Good to see that #fakenews is over in the UK as well.
Son, this is slashdot, not twitter. Try to speak using actual words not 140 character or fewer catchphrases. I know that trying to engage your brain might make your head explode, but that's a risk I'm willing to take.
You can claim that if you want, but it kinda differs from the wording of the referendum:
I bet you think 350 million a week is going to go to the NHS because it was written on the side of a bus. What a nupty!
The referendum was organised by our government which means its purpose was to instruct our government on what to do.
It is interesting that the poorly thought & delivered arguments in your post echo your signature.
This comes from the person who can barely nuderstand words at the best of times and once that high hurdle is crossed cannot actually understand the meaning of the assembled sentance.
The current domain holders should be grandfathered
Oh they should, should they?
Why? The rules specifically state that owners must be in the EU (plus Norway etc).
It was an obvious consequence of Brexit that we would lose access to this. Because it's in the fucking rules of the registrar which are public.
Getting pissy because you didn't bother to figure out what actually leaving meant before voting leave isn't going to help. If you voted against your own interests out of ignorance and stupidity it's not the EU's fault or their job to fix it for you, especially when you're determined not to lift a finger to fix it for yourself.
That's you in the general sense, not you specifically since IIRC you are in fact American.
Sure, but the point is that you could have benefitted more.
Sure.
For example, every person who flew through Heathrow en route to the continent waited to get money from an ATM until they got to their destination, because they couldn't do anything with pounds sterling.
The cash machines in heathrow dish out euros. I've done it (and got knowingly ripped off) when I forgot to stuff any euros in my walet before setting out.
Anyway we didn't vote to eave, we voted to get the government to tell the EU we're leaving. We can vote to get the government to tell the EU we don't want to leave any more.
So they got a lot of the headaches of being in the EU, while missing a lot of the benefits.
No bollocks to that. We benefitted pheomenally from being in the EU.
it is also to the benefit of the people of the EU to make an example of Britain, to make it as painful as possible for them, to discourage anyone else from leaving, because every time any country leaves, all the other countries are worse off.
They're not even doing that. There's no need to do that. Just letting us leave, and by leave, I mean you know leave where we don't get all the stuff we had before---just letting us leave is more than bad enough.
they don't need to make an example of; we're making a fine example of ourselves without any assistance.
What kind of fucking moron cares about the "EU's best interest?"
Well, the extant members of the EU for one.
If you don't like the rules of a club and decide to leave and stop paying your fees, you can't really complain when you can't use the gym any more. Or the pool. and the sauna's off limits too. Yep and the sports massage even though you had to pay extra for it.
Oh and you also don't get the affiliate discounts at the loca supermarket either.
SERIOUSLY HOW THE FUCK IS THAT A SURPRISE TO ANYONE???
"we" (ha!) voted to leave, now the people who voted to do so are throwing a total shit fit about not getting al the cool shit we got as members..eu domains are for members of the EU, end of. Not members and random whiny hangers on. Just members.
Fun fact: placebos are more effective when the patient thinks they're more expensive.
In conclusion, I agree with your statement wholeheartedly. And yet, I merrily chow down on expensive placebos whe nI have a cold because they make me feel better.
Sorry but you clearly do not have any idea how parliament works. If two laws clash then the one passed the latest automatically has precedence.
We're a precedence based legal system over here, so that depends very much how the judges interpret the scope of the law. To say that what you have written is s gross simplification is something of an understatement.
There is literally no limit to parliament's power.
There's "literally" no limit to any government's power. There isn't a system on the planet which prevents a government passing whatever laws it likes, given sufficient support.
They can pass any law they like and, provided it passes both houses and get royal assent it becomes the law. Even if that law violates previously entered treaties and agreements it is still the law and there is literally no means to prevent
My god what happens if a constitutional amendment gets passed that repeals the majority of the constitution??? See how this works?
because of a well-established principle that no parliament may bind another.
Except that in practice we have signed up t otreaties which cede control in certain areas like the ECHR and they can overturn things.
I know that this is hard to comprehend for an American
You're arguing with a Brit you numpty. And you seem to be very ignorant about how non-British systems work, too.
but the UK and other parliamentary governments are only bound by custom and a general desire to behave well.
