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True, but if you see a silver Aston Martin DB5 you immediately think of James Bond, and would that red stripe be enough to violate the copyright on the A-Team van?

There are of course always edge cases. I just wonder how these things would go if challenged.

Curiously, in a similar case, despite the vehicle in question being an unmodified creation of the Met Police, the rights to the Blue Police Box now belong to the BBC.

"It is estimated that the effects of NO 2 on mortality are equivalent to 23,500 deaths annually in the UK" -- UK dept. for environment and rural affairs https://consult.defra.gov.uk/a... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/busi...

"Volkswagen’s rigging of emissions tests for 11m cars means they may be responsible for nearly 1m tonnes of air pollution every year, roughly the same as the UK’s combined emissions for all power stations, vehicles, industry and agriculture, a Guardian analysis suggests." http://www.theguardian.com/bus...

If they filter out some classes of security threat by other means is not so clear.

That is a claim that has ZERO evidence and zero reason to suspect anything other than tricking people into thinking it works. You might as well claim that polygraphs give you mental superpowers. There's just as much evidence to support it.

In regards to real world applications with some degree of actual evidence, the only thing that polygraphs could be useful for is tricking people into thinking they work. But you could substitute countless other techniques from different cultures and claim mystical powers. But if they literally used a voodoo ritual as part of getting a security clearance, people would obviously get upset because that's clearly stupid bullshit that would only let crazy jackasses in.

Just because there are experts who are idiots, doesn't mean that any experts is non-expert, or an idiot, or can't be trusted to manage their own damn employees. How would a non-expert such as yourself hope to impeach their judgement? You can't, of course. As you point out, their field is shrouded in secrecy; that means you don't know, it doesn't mean they don't know. It means you can't judge what they do effectively. Now, there are lots of legitimate policy opinion responses to that situation. But it doesn't leave you in a position to impeach their judgement about things where the facts are mostly secret.

Secrecy is not an advantage in regards to having scientific evidence. It means that they aren't subject to external peer review, and thus have little to no forces that act against their existing biases.

And they're not bumbling morons, regardless of your or my opinion of their polices.

According to spies themselves, they often are.

The whole organisation was riddled with nepotism - dim, dreary people of utter unmemorability; sub-men who were doubled up with other sub-men to create an illusion of strength and only doubled the weakness; others made memorable only by poisonous, corrupt malevolence or crass, mulish stupidity; the whole run by a chain of command remarkable for its feebleness. The entire service was decrepit and incompetent.

There's a video of the little prick here defending this shit. Another, more informative video here. He *claims* that this will allow them to invest in developing new treatments... right...

Does anyone know if Turing Pharma actually have research facilities?

Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli defends HIV drugs price hike
What a sack of shit he is.

How Hidden From Google started.

List of BBC web pages which have been removed from Google's search results

"Google .. has not proceeded with delisting on other geographical extensions or on google.com, which any internet user may alternatively visit .. this decision does not show any willingness on the part of the CNIL to apply French law extraterritorially. It simply requests full observance of European legislation by non European players offering their services in Europe." ref

Are you so sure?

Things that have been blamed on global warming:

Two headed frogs
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews...

Teenage prostitution.
http://www.trust.org/item/?map...

Everything has been blamed on climate change at one point or another. The idiotic conflations of issues to make climate change relevant are endless.

So saying "well auditing Al Gore can't cause global warming"... I ask you... how do you know? If climate change can cause an endless series of things that it obviously can't... then why not something else it obviously has nothing to do with?

Ehm?

Intellectual integrity and self consistency... Do you have any?

I just typed in numerous 16 character URLs, such as http://bbc.co.uk/ into that version of Chrome and it worked just fine. What you probably mean is typing in a URL made up of escape sequences that don't make a valid url.

Not the first time the US thought an enemy had WMDs but didn't, huh?

Hitler certainly had WMDs, just not nuclear

You're forgetting that people are stupid.

I dare you to try to identify another culture in the history of humanity that actually openly celebrates the murder of innocent civilians

Didn't the US have a little problem with lynching in the past?
But I guess you're going to say all those blacks were criminals, right? No white supremacist would ever just want to see black guys dead, 'guilty' or not.

