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With Johnson planning to push ahead with a law that would allow the government to ignore treaty obligations in relation to Brexit a big Tory figure and Brexiteer, former A-G Geoffrey Cox has told that Times that he plans to join the rebels when this comes before the house.
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The fact that likely at least 45% of Americans will vote for him shows what a sorry state the country is in.
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https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/09/nvidia-reportedly-to-acquire-arm-holdings-from-softbank-for-40-billion/
ARM was already sold 4 years ago to Softbank, that was controversial at the time but happened. 4 years later its being re-sold. Given the original sale had already happened why should we be bothered now especially? What difference does it make if ARM is owned by Softbank or Nvidia?
Nvidia is only buying it to secure the IP and restrict their competitors from getting access to competitive chip designs in the near to mid future. It is in their interest to run ARM into the ground, and in doing so handicap their competition, with the long term goal of being so far ahead of many that they are then secure for many generations to come. They certainly don't want ARM being world leader in chip design that anybody else can purchase the designs for.
Its like Chelsea's approach to buying so much of the world's youth talent that they have to send 30+ players on loan every season. They aren't actually that interested in most of the talent they buy, they are really just stopping everybody else from getting those players.
I hope everyone is happy
The risk is (long term) that Nvidia gives itself "premium" access to ARM, so that Qualcomm and Samsung and the like are all playing catchup. If that happens, it's possible they *might* move away from ARM in the long term.
Do we need the archives links at the bottom of the comments thread (or at the side as used to be the case)? Can't the links be kept on the front page or even on a separate links page?
I see no indication that they want to close this down. They seem determined to poke Belfast, Brussels, Cardiff, Dublin, Edinburgh and Washington with shitty sticks. And bare-faced cheek and lies are Johnson’s and Cumming’s modus operandi.
Choosing the repulsive Gove as the front man was a brave choice.
The GP thing is another example straight out of the Govt playbook. Put in place all sorts of restrictions and guidance to make offering of face to face appts very difficult and mandating rationing of offering said appointments. Even in this case encouraging GP’s to go down this route because of the far greater efficiency that it offers. And then, presumably in response to a few complaints in focus groups, bung a big headline in the Telegraph “ordering” GPS to disregard all previous guidance and actions they were encouraged to take. (probably in the back ground whilst officially telling them to carry on as before!).
This sort of thing is happening so repeatedly and across so many areas of industry that eventually enough people are going to join the dots and realise that their own specialist area of knowledge is not the only place that the govt are lying to the public on a daily basis, and in fact conclude that virtually everything the govt is saying is at best a distortion, if not outright deception. Including on important matters where they might actually be telling the truth...
This Government are a shower! They act and behave like the moronic mindless lying gangsters that they are.
On COVID-19 testing, my best friend in South West London could not get a test for love or money for his two kids who are ill with suspected symptoms. Similarly my sister had to get a test privately done for her son. What the f*ck is going on with our world beating test, trace and isolate system?
Brexit is of course a calamity as I have said from day one and Brexiteers, as exhibited by their recent behaviour, are nothing more than village idiots!
Have a good day!
A vote against a bill at second reading essentially means that you reject the bill in principle not just certain aspects of it which you think can be amended. A bill that fails at second reading is killed stone dead until a future Parliamentary session. As the Internal Markets bill goes wider than just the issues involving Brexit, and as such is probably not opposed in principle by many of the critics, you would expect it to clear the first hurdle. Of course this will be breathlessly reported as a Govt triumph indicating that the rebellion has failed (in the Commons anyway). Remember what was misleadingly said about the second reading passing of the WA before the election?
But then the amendments will come in. And then the rebellion will grow. (Cox has said that he will vote against the unamended bill at third reading). The test will be whether the Government is prepared to risk the whole bill for the sake of the Brexit bits. My concern would be that many of the non-Brexit bits are pretty outrageous in themselves, but MPs won’t focus on these.
I wouldn’t be surprised if we end up with the suggested fudge which gives MPs a vote on any future breaking of the NI protocol. Which could well suit the Govt for a couple of reasons.
1) the imposition of customs checks in the Irish Sea actually requires positive Govt administrative action to implement (of which they’ve done none so far). So they’ll just carry on not doing anything anyway
2) even better - it won’t remotely satisfy the EU. Why would it? - it will still have enshrined in U.K. law the right of the U.K. to break the provisions of the WA. That this right rests in the hands of Parliament rather than ministers is of no consequence to them. But because all the headlines will be how the Govt has “compromised” to protect the treaty and preserve international law (even if they haven’treally) the EU will unambiguously get the blame in the British media, and by extension the Great British Public. Which is all the Govt care about.
So no one knows what it means in this context.
But on point, he’s not really rebelling, is he? He’s abstaining. A rebellion will be when Johnson’s backbenchers combine with Labour to defeat the bill.
At the same time, amusing to think that Johnson has now got caught in the same trap as May.
I have to go and teach 150 children in five different rooms all with inadequate ventilation. Because obviously, seven people meeting in my own back garden is far riskier than that.
Meanwhile, if Truss becomes sec of state for education, I’m out of this. She’s a useless, dishonest, third rate, stuck up nobody whose sole claim to fame is that she’s more promiscuous than Alan Clark.
It appears you can have a party as long as it’s a “coming of age” party (excluding birthdays).
And you can pretty much do whatever you want as long as what you are doing is badged as a protest. But you can’t mingle.
But I think that meetings of the 1922 committee are now outlawed, as they relate to a “political body” which has been removed from the list of the exceptions. Trebles all round for the PM!
