Brexit, for once some facts.

[flecc]

This afternoon Soyuz MS21 mission will launch to dock with the ISS, carrying for the first time an all Russian three man crew. In the lead a veteran of the station who has spent altogether over a year in space, the other two first time cosmonauts. This was planned late last year long before the Ukraine conflict so it doesn't appear to have any political implication.

However the head of Roscosmos has issued a statement saying Russia is considering pulling out of supporting the ISS in future.
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[flecc]

In view of the utterly callous way in which the P & O board instantaneously sacked its shipping staff by video, perhaps we should reflect that behaviour by referring to P & O in future as meaning Putin & Oligarchs.
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[jonathan.agnew]

In view of the utterly callous way in which the P & O board instantaneously sacked its shipping staff by video, perhaps we should reflect that behaviour by referring to P & O in future as meaning Putin & Oligarchs.
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Well dp world (owners of p&o) is Emirati. Its curious, a lot of chickens associated with the west's flirtation with regimes, wheter Russian, Saudi or emirati are coming home to roost in quite cathartic ways.
The biggest of the chickens appear to be hovering for now

Volodymyr Zelensky tells Russia to seek ‘meaningful’ peace talks or face catastrophic losses

Volodymyr Zelensky has called for comprehensive peace talks with Moscow, saying Russia would otherwise need generations to recover from losses suffered during the war.

www.telegraph.co.uk

trying to establish no doubt how weak Biden really is. Which is worrying. He is utterly weak, but supplying Russia with more arms won't make any difference, it has been comprehensively defeated militarily.

 

[Woosh]

Microsoft even deployed Windows 10 style telemetry spyware into some of the latter Windows 7 Pro updates, which I've removed from my safely stored away version, which I'll be using for years, in real or virtual.

you can configure windows privacy settings yourself to mitigate those problems.

 

[Woosh]

Well dp world (owners of p&o) is Emirati. Its curious, a lot of chickens associated with the west's flirtation with regimes, wheter Russian, Saudi or emirati are coming home to roost in quite cathartic ways.
The biggest of the chickens appear to be hovering for now

Volodymyr Zelensky tells Russia to seek ‘meaningful’ peace talks or face catastrophic losses

Volodymyr Zelensky has called for comprehensive peace talks with Moscow, saying Russia would otherwise need generations to recover from losses suffered during the war.

www.telegraph.co.uk

trying to establish no doubt how weak Biden really is. Which is worrying. He is utterly weak, but supplying Russia with more arms won't make any difference, it has been comprehensively defeated militarily.

China will have to make up their mind in the next couple of weeks. The UN International Court of Juctice has ordered Russia to stop the war. China will have to follow the decision one way or another so I guess China may supply truck tyres but not drones or missiles.

 

[flecc]

you can configure windows privacy settings yourself to mitigate those problems.

After the initial service pack(s) to deal with the design problems of premature launches, I've always turned off Windows updates on all versions. That avoids any subsequent Microsoft malware and the many other updating problems that others have experienced.
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[guerney]

you can configure windows privacy settings yourself to mitigate those problems.

What a lazy and il-informed reply.

 

[flecc]

China will have to make up their mind in the next couple of weeks. The UN International Court of Juctice has ordered Russia to stop the war. China will have to follow the decision one way or another so I guess China may supply truck tyres but not drones or missiles.

I agree, I doubt China will want to get involved in the direct military action in any way, mainly supporting Russia economically.

However I think the sanctions are heading for failure as they've always done before, so eventually there may have to be direct Western confrontation with Russia.

These are the main sanction failure points:

China buying Russian oil as they've promised, so that oil they would have bought elsewhere being bought by the West in lieu of the Russian oil they used to buy. That is the West buying Russian oil by proxy.

Europe and especially Germany, Austria and Italy will continue to buy Russian gas because they have no other option.

Because the last Saudi wheat harvest was in 2016, the world has been very short of food since and heavily dependent on Russian and Ukrainian wheat to minimise starvation. Ukraine's seed should have already been planted and if it isn't within a couple of weeks, there will be no harvest there this year. Outcome, the West will be forced by the resulting even more desperate shortage to buy all the usual large export of Russian grain.

Even if they try to avoid that they won't be able to since Russia has long supplied many African nations with grain. These are the same nations that support Russia and refused to vote for the UN resolution to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine, so they'll certainly buy it.

Finally I've looked further into the Indian support for Russia and I have no doubt it will hold fast with them buying Russian supplies and continuing to manufacture arms for Russia as they are already doing. Biden and US policy are "on the fence" with this, since they want India to be an ally against China, so won't annoy India with demands over Ukraine.

I can see Cold War 2 arriving soon, the Iron Curtain coming down again
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[flecc]

What a lazy and il-informed reply.

No it's not:

Mitigate, verb, make (something bad) less severe, serious, or painful.

Configuring windows privacy settings does just that, reducing while not totally curing. A bit like Covid vaccines!
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[Woosh]

What a lazy and il-informed reply.

why?
I use every version of windows without any third party antivirus software, including the one I am typing on at the moment. Sure, I install anti-virus software for clients.
As for privacy, the phone is the primary source of spy holes.

 

[guerney]

why?
I use every version of windows without any third party antivirus software, including the one I am typing on at the moment. Sure, I install anti-virus software for clients.
As for privacy, the phone is the primary source of spy holes.

