If you had been here, you would realise that the level of terrorism is trivial to when the Americans were funding the IRA, and in spite of the terrorists, the murder rate in Europe (even the worst parts) is still far lower than the murder rate in America due to Americans.
Here in North/East London, last year, the queues at Banks (and Post Offices) went right out into the street (even in winter, in the snow).
Now they have automatic machines for paying in as well as withdrawals, and closed half the banks (and a quarter of the Post Offices). However, the queues are still out into the street, especially at the Post Office (there are loads of Ebay and Amazon returns to process).
Anyone who opened a bank that offered customer service that is better than "truely appalling" would probably take almost all the business from the established players.
Once the UK is out of the EU the government will be free to trounce upon the rights of the people because citizens won't be able to go to the Supreme Court in Brussels.
Yes - the technical term is bringing back sovereignty - its not the sovereignty of the people, its sovereignty of our nit-wit MPs. We are still exactly where we were before - the Monster Raving Looney Party still has no seats.
People,especially Tory voters are only interested in one thing,money for themselves and their friends,they have no conscience, a strange ethical and moral code.
It is this belief that prevents you from seeing the truth. I do not deny that some Tory voters are like that. If you think like that, you sure-as-hell wont be voting for Corbyn.
Your problem is that you believe that the way to help the poor is to take from the rich - and then end up defining "the rich" as people on more than £3,000 a year.
You have to consider why they are rich - they are rich because they have something someone else wants
. Yes - it is jealousy that is making them rich.
The poor do not need more fish - they need a way to catch fish without a long line of middle men eating out of their fish. Labour are committed to keeping you under the middle men, because their existence depends on increasing the number of underlings and their jealousy. They do this by telling you "anyone better off than you is a greedy fuck", instead of admitting that there are other ways of life than being a wage-slave, and most of these need to be encouraged, because life as an assembly-line worker is going to the robots, and robots are piss-poor at jealousy.
according to the polls millions of conservatives are going to go out and vote for this woman
You are one of the "conflationistas".
Some people probably are voting for May. Most are voting against the alternatives. In the UK, almost all votes are against something, rather than for someone.
And the reason a lot of people vote right of Labour is that that the Labour has proved in the past, and continues to demonstrate, that it has not the slightest inkling that wealth is created, let alone how. It is the party of jealousy, and Corbyn is a leader of jealousy politics.
"The economy is like a cake and we want the poor to get a bigger share" is the argument here.
No - the economy is NOT like a cake - anyone who claims that needs to go out and get a ferret*.
The economy is like a fire - if you take out the hot coals, it goes out, and everyone gets cold. The poison here is the measurement of poverty in relative terms.
I am not arguing that people are not poor in the UK - I am arguing that far from helping the poor, the left wing makes them worse off.
You might want to look at Gordon Brown's policy of taxing the "filthy rich" which included people on £3,000 PA in the categories he taxed. Taxing people on benefits is as terminally stupid as government policy can get.
As for "fight for the right to be exploited" the Labour party knows full well that the more people are wage-slaves, the more people will vote Labour. Hence its vigorous commitment to employees at the expense of everyone else.
* Allegedly: "everyone is a socialist, until they own a ferret" ((A ferret is a means of earning money by catching rabbits). - Once you realise wealth is created, you understand that wealth creation requires capital, and if you take the capital and share it out - pretty soon wealth stops being created, and there is nothing to share out. (obviously we don't all the wealth in the hands of one or two, but who owns all the equity? Its YOUR insurance company and pension fund. You should be fighting to have more say in what they do with it.
I have more than five Linux users in my family. No one uses Windows except my step-mother, my real (90 year old) mother is an Apple user, and has been since Apple ][ (prior to that, IBM 709 and 7090).
You might have had a point or two in 1990, but the reality is, not only can the world cope with more than one car manufacturer, all of them do fine selling a whole range of different models. I survive the fact that on my Nissan you flick a stick sticking out of the steering, while on my in-laws Fort, you turn a knob on the dashboard, despite the fact that the Ford I used to have, you turned a stick like the Nissan one, but on the other side of the steering. (Hell, that was almost as tough as remembering whether to use the left mouse button or the right one).
One size fits all, eh? On your premise, I am supposed to deliver pallet-loads of food using a Ford Ka?
Apply now for a brain transplant - stock are limited.
Yes I know some CAD software only runs on Windows. That is a very good reason for using other CAD software. Do you think I would willingly walk through waist high stinging nettles wearing shorts, just because you are standing in the swimming pool?
