Posts by Cederic

Re: The very definition of an omnishambles.

Interest rates are rising because of inflation, which is rising because of all the money printed for COVID, and because global energy prices are rising.

It's also rather curious that you have a mortgage of over £650k (the minimum you'd need to see a monthly rise of £750/month) and didn't negotiate a longer fixed rate that would protect you from the very clearly telegraphed and predictable rate rises.

But I would point out that the pound dipped then recovered, so not a crash, the buy-back of gilts was to protect pension funds that had been badly managed and left themselves exposed to market volatility, something that Truss could hardly control, that the Bank of England should have raised rates much higher much sooner because of the inflation, that there never was £65bn of buy-back of gilts (last I heard it was under £20bn, and they were in profit due to price rises) and pension funds weren't pushed to insolvency precisely because of that Bank of England intervention.

Then you wonder why I think the mass media aren't covering this fairly. They should have been helping you understand all of this.

Re: point of order

If he didn't write it in FORTRAN 77 then which language did he write it in?

Fortunately programming languages had moved on from upper case names with years attached by the time I got into the industry.

Re: LDS

Congratulations on your freedom, and thank you for the perspective on their less visible activities.

Re: Just maybe ...

Ooh, nicely done. I do like the ironic use of 'luser' while blaming Phil for doing his job properly.

Re: WTF?

I concur. Many superlatives and a couple of swear words could be used to describe the SR-71 but I wouldn't have chosen 'infamous'.

It would be ground breaking if it flew today, and it was flying in the 60s! Genuinely astonishing and magnificent machine.

I am a fan though. I've touched one. It made me happy.

Re: Much more difficult for abusers to get away with it nowadays

That's the point though. Racism is on the rise again. My generation were brought up to not be racist, not to treat people differently based on their innate characteristics.

Now we're lectured to that treating people the same is racist, by people that are themselves racist.

A bit like child abuse. Never was acceptable, but now people get banned from social interactions for daring to suggest that sexualising children might not be appropriate, and that castrating young boys is wrong.

Re: Can someone explain to me what these are for? it sounds very james bond...

Advertising.

Re: re: a main stream banking/financial organisation

While I'm not sure the Financial Ombudsman scheme covers SMEs or charities it's reasonable to assume that the FCA would take a direct interest. Paypal have a legal obligation in the UK to run their business with integrity.

Re: So much for privacy

Yeah, it's an odd one.

Those aren't being treated as 600k "Consumer accounts, comprising XXX in deposited funds", they're being treated as 600k individual creditors, each of which is owed money by the exchange.

If I lend my mate's business 400 quid and it goes into liquidation, I'll be named as a creditor. If 600k other people do that, they will too.

Without knowing much about Celcius I don't know the precise legal relationship individuals had with the exchange. Is the difference whose money it is - banks hold consumers' money, while Celcius was holding its own money but had a high volume of liabilities?

Surely the ID validation is an ongoing matter. "Who is requesting use of this service" and "Who is using or has used this service".

It's hard to investigate criminal activity unless you remember who the person you validated as the user is.

Retention following account closure should be prevented. Retaining the full initial ID&V information should be prevented.

Hmm. I may have just agreed with you.

I didn't know there were electronic pregnancy devices.

Although that may be due to my occasional experience deploying the legacy organic technology.

Re: GDPR is "limiting the potential of our businesses"

The 2008 banking crisis caused "an overall net cost of £33.0 billion to the Government".

(Annex B of https://obr.uk//docs/dlm_uploads/CCS1021486854-001_OBR-EFO-October-2021_CS_Web-Accessible_v2.pdf )

I'd rather we didn't forgo almost twice that much every single year in taxes from the same industry.

Re: Does it even matter anymore?

I find this less extreme than the multiple states that have enacted laws saying that the moment enough other states put in place a comparable law, they'll switch to supporting the popular vote candidate irrespective of their own state's voting.

At least the thing in front of the Supreme Court of the US requires elected officials to represent the people that elected them.

