mrbadger

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by mrbadger 1y ago
Been using Synology for more than 10 years. Very used to DSM and my default would have been to continue. The drive policy was a calculated insult to customers. I don't buy the argument that Synology was incurring support costs. If true
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by mrbadger 2y ago
Really? I have taken chickens to the vet twice (in 8 years). First was one taken by a fox. My wife chased the fox and he dropped the chicken (she was too heavy for him). She had a broken leg and a broken wing. Both perfectly treatable and s
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by mrbadger 2y ago
Your apparent implication that the EU is coercive is false. Very simply, if you want to do business in the EU you have to comply with the mandated market standards. No hammers are involved. The EU is the greatest peace project in history no
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by mrbadger 3y ago
NI is recognised as a "contingent" part of the UK. (contingent because as a gerrymandered legacy colony imposed on the Irish people it is a disputed territory). There certainly is an implied agreement that there will be never agai
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by mrbadger 3y ago
Utter claptrap. The UK govt announced its intention to abrogate the withdrawal agreement. The EU did not renege upon the agreement -- which specifically includes terms about the EU's rights to punish non-compliance. And the UK's &
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by mrbadger 3y ago
Personal communication from someone in the know in NUI.
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by mrbadger 3y ago
What's overlooked by many commenting on this is that cooperation with UK science will not revert to pre-Brexit levels. EU scientists do not have freedom of movement to the UK, nor do their families and any dependents. The bureaucratic
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by mrbadger 3y ago
Nonsense. There is no pretense that GB and NI are in different countries. They are in different trade zones. As for "our" country, here's your reminder that all of Ireland was coerced into the UK by colonisation and oppressio
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by mrbadger 3y ago
This will be a significant boost to London, already home to vast amounts of money laundering via real estate, all facilitated by well established networks involving thousands of middle class professionals and the UK's crown dependencie
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by mrbadger 3y ago
This is arrant nonsense. EU countries are NOT busy dominating each other nor are they engaged in colonialism, unless you think the Brussels Effect is about colonialism instead of the EU punching above its weight in setting norms and standar
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by mrbadger 4y ago
In fact, VAT is what facilitates the operation of the EU single market. Meanwhile, in the US: https://fsi.stanford.edu/events/why-europe%E2%80%99s-single-...
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by mrbadger 4y ago
Indeed. The Commission is appointed by the Council (member state govt heads of state) and appointments are ratified by the European Parliament. Same as with the executive in the US. Not complicated.
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by mrbadger 4y ago
Your use of the term "unelected bureaucrats" as a delegitimizing pejorative is risible. Do yourself a favour and read Michael Lewis's The Fifth Risk. The EU's civil servants are, by and large, an exceptionally talented b
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by mrbadger 4y ago
Cinnamon works for me. KDE was buggy, unreliable and annoying when I tried it--admittedly some time ago. And the fetish for naming everything with an initial letter K: kindergarten stuff. Too much effort on making every last thing customisa
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by mrbadger 4y ago
MyLifeOrganized ; it's the last Windows app I use (on Linux with WINE and Android)
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by mrbadger 4y ago
Did you miss the bit where given a choice most people opted out of surveillance? No concern at all about the adverse effects on democracies of the misuse of data?