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Today is Server Move Day – politicalbetting.com
Today is Server Move Day – politicalbetting.com
The current PB server, which I shall call Icarus, has been doing excellent service for six years. But is now beginning to show its age. With this year having both US elections and UK elections, it’s time for an upgrade.
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Is this the new letter sign-off replacing Your humble servant?
It does seem like the Conservatives have decided “don’t let Starmer take us back to square one” is a good slogan that will turn the election round for them. Here it is seen in the wild again today:
https://x.com/mailonline/status/1752491416993857760?s=46
How does Rishi's spreadsheet work again?
For over three weeks, the D.C. Circuit has been sitting on a potentially decisive question.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/31/trump-trial-immunity-delay-00138688
I say hurrah for absolutely anything that isn't another meeting at this stage.
But I seem to have surmounted that issue :-)
Due to the change of National Lottery operator, planned maintenance will take place from 11pm on 31st January. National Lottery games will be available again on 1st February.
https://www.national-lottery.co.uk/
1. Is it plugged in?
2. Is it switched on?
My bill is in the post...
https://twitter.com/AdamKinzinger/status/1752690235895410788
After she possibly put her bar license on the line.
https://twitter.com/CalltoActivism/status/1752759146309444010
Except children. They frown on that with children.
We’re all counting on you.
Three pairs of numbers where the second is double the first! Unfortunately there is no prize for spotting that.
Alina Habba on Donald Trump:
“He is the most ethical American I know.”
(July, 2023)
https://twitter.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1752753505905869246
Who'd be desperate enough for work to appear for him?
He never follows advice. He never pays. And he always loses because his cases are pretty much slam dunk.
Very good news for the plaintiff that he hopes to appeal though. It means she will get her money, as he has to deposit it with the court to appeal.
2^2.1 is =4.287 (to 3dp) but -2^2.1 is not a number (according to Excel and my calculator). But:
1. How can you logically multiply 2 by itself a non-integer number of times? And...
2. If you can, shouldn't the answer to -2^2.1 be ±4.287 (to 3dp) where only the sign is indeterminant? It's got to have a value of 4.287 we just don't know if it's positive or negative.
Then again -2^2.1 is maybe 10% (0.1) of the way from positive (^2) to negative (^3), but that would imply that -2^2.5 = zero.
Then again I could just be spouting b*ll*cks. Again.
The BBC stats team has survived their server upgrade.
It might be rude, and indeed unreasonable - but should it be criminalised ?
DPP appeals to supreme court in case of protesters who called MP ‘Tory scum’
Exclusive: Move follows high court ruling that it was reasonable for them to have called Iain Duncan Smith the term
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2024/jan/31/dpp-supreme-court-appeal-protesters-tory-scum-iain-duncan-smith
Racist language? Yes, ok maybe but I am not sure. But this? No. Taunting over Hillsborough or Munich? No.
Being a knob should have all sorts of consequences in life (in my latter two examples, being banned from football clubs perhaps) but not criminal records.
Disk drive error warning.
Anyone remember where its from?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsCI_gOG_ks
Now an odd power of any negative number always gives you a negative number. eg The cube of -2^3=-8, -2^4=16, -2^5=-32 and so on, alternating between positive and negative results.
That means that -2^21 gives you a negative number.
Now to get a number to root 10 you first take the result of the number to root 2 (SQuare RooT), then take the square root of that result and keep going until you get the 10th root.
But that means you are trying to take the square root of a negative number (several times over), and that can't give a real solution.
The same reasoning explains why -2^2.2 gives a real result, because -2^22 gives a positive result as 22 is even, so you do not subsequently have to take repeated square roots of a negative number.
Er... is that a wind-up?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-63716064
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11457739/Heckler-allegedly-called-Prince-Andrew-sick-old-man-not-face-court-prosecutors-say.html
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-68161937
No need to thank me for leading you down yet another rabbithole.... ;-)
The presentation was on laptop A, but they needed it on laptop B.
The only mechanism for transfer they could come up with was IR, but neither of them could find the transceivers on either laptop.
I was able to put them out of their misery, but unable to collect my HUGE fee for doing so.
https://x.com/finchleytories/status/1752801834144608298?s=46&t=CW4pL-mMpTqsJXCdjW0Z6Q
I've seen IT professionals do it, and why not?
https://x.com/afzal4gorton/status/1751564104848777520?s=46&t=CW4pL-mMpTqsJXCdjW0Z6Q
"Urm - is this IBM compatible? I need it to be IBM compatible. For 'the disks'?"
...
"Yes! Sure! It's 100% IBM compatible!"
Ker-ching!
The same shop used to sell more Amiga's than AtariST's as they always advised potential customers it was easy to get pirate Amiga software down the local market. Kickback's all the way...
My brother still has an Amiga 1200 - working, and I believe modified to connect to the interwebs.
It is also true that no IT professional in search of an answer to a problem will use Bing...
@RpsAgainstTrump
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NEW Quinnipiac poll 2024 GE:
Biden- 50%
Trump- 44%
That'll be up to 86 MPs standing down so far, almost dead on the average between 1979-2010. But considering in 1997 it was 117 and in 2010 it was 149, I'm almost surprised it is not even more at this stage.
Turnover in the Commons is actually a lot higher than my memory makes it seem - even in 2017 15% seats changed MP one way or another.
One interesting calculation would be length of service of those standing down - according to the Commons Library it was around 18.5 years in 2019, but some youthful ones have definitely jumped this time.
Republican Accountability
@AccountableGOP
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2h
Reporter: “Are you thinking of trying to use campaign funds to pay some of the penalties?”
Trump: “What penalties?”
Reporter: “In the New York fraud case and the defamation case.”
Trump: “I didn't do anything wrong. I mean, that's been proven as far as I'm concerned.”
https://twitter.com/AccountableGOP/status/1752789598496076229
Oh, wait a minute, I think I did.
January 26
US economy grows 3.3% on an annualised basis in the 4th quarter and by 2.5% in 2023 as a whole. The latest growth was driven by consumption and reflects a surge in consumer confidence: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/19/consumer-sentiment-surges-while-inflation-outlook-dips-university-of-michigan-survey-shows.html
Even Fox News reports that the economy is in a sweet spot with good growth but not so much as to reignite inflation.
I remain of the view that these economic performance figures are going to drive Biden's popularity northwards during the coming months. If we end up with a Biden Trump rematch (and I think we will) it will not be as close as it was in 2020.
1) switch off
2) restore dials to start position
3) wait a few seconds
4) switch on
Over a century of “switch it off, wait, switch it on”
You can't take away people's right to be assholes
In more legally expressions, emotive political subjects will engender a certain amount of obnoxious and insulting commentary, but to lose that would also mean much useful commentary may be lost, as valid points can be made in offensive ways.
Just rambling about Tory scum is not very useful or edgy in most cases, but the offence of 'using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour with intent' does seem rife for overuse.
Must be at least as pretty as my daughter and open to be grabbed by the fanny.
Will be paid on a no win no fee basis or not at all.