Posts by TheIO

Actually, what they're short of *is* managers - and secretaries and other admin staff. Admin doesn't go away just because there isn't a dedicated person, it just means the doctors and nurses are having to waste their time filling them in and handling them instead of treating patients.

A boatload of admin people can get hired pretty quickly, a lot faster than new doctors can - get them in now, and you've got doctors doing doctoring and admins doing admining, and you're getting some actual efficiency due to people working on what they're specialised in.

Re: Due process and equality before the law

So no change there then.

It's not really Linux

It's Windows CCP. Easy to joke about SlurpOS but Microsoft ain't anywhere near as bad as Xinnie the Pooh.

Re: I second that motion

Ericsson and Nokia, but yes.

Re: Come on

We literally used to have one. It was called Vine and for no clear reason whatsoever it closed.

Re: Ah, that explains why...

Used to be a lot bigger, but then Chrome overtook Explorer; I'd say that having Chrome bundled with Android smartphones was what did it, that and Google having more money than God.

Re: A dry run for trumps loss in 2020

Under a system of proportional representation, the SNP wouldn't be the third largest party in parliament - the only reason they have so many seats is because of first past the post, whereby they didn't get the majority of the vote in IIRC *any* seat last year yet won 48 anyway. You'd have seen the Lib Dems in third place, potentially with the Greens or Brexit Party in fourth ahead of the SNP depending on how it's sliced. It'd be fundamentally healthier for politics in that part of the country, because you wouldn't have a monolithic yellow block that ignores the wishes of a majority of its constituents.

Re: "One form of exercise a day"

There was a UK Pirate Party as it happens, but it never got very far.

Re: No

Being an Uighur in China these days is a life-threatening issue.

Re: So: neither Huawei nor Cisco

I don't know about you, but I'm fairly certain I have less to fear from the Swedish or Finnish governments than I do from the American or Chinese.