Important reminder.
Since water was privatised under thatcher. The companies have sold off 30 reservoirs. Filling them for development etc.
Remember this fact every time they seek help.
Yep well considering the US leadership is basically following 1930s Germany as a guide.
The exact reason the ICC was formed. Yeah objections are to be expected.
Again.
Every few years we hear a nations gov say this. Them m$ makes a deal to good to be true. And it all resets.
It's basically become an accounting trick for national govs.
For private citizens yes.
If a nations official forces do it. It is an act of war.
And, as everyone here says. He is correct. It is an investment. Not work. Yes you are taking a risk, that is the point. If you work, you should not be taking a risk. But instead paid for your labour.
Unfortunately, saying it here doesn't matter. Papers like the telegraph and other Tory press are not going to care about the facts. They only care about creating division.
More importantly, Starmer et al. Are also not going to make the effort to argue this case. No effort is going to be made to push forward the true difference between working class income and actual investment income.
Anyone watching saw this argument starting during the election. It was clear then when labour started talking about working taxes. The Tories instantly started arguing that the Tories were talking about not raising taxers at all. Anyone watching saw this discussion forming.
And Starmer et al. intentionally ignored it rather than draw attention to the difference. They will not bother to fight the terminology now either.
Industry groups are furious.
Likely the best sign it's the right thing to do.
Until the cost of using plastic matches the cost of removing it from our environment. No one is truly going to provide the support needed to bring the cost of safer replacements down to a point where industry will care.
Just like all damage to the environment. Until world governments are willing to agree to make those profiting pay all current and future costs of clean-up. Capitalism will never accept its role n the task.
Remove carrots and start some application of fucking big sticks.
batshit crazy & desperate
Hope so.
Because otherwise its fucking terrifying. And honestly that is the better reaction.
He is indicating at the least he plans changes that voting will not be able to change. At the worst plans to become a dictatorship.
And given his attitude. The later seems more likely.
Yep pretty much but on a larger scale.
1st please do not believe the bull that there was no problem. Many folks like me were paid to fix it before it was an issue. So other than a few companies, few saw the result, not because it did not exist. But because we were warned. People make jokes about the over panic. But if that had not happened, it would hav been years to fix, not days. Because without the panic, most corporations would have ignored it. Honestly, the panic scared shareholders. So boards of directors had to get experts to confirm the systems were compliant. And so much dependent crap was found running it was insane.
But the exaggerations of planes falling out of the sky etc. Was also bull. Most systems would have failed but BSOD would be rare, but code would crash and some works with errors shutting it down cleanly, some undiscovered until a short while later. As accounting or other errors showed up.
As other have said. The issue was that since the 1960s, computers were set up to treat years as 2 digits. So had no expectation to handle 2000 other than assume it was 1900. While from the early 90s most systems were built with ways to adapt to it. Not all were, as many were only developing top layer stuff. And many libraries etc had not been checked for this issue. Huge amounts of the infra of the world's IT ran on legacy systems. Especially in the financial sector where I worked at the time.
The internet was a fairly new thing. So often stuff had been running for decades with no one needing to change it. Or having any real knowledge of how it was coded. So folks like me were forced to hunt through code or often replace systems that were badly documented or more often not at all.
A lot of modern software development practices grew out of discovering what a fucking mess can grow if people accept an "if it ain't broke, don't touch it" mentality.
Honestly Humanity has been pretty arrogant. Took 100s of years before we recognised birds use tools. Mainly because everytime it was seen. Some other excuse was seen for why the bird was sticking a stick into a tree. Science was so sure mankind was unique it was unwilling to see reality.
But honestly if you think that is bad. Do some research into why European explorers thought Europe represented the most advanced civilisation. African cities raised to the ground rather then face the idea they may have been their before us.
Cool. Crime but who cares.
Now the important question. Who the fuck paid 300k for a statue of her.
If public funds were involved. That's a fucking hanging offence.
If not. Tut tut typical sign of tory refusal to invest in mental health.
That will be down to the UK government not NATO.
It is certainly possible. But our current military leaders have made it clear in the past,
1 career milatary volunteer is worth 100s of untrained forced fighters.
The cost of training huge numbers of conscripted fighters. When fighting a modern battle. Is not going to be the first choice of our military by any means. Moving from a total voluntary army to conscription would take a huge change in our forces. More so then the US that at least still keeps records suitable for drafting young fighters.
Great. More housing on the market. Because you openly admit you do not care about your tenents.
With any luck enough landlords who only see properly as an investment opportunity. Will copy you. And the housing market will correct.
Unlikely though as it's a global issue ATM. So many will invest even with tenants having some extra rights.