I've got a holiday in the Orkney islands planed, for 4 July will I still be able to go? or will they start to lockdown again?
P.S. any top tips for things to see in the Orkney islands?
Nava/mil history - Lyness base, maybe a boat tour with camera on a string for the sunken German fleet if that is up and running, some stuff in Stromness Museum. Also Churchill barriers. Mediaeval - Kirkwall cathedral, the two palaces, Stromness town Archaeological - wall to wall but specials include the Maes Howe/Borgar/Stenness complex in central Mainland. Have a look at the Historic Scotland website for some other ideas of sites. Tomn of the Eagles on South Ronaldsay is I think privately owned. Scenic - Yesnaby, Kitchener Monument, walk around coast from Stromness town round to Breckness, for instance Cultural - two farmhouse longhouse museums in Mainland when I last went
The abvoe is the Mainland plus cuaseway connexted islands plus Hoy (ferry). Of the smaller nothern islands, I like Westray very much - castle, scenic Noss Head for birdies, general ambience, golf course (not exactly the R&A, no idea if still there - Papa Westray is the one with the v. ancient houses.
Food etc - try bere bannocks, and the local whisky, Highland Park being one of my favourite breweries, Scapa is also worth a taste if available
Tourist Info office on Kirkwall.Stromness definitely worth talkign to. When I was there there was a ghood bookshop[ in Stromness with lots of local stuff.
May have to save it for another year, mind.
Thanks, If we are still allowed this will be an interesting visit
Erratum: I was muddling Noss and Noup Heads - this is the one you might want
Good context for case numbers - growth driven by new areas moving out of the pack underneath the line, but an increasing number of the bubbles which were already at high case levels are moving above the line (declining numbers).
If Galloway beats Keith (Which I think is well possible) is he done for ?
100% will be a leadership challenge. Labour tearing chunks out of each other will be another reminder why they shouldn't be in power. Burnham might flirt with having a go saying he has to think about the Nation as a whole before he runs away from his Manchester Mayoral job. Angela Rayner might well throw her hat in the ring too, she has no reason for loyalty to Sir Keith.
I have no particular desire to see a Labour government, but Tories should stop gloating and being so complacent. They have a clown for a leader, and they just lost one of their safest seats to the Libs. Sir "Keith" as you strangely like to refer to him as, may well show resilience and have the last laugh. Stranger things have happened. A week is a long time...etc.
I'd like to see a decent electable opposition but we are where we are. I'm sure we can all find plenty of gloating posts from you 12 months ago about how the very 'forensic' Sir Keith would make mincemeat out of the PM. I'm still waiting for that to materialise.
Chesham & Amersham is a wake up call for Boris but if he wins Batley & Spen to go with Hartlepool it's an incredible return for any PM 2 years in and any party 11 years in - of that there is little doubt. But Batley is very much still up for grabs IMO.
No gloating posts from me I am afraid. I am a trad right of centre Tory, which is why I dislike Johnson so much. However, I think Starmer has made mincemeat out of Johnson at PMQs, but then so would a person from a sixth form debating team (probably the reserve team) . Johnson is shit, except, it would seem, at convincing the more gullible that he is a leader. That last bit he appears good at, along with bedding gullible women. Maybe there is a similarity.
Not even that, really. The story of 2020 was a gradual but relentless shift of voters from the blue to the red column. And given the time sequence, I think we can be confident that was a real effect, rather than random polling noise.
Then the vaccines happened, and the stone SKS had been rolling up the hill rolled straight back down again. Not much to do with Bozza, but he's in the big chair and gets the credit.
So the questions are: 1 Which is more representative- Dame Bingham's brilliance at vaccine procurement, or almost everything else the government does? 2 How long can the PM continue to use vaccination as his excuse not to talk about anything else? 3 Following the success of War on France to secure the May elections, who's next?
Since I highly doubt we'll reach 90%, that's an incredible achievement. Must be extremely close to being finished now.
I'm curious what percentage of adults other nations that have peaked like Israel or USA have achieved?
Wales are at 89.0% today and still jabbing 3,000+ a day (0.1% ish of adults).
By the back of an envelope calc, 200,000 ish new jabs a day would be 4,200,000 in 3 weeks, which will take us to about 90% of adults. but will probably attenuate down as we get near the very end.
I think most places are giving % of total population so hard to compare, but its looking good.
For wat its worth, there may be lots of reasons why people are not getting vaccinated.
But I suspect/feel for many the underlying reason, is not the risk of autism, cost or many of the other things mentioned above. I think for some at least its the loss of control: we have all had no chose in now living with COVID, we have had no chose in being locked down, no or little chose in how much risk we are able to take, its all been imposed down on us, and I for one fed up, I think other are too, and one of the few ways to push back and say 'I'm not playing this any more' is to say stick your bloody vaccine up you XXX!
One way to help overcome this IMHO, would be to offer those who have sead no to the Vaccine so for, 'you can have chose which vaccine you would like'
Offer them as many as we could, Physa, Moderna, AZ, but also get some of Jonson and Jonson, the Russian and maybe Chinses ones, and if possible get a few of those others new ones.
Yes I know some of theses are less effective, but all are at lest slightly better than non, and I suspect that by giving them a chose, you will find a promotion will come forward, some may have a phobia about needles and there for the J and J, which only requires one jab, others like Corbyn may love Russia so much they take that. Others may just apricate the that they get to chose and go for Physa, or Morderna.
Don't know how effective this might be overall, but worth a go.
I've got a holiday in the Orkney islands planed, for 4 July will I still be able to go? or will they start to lockdown again?
P.S. any top tips for things to see in the Orkney islands?
Nava/mil history - Lyness base, maybe a boat tour with camera on a string for the sunken German fleet if that is up and running, some stuff in Stromness Museum. Also Churchill barriers. Mediaeval - Kirkwall cathedral, the two palaces, Stromness town Archaeological - wall to wall but specials include the Maes Howe/Borgar/Stenness complex in central Mainland. Have a look at the Historic Scotland website for some other ideas of sites. Tomn of the Eagles on South Ronaldsay is I think privately owned. Scenic - Yesnaby, Kitchener Monument, walk around coast from Stromness town round to Breckness, for instance Cultural - two farmhouse longhouse museums in Mainland when I last went
The abvoe is the Mainland plus cuaseway connexted islands plus Hoy (ferry). Of the smaller nothern islands, I like Westray very much - castle, scenic Noss Head for birdies, general ambience, golf course (not exactly the R&A, no idea if still there - Papa Westray is the one with the v. ancient houses.
Food etc - try bere bannocks, and the local whisky, Highland Park being one of my favourite breweries, Scapa is also worth a taste if available
Tourist Info office on Kirkwall.Stromness definitely worth talkign to. When I was there there was a ghood bookshop[ in Stromness with lots of local stuff.
May have to save it for another year, mind.
Orkney is wonderful. I was particularly struck by Maes Howe with its Viking graffiti. But the whole place is tremendous. Carnyx covers most of the "must sees" but I would add the Italian chapel - a Nissen hut turned into a church by Italian POWs.
I'd forgotten about that. But that combines nicely with a trip to see the Churchill Barriers (which the Italians were building, as it happens).
Based on a recent trip to Orkney my main advice is get a car. The usual bus tours aren't running because of Covid. Cycling isn't great due to wind. You have to book the inter island ferries a day in advance and if you want to go to the archaeological sites, you need to book a timeslot. It is a wonderful place - could easily do 3 weeks here, it is like a small scandinavian country, which of course it once was.