Or expect much of a post-parliamentary career.
F1: more Azerbaijanesque than expected. Bet came off. Indeed, feel a bit daft for not going for the 3.25 on there being under 15.5 classified finishers.
On the plus side, a specific not-to-be-classified bet I'd considered was Vettel so glad I didn't go down that route. Be annoying to back someone to fail in a race with 8 DNFs and manage to get it wrong.
May or may not be a post-race ramble at some point. Pushed for time.
Longer term bets:
Norris now behind 5-4 to Sainz on qualifying this year.
Hamilton up to 90 wins, 2 more and that bet comes off.
Near certain the bet on him scoring under 9.5 will fail this year, but there we are.
I had a £1 free bet on Racing Point to be top 3. They're currently 14 points off McLaren, which is reasonable, given it was at 26.
What makes Mugello similar to Baku is the long straight before the start/finish line, and half the midfield didn’t expect the leader to go so late - they should have watched the support races, where all the race leaders went very late during restarts.
F1 drivers are supposed to be the best, and although it was fun to watch and no-one got injured, the demolition derby wasn’t the best advert for the sport.
Speaking of which, I wonder if Mr Hamilton’s podium antics might be frowned upon by the F1 higher-ups? There’s a big difference between a generic “end racism” or even “black lives matter” protest, and a very specific protest about a live case. What if someone turns up on the podium in Russia next week wearing a “justice for Alexei Navalny” t-shirt?
Nvidia, on the other hand, will not have that relationship with ARM. They will be absorbed, the management will change, at a fundamental level Nvidia would benefit from ARM shutting down. They may well have paid all that cash to kill ARM.
It aint gonna happen. We saw in the May and Major Governments how quickly unhappy MPs on the government side fall into line, leaving just a small rump of rebel MPs.
And, indeed Mr eristdoof; using such terms suggests that the user is trying to convince the audience of the case, against the demonstrable facts.
And after that brief appearance I'm off to the gym. How long before such places are closed again, I wonder.
Of course, despite all the pisstaking, in reality the detail of these regulations only really matter for businesses etc. (not that making bad and unenforceable laws is a good thing) The “rule of six” message is quite a simple one - and most people will follow it after referring to Govt guidance rather than detailed legislation.
After all, there haven’t yet been any successful prosecutions under the Coronavirus Act through the courts, so one more piece of “unenforceable” legislation won’t make any difference.
Police will still be breaking up parties/gatherings, issuing fines etc etc and whether the odd person seeks to challenge their authority won’t make a big difference to the overall impact.
The future of the Conservative Party lies far away from Boris Johnson.
While in the early stages, it was hospitals, care homes and other workplaces that were spreaders of the disease, now it’s private homes, parties and nightclubs abroad, where the correct hygiene and distancing protocols are not being followed.
This damn thing isn’t going away, and we are going to have to learn to live with it - yesterday was the record day for case reports, according to the WHO.
Ignore fact that Government guidance to GPs (and all previous public pronouncements by Hancock on the subject, is for all patients to be triaged, in fact not just for Covid period but this will be the way of the future.
https://www.iam-media.com/market-developments/if-nvidia-purchases-arm-it-will-create-processor-powerhouse
He puts into words exactly what I think.
Option 1 was to align to stay in the customs union and avoid any discrepancies between NI and Ireland. This was what May wanted and became the 'backstop'. Johnson dumped that and threw the NI Unionists under the bus with the Withdrawal agreement and everyone knew it, choosing to create a customs border down the Irish Sea - i.e Option 2.
Ever since the referendum Brexiteers have tried to claim a 3rd way could be forged. This was always a lie, and even Johnson realised it eventually when he chose the 2nd option.
This week’s destination of choice for the British youth is apparently Turkey, Because it’s not (yet) on the quarantine list and the resorts are open as usual. No doubt infections there will start to rise in the next few weeks.
If we refuse to have an Internal Sea border and if we refuse to stay aligned then the EU will find an alternative solution. Because necessity is the mother of invention.
1. Great new look for the site!
2. The new Rule of Six regulations are as piss funny as I imagined they were going to be. They're going to be largely ignored because there are so many exclusions and contradictions
3. My daughter has an intermittent cough/sniffles/sore throat and no other Covid conditions. Like various other kids at her school. We're sending her in. That kids are giving each other the usual bugs after 6 months away isn't a surprise
4. The ARM thing. Once upon a time the UK was world-leading in technology. ARM being a great example of that. We can't complain about one foreign owner passing it to another foreign owner, but we should be questioning the wisdom of allowing these companies to be owned outside the UK at all. Our competitors manage to hold on to domestic ownership of major industrials - recognising the strategic importance of such operations. Why is it only in the UK where we think it OK for a foreign company to buy a major UK company for the purpose of running it into the ground?
Meanwhile Prof Spector has emailed to participants of his monitoring App a copy of his advice to government based on his latest local data. Basically Wales, the South East (ex London) and South West aren’t looking too bad, everywhere else (Midlands, North, Scotland, NI, London) is seeing the start of what could be a marked uptick.
Don't be preposterous.
I haven't seen any analysis of the data from WBTAT* to say where transmission is occurring, but to the best of our knowledge we are not seeing either patients or staff infected under our current covid protocols.
*world beating test and trace.
Maybe it will all rest on the passing of the Internal Market bill...
I am interested to see what Apple do, as they moved away from NVIDIA several years ago and are now seemingly using their chip designs again.
It might be a very different story if the new owners were Chinese, or heaven forbid European.