It's a problem, due to there being absolutely no guarantee that the UK will spend the money it currently sends to the EU on all the EU supported projects - science, agrigulture, business development. It's not a guarantee, because a lot of the money will go to funding the extra costs Brexit will incur, such as outsourcing trade negotiators, border security costs (visting EU nationals), vetting of EU nationals wanting to work in the UK, amongst others.
This likely cut in funding was almost immediately obvious when areas such as Cornwal & Wales immediately realised that by voting Brexit, development funds from the EU would be likely to be stopped. Cornwall, for example is wanting assurances about how it will be funded
As for the term autopilot, in its aviation context it is pretty reasonable. It isn't like they are calling it Chauffer...
I get the idea people think the aircraft autopilots a some magical device that allows pilots to sleep while steering the aeroplane around mountains, weather and other aircraft. Where as the reality is a bit more like this:
He [Lubitz] had set the autopilot to descend to 100 feet (30 m) and accelerated the speed of the descending aircraft several times thereafter.[105][106] The aircraft was travelling at 700 kilometres per hour (430 mph) when it crashed into the mountain [1,800m ASL].
I can attest to this. I paid an extra $7 per month for a VPN service - money I would have been happy to give to Netflix to gain access to content available in other countries. Instead I gave it to a 3rd party. Instead I cancelled my subscription when they started blocking VPNs (and told them this was the reason).
I did vote remain, and had planned to do so for most of the time. The only thing that nearly swayed me was the scaremongering that Osborne et al came out with (some of which turned out to be more true than I expected). All I had to look at was the insane promises being made - if somebody is willing to utter lies that are so demonstrably wrong, then the rest of their argument is unlikely to stand up.
The problem is that the remain campaign was just scaremongering, they did try covering some of the leave lies. However it's difficult to fight "national pride" with facts.
We don't even have enough trade negotiators - the few we have are working in Europe - because EU did most of of the work. The UK government is looking at getting people in from private companies, but some don't seem that keen - they'll be tearing down the agreements many of them put a lot of work into creating.
£350 - nope, that was a lie. 71 failed no votes - true, but that amounted to 3%, we actually got our way about 90% of the time. EEA without free movement - we were constantly told this wouldn't happen, and still are being told this. Fisherman won't have to deal with quotas - even if that were to happen, how long would it take for them to be reintroduced after they return to over-fishing indiscriminately? 109 laws on pillows - John Oliver covered that nicely. The EU need us more than we need them (trade deficit) - only if you ignore the fact the EU's GDP is five times greater than the UK's.
All you had to do is check if there was a modicum of truth in what you heard.
Nit pick: The UK (and the republic of Ireland) isn't part of Schengen, unless you mean the next PM is so bad at negotiating with the EU that she joins Schengen by accident, which would be fucking hilarious!
Other than that, I think you're spot on. We'll leave the EU and fuck our economy up (even further) while we negotiate to get back to the position we were in.
As far as I can tell, the people who were most likely to vote leave are those that are least affected by the EU. The older the voter, the more likely to vote leave. What they did was take advantage of all the benefits the UK had from being part of the EU, and then say "fuck it, we don't need that stability anymore".
A good friend of mine got a message from his father along the lines of "sure, it'll be chaotic, but it'll work out in the end". The response was along of the lines of "well done, you've just injected a huge amount of uncertainty and instability for your children and grandchildren, and for what?"
The difference in reactions is also notable. I (and others) were looking forward to getting this whole debacle behind us. We weren't going to be happy if Remain one, we were going to be relieved. On the other hand, I've heard "Independence Day, gentlemen", and "it'll be fine, everything will recover, and it good because we'll get back control".
I know I'm biased, but I've seen a disturbing correlation between the people who are stupid enough to install ransomware, and people who think the outcome is great. It's basically the people who have no concept of consequences.
The reactions of pro-leave MPs showed exactly this, they got what they campaigned for and now they don't know what to do now. Nobody's in a hurry to declare Article 50, so we're now stuck in a limbo.
Syed Kamall, a British Tory MEP who campaigned for Brexit defended Cameron's decision. He said: "Cameron is right to leave negotiations to his successor," arguing it does not make much difference when you trigger the procedure.
