EU workers propping up vital institutions like the NHS
It used to be easy for Nurses and Doctors from the Commonwealth to work in the NHS.
However EU rules made it considerably harder for those people to gain accreditation yet made it much, much easier for EU citizens whose English is often terrible or those with suspicious qualifications.
You make it sound like any EU citizens working in the NHS will be deported instantly - absolute bullshit.
Why don't you post what is GOOD about belonging in the EU rather than doom-and-gloom about leaving ? Something the Remain sellers have manifestly failed to do.
it's another democratic institution along side the national government.
The idea of the EU government being democratic is laughable and it's long term plan does not involve it working alongside National Governments. It's aim is to be supra-national - why otherwise does it seek it's own defence assets ? How is that going to work alongside Nato ?
The EU's long term plan is a quasi-sovereign state run by the French and Germans to serve their primary interests. Actually no, it's mainly to serve German interests as they are bankrolling it, the French are useful idiots at this point.
The beauty is National Governments are democratically elected - the EU leaders are managing nicely to sidestep that leaving an EU Parliament which is just a talking shop and expense account racket.
1) You are anonymous so don't have the balls to insult someone directly 2) For many countries, EU Directives are treated as suggestions and basically ignored. 3) The UK and other advanced economies had standards long before the EU. 4) You are a paid Brussels shill and I claim my five euros.
1) It's expensive to mount an antenna in the UK - you need permissions, regulatory oversight, rent to land/building owner, cost of the crew to install and maintain it. You can't put any old crap up on any wall. 2) Spectrum licences cost the companies cosmic bucketloads of money 3) First world economy = first world prices
Of course, nobody cared, as there are no roads in Australia capable of that speed, even if you could afford the fuel bills.
Er yes there is...or so my mate told me .
Pootling around at 110kph here most European cars are just clearing their throats as they are easily capable of 200kph for the Autobahn. The clock on my XR5 goes up to 240. Even a smallish car will pass 160kph without being hammered. On the freeways here though 160 would be scary.
My mate once complained about driving on the Autobahn at 250kph - he kept having to pull over to the inside lane as Porsches were coming up behind him considerably faster - and he was in a fast BMW.
I'm assuming they could piggy back on their EMS / Fire / Police systems... I'm a Vol. FireFighter in the states and we have our own private radio network in the town that is backed up by a neighboring town and the county... beyond that we can transmit directly from the Hall if things went really sideways...
The UK is very different - Fire, Ambulance and Police systems are defined at a national level even though there are individual authorities. It's a smallish island so you want interoperability between different counties etc.
Look the first time you watch some of her videos, let be honest it's quite easy on the eye.....
After a few of them you really don't notice that aspect anymore as the content she presents is too interesting - you are a true geek if you can do that.
She has been shamefully treated though and comes across as quite a lovely person.
The Saudi's do not need Nuclear Power plants to produce nuclear weapons - they already have them. The Pakistan weapons program and inventory has been paid for by the Saudi's with the tacit agreement that if Iran comes calling with ground forces, then it's instant sunshine time.
The House of Saud will have absoutely zero regret on sending all those Shia's to paradise a bit earlier than planned and it will be cheered in the streets [well not in the East perhaps] if it does.
Ironically the Israeli's are involved as well - they have always seen Iran in the last few decades as their greatest enemy via their proxies and a nuclear armed Saudi gives them a large security buffer. The Saudi public comments about Israel and the Palestinians are purely PR - in reality they have many common interests and that the Gulf states in private do not give tuppence about the Palestinian's situation and never have.
"a trend of citizen radiation hunters:" - God no. The last thing we need is morons wandering around with geiger counters clicking away with zero idea of the concepts of Alpha, Beta, Gamma, dosage, background radiation etc.
Anyway what kind of teen walks around with a Geiger counter ? When I was a teen the only thing I walked around with was a semi-permanent erection...
