Brexit, for once some facts.

[Woosh]

How do you see something like 9/11 coming and the immediate downturn in passenger numbers as a result, for instance?

I don't know, but assume that depends on specific circumstances. I was at a customer's office when I heard it on the radio in their staff kitchen. My first reaction was total incomprehension.
Getting back to whether people learn from their failed business, my personal view is probably not. I have seen times and times again, they would fall for the same hole they were in last time.
E-bikes remind me of my early years in business. I was trying to add income to my student grant by making amps with the new 2N series NPN power transistors.

 

[oldgroaner]

He might have other personal failings which make him unsuitable, but I don’t think we should make up our minds on the basis of one previous business failure. There could be any number of reasons the business didn’t prosper.

I don’t know what Vladimir Putin is doing, I don’t have that level of access.

Make up your mind any way you like of course.
Lots do, but trusting charlatans is popular, it is also very dangerous.

 

[flecc]

sometimes the unexpected can happen and destroy a business overnight.

Or make it.

Anyone supplying major firefighting equipment in Australia is probably doing quite well at present.

And the sudden imposition of the London Congestion Charge did wonders for the bicycle trade here.
.

 

[oldgroaner]

Halleluya! a Brexit bonus indeed.

In the Daily Mirror

Govt to cut £70 a week from thousands of state pensions
"
Some £33million is being taken away from people's pensions as the Government ends the allowance for adult dependents.
Designed to help people with someone else relying on them, the benefit is worth £70 a week, but will stop being paid in April.
Steve Webb, Royal London policy director, said: "Under the old state pension system, people claiming a retirement pension could get a significant extra amount for a spouse who was financially dependent upon them."
Royal London launched a Freedom of Information request to find out just how many people would lose out - discovering 11,000 pensioners are still in receipt of the cash.

They are in fact a left over from the 2007 act which stopped this benefit, the ones already receiving it were allowed to keep it

 

[oldgroaner]

I don't know, but assume that depends on specific circumstances. I was at a customer's office when I heard it on the radio in their staff kitchen. My first reaction was total incomprehension.
Getting back to whether people learn from their failed business, my personal view is probably not. I have seen times and times again, they would fall for the same hole they were in last time.
E-bikes remind me of my early years in business. I was trying to add income to my student grant by making amps with the new 2N series NPN power transistors.

Ah, memories of the good old 2N3055's I used to make so many inverters for Tranny ignition systems!
After veroboard I took to buying scrap pieces of copperclad single sided board, using pentel spirit markers for resist for marking out the tracks, then etching the boards in a small plastic bag with Ferric chloride,after a rinse using vim to clean the tracks ,and a model makers 1mm drill to drill through the board.
At that time we were making boilers and there was a ready supply of thyristors , transformers and high voltage capacitors in scrap industrial boiler gas controls.
We made them just for fun, but really there was a business opportunity there.
We even bent up the boxes that the 2n3055s were bolted to from scrap offcuts from the boiler jacket shop.
Even the MD's car was fitted with one!
Happy Days

 

[oldgroaner]

Or make it.

Anyone supplying major firefighting equipment in Australia is probably doing quite well at present.

And the sudden imposition of the London Congestion Charge did wonders for the bicycle trade here.
.

There is all this talk of a Brexit boom, and yet when there is an obvious demand for Cycles that can only increase, where is the far sighted British Company to rebuild the cycle manufacturing industry that we were once World leaders in?

 

[Barry Shittpeas]

Ah, memories of the good old 2N3055's I used to make so many inverters for Tranny ignition systems!
After veroboard I took to buying scrap pieces of copperclad single sided board, using pentel spirit markers for resist for marking out the tracks, then etching the boards in a small plastic bag with Ferric chloride,after a rinse using vim to clean the tracks ,and a model makers 1mm drill to drill through the board.
At that time we were making boilers and there was a ready supply of thyristors , transformers and high voltage capacitors in scrap industrial boiler gas controls.
We made them just for fun, but really there was a business opportunity there.
We even bent up the boxes that the 2n3055s were bolted to from scrap offcuts from the boiler jacket shop.
Even the MD's car was fitted with one!
Happy Days

I bet you had Sparkrite worried

 

[oldgroaner]

Two amusing snippets today.
The Telegraph reports that Richard Tice and Nigel Farage from the Brexit Party have applied to the Greater London Assembly - which licenses events in the area - to host an event on January 31st which could involve bands, comedians and fireworks.

The event's finish would coincide with a possible ringing of Big Ben at 11pm to mark the UK's departure from the EU - should the proposal from Mark Francois become law and should it be possible to restore the bell in time.

Approximately 5,000 to 10,000 Brexiteers will be invited by Farage - but will be expected to pay for the privilege.

