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I once said something that was criticised as being a little unclear. The horror!
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Finding "work arounds", complying under pressure with the letter rather than the spirit of the law. At least that much.
Worse still is that some of these companies have the power to more or less force governments to write laws in their favour.
And not just tech. Energy and raw materials too.
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It is all theft. 100% tax.
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Just kill it.
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And specifically no valid artistic users.
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AI has uses in identifying cancers from studying millions of donated X rays etc. Or any data solicited explicitly for a stated purpose and used for that purpose.
It has no legitimate use in aggregating stolen data. As you say, this is organised crime. Clegg, as expected, amoral.
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I would like to say that's impossible. But then again I said Trump was impossible. 😱
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A matter of degree. By many accounts, ATC has never been a first choice career since Reagan trashed it. Fully expect it to get worse though.
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What about this as a practice for consumers?
"Never agree to a price fix because you are betting against professionals. More often than not, it will be a mistake."
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Chapter and verse here if you want it.
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
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In every effective lie there is a grain of truth. Of the 27,000 murders last year about 50 were farmers, not all of them white. And "Farm" might include a vegetable plot in a garden.
So of course a knave like Trump can focus on individual cases.
Don't be trapped into denying individual cases.
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Excellent film. Also worth reading the book. Although a bit dry in tone it gives evidence that the number of murders was in the hundreds, not the dozens.
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Cruise required 140,000 horse power, about one third more than produced by this engine:
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Cruise required 140,000 horse power, about one third more than produced by this engine.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsvE...
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From AI about Concorde so...
"The overall efficiency of the engine in supersonic cruising flight (supercruise) was about 43%, which at the time was the highest figure recorded for any normal thermodynamic machine."
It was the most fuel efficient SUPERSONIC plane ever, though not saying much.
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I know this point is trivia, and it's true I am bald and a bit jealous, but why is it that the far right loony tunes all seem to have the same hairstyle?
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As my granddaughter is a budding geologist this was particularly salient. 😄
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I flew on that courtesy of a Birmingham Evening Mail quiz. With 99 high performing fire extinguisher salesmen. Not the most thrilling company 🙂
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In the early 80s I studied why two businesses were buying PCs. Not standard kit then and usually stand-alone.
Generally users did stuff they never had thought was worth the effort before and benefited.
But our typists demanded PCs "because they were better than typewriters". Much friction!
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Showing my age here, I recall this advice. "Save labour by connecting your fax machine directly to the shredder".
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In 1962 I was 15. My dad taught me how to drive on private roads (not his roads, the power station where he worked).
Try doing a hill start on the ramp out of a turbine hall. No rev counter. Noise of turbines drowned the engine. I learned that way — and he was lucky not to be fired. 😘
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'Parole', a word originally meaning 'word of honour', is used to describe the release of a prisoner on licence while his or her sentence is still ongoing.
You can be taken straight back to prison if you have been released on licence or parole and you break the rules.
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For murder a life sentence is mandatory. If the prisoner has confessed, repented and reformed a parole board may release him on parole. Can be take back to prison if he breaks the parole terms. If he is innocent and always says so, then he has not confessed and will not be released.
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Yes of course it is serious. But at the moment India has only said it will suspend a treaty obligation. It has not actually cut off water supplies. I don't think it will.
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Yes so long as you can spoil your ballot (I think you can).
In a closely fought vote candidates get to see disputed papers including any rude remarks written by voters.😀
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As a party rep I was told very firmly not to touch the papers even if the clerk dropped them.
Had there been an issue I would have raised my hand and waited for the returning officer and other party reps to arrive and investigate.
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We can argue endlessly about how the mechanics, but having anonymous votes is the key.
Having been an invigilator for a party it is a great thing to stand behind a counting officer and see the care that is taken.
I saw a few spoiled ballots and know how disputes are resolved.
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A few more for you
www.ranker.com/list/famous-...
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This from AI so possibly quite mad but "The word "Number" itself can also be a surname". I would love there to be a Cardinal Number.
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Indeed. And some "cosmetic" problems were never fixed.
My medical records show I have been receiving repeat prescriptions for a particular drug since 1/1/1900!
A workaround for a finance package I know will cause problems on 1/1/2050 if nobody has fixed it by then (mortgage start dates).
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Oh yes!
So many people say the Y2K thing was not a problem. I saw a small corner of it. If we had not found issues with our software (exhaustive and expensive search) and fixed them (trivial) several large UK financial institutions would not have been able to do their year end accounts.
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In my case it is because I am British. Also read UK papers The Guardian and The Times. Deeper cuts especially town council malpractice to be found in Private Eye.
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Yes I like these.
Old age exercise. My wife shouts at the pigeons stealing our cherries and I lie in wait with a water pistol.
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From the late 1950s for about 30 years the USA wanted to detonate nuclear weapons in Canadian airspace to intercept Russian aircraft bound for the USA. And the Canadians accepted this!
Well they are all grown up now!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIR-2_G...
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The penis mightier than the sword...
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Buxton to Macclesfield road. One of the most dangerous in England, mainly because all those bends were just too tempting for motorcyclists.
They installed "motorcyclist friendly" crash barriers. At least you would not slide under them.
www.saferoad-rs.com/nl/en/produc...
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I recall East Sheffield looked like this after all the steelworks went and before Meadowhall was built, around 1980. I think it was policy to save the pubs.
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Even giving product away takes at least some days to advertise and organise. At one day's notice it just can't be done.
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If he is in business next year he will presumably not try to export and that will drive down his prices.
Lots of small to medium firms that used to export to the EU are simply closing.
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I think he did not know about the delay until it happened. His business is oriented towards export and of course he was a fool to vote for Brexit.
If I gave you 300 tonnes of strawberries RIGHT NOW and asked you to dispose of them within 12 hours what would you do?
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Explain with numbers and a diagram exactly what you would have done before the aircraft stopped. And tell us how you know what he did after it stopped.
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He got exactly what he voted for but it isn't his fault. The wicked "others" have thwarted him.
Stage 2 "Elections don't work — what we need is a strong leader".
See page 94...
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It has been very high, but has apparently halved over the last 30 years. FWIW here is a table.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
Greenland is a spectacular outlier by any standard.
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They are far tighter than they were a generation ago.
I recall an expensive holiday in 2000 that I borrowed the money for interest free for five years by rotating cards.
I could not do that now. Lots of banks charge you a monthly fee to hold your current balance.
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How can it be fair to not consider affordability?
Northern Rock lent people five times their annual salary to buy houses and lent 125% of the property valuation. A modest economic downturn spelt ruin for lender and borrowers.
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Removing references from your website merely devalues it. Other sources will always exist.
For amusement only the "Book of Dave" describes a world where the only surviving literature is a cab driver's diary.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boo...
Chilling but hilarious.
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Another Russian joke.
Pravda is not the news. Izvestia is not the truth.
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Started 1942, reference here
sclhrg.org.uk/history-spot...