That plant in Swindon has been on its arse for a while - it's running at 50% capacity. If Honda were going to move the manufacturing to Europe you'd have a point - but they aren't.
Meanwhile Toyota have commenced manufacturing the Auris at Burnaston - 3800 employed there with a large % hybrids.
As for the coherent argument - other's have said it : The EU as a political concept is heading towards a federal superstate and the UK decided it didn't want to become part of it. That isn't the EU that was sold many years ago.
If you want to blame someone blame the politicians who sleep-walked the country into this over the last 10 years.
It's generally agreed that whilst the Five Eyes share a vast amount of information, they also quietly spy on each other as well - with a bit of a gentleman's agreement not to talk about it. At least everyone then knows it's going on.
With factories in China. If you want to do that kind of business in China building parts for Apple, you do what the Chinese Government tells you to do.
If you make ANYTHING in China you run the risk of having your intellectual property lifted - period.
I thought the main source of plastic in the Ocean was 3rd world countries and fast emerging consumer societies like Indonesia etc. Certainly the amount of refuse and muck on the beaches in Bali was an eye-opener compared to Australia which by and large has clean beaches and is careful with it's plastic refuse.
I can't see how any of this will work in those countries.
I doubt Hitler would have ever completely subjugated the Soviet Union. They could continually fall back through the Urals and beyond and the German supply lines would have been extended even further. German logistics were a mess - it still relied on mainly rail movement and horses for movement close to the front. The transport vehicles it did have were mainly taken from France and other countries - the Allies in contrast were highly mechanised.
Time and time again German supply routes were it's weakest point. Rommel's strategy only worked if he could keep moving forward all the time, bypassing pockets of resistance. The hammering German convoys got in the Mediterranean from Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force meant he never got the fuel, ammunition and replacement armour needed to keep the momentum going. The "all-the-eggs-in-one-basket" strategy of spending all the naval money on submarines and capital ships meant bugger-all destroyers to protect their own supply ships. The Taranto action also kept the Italian Navy out of the frame.
If Germany had focussed it's industrial capacity better and had one view instead of all the competing voices, the history of WW2 in Europe would have been rather different - almost certainly Berlin would have recieved some instant sunshine in 1945.
I was recently involved in the building of a new Children's Hospital. There are mobile phone repeater antennas all over the building and lots of Wi-Fi. There is a system called Vocera which is used more and more. Clinical staff either have a Vocera Handset [which replaces the Pager]; use a ruggedised phone with the Vocera App [it supports a type of messaging] or a normal mobile phone.
There was a small pager system as well but it was there to support existing pagers until they were replaced.
You obviously know nothing about the NHS - the idea that anyone can find a placement in a mental health unit is laughable.
I used to live next door to a Hospital. Once found a young woman politely asking the way to the duck pond across the road so she could kill herself [seriously]. My wife and I persuaded her to follow us back to the secure Mental Health ward. She had just walked out. When my wife [who was a Senior Nurse at said hospital] went somewhat off her tree at the staff, they didn't give a toss.
Not the first time that happened as well - a Kindergarten is more secure.
I'd agree that there is zip chance of a UK company actually even ASKING, never mind requiring which is contrary to so many laws it's ridiculous.
Any HR department [plus their legal department which is ironic considering "legal firms" are looking at it] would be busy telling the future of any executive who thought this was a great idea.
The only user case I would support is Parcel Delivery staff - to find out whether the bastard who left a card saying "You are not home" actually bothered to turn up at the front door first.....
It looks like a great headline but I think you will find that the legal and regulatory framework in the UK will kill this stone-dead in actuality. It boggles the mind that legal and financial firms are considering this and that their HR Departments haven't killed it.
One - unless it's an approved medical implant, any company encouraging employees to do this is leaving itself wide open to legal sanction. We're not even touching whether the person getting the implant was given enough information, advice etc. Even if it IS an approved medical devices, can you imagine the hammering any company that "enforces" this rule will get in the courts ? and it doesn't have to be direct, all an employee needs is a suspicion that they were sacked due to refusing and it's game on.