16,700 cases, 21 deaths, 204 admissions, 1,533 in hospital. Admissions are actually down week on week.
Have updated that multicoloured graph of mine. Hospital admissions are going at literally half the rate they were just five weeks ago. Of course, there could always be a big surge coming, but it's looking a lot better hospital-wise than I'd have anticipated when this surge began.
Thanks for sharing. Groupthink is a fascinating psychological phenomena from a team dynamic perspective. It is particularly dangerous when conformity of thinking is combined with weak leadership. It is particularly worrying for our political parties and system of government.
The antidote to groupthink (paradoxically for wokists and , anti-woke warriors alike) is genuine diversity of thought and strong, good quality leadership that is able to recognise groupthink and challenge it. Our party system seems to be moving in the opposite direction.
Don't hold your breath folks!
I completely agree with you Nigel.
Some people are just unwilling to countenance those who have sincerely held differing opinions to them.
Its not healthy by any means. Only through intellectual challenge and free thought do bad ideas get identified and dismissed, otherwise they ossify into shibboleths.
I listened to an interesting interview with Big Dom's favourite "rationalist" philosopher the other week. She made a really striking point. In her field, she stated the convention is that every argument somebody makes is treated as coming from a good place, with honest intensions and presumed to have merit and thus you should start your discussion / argument from that assumption. And that both parties are willing to discuss both sides openly, with the ultimate desire to find the best position.
And the interviewer said, but what if somebody is a bad faith actor. And she sighed and said, well it falls down....and does that happen...sigh, when I started no, not much, now, yes....
It really, really annoys me when people doubt others' good faith.
I've got a holiday in the Orkney islands planed, for 4 July will I still be able to go? or will they start to lockdown again?
P.S. any top tips for things to see in the Orkney islands?
Nava/mil history - Lyness base, maybe a boat tour with camera on a string for the sunken German fleet if that is up and running, some stuff in Stromness Museum. Also Churchill barriers. Mediaeval - Kirkwall cathedral, the two palaces, Stromness town Archaeological - wall to wall but specials include the Maes Howe/Borgar/Stenness complex in central Mainland. Have a look at the Historic Scotland website for some other ideas of sites. Tomn of the Eagles on South Ronaldsay is I think privately owned. Scenic - Yesnaby, Kitchener Monument, walk around coast from Stromness town round to Breckness, for instance Cultural - two farmhouse longhouse museums in Mainland when I last went
The abvoe is the Mainland plus cuaseway connexted islands plus Hoy (ferry). Of the smaller nothern islands, I like Westray very much - castle, scenic Noss Head for birdies, general ambience, golf course (not exactly the R&A, no idea if still there - Papa Westray is the one with the v. ancient houses.
Food etc - try bere bannocks, and the local whisky, Highland Park being one of my favourite breweries, Scapa is also worth a taste if available
Tourist Info office on Kirkwall.Stromness definitely worth talkign to. When I was there there was a ghood bookshop[ in Stromness with lots of local stuff.
May have to save it for another year, mind.
Orkney is wonderful. I was particularly struck by Maes Howe with its Viking graffiti. But the whole place is tremendous. Carnyx covers most of the "must sees" but I would add the Italian chapel - a Nissen hut turned into a church by Italian POWs.
I'd forgotten about that. But that combines nicely with a trip to see the Churchill Barriers (which the Italians were building, as it happens).
Based on a recent trip to Orkney my main advice is get a car. The usual bus tours aren't running because of Covid. Cycling isn't great due to wind. You have to book the inter island ferries a day in advance and if you want to go to the archaeological sites, you need to book a timeslot. It is a wonderful place - could easily do 3 weeks here, it is like a small scandinavian country, which of course it once was.
Thanks, yes we are driving up, and taking the car ferry, visiting a few friends and relatives on the way up (But not in Manchester!!!). Didn't know you had to book time slots so I will be doing that soon, and thanks fall all the suggestions, PB is great for lots of things, but its ability to suggest holiday activates is extra bonuses.
Good context for case numbers - growth driven by new areas moving out of the pack underneath the line, but an increasing number of the bubbles which were already at high case levels are moving above the line (declining numbers).
I suppose you could say that this pandemic has always been the aggregation of lots of little local epidemics, but it's a point that is often forgotten. More so in the UK (except the devolved administrations) where we have a much more centralised narrative, identity and media than say the US which really is a place with 50 separate epidemics each with its own dynamics.
NEW: Portugal suspends lifting of coronavirus restrictions as new cases continue to rise, fueled by the Delta variant
I think Spain might be on the turn with infections. These are today's Andalucian data. I live in Almeria! It has 3 health districts. In mine there were just 6 new cases today. Currently there are no signs of any upswing at all. I'm due my second jab in 3 weeks! :0
The mask slips.....as we know to EU bods, such an arrangement just isn't sufficient.
No mask. The EU bods never intended for the EU to be that.
It was only British politicians and Remainers who were adamant the EU was just a trade bloc etc despite Europeans being keen for that not to be what it was.
It's why Britain was in hindsight fundamentally unsuitable for Europe. All the talk of two speeds etc never worked, either people should have got on board with the full project or got off the train.
We eventually did the right thing and I hope the Dutch etc can now do the right thing for them without us in their way. Good luck to them. But yes the Hungarians should be expelled, but I don't think they can be. No idea how they fix that mess.
I thought they'd said Windows 10 would be the last version? And it'd be just updates from there?
The general rule with Windows is that every other version is good, every other one is crap. So Windows 11 is scheduled to be the shit one.
I don't know if that was marketing spin that got out of control. Even at the time there seemed to be contradictory statements from different Microsoft people.
It looks like Windows 11 has some nice additions e.g. run Android apps natively.
Windows 11 will be a free update for previous Windows users, but it does require to be online for Home versions and will require a Microsoft account when installing/upgrading your PC or tablet.
If Galloway beats Keith (Which I think is well possible) is he done for ?
100% will be a leadership challenge. Labour tearing chunks out of each other will be another reminder why they shouldn't be in power. Burnham might flirt with having a go saying he has to think about the Nation as a whole before he runs away from his Manchester Mayoral job. Angela Rayner might well throw her hat in the ring too, she has no reason for loyalty to Sir Keith.
I have no particular desire to see a Labour government, but Tories should stop gloating and being so complacent. They have a clown for a leader, and they just lost one of their safest seats to the Libs. Sir "Keith" as you strangely like to refer to him as, may well show resilience and have the last laugh. Stranger things have happened. A week is a long time...etc.
I'd like to see a decent electable opposition but we are where we are. I'm sure we can all find plenty of gloating posts from you 12 months ago about how the very 'forensic' Sir Keith would make mincemeat out of the PM. I'm still waiting for that to materialise.
Chesham & Amersham is a wake up call for Boris but if he wins Batley & Spen to go with Hartlepool it's an incredible return for any PM 2 years in and any party 11 years in - of that there is little doubt. But Batley is very much still up for grabs IMO.
No gloating posts from me I am afraid. I am a trad right of centre Tory, which is why I dislike Johnson so much. However, I think Starmer has made mincemeat out of Johnson at PMQs, but then so would a person from a sixth form debating team (probably the reserve team) . Johnson is shit, except, it would seem, at convincing the more gullible that he is a leader. That last bit he appears good at, along with bedding gullible women. Maybe there is a similarity.
