Re: wine predictions
It was sold as being simplified, but it's being complicated...
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It was sold as being simplified, but it's being complicated...
a hammer I keep hitting him with
Snort. Yes. Shame it's a Fisher Price "my first toolkit" hammer.
And as for the joint procurement, I made no other comment other than it was open to as many EU countries who wanted it, including the UK as well as it was still in the transitional period. No country was forced to do anything it didn't want.
Also didnt the UK get a great supply of ventilators very quickly?
No, it got ventilators made by people who didn't know how to make them which weren't suitable for the job.
The inside story of the UK's NHS coronavirus ventilator challenge
Britain’s top diplomat: UK opt out of EU ventilator scheme was ‘political’
Are you just Dan 55 but dont want to seem really dumb?
No, I'm the one who's as dumb as a bag of spanners, the AC is someone else.
None of these things you mentioned were in the Vote Leave manifesto so I guess you're looking for good news where you can find it, but let's have a look closer.
For example if you were in the UK you were probably offered vaccination before member countries abandoned the collective procurement. ROI only able to watch as NI (under UK law) had vaccine.
The UK could have shared with Ireland, but decided not to, nor will it, because it still doesn't have its whole adult population vaccinated.
The choice of collective procurement was up to each individual country, and the UK also had that choice. It decided not to take it. It funded the AZ vaccine, rolled it out, but is now is falling down the chart and not getting on with double vaccinating the whole population above 11.
And the covid bailout fund where the EU issues debt in the name of member countries directly at great expense that we are not part of.
If the ECB didn't do anything you'd be saying the EU doesn't take care of its own so... meh. Where's the UK Covid recovery fund BTW?
And the global financial centre of Europe which is only second in the world to New York is removing regulations designed to shackle it by the EU, while the EU has again backed down on trying to move Euro clearing out of the UK (for fear of going broke).
The plug was never going to be pulled on this overnight, but Amsterdam has overtaken London for stock trading and Euronext will ditch London for clearing by 2024. The EU also granted equivalence to the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
The EU started with the position that FoM is intrinsic to bring part of the single market. It still is.
The UK chose to leave the SM (May's Lancaster House red line speech), negotiated that, hence no FoM.
The EBA agreement never meant African states joining the SM, hence no FoM.
I fail to see what the problem is, other than you've confused FTAs with the SM.
You're a bit confused, the EU has got a FTA with the UK without FoM. This is what it looks like. If you wanted an even freer trade agreement then that's called staying inside the EU.
The EBA agreement with Africa is in no way like trading inside the single market/customs union, there are still border formalities, just like there are with the EEA/Switzerland, with Canada, and with the UK.
I voted in full knowledge it risked an entire decade of economy harm, because I wasn't voting on economic grounds. The economic impact since has been broadly minimal, entirely swamped and overwhelmed by the pandemic.
Only the ONS estimated the damage by Brexit at twice the damage of the pandemic.
It's hilarious, you can say what the UK has lost and will continue to lose over the next decade, but you still can't say what the UK has gained, because it hasn't gained anything, nor will it.
I must have played Batman, Head over Heals, and Match Day II for years, they were that good. Batman and HoH were much more playable than than the Ultimate isometric games and Match Day II was only finally beaten by Sensible Soccer.
It's supposed to stand for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport.
And chips are digital, innit?
"The difference being that unlike Singleton's ZX Spectrum game, you can read about what Elite did on the Elite Wiki and then study the source code to see how David Braben and Ian Bell achieved it."
There is the source code for the DOS remake available and you can read the blog by Chris Wild. Until recently there was a mobile version but the toolchain which was used to compile the game was retired which means that the game is unavailable while it's being re-written, as not keeping it up to date with the latest and greatest Android and iOS causes support issues.
Have a look at this article, including the embedded twitter thread for a few reasons as to why the UK's service stations are so poor.