As per other ventures from Tice and Farage, they are hoping to find donors to contribute to the costs.

Pay to be mugged so to speak!
And also

The Government has announced that the "Festival of Brexit Britain" is to go ahead at a cost of £130 million, despite fears it might not be popular with remainers.
Good heavens, are we expected to believe anyone has EVER cared about that?

 

[oldgroaner]

I bet you had Sparkrite worried

Nice one! actually they were as reliable as commercial units as they used industrial Quality components, and we had made sure they were well sealed and insulated.
And we did our best to restrict the RFI too!

 

[oldgroaner]

In the Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-eu-teacher-school-immigration-rights-brexit-recruitment-a9270416.html
Brexit : EU citizens face paying £4345 Teacher Tax to work in UK for five years
That's the cost of having their qualifications recognised.

 

[oldgroaner]

A reader comment in the Independent
"
Mila Hurtman31 minutes ago

The bookies are taking bets on reprisals …
Tel Aviv being invaded is evens
Netanayhu being taken out is 2 to 1
Tel Aviv Metro fed ricin in air conditioning is 2 to 1
Riyad skyline disappearing is 2 to 1
A US embassy (or three) is 2 to 1
A US airliner (or two) 3 to 1 (higher if its a 737 Max)
A US Airport is 6 to 1
Two more towers is 9 to 1
Two more towers (plus a Silverstein building) is 9.5 to 1
The BBC reporting this event before it happens is 10 to 1
Dominic Rabb calling his Jewish relatives in Jaffa to provide UK backing for War is 10 to 1
The BBC accurately reporting such reprisals without any bias, is 100 to 1
The BBC discussing the reprisal on Question Time using a (non-loaded), fair and balanced audience is 10,000 to 1

Place your bets … PLEASE!


Rather strangely the Pentagon isn't on this list....

 

[oldgroaner]

BBC News
Amazon threatens to Fire Climate change activists.

So now companies feel they have the right to impose on the political freedom of their workers do they?

 

[oyster]

BBC News
Amazon threatens to Fire Climate change activists.

So now companies feel they have the right to impose on the political freedom of their workers do they?

Does that mean they use their tablets as suppositories to encourage the climate activists to work elsewhere?

 

[oyster]

Seems to be a #wheresboris hashtag on twitter:

 

[oyster]

As we all know...

Fresh Cambridge Analytica leak ‘shows global manipulation is out of control’
Company’s work in 68 countries laid bare with release of more than 100,000 documents

 

[Barry Shittpeas]

A reader comment in the Independent
"
Mila Hurtman31 minutes ago

The bookies are taking bets on reprisals …
Tel Aviv being invaded is evens
Netanayhu being taken out is 2 to 1
Tel Aviv Metro fed ricin in air conditioning is 2 to 1
Riyad skyline disappearing is 2 to 1
A US embassy (or three) is 2 to 1
A US airliner (or two) 3 to 1 (higher if its a 737 Max)
A US Airport is 6 to 1
Two more towers is 9 to 1
Two more towers (plus a Silverstein building) is 9.5 to 1
The BBC reporting this event before it happens is 10 to 1
Dominic Rabb calling his Jewish relatives in Jaffa to provide UK backing for War is 10 to 1
The BBC accurately reporting such reprisals without any bias, is 100 to 1
The BBC discussing the reprisal on Question Time using a (non-loaded), fair and balanced audience is 10,000 to 1

Place your bets … PLEASE!


Rather strangely the Pentagon isn't on this list....

I think that whatever they do, it will be done under the guise of terrorism, probably by providing assistance to a terrorist organisation. If they took a direct & up front offensive against America, Iran might end up resembling a discarded ashtray.

 

[oldgroaner]

I think that whatever they do, it will be done under the guise of terrorism, probably by providing assistance to a terrorist organisation. If they took a direct & up front offensive against America, Iran might end up looking like a discarded ashtray.

Most likely, but American's daren't use the Nuclear option, and need months to wield their conventional power.
I suspect we can expect a spectacular response in the near future.

 

[daveboy]

BBC News
Amazon threatens to Fire Climate change activists.

So now companies feel they have the right to impose on the political freedom of their workers do they?

They don't have to fire them, they're all on zero hours contracts so they can just tell them not to bother coming in. (by text normally)

 

[Woosh]

Happy Days

Happy days indeed!
Some days, I wish the world wouldn't 'progress' so fast.

 

[Woosh]

I bet you had Sparkrite worried

I guess it's difficult for a millenial to understand what the enthusiasm was like among those few of us with an Antex soldering iron, a pile of Practical Wireless magazines and a PCB making kit! Masters of the universe we were!