I am sure the millions of 'gullible ' Conservative voters are aghast at losing your good opinion. I know I am absolutely bereft.
Thanks @felix, I had heard that was the case. I have heard they felt my pain, and indeed reflected it in a recent by-election due to my persuasive posting on PB.
seriously though, not all Conservative voters are gullible. At the last GE they had a choice between dumb and dumber and they chose "dumb". Conservative Party members on the other hand....
Breaking: France joins Germany by insisting that all passenger arrivals from the UK must quarantine — even if they have been fully vaccinated — amid fears over the rise of the ‘Delta’ variant. #COVID19
Breaking: France joins Germany by insisting that all passenger arrivals from the UK must quarantine — even if they have been fully vaccinated — amid fears over the rise of the ‘Delta’ variant. #COVID19
I'm watching a lot more YouTube since lockdown began. You can just nerd out on any subject you want, it's amazing. To be fair to the BBC, ITN, etc, they just don't have the time to go into this level of detail, and it is detail that would probably see a lot of people switching off pretty quickly.
But we are very fortunate to have YouTube.
And may I also give an honourable mention to these guys, going from strength to strength: https://www.historyhit.com/
Yes, plopping 20 minutes on a fringe player into the middle of MotD is unlikely.
Like many, I do watch a lot of Youtube videos and the content on some channels is excellent, apart from the production values. FFS "take two" to re-record a couple of minutes rather than just flash an apology on screen!
I thought they'd said Windows 10 would be the last version? And it'd be just updates from there?
The general rule with Windows is that every other version is good, every other one is crap. So Windows 11 is scheduled to be the shit one.
Windows 3 is far more memorable than 2 or 4. 7 was really good.
I think your Star Trek brain is taking control.
(May be a gap with 4-6)
Good: Win 3.11 was my first version, it was good.
Bad (ish): Win 95 got a lot of attention, but largely a pretty shell. To get many things done, to load games etc you had to go back into DOS. A good first attempt at what it was so the possible exception to the rule but it had a lot of flaws.
Good: Win 98 was good. A polished working version of what Win 95 was meant to be.
Bad: Win ME was a disappointment. Better off forgotten.
Good: Win XP was great. Best version of Windows ever possibly.
Bad: Win Vista was a disappointment.
Good: Win 7 as you said.
Bad: Win 8. Kill it with fire. Nuke from orbit, its the only way to be sure
Good: Win 10 (which skipped past Win 9, so awful was Win 8).
Yes it is good, as it that it is still going up, but as somebody else pointed out on last thread, this is from people who have chosen to donate blode, so will a full sample, I am no expert, but would think that if you have an immune deficiency, that meant you could not have a vaccine, then you are probably not going to be donating blode, so true number may be less.
And why the hell cant I, or the spell checker spell Blode, errrrrr (the red liquid stuff in all of us,) perhaps windows 11 will help?!?!
I'm watching a lot more YouTube since lockdown began. You can just nerd out on any subject you want, it's amazing. To be fair to the BBC, ITN, etc, they just don't have the time to go into this level of detail, and it is detail that would probably see a lot of people switching off pretty quickly.
But we are very fortunate to have YouTube.
And may I also give an honourable mention to these guys, going from strength to strength: https://www.historyhit.com/
Yes, plopping 20 minutes on a fringe player into the middle of MotD is unlikely.
Like many, I do watch a lot of Youtube videos and the content on some channels is excellent, apart from the production values. FFS "take two" to re-record a couple of minutes rather than just flash an apology on screen!
That isn't the point. Within the 20 mins, in 3 mins they clearly explain the general England tactical approach for the Euros so far. You really don't get that on BBC / ITV, it doesn't stretch much before 4-3-4, get it wide, hit it long, show some pace, stretch the play.
On the tv coverage they all went ohhhhh didn't Philips have an amazing game against Croatia, what a player. The Athletic actually explained there was a lot more to it, Sterling and Foden off the ball dragged players wide, the defenders arranged themselves into particular formations which required opposition players to press, and this allowed Philips a space in a more advanced position. Yes he had a good game, but it was only possible due to a number of moving parts, which you don't see from the cameras covering the play.
In EU capitals, suspicion is growing that PM Boris Johnson signed the Withdrawal Agreement and the Northern Ireland Protocol simply to get elected and get Brexit over the line—then, create a fuss over the detailed provisions and try to get a better deal
Since I highly doubt we'll reach 90%, that's an incredible achievement. Must be extremely close to being finished now.
I'm curious what percentage of adults other nations that have peaked like Israel or USA have achieved?
And no sign of slowing down yet. We'll be over 85% by this time next week, although I agree that getting to 90% will either be very slow or never be reached.
You can see how we compare as a % of total population with first doses here. We have just overtaken Israel, comfortably ahead of the US (despite them vaccinating down to 12+), but behind Canada.
The EU is still vaccinating at a good pace, but I'd be surprised if they ever catch up given previous surveys on vaccine hesitancy. Although the quicker countries like Germany are already close to overtaking the US.
Breaking: France joins Germany by insisting that all passenger arrivals from the UK must quarantine — even if they have been fully vaccinated — amid fears over the rise of the ‘Delta’ variant. #COVID19
I've got a holiday in the Orkney islands planed, for 4 July will I still be able to go? or will they start to lockdown again?
P.S. any top tips for things to see in the Orkney islands?
Nava/mil history - Lyness base, maybe a boat tour with camera on a string for the sunken German fleet if that is up and running, some stuff in Stromness Museum. Also Churchill barriers. Mediaeval - Kirkwall cathedral, the two palaces, Stromness town Archaeological - wall to wall but specials include the Maes Howe/Borgar/Stenness complex in central Mainland. Have a look at the Historic Scotland website for some other ideas of sites. Tomn of the Eagles on South Ronaldsay is I think privately owned. Scenic - Yesnaby, Kitchener Monument, walk around coast from Stromness town round to Breckness, for instance Cultural - two farmhouse longhouse museums in Mainland when I last went
The abvoe is the Mainland plus cuaseway connexted islands plus Hoy (ferry). Of the smaller nothern islands, I like Westray very much - castle, scenic Noss Head for birdies, general ambience, golf course (not exactly the R&A, no idea if still there - Papa Westray is the one with the v. ancient houses.
Food etc - try bere bannocks, and the local whisky, Highland Park being one of my favourite breweries, Scapa is also worth a taste if available
Tourist Info office on Kirkwall.Stromness definitely worth talkign to. When I was there there was a ghood bookshop[ in Stromness with lots of local stuff.
May have to save it for another year, mind.
Tomb of the Eagles is permanently shut.
The St Magnus cathedral in Kirkwall is essential, as is Maes Howe and Skara Brae and all the other big prehistoric sites.
The mask slips.....as we know to EU bods, such an arrangement just isn't sufficient.
No mask. The EU bods never intended for the EU to be that.
It was only British politicians and Remainers who were adamant the EU was just a trade bloc etc despite Europeans being keen for that not to be what it was.
It's why Britain was in hindsight fundamentally unsuitable for Europe. All the talk of two speeds etc never worked, either people should have got on board with the full project or got off the train.
We eventually did the right thing and I hope the Dutch etc can now do the right thing for them without us in their way. Good luck to them. But yes the Hungarians should be expelled, but I don't think they can be. No idea how they fix that mess.
