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Gonna be so cool when we finally get into space, float among the stars, work out every day, inject testosterone...

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Missing test

Why did they not give one group the chance to lie around in bed with testosterone injections... or were they worried about the build up of one muscle at the expense of others?

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It's official! The Register is fake news… according to .uk overlord Nominet. Just a few problems with that claim, though

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Re: The problem with "fake news"...

It wont be a Scottish independence referendum, SNP are not looking for independence, they just hate the English (feeling is often mutual I expect). Sturgeon already wants to bend over and let Scotland take it again from the EU (or should we say Scotlands old buddies the French with their new German allies).

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Re: The problem with "fake news"...

The BBC is one big fake news site.

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UK's internet registry prepares a £100m windfall for its board members – and everyone else will pay for it

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What do you expect

HMG involved so of course a bunch of otherwise useless fat cats getting fatter

Simple to stop, stop the idea of registering on behalf of someone else. You have to register on your own, its hardly difficult.

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We'll hack back at Russians, declare UK ministers in cyber-Blitz blitz

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Re: Improve our security first

Now now, if the citizens improved their security then HMG and the yanks wouldnt be able to spy on them

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Sending in the fleet...

Both rowing boats or just one at a time?

The target practice ships have no aircraft since the moronic idiots inHMG scrapped the Harriers and bought the 'it might fly one day honest guv' F35s ... not that even if they do fly we could still use them, after all the servicing needs to be done in Italy and Turkey

And then the anal accountants wouldnt allow us to have any bullets or missiles on any of the ships either as they cost money

Top that off with any sailor stupid enough to try and fight being locked up for it and I think the Russians stand a very large chance of more injury from laughing

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I would rather hear

How we are going to tell the UN very impolitely to take its recent Chagos Islands vote

We PAID for the islands now we are told to give it back... its like going into Tesco, paying for a loaf of bread and the copper outside saying you have to put it bback on the shelf

Stuff them frankly, withdraw foreign aid from every country that voted in favour of this, ban all imports from them as well.

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British Army cyber 'n' psyops unit 77 Brigade can't even brainwash civvies into helping it meet recruitment targets

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Join the army?

And get sent to a war zone having never fired a gun for real

If you get lucky and a ricochet or similar grazes someones arm find yourself in court 20 years later

Notice it is ok for the supposed bad guy to be shooting and bombing you but a trip to court if you fight back

See the incompetance of those above you and realise why we came so close to losing so many wars and wonder what luck it took to win

Top this up by the continual cutting of the armed forces by the government who wants to spend all our money on German cars, Spanish tanks, American planes, Italian servicing for the planes, Turkish scrap yards for our ships, Chinese steel.....

Then wonder whether it was worth it.

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UK is 'not a surveillance state' insists minister defending police face recog tech

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Re: IR iirc... oh no, we are all in trouble

According to UK government recent new laws we can all be thrown in clink for looking at info on the internet that might potentially aid terrorists. Given that blanking out CCTV cameras obviously falls into that category now we have read your post we are all guilty and ready to be dragged away and subjected to the full rubber glove treatment.

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basically because

They are too lazy.

My son was attacked in daylight near home, after sorting an ambulance I phoned the police, they were too busy right up until I said I would go and deal with it where upon 2 cars with 4 police were suddenly available.

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Thats not all that contradictory

The police manage to put up millions of spy cameras and then claim they are not on, are not working properly, are unable to identify perpetrators. Why are the police spending millions of my pounds on crap that doesnt work.... or are they downright lying about them not working? Given the police are massively lazy about actually investigating any crime I suspect they are downright lying about how ineffective these cameras are.

So I conclude they are effective and are spying on us but dont want us to know which makes it even more suspicious. Do I trust our police? Not a chance, you only have to look at the number of times they have been caught lying and killing innocent people.

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Re: Yes it effing is!

Canvas and convince enough people and you keep your deposit so gamble on yourself.