Isn't this the point though? Medicine is all about curing and treating medical conditions. Whether or not it is wrapped up in some pseudo-scientific BS if the process actually works and relieves a medical condition without causing harm then surely it is good medicine even though it may be appalling science.
The placebo effect is well known about and remarkably powerful. Is it good medicine to give people sugar pills, since that is surprisingly effective?
Really annoying an entire government is a dangerous thing to do given that they literally make the rules and the UK has no written constitution to constrain it:
Rah! Rah! Americuhhh!
The written constitution doesn't help all those people imprisoned that no other countries sees fit to imprison. Nor does the 4th amendment seem to prevent unlawful seizure if it's renamed to "civil forefiture". Nor does it stop a party stacking the supreme court with very partisan judges so that they can "interpret" the constitution to mean whatever the hell they like.
Besides, it doesn't stop the government from passing a constitutional amendment, as has happened in the past.
The government can't do precisely what it likes, since there's a lot of laws on the books already and it would have to specifically repeal those that clash. And we're still a signatory to the ECHR even after Brexit (it that stupidity presists), so they can still overrule. And so on and so forth.
Having a constitution doesn't magically make your government awesome. For a counter example, see every country with a written constitution ever.
it's a parliamentary dictatorship
That is arguably the stupidest thing I've heard on the internet today.
Here's a simple suggestion: call or write or email to your teacher and the comedy clubs or agents. Explain that they need to use an alternative means of communication, by a list coupled to email or efax or DropBox or similar site or an old fashioned BBS or whatever.
And then when they say "uh huh" and see that they don't need to do anything because everyone (except you) is on FB, you can then stop doing comedy since you won't have any gigs.
Someone needs to remind the Brits that if Love didn't want to do the time, he shouldn't have done the crime
He can do the time in Britain where he lives and was located when he committed the crime. That sounds much more fair than sending him to a crazy country that locks up a startlingly large fraction of its own population.
Perhaps the biggest problem lies in the absence of vast undeserved profits. That's the main reason why the Western world went overboard on antibiotics in the first place,
No that's utter bullshit. The reason we went nuts on them is they're extremely effective and have saved vast numbers of lives. They over took phage therapy because thye were much more reliable. The reason we haven't gone wholesale on bacteriophages is a reason you already identified:
Also, the specificity means that a phage is extremely focused in its effects. None of the huge overkill of antibiotics, which - as their name implies - are pretty hostile to all living material. The downside is significant, but manageable. Each phage kills only one type of bacterium, so you need to create a library of phages.
That's the thing, really, and it has more downsides than you realise.
In order to use phages you need to be able to easily identify the infecting bacteria. Doing that on the scale at which infections are treated is a vast undertaking. It's one which can ultimately be fixed with technology, but being able to do it rapidly and effectively is only currently available for a few bacteria. Then you need huge stocks because you need a different phage for each bacteria, also a large undertaking.
And finally, antibiotics are often used prior to any specific evidence of an infection after surgery or a bite with a high likelihood of infection. Those are much harder cases to deal with for phage therapy.
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Good to see that #fakenews is over in the UK as well.
Son, this is slashdot, not twitter. Try to speak using actual words not 140 character or fewer catchphrases. I know that trying to engage your brain might make your head explode, but that's a risk I'm willing to take.
You can claim that if you want, but it kinda differs from the wording of the referendum:
I bet you think 350 million a week is going to go to the NHS because it was written on the side of a bus. What a nupty!
The referendum was organised by our government which means its purpose was to instruct our government on what to do.
It is interesting that the poorly thought & delivered arguments in your post echo your signature.
This comes from the person who can barely nuderstand words at the best of times and once that high hurdle is crossed cannot actually understand the meaning of the assembled sentance.
Actually that is not entirely correct
Yes I was simplifying slightly. They're explicitly specified how you said. It certainly excludes post Brexit UK.
The current domain holders should be grandfathered
Oh they should, should they?
Why? The rules specifically state that owners must be in the EU (plus Norway etc).
It was an obvious consequence of Brexit that we would lose access to this. Because it's in the fucking rules of the registrar which are public.
