Everything in GCHQ/MI5/MI6/wherever is 'sensitive'. In the MSM/Press everything in those places is 'Top Secret'.
Maybe it is, maybe it isn't, but am essential part of secrecy is keeping secret what is secret and what isn't.
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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.
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>... built extra lanes
Hmmm, tricky on the Forth Road Bridge.
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>Or, are UK schools just not developing & promoting education programs that teach those necessary skills?
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>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.
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Indeed - you are corect.
Perhaps what I meant to say was one fire every twentry years might be equal to two fires every ten years.
More fires, but a similar amout of 'fire' overall
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Of couse, if you burn it, its not there to burn the next year
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.)
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I retired my Windoze phone this week - an old Lumia.
Over 8 years old, no apps, battery life still around 2 days.
But still chugging along
Progress
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Run an OS that doesn't need or allow a self-updating proprietary anti-malware clusterfuck?
I think he means OpenVMS
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It is/was working today.
D'loaded 17.5.2, upgraed a 16.x install
Even handled W2K25 as a guest OK, and the tools went on ok as well.
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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
I'm on a Canon these days. The interface if poor, and the s/w minimal, but
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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
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
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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
it under pain of fines
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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Whether the planet is at peace might be an interesting discussion.
But, its more about scale
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
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> 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.
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Umm, wasn't this done 30+ years ago
Berfed was the hacker(s)'s commonest typo.
Nothing new under the Sun.
Yawn.
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The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. Seek simplicity and distrust it. -- Whitehead.
