outsideoflife

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by outsideoflife 9y ago
> That's speculative though isn't it? Not exactly, here have been very strong comments from some in the government that suggest that Britain is going to add environmental regulations to the 'bonfire of the regulations&#x27
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by outsideoflife 9y ago
The EU have been trying to ban neonicotinoids for some time. The UK voted against it. This is mentioned in the comments below
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by outsideoflife 9y ago
It was foisted on me, but I created a group in our approved software policy with just me in it, added Virtualbox to the group and managed to get the change request signed off! I use Ubuntu now for everything but MS Office and the dreaded ER
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by outsideoflife 9y ago
>There is a common theme of wanting to be both hedging and getting the upside I see that in my professional life x10. When I suggest 'options' (so you get the option of taking the hedge or the market at the strike date) they sc
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by outsideoflife 9y ago
Many 'family farms' even in the dainty UK are multi-million $ businesses, run by people who know how to shear sheep and bunt hurdles and wurzels. They complain about the effect of market prices, and the worry they create, but they
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by outsideoflife 9y ago
In the UK this is doubly true, because you also receive your subsidy from the EU for owning that land. In fact in many ways farming it less efficiently gets you more as you can qualify for environmental uplifts for using less fertilizer and
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by outsideoflife 9y ago
Surely you mean an 'immigration' problem. Poland must surely have suffered for the massive emigration of young working people to the rest of Europe. We in the UK have been paying the pensions gap with the toil of Polish people for
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by outsideoflife 9y ago
And in the UK. Indeed it seems that the UK government were very close indeed to forming a pact with Hitler. There was a UK facist movement, and the Daily Mail newspaper(still going) ran the headline 'Hurrah for the Blackshirts', t
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by outsideoflife 9y ago
Yes...but. You can't do a SQL join between the data in an excel table and a remote database via a nice GUI front end using just .NET and ODBC. I am evaluating this product at the moment, and it looks really useful for Finance/anal
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by outsideoflife 9y ago
I like this idea. For many off grid situations energy density and weight is not that big of an issue compared to cost. If instead of the size of a 'Powerwall' you had to have something the size of a coal bunker or compost bin, tha
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by outsideoflife 9y ago
There seems to be a pattern of US tech getting special tax treatment from the UK. Google pays little. Amazon avoids payroll taxes by exploiting self employed. Starbucks exploits brand licensing to move profits abroad.