Also, given the total shit show HGV drivers are forced to endure in the UK with the total lack of facilities, it could be a real winner here and will go some way to improve the working conditions of HGV drivers?
It's easy to improve the working conditions of HGV drivers, the British government just doesn't want to.
Windows a can sync to generic provider but the UI doesn't let you.
However you can set up an iCloud account (doesn't have to really exist) then edit it.
So people are driven to the big providers that Windows 10 officially supports because of a brain-dead UI. I'll leave you to decide whether or not it's by accident or design.
How does it work if you're just feeding it an HDMI connection from a vermin media tivo box?
Thanks to the magic of Automatic Content Recognition where the TV uploads information about enough pixels from each frame so the programme you're watching can be identified by the mothership.
I think the reasons for dropping XUL were Mozilla let it rot. Mozilla didn't produce much XUL documentation and barely any for XULRunner. In turn people had difficulty using XUL and XULRunner, and those small developer numbers self-justified Mozilla's lack of interest in promoting its own project.
Waterfox Classic is based on FF56, just before Quantum. They're updating it but it's having trouble with more websites now, e.g. IBMs. But I'm in no doubt that Mozilla could have kept XUL and XULRunner going as well if a small team, a one-man band during some periods, have kept Waterfox Classic going.
Mozilla spend time cutting features and futzing about with the UI in their flagship project and don't support other projects properly - FirefoxOS for phones has turned into KaiOS and FirefoxOS for TVs is being maintained by Panasonic, so they were viable projects. The fact that there are still features to cut in Firefox shows how powerful it was.
How about the one where you're in a non-group chat with one other person and you share a file, and somehow they don't permission to access it.
Why on earth would you need to bother with file permissions in a two-person chat?
So you have to share the file and then find where it is buried in sharepoint and manually change the permissions so the person you're chatting to has access. Gaaaah.
Oh christ, the search. Three years I've been using this crap (i.e. forced to use this crap) and it's still as bad as the first day. You need to know there and then that you'll need to refer back to whatever it is and copy it out into something else because you're not going to find it later in Teams, they might as well be more honest and disable the search option to adjust user expectations from the outset.
Around the early to mid 90's there was a management mind set change and almost immediately it was clear we were "downgraded" in their eyes. Made to re-apply for our jobs and the ensuing pay cuts that generated and then the gradual slide as we were seen to be fungible units.
But then Y2K came along and we were needed again. Almost at the same time there was the dot-com bubble which I guess wasn't needed but that was fun for a while. After that IT became disposable again.
Now we are needed again so make hay while you can because management never forgives and never forgets.
The sheer tragedy of this: a man with more money than he knows what to do with and who could buy any experience he wants on Earth or beyond, holed up inside a sprawling mansion and wearing VR goggles after his website has had untold effects on democracies, scheming how to help us escape the society he dragged his car keys along for more than a decade.
Brilliant.
Although at this stage it's more like an angle grinder.
I see delusions of Empire 2.0 are still going strong, where Ireland is unified but back under English rule, as it should be? It's a shame the current "direction of travel" for the UK is towards breaking up.
They were never going to admit that they were planning to throw Ireland under the bus until they actually did it.
Did I miss the news? As far as I know they haven't done it.
But if it was the single market or Ireland, than it was Ireland that would be sacrificed.
If the EU has not sacrificed Ireland for the single market up until now, they're not going to. The single market is something which all EU countries are members of.
And the day after:
EU shoots down suggestion Ireland could be shut out of single market
An Irish government source dismissed the report as “not true at all” while it was dismissed by an EU official as a “load of s***e”
Theresa May's "backstop" would have kept the whole UK in the customs union, leaving it unable to negotiate any trade deals by itself
This is not true, the "alternative arrangements", once agreed, could bring the UK or just GB out of the single market, the SPS area, and/or the customs union.
Divergence hasn't happened yet, that's the whole problem.
But it's not a bug, the frontstop is working as designed. Talk to the negotiator if you've got any complaints.