Apart from the fact we've had one of the most volatile days in UK market history - UK banks (Lloyds, Barclays & RBS are down 20%).
This reactions is echoed by some of my colleagues - one said "I'd really didn't think it happened" - Well done mate, you just knocked 16% of your pension*.
There's also the energy consumption to consider - will it require solar cells large enough to act in a manner of solar sails? And will the thrust on the solar panels negate the thrust generate by the EM drive?
Pre-edit: TLDR: No According the fountain of knowledge (Wikipedia), the EM drive generates thrust in the region of 0.1 to 0.3 mN/W. Solar energy is about 1361 W/m2, and a solar sail generates about 7.81 uN/m2, which is the equivalent of 5.7 nN/W. Plus, thrust isn't ways going to be opposing sunlight.
I originally read the "Why this matters, WTH" comment as just referring to Trump's hair, not the actual lawsuit which is not only ridiculous but also a concerning attempt at closing down from of the press.
I really don't get the obsession about the man's hair though. Surely there are more important aspects of Trump to worry about.
I never understand why young earth creationists feel the need to [mis]use science to justify things like the flood. They believe in an omnipotent god that created the world before he created the sun and stars - a god that is clearly capable of ignoring physics.
It now sends you a reassuring message telling you it's not recording you when it hears you talking to your friends about the Facebook recording feature.
What are they doing wrong? They're obeying a local law. France wants its laws to apply outside of their borders. Imagine their reaction if Saudi Arabia demanded that they repeal their ban on face covering in public places.
I thought it was some Spanish bloke who'd had is home repossessed.
The test case privacy ruling by the European Union's court of justice against Google Spain was brought by a Spanish man, Mario Costeja González, after he failed to secure the deletion of an auction notice of his repossessed home dating from 1998 on the website of a mass circulation newspaper in Catalonia.
It's an incredibly popular thing in Europe at the moment - censoring factual information. See the ludicrous ruling yesterday in the UK upholding a certain famous individual and their paddling pool related sexual antics. Something that is allowed to be published in Scotland (and of course the rest of the world), but not England and Wales. I have no interest in what people get up to, but the moment they try using their wealth and status to suppress information, then I'm going to make an effort to find out who it is. Celebrities don't understand the Streisand effect, but apparently their lawyers know how to use it to milk every penny from their clients.
It doesn't though. Look a the fatalities from recent suicide bombings in the West: London: 52 (4 bombs in 4 locations) Madrid: 191 (10 bombs in 4 locations) Boston: 6 (2 bombs) Paris: 130 (7 bombs in 3 locations)* Brussels: 32 (3 bombs in two locations)
* Paris was quite different - it highlighted how infective bombs are compared to firearms: Stade de France: 3 bombs, which killed 4 (including 3 bombers) 4 Restaurants: 39 people killed by automatic weapons & one bomber killed by his own bomb Bataclan: Majority of fatalities caused by automatic weapons.
Bombs are for getting attention, not for causing mass causalties, unless you're also mid air at the time.
In the streets, not in the airport. Even the Brussels bombers had to blow themselves up in the check in area because it's was doubtful they'd have got though security.
I was in a car with a friend and he hit a skip while using parking sensors. He reversed back using them, and just before he hit it he remembered that being a skip, it stuck out the top. Luckily he stopped just as he hit the skip so the damage was negligible.
Parking sensors tend to be low down - bumpers tend to stick out - and Tesla warn users about this, ie not detecting hanging objects. The car drove into the overhanging part (front) of the trailer.
It crashed into the front of the trailer, with the overhanging section that parking sensors won't detect. Tesla say in the manual that summon won't see hanging objects, etc.
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It's a problem, due to there being absolutely no guarantee that the UK will spend the money it currently sends to the EU on all the EU supported projects - science, agrigulture, business development. It's not a guarantee, because a lot of the money will go to funding the extra costs Brexit will incur, such as outsourcing trade negotiators, border security costs (visting EU nationals), vetting of EU nationals wanting to work in the UK, amongst others.