Some truth, but not entirely correct Philip. European citizens' understanding on what the EU is and what it is for varies enormously from country to country and person to person. Eastern Europeans are quite Eurosceptic though rarely see the point in leaving, which is quite healthy IMO, whereas some older Germans and Benelux folk really do believe in "ever closer union". The Brexiteer caricature of the EU of a uniform opinion is not one recognised by most Europeans. Most French feel no less French and the Germans feel no less German, and the odd person sees themself as "European first", but none of them have ever pretended it is just a trading block and neither has anyone who has any knowledge of the subject.
Breaking: France joins Germany by insisting that all passenger arrivals from the UK must quarantine — even if they have been fully vaccinated — amid fears over the rise of the ‘Delta’ variant. #COVID19
If I was an EU country I would indeed be closing my borders to the U.K. right now.
(As we should have, to India, much earlier).
Funny though that Brexity types get shirty about it. That’s the actual mask slipping right there, just angry nativism.
Not really - for one thing it's way too late as the Delta variant is already very well seeded. There is also no unanimity of approach at the moment. All they are likley to achieve is to piss off the tourist industry even more.
I thought they'd said Windows 10 would be the last version? And it'd be just updates from there?
The general rule with Windows is that every other version is good, every other one is crap. So Windows 11 is scheduled to be the shit one.
Windows 3 is far more memorable than 2 or 4. 7 was really good.
I think your Star Trek brain is taking control.
(May be a gap with 4-6)
Good: Win 3.11 was my first version, it was good.
Bad (ish): Win 95 got a lot of attention, but largely a pretty shell. To get many things done, to load games etc you had to go back into DOS. A good first attempt at what it was so the possible exception to the rule but it had a lot of flaws.
Good: Win 98 was good. A polished working version of what Win 95 was meant to be.
Bad: Win ME was a disappointment. Better off forgotten.
Good: Win XP was great. Best version of Windows ever possibly.
Bad: Win Vista was a disappointment.
Good: Win 7 as you said.
Bad: Win 8. Kill it with fire. Nuke from orbit, its the only way to be sure
Good: Win 10 (which skipped past Win 9, so awful was Win 8).
The trend is not looking good for Win 11.
I think I experimented with Windows 1, certainly actually used 2. Before that I used Microsoft's Flight Sim on an Apple II computer ( I have to confess I didn't pay for it, but I have payed for all of their products that I've used since).
In EU capitals, suspicion is growing that PM Boris Johnson signed the Withdrawal Agreement and the Northern Ireland Protocol simply to get elected and get Brexit over the line—then, create a fuss over the detailed provisions and try to get a better deal
I've got a holiday in the Orkney islands planed, for 4 July will I still be able to go? or will they start to lockdown again?
P.S. any top tips for things to see in the Orkney islands?
Nava/mil history - Lyness base, maybe a boat tour with camera on a string for the sunken German fleet if that is up and running, some stuff in Stromness Museum. Also Churchill barriers. Mediaeval - Kirkwall cathedral, the two palaces, Stromness town Archaeological - wall to wall but specials include the Maes Howe/Borgar/Stenness complex in central Mainland. Have a look at the Historic Scotland website for some other ideas of sites. Tomn of the Eagles on South Ronaldsay is I think privately owned. Scenic - Yesnaby, Kitchener Monument, walk around coast from Stromness town round to Breckness, for instance Cultural - two farmhouse longhouse museums in Mainland when I last went
The abvoe is the Mainland plus cuaseway connexted islands plus Hoy (ferry). Of the smaller nothern islands, I like Westray very much - castle, scenic Noss Head for birdies, general ambience, golf course (not exactly the R&A, no idea if still there - Papa Westray is the one with the v. ancient houses.
Food etc - try bere bannocks, and the local whisky, Highland Park being one of my favourite breweries, Scapa is also worth a taste if available
Tourist Info office on Kirkwall.Stromness definitely worth talkign to. When I was there there was a ghood bookshop[ in Stromness with lots of local stuff.
May have to save it for another year, mind.
Tomb of the Eagles is permanently shut.
The St Magnus cathedral in Kirkwall is essential, as is Maes Howe and Skara Brae and all the other big prehistoric sites.
In EU capitals, suspicion is growing that PM Boris Johnson signed the Withdrawal Agreement and the Northern Ireland Protocol simply to get elected and get Brexit over the line—then, create a fuss over the detailed provisions and try to get a better deal
As you say, are bears Catholic? Does the Pope shit in the woods?
This was essayed a week or so on here and this is absolutely what Boris (and Frost) did. He never meant to uphold the provisions of the NIP in full, and there’s actually not that much the EU can now do about it.
He lied to the Northern Irish, he lied to the DUP, he lied to the EU, and lied to you and me.
I thought they'd said Windows 10 would be the last version? And it'd be just updates from there?
The general rule with Windows is that every other version is good, every other one is crap. So Windows 11 is scheduled to be the shit one.
Windows 3 is far more memorable than 2 or 4. 7 was really good.
I think your Star Trek brain is taking control.
(May be a gap with 4-6)
Good: Win 3.11 was my first version, it was good.
Bad (ish): Win 95 got a lot of attention, but largely a pretty shell. To get many things done, to load games etc you had to go back into DOS. A good first attempt at what it was so the possible exception to the rule but it had a lot of flaws.
Good: Win 98 was good. A polished working version of what Win 95 was meant to be.
Bad: Win ME was a disappointment. Better off forgotten.
Good: Win XP was great. Best version of Windows ever possibly.
Bad: Win Vista was a disappointment.
Good: Win 7 as you said.
Bad: Win 8. Kill it with fire. Nuke from orbit, its the only way to be sure
Good: Win 10 (which skipped past Win 9, so awful was Win 8).
The trend is not looking good for Win 11.
Trivia: the reason Microsoft skipped Windows 9 was to avoid confusing old apps that would only check that far in the name and assume they were on Windows 95 or 98.
The "great" Windows XP, which followed, was the first to be based on the NT architecture.
I thought they'd said Windows 10 would be the last version? And it'd be just updates from there?
The general rule with Windows is that every other version is good, every other one is crap. So Windows 11 is scheduled to be the shit one.
Windows 3 is far more memorable than 2 or 4. 7 was really good.
I think your Star Trek brain is taking control.
(May be a gap with 4-6)
Good: Win 3.11 was my first version, it was good.
Bad (ish): Win 95 got a lot of attention, but largely a pretty shell. To get many things done, to load games etc you had to go back into DOS. A good first attempt at what it was so the possible exception to the rule but it had a lot of flaws.
Good: Win 98 was good. A polished working version of what Win 95 was meant to be.
Bad: Win ME was a disappointment. Better off forgotten.
Good: Win XP was great. Best version of Windows ever possibly.
Bad: Win Vista was a disappointment.
Good: Win 7 as you said.
Bad: Win 8. Kill it with fire. Nuke from orbit, its the only way to be sure
Good: Win 10 (which skipped past Win 9, so awful was Win 8).
The trend is not looking good for Win 11.
I think I experimented with Windows 1, certainly actually used 2. Before that I used Microsoft's Flight Sim on an Apple II computer ( I have to confess I didn't pay for it, but I have payed for all of their products that I've used since).
No idea what versions 1 and 2 are like, or if they fit the pattern that the ones that followed it have done.
Do you agree with my alternation from 3.11 to 10 being alternatively good and bad/disappointing?
Or at least alternating from 98 as I'm not sure if its universally agreed that 95 was problematic.
I can't think of anyone who says anything positive about ME, Vista or 8.