Most people that run Linux do so because they cannot afford to spend money on a professionally written OS.
They may think that, but those that know what they are talking about run Linux on their high end servers, because the core is a bloody sight more professionally written than windows. The rest of us run BSD.
It is not just an issue of "more eyes". If you ignore Canonical, Gnu/Linux is far more stable internally - I specifically say Gnu, because the issue here is userland culture: The Unix/Linux world has enormous motivation to keep reusing the same code over massively diverse hardware as well as application use cases.
The same code gets more thorough testing in the Unix, with more motivation to fix the problems - because people are able to locate and describe problems better.
I know there are still bugs in Linux - hell, I know there are bugs in OpenBSD - but if I report them, they get fixed - sure it can take a year if the impact is only on me. If I phone Microsoft, all I get is a phone bill and a sore ear.
In the BSD world, some of the code really is over 40 years old, and generations of students have tried to hack it - to improve their game scores or college grades. When they succeed, it is fixed.
In Windows, when a new version is released - it probably comes with more new, improved bugs than bug fixes.
Yes. Ban the Diesel cars, and burn stuff in generating plants which makes even more pollution to power electric cars.
It may kill more people, but its politically correct.
Or you could just bring back the (now banned in many places) old diesels that did not make any NOx at all, and put filters on the exhausts to remove the particulates. No, that is NOT politically correct, and won't line the pockets of the AdBlue people.
So it is the less cynical that see a good reason to migrate to OSS?
After 40 years in the computer industry, the one key lesson that is re-enforced year after year is that you should NEVER trust your infrastructure to closed source products. Anyone that takes a commercial decision to do so should be liable to instant dismissal.
Car analogy: It is like taking a taxi from the airport to the hotel on arriving in a country you have never visited before and don't speak the language with a blindfold on. (And a wad of dollars sticking out of your back pocket).
When did you last visit an NHS hospital? I am fairly certain that the ward my mum was in two years ago had "entertainment centres" showing a Win95 desktop, powered up, but not functional because the hospital app did not support 95! Perfect for hosting malware.
I get the impression the mains plugs have PAT tests, but no one has the job of auditing the PCs for sane software.
All the signs are that decisions are taken by the congenitally incompetent - probably Mr Potato head in the case of King Edwards Hospital. Surely the "Friends of King Edwards Hospital" could go round and install Linux on them, and for the price of the support contract for the piss-poor entertainment software, a local computer club could cobble up an OpenSource solution to entertaining the over 1,000 patients.
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"Guns don't kill people - Americans kill people"
You need to get familiar with this new concept of "JTL" as in "Just Too late". Its all the rage with Java specialists.
I have worked in requirements capture: my money is on the pigs.
Yes, I know PICK was written in Basic - but that was before common sense was invented.
Treacle lovers unite - Make a mad hatter very happy and write an entire embedded OS for an 8 bit micro in javascript.
Now they have automatic machines for paying in as well as withdrawals, and closed half the banks (and a quarter of the Post Offices). However, the queues are still out into the street, especially at the Post Office (there are loads of Ebay and Amazon returns to process).
Anyone who opened a bank that offered customer service that is better than "truely appalling" would probably take almost all the business from the established players.
Like the guy said: it ain't evolution, its devolution, if its getting worse!
Yes, or then again, maybe ... no!
Yes - the technical term is bringing back sovereignty - its not the sovereignty of the people, its sovereignty of our nit-wit MPs. We are still exactly where we were before - the Monster Raving Looney Party still has no seats.
It is this belief that prevents you from seeing the truth. I do not deny that some Tory voters are like that. If you think like that, you sure-as-hell wont be voting for Corbyn.
Your problem is that you believe that the way to help the poor is to take from the rich - and then end up defining "the rich" as people on more than £3,000 a year.
You have to consider why they are rich - they are rich because they have something someone else wants
. Yes - it is jealousy that is making them rich.
The poor do not need more fish - they need a way to catch fish without a long line of middle men eating out of their fish. Labour are committed to keeping you under the middle men, because their existence depends on increasing the number of underlings and their jealousy. They do this by telling you "anyone better off than you is a greedy fuck", instead of admitting that there are other ways of life than being a wage-slave, and most of these need to be encouraged, because life as an assembly-line worker is going to the robots, and robots are piss-poor at jealousy.
You are one of the "conflationistas".
Some people probably are voting for May. Most are voting against the alternatives. In the UK, almost all votes are against something, rather than for someone.
