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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 29th February 2024, 03:15 AM
Replies: 847
Views: 62,614
Posted By jeremyp
Speaking as somebody who lives in Europe, I'm...

Speaking as somebody who lives in Europe, I'm pretty pleased that the US is "throwing its weight around" here. I'd rather be under American influence - even Tr*mp's - than Russian influence, or...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 26th February 2024, 05:44 AM
Replies: 1,706
Continuation Musk buys Twitter II
Views: 70,244
Posted By jeremyp
Please let him try that. The court case will be...

Please let him try that. The court case will be hysterical.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 19th February 2024, 08:11 AM
Replies: 1,491
Views: 52,654
Posted By jeremyp
No, simply the truth. Is that a laudable...

No, simply the truth.


Is that a laudable achievement? It's not obvious to me that it is even sustainable.
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 19th February 2024, 08:05 AM
Replies: 363
Views: 14,370
Posted By jeremyp
The problem is that Ukraine is also being worn...

The problem is that Ukraine is also being worn down. If Russia stops advancing now, what is Ukraine going to do about it?

People have been telling us since late 2022 that Russia Is at breaking...
Forum: Trials and Errors 18th February 2024, 07:11 AM
Replies: 196
Views: 10,938
Posted By jeremyp
No. His crimes would not have been found out....

No. His crimes would not have been found out. That's not the same as innocent.


I don't think anybody is claiming that the investments were scams. What they are claiming is that SBF used customer...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 17th February 2024, 04:20 PM
Replies: 363
Views: 14,370
Posted By jeremyp
But it is gain. What effort do you think Ukraine...

But it is gain. What effort do you think Ukraine is going to need to take it back?

And the First World War was won by the big nations with lots of resources. Unless the USA puts its support...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 17th February 2024, 04:15 PM
Replies: 363
Views: 14,370
Posted By jeremyp
This is a land war. The Black Sea Fleet is...

This is a land war. The Black Sea Fleet is completely irrelevant. If Ukraine sinks all of it, they will only be equal because Ukraine's navy, such as it was, was annihilated in the first few weeks.
...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 17th February 2024, 03:35 PM
Replies: 342
Continuation Brexit XII
Views: 19,631
Posted By jeremyp
So would I, but we wouldn't haver to accept the...

So would I, but we wouldn't haver to accept the Euro. Well, in principle we would, but in practice we can delay it indefinitely.
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 17th February 2024, 03:28 PM
Replies: 342
Continuation Brexit XII
Views: 19,631
Posted By jeremyp
No I'm not. I just stated facts. No of...

No I'm not. I just stated facts.


No of course not. We had really good terms before. We won't get them back again, but it would still be worth us rejoining.


Everybody in the EU is an...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 17th February 2024, 03:21 PM
Replies: 363
Views: 14,370
Posted By jeremyp
Ukraine will be finished long before that. ...

Ukraine will be finished long before that.


It doesn't matter. It's an advance and Putin has complete control over how it is presented to the people that matter.



Yeah. People have been...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 17th February 2024, 03:05 PM
Replies: 363
Views: 14,370
Posted By jeremyp
That's exactly what has been going on since March...

That's exactly what has been going on since March 2022. Russia isn't giving up.


No it isn't, but for all your fine words, Russia is still fighting and it is still gaining territory and it is...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 17th February 2024, 07:34 AM
Replies: 1,491
Views: 52,654
Posted By jeremyp
It's not, because the Cybertruck is made by Tesla...

It's not, because the Cybertruck is made by Tesla but Falcon 9 isn't.



I'll give you Falcon 9 as a laudable achievement. Are there any others?
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 17th February 2024, 07:28 AM
Replies: 1,491
Views: 52,654
Posted By jeremyp
Full Self Driving is. I suspect the Tesla...

Full Self Driving is.

I suspect the Tesla semi might be.



Not in the traditional sense. I'd be interested to see how much money SpaceX and Starling are really making.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 17th February 2024, 07:22 AM
Replies: 1,706
Continuation Musk buys Twitter II
Views: 70,244
Posted By jeremyp
https://x.com/mtaibbi/status/1758230628355485979?s...

https://x.com/mtaibbi/status/1758230628355485979?s=20

Matt Taibbi has published a conversation he had with Elon Musk on Twitter. Musk is censoring him because he uses Substack.

Yay free speech.
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 16th February 2024, 04:15 AM
Replies: 96
Views: 1,375
Posted By jeremyp
Actually, you are almost certainly not a British...

Actually, you are almost certainly not a British subject. That's a specific legal category that applies only to a few people retrospectively.
...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 16th February 2024, 04:12 AM
Replies: 96
Views: 1,375
Posted By jeremyp
10/10. Not sure how you managed to get the...

10/10.

Not sure how you managed to get the sporting event wrong unless you answered too quickly.
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 15th February 2024, 05:59 AM
Replies: 1,709
Views: 46,227
Posted By jeremyp
That's more a reflection of the fact that 2022...

