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A new dawn has broken has it not? – politicalbetting.com
A new dawn has broken has it not? – politicalbetting.com
YouGov Holyrood *constituency* voting intention (25 Mar – 2 Apr)SNP: 34% (-3 from Oct)Lab: 32% (+3)Con: 15% (-5)Lib Dem: 9% (=)Green: 4% (+1)https://t.co/rUj2aYPQjU pic.twitter.com/jrQxrlMeEg
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Many of you will connect your laptops or iPads to the Internet via tethering. Have you ever noticed that that the Internet is slow this way?
That's because basically all mobile networks deliberately throttle tethering speeds. It means that while your phone might well have a 200 or 300 mb/s 5G connection, you are pulling 0.5mb/s or less through your laptop.
Which is absolutely infuriating and is done so Vodafone and EE can sell additional data connections.
If you are on Android, you can circumvent this, and get the full speed of your cellular connection for your iPad/laptop. Download an app called Every Proxy (and turn HTTP proxying on). You then need to toggle proxying on in Network Settings. And - tada - you now get 300mb/s on your laptop/tablet.
Sadly, I don't think this works on iPhones. (Although it works with my Macbook connected to my Android phone, obviously.)
While I'm thinking of matters techie can someone remind me why it's worth paying for a VPN? I know it's been talked about a lot but what am I getting for the money?
(Take it as read that I am not particularly paranoid about my day to day internet traffic being interesting enough for anyone to want to snoop on out of idle curiosity but is there a security angle I should be worried about?)
Remainers have moved towards Yes, but Leavers have moved towards No, making little net difference overall.
Phone 4G 62.8 down
Macbook tethered 58.1 down
Will there be big surprises this time? A significant SNP fallback in Scotland and a bad night for the Tories are already expected and no longer a surprise. Or am I spending too long looking at polls and reading PB? Would these still be a big surprise for the rest of the country?
Outside the central belt? How does a plague on both your houses play when Labour don't participate in local politics?
by Dominic Gates ST aerospace reporter - A Boeing quality engineer went public Tuesday with damaging allegations that the jet-maker took manufacturing shortcuts to increase production rates that leave potentially serious structural flaws on its 787 and 777 widebody planes.
The Boeing engineer, Sam Salehpour, alleged that almost 1,000 787s and about 400 777s currently flying are at risk of premature fatigue damage and structural failure.
On Jan. 19, lawyers for Salehpour wrote a letter detailing his allegations to Mike Whitaker, head of the Federal Aviation Administration. The agency said Tuesday it is investigating the claims.
“We thoroughly investigate all safety reports,” FAA spokesperson Ian Gregor said.
Salehpour will speak next week at a Senate hearing convened by Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., “to examine Boeing’s broken safety culture, focusing on firsthand accounts.”
Boeing said it is in discussions and will cooperate with Blumenthal’s committee and has “offered to provide documents, testimony, and technical briefings.”
Salehpour and his lawyers spoke in a virtual news conference Tuesday. His lawyers said documents will be presented at the Senate hearing to substantiate his allegations.
Boeing, facing rising public alarm about multiple safety issues, responded with a detailed rebuttal to the 787 allegations.
“We are fully confident in the 787 Dreamliner,” Boeing said. “These claims about the structural integrity of the 787 are inaccurate.”
Boeing said extensive testing and analysis, shared with the FAA, has shown that the issues raised by Salehpour “do not present any safety concerns and the aircraft will maintain its service life over several decades.”
As for allegations about the 777, Boeing said: “We are fully confident in the safety and durability of the 777 family. These claims are inaccurate.” . . . .
In any event anything above 10 mb/s is plenty fast enough for me!
FWIW, outside the Central Belt, particularly in the north, the Lib Dems still have a presence - sub-optimal, I grant you, but it's still there, and could attract a few ex SNP voters. From an entertainment perspective, I regret that Ian Blackford is not standing for re-election, as I think the Lib Dems would have given him a bit of a tonking.
OLYMPIA — The chair of the state’s Republican Party is attempting to get three more initiatives on Washington’s November ballot, with the latest round taking on controversial issues heading into the 2024 campaign season.
State GOP Chair Jim Walsh, also a state representative from Aberdeen, says the issues driving the new petitions have been the three most common topics — immigration, “squatters” on residential property and efforts to phase out natural gas — raised at recent GOP town hall meetings across the state.
“They’re real,” he said, denying they are efforts to stoke outrage to drive voter turnout.
The new measures, filed in late March, are among dozens of initiatives filed this year so far, and filing is merely an initial step in the process that takes significant work and money to qualify for the election. But if backers do succeed in getting enough valid signatures, they would join an already crowded ballot.
Not only is it a year with a presidential election, an open governor’s seat and a host of other races, but Washington voters will also be weighing in on three other initiatives backed by the state GOP. One would repeal the state’s capital gains tax, another would repeal its carbon market, and a third would effectively kill a long-term care insurance program by making the payroll tax that funds it optional. . . .
https://www.udio.com/songs/3S2x3pu4VpuuZVJQv4oGCP
https://www.udio.com/songs/8XhqYphEvDuYLbSbsAiksP
https://www.udio.com/songs/uUjAaApMbjmMqBoj6Z6dsd
A new dawn has broken, no?
A new dawn has broken, innit?
A new dawn has broken, n'est-ce pas?
A new dawn has broken, aye?
A new dawn has broken, so it has?
A new dawn has broken, inshallah?
I say, a new dawn has broken, what?
And in both cases, the cynicism is deserved.
Anyway, I hope you agree my comment wasn't unfounded.
Sorry!
