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Gerry died due to complications with Crohn's disease on December 9, 2018 while travelling in India, where he was opening an orphanage to provide a home and safe refuge for children in need.
Gerry cared deeply about honesty and transparency–values he lived by in both his professional and personal life.
Sounds like a combination of Reginald Perrin and Bernie Madoff with a drizzle of Fagin.
Following my recent, incredibly successful testimony in front of Justice Hildyard may I remind all staff that when testifying in court you must use the phrase "shit storm" as often as possible in conjunction with "Autonomy".
Meg Whitman, CEO and Head of Under-Bus Chucking at HPE
Talking of HELL, This just reeks of the Immortal Souls Division in Good Omens, or:
Crowley had been extremely impressed with the warranties offered by the computer industry, and had in fact sent a bundle Below to the department that drew up the Immortal Soul agreements, with a yellow memo form attached just saying: 'Learn, guys...”
My understanding from a friend who practices criminal law is that it is about saving a considerable sum of money each day by not transporting a large number of remanded individuals from Holloway (North London) or Belmarsh (South East London) to the main Westminster magistrates courts and then having to transport them all back again at the end of the day.
Does that make Sajid Javid "the Hood"?
I think we should be told if our UK Home Secretary is an arch villain, let alone someone else's puppet.
Actually what tends to happen now is that larger enterprises create their own in-house contractor agency, then "employ" contractors via that mechanism and pay the referring external agency a monthly commission via normal invoice.
Currently on a 12 month contract via exactly that method. No IR35 but far as everyone is concerned it is still a normal external contractor relationship.
Oh there are far more to come yet.
Such as closure of regional probate registries with the intent to move them to one single centre and remove the human aspect completely, which fails when you realise that the vast majority of probate documentation has not actually been digitised yet. But never mind, probate fees are set to escalate from the current £155 to over £6000 in order to pay for this.
By the way, Carillion's contract to arrest anyone who fails to pay a HMCTS imposed fine (valued at over £300m annually) has still not found anyone stupid enough to take on the contract.
Recall several games of ‘pass the hot potato’ over silliness such as Harry experienced.
“Would you ask the minister to open Word/Outlook/IE etc and tell me what the error is?”
“No, he does not feel comfortable doing that and he wants someone to come here and sort it out for him right now”
“But it’s the middle of the night here. Just tell him to restart his laptop”
“How does he do that?”
[sound of phone being put down]
Perhaps they could add an Alexa push button to the cockpit, for those little things like new paint job, some more ammunition (always presuming that the RAF still has a gun on the aircraft) or more fuel perhaps?
They could even have "You just ordered more Sidewinder missiles, did you know that if you order another batch now we will throw in a free Nespresso machine with that order?"
∆ beat me to it
Liam Maxwell ... joined AWS in a senior role in October 2018
Alex Holmes ... was hired by AWS to work in its global public sector division
Labour's Rebecca Long-Bailey, Shadow Business Secretary ..."We will clamp down on tax avoidance and evasion" etc etc
Sounds like someone is angling for a job at AWS, no doubt as "Senior Advisor to the Tax Transparency and Enforcement Programme"
Also,
We have asked Facebook for comment and will update this story if it gets back to us. The issue is due in court for an initial scheduling session on September 9. ®
Perhaps I might suggest an alternative,
We have asked Facebook for comment but unfortunately they are not able to discuss this, or any other matter, until Mark Zuckerberg has appeared at a House Oversight Panel to explain his company's actions and complete yet another apology tour..
Quite. If this is all the games he has ever developed then, quite frankly, he should have the original masters backed up elsewhere. Even BitBucket or GitLab would be a start.
Having someone complain about lack of backup in this day and age really just shows their (lack of) aptitude IMO.
At FCO there was one chap who was a very senior member of the Queen's Messengers (diplomatic couriers, of which there are only around 25 or so). He had travelled to just about every war zone on the planet, including delivering to the UK mission in Saigon during the evacuation, helping to evacuate our embassy in Tehran upon Khomeini's return, being held in Kuwait upon Iraq's invasion and countless other conflicts. We always used to consult with him before travelling to any suspect countries as he always seemed to know which ones to avoid .. even several weeks in advance of a coup.
Arrived in Lagos in August 1993 to carry out network support, 2 hours before there was the coup that put Abacha into power. Not any explosions as I recall but I did see someone being executed by firing squad.
Arrived in Bangkok morning of 19th September 2006 to solve router problems, just as there was a coup. Had the new router smashed by a Thai squaddie, but not many explosions on that trip.
Had to fix a domain server in Washington DC on 4th July once - plenty of explosions.
I have been at Nice airport with a rather good bottle of Rosé when the French security refused to allow me to take the bottle on board. Not only did we get through the whole bottle but we also offered other passengers a drink. Just as I passed through security I could see security staff sitting at their desks helping themselves to everyone else's confiscated wine.
The Pound Shop Hitlers will find other even nastier reasons for you to empty out your laptop bag, confiscate liquids or make you remove various items of clothing, shoes etc.
I had this about 3 weeks ago when I had to dash from LHR T5 underground up the escalators and managed to get through the security gate just within the 30 minute departures lockdown. Various assorted PSH staff made me undergo the full scan, checked every single item in my bag ("Are you sure that this USB stick does not contain liquids or perhaps a hidden blade Sir?"), had laptop repeatedly scanned ("Just in case of hidden explosives Sir") and so on.
The reason? "You looked very stressed Sir. Very common that is with terrorists, we see it all the time". Can't possibly have been because I had just practically sprinted up 4 long escalators and across the terminal?
They just have to show that they can put the connection in place "as quickly as possible". In Civil Service Quantumspeak that means:
"It is necessary to consider all the ramifications of extending the current network to include your village. In such a case we must investigate the genuine need for residents to want to download at speeds of or greater than 10Mbps where they should only need to access a recipe, check the weather or use the National Lottery. Accordingly we will allocate a network surveyor to check the area in order to access the requirements of local residents and we should be able to report back as soon as is possible .. in 2025"
"Ultrafast Broadband": "So long as you don't mind us calling 6mbps 'ultrafast' "
"4G": "So long as only a couple of people are accessing the service from that cell"
"5G": "We are still waiting to see if it is ok to use Huawei"
Still, Trebles all round!
“any breach of security or loss of integrity that has a significant impact on a trust service provided or on the personal data maintained therein.”
While it is correct that you do not need to report every single data breach to the ICO, you must report any GDPR breach involving personal data, under Article 33. In this case another party was able to access private user data (their "rewards") and thus clearly constitutes a GDPR breach.
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