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Comment Re:They should ban... (Score 1) 77

Many of the greatest minds of the past believed in some variant of divine retribution/justice. Hell being the western name for such. Most (all?) major religions of east and west have some concept of consequences for actions in this life. Its the minority of humanity who live as if the life had no consequences beyond this life. Therefore, it seems wise to assume there there likely will be consequences, and live accordingly. Mr Saville clearly didn't get that memo, or he would have amended his behavior, and perhaps sought some form of redemption, which, as far as we know, he never did. Hell, properly comprehended, is good for you, and good for society. And if it doesn't exist, well, you've lived a good life anyway, for which the living will thank you.

SD

Comment Re:So just like when we got the 5-day work week (Score 1) 84

>Or, are UK schools just not developing & promoting education programs that teach those necessary skills?
>
>Or, are UK citizens just not motivated to learn & develop those multiple skills?

Hard to say, but anecdotal evidence from other parents, and one's offspring's peers, seems to be
that something like 20% or more students have 'mental health' issues that are to some degree
debilitating, the girls seem to want to do drama/arts or psych studies, no so much STEM,
and the boys weem to want to do 'green' stuff out around the edges of STEM.

In effect a surplus of non career enhancing choices.

SD

Comment Burn once ... wait a bit ... (Score 1) 85

Of couse, if you burn it, its not there to burn the next year ...... or the year after ... or perhaps for 10 years or so ... depending on the tree type.
So higher tempreatures would not cause more fires per se., as the burn/re-grow cycle would just establish a new, perhaps
more frequent steady state ....

If its managed forest (for paper etc.) ... bigger firebreaks would be a good idea... mebbe.

SD

Comment Re:It's worse than that. (Score 2) 116

I manged almost 25yrs working for HP. Stayed with their printers for about 12 years after I retired....

Last year I abandoned them as printer supplier. When my 4yr old HP MFP's print head died, and the replacement head (still available) was almost twice the price of the printer, I decided to call it quits. I didn't mind the ink price .. only printed infrequently ... but spare parts prices really get me.

I'm on a Canon these days. The interface if poor, and the s/w minimal, but ... so far ... so good. ;-)

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Comment Re:Hostile to sellers (Score 1) 87

> ..hostile to sellers
I think it depends on the seller's approach (to some extent). Its rather 'friendly' to serious seller IMHO.

The obscuring of bider's IDs benefits sellers, as it allows them to place phantom bids to artificially
raise the bid prices. Because the IDs are hidden and 'unique' to each item, one can never 'prove'
that the bids are artificially inflated ... but given the number of times one looses by 1$ or 1£ ...
well ...

Then there is the prevalence of 'private' sellers listing scores of items. No not individual postage
stamps, or POGs, but tens, dozens, or scores of laptops, or keyboards, or cameras.
Of course we all have score of working laptops stashed at home, alongside that huge
pile of camers, and all those keyboards ... ;-)

And why masquerade as a private seller ? Because then bid IDs are hidden ...

SD

Comment Re:The Dog Caught the Car (Score 1) 185

The entertaining part is how 'they' propose to 'see' all those categories of unwanted 'stuff'.

Its the classic 'externality' approach to the 'problem'. There are laws in place that address most angles
of the 'stuff', but no prictical way to enforce or monitor them. Solution ... make someone else do
it under pain of fines ... then its not the state looking at your 'stuff' but multiple commercial
service providers. And when it fails, as it surely will, the Govt. of the day can point the finger
at the naughty commercial sector who refused or failed or couldn't find a way to do the
looking at your stuff.

What's not to like?

Bruce Schneier has a link to a good article on the nonsensical act here https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lawfaremedia.org%2Fa...

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Comment Re:This just in: Five Eyes bored, feeling useless (Score 1) 102

Whether the planet is at peace might be an interesting discussion.

But, its more about scale .... population growth, 'net access, increasing services access by 'all' generates
a haystack so big that looking for 'needles' in it become ever more expensive, and probably, ever more
fruitless a task. Looking for 'bad guys' on a planetary scale does sound like a job for cengenital optimists.

my 2d/2c
SD

Comment Re:What does "leaving the UK" even mean? (Score 1) 69

> how can Signal even leave anyplace

Moving everything to some place(s) that are hard to get to, in some uncooperative jurisdiction(s), might help somewhat.
Running the server-side stuff in some form of distributed mode would further fragment what could be extracted from the same place.

SD

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