Posts by graeme leggett 2469 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Oct 2007
"though those are drops in the ocean compared to the sums handed over to the BBC"
Sky (Europe wide - 21 million subscribers) revenue £10 billion or so
BBC ( UK pop ) £6 billion, including £1 billion from commercial activities (BBC Worldwide)
ITV plc (ditto) £3 billion
CH4 corporation £1 billion
Computing devices of all kinds have their weak points - in some cases lots of them - despite the manufacturers trying to squash them. There are people whose job it is to find those weak spots.
As a result, those people (employed by your government) with a desire to subvert a particular computing device probably have some technique at their fingertips to do so.
caveat
In some cases those people are on your side and subverting someone else's device is in your interest. In some cases they are on your side and it's not in your interest
In some cases they are not on your side and it is in your interest
In some cases they are not on your side and it's definitely not in your interest.
Isn't life complex
well, so far Norfolk County Council have held onto their "Norse Group" and are running joint enterprises with Barnsley, Devon, Enfield, Medway and other councils outside their East Anglian heartland. I suppose it depends on how much money they make - "too much" and someone will want to make an offer the councils can't refuse (and then gouge them afterwards) , a massive loss and even the most fiendish of asset strippers wouldn't touch them.
"how many British passport holders would actually pass the £180-a-go English tests"
All the ones who have a GCSE, or equivalent, don't have to.
(added)
The CEFRL that TfL references requires
Can understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc.
Can deal with most situations likely to arise while travelling in an area where the language is spoken.
Can produce simple connected text on topics that are familiar or of personal interest.
Can describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes and ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans.
From the petition by Caroline Lévesque-Bartlett
"It doesn't have to be this way:
- Canada, United States, Australia, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, Monaco and Spain don't have TV licence fees. Presumably its national TV is paid by taxes, in which case it's paid proportionally to each individual's income. "
Anyone who can't be arsed to research how these countries finance public broadcasting (even if they have to look it up on Wikipedia) and doesn't offer a solution is wasting our time.
She also seems to be suggesting that instead of those who watch paying, that everyone pays via taxation by the government. But in an earlier paragraph to the petition she says "The nature of the licence fee as a tax could lead to the BBC being manipulated by the government in power with the threat of withholding funds if information damaging to that government was made public" which is contradictory.
(post posting edit: near simultaneous posting to the other response but looking at it, Allan Dyer explained it better)
Alternative line of enquiry.
the bacteria that resistant to hard radiation are resistant due to a evolutionary development to a non-radiation challenge but that is a mechanism that is also radiation resistant.
Low quality analogy - a tank offers protection from x-rays to it's occupants but it's x-ray resistance is a result of defence against pointy metal objects not alien tripods and their terrifying 'heat rays'
Does a cubesat need a _controlled_ re-entry. If it dips back into the atmosphere there aren't going to be any pieces worth worrying about reaching aircraft flight levels or the ground, surely?
If I've misunderstood the risk, my apologies - I've only skimmed "DIY Satellite Platforms" (O'Reilly) since picking it up in Humble Bundle.
Looking over Rosling's TED presentations, while the bubbles added some extra information but the key information that he was talking about was the X and Y positions. eg education of woman and family size, or life expectancy and number of children.
The actual bubble size helped to pick China or India out of the other similarly coloured bubbles, but it never detracted from his key points about development of countries.
Wikipedia don't employ the likes of Katie Hopkins (do look up here work if you've not read any of it before, it's an experience) nor Sarah (Mrs Michael Gove) Vine neither.
To return to main thrust of article though, my reading of Wikipedia discussion is that DM should not be used when there are better sources and to be treated with caution when it is the only source. The latter chiefly happening when celebrity news is involved and Wikipedia is mindful of not publishing libel. Which is where DM has had problems - and we are back to K Hopkins again (full apology, £150,000 damages).
Pharma is very globally thinking. If anyone was already exporting (and importing) outside the EU and single market they are one industry that would be. But would also see themselves harmonised with the major markets- no bonfire of red tape there.
eg this statement from ABPI "In important areas such as medicines regulation, we believe negotiating cooperation and ALIGNMENT with the European Medicines Agency is a win-win for the UK and EU, and is the best way of ensuring patients continue to benefit from the very latest clinical developments and innovative treatments" (my emphasis)
apparently that extra washed out light grey on white background for Google maps is deliberate and not a fault of my monitor.
Personally speaking, I'd have the person who approved that change shot for crimes as map-making and pour encourage les autres
HERE know how to show a map.
And come over as a bit of a diva in front of the till assistant (and the CCTV) ?
They don't care if you take it or not, same as if you don't buy slightly-cheaper-than-normal-but-probably-more-expensive-than-the-supermarket sweet offer in WHSmiths.