And the reason a lot of people vote right of Labour is that that the Labour has proved in the past, and continues to demonstrate, that it has not the slightest inkling that wealth is created, let alone how. It is the party of jealousy, and Corbyn is a leader of jealousy politics.
"The economy is like a cake and we want the poor to get a bigger share" is the argument here. No - the economy is NOT like a cake - anyone who claims that needs to go out and get a ferret*. The economy is like a fire - if you take out the hot coals, it goes out, and everyone gets cold. The poison here is the measurement of poverty in relative terms. I am not arguing that people are not poor in the UK - I am arguing that far from helping the poor, the left wing makes them worse off. You might want to look at Gordon Brown's policy of taxing the "filthy rich" which included people on £3,000 PA in the categories he taxed. Taxing people on benefits is as terminally stupid as government policy can get.
As for "fight for the right to be exploited" the Labour party knows full well that the more people are wage-slaves, the more people will vote Labour. Hence its vigorous commitment to employees at the expense of everyone else.
* Allegedly: "everyone is a socialist, until they own a ferret" ((A ferret is a means of earning money by catching rabbits). - Once you realise wealth is created, you understand that wealth creation requires capital, and if you take the capital and share it out - pretty soon wealth stops being created, and there is nothing to share out. (obviously we don't all the wealth in the hands of one or two, but who owns all the equity? Its YOUR insurance company and pension fund. You should be fighting to have more say in what they do with it.
I have more than five Linux users in my family. No one uses Windows except my step-mother, my real (90 year old) mother is an Apple user, and has been since Apple ][ (prior to that, IBM 709 and 7090).
In 1967, I had a Ford 103E that did 27MPG ahref=http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C225544rel=url2html-8154http://www.carandclassic.co.uk...>. Now I have a Ford Fusion, and it does 27MPG.
Perhaps I should change my name to Rip Van Winkel.
One size fits all, eh? On your premise, I am supposed to deliver pallet-loads of food using a Ford Ka?
Apply now for a brain transplant - stock are limited.
Yes I know some CAD software only runs on Windows. That is a very good reason for using other CAD software. Do you think I would willingly walk through waist high stinging nettles wearing shorts, just because you are standing in the swimming pool?
They may think that, but those that know what they are talking about run Linux on their high end servers, because the core is a bloody sight more professionally written than windows. The rest of us run BSD.
They will be replaced by robots.
The same code gets more thorough testing in the Unix, with more motivation to fix the problems - because people are able to locate and describe problems better.
I know there are still bugs in Linux - hell, I know there are bugs in OpenBSD - but if I report them, they get fixed - sure it can take a year if the impact is only on me. If I phone Microsoft, all I get is a phone bill and a sore ear.
In the BSD world, some of the code really is over 40 years old, and generations of students have tried to hack it - to improve their game scores or college grades. When they succeed, it is fixed.
In Windows, when a new version is released - it probably comes with more new, improved bugs than bug fixes.
Surely the whole point of buying an "old" car is muscle (and gas consumption).
A plague on your new fangled ....
How many people choke to death each year after reading bad science articles? Enquiring minds need to know!
* estimate based unreliable pseudo-random number generator written in GWBASIC.
No, No, a thousand times NO. Knee-jerk reactions are what gets you elected!
It may kill more people, but its politically correct.
Or you could just bring back the (now banned in many places) old diesels that did not make any NOx at all, and put filters on the exhausts to remove the particulates. No, that is NOT politically correct, and won't line the pockets of the AdBlue people.
FTFY.
After 40 years in the computer industry, the one key lesson that is re-enforced year after year is that you should NEVER trust your infrastructure to closed source products. Anyone that takes a commercial decision to do so should be liable to instant dismissal.
Car analogy: It is like taking a taxi from the airport to the hotel on arriving in a country you have never visited before and don't speak the language with a blindfold on. (And a wad of dollars sticking out of your back pocket).
When did you last visit an NHS hospital? I am fairly certain that the ward my mum was in two years ago had "entertainment centres" showing a Win95 desktop, powered up, but not functional because the hospital app did not support 95! Perfect for hosting malware.
I get the impression the mains plugs have PAT tests, but no one has the job of auditing the PCs for sane software.
All the signs are that decisions are taken by the congenitally incompetent - probably Mr Potato head in the case of King Edwards Hospital. Surely the "Friends of King Edwards Hospital" could go round and install Linux on them, and for the price of the support contract for the piss-poor entertainment software, a local computer club could cobble up an OpenSource solution to entertaining the over 1,000 patients.
Good luck with that!
Let me know when you can grow new fingers.