Thanks for sharing. Groupthink is a fascinating psychological phenomena from a team dynamic perspective. It is particularly dangerous when conformity of thinking is combined with weak leadership. It is particularly worrying for our political parties and system of government.
The antidote to groupthink (paradoxically for wokists and , anti-woke warriors alike) is genuine diversity of thought and strong, good quality leadership that is able to recognise groupthink and challenge it. Our party system seems to be moving in the opposite direction.
Don't hold your breath folks!
I completely agree with you Nigel.
Some people are just unwilling to countenance those who have sincerely held differing opinions to them.
Its not healthy by any means. Only through intellectual challenge and free thought do bad ideas get identified and dismissed, otherwise they ossify into shibboleths.
I listened to an interesting interview with Big Dom's favourite "rationalist" philosopher the other week. She made a really striking point. In her field, she stated the convention is that every argument somebody makes is treated as coming from a good place, with honest intensions and presumed to have merit and thus you should start your discussion / argument from that assumption. And that both parties are willing to discuss both sides openly, with the ultimate desire to find the best position.
And the interviewer said, but what if somebody is a bad faith actor. And she sighed and said, well it falls down....and does that happen...sigh, when I started no, not much, now, yes....
It really, really annoys me when people doubt others' good faith.
The abuse of the "assumption of good faith" is a very deep subject.
"Great figures on @GBNEWS Andrew Neil show last night. Number one in time slot (again). Three times audience of Sky News. 26% more than BBC News Channel. And we’ve only just begun."
In EU capitals, suspicion is growing that PM Boris Johnson signed the Withdrawal Agreement and the Northern Ireland Protocol simply to get elected and get Brexit over the line—then, create a fuss over the detailed provisions and try to get a better deal
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said he expects to stop wearing a mask "as soon as possible" after it is no longer legally required in England.
Spain is relaxing the mask rule on Saturday - although the detail shows you have to have one ready to wear in shops, transport, bar/restaurant entrances, outside if social distance not feasible... the list goes on and on. Basically you don't have to wear it if you're alone on a beach or in the campo!
I thought they'd said Windows 10 would be the last version? And it'd be just updates from there?
The general rule with Windows is that every other version is good, every other one is crap. So Windows 11 is scheduled to be the shit one.
Windows 3 is far more memorable than 2 or 4. 7 was really good.
I think your Star Trek brain is taking control.
(May be a gap with 4-6)
Good: Win 3.11 was my first version, it was good.
Bad (ish): Win 95 got a lot of attention, but largely a pretty shell. To get many things done, to load games etc you had to go back into DOS. A good first attempt at what it was so the possible exception to the rule but it had a lot of flaws.
Good: Win 98 was good. A polished working version of what Win 95 was meant to be.
Bad: Win ME was a disappointment. Better off forgotten.
Good: Win XP was great. Best version of Windows ever possibly.
Bad: Win Vista was a disappointment.
Good: Win 7 as you said.
Bad: Win 8. Kill it with fire. Nuke from orbit, its the only way to be sure
Good: Win 10 (which skipped past Win 9, so awful was Win 8).
The trend is not looking good for Win 11.
Trivia: the reason Microsoft skipped Windows 9 was to avoid confusing old apps that would only check that far in the name and assume they were on Windows 95 or 98.
The "great" Windows XP, which followed, was the first to be based on the NT architecture.
Indeed. I knew that, but the supposed reason that they skipped 9 because 8 was crap is more amusing. 😉
I assume 95 is Windows 4, but I'm not sure which of 98, ME, XP and Vista are meant to be 5 and 6.
Breaking: France joins Germany by insisting that all passenger arrivals from the UK must quarantine — even if they have been fully vaccinated — amid fears over the rise of the ‘Delta’ variant. #COVID19
Actually, they’re doing us a favour - keeping us out of that Petri dish otherwise known as “EU Summer 2021”!
Thought it was coming.
Boris waiting till he knew it was all a moot point before opening up travel from the UK side??
Very political.
I haven't been through the numbers yet to compare, however briefly if 15% (reported rate) of German cases are Delta, and it takes 10 days to get the data, that is 400 a day as of 10 days ago.
Suspect that whether they get any from here is just noise. Delta in Germany does not need any help from here.
They need to worry about the enforced open borders of the Schengen Area.
If I was an EU country I would indeed be closing my borders to the U.K. right now.
(As we should have, to India, much earlier).
Funny though that Brexity types get shirty about it. That’s the actual mask slipping right there, just angry nativism.
It's probably already taken root in those countries, although hopefully, levels of vaccination will ensure that - as here - the impact is not severe/
It does appear that timing has been against us, and the Europeans have got lucky (though Covid makes a mockery of such assertions).
Not sure about the luck thing. In Spain there are many millions under 40 still to receive one shot, 60% of 60-69 years olds still awaiting a second shot and numerous other anomalies. The next 6 weeks or so could be difficult even without a single foreign tourist. The Spanish love intergenerational big fasmily holidays together.
Went to a bar. Absolute toss. Socially distanced queueing, before being escorted to socially distanced tables.
Then order drinks by app.
What’s the point?
Covid theatre.
Afraid to say I rather like the ordering drinks by app. No need to break up the flow of chat by someone having to disappear to the bar to queue for ten minutes.
Of course I realise this probably means the pub is losing money, so not a long term good idea. Unless some places keep it and up their prices to pay for it.
I thought they'd said Windows 10 would be the last version? And it'd be just updates from there?
The general rule with Windows is that every other version is good, every other one is crap. So Windows 11 is scheduled to be the shit one.
Windows 3 is far more memorable than 2 or 4. 7 was really good.
I think your Star Trek brain is taking control.
(May be a gap with 4-6)
Good: Win 3.11 was my first version, it was good.
Bad (ish): Win 95 got a lot of attention, but largely a pretty shell. To get many things done, to load games etc you had to go back into DOS. A good first attempt at what it was so the possible exception to the rule but it had a lot of flaws.
Good: Win 98 was good. A polished working version of what Win 95 was meant to be.
Bad: Win ME was a disappointment. Better off forgotten.
Good: Win XP was great. Best version of Windows ever possibly.
Bad: Win Vista was a disappointment.
Good: Win 7 as you said.
Bad: Win 8. Kill it with fire. Nuke from orbit, its the only way to be sure
Good: Win 10 (which skipped past Win 9, so awful was Win 8).
The trend is not looking good for Win 11.
I think I experimented with Windows 1, certainly actually used 2. Before that I used Microsoft's Flight Sim on an Apple II computer ( I have to confess I didn't pay for it, but I have payed for all of their products that I've used since).
No idea what versions 1 and 2 are like, or if they fit the pattern that the ones that followed it have done.
Do you agree with my alternation from 3.11 to 10 being alternatively good and bad/disappointing?
Or at least alternating from 98 as I'm not sure if its universally agreed that 95 was problematic.
I can't think of anyone who says anything positive about ME, Vista or 8.
Win 1 and 2 were sort of interesting. They allowed you to run more than one program at a time. There were other programs that allowed you to do that, but they were basically just a complete suspension rather than parallel execution. (Under the hood windows is very cool)
I don't agree with the alternation, but I'd certainly agree there's bad mixed in with the good, and clearly it's been mostly good.
If Galloway beats Keith (Which I think is well possible) is he done for ?
