spacecowboy_lon

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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
BT doesn't own Telecity I suspect that if they did it wouldn't have happened. And BT pays out around 3% dividend to its owners which is not excessive a lot of BT's detractors have an axe to grind (Sky, Murdoch and Virgin) and
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
Presumably you get the pension that goes with that
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
The IBM wasn't cheap when it came out - when comapared to a PET or Apple ][ I recall working on a Grey Import IBP Pc in the UK - Our electronics shop built an inverter to convert 240v to 110.
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
FMH I wonder what the Surgeons I have met (I am on a transplant list in the UK) would say to that.
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
There is a European arrest warrant.
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
The common good overrides that and if like Google you are going to stick to fingers up to the "man" over NSL's its very hypocritical. As Seward said "there is a higher law than the Constitution"
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
That reminds me of my first job (late 70's)where one of the project leads was paranoid about losing data from experiments (eficiny of mixing in tanks) He had 2 copies on floppy two on disk (in a separate building) and another set at h
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
And Extrajudical killing of opposing deputies as well as having socialist deputies arrested. Its easier to get a quorum if you can kill your opposition
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
It's people like you who gave the nod and wink to abuses like the mechanics school in the dirty war in Argentina. No offense but this is "working towards the Fuhrer" in action
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
The bans on Masks etc in europe goes back a long way to public order issues that the use of Masks during carnival led to.
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
You effectively can't stop political risk - though they don't normally change it retroactively Having said that the tax benefits are not that great in the US - Higher rate tax payers in the UK have faced savage cuts to the tax ben
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
The average height in the west has been increasing over the last century due to improved diet.
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
Well if you exercise you replace fat with muscle which is denser - Though when I did 15 miles a day on a bike commuting I lost a stone in a couple of weeks so the statement that exercise does not lead to weight loss is bollocks.
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
yes if you cave a busy day and wont be able to fit a proper lunch in the Full English is the way to go. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huSP7PtctC4
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
Why is that? in the UK a SIP (Self Invested Pension) can invest in almost anything even direct investments in commercial property are allowed. Sounds like the USA's Openednded mutual funds are even more dodgy than the uk equivalents (u
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
I think your missing the point that big data commodity systems are not the $199 pc's ypou buy at walmart. For hadoop a comodity box is a dual xenon white box with 192G of ram plus infiniband networking kit.
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
I know a session musician who played on major hits I wont mention the artist he mentioned who had 97 separate vocal tracks in protools on one Hit :-)
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
Try getting a mortgage on a property with a short lease <60 Years it can be hard and expensive to extend the lease to make it practicabel.
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
I agree but moist systems are not setup to facilitate this, and nor do people want to do the hard yards.
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
as the Hardline unionists did in the UK which is why northern irland lags the rest of the UK in civil rights
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
And how does the average voter get involved in "drafting bills" I suspect that there are very few of us on HN who have ever done something like that. I manged to get several thousand people a better pension by using the democratic
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
Huh it's normal in the UK to be paid for being on call and than paid at a higher rates for any time at BT it was 4 hours minimum for any call 1.5 1.72 (after 8 pm) and double time and a day on Sunday.
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
Its the BBC :-)
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
And Peaky Blinders is just Brummy (birmigham) accent not full on yam yam - the Black country dialect Its funny but Peaky Blinders accents make me feel at home - ok I do have connections to pre legalization bookies :-)
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
Its the difference between a £250,000k Job and a £10k one ogh and coordinating 50-70 different lease holder to pay their share. Even more extream if your looking at a listed building - which I did when I was looking at buying a ex alms hous
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
That's a big ask and very subjective POV
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
Do you mean Spies or Officers?
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
But not everyone wants to live in an apartment/flat there are serious downsides to lease hold property's. A co worker was on the residents committee for a block of flats (london UK) that had to have the roof replaced not cheap a
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
And its easier to break into the average house than the average pc.
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
I expect most employers in the anglosaxon legal system have those terms in all employment contracts - as it goes back to the Master and Servant Acts (as amended)

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