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24244665.scots-labour-candidate-wilma-brown-suspended-party/?ref=ebbn&nid=1457&u=f140ec39d500193051a33e140c12bd95&date=100424
1) The Post Office Investigators stole money* from the post masters deliberately, and at the behest of management.
2) The Post Office grew genetically modified ninja assassins in vats to kill all the witnesses
No one would blink an eye now...
*Not just inaccurately accused and extorted money.
This is also fo interest - given the increasing gap between Labour HQ under SKS and the pretend branch office in Scotland.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24242677.snp-anas-sarwar-noticeably-quiet-labour-nhs-privatisation-plans/
NO!
(sotto voce) Stupid boy.
Sorry if the thread looks weird with the deletions.
Check this one, it is even better. This is pretty much the end of human music as we know it. Live music will survive, but much of the rest will now be automated by AI. And this tech is only in Beta mode - you can only "make" 1200 songs a month
https://www.udio.com/songs/gajKkTvivm1nJx6oNQjFk1
Listen to the singing, and the flute trill at the end. Incredible. Made by AI in seconds
And this tech will only improve
The Singularity is coming
It would imply a level of competence and ability that hasn't been seen very often so far.
A couple at 5.11 and one at 5:05 still - BigG's posts are however still preserved elsewhere. Apolgies again.
But only briefly, I'll be off again soon. I have been enjoying a significant boost in productivity since flouncing off and I want to continue with that. I also accept that I was indeed boring the tits off everyone with AI talk - apologies to the site (tho AI is the most interesting thing in the world right now, by miles). I've found my tribe on AI Reddit, there I can talk about it endlessly...
But look at the new music site. It is.... mind blowing. Imagine you are in the music industry, and then you see that. This is going to happen to all the arts, and indeed most professions. I was absolutely right to bang on, even if I was really really boring
See, without me here to keep you up to speed you're all over the place on AI
Musk is probably right. We will get something like AGI by the end of next year. Claude 3 Opus is already really close. I doubt if 1% of humankind has any awareness of what's coming down the line
Listen to that song I linked, or try this one
https://www.udio.com/songs/eY7xtug1dV6hbfCDhyHJua
Made in seconds. So that's the end of humans writing for Hollywood and the West End
"Here's some background on Haniyeh, the man widely considered Hamas's overall leader.
A prominent member of the movement in the late 1980s, Israel imprisoned Haniyeh for three years in 1989 as it cracked down on the first Palestinian uprising."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-middle-east-68777333?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=6616b1923c0b7a6946ae4fbc&Haniyeh got news of his sons' deaths as he visited wounded Palestinians&2024-04-10T15:47:18.461Z&ns_fee=0&pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:c3934d22-350f-424f-8ea4-eecb1d27d0d6&pinned_post_asset_id=6616b1923c0b7a6946ae4fbc&pinned_post_type=share
Nice bbc link...
I'm talking about stripped jerseys, bags marked "Swag" etc.
I am trying to think of something I wouldn't believe they are guilt of. Can't really.
Bet they were eating pineapple pizza in the boardroom.
Sunal Jazeera's spreadsheets might not agree
Seems Reform want to take us out of the ECHR thereby making us an international pariah like Russia and Belarus, and also to prejudice the WF and GFA and ensure France will refuse permission for them to land in France
R&W polling, to compare with Yougov, also VI at Westminster and Holyrood. I did notice this:
"In Scotland, the UK Government has a net competency rating of -47, compared to -7 for the Scottish Government."
Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 should also work.
I really cant see how people can pursue this nonsense. And if youre worried about people not liking the UK believe me they dont whether youre in the ECHR or not .I get a completely different perspective with my continental colleagues if I say Im Irish rather than british.
But I don't think a public slapping down is appropriate, politically, because Austin spent much time in the hospital, earlier this year, and because he has a better natural tan than I do.
(He received much criticism for not being public about the hospital stay -- which he deserved.)
But that music making machine is INTENSE
I've got a good music journalist/poet friend who has been fiercely dismissive of all this, all AI stuff and AI art - he is quite angrily contemptuous. Today - because of that Udio folk song - he crumbled. "Jesus that does sound human. Shit" were his exact words
Mark the day
Indeed it would have many unintended consequences and certainly would not see the boats turned round and returned to France
(Of course each may well actually be more competent as well, I wouldn't know, but I would have doubts it is so much better it is worth 40%).
Legitimate criticisms of the IDF response would have more bite as a result.
On the other hand, Reform can say whatever they like; it's not going to happen.
https://redfieldandwiltonstrategies.com/latest-welsh-westminster-senedd-independence-referendum-voting-intention-18-february-2024/
And let's all hope that Hamas makes up most of the real number
Im looking for an accountant
How can they have an Oscar category for Best Music Score when we now know that machines can create superb soundtracks? What if AI MAKES the best soundtrack?
Why will kids learn to play musical instruments if AI means their chances of making it pay are reduced to near zero? Ditto novels, composing, designing, almost anything creative
How are you so unable to extrapolate this?
Armies aren't doing their job right if they don't kill as many people as the terrorists they're fighting do.
Who do you think killed more, the US and UK armies, or Al'Qaeda?
Sure it will do away with many hotel lift musak composers but if that's representative it won't be making the top composers redundant. (I appreciate that folk song might be unrepresentative.)
An army fighting proportionately, trying to minimise civilian figures as the IDF rightly are, is not the same as a terrorist group killing as many civilians as they can.
If Hamas releases the hostages and lays down their weapons, the war is over.
If Israel lays down their weapons, Hamas would kill every last Israeli.
That's the price of war. A war Hamas chose.