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Re: Yes it effing is!

Which elections in which constituency? I have not seen any elections yet where you only get the three choices, if there is why not put your own name forward and stand as an independent, its not difficult to do so and I even have.

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Re: GDPR?

No, it wont get worse or better. What it will mean is that HMG cant blame the EU and therefore when the idiot voters that keep putting Labout and Conservative parties in power see that those parties are full of idiots like May and Matt Hancock what to stick their ignorant 2 pennorth in and make life worse for us all, lying as they also do all the time, maybe, just maybe, those ignorant voters will put their mark elsewhere on the ballot paper (I honestly dont hold out much hope of this, my mum makes decisions based on whether the party leaders suit fits!)

But hey ho, Brexit wont make a squat with this (unfortunately)

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We could all turn into muslims and

Probably politically incorrect but we could go around with a full face veil, a large shapeless dress/cover whatever the women call it. Its good enough to prevent men letching after them and also good enough to get around the cameras

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Re: 100 per cent false positive rate

One which mobile phone manufactures have fixed already, you can find your friends in photos already. Its not actually that difficult

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We have been for years now and its getting more intrusive

I think it is true if you look at any state, the more the gulf between the tiny % at the very top of assets and the rest of us grows the more they feel the need to monitor the plebs and to stamp hard on any uprising that threatens their lavish and unwarranted lifestyle. I know the Notre Dam thing in France was bad (how come the idiots restoring these places dont have fire extinquishers on site... did they not learn from Windsor) but to find the very very very rich able to just dig into their pockets for billions to rebuild it while there are people relying on foodbanks, living outside under cardboard or in 3rd world countries starving to death has to be disgusting and the only way to support this is a police state to keep us in our place.

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New UK counter-terror laws come into force today – watch those clicks, people. You see, terrorist propag... NOOO! Alexa ignore us!

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Re: "reasonable excuse defence"

er... and this is a terrorism related offence, so you will be taken away, held without charge for as long as they want, out of communication with anyone including lawyers and family. You expect a fair trial... not on your life.

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Re: It's funny

Educating themselves???? Wow, that would mean avoiding day time tv and checking some facts. However the SAME governments have presided over an education system that is determined to provide obedient citizens (even as the BBC reported if that means putting kids into solitary confinement without even access to help from their parents.... https://www.bbc.com/news/education-47898657)

And further the SAME governments who are now censoring the internet (in case its child porn or terrorism)

And the SAME governments who broadcast propoganda via the likes of the BBC

And the SAME governments who dont want to educated kids on using the internet but rathre ban them from using certain features (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47933521) in case it might possibly in an extraordinary circumstance be 'dangerous'.

These same governments are getting very rich from the backhanders that go with letting the CEO of Centrica get a 44% pay rise for sacking a pile of workers, falling profits on indifferent revenue while not even doign what the electorate asked them (whether or not you think leaving was right they certainly havent done it have they????)

In short democracy has failed dismally and I guess the real issue they are now worrying about is the plebs rising up against them, nothing to do with Islam, far right or any such thing, just that the oppressed masses are a dangerously large number to the point 0.01% that are benefitting from HMG and similar governments behaviours.

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Re: Oh Christchurch

Clueless idiots... sums up our MPs very well.

Apart from the obvious... they know exactly how to play any system to pocket as much money as possible, pass blame for everything stupid to someone else, award themselves payrises while getting rid of responsibility and power to the EU and generally to stick two fingers up at the hard workers of the UK who are the ones who end up paying through the nose for all of this.

Why the hell do we vote any of the ****'s in ever???

I reckon we should just stay at home next election and not bother, they do what the hell they want anyway so they can sort their own selves out. Not worth payign tax to them either

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Rust never sleeps: C++-alike language tops Stack Overflow survey for fourth year in a row

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Re: Not only normal meetings...

