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by GJim 1y ago
> to prove my age If you want to prove your age, there are a host of *voluntary* forms of identity you can carry if you wish to do so. Please tell me how a new *compulsory* scheme (with privacy invading overreach) is going to help you.
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by GJim 1y ago
A smartphone running software beholden to one of two American companies. Do you see the flaw here!
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by GJim 1y ago
> What it will combat is illegal immigrants ability to work Utter rubbish. Do you seriously think those already paying cash-in-hand for delivery drivers, window cleaners, fruit pickers etc will give a toss about someone's lack of
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by GJim 1y ago
I'll be honest.... I'm puzzled why OP did a web-search (i.e. used a business to find) 'midjourny' rather than simply entering the known URL. How times change.
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by GJim 1y ago
> Dyson is an example of someone whose narrative is bullshit James Dyson, the salesman of (slightly crap) vacuum cleaners to the middle classes? I believe he was called out by those middles classes for advocating Brexit to "boost B
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by GJim 1y ago
I know you are joking.... ...however discussion on Fortan is inevitably dominated by those who once saw some F77 code years back and associate Fortran with punch cards. Fortran 90 was a big update of the language, and modern Fortran version
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by GJim 1y ago
> I now pass over to GPT Please don't do this. Non-attributed data from LLMs (known for bullshitting) is not helpful.
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by GJim 1y ago
> Chatgpt makes it so damn easy to fact check bullshit online Oh dear. I certainly hope you aren't daft enough to trust LLM's known for hallucinating^H^H^H^H^H^H bullshitting.
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by GJim 1y ago
Some very sensitive Americans must have downvoted that (rather factual) post! Call it a comment on capitalism or what you will.
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by GJim 1y ago
> Usually the placemats are loaded with ads Somehow, it doesn't surprise me that is a thing in America.
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by GJim 1y ago
> I’ve never understood the people who buy duty free booze, etc. Presumably you come from a country with low taxes on alcohol. Come to Norway, but do yourself a favour and stock up on duty free fags and booze first.
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by GJim 1y ago
Just jump over the barrier like everybody else. In the event of being challenged by a security chap, it is traditional to offer to piss on the station concourse instead.
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by GJim 1y ago
Megan Markle? Is that you?
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by GJim 1y ago
> ChatGPT Quoting an AI, rather than specific sources of information, isn't helpful and certainly should not be used to support an argument.
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by GJim 1y ago
> What were you doing to get traffic from the open Internet to your webserver at home? I always felt that was a risky proposition, How times change. Once nearly every self respecting IT pro ran servers from there home network. The modern
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by GJim 1y ago
The technology, or the business owner? Because the fickleness and unreliability of the latter is a serious concern. Once other LEO constellations come online, who is going to stick with Starlink, knowing they may pull the plug at anytime on
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by GJim 1y ago
*second country. (Not to detract from your otherwise correct post).
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by GJim 1y ago
One teaches children to enter a museum or library with wonderment and a wish to learn, yet with a degree of reverence; it isn't a playground. If your children act the goat, not only are they disturbing others, they clearly have not be
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by GJim 1y ago
> The Making of the Atomic Bomb Book by Richard Rhodes A good book. May I also recommend the In Our Time episode on the Manhattan Project. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00108h1 (The Richard Rhodes book is on t
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by GJim 1y ago
> At best, the GDPR only introduces a minor indirection, the problem of hoodwinking the "data subject" into clicking the accept button True. Some people are daft enough to opt-in and click the "accept cookies" and &qu
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by GJim 1y ago
> All it requires is "informed consent" (i.e a click or a tap on a button) from the "data subject" Correct. Clear, opt-in informed consent to use personal data is the fundamental principle of the GDPR. As it should be
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by GJim 1y ago
> I don't think that any other country would be so polite if they were humiliated like this Everyone is exercising diplomatic niceties [1]. However, we have all come to realise the USA can no longer be trusted as a good faith partne
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by GJim 1y ago
So, when will 'murka wake up and protect its people with real data privacy laws like (or even better than) the GDPR?
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by GJim 1y ago
THIS! If music, video or writing is something you want to see again, download a copy to own it yourself. Trusting a for-profit streaming company is simply idiotic. HD space is cheap these days, so no excuses.
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by GJim 1y ago
Whilst I disagree with what you have written, it is disappointing to see your genuine statements being downvoted. Downvoting is meant for comments that detract from the discussion. Downvoting a comment simply because you disagree (and can&#
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by GJim 1y ago
The "experiment" in Wales has proven what a disaster reducing this speed was. Urban area limits are now being raised back to 30 mph.
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by GJim 1y ago
Same thing in Blighty old boy.
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by GJim 1y ago
"Smart speakers" should be called by their real name: Smart microphones. Echo --> Amazons microphone.
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by GJim 1y ago
> Go and sue them we will wait with anticipation for the ruling We don't need to 'sue' as we aren't Americans. Strong consumer rights laws in the UK and EU mean that if goods are not as described and/or become di
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by GJim 1y ago
Frankly, if you can't give and take the piss, you wouldn't last five minutes in a British workplace. We don't take ourselves too seriously, and find people who do take themselves seriously worthy of some extra piss taking to

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