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Most Scots and Cymry do not identify as British, and do not like it when you refer to them as British.

I'm Scots, not British. Roughly 50% of us support independence from the UK.

He is wrong.

Everything is tech now. And other things are the value add.

For example, if you are a law firm, or a real estate company, and if your tech is not operating then your company is not operating.

If your Internet is offline, or your local network, then your business is not running.

If your company has a security breach, then you will have massive reputation problems.

If you're a small business, you need to have an online presence with Insta, Facebook, and Google maps.

It's all 75% tech now. Get with the programme.

Nice, an appeal to a false equivalence.

The conservative obstructionist and scorched earth tactics are obscene.

No, proponents of the capital punishment attempt to create process that attempts to mitigate complaints made by abolishionists.

Nice attempt at shifting the goalposts and shifting blame. And making a false equivalence with nuclear power.

Abolishionists want capital punishment abolished because capital punishment is inhumane, cruel, and morally objectionable.

Absolutely not true. There are many lawyers that will take cases on a "no win, no fee" basis.

Clearly Stripe was in breach in this circumstance, and courts look dimly on that kind of behaviour.

It is an infusion, not "tea," unless it has leaves from camellia sinensis, the actual tea plant.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camellia_sinensis

Remember that the human genome project was started in in 1990, completed in 2003. In 2003 it took a year to sequence 80% of the human genome, now it takes a day to do 98%. In 1990 they had the understanding on how to sequence DNA, but scaling that across whole human genome seemed like monumental task.

I'm guessing in a decade we'll have a viable early stage industrial process, and in 2 decades we have commissioned fusion reactors.

If we don't kill the planet with nuclear war or the climate crisis.

300 MJ is about 83 KWh.

In the UK is 1 KWh is £0.34

So, this costs £28 in electricity to run this experiment. The experiment is a momentary thing.

Clearly there is now some work to, but now this is becoming an engineering problem of how to extend, sustain, and scale this process.

I'm not sure what your experience is, but mine is over multiple decades over multiple companies over multiple continents, and in general, corporate management, project management, and business analysts are not concerned about security.

Instead, they are interested in delivering buttons, fields, and streamlined workflows. Technical debt and library upgrades? Os upgrades? Forget about it. They need to deliver value back to the business in terms of faster business processes.

Only when the business is hacked or they fail compliance does the business leadership start to care.

Blaming the people with the hands on the tools is not fair when the business will not give the resources to do their work properly.

Considering the EU has their own Mastodon service, I suspect yes.

https://social.network.europa.eu/about

It would be great if Google stopped making nasty Urls with the nasty "Scroll To Text Fragment" feature.

It is the biggest tech retrograde since MS started putting UUIDs in to their Urls. Which they largely stopped except for sharepoint documents.

The Windows Registry is a pretty good key-value store for centrally storing config.

Because some, perhaps many, have abused the originally good idea, does not invalidate its positive aspects.

Also, I do not agree it is a file system. It is a key-value storage system that is leagues better than the win.ini, system.ini, and the prolific ini file collection hell it replaced.

Some form of version control would make the registry better.

The Facebook app is a worse app than it was before it introduced "Stories" which is a terribly irritating feature.

Also, auto play of video and sometimes audio also makes it a horrible experience.

There is so much about Facebook that keeps pushing me away.

Canada is not a train culture.

Knife crime statistics include "stop and search" where orinary working people have boxcutters, Leatherman multitools, and Swissarmy knives taken off them. POC and young people are particularly targeted.

Knife crime in the UK is a red herring.

>> BT FTTH doesn't suffer from congestion issues (nor does the FTTC).

That is just not true. BT consumer FTTC is contended up to 40 to 1--that is you are sharing your backhaul with upto 40 of your neighbours. I am assuming that their FTTH services are the same.

>> career growth

Sorry, I don't buy in the fetishisation of that and being instantly available.

If someone needs to get in touch with me, then they will.

>> London

Yip, things in London are quite different than the rest of the UK.

While Openreach has to allow access to other providers to its infrastructure, most infrastructure is owned and controlled by BT.

If you want FTTP, the underlying service is still BT Openreach. Openreach is very profitable.

