victim with some help opened a criminal case against the constable for the assault and false arrest. CPS took over. Victim won. The constable lost his job and was convicted. He also had to pay £20k in compensation after a further civil claim for damages. Look up the case of PC Mark Knights

Re: So what happened to this freedom of speech thing then?

Free speech doesn't mean without consequences. It means the state can't punish you but it doesn't mean that other people can't punish you.

Re: Worth noting the dates

DC had a few fires. But Seattle and Portland have been systematically destroyed.

Re: Judge on results, not appearances

Not sure about the teacher/person of the night case, but the Blackbelt Barrister is a real barrister and has a successful YouTube channel. As for the surgeon and Twitch/Twatter there are loads of them on Twitter.

I do shopping lists by noting how many items are needed. That ensures I haven't forgotten anything.

Re: What a surprise....

"Space," [the Hitchhiker's Guide] says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.

Re: Does as I say, not as I do

It also tells us that you don't know anything about free speech. It doesn't stop you from the consequences of your speech. Only that the government can't jail or punish you for it. Other people will disagree with you, sometimes very strongly.

Re: Not too bad/onerous

Yep. I got that impression from watching the livestream too. Basically just puts what SpaceX is mostly doing onto a legal basis so that SpaceX can't stop doing it. Not that they were going to.

Tom7, you think the same way as I do.

You mean the existing owners of Twitter?

Re: Does it work economically

If you thought helicopter operations are expensive, wait till you see the cost marine operations.

Re: PC

I've actually seen that. A letter stapled to a 5 1/2" disk. Thankfully at the corner of the disk so no damage. Was in the late 80s.

And you can create threads which are multiple tweets of upto 280 characters each.

@Tom7 - There has already been a solar flare which caused a number of Starlink's to not reach their proper orbit and to fall back to earth.

The Conservatives of 19841 weren't the party of low taxation. That's a modern tag line.

Re: Coming soon to a car in your driveway

Already on your driveway if you have a Tesla.

Push v pull

Just seen a YouTube video from Wendover Productions where it was explained that it comes down to push versus pull supply logistics. The Russians do everything from central and it's pushed out from there. The Yanks do everything from the front and it's pulled from there. Like everything Socialist, it's all planned from the central top place. So they plan all the logistics and ship out the supplies even if it's not actually wanted because of local conditions. The Yanks do the opposite and ship logistics and supplies depending on actual need and demand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4wRdoWpw0w

Re: Still reinventing the wheel from scratch

Alternatively, all councils should use the same business processes. They all do the same job. Then get one specification that any supplier can use. And then it can be shared between councils thereby cutting costs.

Re: "I haven't posted anything yet," she replies. "We had lunch instead"

There is a hashtag named PINAC (Photography Is Not A Crime) where people take pictures and get hassled by cops and security and random people. They usually get labelled as weirdos. Taking pictures of interesting this isn't weird. But taking pictures of food you are about to eat is most definitely weird.

Re: Finally.

"Honestly, I'm just very puzzled that the airline industry and the FAA waited until the 11th hour"

You're assuming that because the FAA is some government organisation it is super efficient. In reality most government organisations are run by incompetents and staffed by those with minimal ability to do their job.

Re: Supporting a boom in the small satellite market

And India

Re: Why tech for a billboard anyway?

Paper billboards bork too. Have you never seen a billboard with the poster peeling off?

Re: YouTube Stunt

Link worked for me.

Re: "It ain't what you don't know that gets you in trouble..."

So you read through 100 comments and didn't bother to use Google (other search engines exist).