Getting pissy because you didn't bother to figure out what actually leaving meant before voting leave isn't going to help. If you voted against your own interests out of ignorance and stupidity it's not the EU's fault or their job to fix it for you, especially when you're determined not to lift a finger to fix it for yourself.
That's you in the general sense, not you specifically since IIRC you are in fact American.
Sure, but the point is that you could have benefitted more.
Sure.
For example, every person who flew through Heathrow en route to the continent waited to get money from an ATM until they got to their destination, because they couldn't do anything with pounds sterling.
The cash machines in heathrow dish out euros. I've done it (and got knowingly ripped off) when I forgot to stuff any euros in my walet before setting out.
This is nothing other than spite.
Yes it's spite for them to stick to the rules that we agreed to abide by.
fucking bastards.
It's not uncommon to register a domain in a country other than the one you live in.
Except it's in the rules of the eu domains that you can't have one if you're not in the EU.
For fucks sake, it's not spite for them to stop letting us use the EU facilities when we leave ans stop paying membership fees.
I know. It's such a nerve how they won't let people who aren't paying fees use the facilities.
What arseholes. They should pay us to leave and give us all the cool shit too. And let us not take any of them dirty frenchies. /s
Who wrote that rule, the UK or the EU?
Article 50? I believe it was us what wrote it.
Anyway we didn't vote to eave, we voted to get the government to tell the EU we're leaving. We can vote to get the government to tell the EU we don't want to leave any more.
This looks more like spouses divorcing and threatening each other's items out of sheer spite.
Why don't people understand? We are LEAVING. We chose to leave (for some reason). that means we don't get any of the stuff any more.
That's what fucking leaving means.
Yes, they call themselves, "Scots" . . .
London also voted remain, and there are somewhat more Londoners than Scots.
So they got a lot of the headaches of being in the EU, while missing a lot of the benefits.
No bollocks to that. We benefitted pheomenally from being in the EU.
it is also to the benefit of the people of the EU to make an example of Britain, to make it as painful as possible for them, to discourage anyone else from leaving, because every time any country leaves, all the other countries are worse off.
They're not even doing that. There's no need to do that. Just letting us leave, and by leave, I mean you know leave where we don't get all the stuff we had before---just letting us leave is more than bad enough.
they don't need to make an example of; we're making a fine example of ourselves without any assistance.
What kind of fucking moron cares about the "EU's best interest?"
Well, the extant members of the EU for one.
If you don't like the rules of a club and decide to leave and stop paying your fees, you can't really complain when you can't use the gym any more. Or the pool. and the sauna's off limits too. Yep and the sports massage even though you had to pay extra for it.
Oh and you also don't get the affiliate discounts at the loca supermarket either.
SERIOUSLY HOW THE FUCK IS THAT A SURPRISE TO ANYONE???
"we" (ha!) voted to leave, now the people who voted to do so are throwing a total shit fit about not getting al the cool shit we got as members. .eu domains are for members of the EU, end of. Not members and random whiny hangers on. Just members.
WTF is wrong with us as a species.
Fun fact: placebos are more effective when the patient thinks they're more expensive.
In conclusion, I agree with your statement wholeheartedly. And yet, I merrily chow down on expensive placebos whe nI have a cold because they make me feel better.
And science supports that :)
Sorry but you clearly do not have any idea how parliament works. If two laws clash then the one passed the latest automatically has precedence.
We're a precedence based legal system over here, so that depends very much how the judges interpret the scope of the law. To say that what you have written is s gross simplification is something of an understatement.
There is literally no limit to parliament's power.
There's "literally" no limit to any government's power. There isn't a system on the planet which prevents a government passing whatever laws it likes, given sufficient support.
They can pass any law they like and, provided it passes both houses and get royal assent it becomes the law. Even if that law violates previously entered treaties and agreements it is still the law and there is literally no means to prevent
My god what happens if a constitutional amendment gets passed that repeals the majority of the constitution??? See how this works?
because of a well-established principle that no parliament may bind another.
Except that in practice we have signed up t otreaties which cede control in certain areas like the ECHR and they can overturn things.
I know that this is hard to comprehend for an American
You're arguing with a Brit you numpty. And you seem to be very ignorant about how non-British systems work, too.
but the UK and other parliamentary governments are only bound by custom and a general desire to behave well.
