After 30 years in the IT industry I can most definitely assert that elections should never be carried out electronically.
Voting machines and online voting are never going to happen.
As a professional technologist it's clear to me that the vast majority of people don't understand technology - the chance of the average man in the street accepting putting their vote into some machine is close to zero - and he's right to think that. It's important in elections that people think their vote is fair, anonymous and will be counted.
Sometimes the old fashioned manual ways of doing something are the best. Elections are a great example of that.
Interesting that they pronounce 'herb' the French way (likewise 'fillet', I think). There's one we Frenchify but they don't, though I can't remember it offhand.
Mr. Sandpit, I fear that's complacent. Clownish buffoons like Bercow think such things are a good idea.
Thirty minutes into podcast, and a pronunciation matter makes me want to raise a question.
Do other PBers pronounce 'clique' as 'cleek'? [I do].
'Click' always sounds American to me.
I would pronounce it as you do. The real question is how do you pronounce "meme". I've got no clue!
I am more curious about what a meme even is. My kids have been teasing my about this recently. "Hullo darkness my old friend" is apparently a meme. I have no idea why.
I hope Guido judges everyone by their aunts, uncles and cousins.
It is a complete non story isn't it? Sad that there are such repulsive reprobates in the world but no fault of Nicola's (and its not often I will say that).
I hope Guido judges everyone by their aunts, uncles and cousins.
It is a complete non story isn't it? Sad that there are such repulsive reprobates in the world but no fault of Nicola's (and its not often I will say that).
I would say he will be off the Christmas card list, but given he was a card carrying Tory, I doubt he has been on that for a long time.
Mr. L, think it'd be defined as a sort of in vogue idea/cliche, an idea being replicated through social discourse in the way a successful gene spreads through a species.
May accused of lying about impact of EU migrants on UK by Czech Europe minister
Theresa May has been accused of lying about the impact of immigration on Britain by an EU minister. It was Tomas Prouza, the Czech minister for Europe, who made the claim in a speech at Charles University in Prague at a conference on Brexit. He also delivered a harsh assessment of May’s Brexit strategy. Here is the full text, and here are the key points.
I hope Guido judges everyone by their aunts, uncles and cousins.
It is a complete non story isn't it? Sad that there are such repulsive reprobates in the world but no fault of Nicola's (and its not often I will say that).
I would say he will be off the Christmas card list, but given he was a card carrying Tory, I doubt he has been on that for a long time.
Hopefully the operative and important word in that sentence is "was".
Mr. L, think it'd be defined as a sort of in vogue idea/cliche, an idea being replicated through social discourse in the way a successful gene spreads through a species.
I am more curious about what a meme even is. My kids have been teasing my about this recently. "Hullo darkness my old friend" is apparently a meme. I have no idea why.
"A meme (/ˈmiːm/ meem) is "an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture". A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices that can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena with a mimicked theme. Supporters of the concept regard memes as cultural analogues to genes in that they self-replicate, mutate, and respond to selective pressures.
Proponents theorize that memes are a viral phenomenon that may evolve by natural selection in a manner analogous to that of biological evolution. Memes do this through the processes of variation, mutation, competition, and inheritance, each of which influences a meme's reproductive success. Memes spread through the behavior that they generate in their hosts. Memes that propagate less prolifically may become extinct, while others may survive, spread, and (for better or for worse) mutate. Memes that replicate most effectively enjoy more success, and some may replicate effectively even when they prove to be detrimental to the welfare of their hosts."
I hope Guido judges everyone by their aunts, uncles and cousins.
It is a complete non story isn't it? Sad that there are such repulsive reprobates in the world but no fault of Nicola's (and its not often I will say that).
So which is worse? Burning a £20 note in front of a homeless person, or burning through millions of pounds of taxpayers money in failed government spending?
Memes that replicate most effectively enjoy more success, and some may replicate effectively even when they prove to be detrimental to the welfare of their hosts.
Memes that replicate most effectively enjoy more success, and some may replicate effectively even when they prove to be detrimental to the welfare of their hosts.
I hope Guido judges everyone by their aunts, uncles and cousins.
It is a complete non story isn't it? Sad that there are such repulsive reprobates in the world but no fault of Nicola's (and its not often I will say that).
So which is worse? Burning a £20 note in front of a homeless person, or burning through millions of pounds of taxpayers money in failed government spending?
Ethical question for the day.
I think Stalin has some quotes along those lines...
I hope Guido judges everyone by their aunts, uncles and cousins.
It is a complete non story isn't it? Sad that there are such repulsive reprobates in the world but no fault of Nicola's (and its not often I will say that).
So which is worse? Burning a £20 note in front of a homeless person, or burning through millions of pounds of taxpayers money in failed government spending?
Ethical question for the day.