Korea might have been a better cultural example than Japan but the issue is that many people will not actually turn around and say what they are struggling with until there is a meeting OR some other method. One thing I have seen work well is breakout activities from lego or mechano building to table football etc. This does 2 things, for the person stuck it frees them from the screen to think, often there will be another person stuck and explaining to each other often helps to put the thoughts together. Whiteboards are also very important, drawing things helps clarify. Acting things out also works. especially for c++ object stuff or systems with many processors can also actually help. All of these means you need space to do it, people willing to try it and equipment.

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Python is not a language

Its a contortionist mess. Its taught in schools because those who can are doing, those who cant are mucking around with something no sane person would use

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Re: Not only normal meetings...

Because I would want to understand why everyone is working on exactly the same crap everyday and apparently making zero progress.

There are ways of making these standups productive and to be honest in many scenarios they are not needed and I would ditch them in those cases.

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Overhyped 5G is being 'rushed', Britain's top comms boffin reckons

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Coverage

You said 2g had poor speech quality but at least it had speech. 3g and 4g over vast tracts of the UK have no coverage. They used to publish coverage but don't anymore as they are so terrible

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We'll help you get your next fix... maybe, we'll think about it, says FTC: 'Right to repair' mulled

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Worse

Worse yet these restrictive practices are also used on cars, vans, lorries. Increasingly units will only 'talks' to components they 'know abouts' so changing a broken fuel pump yourself is impossible on some vehicles already. The garage can but as we know only for a few years from new and at a cost designed to make you buy a new vehicle

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Band banned, Tarka arrives on Windows 10 and Visual Studio hits RC status

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Band or desktop windows is getting unusable

Too slow, too processor hungry, unresponsive even when it is working and blue screen of death far too frequently. Frankly a crock and getting worse with every downgrade imposed by Microsoft.

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Germany has a problem with the entire point of Amazon's daft Dash buttons – and bans them

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er... so

So Amazon sells a consumer the ability to 'buy a button' that might get you the product you think it is at the price you think it is? And people fall for it? Mad, totally mad. It should be banned everywhere. It would be interesting to set it up with visa and then complain to visa you didnt get what you expected.

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Q. How exactly do you test car seats? A. With this sweaty 'robutt' that twerks for days and days

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sweat...water?

er, most peoples sweat contains a lot more than water.

Mind you, the whole discussion would be a great advert for someone selling replacement car seats (not just covers) for the buyers of second hand cars. Maybe I will try setting something up

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Is Google purposefully breaking Microsoft, Apple browsers on its websites? Some insiders are confident it is

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fault tolerance

Would be good if people created browsers that coped with malformed or even plain incorrect html as some is still hand edited.

However Microsoft complaining about anything after inflicting windows 10 on people is rich.

I have a windows 10 box, it spends ALL its time with the processor flat out at 100% because it includes the idle task in the %use. Even if you discount that it is running at 90´+% and is less responsive than a dead parrot.

Worse even when you have the patience to endure an entire dinner while it gets itself ready you will find skype has decided it cant make a call because it has no internet despite the internet icon saying internet is present and browsers managing to get live pages. The only option is to use task manager (another long long long pause while it uses the availalbe 0.000001% of the processor left to start as it appears to have no priority) and kill the whole skype process tree. Even then it appears you sometimes have to sleep and wake the machine again.

Frankly those in Microsoft responsible for the releases of the last 5 years should be given a one way ticket to the sun, they are genuinely not fit to scrup the shit out of a dogs toilet.

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A Christmas classic: Cloudera founder asks staff to stay another day

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take the job

Never sit and hope, really, such a stupid idea to ask people to remain. As usual the good guys will be the first to secure new positions.

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The fastest, most secure browser? Microsoft Edge apparently

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Cookies

And when the hell are the EU going to step in and sort the fucking mess their cookie legislation has caused? Huge numbers of pages when visited put a damned great splash screen over their whole content demanding you accept all cookies because they are all essential to the experience.