This likely cut in funding was almost immediately obvious when areas such as Cornwal & Wales immediately realised that by voting Brexit, development funds from the EU would be likely to be stopped. Cornwall, for example is wanting assurances about how it will be funded
Alternate sources, if you're not keen on the Grauniad:
Cornwall demands £500m to replace lost EU cash
Cornwall votes decisively for Brexit - then seeks 'assurances' that it won't lose the £60million a year it gets in EU subsidies
As for the term autopilot, in its aviation context it is pretty reasonable. It isn't like they are calling it Chauffer...
I get the idea people think the aircraft autopilots a some magical device that allows pilots to sleep while steering the aeroplane around mountains, weather and other aircraft. Where as the reality is a bit more like this:
He [Lubitz] had set the autopilot to descend to 100 feet (30 m) and accelerated the speed of the descending aircraft several times thereafter.[105][106] The aircraft was travelling at 700 kilometres per hour (430 mph) when it crashed into the mountain [1,800m ASL].
I can attest to this. I paid an extra $7 per month for a VPN service - money I would have been happy to give to Netflix to gain access to content available in other countries. Instead I gave it to a 3rd party. Instead I cancelled my subscription when they started blocking VPNs (and told them this was the reason).
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I did vote remain, and had planned to do so for most of the time. The only thing that nearly swayed me was the scaremongering that Osborne et al came out with (some of which turned out to be more true than I expected). All I had to look at was the insane promises being made - if somebody is willing to utter lies that are so demonstrably wrong, then the rest of their argument is unlikely to stand up.
The problem is that the remain campaign was just scaremongering, they did try covering some of the leave lies. However it's difficult to fight "national pride" with facts.
We don't even have enough trade negotiators - the few we have are working in Europe - because EU did most of of the work. The UK government is looking at getting people in from private companies, but some don't seem that keen - they'll be tearing down the agreements many of them put a lot of work into creating.
It wasn't that hard:
£350 - nope, that was a lie.
71 failed no votes - true, but that amounted to 3%, we actually got our way about 90% of the time.
EEA without free movement - we were constantly told this wouldn't happen, and still are being told this.
Fisherman won't have to deal with quotas - even if that were to happen, how long would it take for them to be reintroduced after they return to over-fishing indiscriminately?
109 laws on pillows - John Oliver covered that nicely.
The EU need us more than we need them (trade deficit) - only if you ignore the fact the EU's GDP is five times greater than the UK's.
All you had to do is check if there was a modicum of truth in what you heard.
We've got our flag to wave and we've "taken back control"...
Which - unfortunately - is how a large number of people actually think.
Nit pick: The UK (and the republic of Ireland) isn't part of Schengen, unless you mean the next PM is so bad at negotiating with the EU that she joins Schengen by accident, which would be fucking hilarious!
Other than that, I think you're spot on. We'll leave the EU and fuck our economy up (even further) while we negotiate to get back to the position we were in.
He said that after the first episode, not the penultimate.
As far as I can tell, the people who were most likely to vote leave are those that are least affected by the EU. The older the voter, the more likely to vote leave. What they did was take advantage of all the benefits the UK had from being part of the EU, and then say "fuck it, we don't need that stability anymore".
A good friend of mine got a message from his father along the lines of "sure, it'll be chaotic, but it'll work out in the end". The response was along of the lines of "well done, you've just injected a huge amount of uncertainty and instability for your children and grandchildren, and for what?"
The difference in reactions is also notable. I (and others) were looking forward to getting this whole debacle behind us. We weren't going to be happy if Remain one, we were going to be relieved. On the other hand, I've heard "Independence Day, gentlemen", and "it'll be fine, everything will recover, and it good because we'll get back control".
I know I'm biased, but I've seen a disturbing correlation between the people who are stupid enough to install ransomware, and people who think the outcome is great. It's basically the people who have no concept of consequences.
The reactions of pro-leave MPs showed exactly this, they got what they campaigned for and now they don't know what to do now. Nobody's in a hurry to declare Article 50, so we're now stuck in a limbo.
