It is amazing. In terms of uniform swing, it would be 17% Con to Lab and 8% Con to LD. But in a situation where antipathy to the Tories is the dominant driver, tactical voting will inevitably make that much worse for the Tories in Con/LD marginals.
Compare that to the actual result in 1997, which in terms of uniform swing would translate to 10% Con to Lab and 5% Con to LD.
The decision will be immensely popular with Asian communities. Especially East Asian
Swings both ways
And Trump will be taking the credit, with his appointments to the Supreme Court. Asian-American communities have been lobbying hard against this racism for years.
Affirmative action, as it has evolved, has become absolutely racist
Asian Americans are deliberately marked down on “likeability” and “sociability” - because they are often more introverted, scholastic and hard working - so the universities can let in more black Americans with much lower SAT scores than Asians
How can that possibly be acceptable? Outright racism. SCOTUS has made the correct decision
I think one can understand, if not agree, with some of the ideas behind affirmative action following the Civil Rights Act, but even many of those who advocated for it at the time, now say it’s better to be colour blind.
If black activist groups want to see more of their groups in college, then concentrate more on schools and home environments, rather than artificially gaming the college admissions process.
It does get horribly messy and politically charged very quickly though, as does anything regarding race in the US.
"Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too"
Weird way of forcing someone out of the country.
One one level yes. On another level, a very effective way of shutting down someones life.
While I despise the man, the way that you can be black balled (ha!) without explanation and very little recourse from any bank is concerning. Especially since it doesn't have to be hard evidence based.
A further concern is that this is often outsourced to third parties. With the result that multiple banks and card issuers are using the same system to identify "problem customers".
So a provider of anti-fraud data decides that all seals in the legal profession are dodgy. Maybe a childhood trauma involving the zoo and a writ?
Suddenly, your bank accounts are shut down. Your car loan is recalled. Your mortgage....
First they came for Nigel Farage, and I said nothing ‘cos I don’t like Nigel Farage…
Except they first came for many ordinary plebs over the last few years.
Another fun one. The police search the hard drive of your computer. They find a file they can't open - appears to be gibberish. They claim it is password protected and demand the key.
Not providing the key, when asked under legal sanction is a crime.
Forgot the key - no defence? Never had the key - good luck....
If the file is just a pile of random numbers - you will have to prove that.
"If the file is just a pile of random numbers"...
It's probably just some of my code.
(Actually, truly random numbers can be rather valuable. Just say you're working for GCHQ...)
The decision will be immensely popular with Asian communities. Especially East Asian
Swings both ways
And Trump will be taking the credit, with his appointments to the Supreme Court. Asian-American communities have been lobbying hard against this racism for years.
Affirmative action, as it has evolved, has become absolutely racist
Asian Americans are deliberately marked down on “likeability” and “sociability” - because they are often more introverted, scholastic and hard working - so the universities can let in more black Americans with much lower SAT scores than Asians
How can that possibly be acceptable? Outright racism. SCOTUS has made the correct decision
I think one can understand, if not agree, with some of the ideas behind affirmative action following the Civil Rights Act, but even many of those who advocated for it at the time, now say it’s better to be colour blind.
If black activist groups want to see more of their groups in college, then concentrate more on schools and home environments, rather than artificially gaming the college admissions process.
It does get horribly messy and politically charged very quickly though, as does anything regarding race in the US.
Yes. Having just toured some very racially sensitive parts of America - Monticello! Antietam! Alexandria! - I hope I understand, better, the urge to right the evils of the past. But reverse racism against whites and Asians really isn’t the way to do it, not any more - and, as I say, affirmative action is also pragmatically pernicious and corrosive of the American university system
"Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too"
Weird way of forcing someone out of the country.
One one level yes. On another level, a very effective way of shutting down someones life.
While I despise the man, the way that you can be black balled (ha!) without explanation and very little recourse from any bank is concerning. Especially since it doesn't have to be hard evidence based.
A further concern is that this is often outsourced to third parties. With the result that multiple banks and card issuers are using the same system to identify "problem customers".
So a provider of anti-fraud data decides that all seals in the legal profession are dodgy. Maybe a childhood trauma involving the zoo and a writ?
Suddenly, your bank accounts are shut down. Your car loan is recalled. Your mortgage....
First they came for Nigel Farage, and I said nothing ‘cos I don’t like Nigel Farage…
Except they first came for many ordinary plebs over the last few years.
Another fun one. The police search the hard drive of your computer. They find a file they can't open - appears to be gibberish. They claim it is password protected and demand the key.
Not providing the key, when asked under legal sanction is a crime.
Forgot the key - no defence? Never had the key - good luck....
If the file is just a pile of random numbers - you will have to prove that.
Of course, it wouldn't even have to be a file as you can store data without a file system.
It might be an unused partition that you wiped with random data and someone takes a dislike to.
There's a lot of failure to understand technicalities when it comes to legislation. Look at this plan to break end to end encryption that keeps coming back.
Combined with people losing social credit - which is essentially what this is about - it really isn't good.
Watching politicians continually attempting to ban mathematics, would be very funny if it wasn’t so damn serious.
“The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia.”
An actual person said that. Capable of breathing on their own and everything.
It comes back to a legalistic view of the universe.
