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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 …

Presumably you get the pension that goes with that

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 2…

FMH I wonder what the Surgeons I have met (I am on a transplant list in the UK) would say to that.

There is a European arrest warrant.

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…

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…

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

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

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.

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 paye…

The average height in the west has been increasing over the last century due to improved diet.

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 ex…

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

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 mutu…

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 …

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 :-)

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.

I agree but moist systems are not setup to facilitate this, and nor do people want to do the hard yards.

as the Hardline unionists did in the UK which is why northern irland lags the rest of the UK in civil rights

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 thousa…

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 …

Its the BBC :-)

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 connec…

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 buildi…