Re: Why no Vulture icon?
Now I think about it, I believe they did. It appears that cutbacks may be happening everywhere.
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The problem with that is the plebs aren't the people who can afford a vanity trip into space. The only people who can are the people you get imprisoned for defrauding.
No, your mission plan should be to rip off people who are likely to die before you are forced to show signs of progress, and factor "reasonable risk of non-delivery" into the contract.
It should be noted here that cervical spondylosis is a condition caused by wear and tear to the vertebrae and does not, as you may be forgiven for thinking, involve having a cervix. So the gentleman in the story was not quite as obviously pulling a sickie as it would appear at first glance.
Exactly; they're not different and they're not an alternative. Can anyone actually name a Labour policy that isn't "the Tories aren't doing this Tory thing enough, Labour will do it better"? I can't. Starmer is exclusively trying to appeal to Tory voters because he believes that left leaning voters have nowhere else to go. It's a mistake that Scottish Labour made ten years ago and he hasn't learned from it. Indeed, he's actively driving the left wing out of the party. He may be elected simply because people are sick enough of the Tories, but not on his own merit. And courting Tories is a mistake, because they will not swing no matter what he promises. Not only do they know that the Tories actually will do what Labour are only promising to do, they know that Starmer has made false promises before to be elected as Labour leader and dropped them the instant it became convenient - so what's stopping him doing that again?
@anothercynic - please do not make the mistake of thinking I'm Momentum or even Labour-affiliated. I am not. Corbyn is a decent man, but that isn't the same as being a good leader. He should have been more ruthless; everyone in the Chicken Coup, which included Starmer, should have been expelled from the party. The media were comparing him to Stalin anyway so he wasn't exactly going to hurt his image by doing it. But he didn't, because he is a decent guy who accepts differences in opinion and tries to form a broad church, and it cost him. The establishment saw him as a threat because he challenged the status quo from which they benefit greatly, so they monstered him and libelled him. In that they had the full cooperation of the Labour right because they also don't want to change anything, they do not a better society, they do not want a broad church, they only want to be in charge of the establishment and get the benefits.
No it hasn't, unless you consider "wanting anything resembling a left wing policy" to be zealotry. Nobody on the left wants the Tories in power. Five more years of the Tories will destroy this country, if indeed it can even be saved now. But five years of Red Tories pretending to be Labour won't just destroy the country - it will validate the Blairite/Starmerite claim that elections can only be won by going to the right, and it will remove any force in British politics that would even try to rebuild what has been ruined.
The choice in the next General Election is not between Tories and Labour. It's between Tories now or Tories forever.
... Labour will do it.
I don't know how much attention you've been paying to Keith's band of Tory lite non-entities, but shadow Health Secretary Wes "McShitter" Streeting has stated that privatisation of the NHS is the way to go. I am sure this has nothing to do with the large donations from private health care companies that accidentally fell into his pockets.
I'm fairly sure that there is exactly one algorithm: the adverts promoted to you are the ones from companies who paid the platform to spam their shit.
I'm in full agreement with the person who said that refusing permissions and hiding data leads to you getting random ads, though. It's hardly a shock - the opt outs on platforms like Facebook straight up say "this won't change the number of ads you see, they just may not be relevant to you". To which all I can say is: if you're willing to pay Facebook to have them show irrelevant ads to me, how desperate are you?
I will never do business with a company that spams me on social media. Even if I want what they're offering, I'll go elsewhere. More people need to make this plain, because they're not going to stop hassling us as long as someone sees their ad and goes "Ooo".
El Reg has always been snarky; it's the house style. If you don't like it then go elsewhere for your news. I don't mean that in a mean way; you will simply be happier with one less annoyance in your life.
Meanwhile, I am enjoying the irony that the post I am replying to sees you descending from fact into opinion on why posters are downvoting you. Just because someone doesn't take the time to express their opinion doesn't mean they don't have one.
I don't know, I'd make far more nasty comments than I do if I thought I'd never die as a result
We are most of us remembered in some way when we pass. Hopefully this gentleman will be remembered as was Ea-Nasir. Or perhaps the ancient Greek sycophant who made an offering to the temple in someone else's name, of whom Herodotus said only: "I know his name, but I will not record it".
Minor pedant here: it was actually Bentham's brother Samuel who came up with the idea, as a way to operate a large factory with minimal supervisory staff. Jeremy only adapted the idea for prisons.
Otherwise you're quite correct, except about making the physical presence of the panopticon less obvious - half the point of the panopticon is that you are aware that you are being surveilled at all times.
More like "Nigel Farage doesn't need to be tricked". It's a matter of public record that he worked for Russian state-controlled media. And he's one of the honest ones; several other prominent Brexiteers spent time working in Moscow prior to the EU referendum, but unlike Farage they won't say what they were doing there.
It's mindboggling because it's fictional. You do build score by showing that you can pay what you agree to pay, but that applies to all contracts and credit agreements, not just cards. The easiest way for a young person to build initial credit score is to do something that most of them are doing anyway: take out a mobile phone contract. If they don't miss a payment, they'll get score - even if it's just a £10 a month PAYG.
Correction required: "unpaid tax" should read "unpaid tax from poor people". HMRC will take hundreds or thousands from individuals, but are more than happy to let rich corporations off the hook for billions. Vodafone's sweetheart deal relieved them of so much unpaid tax burden that had they been made to pay in full it would by itself have covered the entire first round of austerity cuts to local authorities. And that's just one company.
"The Bitcoin request seemed odd, but the two men said they wanted to avoid paying taxes, Jonathan Kennedy told The Register."
There is no 20-20 hindsight at work here. The people Kennedy was dealing with literally told him up front that they were financial criminals. He and his partners still went ahead with the transaction.
This is the simple lever crypto scammers use. Bros all think that they are very cleverly sticking it to the Man, so anyone else sticking it to the Man must be on their side. But there's a saying in poker and it applies here: there's a donkey at every table, and if you don't know who it is then it's you.
No, our energy costs should fall rapidly if the cost of production is reduced. Saying that they will is not something I would consider doing in the form of a wager. Energy companies of all stripes want the current state of gouging to become the new normal.
Sure, and wouldn't it also be easier to get confessions out of prisoners if we tortured them?
Don't get me wrong here - you're entirely correct that SBF is a scamming piece of shit who deserves to spend longer in prison than he probably will. But he hasn't been convicted of a crime yet, and until he has been convicted he's protected by rules that also protect the rest of us from the authorities just doing whatever they like to anyone who stands accused. That's important.
And of course, we should remember that SBF being out on license is an invitation to dig his eventual hole even deeper. If he had any sense he'd be staying the hell off the internet, but he does not have sense and he will almost certainly do or say something that he shouldn't have - if he hasn't already.
There is actually a difference. When a crypto bro sells magic beans, the buyer at least receives them and can potentially dodge being a victim by selling them to someone else. Only the final bag holder is truly scammed. Fake crypto scammers promise you magic beans, but the buyer is always the one being scammed.
Ironically, this means fake sellers generate fewer scams than real ones.