The law in preeminent. If the law issues a warrant to get information, then it must be obtained. Anything that blocks that is obviously an Obstruction Of Justice. If someone has a safe with information in it, the court can order it opened. An un-openable safe is, a pre-emptive Obstruction Of Justice.
Therefore end to end encryption is nothing less than a wholesale, pre-emptive Obstruction Of Justice.
"Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too"
Weird way of forcing someone out of the country.
One one level yes. On another level, a very effective way of shutting down someones life.
While I despise the man, the way that you can be black balled (ha!) without explanation and very little recourse from any bank is concerning. Especially since it doesn't have to be hard evidence based.
A further concern is that this is often outsourced to third parties. With the result that multiple banks and card issuers are using the same system to identify "problem customers".
So a provider of anti-fraud data decides that all seals in the legal profession are dodgy. Maybe a childhood trauma involving the zoo and a writ?
Suddenly, your bank accounts are shut down. Your car loan is recalled. Your mortgage....
First they came for Nigel Farage, and I said nothing ‘cos I don’t like Nigel Farage…
Except they first came for many ordinary plebs over the last few years.
Another fun one. The police search the hard drive of your computer. They find a file they can't open - appears to be gibberish. They claim it is password protected and demand the key.
Not providing the key, when asked under legal sanction is a crime.
Forgot the key - no defence? Never had the key - good luck....
If the file is just a pile of random numbers - you will have to prove that.
Of course, it wouldn't even have to be a file as you can store data without a file system.
It might be an unused partition that you wiped with random data and someone takes a dislike to.
There's a lot of failure to understand technicalities when it comes to legislation. Look at this plan to break end to end encryption that keeps coming back.
Combined with people losing social credit - which is essentially what this is about - it really isn't good.
Watching politicians continually attempting to ban mathematics, would be very funny if it wasn’t so damn serious.
“The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia.”
An actual person said that. Capable of breathing on their own and everything.
It comes back to a legalistic view of the universe.
The law in preeminent. If the law issues a warrant to get information, then it must be obtained. Anything that blocks that is obviously an Obstruction Of Justice. If someone has a safe with information in it, the court can order it opened. An un-openable safe is, a pre-emptive Obstruction Of Justice.
Therefore end to end encryption is nothing less than a wholesale, pre-emptive Obstruction Of Justice.
"Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too"
Weird way of forcing someone out of the country.
One one level yes. On another level, a very effective way of shutting down someones life.
While I despise the man, the way that you can be black balled (ha!) without explanation and very little recourse from any bank is concerning. Especially since it doesn't have to be hard evidence based.
A further concern is that this is often outsourced to third parties. With the result that multiple banks and card issuers are using the same system to identify "problem customers".
So a provider of anti-fraud data decides that all seals in the legal profession are dodgy. Maybe a childhood trauma involving the zoo and a writ?
Suddenly, your bank accounts are shut down. Your car loan is recalled. Your mortgage....
First they came for Nigel Farage, and I said nothing ‘cos I don’t like Nigel Farage…
Except they first came for many ordinary plebs over the last few years.
Another fun one. The police search the hard drive of your computer. They find a file they can't open - appears to be gibberish. They claim it is password protected and demand the key.
Not providing the key, when asked under legal sanction is a crime.
Forgot the key - no defence? Never had the key - good luck....
If the file is just a pile of random numbers - you will have to prove that.
Of course, it wouldn't even have to be a file as you can store data without a file system.
It might be an unused partition that you wiped with random data and someone takes a dislike to.
There's a lot of failure to understand technicalities when it comes to legislation. Look at this plan to break end to end encryption that keeps coming back.
Combined with people losing social credit - which is essentially what this is about - it really isn't good.
Watching politicians continually attempting to ban mathematics, would be very funny if it wasn’t so damn serious.
“The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia.”
An actual person said that. Capable of breathing on their own and everything.
It comes back to a legalistic view of the universe.
The law in preeminent. If the law issues a warrant to get information, then it must be obtained. Anything that blocks that is obviously an Obstruction Of Justice. If someone has a safe with information in it, the court can order it opened. An un-openable safe is, a pre-emptive Obstruction Of Justice.
Therefore end to end encryption is nothing less than a wholesale, pre-emptive Obstruction Of Justice.
Otoh, it would probably not be a successful defence against possession of illegal porn to argue the file in question was merely the binary representation of your favourite large number.
For anyone annoyed by bazball I think two things need to be remembered. The 2005 side played a version of bazball - 400 on the first day at Edgebaston and a generally aggressive style. It’s also seen us turn around a run of one win in 17 into 11 from 13.
I also remember many timid, cowed Engalnd sides who would still lose, just without any fight, and certainly a lot less fun.
Remember we are playing the best team in the world. I would have taken the current match situation at stumps last night.
And Lyon looks to have torn a calf muscle, so is likely out for the rest of this match and possibly the next too.
For anyone annoyed by bazball I think two things need to be remembered. The 2005 side played a version of bazball - 400 on the first day at Edgebaston and a generally aggressive style. It’s also seen us turn around a run of one win in 17 into 11 from 13.
I also remember many timid, cowed Engalnd sides who would still lose, just without any fight, and certainly a lot less fun.
Remember we are playing the best team in the world. I would have taken the current match situation at stumps last night.
And Lyon looks to have torn a calf muscle, so is likely out for the rest of this match and possibly the next too.
