And the NHS scores
again.
Keep it, it is good.
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it may be that they do not promise or propose to do things that are not yet well worked-out.
However in (deterrence of and actions a bit short of) war, building ships for the last war may not work well.
Huge doesn't seem to be the problem - "steel is cheap, and air is free" - but for warships, even rather large ones, making them smaller targets than they might be is probably beneficial.
The Labour voters were 2:1 in favour of remaining. How much more do you demand?
The Tory voters were 1:2 against - with the leader of their party telling them to vote for. You think the leader of the Opposition is going to influence that very much?
I was struck by the last effort to have us buy ID cards and be obliged to use them by one thing overall - that the government which proposed to require them would not accept them as ID or require that anyone else did.
(It was also notable that the thing didn't offer any prospect of doing anything else for the carrier - not an NHS card, not a driving licence, not an entry card to a workplace for a civil servant...)
I actually suggested a law was required first - that when an organisation requested ID, that if the subject presented a UK ID (card which had not been repudiated and looked like them) an offence would be committed by asking for any other form of or additional ID.
That would have granted convenience and usefulness to the holder.
No chance.
and agencies for the good of everyone?
So unfashionable now, alas.
Or if it were administered by competent and honest administrators.
Or perhaps even competent /or/ honest ones?
Better to export questions and gather answers, giving each citizen a monthly account of who asked what, under what power I'd pretext.
thus tending to change the pattern of purchase.
An option which would not be ridiculous would be:-
Press A to accept and complete installation of your pre installed bundled software or
Press B to permanently remove pre installed software, you will need an operating system.
Offering to generate a code to hold to demonstrate deletion would also be good for a consumer.
A long cable with clever hooks at each end and a central mass could be used to pick up such a glider, and by carefully choosing when to let go route it onward. Engines still required, but less mass.
For a fictional treatment see Neal Stephenson's Seveneves.