100% will be a leadership challenge. Labour tearing chunks out of each other will be another reminder why they shouldn't be in power. Burnham might flirt with having a go saying he has to think about the Nation as a whole before he runs away from his Manchester Mayoral job. Angela Rayner might well throw her hat in the ring too, she has no reason for loyalty to Sir Keith.
I have no particular desire to see a Labour government, but Tories should stop gloating and being so complacent. They have a clown for a leader, and they just lost one of their safest seats to the Libs. Sir "Keith" as you strangely like to refer to him as, may well show resilience and have the last laugh. Stranger things have happened. A week is a long time...etc.
I'd like to see a decent electable opposition but we are where we are. I'm sure we can all find plenty of gloating posts from you 12 months ago about how the very 'forensic' Sir Keith would make mincemeat out of the PM. I'm still waiting for that to materialise.
Chesham & Amersham is a wake up call for Boris but if he wins Batley & Spen to go with Hartlepool it's an incredible return for any PM 2 years in and any party 11 years in - of that there is little doubt. But Batley is very much still up for grabs IMO.
No gloating posts from me I am afraid. I am a trad right of centre Tory, which is why I dislike Johnson so much. However, I think Starmer has made mincemeat out of Johnson at PMQs, but then so would a person from a sixth form debating team (probably the reserve team) . Johnson is shit, except, it would seem, at convincing the more gullible that he is a leader. That last bit he appears good at, along with bedding gullible women. Maybe there is a similarity.
Not even that, really. The story of 2020 was a gradual but relentless shift of voters from the blue to the red column. And given the time sequence, I think we can be confident that was a real effect, rather than random polling noise.
Then the vaccines happened, and the stone SKS had been rolling up the hill rolled straight back down again. Not much to do with Bozza, but he's in the big chair and gets the credit.
So the questions are: 1 Which is more representative- Dame Bingham's brilliance at vaccine procurement, or almost everything else the government does? 2 How long can the PM continue to use vaccination as his excuse not to talk about anything else? 3 Following the success of War on France to secure the May elections, who's next?
The next one needs to be Law on France, and getting a secretariat in place to make this Brexit thing work long-term.
What is it with invermectin and antivaxxers ? It might or might not be a therapeutic for Covid, the jury seems out on that one. But almost every single person on twitter that mentions/pushes it has one of those fucking smiley faces or pink flowers - and look a bit further into their profile and it's all nUrEmBeRg CoDe / gov'ts doing a depopulation via vaccines shite. The only sane person I know that seems to want to look into invermectin and is definitely NOT an antivaxxer is Dr John Campbell on Youtube. But the majority of advocates on twitter are just absolutely nuts.
Breaking: France joins Germany by insisting that all passenger arrivals from the UK must quarantine — even if they have been fully vaccinated — amid fears over the rise of the ‘Delta’ variant. #COVID19
Actually, they’re doing us a favour - keeping us out of that Petri dish otherwise known as “EU Summer 2021”!
Thought it was coming.
Boris waiting till he knew it was all a moot point before opening up travel from the UK side??
Very political.
I haven't been through the numbers yet to compare, however briefly if 15% (reported rate) of German cases are Delta, and it takes 10 days to get the data, that is 400 a day as of 10 days ago.
Suspect that whether they get any from here is just noise. Delta in Germany does not need any help from here.
They need to worry about the enforced open borders of the Schengen Area.
In Germany cases are still dropping 48% WoW, I'm not saying they will not rise, just no sine if it yet.
I'm not saying this is the case, but could it be that the Delta variant, is 'optimised' to transmit best in young lungs? in which case our policy of strictly going form oldest to youngest, is working against us at this stage, compared to many EU nations which have been vaccinating some young 18 year olds for many weeks now, so will have built up immunity and may even have had there second jab?
In EU capitals, suspicion is growing that PM Boris Johnson signed the Withdrawal Agreement and the Northern Ireland Protocol simply to get elected and get Brexit over the line—then, create a fuss over the detailed provisions and try to get a better deal
As you say, are bears Catholic? Does the Pope shit in the woods?
This was essayed a week or so on here and this is absolutely what Boris (and Frost) did. He never meant to uphold the provisions of the NIP in full, and there’s actually not that much the EU can now do about it.
He lied to the Northern Irish, he lied to the DUP, he lied to the EU, and lied to you and me.
To be fair he did effectively say he would do this during the General Election campaign, and a lot of people laughed and said he didn't understand what he'd signed.
Breaking: France joins Germany by insisting that all passenger arrivals from the UK must quarantine — even if they have been fully vaccinated — amid fears over the rise of the ‘Delta’ variant. #COVID19
Actually, they’re doing us a favour - keeping us out of that Petri dish otherwise known as “EU Summer 2021”!
Thought it was coming.
Boris waiting till he knew it was all a moot point before opening up travel from the UK side??
Very political.
I haven't been through the numbers yet to compare, however briefly if 15% (reported rate) of German cases are Delta, and it takes 10 days to get the data, that is 400 a day as of 10 days ago.
Suspect that whether they get any from here is just noise. Delta in Germany does not need any help from here.
They need to worry about the enforced open borders of the Schengen Area.
It is quite an amusing turn of events in a black humour sort of way. For years the British press and some politicians have blamed everything on the EU. Now members of the EU have the perfect bogieman to blame when anything goes wrong due to their own incompetence. "it's the UK's fault" says Merkle, and 26 other countries all nod sagely.
What is it with invermectin and antivaxxers ? It might or might not be a therapeutic for Covid, the jury seems out on that one. But almost every single person on twitter that mentions/pushes it has one of those fucking smiley faces or pink flowers - and look a bit further into their profile and it's all nUrEmBeRg CoDe / gov'ts doing a depopulation via vaccines shite. The only sane person I know that seems to want to look into invermectin and is definitely NOT an antivaxxer is Dr John Campbell on Youtube. But the majority of advocates on twitter are just absolutely nuts.
Thankfully there is a proper controlled trial about to start in UK (it was on BBC website yesterday iirc).
We might finally get some data that proves one way or the other.
I suspect anti-vaxxers like it because it is a 'clean' solution that avoids need for any vaccination (in their way of thinking). If covid is curable with a cheap and simple pill why do we need mRNA and all the rest of it? If they are on the more bonkers end of the scale they believe governments are holding invermectin back because Bill Gates has told them they must vaccinate everyone so there can be a world government and so on.
What is it with invermectin and antivaxxers ? It might or might not be a therapeutic for Covid, the jury seems out on that one. But almost every single person on twitter that mentions/pushes it has one of those fucking smiley faces or pink flowers - and look a bit further into their profile and it's all nUrEmBeRg CoDe / gov'ts doing a depopulation via vaccines shite. The only sane person I know that seems to want to look into invermectin and is definitely NOT an antivaxxer is Dr John Campbell on Youtube. But the majority of advocates on twitter are just absolutely nuts.
Them: "It is a conspiracy by big pharm to stop us using a cheap generic."
Me: "What about the studies and recommendation last year to use Dexamethasone which is a cheap generic?"
Classic CNN opinion....yes well violent crime is increasing, probably not best idea to "defund the police"....but the problem is all cos of racism innit, so absolutely the wrong approach is to come down hard on crime.
I think we tend to see things through a very British mindset.
There is a serious problem in the US with the police: in some parts of the US, police forces are overwhelmingly white, yet the people being policed are overwhelmingly not white. And this is mated with (a) easy access to guns, and (b) police training that says it is always safer (for the Officer) to go in with your gun already drawn.