[Note for our American cousins : UK employment law is rather large and is [rightly] heavily weighted in favour of the employee.]
Two - whilst it might be trendy for Shoreditch scooter-riding social-media professionals, Unions and Civil Liberties organisations will fight it tooth and nail - and the former has lots of financial and political clout. If there is a Labour government next, it's dead in the water and I can't see even the Tories going for this.
Three - whilst it might be fine for your dog and cat, the idea of someone putting an RFID implant in me positively Orwellian.
I'm gobsmacked that this came out of Sweden which is meant to be a highly progressive society.
Radio Amateurs do it all the time - it's a particular subset of the hobby. There are some tiny cubesats orbiting around for this exact purpose. It takes a bit of work and equipment but is doable.
If employees feel they have to protest against their own employer fine
BUT...
I can guarantee you everyone single of them who walked out or protested or went on social media about it is has now effectively destroyed any career at Google. They won't be fired [especially in Europe] but they won't be promoted or advanced and will be first in line if it's redundancy time.
Corporations are self-protecting entities.
Also I'd suggest they Google [heh heh] the concept of "Biting the hand that feeds you"
There were a number of instance where ships rammed icebergs bow-on and survived. If Titanic had hit square-on the bow the outcome may have been different. However there is also wreck evidence and survivor records indicating that the double-bottom was ripped open by an underwater shelf on the iceberg which would have been fatal damage on it's own.
Titanic was NOT built specifically for speed. There were faster liners at the time which by design sacrificed comfort for speed [different hulls etc]. Titanic was always about the last word in luxury - it was no tortoise but even if it didn't sink it had no chance of making the fastest crossing.
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I thought they were on 20m ? The Bandscope just shows the AF frequency.
EU workers propping up vital institutions like the NHS
It used to be easy for Nurses and Doctors from the Commonwealth to work in the NHS.
However EU rules made it considerably harder for those people to gain accreditation yet made it much, much easier for EU citizens whose English is often terrible or those with suspicious qualifications.
You make it sound like any EU citizens working in the NHS will be deported instantly - absolute bullshit.
Why don't you post what is GOOD about belonging in the EU rather than doom-and-gloom about leaving ? Something the Remain sellers have manifestly failed to do.
it's another democratic institution along side the national government.
The idea of the EU government being democratic is laughable and it's long term plan does not involve it working alongside National Governments. It's aim is to be supra-national - why otherwise does it seek it's own defence assets ? How is that going to work alongside Nato ?
The EU's long term plan is a quasi-sovereign state run by the French and Germans to serve their primary interests. Actually no, it's mainly to serve German interests as they are bankrolling it, the French are useful idiots at this point.
The beauty is National Governments are democratically elected - the EU leaders are managing nicely to sidestep that leaving an EU Parliament which is just a talking shop and expense account racket.
1) You are anonymous so don't have the balls to insult someone directly
2) For many countries, EU Directives are treated as suggestions and basically ignored.
3) The UK and other advanced economies had standards long before the EU.
4) You are a paid Brussels shill and I claim my five euros.
1) It's expensive to mount an antenna in the UK - you need permissions, regulatory oversight, rent to land/building owner, cost of the crew to install and maintain it. You can't put any old crap up on any wall.
2) Spectrum licences cost the companies cosmic bucketloads of money
3) First world economy = first world prices
Of course, nobody cared, as there are no roads in Australia capable of that speed, even if you could afford the fuel bills.
Er yes there is...or so my mate told me .
Pootling around at 110kph here most European cars are just clearing their throats as they are easily capable of 200kph for the Autobahn. The clock on my XR5 goes up to 240. Even a smallish car will pass 160kph without being hammered. On the freeways here though 160 would be scary.