Syed Kamall, a British Tory MEP who campaigned for Brexit defended Cameron's decision. He said: "Cameron is right to leave negotiations to his successor," arguing it does not make much difference when you trigger the procedure.
Apart from the fact we've had one of the most volatile days in UK market history - UK banks (Lloyds, Barclays & RBS are down 20%).
This reactions is echoed by some of my colleagues - one said "I'd really didn't think it happened" - Well done mate, you just knocked 16% of your pension*.
* His number, not mine.
There's also the energy consumption to consider - will it require solar cells large enough to act in a manner of solar sails? And will the thrust on the solar panels negate the thrust generate by the EM drive?
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TLDR: No
According the fountain of knowledge (Wikipedia), the EM drive generates thrust in the region of 0.1 to 0.3 mN/W. Solar energy is about 1361 W/m2, and a solar sail generates about 7.81 uN/m2, which is the equivalent of 5.7 nN/W. Plus, thrust isn't ways going to be opposing sunlight.
I originally read the "Why this matters, WTH" comment as just referring to Trump's hair, not the actual lawsuit which is not only ridiculous but also a concerning attempt at closing down from of the press.
I really don't get the obsession about the man's hair though. Surely there are more important aspects of Trump to worry about.
I never understand why young earth creationists feel the need to [mis]use science to justify things like the flood. They believe in an omnipotent god that created the world before he created the sun and stars - a god that is clearly capable of ignoring physics.
Yes, shame on them for not ramping up from a lab test straight to an operation for the entire global population...
It now sends you a reassuring message telling you it's not recording you when it hears you talking to your friends about the Facebook recording feature.
What are they doing wrong? They're obeying a local law. France wants its laws to apply outside of their borders. Imagine their reaction if Saudi Arabia demanded that they repeal their ban on face covering in public places.
Is it illegal for French people to call somebody abroad and find out the information? Or is it just this new fangled thing called the internet?
I thought it was some Spanish bloke who'd had is home repossessed.
The test case privacy ruling by the European Union's court of justice against Google Spain was brought by a Spanish man, Mario Costeja González, after he failed to secure the deletion of an auction notice of his repossessed home dating from 1998 on the website of a mass circulation newspaper in Catalonia.
EU court backs 'right to be forgotten': Google must amend results on request
It's an incredibly popular thing in Europe at the moment - censoring factual information. See the ludicrous ruling yesterday in the UK upholding a certain famous individual and their paddling pool related sexual antics. Something that is allowed to be published in Scotland (and of course the rest of the world), but not England and Wales. I have no interest in what people get up to, but the moment they try using their wealth and status to suppress information, then I'm going to make an effort to find out who it is. Celebrities don't understand the Streisand effect, but apparently their lawyers know how to use it to milk every penny from their clients.
It doesn't though. Look a the fatalities from recent suicide bombings in the West:
London: 52 (4 bombs in 4 locations)
Madrid: 191 (10 bombs in 4 locations)
Boston: 6 (2 bombs)
Paris: 130 (7 bombs in 3 locations)*
Brussels: 32 (3 bombs in two locations)
* Paris was quite different - it highlighted how infective bombs are compared to firearms:
Stade de France: 3 bombs, which killed 4 (including 3 bombers)
4 Restaurants: 39 people killed by automatic weapons & one bomber killed by his own bomb
Bataclan: Majority of fatalities caused by automatic weapons.
Bombs are for getting attention, not for causing mass causalties, unless you're also mid air at the time.
Christ, do you have that rant saved, ready to use? Did an Airbus aircraft run over your pet goldfish?
In the streets, not in the airport. Even the Brussels bombers had to blow themselves up in the check in area because it's was doubtful they'd have got though security.
I was in a car with a friend and he hit a skip while using parking sensors. He reversed back using them, and just before he hit it he remembered that being a skip, it stuck out the top. Luckily he stopped just as he hit the skip so the damage was negligible.
Parking sensors tend to be low down - bumpers tend to stick out - and Tesla warn users about this, ie not detecting hanging objects. The car drove into the overhanging part (front) of the trailer.
It crashed into the front of the trailer, with the overhanging section that parking sensors won't detect. Tesla say in the manual that summon won't see hanging objects, etc.