The (extremely well to do) African Americans that I know in America all have tales of being pulled over in the boondocks by the Police on the assumption they stole the vehicle or that they're running a gypsy cap service.
While "defund the police" is clearly not the answer, nor is pretending that there are no problems.
What is it with invermectin and antivaxxers ? It might or might not be a therapeutic for Covid, the jury seems out on that one. But almost every single person on twitter that mentions/pushes it has one of those fucking smiley faces or pink flowers - and look a bit further into their profile and it's all nUrEmBeRg CoDe / gov'ts doing a depopulation via vaccines shite. The only sane person I know that seems to want to look into invermectin and is definitely NOT an antivaxxer is Dr John Campbell on Youtube. But the majority of advocates on twitter are just absolutely nuts.
Thankfully there is a proper controlled trial about to start in UK (it was on BBC website yesterday iirc).
We might finally get some data that proves one way or the other.
I suspect anti-vaxxers like it because it is a 'clean' solution that avoids need for any vaccination (in their way of thinking). If covid is curable with a cheap and simple pill why do we need mRNA and all the rest of it? If they are on the more bonkers end of the scale they believe governments are holding invermectin back because Bill Gates has told them they must vaccinate everyone so there can be a world government and so on.
Oh I hope it very much does work ! But it's a potential tool in the armoury alongside vaccination; shouldn't replace it.
Went to a bar. Absolute toss. Socially distanced queueing, before being escorted to socially distanced tables.
Then order drinks by app.
What’s the point?
Covid theatre.
Afraid to say I rather like the ordering drinks by app. No need to break up the flow of chat by someone having to disappear to the bar to queue for ten minutes.
Of course I realise this probably means the pub is losing money, so not a long term good idea. Unless some places keep it and up their prices to pay for it.
Perhaps they should charge you a delivery charge? Not entirely crazy. Seems preferable to squeezing through hoards of people at a bar, though I would miss using my winning smile at the barmaids to try and convince myself I have still got it!
I'm watching a lot more YouTube since lockdown began. You can just nerd out on any subject you want, it's amazing. To be fair to the BBC, ITN, etc, they just don't have the time to go into this level of detail, and it is detail that would probably see a lot of people switching off pretty quickly.
But we are very fortunate to have YouTube.
And may I also give an honourable mention to these guys, going from strength to strength: https://www.historyhit.com/
Big thumbs up for YouTube although like anything else algorithmical I find it a bit unnerving. Classic wrestling matches, superhero star wars speculation, whisky reviews, weird facts about songs, and now TIFO. I find it weird when it notifies me on my phone!
In EU capitals, suspicion is growing that PM Boris Johnson signed the Withdrawal Agreement and the Northern Ireland Protocol simply to get elected and get Brexit over the line—then, create a fuss over the detailed provisions and try to get a better deal
As you say, are bears Catholic? Does the Pope shit in the woods?
This was essayed a week or so on here and this is absolutely what Boris (and Frost) did. He never meant to uphold the provisions of the NIP in full, and there’s actually not that much the EU can now do about it.
He lied to the Northern Irish, he lied to the DUP, he lied to the EU, and lied to you and me.
To be fair he did effectively say he would do this during the General Election campaign, and a lot of people laughed and said he didn't understand what he'd signed.
Which, let's face it, he didn't. His fanbois will no doubt say it was a stroke of genius.
Breaking: France joins Germany by insisting that all passenger arrivals from the UK must quarantine — even if they have been fully vaccinated — amid fears over the rise of the ‘Delta’ variant. #COVID19
Actually, they’re doing us a favour - keeping us out of that Petri dish otherwise known as “EU Summer 2021”!
Thought it was coming.
Boris waiting till he knew it was all a moot point before opening up travel from the UK side??
Not only has Boris's stupidity in not red-listing India earlier resulted in "Freedom Day" being postponed in the UK he has pretty much guaranteed that nobody else in Europe is going to want to allow us in to their countries either.
What is the f***g point of allowing vaccinated Brits to travel if we can't go anywhere?
To add insult to injury he will turn round and tell us how unreasonable the EU for not letting Brits travel and the usual suspects will wave their union jacks and cheer him on. Boris needs us to be constantly "at war" with the rest of Europe to keep the troops fired up but it will not serve us well.
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https://www.rspb.org.uk/reserves-and-events/reserves-a-z/noup-cliffs/
Good context for case numbers - growth driven by new areas moving out of the pack underneath the line, but an increasing number of the bubbles which were already at high case levels are moving above the line (declining numbers).
Then the vaccines happened, and the stone SKS had been rolling up the hill rolled straight back down again. Not much to do with Bozza, but he's in the big chair and gets the credit.
So the questions are:
1 Which is more representative- Dame Bingham's brilliance at vaccine procurement, or almost everything else the government does?
2 How long can the PM continue to use vaccination as his excuse not to talk about anything else?
3 Following the success of War on France to secure the May elections, who's next?
By the back of an envelope calc, 200,000 ish new jabs a day would be 4,200,000 in 3 weeks, which will take us to about 90% of adults. but will probably attenuate down as we get near the very end.
I think most places are giving % of total population so hard to compare, but its looking good.
For wat its worth, there may be lots of reasons why people are not getting vaccinated.
But I suspect/feel for many the underlying reason, is not the risk of autism, cost or many of the other things mentioned above. I think for some at least its the loss of control: we have all had no chose in now living with COVID, we have had no chose in being locked down, no or little chose in how much risk we are able to take, its all been imposed down on us, and I for one fed up, I think other are too, and one of the few ways to push back and say 'I'm not playing this any more' is to say stick your bloody vaccine up you XXX!
One way to help overcome this IMHO, would be to offer those who have sead no to the Vaccine so for, 'you can have chose which vaccine you would like'
Offer them as many as we could, Physa, Moderna, AZ, but also get some of Jonson and Jonson, the Russian and maybe Chinses ones, and if possible get a few of those others new ones.
Yes I know some of theses are less effective, but all are at lest slightly better than non, and I suspect that by giving them a chose, you will find a promotion will come forward, some may have a phobia about needles and there for the J and J, which only requires one jab, others like Corbyn may love Russia so much they take that. Others may just apricate the that they get to chose and go for Physa, or Morderna.
Don't know how effective this might be overall, but worth a go.
Excellent news.
Hospital admissions are going at literally half the rate they were just five weeks ago.
Of course, there could always be a big surge coming, but it's looking a lot better hospital-wise than I'd have anticipated when this surge began.
The general rule with Windows is that every other version is good, every other one is crap. So Windows 11 is scheduled to be the shit one.
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info on antibody seropositivity:
70-84s: 98.8% (was 98.3%)
60-69s: 98.6% (was 98.4%)
50-59: 98.5% (was 98.3%)
40-49: 93.3% (was 90.0%)
30-39: 68.0% (was 57.5%)
It was only British politicians and Remainers who were adamant the EU was just a trade bloc etc despite Europeans being keen for that not to be what it was.
It's why Britain was in hindsight fundamentally unsuitable for Europe. All the talk of two speeds etc never worked, either people should have got on board with the full project or got off the train.
We eventually did the right thing and I hope the Dutch etc can now do the right thing for them without us in their way. Good luck to them. But yes the Hungarians should be expelled, but I don't think they can be. No idea how they fix that mess.
It looks like Windows 11 has some nice additions e.g. run Android apps natively.
I think your Star Trek brain is taking control.