That's the same as all other systems.
Isn't this the point though? Medicine is all about curing and treating medical conditions. Whether or not it is wrapped up in some pseudo-scientific BS if the process actually works and relieves a medical condition without causing harm then surely it is good medicine even though it may be appalling science.
The placebo effect is well known about and remarkably powerful. Is it good medicine to give people sugar pills, since that is surprisingly effective?
Really annoying an entire government is a dangerous thing to do given that they literally make the rules and the UK has no written constitution to constrain it:
Rah! Rah! Americuhhh!
The written constitution doesn't help all those people imprisoned that no other countries sees fit to imprison. Nor does the 4th amendment seem to prevent unlawful seizure if it's renamed to "civil forefiture". Nor does it stop a party stacking the supreme court with very partisan judges so that they can "interpret" the constitution to mean whatever the hell they like.
Besides, it doesn't stop the government from passing a constitutional amendment, as has happened in the past.
The government can't do precisely what it likes, since there's a lot of laws on the books already and it would have to specifically repeal those that clash. And we're still a signatory to the ECHR even after Brexit (it that stupidity presists), so they can still overrule. And so on and so forth.
Having a constitution doesn't magically make your government awesome. For a counter example, see every country with a written constitution ever.
it's a parliamentary dictatorship
That is arguably the stupidest thing I've heard on the internet today.
Amazingly, they are copying the notch , just not the faceID.
So, there're merely a good artist, not a great one then.
Here's a simple suggestion: call or write or email to your teacher and the comedy clubs or agents. Explain that they need to use an alternative means of communication, by a list coupled to email or efax or DropBox or similar site or an old fashioned BBS or whatever.
And then when they say "uh huh" and see that they don't need to do anything because everyone (except you) is on FB, you can then stop doing comedy since you won't have any gigs.
Someone needs to remind the Brits that if Love didn't want to do the time, he shouldn't have done the crime
He can do the time in Britain where he lives and was located when he committed the crime. That sounds much more fair than sending him to a crazy country that locks up a startlingly large fraction of its own population.
decades of legacy software and workflows.
Legacy, n. Something distinguished from the competition by actually working.
I like remote windowing and I like middle click to paste.
Perhaps the biggest problem lies in the absence of vast undeserved profits. That's the main reason why the Western world went overboard on antibiotics in the first place,
No that's utter bullshit. The reason we went nuts on them is they're extremely effective and have saved vast numbers of lives. They over took phage therapy because thye were much more reliable. The reason we haven't gone wholesale on bacteriophages is a reason you already identified:
Also, the specificity means that a phage is extremely focused in its effects. None of the huge overkill of antibiotics, which - as their name implies - are pretty hostile to all living material. The downside is significant, but manageable. Each phage kills only one type of bacterium, so you need to create a library of phages.
That's the thing, really, and it has more downsides than you realise.
In order to use phages you need to be able to easily identify the infecting bacteria. Doing that on the scale at which infections are treated is a vast undertaking. It's one which can ultimately be fixed with technology, but being able to do it rapidly and effectively is only currently available for a few bacteria. Then you need huge stocks because you need a different phage for each bacteria, also a large undertaking.
And finally, antibiotics are often used prior to any specific evidence of an infection after surgery or a bite with a high likelihood of infection. Those are much harder cases to deal with for phage therapy.
IOW this isn' some dumbbass western consipracy.
It just needs a moderation protocol on top of it. Let people subscribe to what ever moderation service they want to read USENET with.
You'll still get people whining about censorship, just as they did whne Twitter (or some 3rd party for twitter) did something similar.
Stupid disarmed Euro serfs who deludedly imagine themselves freemen.
Ah yes the land of incarceration is the freest place on earth! Somehow.
If you try to prevent ideas or knowledge from spreading because you disagree with them, then you are against freedom of speech.
If you fail to assist spreading things that does not mean you're against free speech.
How come men don't complain that our cars, computers, smartphones, and household assistants don't sound like us?
You mean like this dude?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/te...
We ought to be insisting that Siri come with a male-voice option.
It does, moron.
Women are often psychologically unsuited to be tech leaders. Here are four rules of women in the tech workforce.
And men are often usioted as well. But you singled out women. So please fuck off.