At my previous employer it cost us £30K to have BT put in 3000m of fibre that took them 1 afternoon, then it cost £1K a month for a 30Mbs service.

BT owns provides the vast majority of broadband service in the UK and it is somewhat disingenuous to claim BT is on an equal footing as Hyperoptic, VM, or Community Fibre.

TT and Sky use BT OR infra, and EE, Plusnet, and BT Retail are all owned by the BT Group.

The telecom market in the UK is very consolidated and controlled by BT.

No, Canadians do not see Crown Land as owned by the Canadian Monarchy, they see Crown Land and owned and controlled by the government as a public asset.

Canadians see the Canadian Royal Family as nothing more than a figurehead of the state.

I am a Canadian and I have studied British and North American History extensively.

Federal Crown Land is almost exclusively in the northern territories.

Resource administration is a constitutional power that provinces administrator.

The area in white in the below map are not Canada Lands which makes them Provincial Lands, ie Provincial Crown Lands.

https://clss.nrcan-rncan.gc.ca/data-donnees/sgb-maps-dag-car...

>> Crown land is owned by the Canadian Crown; the monarchy owns all crown land officially. It's administered by a split across federal and provincial jurisdictions.

No, Crown Land is controlled by the provinces. No, the Canadian monarchy does not own crown land. The Crown owns crown land. Essentially The Crown in Canada is its own legal entity and instrument for the purposes of administration of public lands. The Crown Estates of England and Scotland are something different again, and the Crown Estate owns things like tidal lands and actual real property.

There is Federal Crown Land, but that is almost completely in the northern territories. This is down to Canada's constitutional makeup because provinces control resources.

The Federal government can expropriate land from the provinces when it has a reason to do so like for military bases.

Here is a link that shows Canada Lands. The white area are Provincial Lands.

https://clss.nrcan-rncan.gc.ca/data-donnees/sgb-maps-dag-car...

Yes, HBC has a Royal Charter from King Charles II which granted HBC exclusive economic activity in the lands that drained into Hudson Bay.

HBC lands were surrendered to the British government in 1868 ahead of confederation.

National Parks are not Crown Land. National Parks are reserves of land owned and managed by the Federal Parks Department and development is not allowed on that land whatsoever.

Crown Land is land owned and administered by the provinces. Crown Land can be licenced for many uses and sometimes it can be purchased.

Also, Provincial Parks are not Crown Land.

No. "Crown Land" in Canada is owned by the provinces.

There is no such thing as a "British Crown Corporation."

Crown Corporations are a Canadian thing.

I lived in Canada for 30 years and now live in the Scotland. CalMac and Scottish Water are not "Crown Corporations," but are nevertheless owned and controlled by the Scottish Ministers. This is contrast to BC Ferries, ICBC, and BC Hydro which are Crown Corporations.

In the UK there is something called the Crown Estate, which is somethint again different.

Just wait until you hear about the UK.

BT/Openreach has control of about 80% of the backhaul/trunk connectivity.

Let me simplify and fix this for you.

1) Mute phone

2) Turn off desktop notifications

4) enjoy working in peace

5) check notifications when you like

7) Live a happier and less stressful life.

People calling themselves "expats" is a bad look. Expats are immigrants.

The problem with the housing crisis we are facing is one of supply, therefore we need to build additional housing stock.

Obviously, you are not very familiar Ukraine, Ukrainian people, or Ukrainian history.

I'm guessing you were not present in 1991 when Ukraine declared itself independent. I am guessing you are oblivious to the very significant Russian casualty figures that are putting this as high as 50,000: 10,000 dead and 40,000 injured.

Ukraine will not cede any land, and is getting significant war material and support from the west.

Putin, quite clearly, is a modern Kaiser Wilhelm II. And I have every suspicion that he was egged on Xi because for China there is no downside. China will basically take control of Eastern Russia over the next 50 years and Russia will be China's vassle state in Europe.

Think of it this way. Russia is like IBM, and their war is like OS/2. China gave Putin tacit permission and support, but China actually has its own objectives which are served by the success or failure. And probably failure even more so.

Does that mean they will need to deploy IPv8 with 256 bits of address space?

Or will IPv8 go straight to 1024 bits?

;)