The thing you have to realize is that almost all humans are very, very good at dehumanizing their out groups (i.e.: the 'not us' people), to the extent that there are no innocents among those groups (hell, they're not even human. They're 'less than dogs').

'The only good [x] is a dead [x]' isn't just some farcical mythological exclamation, it is deeply ingrained in our biology. It takes hard work to build up civilization to prevent that instinct from surfacing and even then that layer of civilization is very thin and easily destroyed.

Muslims were literally dancing in the streets on 9/11

If I'm not mistaken, there are no records of Muslims in the biggest Muslim nation on earth (Indonesia) dancing in the streets because of 9/11, nor do I believe that American Muslims did so. Ask yourself what the difference is between the dancing ones and the non-dancing ones and their relation to the US (and their relationship with Israel). I'm not saying they are right to hate the US or excusing them for it, just that their human capability for hating enemies and disregarding the humanity of those killed in 9/11 is fueled by that relation, not by the specific religion they were brought up with.

I don't know if you've looked at the ongoings in central and southern Africa in the last couple of decades, but I'm pretty sure there have been some pretty horrendously acting Christians there as well: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/afr...

Bottom line:
Humans don't need a lot to deeply hate an entire group of people and rather see them die than live.

But nuts and beans don't contain complete protein. You REALLY need to know what you are doing if you want to achieve a healthy fruitarian diet and include supplements. And there are those who have no clue.

CO2 is fungible. If I burn one tree's worth of coal, I've changed the amount in the active carbon cycle by exactly the same amount as if I burned the tree instead. The only way this isn't true is if the tree was going to burn anyway.

No. The only way that is true is if the tree wasn't going to get buried in deep underground without decaying.

I don't understand how people don't understand a basic carbon cycle. Trees die, then they fall down, then they decay which tends to produce all sorts of emissions (methane? co2?). Unless that tree falls into some bog and does not decay, it is for all intends and purposes an active part of the carbon cycle. Even then, someone can just dig it up few hundred years later and re-add it right back to carbon cycle. And that actually happens *every day*

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-e...

A lot of people have leapt to the conclusion that the girl got away scot-free.

From the BBC article on the same story:

[The boy's] details - along with those of the girl involved and another teenager - had been added to a police intelligence database and could be stored for at least 10 years.

You're jumping to a lot of conclusions there. I certainly wouldn't call this feller a poofter. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/h...

Oh, and it's salon. A saloon is where cowboys drink.

Many associate Sensory deprivation with torture but short-term sessions have been described as relaxing and conducive to meditation. Sessions of up to 24 hrs for therapeutic purposes are referred to as Restricted Environmental Stimulation Therapy (REST) There is a substantial amount of research in treating addictive behaviors with REST is reviewed with smoking, overeating, alcohol consumption, and drug misuse. There are two types: Flotation REST and Chamber RESTIn chamber REST, subjects lie on a bed in a completely dark and sound reducing (on average, 80 dB) room for up to 24 hours. Their movement is restricted by the experimental instructions, but not by any mechanical restraints. Food, drink and toilet facilities are provided in the room and are at the discretion of the tester. Subjects are allowed to leave the room before the 24 hours are complete; however, fewer than 10% actually do. With regard to the article, I would be concerned as some studies have had participant experience hallucination after 48 hrs.

That's like asking a 300# professional football lineman

I have no idea what that means ....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/h...

Technically, charges weren't dropped as there haven't been any charges (Swiss law works somewhat differently with regards to charging), but the original arrest warrant (for two allegations - rape and molestation) was withdrawn on 21st August 2010.

However, on 20th November 2010 an international arrest warrant was issued and was upheld by the Swedish appeals court on 20th November 2014. The prosecutors were criticised for not moving the investigation forward and then on 13th August 2015 they dropped the investigations into molestation and coercion as the time limit for those were due to expire (18th August). The rape investigation has until 2020 due to it being a more serious crime, so this story can carry on for a while yet.

Here's where I pulled this info from: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11949341/

I didn't know he'd actually been charged with anything. Can you point me towards some more info on that, as a quick search indicates that he hasn't been charged (e.g. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19426382/).