The article isn't exactly balanced either, full of hyperbole and entirely one-sided. Why has this case been brought, why did the Supreme Court of the US accept it, and why wasn't the possibility that they wanted to establish clarity (which could include rejecting the position put to them) to strengthen trust in the democratic process?

If the case prevails, I don't see that following the US Constitution represents fascism in the US. You perhaps aren't aware of how it came into being, but please, take my assurances that the people involved were highly anti-authoritarian.

Re: ah, technology

Of course.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/sep/06/men-jailed-attempted-postal-vote-fraud

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/councillors-guilty-of-postal-votes-fraud-that-would-shame-a-banana-republic-5350422.html

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/11560017/Postal-voting-fraud-is-easy-electoral-commissioner-says.html

Re: Great Britain

4.9 million EU citizens received a 'right to remain' in the UK. That's rather more than 100k/year, especially when you factor in the ones that chose not to remain.

None of which explains how allowing EU citizens the same rights to migrate to the UK that non-EU citizens have is parochial?

Indeed, UK net migration remains in the hundreds of thousands. Given, as you say, we don't have the services, the homes or the space to put them all, allowing their continued migration really doesn't feel parochial at all.

Re: switch to an OS OS

120 million special and unique little flowers just on Steam.

26 million special and unique little flowers using Adobe creative products.

The counter example is hundreds of millions of people using a proprietary OS from Google..?

Free stuff: Doesn't come pre-installed. Doesn't do a thing for people that don't know how to install it, run it, configure it. Suffers compatibility issues because no matter how great your open source tool of choice is, you'll be accessing resources and receiving things from people that don't use it.

I'm not bought in, and I've been using open source software since 1991 and 'free' software for years before that.

I agree to use the right tool for the job. I'm not going to waste my time telling my parents their iPad isn't that tool.

Re: (s)tone deaf

That's ok, the rest of the world can explore and look to adopt this instead.

Plus of course those of us that just buy our own hearing aids. They're cheaper than a car and get used far more often.

I'm fortunate enough to live in a country in which the FBI can't lie to get a warrant and break down my door.

Admittedly I could be charged with terrorism offences because I own gardening equipment, but that's a separate issue I can raise with my MP.

Re: Wrong!!

Why not just look at the academic research on the matter, people have already explored this in great depth over many decades.

It works just as well as software development - lots of people doing it badly, disagreement on the best approach, questionable levels of success.

But it does happen, and just as software does eventually get delivered, so do bonuses and promotions.

Is the process optimal, is it fair, does it properly reward contribution and capability? Not relevant to whether it exists. It exist.

It must be terribly inconvenient for your disguised accusations that Conservative Party members indicated very clearly that they would have preferred Kemi Badenoch.

Sunak was rejected because of his role in undermining the Government and destroying the economy. Truss was selected because she actually espoused policies that the party membership could support.

Not everybody sees everything through a racial lens.

Re: They admitted to it...

Ah. Check with Rebekah Vardy regarding that last suggestion.

Re: "You cannot be what you cannot see"

In addition to the link provided in the comment above yours,

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/poor-white-boys-are-underdogs-of-the-education-system-ddjb6j2p6

Yet https://www.barnardos.org.uk/blog/white-privilege-guide-for-parents tells those same poor boys that they're privileged.

Meanwhile, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/police-white-heterosexual-male-discrimination-job-cheshire-matthew-furlong-a8793331.html

It's still happening.. https://news.sky.com/story/raf-pauses-job-offers-for-white-men-to-meet-impossible-diversity-targets-12674409

Sorry for every word of that being true, and for being able to prove that I am not perpetuating a lie. Sadly the truth is the thing that isn't well known. I wonder why.

Re: Effing Dumb

Probably more relevant, it's 4c/share dividend (after corporation tax) that the shareholders are missing out on, after their shareholding failed to benefit from the value the original targets were set to create.

Deliver shareholder value, get a bonus.

Don't deliver shareholder value, the shareholders get what would've been your bonus.

That's what's been broken here, which I suspect will be why so few shareholders agreed to it.