Posts by graeme leggett

Re: Soon now...

Cue Deep Purple.

Re: "as well as knuckleballs and sliders"

Perhaps Game of Thrones metaphors.

Jupiter throws out not only a 'Red Wedding' but a 'The Winds of Winter' as well....

The licence fee paid for it to be made and broadcast that time but not necessarily for it to be shown again.

A lot of old material was made with the expectation it would be shown once, and that was it. And the scriptwriters, producers, actors, etc were paid on that basis. With the introduction of VCR, DVD, and streaming the contracts have moved to reflect the new distribution and repeat showings but the old contracts are not necessarily retroactively changed.

See also

https://www.directors.uk.com/distribution/bbc-residuals

Re: £875 per household per year!

"I thought the North Pole was supposed to be ice-free in 2015? What happened?"

Go listen to the most recent More or Less broadcast on the BBC. Tim Harford will explain to you 1) what "ice free" actually means 2) how that claim for 2015 came to be reported 3) why it's all more complicated than that and 4) the effect of removing ice layer from the seas

Re: to be fair to Farthosts

were these 2003 systems that customers had specified when first putting their websites on Fasthosts but not updated? In which case the outage ought to be considered partly of the customers own making.

Re: My old teacher...

I'd like to be able to spend more than £5 on headphones/earphones - not for the sound quality but so they don't fall apart on me - but everything seems to be Chinese (other low cost economies are available) thin plastic and thinner cable and plugs which must have been fitted with blutack instead of solder.

Re: For the phone scammers ...

I do try the "are your parents proud of what you do?" angle

But I have such a strong fight-or-flight response* to these scam artists, that I can seldom enjoy trying to get one over on them.

*I guess it's because if I was in same room I would try and plant my fist in their face- for what little good that would do...

Re: Petty?

A hoover that used less power when it had less work to do is good idea.

Fits in with 'smart' dishwashers, washing machines etc.

Doesn't make it a defeat device as such.

Issue more that whereas vehicle testing has three or more cycles under test, this hoover test had only one - gentle drive round the block.

Re: Meh...

An earlier report suggested the lawyers would get a third of the $4 million.

Re: Remind me again what the ex-labour cabinet are doing now?

Perhaps that's why the Spartans had two kings...

....plus a massive subservient helot class

Re: Seems presumptuous to blame Le Pen personally

As the Roman said, 'cui bono'

In the Cold War, there was the allied Western Europe with US behind them. But that was balanced by a Warsaw Pact bloc which could trade within itself on USSR terms. And the Westen Europe became a trading bloc. Then the Eastern bloc dissolved and the Western allied group developed into an EU, and got bigger with several of the former Warsaw pact countries joining in.

The Russian sphere of influence into the rest of Europe has weakened. And if the EU is more distracted by its internal politics or even disorganized or diminished by members leaving, that would put Russia in a stronger political and hence trade position.

Re: AI In A Box = Box From Star Cops.

I see your Box but raise you with Blakes 7 episode Gambit wherein Robert Holmes (and let's face it, if anyone can, he could) comes up with Orac's previously unmentioned ability to reduce size.

Sufficient enough for Vila and Avon to take Orace with them into a space casino to cheat at cards, chess etc

Big fines make a good argument to all businesses that - faced with fines as large as these - it's worth taking on an employee or two in order to make sure that nothing like that happened thereby putting the whole business as risk.

And should a firm be reckless to ignore legislation of which it should be aware (Director's responsibilities etc.) then perhaps it does deserve to fail. Same as if it ignored fire safety legislation and it's warehouse burned to the ground.

Or in short form "pour encourager les autres"

"cognitive dissonance" perhaps?

"do as I say, not as I do".

Easily proven by his recent tweet history against a year or more ago.

I don't know if there's a corollary or law named after the phenomenon yet.

Re: This goes to show one thing

It's about the brexit mandate.

48/52 although a win for Brexit is a narrow win.

Getting a (eg) 60/40 split of the MPs in the Tory favour in Parliament can be called by May a "clear mandate" etc and she can ride over last years vote and claim that we're all for it. Rather than the actualite which would be more like a lot of voters were put off by Corbyn with the effect of diluting opposition to Tory voters.

Re: Gather Dust?

The MOAB is the spiritual successor to British Cookies if WWII. These were cans of explosive that did damage by blast.

The Massive Ordnance Penetrator is the successor to Grand Slam and Tallboy. Weapons designed to penetrate the ground, explode causing a underground hole into which the target falls.

Re: They walk amongst us

Let us consider the homeopathic practice of entirely bogus preventions in lieu of actual real-life vaccines and the likely outcomes of such practices.

And, as to "any proper homeopathic practitioner " "No worthwhile homeopath "

That is the No True Scotsman Fallacy.

Re: Oh wonderful

'greater foreign investment'

Business talk for 'your companies are being bought by foreign interests'

Brexit terror - gain "sovereignty" , lose control of economy

My apologies, the internet tells me they think it does have an iron nickel core but something caused the magnetic dynamo to stop turning.

Re: It'll be fine

And the delay was only from July to October 2016.

Re: Anyone else trip over that title?

I think it's because it's Monday.

I looked at the headline and was trying to convert it to metric.

More sleep required.

Re: Jumbo Harrier

given that RN carriers were shorter than the USN, you don't think more engine power was needed?

Re: true motivations...

The company can afford to be frugal with it's wages IF

1) it still ends up employing the right people for the work it's doing

2) the employees disposable income is greater than had they been living in the aforementioned Bay Area closet

Re: More research needed

At the very least to replicate results

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-39054778 "Most scientists 'can't replicate studies by their peers'"

Re: That's funny, isn't this the same as how the stock market works?

" you can claim that you were just following the tip advice in your own paper and have the columnists wot wrote it sent down instead of you."

And then try a career on TV. Possibly in America. Or the UK.

Re: "When did that ever stop a government?"

The 'employed' include those who get only SSP at £88 per week (tax and NI will be deducted). After 4 days absence.

Re: "We need to promote women disproportionately, pay them equally or better..."

As fullfact summarize it

"The gender pay gap is 9.4% per hour for full time employees in the UK, or £1.30 per hour. It isn’t true just for part-time work or every individual age group, and the size of the gap varies across different types of job."

https://fullfact.org/economy/UK_gender_pay_gap/