Re: Not a flight risk?
"The guy has his own intercontinental capable airliner.".
So lets hope he takes off never to return - "Russia, if you hear me".
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@heyrick
That was a bit odd, as you probably think that the other side, the government, is run by just one party like in Britain, but that is hardly ever the case, if actually ever as governments are run by coalitions. A president is supposed to leave party policy behind and some succeed better and some perhaps not that well.
And there are different presidential systems too.
Many old kingdoms in Europe like for instance Denmark, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands and Belgium have managed to keep their monarchs and still produce democratic coalition governments of many parties.
The king is not the main problem with British democracy.
@Peter2
Who do you claim has "done a copy and paste of the rest of our constitutional arrangements", (voluntarily) and how has that turned out.
The simple fact is that a two party system with a only one party government is outdated undemocratic and one of the main reasons to your problems.
Having the same one party in power for 13 years alone* is just insane and probably not once representing the majority of the population, so what you get is indeed what you deserve.
An other stark problem among too many is an inbuilt assumption that you represent the golden standard, or how Nick Clegg so eloquently put it many many years ago about some of his countrymen - "... a misplaced sense of superiority, sustained by delusions of grandeur and a tenacious obsession with the last war..".
If you are unable to spot or admit a problem you will not be able to mend it either.
*except for the chaos.
What about Mick Lynch, one of the few intelligent voices coming out of Britain lately.
But king or president is not what would helped the British problem.
To get to the problem you have to fix the parliamentary system and your educational system
and perhaps some more.
@R Soul
No such agreements were available for Britain with the demands Britain had.
Some yes, like Horizon but Boris didn't want that, nor the agreement with France on returning refugees to France.
May did have some more intelligence and realism but was down voted as I am sure you know.
Remember "no cherry picking".
The brexit most Brits voted for did not exist.
A few things worth to remember about EU standards is that they are minimum standards required within the EU.
The EU will not demand higher standards than the 27 can deliver, that would be stupid.
So when a Brit claims Britain has a higher standard than the EU standard it only means the British standard is higher than the lowest allowed.
It could be higher than what the 27 have, but it could also be lower than what all the 27 have.
It doesn't really mean much anything of what people try to claim it means.
The EU is not a country.
British food standards, for instance, are good but they are not the highest in the "EU" and most EU countries most likely have a higher standard than the minimum.
@AC
Regarding "Can't be trusted any more."
It's not about trust it's about control because those laws with such and such many days to stay have to be documented. If a Brit travels to the USA it's the same thing or when an American enters Britain or the EU.
People who take that personally are snowflakes indeed. (whatever it means).
@Disgusted Of Tunbridge Wells
Even just France and Ireland together are bigger trading partners than the USA, not to mention the EU combined of course.
Germany's is not China (4) but the United States.
I suppose you are honest and just ill informed or lazy.
https://www.worldstopexports.com/germanys-top-import-partners/
"then the EU ordered them to leave."
To be a bit honest, the EU countries suggested Brits apply for citizenship, some have, or stay according to the rules, that is to go home in between visiting the countries like other people also from outside the EU.
Nothing surprising there and some countries apply slightly different rules, like for instance Portugal I think.
Any idiot, even a brexiteer must have understood that from the beginning, exit means exit.
Meteorites don't avoid dropping on houses, there are just so few houses.
And it has happened before and also in the USA. And well the whole planet is made of space debries. And we are stardust as they say.
Meteorits are mainly collected on ice like in Antarctica where they are more easily spotted on the ice.
That one very much looks like an iron meteorite.
@druck
"NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NXP) is a Dutch semiconductor designer and manufacturer with headquarters in Eindhoven, Netherlands.[2] The company employs approximately 31,000 people in more than 30 countries. NXP reported revenue of $11.06 billion in 2021.[3]
Originally spun off from Philips in 2006".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NXP_Semiconductors
I think Ann Jones gets it right here;
"American author Ann Jones, who lived in Norway for four years, posits that "the Nordic countries give their populations freedom from the market by using capitalism as a tool to benefit everyone" whereas in the United States "neoliberal politics puts the foxes in charge of the henhouse, and capitalists have used the wealth generated by their enterprises (as well as financial and political manipulations) to capture the state and pluck the chickens.".
@DS999
I am sure you can sue the EU and you will win and they will decide that anybody can use their cookies just the way they like not to offend you.
Happy now.
But I do hope we could eventually define that in the browser we use but I am not too optimistic about it.
We are the product and changing that might be problematic.
@Andy 73
"I was under the impression that EU subsidy rules meant that individual countries couldn't pick and choose which location incoming companies were to build,"
Oh dear, oh dear, do you seriously belive the EU Commission is who choose which location incoming companies were to build in.
How deeply brainwashed so many Brits still are regarding the EU.
I think I can recommend to you, Fintan O'Toole, in "The Politics of Pain"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA08SXJ8mAY
The simple fact is that the biggest customers for chips in Europe are Germany and France and especially Germany has been ready to invest in that industry and those chip companies are also keen to invest in the right country.
