Some anti-capitalist or anti-western will take it out in some way and be very disappointed at the lack of negative reaction from the "west" or most capitalists. In fact we will be able to see who is most in the pockets of the crazies by how loud they howl.
What treaties or international treaties would be broken by whoever takes out those things? Which country could do it? As India can, I suspect Pakistan is working on it. They have a track record of working with North Korea. Perhaps they see Iran as someone to cooperate with and so on.
at least nine former employees of the U.S. National Security Agency
"former members" of criminal groups are still criminals. It does not matter if they are Mafia, MAFIAA, US spooks or whatever. Whether they wear suits (Al Capones ones did) or jeans and T-shirts, they are criminals of varying legality.
Most gangs are not happy let you really leave. Whether it is a street gang, or the CIA, you are regarded as still being bound by their rules. Some groups promise violence if you try and leave, others just refuse to recognise that if you leave, you are no longer part of them and bound by their special culture. Leavers may be threatened with violence, death, kidnapping and confinement but they don't let you leave.
...in a few weeks it may be rather desperate for a trade deal
You may be under a false impression. WE really REALLY do not want the deal that President Donald Fart is offering us where we have to drop everything from food standards to the NHS before we can take goods from his rich friends and their servants.
...enemies of the USA, or friends of enemies of the USA...
Do you mean enemies of the USA or enemies of your rulers? The two are very different.
Just because someone loathes the people who think they have a divine right to control your country without you knowing who they all are, does not mean they are hostile to you or your country. I'm not talking about your weird far right, your "militias" or even your religious fundamentalists. You saw an example of "control" before your last election when one person was stopped from running and someone less likely was told she could.
The trouble with truth is that we have been trained to reject it as a conspiracy theory.
We have tried politicians with 'classical' educations. They lumbered our system with Greek and Latin. They derided us for being ignorant of what they considered important and took pride of their own ignorances.
We tried lawyers and ended up with appalling legal loopholes everywhere.
We tried ones who work in the media and ended up with the media taking over society.
We tried TV "personalities" and ended up with Trump and Brexit.
Now it is suggested we get politicians who understand aspects of the modern world. Based on past selection criteria, we need to be careful...
By that, I presume make the companies follow acceptable standards, pretty much as has been done in Europe with the GDPR.
The biggest effect upon US businesses of the GDPR is that comparable user protection for your citizens is seeming more common/likely. If the rest of the world follows these practices, it will be harder for your rulers to prevent you from benefiting from them.
It is not likely that they would get away with this fraud anywhere except the USA. The rest of us tend to have laws that should protect the customer from deceptive practices like this!
Who shut down our coal industry and got rid of a good part of our industries?
Look out USA! You have her successor now. You may think he is pro coal and dirty industry. He is pro money. When that notes that profits are best served by closing mines and steel works, your CO2 will drop as well!
China is far from a free country. China also has way less freedom than even the shittiest western countries. You can end up being reeducated for even asking a serious question to the local party officials. The icing on the cake is it's a terrible place for the average worker too. The workers have zilch rights even worse than at the crappiest U.S. companies. The pollution problems in China make super-fund sites in the U.S. look like nature preserves.
The worst part is the party doesn't even have any competition. It's the same old story, power corrupts, and in a one party state, that's a hell of a lot of power.
This is all relative. Make a few changes and...
The USA is far from a free country. It also has way less freedom than even the shittiest EU countries. You can end up being bankrupted for even asking a serious question of a corporation. The icing on the cake is it's a terrible place for the average worker too. The workers have zilch rights even worse than at the crappiest EU companies.
and so on.
Yes, I suspect that China is an order of magnitude worse than the US. It just isn't so perfect that its supporters should rabidly criticise anyone else.
That is lots of €0.05 that are no longer helping starving coal mine owners, executives and financiers. Instead it is being "wasted" on common people who will use it on silly things like food and clothes!
In comparison to Orkney. the North tip of Scotland and Shetland, The rest of the UK is not particularly windy. After WWII, when the UK was setting up a nationwide weather reporting system, reports were regularly rejected as incorrect as they reported more wind than "experts" in London considered possible.
solar: great bit of kit that should be deployed in more places, but some areas get less sun that others.
They find solar very effective in Germany which is further north than much of the USA. If it was not efficient, you don't think they would do it do you?
More of both, but let's be realistic as to where these things can be useful and on whether they can solve all of our energy problems.