Not any more, thanks Microsoft! I suggest you do some reading Woosh, and look at what China is openly doing with phone and other data. In the west users are say, offered an app which simulates their aged face, in return for an image of their face and a whole other large set of information. I honestly can't be bothered to get into it, excuse me for being just as lazy.

 

[Woosh]

I suggest you do some reading Woosh,

I am not a security expert but I do spend a lot of time reading manuals and on the internet because of my job and I do know how buggy every version of windows has been and is.
Still, don't believe that humans can write bug-free code, even in assembler.

 

[oyster]

In view of the utterly callous way in which the P & O board instantaneously sacked its shipping staff by video, perhaps we should reflect that behaviour by referring to P & O in future as meaning Putin & Oligarchs.
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Penis & Orifice.

 

[oyster]

They can't even tell the truth when the lie was bound to be found out within hours, at most, days.

Sources at the DfT said it was made aware of the impending mass sackings and suspension of ferry services on Wednesday night.

Boris Johnson’s official spokesperson had said on Thursday: “We weren’t given any notice to this.”

He confirmed on Friday that senior officials at the DfT had first been informed about the firm’s plan on Wednesday evening but had kept the information within a small group, because of concerns about commercial sensitivity.

 

[flecc]

They can't even tell the truth when the lie was bound to be found out within hours, at most, days.

Sources at the DfT said it was made aware of the impending mass sackings and suspension of ferry services on Wednesday night.

Boris Johnson’s official spokesperson had said on Thursday: “We weren’t given any notice to this.”

He confirmed on Friday that senior officials at the DfT had first been informed about the firm’s plan on Wednesday evening but had kept the information within a small group, because of concerns about commercial sensitivity.

So Kwasi Kwarteng is also lying in saying P & O are now being investigated to see if they'd broken the law by failing to notify. It seems they just can't help themselves.
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[Danidl]

There are a number of machine tools in very advanced manufacturing with a probable lifetime use of 40+ years, costing many thousands of times the price of the (sometimes embedded) Windows OS running their control systems... operators buy up old but properly licenced Windows XP machines just to have spares to substitute when their original XP machine dies - React OS would solve this problem. On the desktop, a less spyware ridden Windows capable of supporting most modern hardware and software, would be welcomed by many. Microsoft even deployed Windows 10 style telemetry spyware into some of the latter Windows 7 Pro updates, which I've removed from my safely stored away version, which I'll be using for years, in real or virtual.

Funny you should say that. About a decade ago, My College was donated a Narrow wave tank apparatus ... Based on a 80286 processor and customised driving software, .along with ancient ADC Cards . Bluntly we got a big van load of piece parts. How much was it worth?.... Absolutely no idea but modern versions would be into the millions. It had been dismantled and was rusting away in another University . Anyway, I took on to get the Electronics working, and we successfully got the software over to an early model Pentium ... We needed that generation because it was PC AT cards. Although the company who originally designed the technology is still in existence, this model was in their pre history and they had no remaining product knowledge, except a few mimographed sheets. Anyway all recommissioned and a new generation of Ph.D students are designing ocean energy renewable energy.

 

[Danidl]

They can't even tell the truth when the lie was bound to be found out within hours, at most, days.

Sources at the DfT said it was made aware of the impending mass sackings and suspension of ferry services on Wednesday night.

Boris Johnson’s official spokesperson had said on Thursday: “We weren’t given any notice to this.”

He confirmed on Friday that senior officials at the DfT had first been informed about the firm’s plan on Wednesday evening but had kept the information within a small group, because of concerns about commercial sensitivity.

This is very much a Brexit Bonus. The argument advanced is that because it is international transport, UK law is not applicable. But if UK were part of the EU it would not be seen as International. Now the Larne Cairnryan route is an internal UK route... So lets see how that pans out.

 

[oyster]

So Kwasi Kwarteng is also lying in saying P & O are now being investigated to see if they'd broken the law by failing to notify. It seems they just can't help themselves.
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They are required to give more than a few hours of notice to the Redundancy Payments Service. 45 days for 100+

I can't see anything as complex as an investigation being required:
Did RPS get notice? No.
Did P&O sack more than 100 workers? Yes.

Making staff redundant

Rules employers must follow when making staff redundant - consultations, notice periods, compulsory and non-compulsory redundancy and redundancy pay

www.gov.uk

 

[oyster]

This is very much a Brexit Bonus. The argument advanced is that because it is international transport, UK law is not applicable. But if UK were part of the EU it would not be seen as International. Now the Larne Cairnryan route is an internal UK route... So lets see how that pans out.

If UK law is not applicable, then EU law must be. You can't say that no law applies because they cross an international border.

 

[flecc]

Its curious, a lot of chickens associated with the west's flirtation with regimes, wheter Russian, Saudi or emirati are coming home to roost in quite cathartic ways.
The biggest of the chickens appear to be hovering for now

Speaking of chickens hovering instead of coming home to roost, I wonder what has happen to Sue Gray's report into Boris Johnson's "partygate"?

And indeed the Metropolitan Police investigation into it. It seems they are too busy catching those they've already caught, since they are now charging Wayne Cousins, the Met Police officer who murdered Sarah Everard, with six counts of indecent exposure in the same area.

Given that he is already serving a whole life sentence with no possibility of ever being released, what is the point, apart from making their crime clear up figures look slightly better?
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