I don’t think many on here are bemoaning bazball. It’s fantastic entertainment. It’s just me moaning that I won’t get any fifth day action
Interesting rise, given several of the GOP front runners are pretty lukewarm on the subject. Of course, it may have been down to the CIA inspired mutiny or something.
Solid majorities of Americans support providing weaponry to Ukraine to defend itself against Russia and believe that such aid demonstrates to China and other U.S. rivals a will to protect U.S. interests and allies, according to a Reuters/Ipsos survey.
For anyone annoyed by bazball I think two things need to be remembered. The 2005 side played a version of bazball - 400 on the first day at Edgebaston and a generally aggressive style. It’s also seen us turn around a run of one win in 17 into 11 from 13.
I also remember many timid, cowed Engalnd sides who would still lose, just without any fight, and certainly a lot less fun.
Remember we are playing the best team in the world. I would have taken the current match situation at stumps last night.
And Lyon looks to have torn a calf muscle, so is likely out for the rest of this match and possibly the next too.
I don’t think many on here are bemoaning bazball. It’s fantastic entertainment. It’s just me moaning that I won’t get any fifth day action
You are, with self interest, but others have too when players get out. They seem to want the attacking style but not getting out to loose shots. It’s difficult to have both.
For anyone annoyed by bazball I think two things need to be remembered. The 2005 side played a version of bazball - 400 on the first day at Edgebaston and a generally aggressive style. It’s also seen us turn around a run of one win in 17 into 11 from 13.
I also remember many timid, cowed Engalnd sides who would still lose, just without any fight, and certainly a lot less fun.
Remember we are playing the best team in the world. I would have taken the current match situation at stumps last night.
And Lyon looks to have torn a calf muscle, so is likely out for the rest of this match and possibly the next too.
It is more that Australia seem to have found a really poor tactic to squash Bazball and England are falling into the trap.
"Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too"
Closing them, Mr Farage, or just blocking them? Lots of people have them blocked, and then have to turn up in person at their branch to get them unblocked. Wherever that nearest branch happens to be these days.
That is the real scandal.
That doesn't actually sound that onerous. Far worse is if they refuse to tell you why it is blocked or how to unblock it.
That's the problem with CIFAS markers (and many other things). you can't say anything about why the issue is occurring for want of ending up with criminal charges yourself (extreme example but there are numerous examples of people revealing things at banks (even unwittingly) only to discover they are out due to gross misconduct)..
I'd suggest something like changing the law so that tipping off rules can only apply for a maximum of 3 months and only up to account closure.
Lets face it, anyone doing anything deliberately dodgy who gets their account suspended is already tipped off by the time their account gets investigated/frozen regardless of what a bank employee does anyway.
We always knew Bazball would face a great testing moment against the Australians. It mostly held up in the first Test despite the stupid declaration and the tight loss.
But they seem to be a bit in love with trying to get into their opponents' heads, and instead just mess up their own. The Aussies aren't getting rattled, so just dial it back 2-3 notches.
The S&A Conservative campaign team do seem to like going around in a big group. https://twitter.com/GregHands/status/1674433316228059140 The Garden Centre is silver surfer central in the daytime on a week day, so would be interesting to see how they got on there - should be a lot of Con voters, but you'd hope they'd also be knocking people up in less fruitful areas
The one who has pulled his own pants down and given himself a good spanking is Greg Hands by his Tweet. Without Hands's Tweet Sunak wouldn't have been brought into the ironic comedy.
That seems a rather odd thing to say. And you've obviously missed the other times Sunak's travel arrangements have been cricitised.
Sunak's travel arrangements were highlighted for debate by Hands's ridiculous Tweet and the comedic and ironic reaction thereof.
Keep up!
You mean Greg Hands' tweet today caused the Guardian to write an article last month? My goodness, Hands has an amazing temporal power!
(To be clear; Sunak's travel arrangements were obviously up for debate well before Hands' tweet.)
Without Hands's Tweet ProudGranny24 wouldn't have brought the Guardian article up again and reminded us Starmer takes the Train whilst Sunak (has in the recent past) let the RAF take the strain.
And as to your "well Blair did it" defence. I don't believe that particular warmonger has been PM for almost two decades.
I hate to keep this conversation going after so long, but at least it's more interesting than the circket...
All the traditionalists just waiting to pounce on Stokes if we lose this test.
Would be an overreaction, their record since he took over speaks for itself. But Steven Finn is right the Aussies have taken on the ego of the England batters. They are in England's heads, not the other way around. And since they are a better side, that's damaging.
England could have just absorbed the short balls and worn out the bowlers
Pfff
It's honestly a wonder you're not out there batting, you seem to be an expert.
Have you ever met a sports fan that doesn’t claim ridiculous amounts of expertise?!
It’s the very definition. It’s what makes sport fun. You shout at the TV “you’re playing like a pathetic girl, I could do better than this” and of course you’re shouting at a professional athlete who is actually 70,000 times better than you
England will be lucky to make 300 now. Fifth day receding into lala land
Fuck it I’ll have a picnic instead
I know why they do it nowadays, but I always liked it when they didn’t sell Day 5 tickets in advance.
You’d watch the 3rd and 4th days of the match, franticatally calling friends to see if was worth staying up all night driving to a random city, to stand in a queue as the sun came up, hoping to get in a good seat for your fiver, and be on the beers by breakfast time. Many such days spent as skint students, enjoying the camaraderie of a crowd we couldn’t afford to be in otherwise.
"Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too"
"Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too"
Must have reached our quota of wankers.
Bye Nige....
He might come and join you in the South of France....
"Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too"
Weird way of forcing someone out of the country.
One one level yes. On another level, a very effective way of shutting down someones life.
While I despise the man, the way that you can be black balled (ha!) without explanation and very little recourse from any bank is concerning. Especially since it doesn't have to be hard evidence based.
A further concern is that this is often outsourced to third parties. With the result that multiple banks and card issuers are using the same system to identify "problem customers".
So a provider of anti-fraud data decides that all seals in the legal profession are dodgy. Maybe a childhood trauma involving the zoo and a writ?
Suddenly, your bank accounts are shut down. Your car loan is recalled. Your mortgage....
First they came for Nigel Farage, and I said nothing ‘cos I don’t like Nigel Farage…
Except they first came for many ordinary plebs over the last few years.
Another fun one. The police search the hard drive of your computer. They find a file they can't open - appears to be gibberish. They claim it is password protected and demand the key.
Not providing the key, when asked under legal sanction is a crime.
Forgot the key - no defence? Never had the key - good luck....
If the file is just a pile of random numbers - you will have to prove that.
Of course, it wouldn't even have to be a file as you can store data without a file system.
It might be an unused partition that you wiped with random data and someone takes a dislike to.
There's a lot of failure to understand technicalities when it comes to legislation. Look at this plan to break end to end encryption that keeps coming back.
Combined with people losing social credit - which is essentially what this is about - it really isn't good.
Watching politicians continually attempting to ban mathematics, would be very funny if it wasn’t so damn serious.
“The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia.”
An actual person said that. Capable of breathing on their own and everything.
It comes back to a legalistic view of the universe.
The law in preeminent. If the law issues a warrant to get information, then it must be obtained. Anything that blocks that is obviously an Obstruction Of Justice. If someone has a safe with information in it, the court can order it opened. An un-openable safe is, a pre-emptive Obstruction Of Justice.
Therefore end to end encryption is nothing less than a wholesale, pre-emptive Obstruction Of Justice.
The pandemic was a good example, of the inability of lawyers and lawmakers to understand simple science.
All the traditionalists just waiting to pounce on Stokes if we lose this test.
Stokes deserves better support than all the moaning on here when things aren't going well. Absolutely earnt it over his captaincy.
He'd earned benefit of the doubt for his approach and tactics. That doesn't mean players throwing their wickets away in the face of an obvious wicket trap is above criticism.
All the traditionalists just waiting to pounce on Stokes if we lose this test.
Stokes deserves better support than all the moaning on here when things aren't going well. Absolutely earnt it over his captaincy.
He'd earned benefit of the doubt for his approach and tactics. That doesn't mean players throwing their wickets away in the face of an obvious wicket trap is above criticism.
It's not just that, it's the injury to Lyon. That totally changes the outlook of this innings. Not having their first choice spinner means they won't be able to rotate the quicks from the other end. So, bat long enough, and the quicks will tire.
All the traditionalists just waiting to pounce on Stokes if we lose this test.
Stokes deserves better support than all the moaning on here when things aren't going well. Absolutely earnt it over his captaincy.
He'd earned benefit of the doubt for his approach and tactics. That doesn't mean players throwing their wickets away in the face of an obvious wicket trap is above criticism.
It's not just that, it's the injury to Lyon. That totally changes the outlook of this innings. Not having their first choice spinner means they won't be able to rotate the quicks from the other end. So, bat long enough, and the quicks will tire.
Also add in England are a batter light with the current lineup.
All the traditionalists just waiting to pounce on Stokes if we lose this test.
Stokes deserves better support than all the moaning on here when things aren't going well. Absolutely earnt it over his captaincy.
He'd earned benefit of the doubt for his approach and tactics. That doesn't mean players throwing their wickets away in the face of an obvious wicket trap is above criticism.
Benefit of the doubt? He took over a downtrodden, negative, lost and completely demotivated side and won 11/15 tests so far playing the most attacking test cricket ever played with largely the same players. If he wins this test he will be in the top 10 for most England test wins as captain already and has barely started.
God knows what he would need to do to get a bit of backing.
"Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too"
Weird way of forcing someone out of the country.
One one level yes. On another level, a very effective way of shutting down someones life.
While I despise the man, the way that you can be black balled (ha!) without explanation and very little recourse from any bank is concerning. Especially since it doesn't have to be hard evidence based.
A further concern is that this is often outsourced to third parties. With the result that multiple banks and card issuers are using the same system to identify "problem customers".
So a provider of anti-fraud data decides that all seals in the legal profession are dodgy. Maybe a childhood trauma involving the zoo and a writ?
Suddenly, your bank accounts are shut down. Your car loan is recalled. Your mortgage....
First they came for Nigel Farage, and I said nothing ‘cos I don’t like Nigel Farage…
Except they first came for many ordinary plebs over the last few years.
Another fun one. The police search the hard drive of your computer. They find a file they can't open - appears to be gibberish. They claim it is password protected and demand the key.
Not providing the key, when asked under legal sanction is a crime.
Forgot the key - no defence? Never had the key - good luck....
If the file is just a pile of random numbers - you will have to prove that.
Of course, it wouldn't even have to be a file as you can store data without a file system.
It might be an unused partition that you wiped with random data and someone takes a dislike to.