The former. It's gratuitously cruel, vicious and shows a deep contempt for one's fellow man. Mere incompetence is all we expect of government and not in itself immoral even if the consequences are more serious from a utilitarian perspective.
I hope Guido judges everyone by their aunts, uncles and cousins.
It is a complete non story isn't it? Sad that there are such repulsive reprobates in the world but no fault of Nicola's (and its not often I will say that).
So which is worse? Burning a £20 note in front of a homeless person, or burning through millions of pounds of taxpayers money in failed government spending?
Ethical question for the day.
The latter if it was supposed to be for projects to find accommodation for the homeless. Though this story totally kills any future prospects of Sturgeon using an 'evil Tories' narrative when it seems her own relative is one. CUCA have now expelled him
I am more curious about what a meme even is. My kids have been teasing my about this recently. "Hullo darkness my old friend" is apparently a meme. I have no idea why.
"A meme (/ˈmiːm/ meem) is "an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture". A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices that can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena with a mimicked theme. Supporters of the concept regard memes as cultural analogues to genes in that they self-replicate, mutate, and respond to selective pressures.
Proponents theorize that memes are a viral phenomenon that may evolve by natural selection in a manner analogous to that of biological evolution. Memes do this through the processes of variation, mutation, competition, and inheritance, each of which influences a meme's reproductive success. Memes spread through the behavior that they generate in their hosts. Memes that propagate less prolifically may become extinct, while others may survive, spread, and (for better or for worse) mutate. Memes that replicate most effectively enjoy more success, and some may replicate effectively even when they prove to be detrimental to the welfare of their hosts."
They must cover NHS issues but day after day they only have the one story and it is almost always the catastrophe that is the English NHS, rather than the Welsh and Scots NHS which are worse
You should probably get in touch with your pro brexit, anti independence, life-long SNP member in-law for some on the the ground info.
'It comes as official NHS figures for December show that 86.2% of A&E patients in England were dealt with in under four hours. December A&E figures for Scotland are much higher at 92.6% while Wales and Northern Ireland's figures are lower than England's.'
That used to be (and probably still is) part of the initiation for the Bullingdon Club.
Hopefully he'll be expelled from the party and association for life.
I hated the Bullingdon - and Brasenose's knock-off - with all my heart. More than anythign else with which I have had personal contact.
I would go as far as to say my university's equivalent, their associated hangers on and that portion of public school types who operated a kind of apartheid (separate bars, separate subjects, wilful ignorance of life beyond their kind) and the correlation between those who ran the student conservatives and precisely those people who set themselves as most separate, colours my view to this day of how the Conservative party can never truly represent or understand me, wherever it positions itself on the left/right spectrum. And far more so than growing up in a Labour heartland in the 80s ever did.
Yes, it is something of a visceral class thing, but there you have it.
At my University the "attempted snobs" were about 90% fakes who had really gone to comprehensives etc. The worst and most boring kind of social climbers imaginable.
They affected to believe that the various student societies (including the Conservatives) were beneath them.
Thirty minutes into podcast, and a pronunciation matter makes me want to raise a question.
Do other PBers pronounce 'clique' as 'cleek'? [I do].
'Click' always sounds American to me.
I would pronounce it as you do. The real question is how do you pronounce "meme". I've got no clue!
I am more curious about what a meme even is. My kids have been teasing my about this recently. "Hullo darkness my old friend" is apparently a meme. I have no idea why.
I hope Guido judges everyone by their aunts, uncles and cousins.
It is a complete non story isn't it? Sad that there are such repulsive reprobates in the world but no fault of Nicola's (and its not often I will say that).
So which is worse? Burning a £20 note in front of a homeless person, or burning through millions of pounds of taxpayers money in failed government spending?
Ethical question for the day.
The former. It's gratuitously cruel, vicious and shows a deep contempt for one's fellow man. Mere incompetence is all we expect of government and not in itself immoral even if the consequences are more serious from a utilitarian perspective.
What if the incompetence in spending the millions is ongoing? - my experience of such things is that the truly ludicrous projects (private and public sector) almost always last longer than a single budget year.
Just finished the podcast. Excellent English from the German lady (as might be expected, to be honest). I do disagree with Mr. Pedley entirely on his 'moral high ground' position on unilaterally guaranteeing the rights of millions of EU citizens in the UK without the corresponding protection for British citizens in the EU.
It baffles me why those who propose this move (disregarding that the moral high ground of scrapping half the rebate got Blair absolutely nothing in return) seem more interested in the rights of EU citizens than their fellow countrymen.
I hope Guido judges everyone by their aunts, uncles and cousins.
It is a complete non story isn't it? Sad that there are such repulsive reprobates in the world but no fault of Nicola's (and its not often I will say that).
