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With all the fuss today about the Daily Mail’s “legs” front page let us not forget that the BBC can sometimes stray into what could be described as sexist.
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I refuse to make a post about underpants.
Excuse my technical ignorance, but, re. WhatsApp, if the encryption requires the same code at both sending and receiving devices, to avoid being understood by anyone else, that code presumably has to be sent at some initial point from one device to the other? If so, why cannot anyone who has access to that earlier message (i.e. the service provider) access that communication and then use the code to decrypt later transmissions between the two devices? Or am I missing something?
Make no mistake if there's ANY suggestion of us paying an "exit bill", or of still having relatively high levels of immigration, the Mail and the Sun will go into full Outrage mode. From her year in office, has there been any sign that May would be willing to risk that, given she couldn't even stand firm with a small tax rise when those papers started complaining?
"But when looking at these new tests, 45% of British adults think they are reasonable, compared to 31% of voters thinking they are unreasonable. This allows Labour to be seen to be reasonably supporting the government as Article 50 is triggered whilst also hedging its bets so they can later vote against Brexit if public support turns during the re-negotiation period. So, although public don’t yet see these conditions as essential and don’t want Labour to oppose Brexit if the government fails to meet them, there are many reasons why this could end up being a shrewd move by Sir Keir Starmer – especially if public opinion does shift over the next couple of years."
https://yougov.co.uk/news/2017/03/28/has-labour-finally-found-response-its-brexit-dilem/
The Guardian and fellow travellers getting their underpants in a twist over this is just makes them look ludicrous. I mean it isn't like we are living in the world with no other news. Turn on Sky for example with some serious on the ground journalism from the battle for Mosul.
On-topic: daft cover, but nothing to fret over.
Union pitches in for a 40% rise and allows management to beat them down to 15%.
Everyone's a winner and trebles all round.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6975536.stm
"A Conservative government would match Labour's projected public spending totals for the next three years, shadow chancellor George Osborne has said." 3rd September 2007
https://twitter.com/ns_media/status/710052091788705792
I guess some on here will be v disappointed though. Shades of Ched Evans
https://order-order.com/2017/03/28/mili-binned/
"I would be sitting in a circle with our counsellor and other recovering trainspotters, and put my hand up in order to be excused. And then I would sneak off to the loo to read Railway Magazine! Then I would come back to the group, put my hand and go "I got 30 seconds clean!". I was taking the piss, but I was doing it to myself."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography
Basically, some very clever maths.
But even a MUCH smaller "bill" would I think be unsellable to the Mail/Sun. They will probably take the line that Suzanne Evans took on QT last night: "we don't owe them a penny".
You shone like the sun...
SHINE ON YOU CRAZY DIAMOND"
Chalk and cheese.
"GULITY AS CHARGED" ...or not
Do we have an expected date for the magistrates' decision on whether to issue preliminary charges against her? (Her husband has already been charged with embezzlement.)
http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/28/03/2017/UK-and-Qatar-set-up-joint-committee-to-pave-way-for-post-Brexit-trade-deal-May
The EU have failed for decades to broker a deal. This is already a £22bn export market for us, and we provide roughly a quarter of EU exports to the region.
They all have appearance advisers, hairdressers, image consultants and the rest, and when somebody mentions a little pun we suddenly have a commentariat of Henny-Pennies.
Most enjoyable.
A good read, in my opinion.
https://twitter.com/georgegalloway/status/846712748742529024
Barely 30% support most of it as make or break. The least essential thing is the single market.
We like to think of our soldiers as being the best in the world, lions, above reproach, etc etc, partly because of their standards - they're 'better' than the opposition. What Blackman did went well beyond those standards.
It also has an effect on the way foreigners who may encounter those troops. Like the infamous Daily Mirror front page, Blackman's actions make the British Army's task a little bit harder.
I'm glad he's out: it cannot have been easy for his family, and the circumstances were unusual. But the idea that the deliberate killing of an injured enemy should have been ignored is ... interesting.
Close in Provence!
Is it the case that the voted for proposal for an independence referendum includes the idiocy of letting EU nationals have the vote?
Would you say the same if the situation has been reversed, and a British soldier had been killed?
http://www.gfk.com/en-gb/insights/press-release/new-gfk-political-poll-shows-jeremy-corbyn-as-unpopular-as-president-trump-among-gb-adults/
Corbyn has gone full Antarctic in Scotland: minus 60.
Interesting to see the twitter/facebook split too.
Facebook is far more representative across the piece whereas twitter is for children. An absolutely unrepresentative medium. God knows why some media outlets obsess about the comments on it.
Perhaps he's doing a bit of a Trump and will announce later that he'll appear. But I doubt it. What reason would he offer? Seems more likely he's just not highly skilled at the election game. Got to wonder whether his advisers may not have got through to him that he was good in the first debate, and that as a result he climbed above Hamon in the polls.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39417239
There's nothing blood and soil about recognising the inherent madness of EU citizens being able to vote in splitting up the UK as the UK prepares to leave the EU. If they happen to be UK citizens as well, then of course they should be able to vote.
Deal by Autumn 2018
Ratification March 2019
Bedding in/transition period plus global deals for a year or two after
EU budget cycle ends 2020
UK Election 2020
Devolved Elections 2021
Full picture clear after this.
On the other hand, the next two debates are both full of 11 candidates (IIRC), including other far left ones. He may just see it as a waste of time. I doubt we will see anything of note from the next debates, 11 is just way too many to let any one candidate shine.
Digital signatures work the opposite way; the decryption key is made public so that only one person can encrypt a message while everyone else can decrypt it.
As regards the case, I had Sgt Blackman down as a bit of a wrongun before I saw the Panorama. Now I am sure he did the right thing, because...
The captive had just been trying to kill Sgt Blackman and his team, and was shot down and almost killed by one of our helicopters two minutes previously. That alone makes it seem crazy that SB was charged w murder... two mins before our helicopter almost deliberately killed the bloke!
If Sgt Blackman had stuck to the letter of the law, he would have had to apply first aid in a dangerous war zone, then call for an emergency team (MERT) to drive through booby trapped fields to come and get them, risking everyone in that teams life as well as his squad, and alerting the taliban to exactly where they all were... they would have been bait, it could have been a massacre, and for what?! A half dead enemy who we shot down whilst trying to kill our marines five mins before. As I say if you disagree I wont argue, the marines themselves are split on it, but plenty in his team say he did the right thing and they couldn't care less
No taxation without representation!