If he has been charged, then your comments about the US would make sense, but if he hasn't been charged, then legally the US wouldn't be able to use extradition and thus the whole conspiracy theories about a Sweden/US secret deal regarding him.

No, you're referring to the tone of the argument. I'm referring to the scope of the argument.

Tone? Scope? I'm not sure what you mean or why it matters so much to you. What kind of distinction are you trying to draw here?

Blanket-condemning vast numbers of people on the basis of their skin colour is a tactic used by the SJWs and I'm saying that's counterproductive, creating opposition where none needed to exist.

With this? I quite recognize that is what you're saying, which is why I'm saying that complaint, however you conceptualize it, is one that has been brought up before, it is not a new one, but a long-standing practice. But it is nothing more than a counter-productive method, because I recognize the tactic you're practicing as false and fraudulent now as it was when used before.

I don't care what you call it, it's a lie, and you should stop trying to use it. Especially since you're so upset about "blanket-condemning" which means you shouldn't use it against SJW yourself.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/b...

The theory that all the peoples of Europe belonged to one white race which originated in the Caucasus (hence the term 'Caucasian') was first postulated at the turn of the 19th century by a German professor of ethnology called Johann Blumenbach.

Blumenbach's colour-coded classification of races - white, brown, yellow, black and red - was later refined by a French ethnologist, Joseph-Arthur Gobineau, to include a complete racial hierarchy with white-skinned people of European origin at the top.

As I said, the "The pseudo-scientific basis might be slightly newer..."

Now how does this prove racism didn't exist beforehand? It doesn't. You're just noting it changed. Whup-de-doo. The racism of the Roman Empire fluctuated too, so what? It still existed, and represented the perceptions and situations of their day. Ostensibly new arguments and representations made, they can still be false ones.

SJWs are as much to blame for perpetuating these false and very damaging pseudoscientific theories as any hardcore racist.

And continuing my quote: "it's more often used to attack "science" and "progress" for other things rather than recognize that that one particular usage was itself wrong."

Thanks for demonstrating an example of what I said. You're not attacking the racism in itself, you're using it to attack SJWs, in fact, you're basing an attack on the SJW on a concept from the 19th Century and into the early 20th, which means what? You're going for a collective punishment.

Yeah, the pseudo-science of those days was bad. So too that of today. Great. But all you're doing is pretending it's your conceptualization of SJWs who are at fault, so how is that helpful? We can't even identify these people, you're just using a descriptive, not an identifying term.

Why not just say racists are bad? Why not actually say racists are bad?

Is it because you want SJWs, whoever and whatever they may be, to be the enemy instead?

What is your agenda? Or are we just in Poe's law territory?

I dunno, I can't read your mind, but I can see what you've said, and it's nothing that hasn't been said before. Reminds me of the two mistakes many people make about 1984. The first was that it was anything new. The second is that people think it's only one political agenda that practices it.

Sure they weren't, but the point being made was that their detractors made the same criticism as is being made today

No, you're referring to the tone of the argument. I'm referring to the scope of the argument. Blanket-condemning vast numbers of people on the basis of their skin colour is a tactic used by the SJWs and I'm saying that's counterproductive, creating opposition where none needed to exist.

Because your words here? Very flawed, as the conceptualization of race way predates the 19th Century, even glancing through Shakespeare will show that, let alone other, more explicit works.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/b...

The theory that all the peoples of Europe belonged to one white race which originated in the Caucasus (hence the term 'Caucasian') was first postulated at the turn of the 19th century by a German professor of ethnology called Johann Blumenbach.

Blumenbach's colour-coded classification of races - white, brown, yellow, black and red - was later refined by a French ethnologist, Joseph-Arthur Gobineau, to include a complete racial hierarchy with white-skinned people of European origin at the top.

SJWs are as much to blame for perpetuating these false and very damaging pseudoscientific theories as any hardcore racist.

The terminology for upper and lower case didn't even exist before the printing press was reinvented in Europe

Clearly that terminology didn't exist, since that derives from the boxes printers kept their type in. However the concept did, as can clearly be seen here: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmh... Perhaps you're thinking of the Romans?

I never saw much sense in mixing majuscule and minuscule scripts to denote proper nouns or the start of a sentence.

