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Data flows in a no-deal Brexit are a 'significant' concern – MPs

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Re: TL;DR

Only if we can harness all the hot air generated by the House of Commons.

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Re: Scaremongering

They may have the time, but they sure as shit do not have the ability.

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TL;DR

We're fucked.

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'Numpty new boy' lets the boss take fall for mailbox obliteration

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Re: 100% honesty 90% of the time

Probably too much paperwork involved.

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'Nun' drops goat head on pavement outside Cheltenham 'Spoons

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Maybe it's an advert for Goat Compare?

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Is the nun on the run now? Has anybody checked on the whereabouts of Robbie Coltrane and Eric Idle?

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SpaceX enjoys three whole seconds of fire and fury on Pad 39A

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That's more fire and fury than I can normally manage.

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Golly 4G whizz: Vodafone caught using Three UK's spectrum

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Gimp

Maybe the users liked being choked?

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Dixons Carphone still counting cost of miserly mobile phone sales

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Re: Why buy from them anyway?

O2 will drop the price automatically for their direct customers, CPW customers have to get the price dropped themselves (i.e. go SIM only).

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Re: Why buy from them anyway?

For phone+contract, yes.

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Starship bloopers: In touching tribute to Tesla shares, Musk proto-craft tumbles – as Bezos' Blue Origin rocket lifts off

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Re: Naming schemes

Nah, New Armstong is going to go around France really quickly and then get a lifetime ban.

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Oracle robbed just about anyone who wasn't a pasty white male of $400m, says Uncle Sam

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Re: Oracle are cunts

Also, water is wet etc.

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Intel applies hobnailed boot to countries where its men and women workers aren't paid the same

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I wonder if Oracle are taking note?

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Ever feel like all your prayers go unheard? The Catholic Church has an app for that

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Re: No point

So you're saying that God not only plays dice, he does it with a D20?

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Re: Wrong App?

I'm sure there's a missionary joke here somewhere.

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Re: Was it written in...

Oh bravo!

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Re: No point

Omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent.

Bad things still happen.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Re: Down with this sort of thing

Careful now.

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Stalk my pals on social media and you'll know that the next words out of my mouth will be banana hammock

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Black Helicopters

I've not had ads like that since the shut down started. The FBI guy on the other side of my webcam must be furloughed.

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Want to spin up Ubuntu VMs from Windows 10's command line, eh? We'll need to see a Multipass

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Re: Somebody had to...

None shall pass

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Clone your own Prince Phil, says eBay seller hawking debris left over from royal car crash

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Have you not seen King Ralph?

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He attended Dartmouth, so pretty sure his commission was earned.

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EU will have agreed a tech tax by March, says French finance minister

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I don't think this will cover all online purchases, just digital services.

So, buying a blu-ray from amazon won't be covered, but buying the film on their streaming service would be.

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Big Red's big pay gap: $13,000 gulf between male and female Oracle staffers – reports

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Re: All else being equal...

Because the people who decide to pay men more are also the people who do the hiring?

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The lighter side of HMRC: We want your money, but we also want to make you laugh

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Re: Can I blame my mother?

Would that make Mother's Day gifts claimable?

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Re: Tax humour

According to Jessie J, you can pay with love. Got me banned from M&S though.

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Re: If we taxed the rich properly

This is worth a read as well.

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Re: so what borderline things will you be claiming for this year?

Why not create a storage company with no actual storage and then contract to the government for Brexit?

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Microsoft's Master Chief calls time on Cortana as a standalone AI platform

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#RememberReach

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IBM to kill off Watson... Workspace from end of February

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Re: "...AI tool Watson Workspace..."

No shit.

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Headmaster

Re: Sametime viable ?

*an

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Re: @Jeffy "...AI tool Watson Workspace..."

Through early morning fog I see

Visions of the things to be

The pains that are withheld for me

I realize and I can see

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Friday fun fact: If Stegosauruses had space telescopes, they wouldn't have seen any rings around Saturn

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Uranus regularly emits jets of gas.

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Most munificent Apple killed itself with kindness. Oh. Really?

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Repair, re-use, recycle

Fitter, happier, more productive

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The Large Hadron Collider is small beer. Give us billions more for bigger kit, say boffins

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Re: Bigger than the SSC was going to be

How about just wrap one around the equator?

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Re: New name needed

Works best with magnetic anomalies in Tycho.

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Re: This sounds snarky, but it's not meant to.

Sharks with fricking lasers.

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China's really cotton'd on to this whole Moon exploration thing: First seed sprouts in lunar lander biosphere

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Re: Biologicals

I'm young enough to have done GCSEs, and we didn't do that (although we did turn mung beans upside down after they'd sprouted).

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Re: Biologicals

We've grown something in micro-gravity, we've not grown things in lunar-gravity.

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Breathe, breathe in the air

Don't be afraid to care

Leave but don't leave me

Look around, choose your own ground

For long you live and high you fly

And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry

And all your touch and all you see

Is all your life will ever be

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Outlook Mobile heads to the White House, passes infosec clearance for federal sector

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Re: Hamburgers

Just came here to post this.

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What's the fate of our Solar System? Boffins peer into giant crystal ball – ah, no, wait, that's our Sun in 10bn years

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Crystal Star?

Still a shit Expanded Universe book.

Mine's the one with the Thrawn trilogy in the pocket.

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If I could turn back time, I'd tell you to keep that old Radarange at home

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Isn't this how Seaton and Crane created Skylark?

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Just for EU, just for EU, just for EU: Forget about enforcing Right To Be Forgotten outside member states

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Re: EU being sensible again...

A wonderfully equivocal answer there Vince.

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Amazon exec tells UK peers: No, we don't want to be dominant. Also, we don't fancy being taxed on revenues

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Re: Tax allowance for costs is a grace

Also, it's not 20% of the sale price, it's 1/6th (or 16.66667%). Welcome to grown up maths.

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Thought Macbooks were expensive? Dell UK unveils the 7 meeeellion pound laptop

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Now let's talk about rust-proofing. These Colecos will rust up on you like *that*...[shut up Gil, close the deal, close the deal!].

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What happens when a Royal Navy warship sees a NATO task force headed straight for it? A crash course in Morse

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not just waiters for the upper class

I'm reliably informed by my father (former RN seamstress) that they fluff pillows as well.

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Border guards probe 'suspicious bulge' in man's trousers to find he's packing fluffies

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Re: Was the gentleman's name...

New keyboard please.

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Dutch boyband hopes to reverse Brexit through the power of music

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Re: One more thing

Surely at El Reg that should be "certain vultures"?

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A few reasons why cops didn't immediately shoot down London Gatwick airport drone menace

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Re: Flak

I'm sure the Imperial War Museum has a FlaK 36 kicking around somewhere, possibly a FlaK 40.

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