My mate once complained about driving on the Autobahn at 250kph - he kept having to pull over to the inside lane as Porsches were coming up behind him considerably faster - and he was in a fast BMW.
I'm assuming they could piggy back on their EMS / Fire / Police systems... I'm a Vol. FireFighter in the states and we have our own private radio network in the town that is backed up by a neighboring town and the county... beyond that we can transmit directly from the Hall if things went really sideways...
The UK is very different - Fire, Ambulance and Police systems are defined at a national level even though there are individual authorities. It's a smallish island so you want interoperability between different counties etc.
Look the first time you watch some of her videos, let be honest it's quite easy on the eye.....
After a few of them you really don't notice that aspect anymore as the content she presents is too interesting - you are a true geek if you can do that.
She has been shamefully treated though and comes across as quite a lovely person.
The Saudi's do not need Nuclear Power plants to produce nuclear weapons - they already have them. The Pakistan weapons program and inventory has been paid for by the Saudi's with the tacit agreement that if Iran comes calling with ground forces, then it's instant sunshine time.
The House of Saud will have absoutely zero regret on sending all those Shia's to paradise a bit earlier than planned and it will be cheered in the streets [well not in the East perhaps] if it does.
Ironically the Israeli's are involved as well - they have always seen Iran in the last few decades as their greatest enemy via their proxies and a nuclear armed Saudi gives them a large security buffer. The Saudi public comments about Israel and the Palestinians are purely PR - in reality they have many common interests and that the Gulf states in private do not give tuppence about the Palestinian's situation and never have.
"a trend of citizen radiation hunters:" - God no. The last thing we need is morons wandering around with geiger counters clicking away with zero idea of the concepts of Alpha, Beta, Gamma, dosage, background radiation etc.
Anyway what kind of teen walks around with a Geiger counter ? When I was a teen the only thing I walked around with was a semi-permanent erection...
That plant in Swindon has been on its arse for a while - it's running at 50% capacity. If Honda were going to move the manufacturing to Europe you'd have a point - but they aren't.
Meanwhile Toyota have commenced manufacturing the Auris at Burnaston - 3800 employed there with a large % hybrids.
As for the coherent argument - other's have said it : The EU as a political concept is heading towards a federal superstate and the UK decided it didn't want to become part of it. That isn't the EU that was sold many years ago.
If you want to blame someone blame the politicians who sleep-walked the country into this over the last 10 years.
It's generally agreed that whilst the Five Eyes share a vast amount of information, they also quietly spy on each other as well - with a bit of a gentleman's agreement not to talk about it. At least everyone then knows it's going on.
With factories in China. If you want to do that kind of business in China building parts for Apple, you do what the Chinese Government tells you to do.
If you make ANYTHING in China you run the risk of having your intellectual property lifted - period.
I thought the main source of plastic in the Ocean was 3rd world countries and fast emerging consumer societies like Indonesia etc. Certainly the amount of refuse and muck on the beaches in Bali was an eye-opener compared to Australia which by and large has clean beaches and is careful with it's plastic refuse.
I can't see how any of this will work in those countries.
I doubt Hitler would have ever completely subjugated the Soviet Union. They could continually fall back through the Urals and beyond and the German supply lines would have been extended even further. German logistics were a mess - it still relied on mainly rail movement and horses for movement close to the front. The transport vehicles it did have were mainly taken from France and other countries - the Allies in contrast were highly mechanised.
Time and time again German supply routes were it's weakest point. Rommel's strategy only worked if he could keep moving forward all the time, bypassing pockets of resistance. The hammering German convoys got in the Mediterranean from Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force meant he never got the fuel, ammunition and replacement armour needed to keep the momentum going. The "all-the-eggs-in-one-basket" strategy of spending all the naval money on submarines and capital ships meant bugger-all destroyers to protect their own supply ships. The Taranto action also kept the Italian Navy out of the frame.