That's more a reflection of the fact that 2022 was a fairly bad year for them. Profits have returned to the levels they were before the Ukraine invasion
...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 15th February 2024, 05:52 AM
Replies: 342
Continuation Brexit XII
Views: 19,631
Posted By jeremyp
Which they will, because the UK is still a large...

Which they will, because the UK is still a large market and economy.
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 15th February 2024, 05:46 AM
Replies: 1,709
Views: 46,227
Posted By jeremyp
Because, over the whole year, the UK economy...

Because, over the whole year, the UK economy actually grew a little. Contrast with Germany that never technically had a recession, but its economy managed to shrink by 0.3% (they had alternate...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 15th February 2024, 05:31 AM
Replies: 71
Views: 1,059
Posted By jeremyp
People who post half baked ideas relating to the...

People who post half baked ideas relating to the US political system in a thread in the "Non USA and General Politics" topic will be sentenced to ten years moderating Tik Tok videos.
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 15th February 2024, 05:29 AM
Replies: 71
Views: 1,059
Posted By jeremyp
Before the Brexit vote, my brother said there...

Before the Brexit vote, my brother said there should be a test consisting of ten factual questions related to the EU. The number of questions you get right is the number of votes you get in the...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 15th February 2024, 02:55 AM
Replies: 1,491
Views: 52,654
Posted By jeremyp
Try engaging with the argument instead of...

Try engaging with the argument instead of insulting the people with whom you disagree.

Then have a look at this tweet

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1757090609855398300?s=20

and tell me that...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 15th February 2024, 02:47 AM
Replies: 1,706
Continuation Musk buys Twitter II
Views: 70,244
Posted By jeremyp
What you mean by that is that the US free speech...

What you mean by that is that the US free speech law does not apply to a privately held company. Elon Musk, however keeps telling us (https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1757474164850798632?s=20) that the...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 11th February 2024, 04:54 AM
Replies: 1,491
Views: 52,654
Posted By jeremyp
Do you think so? Tesla isn't doing great at the...

Do you think so? Tesla isn't doing great at the moment. At least not $55 billion great.


Your head is so far up Musk's arse, you can taste his tonsils.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 5th February 2024, 06:34 AM
Replies: 1,491
Views: 52,654
Posted By jeremyp
I would argue that shareholder value and "current...

I would argue that shareholder value and "current price of the shares" are not identical.

There's another point about the $55 billion thing. If I was paying you $55 billion, I'd want your...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 5th February 2024, 03:49 AM
Replies: 1,491
Views: 52,654
Posted By jeremyp
Because Tesla has not yet made $55 billion profit...

Because Tesla has not yet made $55 billion profit over its whole history. There's no justification for paying all of your profit and some to the CEO.

Don't forget that the share price is just the...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 5th February 2024, 03:36 AM
Replies: 549
Views: 54,634
Posted By jeremyp
No. That's not all they did. The article says it...

No. That's not all they did. The article says it had not been completed by the time of the "accident" flight. So they hadn't even done a "maintenance look".

Incidentally, would a ground...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 4th February 2024, 11:51 PM
Replies: 549
Views: 54,634
Posted By jeremyp
I’m surprised that marketing and PR haven’t told...

I’m surprised that marketing and PR haven’t told them not to call it “Max” anything.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 28th January 2024, 05:08 AM
Replies: 549
Views: 54,634
Posted By jeremyp
Yes but the culture is the one introduced by MDD...

Yes but the culture is the one introduced by MDD executives. The View from the Wing article contains the following quote

“ When people say I changed the culture of Boeing, that was the intent, so...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 22nd January 2024, 06:00 AM
Replies: 751
Views: 26,617
Posted By jeremyp
So he didn't just try, he succeeded in getting...

So he didn't just try, he succeeded in getting the minister to intervene.
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 22nd January 2024, 05:56 AM
Replies: 1,709
Views: 46,227
Posted By jeremyp
Well since we have no domestic source of iron...

Well since we have no domestic source of iron ore, it doesn't seem a huge strategic loss to me.

Furthermore, the blast furnaces at Port Talbot were a significant source of carbon emissions. These...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 22nd January 2024, 05:50 AM
Replies: 363
Views: 14,370
Posted By jeremyp
It's all ground that will have to be retaken to...

It's all ground that will have to be retaken to get the Russians out of Ukraine, probably also at high cost.
Forum: Trials and Errors 21st January 2024, 10:13 AM
Replies: 623
Views: 40,150
Posted By jeremyp
No they didn't. They didn't know that Horizon was...

No they didn't. They didn't know that Horizon was the problem. The PO and Fujitsu were keeping all of that very quiet.

As somebody who has worked in the industry, I know that claims that it...
Forum: Trials and Errors 21st January 2024, 09:58 AM
Replies: 40
Views: 1,483
Posted By jeremyp
I'm pretty sure that I agreed with that statement...