I never saw much sense in referring to things that don't pee, either standing or sitting, as "he" or "she". But I doubt the French and Italians will invent a neuter gender for my convenience.

India stopped receiving aid in the 90s? Really?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-p...

The real story appears to be that the Met Office's effectively automatic contract renewal has been terminated because they were asking for too much money and it will be replaced by a competitive fixed-term tender (I'm actually surprised this isn't already the case),

Google says that's not the real story, as it's not the first tender

There are no royalties for trademarks.

Not strictly true, things are often manufactured "under license" also known as brand leasing, where the trademark owner allows someone else to use a trademark in return for royalties. This is particularly common in the world of beers, where popular overseas brands are often brewed under license". When I buy a can of an American beer in the UK, the chances are that it will have been nowhere near america and the small print on the can will say "brewed under license in the UK".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-s...

Was done years ago with real malt whisky

Not unless you post this.

As to your notion that infantry can fight without tanks or air cover or all the other elements of combined arms... I categorically disagree.

Perhaps you misunderstood. I didn't say that infantry can fight without air cover in general. I said that when we're talking specifically about tanks and infantry, with nothing else in the mix, tanks cannot fight alone successfully, while infantry can.

The tanks can shell at over 2 miles away.

The tanks can't shell what they don't know is there. They need a target. The problem for them is acquiring said target, and with their limited visibility vs extreme mobility of infantry (not in terms of top speed, but in terms of how easy it is to change direction and advance across non-flat terrain) they will lose this game against infantry every time, excepting a large flat field with no vegetation. In other words, the reverse of what you claim - the tank needs ideal circumstances to win against infantry in a solo fight (either the complete lack of efficient AT weaponry, or the lack of any means of concealment that said infantry can use).

If I had a choice of being a tank commander on the battlefield, or an infantry with Kornet or Javelin on the other side on the same battlefield, I'll pick the latter every single time - because my odds of survival would be so much better. A tank cannot hide and lay low; and infantryman can, and should, until the moment where the tank presents a ripe target (i.e. not observing that direction) - and then it's gone in a matter of seconds.

I really think that you do not truly appreciate just how much limited the vision is for the tank crew when all hatches are closed. It seems to be a common perception, and probably inflicted largely by video games that mostly ignore or patch over this.

Can you cite any situation where infantry were taking down tanks with reasonable casuality figures and as close to an apples to apples supply/tech base? Because I can't think of one.

It's pretty hard to find definitive casualty figures, but one well-known example of infantry, without armor of their own (or in vastly smaller quantities), delivering heavy damage to enemy tank forces, are IDF engagements, starting with Yom Kippur War (when Egyptians got the first shipments of guided AT missiles from the USSR, and used them to great effect). Later, Hezbollah also done the same to IDF in Lebanon. Some reading:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/mid...
http://www.aaj.tv/2006/08/anti...
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i...

There have also been a lot of tanks destroyed in Ukraine in the ongoing fighting, on both sides, and most of them are destroyed by AT infantry (the only massive tank-vs-tank engagement that I heard of was at Debaltsevo).

As I think I said previously... men with spears can hold against nuclear weapons, robotic terminators, and genetically engineered plagues if you have enough men with spears. Unless you're willing to take the attrition though, you can't hold if you have the wrong forces.

Of course, we're not talking about men with spears here. We're talking about men with modern guided missiles capable of hitting a tank from over a mile away and penetrating the armor with a single such hit.

It's generally incorrect to assume that infantry is inherently inferior to vehicles. It's a trade-off - you gain some advantages (for tanks, firepower and armor), but you also lose some (for tanks, agility and ability to quickly detect, identify and engage targets).

the bastards have hit Thailand now. so much for the religion of peace. Piss more like it

The C in CBBC stands for children's. Surely there has to be a better, more informative source that CBBC's newsround "the home of news and fun facts for kids". Even the actual BBC website is slightly better .

People talk about the appalling conditions in China, while this is in the west! ..

Amazon workers face 'increased risk of mental illness'

Panorama: Amazon's Truth Behind the Click BBC Documentary

The Nepal Airlines once sacrificed a goat to appease a Hindu God. But like this story, it says more about Nepal than it does about Airlines.

Other airlines will no doubt ignore Uzbekistan, just as we ignore Nepal Airlines.