Renewable energy could solve our needs but that's not the problem. That is political and even cultural.
Is she a mobile worker? That is the only reason to buy a laptop.
The trouble with laptops is that you are generally legally responsible for giving her a safe and non-harmful working environment. That mitigates against laptops. They cause such things as eyestrain, carpal tunnel syndrome and RSI.
My employer has me do on call so I have a laptop. At work, it lives in a docking station with proper mouse and keyboard as well as 2 standard monitors. This may cost twice of a comparable desktop. It will be slower as well but as I mostly tend to do things like RDP and web based apps I don't need a gaming-ready system.
I am not following you. Brexit was democratically voted in, and also the EU accepted that democratic election result.
It depends on your definition of democracy. The UK is a representative democracy. Our representatives consistently did not do Brexit because only a minority of their electorate actually wanted it.
The Brexit legislation was, apparently, deliberately badly written. so that an undemocratic % of the electorate could (and did) get their way. Only 3/5 of the electorate actually voted for this. That is less than the 50% plus 1 that would have made this a democratic decision.
She seems to have the idea that the best way to keen the extreme right happy is to do what they want.
Having aspirations towards being a decent human being, I say that the alt-right, extreme conservatives and the wannabe fascists can stick their notions where the sun doesn't shine!
This sort of thing is illegal in, developed, civilised countries. The USA considers the purpose of Hospitals, doctors etc to be different from the rest of us. We think that they are to do with health, sickness, prevention etc. As yours are run by people whose prime function is providing shareholders with dividends, human welfare related uses are often far less important.
Google tried some of its stuff here but that has come to an (apparent) end.
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Some anti-capitalist or anti-western will take it out in some way and be very disappointed at the lack of negative reaction from the "west" or most capitalists. In fact we will be able to see who is most in the pockets of the crazies by how loud they howl.
What treaties or international treaties would be broken by whoever takes out those things? Which country could do it? As India can, I suspect Pakistan is working on it. They have a track record of working with North Korea. Perhaps they see Iran as someone to cooperate with and so on.
I mentioned the other gangs as examples. Pick your preferred bunch of sociopaths or psychopaths. To mention them all would need a very long list.
at least nine former employees of the U.S. National Security Agency
"former members" of criminal groups are still criminals. It does not matter if they are Mafia, MAFIAA, US spooks or whatever. Whether they wear suits (Al Capones ones did) or jeans and T-shirts, they are criminals of varying legality.
Most gangs are not happy let you really leave. Whether it is a street gang, or the CIA, you are regarded as still being bound by their rules. Some groups promise violence if you try and leave, others just refuse to recognise that if you leave, you are no longer part of them and bound by their special culture. Leavers may be threatened with violence, death, kidnapping and confinement but they don't let you leave.
...in a few weeks it may be rather desperate for a trade deal
You may be under a false impression. WE really REALLY do not want the deal that President Donald Fart is offering us where we have to drop everything from food standards to the NHS before we can take goods from his rich friends and their servants.
...enemies of the USA, or friends of enemies of the USA...
Do you mean enemies of the USA or enemies of your rulers? The two are very different.
Just because someone loathes the people who think they have a divine right to control your country without you knowing who they all are, does not mean they are hostile to you or your country. I'm not talking about your weird far right, your "militias" or even your religious fundamentalists. You saw an example of "control" before your last election when one person was stopped from running and someone less likely was told she could.
The trouble with truth is that we have been trained to reject it as a conspiracy theory.
We have tried politicians with 'classical' educations. They lumbered our system with Greek and Latin. They derided us for being ignorant of what they considered important and took pride of their own ignorances.
We tried lawyers and ended up with appalling legal loopholes everywhere.
We tried ones who work in the media and ended up with the media taking over society.
We tried TV "personalities" and ended up with Trump and Brexit.
Now it is suggested we get politicians who understand aspects of the modern world. Based on past selection criteria, we need to be careful...
By that, I presume make the companies follow acceptable standards, pretty much as has been done in Europe with the GDPR.
The biggest effect upon US businesses of the GDPR is that comparable user protection for your citizens is seeming more common/likely. If the rest of the world follows these practices, it will be harder for your rulers to prevent you from benefiting from them.
It is not likely that they would get away with this fraud anywhere except the USA. The rest of us tend to have laws that should protect the customer from deceptive practices like this!