(May be a gap with 4-6)
YUCK.
seriously though, not all Conservative voters are gullible. At the last GE they had a choice between dumb and dumber and they chose "dumb". Conservative Party members on the other hand....
Breaking: France joins Germany by insisting that all passenger arrivals from the UK must quarantine — even if they have been fully vaccinated — amid fears over the rise of the ‘Delta’ variant. #COVID19
https://twitter.com/alexinair/status/1408091543534280712?s=21
Actually, they’re doing us a favour - keeping us out of that Petri dish otherwise known as “EU Summer 2021”!
Like many, I do watch a lot of Youtube videos and the content on some channels is excellent, apart from the production values. FFS "take two" to re-record a couple of minutes rather than just flash an apology on screen!
Bad (ish): Win 95 got a lot of attention, but largely a pretty shell. To get many things done, to load games etc you had to go back into DOS. A good first attempt at what it was so the possible exception to the rule but it had a lot of flaws.
Good: Win 98 was good. A polished working version of what Win 95 was meant to be.
Bad: Win ME was a disappointment. Better off forgotten.
Good: Win XP was great. Best version of Windows ever possibly.
Bad: Win Vista was a disappointment.
Good: Win 7 as you said.
Bad: Win 8. Kill it with fire. Nuke from orbit, its the only way to be sure
Good: Win 10 (which skipped past Win 9, so awful was Win 8).
The trend is not looking good for Win 11.
(As we should have, to India, much earlier).
Funny though that Brexity types get shirty about it. That’s the actual mask slipping right there, just angry nativism.
And why the hell cant I, or the spell checker spell Blode, errrrrr (the red liquid stuff in all of us,) perhaps windows 11 will help?!?!
On the tv coverage they all went ohhhhh didn't Philips have an amazing game against Croatia, what a player. The Athletic actually explained there was a lot more to it, Sterling and Foden off the ball dragged players wide, the defenders arranged themselves into particular formations which required opposition players to press, and this allowed Philips a space in a more advanced position. Yes he had a good game, but it was only possible due to a number of moving parts, which you don't see from the cameras covering the play.
In EU capitals, suspicion is growing that PM Boris Johnson signed the Withdrawal Agreement and the Northern Ireland Protocol simply to get elected and get Brexit over the line—then, create a fuss over the detailed provisions and try to get a better deal
https://twitter.com/carolinegruyter/status/1407983413622099973?s=21
They should have already been in fact (as should ours earlier). Stable door now.
Delta spreading in the UK isn't an issue because our vaccine has been rolled out. That is not the case in the EU.
I agree with Merkel.
You can see how we compare as a % of total population with first doses here. We have just overtaken Israel, comfortably ahead of the US (despite them vaccinating down to 12+), but behind Canada.
The EU is still vaccinating at a good pace, but I'd be surprised if they ever catch up given previous surveys on vaccine hesitancy. Although the quicker countries like Germany are already close to overtaking the US.
Boris waiting till he knew it was all a moot point before opening up travel from the UK side??
This was essayed a week or so on here and this is absolutely what Boris (and Frost) did. He never meant to uphold the provisions of the NIP in full, and there’s actually not that much the EU can now do about it.
He lied to the Northern Irish, he lied to the DUP, he lied to the EU, and lied to you and me.
The "great" Windows XP, which followed, was the first to be based on the NT architecture.
Do you agree with my alternation from 3.11 to 10 being alternatively good and bad/disappointing?
Or at least alternating from 98 as I'm not sure if its universally agreed that 95 was problematic.
I can't think of anyone who says anything positive about ME, Vista or 8.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/06/delta-variant-triggers-dangerous-new-phase-pandemic
Warns that unvaccinated Africa may be seriously decimated by Delta. I'm thinking low vax Arkansas is also in trouble.
https://twitter.com/afneil/status/1407990077792342016?s=20
Am I missing something, or did he not get elected, with an 80 seat majority, before the final agreement was singed?
* unless you become a prison Island.
I assume 95 is Windows 4, but I'm not sure which of 98, ME, XP and Vista are meant to be 5 and 6.
Went to a bar. Absolute toss. Socially distanced queueing, before being escorted to socially distanced tables.
Then order drinks by app.
What’s the point?
I haven't been through the numbers yet to compare, however briefly if 15% (reported rate) of German cases are Delta, and it takes 10 days to get the data, that is 400 a day as of 10 days ago.
Suspect that whether they get any from here is just noise. Delta in Germany does not need any help from here.
They need to worry about the enforced open borders of the Schengen Area.
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But by June 2022, would be nice to think that I won't be doing *any* news Covid commentary...
Amen to that.
Of course I realise this probably means the pub is losing money, so not a long term good idea. Unless some places keep it and up their prices to pay for it.
I don't agree with the alternation, but I'd certainly agree there's bad mixed in with the good, and clearly it's been mostly good.
I guess 3, 5, 7, 10 are the big versions.
https://www.politico.eu/article/belgium-to-ban-uk-travel-from-saturday/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
It might or might not be a therapeutic for Covid, the jury seems out on that one. But almost every single person on twitter that mentions/pushes it has one of those fucking smiley faces or pink flowers - and look a bit further into their profile and it's all nUrEmBeRg CoDe / gov'ts doing a depopulation via vaccines shite.
The only sane person I know that seems to want to look into invermectin and is definitely NOT an antivaxxer is Dr John Campbell on Youtube. But the majority of advocates on twitter are just absolutely nuts.
I'm not saying this is the case, but could it be that the Delta variant, is 'optimised' to transmit best in young lungs? in which case our policy of strictly going form oldest to youngest, is working against us at this stage, compared to many EU nations which have been vaccinating some young 18 year olds for many weeks now, so will have built up immunity and may even have had there second jab?
Europe is really running the risk of just pushing the problem into Q4.
We might finally get some data that proves one way or the other.
I suspect anti-vaxxers like it because it is a 'clean' solution that avoids need for any vaccination (in their way of thinking). If covid is curable with a cheap and simple pill why do we need mRNA and all the rest of it? If they are on the more bonkers end of the scale they believe governments are holding invermectin back because Bill Gates has told them they must vaccinate everyone so there can be a world government and so on.
Me: "What about the studies and recommendation last year to use Dexamethasone which is a cheap generic?"
Them: *absolute fucking silence*
There is a serious problem in the US with the police: in some parts of the US, police forces are overwhelmingly white, yet the people being policed are overwhelmingly not white. And this is mated with (a) easy access to guns, and (b) police training that says it is always safer (for the Officer) to go in with your gun already drawn.
The (extremely well to do) African Americans that I know in America all have tales of being pulled over in the boondocks by the Police on the assumption they stole the vehicle or that they're running a gypsy cap service.
While "defund the police" is clearly not the answer, nor is pretending that there are no problems.
But it's a potential tool in the armoury alongside vaccination; shouldn't replace it.
That's the nature of treaties generally.
I think the EU should go through the process of expelling them, simply because either the treaties mean what they say, or they don't.
Do we place any restrictions on travel *from* here, do you know?
I am trying to get at whether we already severely limit travel to the continent.
What is the f***g point of allowing vaccinated Brits to travel if we can't go anywhere?
To add insult to injury he will turn round and tell us how unreasonable the EU for not letting Brits travel and the usual suspects will wave their union jacks and cheer him on. Boris needs us to be constantly "at war" with the rest of Europe to keep the troops fired up but it will not serve us well.