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What equity? What capital? What assets? What investment? These mostly weren't PPE manufacturers or even PPE suppliers. Often they were little more than drop shippers with a 50% profit margin. It is that simple.

And the fact that companies were treated the same when they were assessed doesn't alter the fact that being assessed sooner rather than later is a massive advantage.

Seriously? The high court found that the operation of the priority list was unlawful [1]. You can reasonably argue that they needed to move quickly, but that doesn't explain why some companies were getting special treatment.

And the 50% is profit. Obviously.

[1]: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59968037

Private Eye has covered this. The level of profit was not normal. Some of the companies were making 50%. And the government had two lists of companies when they were awarding contracts. The priority list was for the acquaintances of ministers and MPs.

It smells very bad.

Or make whisky cake. Dried fruit and peel are soaked in whisky for a week, baked into a fairly typical fruit cake, drizzled with more whisky, wrapped, and left to steep for a couple of weeks. Recommended.

Thank you! I've had wt just disappear on me a few times now and I've been meaning to investigate. It never occurred to me this was by design.

We have secret trials in the UK where the accused doesn't get to hear the evidence.

So classified evidence can be used and there is no danger of it leaking.

Of course, there is a danger of innocent people being convicted but that doesn't seem to bother MPs or the government or even the public.

Somebody at Medium must have been reading! Two days later and it's completely broken without js.

It varies. Some articles are fine. Some only show a couple of paragraphs.

Modern Windows apps also suffer from this kind of breakage.

For example, the calculator. If you use the mouse to press a button while entering a calculation (for a trigonometric function say) then when you press enter to get the result it just presses that button again. This is contrary to the Windows design guidelines and, more importantly, it isn't useful.

It's like the apps have been redeveloped by people who never use a keyboard.

I haven't seen one in the UK for a few years now, I'm happy to say. I really don't see the point. If you don't want to use a cork, screw caps are a thing.

Many people will be reading the pdf in their browser using the browser's js pdf renderer.

This is safer than running arbitrary js from the web, which most people also do.

So I guess most people won't worry about pdfs especially.

If you install surveillance gear that operates through the vendor's cloud management solution then you are already giving strangers the ability to invade your privacy.

Sure, the OP doesn't need to make it any worse, but it's already bad.

When you say you are doing nothing wrong and continue with an action then you are doing it on purpose.

That's not true. Just two months ago a friend of mine disputed a DD with her bank and they refused to reverse it because she couldn't prove it was erroneous. I'm nearly sure the DD guarantee used to be stronger, but this part now reads:

> If an error is made in the payment of your Direct Debit, by the organisation or your bank or building society, you are entitled to a full and immediate refund of the amount paid from your bank or building society.

So you give PayPal your bank details to withdraw your balance and they create a direct debit allowing them to plunder your bank account. This is how they operate in the UK anyway.

PayPal is best avoided.

To be fair to the IT people, the failover system couldn't have been any more redundant.

After enough rollovers lottery tickets sometimes have a positive expected value. Even so, I'll still only buy one.

Also

> low and behold

Which is worse?

a) Having poor communication skills.

b) Describing people as toxic.

Edge is a pretty good local pdf reader so I added a firewall rule to stop it connecting to the internet.

I block cookies and js. Cloudflare doesn't like that.

This is begging the question. It is plainly worse to be forced into some kinds of work (e.g. serving on Russia's front line) than others (e.g. picking apples).

There is a huge difference between declining a transaction, and taking someone's money but giving them nothing in return.

I guess you have experience of the former. Apple is engaged in the latter.

Another surprise: "ubuntu-latest" is not the latest ubuntu! It is stuck at 20.04. If you want 22.04 you need to specify "ubuntu-22.04". Similar issue with macos-latest.

Just to be clear, the ECHR is not an EU court and brexit Britain is still under its jurisdiction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Convention_on_Human_R...

I download it and watch it at my leisure with no adverts. I'm not going to drop everything and watch a one hour talk right now anyway.

It's investopedia. The exchange of money is taken as read. You might as well say that a vendor of exotic fish not mentioning water is proof that the fish don't need it.

The Smithsonian ignoring the elephant in the room:

"The United States of America, and Why the Americans Won't Give It Back"

We call them decimal points. Most software uses full stops (aka periods, because that's what's on the keyboard), but decimal points are normal in typeset and handwritten maths.

> 3.278·10³⁶

As a Brit that looks really weird. I'd expect 3·278×10³⁶.