There's a lot of failure to understand technicalities when it comes to legislation. Look at this plan to break end to end encryption that keeps coming back.
Combined with people losing social credit - which is essentially what this is about - it really isn't good.
Watching politicians continually attempting to ban mathematics, would be very funny if it wasn’t so damn serious.
“The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia.”
An actual person said that. Capable of breathing on their own and everything.
"Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too"
Weird way of forcing someone out of the country.
One one level yes. On another level, a very effective way of shutting down someones life.
While I despise the man, the way that you can be black balled (ha!) without explanation and very little recourse from any bank is concerning. Especially since it doesn't have to be hard evidence based.
A further concern is that this is often outsourced to third parties. With the result that multiple banks and card issuers are using the same system to identify "problem customers".
So a provider of anti-fraud data decides that all seals in the legal profession are dodgy. Maybe a childhood trauma involving the zoo and a writ?
Suddenly, your bank accounts are shut down. Your car loan is recalled. Your mortgage....
First they came for Nigel Farage, and I said nothing ‘cos I don’t like Nigel Farage…
Except they first came for many ordinary plebs over the last few years.
Another fun one. The police search the hard drive of your computer. They find a file they can't open - appears to be gibberish. They claim it is password protected and demand the key.
Not providing the key, when asked under legal sanction is a crime.
Forgot the key - no defence? Never had the key - good luck....
If the file is just a pile of random numbers - you will have to prove that.
Of course, it wouldn't even have to be a file as you can store data without a file system.
It might be an unused partition that you wiped with random data and someone takes a dislike to.
There's a lot of failure to understand technicalities when it comes to legislation. Look at this plan to break end to end encryption that keeps coming back.
Combined with people losing social credit - which is essentially what this is about - it really isn't good.
Watching politicians continually attempting to ban mathematics, would be very funny if it wasn’t so damn serious.
“The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia.”
An actual person said that. Capable of breathing on their own and everything.
It comes back to a legalistic view of the universe.
The law in preeminent. If the law issues a warrant to get information, then it must be obtained. Anything that blocks that is obviously an Obstruction Of Justice. If someone has a safe with information in it, the court can order it opened. An un-openable safe is, a pre-emptive Obstruction Of Justice.
Therefore end to end encryption is nothing less than a wholesale, pre-emptive Obstruction Of Justice.
The pandemic was a good example, of the inability of lawyers and lawmakers to understand simple science.
The refusal of the COVID virus to obey the law demonstrates the threat it poses to society.
I don't know how bitter UK judicial dissents are, but ones in the US Supreme Court are pretty blistering. Though in this decision today about affirmative action in college admissions this part of the main judgement complaining about what the dissent is doing does seem like it applies pretty broadly to the whole sorry lot of them.
Re: today's SCOTUS 6-2 decision (Justice Brown Jackson recused herself) in Harvard case, striking down affirmative action in truck down affirmative action in college admissions, this may NOT be as electorally significant as some PBers seem to be suggesting.
Why? Because quite unlike the Dobbs decision, this ruling does NOT overturn decades of established SCOTUS precedent established by Roe v. Wade.
Instead, today's decision essentially conforms the Court's thinking, tendency & trend on this issue. Thus lacks the shock & awe character of Dobbs.
Indeed, few SCOTUS decisions, even higly-significant ones, achieve THAT level of electoral impact, historically-speaking.
Which is NOT to say zero impact; as noted Asians are likely (mostly) to be pleased, Blacks & Latinos less so. But think it's a stretch to assume that its gonna switch huge number of votes.
So notion that Trump will now lose Florida because of it, is dubious on its face - even IF you assume that he's got a lock on the GOP nomination for 2024. 9Which I for one do not.)
Also, am puzzled by viewcode's assertion that Hispanics in Northeast are more pro-Trump than other parts of USA. Because I do NOT believe that's true. Seeing as how
> biggest demographic factor withing Latino voter community re: views on Trump is NOT geography, but instead religion, with evangelicals and other religious conservatives being more likely to back him.
> other factor is national origin/heritage, with Cuban Americans (still) more likely to be both Republicans and pro-Trump than other Latino groups
> as for geography, think that Latinos in Florida are way more likely to be Trump voters, that those in Northeastern Seaboard, largely due to Cuban concentration; worth noting that even among Cubans, those in Sunshine state are more conservative in their voting than Cubans in New Jersey, which has a bunch.
England still 44% to win....LOL....computer needs turning off and on....
Winviz is as accurate as a Scottish sub sample.
If England lose another wicket or two tonight it will suddenly swing to Australia 80% to win....as if the possibility of two quick wickets in cricket are as unexpected as Tory GE win in 2024.
Re: today's SCOTUS 6-2 decision (Justice Brown Jackson recused herself) in Harvard case, striking down affirmative action in truck down affirmative action in college admissions, this may NOT be as electorally significant as some PBers seem to be suggesting.
Why? Because quite unlike the Dobbs decision, this ruling does NOT overturn decades of established SCOTUS precedent established by Roe v. Wade.
Instead, today's decision essentially conforms the Court's thinking, tendency & trend on this issue. Thus lacks the shock & awe character of Dobbs.
Indeed, few SCOTUS decisions, even higly-significant ones, achieve THAT level of electoral impact, historically-speaking.