The EU law should insist that the webpage displays all content regardless of cookies and you should have to opt in to cookies from an option taking up less than 1% of the screen real estate.

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fastest???

To be honest I cant see how anyone can claim edge is fastest, It so rarely gets to the point of a finished page before I have spun up and used chrome to get to the finished page that edge is only ever used by accident.

Edge like windows 10 is a slow as hell crock of shit

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Microsoft promises a fix for Windows 10 zip file woes. In November

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Re: how is MS warning users?

But I expect this years car to be better than last years.

Mind I am disappointed in this as well

My wifes car is a lot newer, I cant change the headlamp bulb without disassembling half of the under bonnet (one side you have to remove the entire air filter, the other side the entire battery and battery compartment... these are of course preferable to the manufacturers instruction that involves removing the front wheels to remove the front bumper to remove the entire headlamp unit, which in turn relies on getting the headlamps realigned afterwards as the bottom bolt locates in a slot). Now compare that to my car from 1987 which when you opened the bonnet had a little under bonnet light so you you could see the plastic shell on the back of the headlamp that you twisted off with your hand that allowed direct access to the bulb). Or even the headlamps on my old Morris Minor that did require one screw on the chrome bezel to be removed but other than that no further effort - not even opening the bonnet.

Not that the old days were perfect for cars, they did have some issues, but the more the designers 'progress' the worse the products are getting. Maybe its the designers, maybe the accountants or maybe the quality folk who should just say the product is shit, or maybe its all of them because none are trained properly by an apprenticeship scheme

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some options

They could consider putting a UI on grep and the ability to just do a dir *.txt /s via a pretty UI... the current windows search is frankly crap and I do not know how it was ever possible to make either of the above commands as slow as windows has managed.... for heavens sake if you have done some indexing thats usually supposed to improve speed, windows indexing appears to make for a very very very very slow search after it has spent literally months tossing around indexing.

Really MS go and learn how to code, get rid of the shit, stop arsing around with c# and do it properly. Go back and look at OSs like CPM (where dos came from), dos, drdos (like dos but ran where it was not from a copy), nucleus or dare I say it linux (not a linux fan if I am honest)... then learn that windows is a crock of shit and you need to write a proper os

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Grumbling about wobbly Windows 10? Microsoft can't hear you over the clanging cash register

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While on the subject

Stupidly nudged some of the cables hanging out of the side of my HP laptop, must have touched the stupid little docking station crap they supplied, blue screen of death, ages waiting for it to offload the problem report (probably including masses of sensitive info, but you cant stop it any more), then it forced yet another downgrade on me (sorry, MS claims an upgrade to fix a bug or more), then I had to reset credential guard again, then reboot again... so a whole hour and a half wasted... and that is without actually losing any of my typing.

Not sure who is to blame, MS or HP or both, probably both. HP of course just say I should upgrade the bios (their stock answer for everything) and have no feedback forum unless you 'create an accout' and 'sign in'. These mega corps (MS and HP) love to hide behind such techniques so they can claim no problems reported

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Re: Conditioning.

Getting to the point that the frequency with which the software department here resets my machine dumping yet more MS patches on it is really going to give me a heart attack, particularly as I have to reboot twice because I need to switch the credential guard off to run the unix virtual machine... argh

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Re: Conditioning.

Friend of mine had an apple, used to work in a windows VM on the apple. The real pisser was that when my high powered windows machine crashed it took ages to get it working, when the VM crashed his apple pretending to be a windows machine booted far quicker

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Github

Was a nice product, then so was skype.... given Microsofts track record what are the chances of github functioning in a year? I would say none at all

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Worrying Windows 10 wrecking-ball weapon weirdly wanders wildly on worldwide web

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oh God

Another update coming, my creaking and groaning machine will slow down even more. It already takes so long to boot that I not only get a cup of tea but lunch as well. My little take on trip laptop can manage 1 application at a time without running out of memory, is perpetually showing 100% processor use while doing no more than sitting idle with a browser open