If you take it and shred it, cover a homeless person with it, or use it for toilet paper it'll probably count as a 'sale' for circulation somewhere. And your own pleasure at the act is likely fleeting. If it stays on the counter then, and enough stay there, then perhaps Shell would think it not worth bothering with.
If the sugar trade becomes free-er, as Tate and Lyle (a US-owned importer of sugar from cane to refine) would like then the price of sugar (which people keep telling us we should cut back on) should drop.
And removal of the quota system means
1) EU and world oversupply can be sold into UK
2) no guaranteed amount to be grown for British farmers - currently 50% of British "need"
Which probably means a severe drop in beet grown, and/or the price farmers get. The biggest - probably those in East Anglia and Lincoln - survive, rest have to forgo. That takes out a root crop from British farm rotation schemes.
So do we subsidise sugar beet growing, or do we encourage (subsidize) an alternative root crop?
It gets 'better'.
"To be more transparent with the American people... make publicly available within 180 days, and every 180 days thereafter:
(i) ...the number of foreign nationals in the United States who have been charged with terrorism-related offenses while in the United States; convicted of terrorism-related offenses while in the United States; or removed from the United States based on terrorism-related activity, affiliation, or material support to a terrorism-related organization...
(ii) information regarding the number of foreign nationals in the United States who have been radicalized after entry into the United States and engaged in terrorism-related acts...
(iii) information regarding the number and types of acts of gender-based violence against women, including honor killings, in the United States by foreign nationals..."
Now what use is 6-month data to public, save to whip up anti-foreigner feeling
You need
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/27/executive-order-protecting-nation-foreign-terrorist-entry-united-states
"To temporarily reduce investigative burdens on relevant agencies during the review period ......I hereby proclaim that the immigrant and nonimmigrant entry into the United States of aliens from countries referred to in section 217(a)(12) of the INA, 8 U.S.C. 1187(a)(12), would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, and I hereby suspend entry into the United States, as immigrants and nonimmigrants, of such persons for 90 days from the date of this order [list of exclusions follows]"
And "The Secretary of State shall suspend the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) for 120 days"
And "hereby proclaim that the entry of nationals of Syria as refugees is detrimental to the interests of the United States and thus suspend any such entry until such time "
The door opening direction was due to other concerns. If the Apollo capsule had sunk upon splashdown the crew would not have been able to get out.
The "Liberty Bell" Mercury capsule had sank when the door jettisoned. The astronaut on that occasion was Grissom.
Don't worry about the paperwork - embrace the opportunity. With all of our foreign trade needing customs paperwork after we exit Single Market there will be upswing in employment prospects for those high paid form filling jobs.
MGBGA ! hmm, doesn't slip off the tongue like the Trump slogan. Just sounds like a 1960s sports car. Another great British industry crushed by jackboots of EU etc etc (that was sarcasm by the way)
"Iplayer should simply make available everything the BBC has broadcast, ever, forever"
Presumes the BBC had the rights to do unlimited showings in the first place, and that rights didn't revert to writers, production companies etc.
Also look up repeat fees and residuals as payments that might (they may have resolved the issue recently) have to be paid out for showings.
Many publications have advanced their position on Section 40.
My own local paper, part of a large regional empire, did so through its associated website. It's opinion (that it was a dark day for press etc) was challenged through the comments section to the webpage There were references to performance of certain tabloids. How the publishing group was presenting section 40. How IPSO wasn't working.
The comments section then got removed. I'm glad the Register does engage with its readership.
Indeed, to quote from them.
"The Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) is a specialist national police unit dedicated to protecting the UK industries that produce legitimate, high quality, physical goods and online and digital content from intellectual property crime.
The unit is operationally independent and launched in September 2013 with £2.56million funding from the Intellectual Property Office (IPO)...
... and is based within the Economic Crime Directorate of the City of London Police, the National Lead Force for Fraud"
In that normally a précis of someone's life is too few words to do anything more than sketch out the edges and major features.
I'll just nick something from Donne
"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind"
And say that by knowing more of the man, the diminishing feels more
Uber could have played it as a PR piece 'hey, you've heard bad things about us and regulations. <sad face> Trust us were regular kind of guys <insincere smile>. Now while we don't think the law requires us to have a permit we believe in working with local authorities <ignores dumbstruck look from journalists > so we'll get one so that we can continue without interruption to develop our paradigm and bring you ever cheaper rides, free energy, etc etc, ....'
Cue smoozing with politicos and mingling with hacks around free bar.
Trebles all round!
"If they were lukewarm about it, why take it to the Supreme Court"
Because if they royal prerogative is found to have limits, it might turn out those limits restrict more than just how Article 50 is instigated - the powers of ministers might be curtailed in other areas.
that's one straightforward reason, there could be multiple devious political reasons as well
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