Which is NOT to say zero impact; as noted Asians are likely (mostly) to be pleased, Blacks & Latinos less so. But think it's a stretch to assume that its gonna switch huge number of votes.
So notion that Trump will now lose Florida because of it, is dubious on its face - even IF you assume that he's got a lock on the GOP nomination for 2024. 9Which I for one do not.)
Also, am puzzled by viewcode's assertion that Hispanics in Northeast are more pro-Trump than other parts of USA. Because I do NOT believe that's true. Seeing as how
> biggest demographic factor withing Latino voter community re: views on Trump is NOT geography, but instead religion, with evangelicals and other religious conservatives being more likely to back him.
> other factor is national origin/heritage, with Cuban Americans (still) more likely to be both Republicans and pro-Trump than other Latino groups
> as for geography, think that Latinos in Florida are way more likely to be Trump voters, that those in Northeastern Seaboard, largely due to Cuban concentration; worth noting that even among Cubans, those in Sunshine state are more conservative in their voting than Cubans in New Jersey, which has a bunch.
HOWEVER, we shall see . . .
As an outsider, I agree. Not much electoral impact either way. It will annoy hardcore liberals and the NYT - and really please some aspiring Asian families - but most of the country will shrug and think SCOTUS has a point
England still 44% to win....LOL....computer needs turning off and on....
Winviz is as accurate as a Scottish sub sample.
If England lose another wicket or two tonight it will suddenly swing to Australia 80% to win....as if the possibility of two quick wickets in cricket are as unexpected as Tory GE win in 2024.
Winviz is just a bit of fun. At this stage of tech development. Treat it as such
Totall off topic....how has Castore come from nowhere to be absolutely everywhere in sport in matter of a few years? I don't think i watch a sporting event without them being a sponsor / clothing provider.
England still 44% to win....LOL....computer needs turning off and on....
Winviz is as accurate as a Scottish sub sample.
If England lose another wicket or two tonight it will suddenly swing to Australia 80% to win....as if the possibility of two quick wickets in cricket are as unexpected as Tory GE win in 2024.
Winviz is just a bit of fun. At this stage of tech development. Treat it as such
The company behind it are rapidly growing & make good money out of analytics to professional teams...its most certainly not supposed to be just a bit of fun. It supposed to be a public example of the quality of their tech in the way YouGov make their money out of analytics for companies but show they know what they are doing by political pollling.
I'm 95% sure this must be a joke, so there's no need to get into a woke debate or anything about approved terminology, but I had to share this solely on the basis that I am fascinated by the process by which I would be expected regularly check with people what term they would prefer here.
England still 44% to win....LOL....computer needs turning off and on....
Winviz is as accurate as a Scottish sub sample.
If England lose another wicket or two tonight it will suddenly swing to Australia 80% to win....as if the possibility of two quick wickets in cricket are as unexpected as Tory GE win in 2024.
Winviz is just a bit of fun. At this stage of tech development. Treat it as such
The company behind it are rapidly growing & make good money out of analytics to professional teams...its most certainly not supposed to be just a bit of fun.
But, as you rightly point out, its predictions are often - generally? - either laughable or obvious
England still 44% to win....LOL....computer needs turning off and on....
Winviz is as accurate as a Scottish sub sample.
If England lose another wicket or two tonight it will suddenly swing to Australia 80% to win....as if the possibility of two quick wickets in cricket are as unexpected as Tory GE win in 2024.
Winviz is just a bit of fun. At this stage of tech development. Treat it as such
The company behind it are rapidly growing & make good money out of analytics to professional teams...its most certainly not supposed to be just a bit of fun.
But, as you rightly point out, its predictions are often - generally? - either laughable or obvious
However the tech will improve, I am sure
I bet if StarLizard did cricket it would be a tad better.....the tech is out there.
Totall off topic....how has Castore come from nowhere to be absolutely everywhere in sport in matter of a few years? I don't think i watch a sporting event without them being a sponsor / clothing provider.
Totall off topic....how has Castore come from nowhere to be absolutely everywhere in sport in matter of a few years? I don't think i watch a sporting event without them being a sponsor / clothing provider.
I know Andy Murray is an investor, but something doesn't add up. The prominence of mega corps like Nike, Addidas etc seems to be overtaken in the blanketing of sports sponsorships by Castore in past year or two. Must be costing crazy amounts.
Totall off topic....how has Castore come from nowhere to be absolutely everywhere in sport in matter of a few years? I don't think i watch a sporting event without them being a sponsor / clothing provider.
I know Andy Murray is an investor, but something doesn't add up. The prominence of mega corps like Nike, Addidas etc seems to be overtaken in the blanketing of sports sponsorships by Castore in past year or two.
They are trying to go with the Warrior Sports/New Balance approach, which was to offer a huge deal to a big team, Liverpool, and build from that.
Re the SCOTUS decision, it’s not even disfavoured by Hispanics
“The Pew survey shows a clear divide along racial and ethnic lines: A majority of white and Asian adults disapprove of racial consideration in admissions, while Black Americans largely approve and Hispanics are about evenly split”
With that demographic breakdown, this will be a popular decision with American voters as a whole, and if Biden fights it (as he says he will) he will be making the next election harder for himself
I've been at work all day, so haven't been able to follow. Reading the comments I'd thought England had had a shocker. Aren't we in a better position than at stumps last night?
