Posts by graeme leggett

Re: "a little more significant than Doctor Who defeating the Daleks"

If I heard the news correctly, the recordings were made at BBC as part of the possible sale abroad and were for technical purposes rather than actual use.

I haven't listened to latest Radio Free Skaro, or other podcast for the details but likely when the foreign sales didn't go ahead they were superfluous and left BBC's control with one of the technical staff and thence found its way to the collector.

By way of mentioning RFS, it was in an interview by Steven Schapansky of former BBC film editor Chris Hayden that more footage was "uncovered" of the War Games.

Re: Reform

"This is not about whether Reform are credible or not. It's about trying to pressure the current Labour lot to do less stupid things."

Saying you're going to vote Reform, is making Reform appear credible.

If you mean you're not going to vote Labour while they do things you don't like, then tell your local MP if they are Labour or the local party if they arent.

Re: Wrong target

The government is working on commonhold. (It was in the manifesto.)

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/beginning-of-the-end-for-the-feudal-leasehold-system

Re: Scamdemic

Interesting.

The same authors considered non-Covid deaths.

"The excess mortality due to cardiovascular diseases was particularly pronounced in Finland and Norway in 2022, and the under-mortality due to dementia was particularly pronounced in Sweden in 2021–2022. In conclusion, while COVID-19 deaths emerge as the most apparent consequence of the pandemic, our findings suggest that mortality has also been influenced by substitutions between different causes of death and over time, as well as indirect consequences of COVID-19 infection and pandemic responses—albeit to different extents in the different countries."

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10654-024-01154-0

One layman interpretation is that Sweden failed to protect its more vulnerable citizens while the other countries did but when the other countries removed the protection they ended up in same place as Sweden.

Re: Already more accurate

The points is

Wikipedia makes the reason why a person is notable appear in the first sentence.

It's a few sentences further into Grokipedia before the death is mentioned and a few more before the finding of murder is mentioned.

Re: All we need now...

Apples and Oranges. Truss had the support of the media to prop up her image and only lasted 49 days. Want to guess where her approval could have been after a year?

Re: And Microsoft?

Brit watchdog pushes to rein in Microsoft and AWS with 'strategic market status'

"Anyone expecting an answer now will be disappointed because the CMA anticipates "options will be considered by the CMA Board in early 2026," and it expects "our findings and recommendations will be taken into account as part of its decision.""

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/31/cma_aws_microsoft_sms/

"However, I must point out that SpaceX has achieved more in less time than any governmental space agency or any other commercial company in the field ever has. So there is no doubt in my mind that they will be able to deliver the techology"

A counter-factual which is difficult to explore since NASA were not given the budget to attempt it. In fact did any of the possible "competitors" have the same budget?

Re: Let me check my crystal ball

Now why would a fine upstanding right wing source like the Daily Mail phrase it like that......

Re: Yes please call the orange pedo's bluff

Trump's tariffs are performative as a means to negotiation/intimidation.

It's unlikely he thinks they are a long term prospect. But they look good to a set of the American people and he can announce them with an understated "will take place in 30 days" knowing that the situation will change long before they have to be implemented.

Re: Have a CD32...

I've only got the CDROM add on unit - A570 - which made my A500+ closer to a CDTV unit.

Re: How can Starmer be so daft?

The Maginot Line worked.

The German offensive was directed to the north as the French planned.

It used far less manpower than keeping armies to meet German forces there

It stopped a rapid advance from taking control of French industrial production.

Where it was attacked it slowed German advance and remined effective for most of its length until the French Armistice

1) He joined the Nazi party in order to be able to make rockets

2) He joined the German Army research at Peenemunde in order to be able to make rockets

3) He wasted huge amounts of German resources on a not very effective weapon. (see Tim Harford podcast etc)

Perhaps being allowed to make rockets by the US was repayment for 3.

Personally, I stick with Tom Lehrer's assessment....

Are we talking about Musk or Trump at this point?

Re: Tears of nostalgia

Will I become a left handed mouse user again too?

Re: Legitimate interest

They sound more like things that can be covered by "contract".

Re: Spying tonite!

Factor in people who don't update their LinkedIn.

People who only just remembered to update their LinkedIn and actually left companies years ago.

People who were in point of "go consultant"

Workers who aren't on LinkedIn

Was that when Swanwick took over from West Drayton six years later than planned due to issues sorting out software ?

Re: "It's sort of foolish to imagine that we'll do fusion by trial and error"

Listening to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe and this sounds similar to what they are doing with gravitational wave detectors.

The AI generates designs based on performance targets rather than copying existing designs. All very technical so I may have not followed it wholly

https://www.theskepticsguide.org/podcasts/episode-1034

https://scitechdaily.com/when-machines-dream-ai-designs-strange-new-tools-to-listen-to-the-cosmos/

GDPR does allow for some information to be collected without express consent.

And you can do a lot of good with aggregate health information.

So long as it's done properly and carefully.....

Re: The ICO - busy not making work for itself.

First they would have to treat the occurrence as diligently as the BL.

Re: Still, there IS a chill8ing effect,,,

or incitement to riot

Re: Bollocks

I was surprised this wasn't an offered add-on/replacement for the wired bi-metallic strip

If you know the hot water tank temperature at any time then you can decide if

1) hot enough for a shower right now

2) not too hot for using the sink

3) out of legionella zone

4) worth using the electric immersion heater rather than gas/oil/propane

5) being superheated by an out of control boiler

Re: Robots used internally in Tesla factories.

NTNOCN also had "Built by robots, driven by Italians" to the tune of Rossini's Largo al factotum

Re: re: Chris Krebs

At a minimum, the SAFE act is performative. Creating a solution to a problem that doesn't exist and supporters can say "of course its a real problem otherwise they wouldn't put a law in about it"

Perhaps the states will go after them.

Re: ps f47

As I understand it, the Pentagon paused the NGAD project last year to assess whether against rising costs (never a surprise in military aviation) it should go ahead or not.

Presumably the internal assessment came in recently and the Orange Buffoon made maximum media out of the decision.

https://breakingdefense.com/2024/07/air-force-taking-a-pause-on-ngad-next-gen-fighter-kendall/

Re: You love to see it

Kelly says the Chevy was built by unionised labour (labor)

Re: Hmm

Others have suggested its not so much the money as being the most famous person in existence rather than transactional for money.

Obviously the money helps.

And yesterday I heard an explanation that does fit, If you view his activities as the continuation of the reality TV format, new constant "conflict". Stirring the ants nest every day with something intended to get people talking about him. US doesn't need to take over Greenland, through NATO and simple diplomacy it could easily get whatever extra bases it wanted established there, but saying they want to take over, then he becomes the news focus.

Re: As Trump said there is nothing he can do to make them happy or smile.

In 2017 she got hold of a couple of pages from his 2005 tax return. Unfortunately it did not seem to prompt Trump to volunteer any further information.

Re: they're not like us

Both the original Fiat 600 Mutipla (a 1950s minivan) and the reuse of the name from the turn of the century are....distinctive, I'll give you that.

Re: Neville Chamberlain

Munich was 1938. Chamberlain had started rearmament before then.

The Spitfire prototype flew in 1936 and orders placed but delays meant first production aircraft delivered in 1938. The Hurricane was delayed by a change from Mk 1 Merlin engine to Mk 2 but were reaching British squadrons before Chamberlain hopped on a plane to see Adolf.

The expansion began in 1934 with a plan to increase number of RAF airfields from ~50 to ~140 and orders for new aircraft types.

Each GP practice is an independent contractor to the NHS - that's how.