Posts by Dave 15

Re: Bugger

I would have thought trivial to test.

I would also have suggested that it is a stupid requirement. Sensibly designed I refuse to believe that a restarting a train would cause electrocution for anyone on board however damaged individual components are... if you can show that some damage could lead to a short from power to the passengers and from via them to earth I think you need to have a little redesign of the hardware not some horrendous and ill conceived software hack.

Leaving passengers stranded for hours is not a good idea. Recently had the same problem on a German train - the overhead wire came down - after 4 hours the emergency lighting had failed, eventually rescue involved several firecrews with torches and flood lights, a spare train, stopping all other lines nearby - total palava. It somehow reminds me a few years ago that it required Tornado... a new steam engine... to travel around Kent rescuing new fangled electric trains from the snow.

as I recollect

Blank 5.25" had a cut out ready in hem (regardless of the 'size') and a pack of little silver tabs to cover he whole when you wanted to write protect it.

The 3.5" had a sliding plastic clip which covered a hole or not (as I recollect covered meant you could write it, removing the plastic slider was supposed to make it permanently read only), again I dont recollect this read only hole having anything at all to do with capacity switching

nah...

I had a posh screen, could have, orange or green... by a button on the vdu

tapes, discs... luxury

compared to toggling in from a front panel

Tape??

Mag tape, or punched paper??? :)

Re: House of Commons

Or tax them if the poor do one ... after all a fart contains methane, very bad for the environment

Re: "Outside the digital world, none of us would accept the proposition that"

Point is this allows them to do this to every household every day. Worse is that the mechanism will be the equivalent to leaving your doors and windows open, a cup of tea and instructions for the thief to where everything valuable is.

Usual I'll thought through crap from stupid idiot law makers. Why the he'll do people give these morons any power or responsibility?

Re: "Outside the digital world, none of us would accept the proposition that"

But if they went battering everyone door down every day and went through your underwear people would not accept that. Having a backdoor or front door in security means they can do the equivalent, and just as smashing everyone's door down they render everyone vulnerable to criminals

Re: When to move abroad

And just today the financial Times is reporting yet more calls for a common European budget. Remainers, you lost because the lies of 1975 are exposed, the United States of Europe and the demise of the UK and guaranteed if we remain. Note when we do that the eu want private health care like they have in Germany so the nh will also go - probably bough by one of the very expensive highly profitable German health insurance companies. As with all purchases of British companies by European ones this will mean redundancies and jobs moving abroad

Re: When to move abroad

The election went exactly as may planned it. Look at every announcement she made during the may focussed campaign, it was deliberately a plan to lose, or at least nearly lose the election. From that no conservative majority therefore no chance of pursuing brexit. She then spent 3 years creating a bring with the devastating side effects of giving the EU even more than if we had stayed at the same time getting even less. Indeed Johnson's current problems are a result of her election so she has managed to screw the next pm as well as the while damned country

Re: When to move abroad

Actually the professionals have been screwed by the eu as well, it's just most of them are thicker than pigshit and can't understand.. Frankly the remainers really should look into facts rather than carry on unabated drivel. The only ones who have benefited in any meaningful way are the very rich who own the companies taking cheap foreign labour and backhand for locating new factories in Slovenia and poland

Re: Brexit bollocks

The issue of health insurance is interesting. The Germans already have private health insurance, the EU like to copy Germany so are likely to be already working on such instructions (after all it fits nicely with their competition narrative). The EU also want a trade deal with the USA, they are not above deciding to do one and perhaps in so doing leaving the EU health service open to USA competition. Once they do this (probably with UK civil servants approval because they are on back handers) it will be the EU that is to blame for it in the eyes of our politicians and media so once again our guys will be able to duck censure for it. IF bojo et al head down the route of selling out the nhs to the usa in a post brexit Britain they will be the ones doing the damage and likely destroying their electoral chances. If I read our power grabbing politicians right losing the next election will be so unpallateable that the nhs will remain safe if we are out. Might seem a bit odd for remainers but I think out the nhs is safer.

