Brexit, for once some facts.

oyster

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back in 2005-2010, the CIA created STUXNET, which wormed its way into Iranian centrifuges. Since, there are viruses like MELTDOWN and SPECTRE that worm their way through Javascript to kill the target CPUs. So if you know the frequency of the airplane's communication, it's conceivable that you can send out the code to destroy the computer system on that airplane.
The Russians will have a manual backup using levers, cogs and things... Like an Antikythera. Completely virus-proof.
 

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while brexit talks resumed in Brussels, IDS gave Bloomberg an interview.
He still maintains that an FTA deal with the EU is easy and the EU won't go for Chequers, and even if they did, about 100 conservative MPs may not vote for it.
I must say when it comes to selling snake oil, IDS is good. You could be easily lulled into thinking that it's the right thing to do for 100 conservative MPs to vote against their PM.
 

Kudoscycles

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we still have to operate under Single Market rules.
the EU has imposed the onus on the holiday booking websites (eg tripadvisor) insure against property owners going broke and criminals who place fake pictures of their properties. I reckon at some stage, the EU will put the same onus on platforms like ebay and amazon to enforce VAT accounting, ie, make them liable for VAT reclaim cases if the customers got cheated on VAT. Secondly, the EU can request reporting of sales made by traders on those platforms and fine the platforms if their traders fail to register for VAT after clocking up enough sales.
HMRC think that the problem is that these sellers are not registered for vat when they should be. HMRC claim a big success when they have forced the small trader to vat register.
This is not the problem,in fact forcing them to vat register just allows them to reclaim the input tax....the problem is that they are not raising invoices and therefore not charging and accounting for the output tax.
It would be so easy for HMRC to catch these guys...E-Bay show the total sales for each individual product and the sales history....a vat inspector has only to print out say 10 lists and look for the mating invoices....but they dont do it!!!!
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In the year 2525, if man is still alive
If woman can survive, they may find
In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lie
Everything you think, do and say
Is in the pill you took today
In the year 4545
You ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes
You won't find a thing to chew
Nobody's gonna look at you
In the year 5555
Your arms hangin' limp at your sides
Your legs got nothin' to do
Some machine's doin' that for you
In the year 6565
You won't need no husband, won't need no wife
You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long glass tube
In the year 7510
If God's a coming, He oughta make it by then
Maybe He'll look around Himself and say
Guess it's time for the judgment day
In the year 8510
God is…
 

anotherkiwi

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Aye, but it was only one bridge, not five in ten years, and 10,000 others now suspect!
You don't have a mafia weakening structures buy including dead bodies in the concrete maybe? :rolleyes:
 
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In the year 2525, if man is still alive
If woman can survive, they may find
In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lie
Everything you think, do and say
Is in the pill you took today
In the year 4545
You ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes
You won't find a thing to chew
Nobody's gonna look at you
In the year 5555
Your arms hangin' limp at your sides
Your legs got nothin' to do
Some machine's doin' that for you
In the year 6565
You won't need no husband, won't need no wife
You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long glass tube
In the year 7510
If God's a coming, He oughta make it by then
Maybe He'll look around Himself and say
Guess it's time for the judgment day
In the year 8510
God is…
Are we getting a sneak preview of your "Worst case no Brexit deal" emergency plan here?
Shades of
"Once I built a railroad, now it's done
Buddy can you spare a Dime?" :cool:
 
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oldgroaner

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I must check if there is any "Bell" clan ancestry in this man's forbears,
You have to admire someone with such a talent for Duplicity and treachery, is this the result of Public School education, or just a natural talent?

He definitely Shows promise.........:rolleyes:
Perhaps he will deserve one of these

The Mug's Motto should read
"If ye do laddie Ye are one.":D

Certainly to judge by this character's own words he is even more inclined to swop sides that even Boris, and he has too!
 
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oyster

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Aye, but it was only one bridge, not five in ten years, and 10,000 others now suspect!
Yes - but I suspect the old Forth Road Bridge got rather closer than we would be happy to think.

A few months ago I was reading about bridges and their ability to take 44 tonners. Pembrokeshire was one of very few counties that got a clean bill of health. Which was a surprise to me. Then I thought about the military with their tank transporters, the ferry traffic, and so on which must all have contributed to the justification for the bridges being kept up to snuff.

Trouble is, the bridges might take them, but some of the narrow lanes have a bit more difficulty...



A MINOR road near Haverfordwest’s Freemens Way has been completely blocked by a lorry this morning.

The lorry became stuck on Clay Lane this morning, August 16.
 
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oyster

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Meanwhile, back on the brexit slalom...

The Guardian view on Brexit and trade: the WTO is not a safety net
Editorial
Tory hardliners’ faith in the World Trade Organization as a viable alternative to EU membership is reckless fantasy
Fri 17 Aug 2018 17.01 BST Last modified on Fri 17 Aug 2018 17.35 BST



A sign at the WTO headquarters in Geneva. ‘Brexiters speak of “WTO rules” is if they were a simple, universally respected legal safety net.’ Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images
One of the most thoroughly debunked claims made about Brexit during the referendum campaign was that it would be easy. Leave campaigners said the terms of Britain’s future trade with the European Union and the rest of the world would quickly be settled. In July 2016, David Davis forecast that, within two years, the UK would have negotiated a new free trade zone “massively larger than the EU.” Mr Davis resigned as Brexit secretary without seeing that vision enacted.

In July 2017, Liam Fox, the international trade secretary, said that a post-Brexit deal with the EU “should be one of the easiest in human history.” Yet there is zero prospect of such a deal being complete by March next year, when membership of the single market – a trade partnership of unique depth and, very substantially, of British design – expires. Earlier this month, Mr Fox put the chances of the UK failing to strike any kind of deal in advance of that deadline at 60-40. Jeremy Hunt, the foreign secretary, said yesterday that such an outcome would be cause for generations of regret (… for the EU, he clarified under duress).

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/17/the-guardian-view-on-brexit-and-trade-the-wto-is-not-a-safety-net#comments
 
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