Posts by Snapshot 12 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Jan 2014
Not in secure units like Broadmoor. As it says in the article, he will need to be assessed by a Mental Health Review Tribunal. The patient may appeal to be reviewed or may be referred by the DoH (IIRC) on the recommendation of those treating the patient. The tribunals are chaired by a solicitor; the other members are a GP and a layman. The tribunal's decision is absolute - if they think the patient is fit to be released then he/she/it is released. If not, he stays in.
Officially it was the International Consultative Committee for Telephony and Telegraphy but in French which accounts for the order.
But, according to a friend who was European Support Manager at Hayes and on the committee, it was the Cosy Club for International Talk and Travel.
I worked for Wang from 1985 to 1994 so can answer both questions.
The company founder, Dr An Wang, put too many of his cronies in positions they weren't up to. He also wanted his older son, Fred, to take over but Fred wasn't interested. As a result, the company missed the switch to open systems. There was also insufficient marketing input to R&D which was happily making solutions for questions that hadn't been asked. So sales dwindled until the company went into Chapter 11 from which it never really recovered. UK staff levels dwindled from a peak of 1250 to 250 when I left. The UK decline wasn't helped by the appointment of a marketing manager who wanted telesales to be low volume, high margin when the whole industry shifted to high volume, low margin but his previous experience had been selling advertising.....
The US support operation was named Wang Cares and we had to explain to them very gently why they couldn't call it that here. It didn't stop one of our customers referring to the hardware as Wang Kit.....
"It believes that Section 230 is sacrosanct and should be messed about with."
How to make a sentence completely meaningless by leaving out one short word. I am rather surprised by how often I see 'not' omitted these days, completely reversing the writer's (or writers') intended meaning.
I've had a couple of run-ins (sorry!) with maltitol and it certainly can be unpleasant. The main one was a box of Thornton's diabetic choccies and half a dozen were enough to cause me problems. It's easy to see that a whole catering pack of bears would cause major, well-deserved, problems.
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