timellis-smith

Depending on what type of bike you have. On a mountain bike, anyday. On a road bike with paper thin tyres that easily puncture, maybe not so much.

Thank you. I will take a further look at it.

I wonder how long before wearables that actively cool you become a thing i.e. a top that you put on and acts as a heat pump to take the heat away from you.

In winter I wear a heated top often rather than switch the heater on and the wife has a heated blanket. Seems like a much more efficient way of keeping warm / cool than changing the room temp.

Out of interest, have you seen the list of potential future PMs. I would say it is far more diverse and less xenophobic than most European countries.

But yeah believe what makes you happy. Just don't let the hate get to you to much.

Any recommendations for good tiling managers for KDE?

> In childhood, she says, boys tend to be as open as girls about their need for friends. As they get older, they “feel they have to get into a gender straitjacket” and define their masculinity primarily as not being feminine. By the age of 15, many boys start saying they don’t need friends and worrying that close friendships will make them seem “girly”. This “clash of culture and nature”, Dr Way says, is much more marked among white boys than black ones.

Is it just me that is angered by statements such as this?

For me it seems to tie in with the thinking that the male is a defective female.

Im my experience, men make friends by doing things together. For me it's no coincidence that the men I am closest to at any one time are my work colleagues. I wonder if the structure of schools hasn't changed, and as has been discussed here before, whether schools just don't cater for what boys / men need anymore.

I'm in my 40s and am exactly the same. All my energy goes into work and family and at the end of the day, there is nothing left for cultivating friendships.

I tell myself that when my daughter grows up and I have more time I cultivate friendships again (though I may have forgotten how to).

Would it have really been possible?

Britain couldn't get a deal then vote for it, as the EU would then hold all the cards negotiating. I.e it will be have offered Britain nothing in order to stop Brexit.

Likewise if Britain had set up a bureaucracy to deal with Brexit before it was voted for there would have been a massive backlash about the waste of tax payer money on an uncertain event.

The experience of the UK leaving will be very different to countries in the eurozone.

Even if a country like Italy really wanted to leave it would be just about impossible due to having to float its own currency

Interesting perspective that it's perhaps British common law that is attractive to businesses https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/02/25/return-commo...

I doubt Scotland would be allowed into the EU with its current budget deficit. From what I understand, it would need some serious austerity to be bought in line with EU accession laws.

It will be really interesting to see how the EU battle with Poland plays out: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2021/...

Can the EU override the constitution of a country?

Difficult to say whether these were because of Brexit but: Nissan has doubled down on Sunderland post Brexit Shell has closed its offices in Netherlands on favour of UK as has Unilever. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/iss-recommends-share... https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/business/20... https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/07/01/busi...

This is perhaps an equivalent article https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/12/21/year-brexit-... from the more pro Brexit side.

I transitioned to tech from a totally unrelated field, first into support then ops and now data engineering.

To get my foot in the door I got a number of certs including Linux+; security+, networking+, then rhcsa and CCNE. Nowadays a cloud cert would be more relevant.

My advice would be to go get the certs and be prepared to start at the bottom and work your way up. In my first 30 months of working my pay had doubled.

I think unity matured nicely, but natty in particular was just about unusable.

I have a core i5 mini computer which I spin up every couple of months and it always amazes me that for the first 20 minutes or so the CPU runs at 100% while windows checks for updates (obviously this wouldn't happen if I ran it daily, but still Linux never does this)

I'm not going to argue whether the actual statement is true or not: Many people don't trust the government at the best of times but if it is true, I seriously doubt whether it constitutes 1/5 of all EU trade (assuming that border checks are in proportion to trade).

Indeed so, but that may still be due to more complicated factors. At no point have I said it isn't a factor, just that it's one of many.

My apologies, I misread the quote and retract the earlier statement.

While we did have a referendum to join the EEC, I maintain that the EEC served a very different purpose (being a trade based agreement) to the EU.

The Treaty of Maastricht was passed by parliament, though was never put to the public vote.

The subsequent treaty of Lisbon and consolidation of the EU had no public vote either.

Brexit was a public vote.

