Re: "Saying if you don't want it on the internet, don't put it up there is too trite a response"
Franklin said it better "three people can keep a secret, if two of them are dead"
2000 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Jan 2016
Fiat currencies are a Ponzy scheme, they are only worth what you allow them to be.
The USD and GBP, along with BTC, ETH et. all are Fiat currencies
The pound left the gold standard in 1931 followed by the dollar in 1971 since then they have been fiat currencies
Geeley currently own
Volvo, Proton, Lotus, LEVC (maker of London taxis)
SAIC own MG and have joint ventures with:
Volkswagen Group and General Motors
Most of the major manufacturers have Joint ventures in China only Tesla has its own factory and Elon must be paying Xi for it.
SAIC, Dongfeng, FAW, Chabg'an, BYD, GAC, Geely, Brilliance and Chery all make cars to EU/US Spec
find a cold war history book written by someone without a bias towards one side or the other and I'll be surprised.
The Cold war was just that, both sides were on a war footing without any actual fighting.
Both sides rapidly developed technology and weapons that one-upped each other.
the latest MiGs and Sukhoi aircraft are a match for the frankly failed Raptor and Lightning.
Each side would convince you that they won the cold war, but to be fair the only ones who did were the arms dealers.
The Russians could always be guaranteed to do what was in their own interest, but Xi is a completely different animal, under his stewardship, the PRC have surpassed the Russians and his rhetoric is about as aggressive as you can get. I have no doubt that he means what he says and his actions bear that out. what was before him a semi-capitalist country, is rapidly returning to the hardline state control, and building up its military and industrial capability.
In the not too distant future, the western economies will be sidelined by the two behemoths from the east with populations over 1bn, China and India, that are both rapidly becoming skilled digital workforces and outputting superior products at a greater rate and lower cost.
not so much, NORDSTREAM, soon to be assisted by NORDSTREAM II allow the Gas money pipes from Europe to be kept flowing, plus the cutting of the pipes doesn't affect Russia much, but will affect the nations that Ukrainian hopes will be Allies, currently lying to the west.
the problem is it hasn't all happened yet ...
there are still parts of the transition working themselves out, and categories of goods that have yet to have full restrictions enforced.
The only way to keep the Good Friday Agreement Intact is for there not to be a border either in the Irish Sea (unionists hate this), or on the island of Ireland (Nationalists hate this) is for both The Republic of Ireland and the UK to have the same customs regime, this requires that both are either in the EU or Out. The Irish are not leaving.
If the UK want to go back, they have to follow the rules for non-members, Accept the Euro, be part of the Schengen area, have no active disputes with member nations (Gibraltar / NI,) Paying their fair share (No-rebate (was about 2/3rd of what we paid in,) Accepting the oversight of EU Institutions (ECJ,ECHR,etc) Be approved by the Council of the EU, Be approved by a majority vote of the European Parliament.
The deal we had as a legacy member was a lot sweeter.
I See your RFC and raise you an international treaty:
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Article 12:
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
all members of the UN are signatories, and this is a direct breach
you dont take home anywhere near double, if you read the rules right, and aren't being employed by someone who doesn't know the going rate, you end up with about the same money, a tonne of extra paperwork and a lot more flexibility in when and how you work.
To some people this is important, to others, they are happy being Employees, where their pension, holidays, transport, tax, NI, student loans, employers NI, etc. are all taken care of.
If you are outside IR35, you have no flexibility, no holidays, no pension, and you are basically left with the disadvantages of both situations.
Obscurity is the issue, IPv4 is Ubiquitous, IPv6 is niche, why go to the effort of scanning IPv6 space when there's plenty of low hanging fruit available on the easy to use v4 space.
It's the same reason there used not to be malware for mac, but as it became more prevalent, there is more profit in it.
v6 is just the DIAMETER to v4s RADIUS, both the first two are better protocols, but the second two are in use, people don't like change, and several features have been backported to make them last longer.
IPv4 addresses aren't exhausted, just their allocation is. a good 90% of them just aren't seen on the internet.