I watched the Horizon programme about space junk the other week - it was good - and one of the points raised in it was concern about cubesats not having any movement capability and being cheap and considered "disposable" and thus much more likely to become part of the junk problem that other, expensive, satellites.

4600 micro sats sounds to me like even more junk waiting to happen. Keep it up and we'll not be able to have any nice things in orbit soon.

In this particular instance, the list/database is owned by the Home Office, and is built up of evidence seized by police.

Better link than the one in the summary: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33847308

No such thing happens with islam. Every day atrocities are committed in name of islam. There's a billion muslims out there who could stand up and show disgust for the atrocities. Doesn't happen.

http://news.sky.com/story/1298...

http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-2...

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.u...

http://www.yourlocalguardian.c...

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/new...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

Like fuck it doesn't happen. Get your head out of your ass.

Doenitz was found guilty of other things, which I believe he was guilty of.

The irony is that if Hitler had provided for the U-Boat force that he had asked for at the start of the war, the outcome might have been quite different.

Winston Churchill once wrote that, '... the only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril'. In saying this, he correctly identified the importance of the threat posed during World War Two by German submarines (the 'Unterseeboot') to the Atlantic lifeline. This lifeline was Britain's 'centre of gravity' - the loss of which would probably have led to wholesale defeat in the war.

Karl had wanted 300 U-Boats, and had he started the war with them, Great Britain would likely not have survived. As it was, Germany came very close on two occasions to cutting the lifeline and forcing their surrender.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/w...

Worth reading, even the British admit that the Americans were declaring neutrality, while behaving anything but... However since we won the war, it doesn't matter. Had we lost, Germany likely would have come after us for that the same way we came after them.

So as in all things, the rules, laws, and history is written by the victor, but in this case, we actually know the real history, if we bother to look.

"Never the less, Stalin was very, very angry with the United States and with the United Kingdom as his country lost territory and people to the Germans while he perceived the US and UK as not helping with the war itself. He was also very angry that technical assistance to the Soviet Union was limited; heavy bombers and other large war machines were not sent to the Soviet Union. "

Um, no:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The USSR received a phenomenal amount of support from Britain and the US. As anyone who has read my posts on this topic knows I'm incredibly critical of modern day Russia, but to give the Russian's credit where it's due, they even recognise this to this day, even under the current staunchly anti-Western regime:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-e...

The Arctic convoys and equipment delivered is something that Russia has always been deeply grateful for and is one of the few things that is actually not a bone of contention between America/Britain and Russia.

In fact, even after the war, relations weren't terribly bad, and this led to one of the biggest mistakes we in the UK made before things turned sour - we sold Russia our world leading jet engine technology, allowing them to create the MiG-15.

Most of the tension between Russia and the West came about with the way Russia was managing territory it had seized after World War II, the politics of the early UN and the whole Korea thing rather than anything that happened before Germany and Japan's surrender.

Thanks for saying that. This is worth a read: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl...

It's interesting to note that the classic justification for the bombs - that it saved American lives - only came long after they had been dropped.

The problem here is that your so-called "psychopaths" are normal humans exhibiting normal human behavior.

Stalin, Pol pot, Churchill and Hitler were most definitely mentally ill, ranging from bipolar, antisocial to sociopath.
Paranoia is not normal, morphine addication is not normal.
Frauding is not normal; http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_...
Know that a (normal) human is very much a group creature; favoring ruthless individuals in the market will favor humans without group capabilities.
Whatever merits the current market (or any free market, if possible), favoring individuals unequally with more than 7 billion people around is bound to problems

Those blades also have exotic coatings and actually operate at a temperature above the melting point of the metal in them. A couple of weeks ago I heard the BBC Elements program on nickel and they were bringing up its use in jet engines. Jet turbines use the vast majority of the very limited supply (about 70% of 40 tons) of rhenium produced each year and it is one of the most expensive metals so I doubt the cost is an issue.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/tech...

"By contrast, 3D XPoint works by changing the properties of the material that makes up its memory cells to either having a high resistance to electricity to represent a one or a low resistance to represent a zero."

Sounds like a memresistor?