Before someone mentions chlorinated chicken, what you buy is up to you, but chicken washed in tap water isnt bad, and we drink chlorinated water, swim in it, bath (or shower) in it... I havent died of it yet though I am sure it would be possible if you crank the concentration high enough. On the other hand we have been subjected to German pork raised indoors in pens they cant turn around in and slaughtered by a knife in the guts and bleeding out on the concrete slatted pen they lived out their miserable battery farmed lives in full view of their neighbours who are about to receive the same knife. And the horrors of Polish and German raised beef and milk products extracted from cows kept in battery farms, frankly all of that is a whole lot less palatable. The EU also insist on animals being transported to slaughter houses instead of being swiftly disposed of in the field they lived in etc. as we used to do.

Re: Brexit bollocks

Clearly you need to get your brain installed and stop reading the BBC.

1) The areas that voted out are among those that have been hit worst by membership and the associated diabolical implementation of EU rules by our low intelligent and disasterous civil servants egged on by the even less desirable and effective politicians (of all political persuations)

2) Leaving is not a left/right divide, it is a divide between those who can think, can read history, can look at the disaster of the last 40 years and understand its causes and the remainers who just lap up the bbc bollox about 'Cambridge voted to stay and has lots of degrees so it follows the intelligent vote to stay... only it doesnt follow at all, it follows only that in Cambridge a disproportionate number of people are rich enough to have had their degrees oaid for by daddy and want to be able to go to their French villa).

3) Its partly not an excuse, but it has to be said that the real problem about benefit bums is the benefit system. If a benefit bum gets off their backside and goes and helps farmer bill with the harvest it will take months to get the benefits reinstated while farmer bill pays totally shite wages because of all the polish that will pick the harvest for peanuts. Fix the real problem, a civil service designed benefit system whose major design criteria was creating more civil service jobs in the department (see yes minister for more examples)

4) most of pension age have some pension provision so are actually pretty unlikely to be affected. If the economy does indeed tank (and there are good explanations why it shouldnt but possibly will - all revolving around poor management, poor civil service planning and piss poor mps) the ones that will be hurt most are the usual middle class suspects trying to earn a living, seeing wages continue to stagnate and taxes rise. As you can tell from the ever shrinking armed forces, ever raising taxes and the falling wages of the last 40 years this wont really be any different to the situation we voted to get out of.

5) No one reads the daily mail, anyone stupid enough to buy a tabloid only does it for the cartoons... used to be page 3, but thats gone

6) Will Labour be any better? I hope not, perhaps if both parties are destroyed some people might stop voting the way they vote because they always have and their parents did etc etc which is the mess that leads to stupid voters, poor mps, fraud, cheating, appaling laws created by wedges of cash in back pockets (all of our laws for the last 60 or more years) and the we dont give a damn about you voters attitude. So ripping parties apart is a very good and much over due outcome

7) We might lose one of the more amusing politicians, though like losing any of our current politicians (indeed I think any politician I have heard about in 40 years or more), losing bojo will have bugger all effect on the mess the country is in - as yes minister and yes prime minister demonstrate fully, the civil service run the country not our lazy pathetic politicians

8) Who? Thought he had already gone.

Your last comment really is stupid. There is nothing to keep you in the UK, if you think that Spain for example is so much more of a success then you can live there. If you are already abroad then I expect I understand your stupidity and arrogance, you are probably hoping no other country has the guts to say no to the EUs united states of europe pretentions.

On a more practical note there is no reason for the economy to tank.

Decide what are strategic industries... aerospace, vehicle manufacturing (cars, vans,lorries), railway equipment and infrastructure manufacturing, ships, tank, guns, bombs etc. electronics (including silicon), food, mining, energy and a few others, protect with large tariff barriers and invest in them from a government fund, and most importantly buy from them (no more bmw police cars). This will allow them to create the new plant, new machinery, new jobs that we need to compete. For strategic industry overcome tariff barriers to the EU (the only new ones anyway) by adjusting tax rates for export goods.

They want the data, the data is about criminals (or should be)

The US will easily justify access to the data, data on many criminals and all those fingerprints, faces etc etc (much of it of course illegally held but the police have a habit of holding on to data even when told to get rid of it)

The US will just say that it is possible that one of those people might be tied up with a crime in the US and they will gain access.

Even better for the CIA etc. given that they have acceess to the data they can ensure any data about their people in the UK mysteriously disappears or gets altered a little

er... integrity... police....

Doesnt belong in the same sentance to be honest

'Bent copper'.... harder to find a straight one, they are more than a bit like politicians..