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You've got to love Frankie Boyle for saying it how it is.

I suspect that the timing of this isn't coincidental as well on the basis that:

1. It was just after the allegations of these files being lost was made (5th July)

2. Everyone's going on holiday soon (22nd July) so apathy is at a high.

Not impressed!

I'm not sure most MPs give a shit about this. From experience, having written to a few over similar issues going back to the original RIPA, a blanket "there there terrorism bad m'kay" reply is about all you'll get back.

The only chance for a resolution is to vote a minority party in with a decent privacy manifesto and hope the hell they stick to it.

Unfortunately any chance of a change to our ward based voting scam is at the mercy of the majority populous of moronic slop thoroughly invested in "anyone different is bad" and "support our boys in their imperialist rampage" driven by the community hate machines of the Sun and the Daily Mail[1], so we're fucked.

[1] I've tamed this down from some of the horrific things I've seen posted on Facebook which make me very embarrassed to be associated to this nation. The same people moaning about extremism, then within 2 minutes calling for the heads of everyone to be removed. Actually perhaps this is why we need surveillance. Should I support the bill because everyone has gone batshit? It's utterly sickening.

I'm seriously considering that as an option at the moment.

England is turning into a surveillance state (something I have been warned many a time to keep one eye on by a good friend who lived through some bad shit in East Germany), half the population is out for the blood of anyone darker than a sheet of A4 paper, military awareness and propaganda is at an all time high and the economic disparity between the rich and the poor is INSANE.

It's rife for an explosion of sorts soon. I don't want to be here when it goes.

Scotland I believe would survive this if independent.

That's a perfectly good review of the situation.

You know when they try and sneak something in that the system is broken. The question we have to ask:

Do these people really represent our best interests at this point in time?

If the answer is no, something needs to be done, but over 100 years of population pacification (since the world wars) and the recent 30 years of entertainment-driven culture has sucked the energy away from any dissidents.

It's all working nicely for everyone, until one day it doesn't.

Fuck them all to hell.

I have nothing more to say.

So all you need is 10 missiles to win against the statistics?

Handling 60 SKUs of similar products is a big problem. Multi-variant stock control and supply chain management is troublesome at best. If one of your stores runs out of green widgets and another one only has red widgets until Tuesday, how do you reliably sell red and green ones to customers who want one without buying so much stock that you are then at risk of a loss when it is end-of-lined?

Too late, the customer has gone to another widget stockist.

(I did a lot of work in supply chain management a few years back).

£2050+VAT = yowsers.

I'll use it. I take a lot of payments from eBay via PayPal so I might as well just zap it from there rather than wait for it to clear into my bank.

We use all of them. I wish we didn't. I think that's the norm.

Apple actually seems to care about not selling lemons where possible (unlike other large brands I can mention). That at least gives them slightly more credibility in my eyes. They seem focussed on that over all the other supposed corporate responsibilities.

The 12 year old in me spent way too much time looking at that :)

Ok thanks. That's well under my age so I understand. Does it replace "TXT SPK" which I'm still too old to use and find terribly annoying?

(I'm sounding like a right grumpy old git here)

These look really cool as does the technology, but I don't think I've ever used Emoji past a couple of ASCII smilies. My Android handset seems to have them but I don't use them and neither does anyone else I know.

Is this a cultural thing I'm missing?

And if you think that's bad, you want to see the insurance sector! Data loss is good for insurance businesses in the long run...

Oh it certainly does. You cannot beat a good choir. That doesn't necessarily mean you need to subscribe to the content.

The same can be said for hip hop :)

Ok I agree with the precision argument but through rounding that could be construed as 100%.

Perhaps a fair option would be:

1. Discuss the issue at hand.

2. Provide a 30 second to 1 minute summary of other hypothesises and how they have or haven't been tested.

3. Visit our web site (which contains a more rational summary of opinions, wikipedia style).

There is very rarely one true answer. Look at medicine. Superseded theories all over the place.

What's Songs of Praise then?

Worship thy sky daddy to prevent evil demons sent from hell to colonise the earth!

That doesn't mean they're right or proposing different hypothesis' is suddenly forbidden. That's not science.

Aristotelian physics was superseded by Newtonian Physics.

That's science.

I'm not suggesting that anyone will come up with a different conclusion but there's no excuse for this stupid dogma and religion getting in the way of rationality.

Feynman is doing 500rpm in his grave...

They should ban Songs of Praise as well then...

Edit: if you're going to down vote at least have the balls to explain your position.

That sucks.

If someone has an opinion, it should be free to be debated. The only way we can fight ignorance in science is with public debate. If someone wants to deny it, fine (otherwise it's not science) but put the hypothesis on the table and let people actually test it and debate it publicly.

The proves only that the BBC has various political opinions and agendas and is not an unbiased source (as many people surely quote).

For ref, not a denier. I hold no opinion (a perpetual state of 'mu') because I haven't read any papers on the subject. I refuse to confuse media and science.

Edit: the down votes proving that rationality doesn't come anywhere near this discussion...

Ok my bad there. Last time I looked there were no manpages.

Yes they reinvented some text files as the NT event log...

TBH the first thing I do is ship the logs off the box so journald seems a waste of space.

Until its your network gatewayb appliance that is down and then you're fucked...

NEVER rely on Google for documentation or GNU info as that's probably not installed on your server.

This sort of scenario is where *BSD win every time.

What if I don't?

Most of our stuff is on JVMs apart from SVN/DAV/apache/LDAP and that's a 40 min job to get packages ready for from srpms from scratch. We just have our own repo and import stuff that isn't in the distro repo ourselves.

FreeBSD looking like a good option in the future.

Thanks for posting this. That's what i was expecting.

Does any of that really improve my day?

Nope. In fact most of it makes it worse and adds friction. More cogs turning in different directions.

Will keep our devops stuff on CentOS 6.5 for at least another 4 years...

Great news. Thats the first question I asked myself about this. HLA was a crock of shit.

That's a great way of putting it. It's exactly where I feel I an now.

I wish I did C more often. Most of that knowledge has longevity.

If you're good, this is what good contract work is like.

Many times I got hired for a 3 month stint and got it all done in a couple of weeks with one eye shut. I tended to chip in and help with any other bits lying around that needed doing rather than sitting there playing solitaire. Builds a good reputation.

This is how I started my current permanent job. They decided they wanted to keep me so I'm getting paid a contractor's salary for a permanent job now and have a 25h week flexible time as a technical advisor and general devops guy.

They're building a block of modern flats over the road from me at the moment not too dissimilar to the one in the video.

It took 9 months to build the foundations and about 3 months to get the superstructure up (concrete) and another 9 months now doing internal and external decoration. They're now tidying it all up.

That begs the question: this product saves the 3 months bit. That is only 14% of the time on such a structure. Is that worth saving? Is it viable on those grounds?

Laying a stable foundation (your Lego board) for this must be pretty hard as well to stay in tolerance.

Having done the electrics on an old Victorian house, I do rather like the built in conduit system though although another question: do the bricks break their structural strength if you make a whole in the skin to run cables/faceplates)