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Ex spy bosses: Cyber-warfare needs rules of engagement for nations to promptly ignore

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simple

Dont connect your critical infrastructure and control systems to the internet. There really is no need. IF (and its a big if) you think you need to have centralised control (for someone to bomb) or communications (for someone to cut) between the power stations, fuel pumps, water gates or whatever it is then put some armoured cables buried deep underground in place.. it can be done, sure we did it before

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Oz opposition backs the 'regulatory hallucinogen' of anti-piracy laws

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aw bless

Finding excuses to control and censor the internet is a sure fire way of ensuring that democracy thrives. Wait until next month and they will be censoring for fake news as well just like us.

You know what, perhaps it is time for a global revoluition and just shoot these people

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EU wants one phone plug to rule them all. But we've got a better idea.

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Once upon a time

Once upon a time there was Nokia, they made and sold so many phones you were never far from someone who would lend you a charger... shame thats changed.

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HTTPS crypto-shame: TV Licensing website pulled offline

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Re: TV licensing agency

Actually you need the licence to watch ANY broadcast.. including nonBBC, amazing but true... even includes your satellite viewing.

It will be worse, in Germany you need a TV licence for a radio or the internet. In fact they even managed to take a guy to court despite he lived in the woods with no electric.

But you are right the TV licence people dont use a detector van any more, they just send a letter a week to any address with no licence and a thug a month.

'can I come in and check...' NO... another visit, the court, the police, and ... oh but you haven't a tv followed by a carry on of the pre discovery carry on.. they dont even give up if you die

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scrap tv licence

Simplest answer

The BBC is just the governments propaganda machine anyway. Fund from general taxation and cut all the costs out straight off. They have a list of all the houses in the UK without a licence and bombard you with letters and visits demanding that YOU prove to them you dont need a licence with very threatening letters. Frankly better off without any of it.

BBC can be funded by either:

a) general taxation

b) pay per view/subscription like sky

c) advertising

d) selling their 'wonderful' programs (mmm... teletubbies, total crud, perhaps by having to sell the programs they might just decide to make programs worth the effort????)

The tv licence model is broken, out of date and ridiculous, like most other government taxation.

Long over due to move to a single tax and single benefit system so we can really understand just how much we are being screwed by the government of the day.

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Cookie clutter: Chrome saves Google cookies from cookie jar purges

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come now

By the time Microsoft has sent your data to the Americans, that porn virus has copied it to everyone else, what the browser does is a bit of a waste. If you think that your android or apple are any better I wouldnt put a penny on it. Heaven only knows what goes on in the code of linux either... yeah, we may know about the kernel but what about the other stuff wrapped up in that distribution or the apps you need

Governments dont want the plebs to get together and find out how much the rich are getting richer and more powerful while the plebs are shafted, after all its the rich that fund them

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Bombing raids during WWII sent out shockwaves powerful enough to alter the Earth's ionosphere

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Re: Ten Ton Tess

Not judging by Sues needs and the ghostly gold tops

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Re: Other explosives

With the large raids it wasnt over a few minutes more like an hour or so

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Re: Approx

The Americans got the size of the gallon wrong not us, so its miles per gallon not miles per mistake

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Re: Approx

1000 what? 1000 multiples of a lump of metal in Paris... who cares, give me proper measurements

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Creaky systems 'cost lives': Health secretary Matt Hancock pledges to solve NHS IT woes

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Plonker

He has to be one of the biggest wastes of space in government

An online booking system will save lives? Rot, having doctors receptionists actually answer their phones might.

I guess this will be yet another NHS project outsourced to a French company at £1500 per engineer per day, they will pay a bunch in Bangalore £10 a month, fail to deliver and we will then pay them another few million to cancel the waste of time. You can guarantee what the government will NOT do is actually spend a few of those quid on some software engineers and managers in the UK cutting our unemployment.

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