I've been at work all day, so haven't been able to follow. Reading the comments I'd thought England had had a shocker. Aren't we in a better position than at stumps last night?
If we can bat out these last 15 minutes without loss, this will be a good day for England
Re the SCOTUS decision, it’s not even disfavoured by Hispanics
“The Pew survey shows a clear divide along racial and ethnic lines: A majority of white and Asian adults disapprove of racial consideration in admissions, while Black Americans largely approve and Hispanics are about evenly split”
With that demographic breakdown, this will be a popular decision with American voters as a whole, and if Biden fights it (as he says he will) he will be making the next election harder for himself
He's not super well liked by his more lefty, progressive, colleagues I gather. He may need to give them something to ensure the more radical ones do not cause more problems?
I've been at work all day, so haven't been able to follow. Reading the comments I'd thought England had had a shocker. Aren't we in a better position than at stumps last night?
People are reacting a bit strangely - Australia don't have a mammoth total, and anything but a major collapse means England get at least close. I rage at certain things, but they are not in a bad position considering the average scores of those to come and currently in.
Re: today's SCOTUS 6-2 decision (Justice Brown Jackson recused herself) in Harvard case, striking down affirmative action in truck down affirmative action in college admissions, this may NOT be as electorally significant as some PBers seem to be suggesting.
Why? Because quite unlike the Dobbs decision, this ruling does NOT overturn decades of established SCOTUS precedent established by Roe v. Wade.
Instead, today's decision essentially conforms the Court's thinking, tendency & trend on this issue. Thus lacks the shock & awe character of Dobbs.
Indeed, few SCOTUS decisions, even higly-significant ones, achieve THAT level of electoral impact, historically-speaking.
Which is NOT to say zero impact; as noted Asians are likely (mostly) to be pleased, Blacks & Latinos less so. But think it's a stretch to assume that its gonna switch huge number of votes.
So notion that Trump will now lose Florida because of it, is dubious on its face - even IF you assume that he's got a lock on the GOP nomination for 2024. 9Which I for one do not.)
Also, am puzzled by viewcode's assertion that Hispanics in Northeast are more pro-Trump than other parts of USA. Because I do NOT believe that's true. Seeing as how
> biggest demographic factor withing Latino voter community re: views on Trump is NOT geography, but instead religion, with evangelicals and other religious conservatives being more likely to back him.
> other factor is national origin/heritage, with Cuban Americans (still) more likely to be both Republicans and pro-Trump than other Latino groups
> as for geography, think that Latinos in Florida are way more likely to be Trump voters, that those in Northeastern Seaboard, largely due to Cuban concentration; worth noting that even among Cubans, those in Sunshine state are more conservative in their voting than Cubans in New Jersey, which has a bunch.
HOWEVER, we shall see . . .
That is a pretty good summary I think. Re the Hispanic vote, another key factor is the level of union activism. In California and Nevada, the Hispanic vote has not showed the same shift to the Republicans as the unions are very active courting HIspanics as members.
Re: today's SCOTUS 6-2 decision (Justice Brown Jackson recused herself) in Harvard case, striking down affirmative action in truck down affirmative action in college admissions, this may NOT be as electorally significant as some PBers seem to be suggesting.
Why? Because quite unlike the Dobbs decision, this ruling does NOT overturn decades of established SCOTUS precedent established by Roe v. Wade.
Instead, today's decision essentially conforms the Court's thinking, tendency & trend on this issue. Thus lacks the shock & awe character of Dobbs.
Indeed, few SCOTUS decisions, even higly-significant ones, achieve THAT level of electoral impact, historically-speaking.
Which is NOT to say zero impact; as noted Asians are likely (mostly) to be pleased, Blacks & Latinos less so. But think it's a stretch to assume that its gonna switch huge number of votes.
So notion that Trump will now lose Florida because of it, is dubious on its face - even IF you assume that he's got a lock on the GOP nomination for 2024. 9Which I for one do not.)
Also, am puzzled by viewcode's assertion that Hispanics in Northeast are more pro-Trump than other parts of USA. Because I do NOT believe that's true. Seeing as how
> biggest demographic factor withing Latino voter community re: views on Trump is NOT geography, but instead religion, with evangelicals and other religious conservatives being more likely to back him.
> other factor is national origin/heritage, with Cuban Americans (still) more likely to be both Republicans and pro-Trump than other Latino groups
> as for geography, think that Latinos in Florida are way more likely to be Trump voters, that those in Northeastern Seaboard, largely due to Cuban concentration; worth noting that even among Cubans, those in Sunshine state are more conservative in their voting than Cubans in New Jersey, which has a bunch.
HOWEVER, we shall see . . .
That is a pretty good summary I think. Re the Hispanic vote, another key factor is the level of union activism. In California and Nevada, the Hispanic vote has not showed the same shift to the Republicans as the unions are very active courting HIspanics as members.
PLUS the polls show Hispanics are about evenly split on affirmative action - see my NYT link above
This is potentially dangerous territory for the Dems
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Looks like a nice warm sunny day, too
🙏🥂
If black activist groups want to see more of their groups in college, then concentrate more on schools and home environments, rather than artificially gaming the college admissions process.
It does get horribly messy and politically charged very quickly though, as does anything regarding race in the US.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP4vRtExR68
So close to having your name on that board. Helmet on and head down, walking through the Long Room.
An actual person said that. Capable of breathing on their own and everything.