It would be interesting to see what would have happened if the other two had been put to the vote

I'm genuinely confused by this: In 2018, Grimes was fined £20,000 by the Electoral Commission after it determined that there was evidence that BeLeave had spent more than £675,000 with the Canadian political consultancy firm AggregateIQ in coordination with the official Brexit campaign organisation Vote Leave in distribution targeted social media advertisements.[24] The Commission argued that these actions violated electoral spending rules, and that Grimes and Vote Leave official David Alan Halsall had made false declarations relating to the spending. Grimes appealed, claiming that his misstatements were unintentional, and his fine was overturned;[25] Vote Leave, however, withdrew its appeal and paid fines totalling £61,000.[26] Subsequently, in May 2020, the Metropolitan Police ended its investigation into Grimes and Halsall.[27] In June 2021, the Chairman of the Electoral Commission apologised to Grimes in a Sunday Telegraph interview.[28]

They lost their appeal but the Chairman of the Electoral Commission aplogised, and the Met found nothing

"After the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon in 2009 the pillar structure ceased to exist. The European Community, together with its legal personality, was absorbed into the newly consolidated European Union which merged in the other two pillars (however Euratom remained distinct). This was originally proposed under the European Constitution but that treaty failed ratification in 2005."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Economic_Community

So no, the UK joined the EU in 2009.

Also note:

The Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe (TCE; commonly referred to as the European Constitution or as the Constitutional Treaty) was an unratified international treaty intended to create a consolidated constitution for the European Union (EU). It would have replaced the existing European Union treaties with a single text, given legal force to the Charter of Fundamental Rights, and expanded Qualified Majority Voting into policy areas which had previously been decided by unanimity among member states.

The Treaty was signed on 29 October 2004 by representatives of the then 25 member states of the European Union. It was later ratified by 18 member states, which included referendums endorsing it in Spain and Luxembourg. However, the rejection of the document by French and Dutch voters in May and June 2005 brought the ratification process to an end.

Following a period of reflection, the Treaty of Lisbon was created to replace the Constitutional Treaty. This contained many of the changes that were originally placed in the Constitutional Treaty but, instead of repealing and replacing the existing treaties, simply amended them and abandoned the idea of a single codified constitution. Signed on 13 December 2007, the Lisbon Treaty entered into force on 1 December 2009.

So it was initially reject, some cosmtetic changes were made and it was shoe-horned through. Hardly what I would call democratic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_establishing_a_Constitu...

Later article from a non-paywalled source: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/19/pro-brexit-...

Not sure.

"A fifth of all EU border checks are now happening in Northern Ireland, the government has said."

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/brexit/unsustainable...

There is a distinct possibility that the EU is being vindictive

That's all good and well, but I don't think it answered my question about a source for accusations of Russian involvement, nor did it address my question about the lack of democratic process when joining the EU, so I'm not entirely sure why you posted this.

Can't comment on the child of the post for some reason. Here is another source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/09/24/dont-blame-b...

Somehow it seems on these forums that any left leaning publication is immediately trusted but any right leaning one immediately distrusted.

That's quite a claim. Do you have some strong evidence to back it up?

The electoral commission went to great lengths and expense to find any wrong doing and came up with nothing.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/20...

Edit: Rant alert: It really irks me that the people who call the Brexit election unfair, don't seem to acknowledge that Britain was never given any kind of referendum when joining the EU

"Although the United Kingdom ratified the treaty in Parliament, this was not without some opposition. Broadly the governing Labour party supported the treaty, while the opposition Conservatives did not. The Liberal Democrats supported the treaty, while calling for a referendum on the UK's membership of the EU as a whole.[119] Several 'Eurosceptic' MPs called for a referendum on the ratification of the treaty. Daniel Hannan pointed out that the Prime Minister, Tony Blair had twice promised a referendum on the matter, to which Blair replied that he had promised a referendum on the European Constitution rather than the Lisbon Treaty, which unlike the former was not a constitutional treaty.[120] In early October 2007, the Commons' European Scrutiny Committee had found that the treaty was "substantially equivalent" to the rejected constitution.[121]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratification_of_the_Treaty_of_...

Europe also has a shortage

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl...

This is widely reported across a number of publications

Brexit may be a (small) part of it, but it certainly isn't the whole picture. Btw much of Europe faces a shortage of drivers as well.

There are a number of factors at play including delayed testing because of covid, relatively low wages, and perhaps drivers shifting to more local deliveries e.g. supermarkets post covid due to changing demand. I was speaking to a taxi driver who said the taxi industry was being decimated by this

Is there a point to this post other than to be nasty?