Who shut down our coal industry and got rid of a good part of our industries?
Look out USA! You have her successor now. You may think he is pro coal and dirty industry. He is pro money. When that notes that profits are best served by closing mines and steel works, your CO2 will drop as well!
"rolling out to `everyone`"? Really
By everyone I presume the OP means just the USA (i.e. 4.5% of "Everyone")?
Or 2% of everywhere
Or England is part of the UK...
China is far from a free country. China also has way less freedom than even the shittiest western countries. You can end up being reeducated for even asking a serious question to the local party officials. The icing on the cake is it's a terrible place for the average worker too. The workers have zilch rights even worse than at the crappiest U.S. companies. The pollution problems in China make super-fund sites in the U.S. look like nature preserves.
The worst part is the party doesn't even have any competition. It's the same old story, power corrupts, and in a one party state, that's a hell of a lot of power.
This is all relative. Make a few changes and...
The USA is far from a free country. It also has way less freedom than even the shittiest EU countries. You can end up being bankrupted for even asking a serious question of a corporation. The icing on the cake is it's a terrible place for the average worker too. The workers have zilch rights even worse than at the crappiest EU companies.
and so on.
Yes, I suspect that China is an order of magnitude worse than the US. It just isn't so perfect that its supporters should rabidly criticise anyone else.
Will they be able to do this on phones that are not locked?
Hopefully, this will make buying your own phone as an even safer option to go with the long standing fact that it is cheaper!/p?
That is lots of €0.05 that are no longer helping starving coal mine owners, executives and financiers. Instead it is being "wasted" on common people who will use it on silly things like food and clothes!
Proof of the exceptional weather in Orkney is that my mother told me I have special genetic variations to cope...
Big feet and a low centre of gravity!
When isn't the British coast windy after all?
In comparison to Orkney. the North tip of Scotland and Shetland, The rest of the UK is not particularly windy. After WWII, when the UK was setting up a nationwide weather reporting system, reports were regularly rejected as incorrect as they reported more wind than "experts" in London considered possible.
solar: great bit of kit that should be deployed in more places, but some areas get less sun that others.
They find solar very effective in Germany which is further north than much of the USA. If it was not efficient, you don't think they would do it do you?
More of both, but let's be realistic as to where these things can be useful and on whether they can solve all of our energy problems.
Renewable energy could solve our needs but that's not the problem. That is political and even cultural.
Keep all your stuff on the cloud of your choice and all done - Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon or whatever...
Is she a mobile worker? That is the only reason to buy a laptop.
The trouble with laptops is that you are generally legally responsible for giving her a safe and non-harmful working environment. That mitigates against laptops. They cause such things as eyestrain, carpal tunnel syndrome and RSI.
My employer has me do on call so I have a laptop. At work, it lives in a docking station with proper mouse and keyboard as well as 2 standard monitors. This may cost twice of a comparable desktop. It will be slower as well but as I mostly tend to do things like RDP and web based apps I don't need a gaming-ready system.
Shakespere is pretty well esconced in history.
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002748.html
... it was a slur when I was in school as it implied multiple personalities.
When did you go to school? That has been valid usage since at least the time of Shakespeare.
Alternatively, you could use a form that has been around longer than the USA...
"They are a doctor."
I am not following you. Brexit was democratically voted in, and also the EU accepted that democratic election result.
It depends on your definition of democracy. The UK is a representative democracy. Our representatives consistently did not do Brexit because only a minority of their electorate actually wanted it.
The Brexit legislation was, apparently, deliberately badly written. so that an undemocratic % of the electorate could (and did) get their way. Only 3/5 of the electorate actually voted for this. That is less than the 50% plus 1 that would have made this a democratic decision.
She seems to have the idea that the best way to keen the extreme right happy is to do what they want.
Having aspirations towards being a decent human being, I say that the alt-right, extreme conservatives and the wannabe fascists can stick their notions where the sun doesn't shine!
They made software that can accurately READ A DOCTOR'S HANDWRITING!?
A robot pharmacist? Wow!
This sort of thing is illegal in, developed, civilised countries. The USA considers the purpose of Hospitals, doctors etc to be different from the rest of us. We think that they are to do with health, sickness, prevention etc. As yours are run by people whose prime function is providing shareholders with dividends, human welfare related uses are often far less important.
Google tried some of its stuff here but that has come to an (apparent) end.