TBF if the internet core was run on v6 with BGP and everyone used NAT and RFC1918 addresses internally, there is no need for the added complexity of v6 inside an organisation
the NHS internally uses the RFC 1918 class A space and it hasn't exhausted it yet.
with proper use of NAT and CIDR and a re-allocation of unused addresses, v4 can last for a long while yet.
IMHO when they designed v6 they went overboard on the address space, there are enough v6 addresses for every atom of every person on earth to have 7
the problem is in Taiwan, the popular opinion is that maintaining the status quo is the preferred option, there are small factions that favour declaring independence from China, which has never actually been done, as well as a small faction for unification.
the middle group are roughly 70% of the population with 20% for independence and 10% for re-unification (if I remember the study correctly)
but the country it was on lease from wasn't the PRoC, it was the RoC.
its government was elected by the people, and made all domestic policy decisions, much like the other British overseas territories.
its foreign affairs were managed by the UK, and the transition and the 50years of continued democratic government, and one country two systems were part of the withdrawal agreement singed back in 1984 of all years...
only three years, I believe this would lead to compulsory re-education an appropriate public apology stating that Hong Kong and Tibet are peaceful parts of the greater China, the Uhgiars are not pressed, whoever the discovered members of the ETIM terrorist organisation are imprisoned and re-educated, allowed to re-pay their debt to the people by working with limited pay in other regions, and the CPC have a legitimate claim to the islands in the south china sea.
Or failing the willingness to make such a statement, "never be heard from again"
what it boils down to is the police services in England are so bound up in red tape and without the procurement support they need, the fact there is a national police computer is a miracle and their use of e-mail and some-what effectiveness against cyber-enabled crime a Herculean achievement.
Like it or not, he's telling the truth, the cost-benefit of speaking up has been weighed and come down on the side of Xi and the regime over the suppression of the Uighurs.
It comes across as heartless, and lacking in empathy, especially due to his "lived Experience" but however it appears, it is anything but clueless, it in effect states the obvious truth.
However, we may rage against the injustice and think of ourselves better than we are, there may be some bluster and words, or "Thoughts and Prayers" but nothing active will be done unless something drastically changes the cost-benefit.
The only thing I can think that might motivate the Western powers to Act is if MBS says Saudi will cut Oil production if they don't.
The CS Reliance is usually found fixing one of the cables in the highly congested areas of the Malaysia/Indonesia/Singapore waters. They are pretty much the best team for the job.
Can't help but suggest that a bit more resilience for Tonga is needed (in terms of subsea cables) linking it to Nuie and landing the non-Fiji leg of Southern Cross there too would have been a good plan or linking the far end of the domestic extension to American Samoa...
In My experience Parasol are one of the good guys.
I used them as My Brolly for donkeys (couldn't be bothered with the paperwork)
if they are having issues with paying you there is an issue with them getting paid.
At the end of the day, they can't pay you what they don't have...
Hopefully, they will get their systems back up and running and get something sorted, I hope my faith in the folks formerly from Warrington is not misplaced, if you are put into hardship sit on the chat all day, until they get their systems back up or send someone to camp outside their offices.
Like you, I have been following this from the start.
the crux of the matter is, were HP in possession of all the relevant evidence with which they needed to accurately evaluate the value of autonomy
If they weren't, did autonomy's management wilfully defraud them by providing incorrect evidence that it should be valued higher.
From my interpretation, Autonomy were bending some of the accounting rules, but they broke none. HP were in possession of all the facts and all the paperwork, they rushed the assessment of it through to get the transaction over the line and overvalued Autonomy.
Basically, Leo Apotheker screwed the pooch and got fired, and Mike went laughing all the way to the bank
something like this happened on the Tube...
Behind us in the train were a group of Germans conversion in their native tongue and discussing how great it was that no one else could understand a word they were saying, but they could easily understand the locals.
My little sister, having spent considerable time over the preceding years visiting in southern Germany, and not being of the sort to stay quiet when a conversation is to be had, stood up turned around and smiled, issuing in perfect german the phrase "Ich Verstehe"
queue the four young germans going red in the face, some awkward silence, followed by an interesting conversation about educational differences and the propensity for young English people to actually learn german, some ahead of french as was more traditional