I'm pretty sure that I agreed with that statement in the post to which you responded.



He had a motive. He was covering up apparent losses of thousands of pounds. The prosecution case was that...
Forum: Trials and Errors 18th January 2024, 04:30 AM
Replies: 623
Views: 40,150
Posted By jeremyp
I won't say that stealing the money was...

I won't say that stealing the money was intentional, but they did take it and they spent a long time doing their level best not to give it back.
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 18th January 2024, 04:27 AM
Replies: 1,709
Views: 46,227
Posted By jeremyp
Well she was right. The country is called Rwanda....

Well she was right. The country is called Rwanda. Kigali is the name of the capital...

... oh wait.
Forum: Trials and Errors 18th January 2024, 04:13 AM
Replies: 623
Views: 40,150
Posted By jeremyp
Destroying system documentation that ultimately...

Destroying system documentation that ultimately cost the tax payer millions?

Nope.



How so?

Actually, don't bother. This is taking the thread off topic.
Forum: Trials and Errors 18th January 2024, 04:02 AM
Replies: 623
Views: 40,150
Posted By jeremyp
That's exactly what happened. The Second Sight...

That's exactly what happened. The Second Sight enquiry found that. There's been a court case in which the suspense accounts were discussed.

In the judgement of Bates against the Post Office...
Forum: Trials and Errors 18th January 2024, 03:34 AM
Replies: 40
Views: 1,483
Posted By jeremyp
Whilst I agree that the conviction was unsafe,...

Whilst I agree that the conviction was unsafe, after reading the Guardian article, I'm thinking that he killed his wife.
Forum: Trials and Errors 18th January 2024, 03:18 AM
Replies: 623
Views: 40,150
Posted By jeremyp
Yes, the Post Office. Often when these...

Yes, the Post Office.

Often when these discrepancies showed up, the sub postmasters would put their own money in. Because this money wasn't associated with any particular transaction, it would go...
Forum: Trials and Errors 18th January 2024, 03:09 AM
Replies: 623
Views: 40,150
Posted By jeremyp
People did speak out. This story was originally...

People did speak out. This story was originally broken by Computer Weekly in - I think - 2013. The BBC did a Panorama programme on it that aired at prime time on BBC1 in 2015. They also did a radio...
Forum: Trials and Errors 18th January 2024, 02:57 AM
Replies: 623
Views: 40,150
Posted By jeremyp
You mean it ultimately cost the tax payers...

You mean it ultimately cost the tax payers several millions. What you did sounds extraordinarily unprofessional and petty. Good thing you redacted the names of your companies.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 16th January 2024, 12:54 AM
Replies: 1,491
Views: 52,654
Posted By jeremyp
What evidence do you have for that statement?...

What evidence do you have for that statement? Have you seen SpaceX’s accounts?
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 15th January 2024, 05:55 AM
Replies: 1,709
Views: 46,227
Posted By jeremyp
Any chance of a citation? My Google-fu isn't up...

Any chance of a citation? My Google-fu isn't up to pulling one up.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 15th January 2024, 03:12 AM
Replies: 1,491
Views: 52,654
Posted By jeremyp
The idea was not his but that of Tesla's actual...

The idea was not his but that of Tesla's actual founders. He came in as an early investor but we do not know where Tesla would be if somebody else had funded them. Maybe they'd be doing much better...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 11th January 2024, 07:12 AM
Replies: 342
Continuation Brexit XII
Views: 19,631
Posted By jeremyp
That doesn't surprise me at all. Science has been...

That doesn't surprise me at all. Science has been done in metric for a long time. Before SI, was cgs (cm, g, s). It simplifies everything, especially in combination with scientific notation for...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 10th January 2024, 11:17 AM
Replies: 1,709
Views: 46,227
Posted By jeremyp
I think he'll find that, if he holds an election,...

I think he'll find that, if he holds an election, his workload will subsequently decrease dramatically.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 9th January 2024, 12:53 PM
Replies: 1,706
Continuation Musk buys Twitter II
Views: 70,244
Posted By jeremyp
Well I guess it's not impossible that he does...

Well I guess it's not impossible that he does drugs but I've not seen any conclusive evidence of it other than that one joint he smoked on the Joe Rogan show.

Some people are just ********* and I...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 5th January 2024, 07:06 AM
Replies: 1,706
Continuation Musk buys Twitter II
Views: 70,244
Posted By jeremyp
I thin he would agree with me: far too seriously.

I thin he would agree with me: far too seriously.
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 4th January 2024, 08:50 AM
Replies: 342
Continuation Brexit XII
Views: 19,631
Posted By jeremyp
I'm 57 and I was not taught both. In fact, I...

I'm 57 and I was not taught both. In fact, I distinctly remember going through one text book and being told by my teacher to skip the section about weights and measures which had strange things in it...
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