So which is worse? Burning a £20 note in front of a homeless person, or burning through millions of pounds of taxpayers money in failed government spending?
Ethical question for the day.
The latter if it was supposed to be for projects to find accommodation for the homeless. Though this story totally kills any future prospects of Sturgeon using an 'evil Tories' narrative when it seems her own relative is one. CUCA have now expelled him
'Atrrgh, a distant relative by marriage is a Tory ****, I can no longer comment on other Tory ****s!'
Mr. Quidder, also, giga seems to have changed from a soft to a hard G (Doc Brown in Back to the Future refers to 'jiga-watts').
BTTF is the only place I've heard that pronunciation...
According to wikipedia (fount of all knowledge) it was a common pronunciation in the states in the 60s-80s. There was even an official guide for the pronunciation issued by the US National Bureau of Standards.
Dave Rubin has interviewed Flemming Rose (the guy who 10 years published the Mohammad cartoons in Denmark). First two parts are up, with the discussion ranging from the back story those cartoons through to his thoughts on forthcoming elections in Europe.
@faisalislam: LabLords leader Baroness Smith: "Lords, as always, will challenge/scrutinise legislation put before us; if necessary will pass amendments"..
@faisalislam: B. Smith: "we will not be cowed by threats of abolition or flooding place with 100s of new Tory Peers. stakes too high & we'll do our duty.”
Thirty minutes into podcast, and a pronunciation matter makes me want to raise a question.
Do other PBers pronounce 'clique' as 'cleek'? [I do].
'Click' always sounds American to me.
I would pronounce it as you do. The real question is how do you pronounce "meme". I've got no clue!
Ditto – “meme” I pronounce it me me, American podcasts I listen to say ‘meeem’ - most odd.
In my head I hear it as "mem" (rhymes with pen)
Richard Dawkins, who invented the term in The Selfish Gene, said that it rhymes with cream.
The inventor of a word doesn't always get the final say, though, otherwise we'd have to pronounce GIF stupidly.
Indeed that's clearly supposed to be a hard-G and it even stands for Graphics which is a hard-G so that the inventor wants it to be pronounced like the now-renamed cleaning chemical is just silly.
The Speaker should surely have the confidence of the whole house. If he wins the no confidence vote but with a clearly-divided house then he should follow Thatcher's footsteps and resign..
He asked for it. He will survive the vote I suspect but it may wound him beyond repair. The House deserves someone less enamoured of themselves than Bercow.
I hope Guido judges everyone by their aunts, uncles and cousins.
It is a complete non story isn't it? Sad that there are such repulsive reprobates in the world but no fault of Nicola's (and its not often I will say that).
So which is worse? Burning a £20 note in front of a homeless person, or burning through millions of pounds of taxpayers money in failed government spending?
Ethical question for the day.
The latter if it was supposed to be for projects to find accommodation for the homeless. Though this story totally kills any future prospects of Sturgeon using an 'evil Tories' narrative when it seems her own relative is one. CUCA have now expelled him
'Atrrgh, a distant relative by marriage is a Tory ****, I can no longer comment on other Tory ****s!'
Lol.
I've heard Sturgeon speak of her English family members, this is the first I've heard of the Irish branch. Shame it was in such an embarassing context.
If the government cannot win a motion of no confidence against the Speaker (and it is obviously for their benefit that such a motion would be made), surely they'd have done better to ensure one was not moved? Even if they vote for Bercow or mass abstain, most of those who vote against him will be Tories, hardly endearing them to a man already showing he wants to hit the government when he feels he can.
Thirty minutes into podcast, and a pronunciation matter makes me want to raise a question.
Do other PBers pronounce 'clique' as 'cleek'? [I do].
'Click' always sounds American to me.
I would pronounce it as you do. The real question is how do you pronounce "meme". I've got no clue!
Ditto – “meme” I pronounce it me me, American podcasts I listen to say ‘meeem’ - most odd.
In my head I hear it as "mem" (rhymes with pen)
Richard Dawkins, who invented the term in The Selfish Gene, said that it rhymes with cream.
The inventor of a word doesn't always get the final say, though, otherwise we'd have to pronounce GIF stupidly.
And Linux.
In the originator's country it is "Leenux"
It is linux with a short i almost everywhere now. Americans used to pronounce it with a long i because that is how they pronounce the name Linus (eg Linus in Peanuts or Linus Pauling the chemist with two Nobel prizes) but thanks to Youtube and Linus Torvalds moving to the US and speaking at conferences, Americans have largely changed to short i linux. There is probably a degree thesis in there somewhere for a student of linguistics.
Clearly, and it seems fairly clear from the press report that the number is not 326. So the question is what number he thinks he needs to unseat the Speaker. Would 200 be enough?
