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I would agree. Having worked for both very large (40k+ employees) and very small (less than 50), it is much better at the smaller end. My current firm has around 80 people and it works so well - everyone knows everyone & we work together. My CEO asks for my opinion and values my input.
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Lindfield - near Haywards Heath
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Totally. Man is a scumbag. Christ knows how many lives he has ruined.
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Yes he has an awful lot to answer for. That said there has always been an anti-vax voice. My Mum said her Dad didn’t believe in them and wouldn’t let her or her brother be vaccinated (this was the late 1930s - pretty much the first generation who would have seen the benefits of mass vaccination)
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Johnson is a piece of work. Trump supporting racist quite frankly. And his whole family background is pretty dire too. If he buys out H&B then I despair.
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My first job was in a bank and the pensions chat at 19 (& not really being that bothered) but I do remember 11 years. If you worked until retirement age (then 65) you had 11 years. Survive past your 76th birthday and the bank lost money - which wasn’t that often..
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Which probably says more about those people and their perceptions of London (that said there is a bloke in my village who regularly commutes to London in his helicopter - which I’m sure would be possible from this place as well :-) )
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I look at this and then see very average looking 4/5 bed detached houses that go for £1.5m or more in my village in Sussex and think this looks like stonking value for money!
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He might be in for surprise that’s for sure.
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He’s worth $6.9 billion - it’s a cake walk for him.
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In all honesty I would rather we had missed Europe than sell to Johnson - absolute arse and his whole family are just not people to be associated with. And yes you’re right I reckon that is on the cards too. Looking at what he has done to the NY Jets it doesn’t bode well.
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Isn’t just. The other bidder actually seemed OK. Textor all over I’m afraid. Does he even know where Crystal Palace is? Might have a bit of a shock when he visits South London.
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:-) Ah. Well hopefully they are a little better than Spotify.
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Yeah not sure any of them are great but at least the CEO isn’t investing in AI weaponised drones :-(
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And if memory serves me right - the whole reason for Stuxnet and the original attack on Natanz was because the Israeli’s were threatening to do precisely what the US did last night… this cannot end well.
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Been looking for a reason to move. This is a good one. Actually realised I can save money by swapping it into an Apple One subscription - so another reason to move.
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And next they pass a law to allow a 3rd term for a President. Trump will step aside (or be forced to) & Vance is in job (with Peter Thiel in his ear) & then 12 years and 3 election ‘wins’ for Vance & America is well and truly lost with untold consequences.
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There’s a lot of credible evidence out there to suggest there has been an ongoing silent war since the original Natanz attack (the Stuxnet malware attack by the US & Israel & others - ironically undertaken to stop Israel doing exactly what the US has just done).
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True. There are times when saying nothing really is the best option.
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Politicians trying to get involved with popular culture always ends well…
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I suspect my life in the cybersecurity world is about to get a lot busier. Iran won’t (can’t) fight a conventional war - their technical capabilities in the cyber world however are up there with the best. Not as spectacular as bunker bombs but effective and highly disruptive.
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Thing is - he isn’t the main problem. Thiel’s little puppet Vance is. If they managed to get legislation through to allow a 3rd term, Trump will be sidelined and Vance will step in and then have 3 ‘elections’ & 12 yrs in power & the US is well and truly screwed (as is a lot of the Western world)
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Always remember that their European VP of operations is Oswald Mosely’s grandson..
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Those in the UK may recall the suicide of David Kelly in 2003 - an MoD/UN expert on chemical/biological warfare who got caught up in the political crossfire after claims that Iraq was capable of deploying these weapons (which were never found) in 45 minutes.
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But the optics do matter as they influence people hugely - hence the right wing obsession with the press and social media (& the billions pumped into it). How do we get fair reporting (& as Edwin has pointed out there is also some genuinely bad and inexplicable stuff that Labour has done)
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But this is the issue. They may be doing good stuff (& I agree there is good stuff being done) but the optics are terrible. Edwin is right - trying to look like Reform on immigration & Brexit etc isn’t right and isn’t working. They need the balls to really tackle big issues head on.
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Also often overlooked are areas such as car production - approx 100,000 litres of water is used per car during manufacturing.
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See also: oregano and aluminium
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American’s have a more literal view of the pronunciation hence ‘boo-ee’ but the origins of the word came from the Dutch/German region and in Europe it is pronounced ‘boy’. Both are technically correct but it grates a little :-)
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Let’s not even get started on buoy
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The EU did this many years ago with specifying the power that devices could use while in standby mode. A typical TV now only uses a few watts while in standby. It has quietly become a global standard as it was implemented by manufacturers for devices everywhere saving vast amounts of power.
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Talked about this on another thread. We risk an escalation cyber hackitvists as well. There are well backed & highly skilled groups aligned to Iran. M&S and Co-Op would be very minor incidents compared to targeted infrastructure attacks. Iran has history & is not afraid to go after NATO members.
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Agreed I think the hacktivist threat gets under played generally. I was reading a recent interview with the former Maersk shipping CISO, who at the time of the 2017 attack said the first consideration was a hackitvist attack (largely because their ships use more energy than Germany!)
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Met Princess Beatrice (I say met, I was in the lift with my father in law at Stamford Bridge) - big security chap held open the door and in she got. Very awkward 30 seconds in silence with my father in law kicking me in shins.
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Some serious survivors guilt in the days and months to come I suspect. Unbelievable story.
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He was and a lovely bloke by all accounts. Very sadly missed.
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Or Tommy Flowers - the GPO engineer who built Colossus - the world’s first programmable computer for Turing (although I know he is celebrated in many museums- just a little overshadowed sometimes)
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Fondly remembered around Selhurst Park as a lifelong fan. #cpfc
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Speaking as an outsider (in the UK) and depending on your level of paranoia, moving lots of tanks and equipment into the capital for a parade might also be viewed as suspicious given the timing of other events.
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Very true. It has really changed over the last 10/15 years (accelerated by Covid lockdowns I suspect) - my industry (IT) has never been that formal but is now very casual (even job interviews or client site visits there is no longer any requirement to wear a suit letalone a tie)
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I have a passionate hatred of ties (as the most useless piece of clothing ever invented). Even banned them for my wedding day which was very popular (suggesting many feel the same)
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Yes indeed.
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It was being discussed on the radio today (Jeremy Vine & Chris Mason) - ‘well of course the economy has been struggling with low growth for the last decade’. I was just waiting for them to finish the sentence as to why.
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I think the show has done a lot to highlight some of the issues that farmers face. That said it isn’t the reality of the industry. A few pigs in a nice shelters in a field is a world away from 10,000 pigs a day going through industrial - scale abattoirs
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For those in cybersecurity you will remember that the Natanz facility was the target for the Stuxnet virus which impacted the centrifuges used in Iran’s nuclear programme back in 2010. One of the reasons for this was to negate the use of a conventional air attack given the likely repercussions…