"the purpose is to allow employers to get cheap foreign labor and push domestic wages down.".
I assume it is one of the reasons, and it's certainly eagerly used in some countries mostly among people who have nothing to with employing people. but I do think Dr. Michio Kaku knows something about what he is speaking about here many years ago.
And yes I dislike the use of "genius" in his speech.
Education for profit might not be a profitable longtime strategy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK0Y9j_CGgM
@localzuk
I use the Wikipedia quite often and it's a gold mine of information, that is, for cold stable non political information.
Take for instance a thing like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siphon
it gets more risky and less reliable as soon as that information gets personal and is based upon opinions and affecting the way a topic is dealt with.
It's also often a good idea to compare the topics in several languages.
The Wikipedia could be miss used.
As they say, "information is power". So far so good, but why not have a look at it at times too.
"I'm pleased that the whole freedom thing came back to bite the French Monarchy in the ass -- hard!".
This is a bit off topic but I would claim the French were very lucky, and would agree with me, as it made France a modern democracy something that unfortunately cannot be said about Britain.
@tooltalk
I am sorry for the double "l" it should of course be Philips but I doubt that is the reason to your confusion.
You learn a lot by reading more.
So I am quoting this from the Wikipedia for you.
"In 1984, Philips split off its activities on the field of photolithographic integrated circuit production equipment, the so-called wafer steppers, into a joint venture with ASM International, located in Veldhoven under the name ASML. Over the years, this new company has evolved into the world's leading manufacturer of chip production machines at the expense of competitors like Nikon and Canon.
n 1985, Philips was the largest founding investor in TSMC[27] which was established as a joint venture between Philips, the Taiwan government and other private investors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philips#History
And If you prefer to listen rather than to read try this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE58YisgFeQ
@Dinanziame
Yes, I don't think Roosevelt was all that good on bikes either and why would that matter at all. Some should avoid bikes, at least in public, in my opinion.
I still have the occasional nightmare of Boris on a bike seen from behind, having seen that on TV. And I won't mention Trump.
@HarryBl
Not quite, but a good number 3 with 18% aircraft engine market share.
https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/32417-who-are-the-world-s-largest-aircraft-engine-manufacturers
Has RR as number 3 with a 18% share of the market like also.
https://www.t4.ai/industry/aircraft-engine-market-share
The leading manufacturer in the Aircraft Engine Industry was CFM International with 39% market share in 2019, followed by Pratt & Whitney with 26% Aircraft Engine market share, Rolls-Royce with 18% aircraft engine market share, General Electric with 16% market share, and International Aero Engines with 1% share.
CFM International market share was 39% of the Aircraft Engine market in 2019. CFM International is a joint venture formed in 1976 between GE Aviation and Safran, a French manufacturer. CFM International's aircraft engine market share is led by its series of best-selling LEAP engines. The LEAP engine series is replacing the formerly industry-leading CFM-56 turbofan aircraft engines. Pratt & Whitney market share was 17.5% of the aircraft engine market share in 2019. Pratt & Whitney is an American aerospace manufacturer founded in 1925. It is a subsidiary of Aerospace & Defense giant, Raytheon. Pratt & Whitney collaborated with Rolls-Royce, Fiat Avio, Japanese Aero Engine Corporation and MTU Aero Engines to form International Aero Corporation, which produces the V2500 turbofan engine. Pratt & Whitney also collaborates with GE on the Engine Alliance to produce the GP 7200 turbofan engine for the Airbus A380 aircraft. Rolls-Royce's market share was 18% of the Aircraft Engine market in 2019.
Yes, the list seems to be this:
1. China – 28.7% Global Manufacturing Output
2. United States – 16.8%
3. Japan – 7.5%
4. Germany – 5.3%
5. India – 3.1%
6. South Korea – 3%
7. Italy – 2.1%
8. France – 1.9%
9. United Kingdom – 1.8%
10. Indonesia – 1.6%
But the list reflects the global manufacturing output in 2019.
Being number 4 in Europe perhaps might surprise some people.
I can understand if countries stop importing Huawei and ZTE hardware but I doubt there is much intelligence in ripping out well functioning equipment before it has to be replaced anyway if it's found reliable, that is.
That money went to China anyway years ago.
It would make Nokia and Ericsson happy one has to assume though.
@SundogUK
Yes but it's not that simple, take those cases when a pilot by accident has pressed something because his hand was for good reasons where it was and that he then also touched, by accident, that other thing.
Yes, that was his fault but it's also an indication that it might happen again, by accident, and that the layout of the cockpit might need to be altered.
There has been quite a lot of similar "problems".
"EU has a distinct lack of LNG terminals, and those aren't cheap or quick to build."
Yes but the reality is that they are built all the same, Several now up and running since the war started.
Finland got a new one very quickly by ordering a Floating Storage/Production LNG Tanker.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI4LU7s3E64