Thirty minutes into podcast, and a pronunciation matter makes me want to raise a question.
Do other PBers pronounce 'clique' as 'cleek'? [I do].
'Click' always sounds American to me.
I would pronounce it as you do. The real question is how do you pronounce "meme". I've got no clue!
Ditto – “meme” I pronounce it me me, American podcasts I listen to say ‘meeem’ - most odd.
In my head I hear it as "mem" (rhymes with pen)
Richard Dawkins, who invented the term in The Selfish Gene, said that it rhymes with cream.
The inventor of a word doesn't always get the final say, though, otherwise we'd have to pronounce GIF stupidly.
And Linux.
In the originator's country it is "Leenux"
It is linux with a short i almost everywhere now. Americans used to pronounce it with a long i because that is how they pronounce the name Linus (eg Linus in Peanuts or Linus Pauling the chemist with two Nobel prizes) but thanks to Youtube and Linus Torvalds moving to the US and speaking at conferences, Americans have largely changed to short i linux. There is probably a degree thesis in there somewhere for a student of linguistics.
How Americans think that Nissan is pronounced as Neeeeeeeeeeesan is beyond me.
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Voting machines and online voting are never going to happen.
As a professional technologist it's clear to me that the vast majority of people don't understand technology - the chance of the average man in the street accepting putting their vote into some machine is close to zero - and he's right to think that. It's important in elections that people think their vote is fair, anonymous and will be counted.
Sometimes the old fashioned manual ways of doing something are the best. Elections are a great example of that.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38923511
"'Click' always sounds American to me."
My granny (born in the 1880s) always pronounced it that way.
Mr. Urquhart, gods, yes. 'Nitch'. Nitch!
Interesting that they pronounce 'herb' the French way (likewise 'fillet', I think). There's one we Frenchify but they don't, though I can't remember it offhand.
Mr. Sandpit, I fear that's complacent. Clownish buffoons like Bercow think such things are a good idea.
I hope Guido judges everyone by their aunts, uncles and cousins.
Mr. D, surely to rhyme with 'theme'?
Mr. L, think it'd be defined as a sort of in vogue idea/cliche, an idea being replicated through social discourse in the way a successful gene spreads through a species.
Theresa May has been accused of lying about the impact of immigration on Britain by an EU minister. It was Tomas Prouza, the Czech minister for Europe, who made the claim in a speech at Charles University in Prague at a conference on Brexit. He also delivered a harsh assessment of May’s Brexit strategy. Here is the full text, and here are the key points.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2017/feb/09/corbyn-dismisses-claims-he-has-set-date-for-resigning-as-fake-news-politics-live
Proponents theorize that memes are a viral phenomenon that may evolve by natural selection in a manner analogous to that of biological evolution. Memes do this through the processes of variation, mutation, competition, and inheritance, each of which influences a meme's reproductive success. Memes spread through the behavior that they generate in their hosts. Memes that propagate less prolifically may become extinct, while others may survive, spread, and (for better or for worse) mutate. Memes that replicate most effectively enjoy more success, and some may replicate effectively even when they prove to be detrimental to the welfare of their hosts."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
So which is worse? Burning a £20 note in front of a homeless person, or burning through millions of pounds of taxpayers money in failed government spending?
Ethical question for the day.
Thanks for your gracious apology for speaking shyte.
My bugbear.
They affected to believe that the various student societies (including the Conservatives) were beneath them.
It seems very tenuous to me, but what do I know, I havent been a yoof for a very long time.
I do dislike journalists who use "piece" to mean "article", "story" or "column".
It baffles me why those who propose this move (disregarding that the moral high ground of scrapping half the rebate got Blair absolutely nothing in return) seem more interested in the rights of EU citizens than their fellow countrymen.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2013/jun/27/across-the-piece-jargon-steven-poole
My pet hate is "nice"... what a useless word that is, tell you nothing at all.
Lol.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giga-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXUXvtoBhUo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfeH1Xl2iqM
So when does this NC motion get heard ?
Bercexit?
In fact did Bercow himself have one put up by Hague or was that something else ?
https://twitter.com/standardnews/status/829744894793175046
I have heard of Long-Bailey solely because of the leadership speculation over the last week.
The other three are all mysteries worthy of Toyah.
@jessicaelgot: Angela Eagle, Clive Lewis and Rebecca Long-Bailey have all now held the shadow business secretary job under Corbyn. Spot the pattern...
@PolhomeEditor: Labour MP: "I've just had to google two of our latest appointments to the shadow cabinet."
https://www.betfair.com/exchange/plus/#/politics/market/1.120629096
Wasn't that what they said of Lewis?
Edit. And such a motion was apparently carried in 1695.
Hague's one for Bercow was to force a secret ballot at the start of the then next, now current parliament.