If Germany had focussed it's industrial capacity better and had one view instead of all the competing voices, the history of WW2 in Europe would have been rather different - almost certainly Berlin would have recieved some instant sunshine in 1945.
Of course China is really big on enforcing Patent Infringement isn't it ?
I was recently involved in the building of a new Children's Hospital. There are mobile phone repeater antennas all over the building and lots of Wi-Fi. There is a system called Vocera which is used more and more. Clinical staff either have a Vocera Handset [which replaces the Pager]; use a ruggedised phone with the Vocera App [it supports a type of messaging] or a normal mobile phone.
There was a small pager system as well but it was there to support existing pagers until they were replaced.
You obviously know nothing about the NHS - the idea that anyone can find a placement in a mental health unit is laughable.
I used to live next door to a Hospital. Once found a young woman politely asking the way to the duck pond across the road so she could kill herself [seriously]. My wife and I persuaded her to follow us back to the secure Mental Health ward. She had just walked out. When my wife [who was a Senior Nurse at said hospital] went somewhat off her tree at the staff, they didn't give a toss.
Not the first time that happened as well - a Kindergarten is more secure.
I'd agree that there is zip chance of a UK company actually even ASKING, never mind requiring which is contrary to so many laws it's ridiculous.
Any HR department [plus their legal department which is ironic considering "legal firms" are looking at it] would be busy telling the future of any executive who thought this was a great idea.
The only user case I would support is Parcel Delivery staff - to find out whether the bastard who left a card saying "You are not home" actually bothered to turn up at the front door first.....
It's in the UK - you get lifetime "free" [paid through taxation] healthcare anyway
A researcher did this years ago in the UK.
It looks like a great headline but I think you will find that the legal and regulatory framework in the UK will kill this stone-dead in actuality. It boggles the mind that legal and financial firms are considering this and that their HR Departments haven't killed it.
One - unless it's an approved medical implant, any company encouraging employees to do this is leaving itself wide open to legal sanction. We're not even touching whether the person getting the implant was given enough information, advice etc. Even if it IS an approved medical devices, can you imagine the hammering any company that "enforces" this rule will get in the courts ? and it doesn't have to be direct, all an employee needs is a suspicion that they were sacked due to refusing and it's game on.
[Note for our American cousins : UK employment law is rather large and is [rightly] heavily weighted in favour of the employee.]
Two - whilst it might be trendy for Shoreditch scooter-riding social-media professionals, Unions and Civil Liberties organisations will fight it tooth and nail - and the former has lots of financial and political clout. If there is a Labour government next, it's dead in the water and I can't see even the Tories going for this.
Three - whilst it might be fine for your dog and cat, the idea of someone putting an RFID implant in me positively Orwellian.
I'm gobsmacked that this came out of Sweden which is meant to be a highly progressive society.
Radio Amateurs do it all the time - it's a particular subset of the hobby. There are some tiny cubesats orbiting around for this exact purpose. It takes a bit of work and equipment but is doable.
If employees feel they have to protest against their own employer fine
BUT...
I can guarantee you everyone single of them who walked out or protested or went on social media about it is has now effectively destroyed any career at Google. They won't be fired [especially in Europe] but they won't be promoted or advanced and will be first in line if it's redundancy time.
Corporations are self-protecting entities.
Also I'd suggest they Google [heh heh] the concept of "Biting the hand that feeds you"
There were a number of instance where ships rammed icebergs bow-on and survived. If Titanic had hit square-on the bow the outcome may have been different. However there is also wreck evidence and survivor records indicating that the double-bottom was ripped open by an underwater shelf on the iceberg which would have been fatal damage on it's own.
Titanic was NOT built specifically for speed. There were faster liners at the time which by design sacrificed comfort for speed [different hulls etc]. Titanic was always about the last word in luxury - it was no tortoise but even if it didn't sink it had no chance of making the fastest crossing.