Yup. Phase Change Memory. Only this one is good and manufacturable. Cheaper than DRAM. It's bad for DRAM manufacturers. A non volatile PC would be nice.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/tech...

"By contrast, 3D XPoint works by changing the properties of the material that makes up its memory cells to either having a high resistance to electricity to represent a one or a low resistance to represent a zero."

Sounds like a memresistor?

The question I have on all that is where is the other 300k going because THAT appears to be going for "pictures and websites"... and that simply baffles me.

Besides restoration, the plan also includes documentation of the suit including photos, a 3D scan, online display of that 3D scan, climate controlled case, and special stand for the suit that will climate control the inside of the suit also so it can all be ready for the 50th anniversary in 2019.

Link to BBC

Another video that is a bit longer that states that the documentation will also include a research into the complete history of the suit and address the price question.

... but New Zealand's CAA have gone right over the top and imposed what amounts to a virtual death-sentence on a hobby that has provided endless, safe fun for people of all ages for more than 50 years.

Drone pilots should be subject to the same restrictions as flying model aircraft pilots.

FMA pilots have to be certifiied. FMA pilots have to pay Public Liability Insurance as part of their aeroclub membership. Interesting fact: the Public Liability Insurance is the *MAJORITY* of aeroclub membership costs, often more than 80%! The Public Liability Insurance only covers them for FMA operations at registered FMA fields. Sure, you can be a cowboy and go flying at the local park or a gliding slope by a road... but your insurance isn't going to cover you. There isn't a weekend goes by that an FMA pilot somewhere isn't having their finger sliced open or even sliced off. Or worse.

Five minutes Googling will find you plenty of news articles about people (usually *not* the pilots) getting killed by flying model planes and helicopters:

• Toy helicopter slices off top of man’s head, http://nypost.com/2013/09/05/m...
• Girl, 14, killed by model plane after near-misses, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
• Model plane death 'an accident', http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_...

You're being completely disingenuous by implying that piloting flying model aircraft, and by extensions drones, is a safe hobby. It's far from safe.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround...

No, AC did not misread. You've just chosen to completely fucking ignore history in favour of a racial attack on white people.

Nice try picking fucking Finland but consider how much of Europe was passed to get to the UK from Africa: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/b...

38 deaths in 7 years suggest it's probably best to avoid the risk: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/maga...

Those charts are more realistic in terms of salaries, the top end of which are more than double your initial quote.

Doctor's don't 'go private', they do private work as well as working for the NHS.

In the UK if you see a private doctor you still need a referral from your NHS GP, everything has an involvement with the NHS somewhere along the way.

Some private doctors may be better and more specialised in their fields but they'll be working from the NHS too mostly on consultant referrals.

One of the biggest and primary benefits of private medical insurance in the UK is the screening. For example, we have some very advanced technology and cancer treatment in the UK, but we have a trailing survival rate see here, because the amount of time and money to constantly screen everyone hasn't traditionally been prioritised or funded accordingly, leading to deaths from advanced stages of cancers that would otherwise have been easily curable.

This is changing slowly, the government just announced pumping an extra £400m into guaranteeing diagnosis within 4 weeks but that, IMO, will do little to help if you still can't get a GP appointment quick enough (there are sometimes waits of 2 - 3 weeks just to see a GP unless it's an absolute emergency.

The NHS is stretched to its limits, people come here on 'health holidays' for free treatment but that's also changing, you'll be required to provide your proof of residency / nationality very very soon.

The new system will be housed partly at the Met Office headquarters in Exeter and partly at a new facility in the Exeter Science Park, and will reach its full capacity in 2017.

At that point, its processing power will be 16 petaflops - meaning it can perform 16 quadrillion calculations every second .

The "Cray XC40" machine will have 480,000 central processing units or CPUs, which is 12 times as many as the current Met Office supercomputer, made by IBM. At 140 tonnes, it will also be three times heavier.

That kind of makes my eyes bleed / head hurt to think about.

And in addition the summary praises FIFA for

one thing FIFA realized that Microsoft didn't is that if you want girls to play your sport, you don't take away their ball!

Well they didn't try to take away the ball but tried it on the non-skimpy shorts and succeeded on the natural gras.
Now if that sets a standard on what the author of the summary expects from companies to do to entice women to come to IT ......