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I'm having a little philosophical discussion with myself here about whether something that can't run on an actual computer (as opposed to a VM) is in any meaningful sense an "operating system" at all.

Meanwhile I can definitely boot RiscOS on a Pi containing built-in apps with a 1987 copyright message in them. I mean I can't then really do anything with it, but it's still got Haiku beat.

I think at this point I'm on the fourth consecutive laptop that this just won't ever boot on. This time, however, it just says "Haiku" on a splash screen and then stops completely. No errors, no debug message window, nothing.

(At this point usually someone here insists that I file a bug. Which I won't do because a) I have no useful information to put into a bug report and b) I think after eleven years of this nonsense it's probably in there about 200 times already anyway.)

Oh, look. Can't even press the space bar to get an unintelligible error anymore.

I'm just taking a moment to admire a publication which describes an OS with -- count 'em -- six different photographs of the back of the phones it ran on.

"Roughly one third of 501 students at a single university in Frankfurt, in Germany where certain publications are required by the constitution to remain prohibited, are in favour of removing controversial books from a single named library" presumably -- while rather more accurate -- didn't quite make the weaksauce point we were looking for.

Its court will strike this down in toto as unlawful. About twelve years from now.

Spoiler: no they are not.

EU Directive 2016/343 part 25 very clearly prohibits this kind of nonsense. Yes, the Irish state insists on pretending that EU law doesn't exist over and over and over again, but how wrong it is about that is documented by its endless appearances at the CJEU in Luxembourg and its 0% win record.

London doesn't have earthquakes.

In what sense am I "configuring" this when the only thing I can change on it is the switch feel?

Of course it's Fujitsu, purveyor of nearly every nonfunctional hit-and-run government IT contract in the UK and Ireland.

As far as I can gather this malignancy escapes permanent legal destruction primarily by shedding all of its staff every 20 minutes

Greenland itself, however, left the EEC in 1982.

No. This is a subtle difference but a very important one. In the US, the performance right on broadcast radio is not collected at all. The publishing rights are collected on.

That's really not the same thing as "publishers take all the money".

Au contraire.

This way of looking at things ignores the astonishing cost of maintaining emergency support payments to people and businesses, which are significantly more expensive than the price differential on vaccines. Ireland's spending over a million euro per hour on that and will now be forced to do so for thousands of additional hours.

People who need it for work have vans, which are an amazing invention with rooves and doors and which can carry pallets. Some have a trailer instead.

People who need it barely once or twice a year for home take an estate car, rent one for a taxi, borrow a trailer off a friend, or get the store to deliver - because owning your own van or pickup just for that reason would be considered completely insane.

I for one love it when mouthy oncologists get picked to talk about epedemiology in the Journal.

Next week, tune in for a sculptor's hot take on the Mars lander.

You may have missed this but at one point Johnson was actively touting the notion of proroguing parliament indefinitely so that it could not meet and reject a plan to Brexit without any trade deal in place.

And then 48 hours later, as if by magic, that plan (which would have required the Queen to publicly assent to an overtly-political variation of current norms) suddenly vanished without trace or comment.

Before the changes resulting in 92 remaining in the House of Lords, hereditary members numbered over 1200. Once in a blue moon the Conservatives would mobilise basically all of them and destroy any opposition to a bill in progress

<waves>

And at one point nearly neighbours in N7 if I recall ;)

Do I have to be the oldest fart in the room to just naturally assume that since Mozilla was the first popular browser to show inline images, that its homepage is the first place to look?

http://home.mcom.com

Last-Modified: Fri, 21 Oct 1994 19:00:00 GMT

I'm less concerned about the kit that was removed from the Capitol and very much more concerned about all the kit that wasn't.

There is no laptop, no camera, no wall socket, no light switch even, that should not now be destroyed

This is not a description of how he's being treated as a prisoner, but rather specifically as a prisoner who is being transported between a prison and a courthouse during a trial or hearing.

So... somewhat disingenuous.

And for breaking the terms of his bail conditions by legging it to the Ecuadorian embassy in the first place.

Whatever your politics, we should endeavor to stop giving oxygen to rhetoric that misstates easily verifiable facts

* Your comparison between Portugal's social security system and the US's includes only one source of support, but several are available. (Cost of housing is one.) Neglecting this easily-verifiable fact has the same misinformational outcome as lying.

* "Medicaid has extremely low out-of-pocket costs" is not a reply to "we didn't pay a fucking cent". Your (not-included) estimates of how much money a US resident definitely will have to pay is by definition never going to be as good as zero. It's almost like you're setting out to smooth over this also-easily-verifiable fact with "rhetoric".

If you actually believe it was news that the NSA is intercepting signals from and in Syria, I may have a bridge for sale you'd be interested in.

It has rather less to do with post-colonialism than it does with having a very unethical dominant church for hundreds of years, honestly.

We're the only horrifically-bent country in northern Europe

And then, after that, this algorithm nonsensically applies an enormous upward or downward adjustment depending on what someone decided was the quality (read: prevalent socioeconomic status) of the school they attend.

In this case, yes it is.

Low-performing students at private schools are having their estimated Cs and Ds bumped up to As. Stellar students at schools in poor areas who got As in their mock exams and have teacher-predicted As are being awarded Ds instead.

There's nothing at all unique about Germany. The Kia/Hyundai crossover and the newest version of the Renault Zoe are 250-300 mile cars that cost half as much as a Tesla, and if you're into buying a luxury car, the Jag and BMW options actually provide the luxury in a package where all the doors fit and the bodywork doesn't look like someone elongated an old AMC Pacer.

Price and look-and-feel is putting a massive dent in the side of Tesla, whose primary feature isn't the car but the charging network - which is clearly in an entirely different league than anyone else. But even that might not be worth thirty grand to most people

Wilfully obtuse of the increasingly-shit BBC News to attribute this to CoViD and completely ignore the fact that a gigantic swathe of cigarette types were outright banned a month ago

Erm. OK, but there is at least one Irish accent which is obviously similar to "generic American", but of all the UK accents none persist in the US, nor vice-versa.

For sure I didn't think there were enough problems with the status of the Marshall Islands in international law, and so this seems like a brilliant idea altogether.