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Re: UK government MPs are using Signal’s automatic deletion feature

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Post by bencollier49 » Mon, Jun 01, 2020, 12:59 PM UTC

evgen wrote: post #96

Sevaris wrote: post #62

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Obviously, yes. Nixon would never have been impeached without the tapes. If there's no record, there's no accountability. That's just how it is.

While we are at it lets also mandate that all work-related communications you make are similarly archived. There is a long history of corporate malfeasance leading to catastrophic outcomes for the general public and we need to make sure that people like you are held accountable when your failures and bad decisions lead to poor outcomes. I am sure you will agree that without good record-keeping a lack of accountabilit…

This is what I'm getting at. The reductio ad absurdam is indeed absurd.

Re: UK government MPs are using Signal’s automatic deletion feature

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Post by rb12345 » Mon, Jun 01, 2020, 2:51 PM UTC

Avamander wrote: post #102

kees99 wrote: post #80

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Free Software Foundation appear to disagree with your definition [1], while OED lists absence of monetary charge as only one of necessary characteristics of "free software" [2] [1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html [2] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/free-sof...

I don't care and it doesn't matter what the FSF thinks, it's human language and they can't dictate how that works.

I'd assumed that the main difference between the capitalised version and uncapitalised version was being potentially able to trademark the former, so you could get the distinction in free-ness that way. I'm not aware of the FSF actually trademarking the term though, so I could well be wrong on that point.

Re: UK government MPs are using Signal’s automatic deletion feature

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Post by iso947 » Tue, Jun 02, 2020, 10:54 PM UTC

timthorn wrote: post #68

iso947 wrote: post #61

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Angus Dayton used to host that show He couldn’t keep it in his pants, so was ridiculed by the guests (including Hislop) That led to him resigning Which led to Boris Johnson hosting a few episodes A charismatic buffoon, that catapulted him to wider attention He was then selected for London mayor During the 2012 Olympics he was pushed further into the world’s eye That led to him being a key role one way or another in b…

I think it was Dayton's drug use that caused the initial situation.

Possibly, such a long time ago.

The tactics that won brexit with vote leave were used later to elect trump.

It amuses me to think how the world can change from tiny changes