Re: So much for the resilience of Stainless Steel - Re; 40% TAXES
Michelle Mone would be able to tell you where some went....
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Way back when I was a teenager I read a science fiction short story that used that exact idea; I can't remember the author, I thought it was Arthur C Clark but I've not been able to find it again. The story was from the viewpoint of somebody who was picked ot be the president of a governement that had been picked in that way.
The idea always Intrigued me.
It's not quite the same thing though; people do things online that they wouldn't dream of doing in real life, such as happily handing over bank details to a total stranger.
The TV show, Hustle stated "you can't con an honest person"; but some still think that something that looks too good to be true is, indeed, true; and get scammed.
This so much;
I fully understand that Esther Ghey is grieving, and what she's asking for is coming from that grief and from a lack of understanding of the technology she asking to be legislated against. And that lack of understanding shows the problem in her household; I suspect Briana was left pretty much alone with her phone. If the news reports I've read are correct, and that the dark net was accessed by at least one of the killers, as most of us will be aware, legislating against that would be like punching fog.
One more thing that she needs to consider at some point, is that those images that were seen on the dark net didn't create the sociopath, the killers were already those.
> I'm also uncomfortable with the Government rushing through special laws to address this. Why not just pardon everyone, have the Post Office repay all fines/clawbacks etc. and bring new prosecutions if appropriate. Not got the evidence to prosecute any more? Tough!
Apparently because they were legal prosecutions, the pardons/clearing names, has to be done through legal channels. Parliament cannot override judicial decisions, quite rightly, so has to enact a law in parliament to allow them to do that. But that is a very dodgy thing to give a government; the rights to override the judiciary is not something that should stay on the statute books and must be repealed once this one task is over.
Surely, what is ""what is the best" operating system is subjective?
For instance, my PC at home is used 98% of the time for gaming, therefore, in that instance "the best operating system" is Windows as it's more compatible, natively, with the majority of games.
On the other hand, my laptop is used for web, email, Youtube etc and that is running a version of Mint as that is "the best operating system" for that usage case.
I also have a Chromebook that also works in tablet mode, which I use if travelling and if I need a, rather large and cumbersome, tablet, and that is "the best operating system" for that usage case.
> I can make a numerical climate model in 15 minutes and it would be as good as any other one existing in being wrong. Numerical model is *not* science, it's an engineering tool.
You obviously couldn’t as you seem to have no idea about climate science, by your own admission.