It comes back to a legalistic view of the universe.
The law in preeminent. If the law issues a warrant to get information, then it must be obtained. Anything that blocks that is obviously an Obstruction Of Justice. If someone has a safe with information in it, the court can order it opened. An un-openable safe is, a pre-emptive Obstruction Of Justice.
Therefore end to end encryption is nothing less than a wholesale, pre-emptive Obstruction Of Justice.
Maybe we will declare soon 😈
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP4vRtExR68&t=610s
All out for under 300 now nailed on.
I also remember many timid, cowed Engalnd sides who would still lose, just without any fight, and certainly a lot less fun.
Remember we are playing the best team in the world. I would have taken the current match situation at stumps last night.
And Lyon looks to have torn a calf muscle, so is likely out for the rest of this match and possibly the next too.
Solid majorities of Americans support providing weaponry to Ukraine to defend itself against Russia and believe that such aid demonstrates to China and other U.S. rivals a will to protect U.S. interests and allies, according to a Reuters/Ipsos survey.
The two-day poll that was concluded on Tuesday charted a sharp rise in backing for arming Ukraine, with 65% of the respondents approving of the shipments compared with 46% in a May poll.
https://www.reuters.com/world/most-americans-support-us-arming-ukraine-reutersipsos-2023-06-28/
There is no way when you are still 200+ run behind in a 1st innings against 400+ & going to have to bat last you are 50% to win.
Lets face it, anyone doing anything deliberately dodgy who gets their account suspended is already tipped off by the time their account gets investigated/frozen regardless of what a bank employee does anyway.
But they seem to be a bit in love with trying to get into their opponents' heads, and instead just mess up their own. The Aussies aren't getting rattled, so just dial it back 2-3 notches.
Fuck it I’ll have a picnic instead
https://twitter.com/GregHands/status/1674433316228059140
The Garden Centre is silver surfer central in the daytime on a week day, so would be interesting to see how they got on there - should be a lot of Con voters, but you'd hope they'd also be knocking people up in less fruitful areas
Pfff
Do you agree with the Guardian article's premise?
It’s the very definition. It’s what makes sport fun. You shout at the TV “you’re playing like a pathetic girl, I could do better than this” and of course you’re shouting at a professional athlete who is actually 70,000 times better than you
You’d watch the 3rd and 4th days of the match, franticatally calling friends to see if was worth staying up all night driving to a random city, to stand in a queue as the sun came up, hoping to get in a good seat for your fiver, and be on the beers by breakfast time. Many such days spent as skint students, enjoying the camaraderie of a crowd we couldn’t afford to be in otherwise.
Bye Nige....
God knows what he would need to do to get a bit of backing.
An actual person said that. Capable of breathing on their own and everything. The refusal of the COVID virus to obey the law demonstrates the threat it poses to society.
The principal dissent wrenches our case law from its con-text, going to lengths to ignore the parts of that law it does not like
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/20-1199_hgdj.pdf
Of course, I am taking it out of context itself.
Why? Because quite unlike the Dobbs decision, this ruling does NOT overturn decades of established SCOTUS precedent established by Roe v. Wade.
Instead, today's decision essentially conforms the Court's thinking, tendency & trend on this issue. Thus lacks the shock & awe character of Dobbs.
Indeed, few SCOTUS decisions, even higly-significant ones, achieve THAT level of electoral impact, historically-speaking.
Which is NOT to say zero impact; as noted Asians are likely (mostly) to be pleased, Blacks & Latinos less so. But think it's a stretch to assume that its gonna switch huge number of votes.
So notion that Trump will now lose Florida because of it, is dubious on its face - even IF you assume that he's got a lock on the GOP nomination for 2024. 9Which I for one do not.)
Also, am puzzled by viewcode's assertion that Hispanics in Northeast are more pro-Trump than other parts of USA. Because I do NOT believe that's true. Seeing as how
> biggest demographic factor withing Latino voter community re: views on Trump is NOT geography, but instead religion, with evangelicals and other religious conservatives being more likely to back him.
> other factor is national origin/heritage, with Cuban Americans (still) more likely to be both Republicans and pro-Trump than other Latino groups
> as for geography, think that Latinos in Florida are way more likely to be Trump voters, that those in Northeastern Seaboard, largely due to Cuban concentration; worth noting that even among Cubans, those in Sunshine state are more conservative in their voting than Cubans in New Jersey, which has a bunch.
HOWEVER, we shall see . . .
https://twitter.com/LeoKearse/status/1674368678832242692/photo/2
However the tech will improve, I am sure
.......and all those mesmerising references
https://www.nssmag.com/en/sports/32217/le-maglie-castore-hanno-piu-di-un-problema
“The Pew survey shows a clear divide along racial and ethnic lines: A majority of white and Asian adults disapprove of racial consideration in admissions, while Black Americans largely approve and Hispanics are about evenly split”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/29/us/politics/affirmative-action-polls.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
With that demographic breakdown, this will be a popular decision with American voters as a whole, and if Biden fights it (as he says he will) he will be making the next election harder for himself
Reading the comments I'd thought England had had a shocker.
Aren't we in a better position than at stumps last night?
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2023/06/29/voting-intention-con-24-lab-46-27-28-jun-2023.
Labour ahead of the SNP in the Scottish subsample too, 31% to 30%
This is potentially dangerous territory for the Dems