Trawling for 'bent welfare scroungers' is a lot easier to spin than going after hard-working taxpayers. But sure as eggs the data will be quietly made available to HMRC and any other department that … (View Post)
Of all the shit things this government has done, this is one of the worst. It's being dressed up as a way to fight fraud, but it's not because everyone is going to be caught up. DWP gets a report fro… (View Post)
They only pay if you are caring for someone at least 35 hours per week - enough that you can't possibly also hold down a full-time job. On a per-hour basis carers get paid substantially less than the… (View Post)
Signed. One of my neighbours is a carer who lives in terror of the DWP finding out she sells some craft type trinkets on Etsy to get enough money to actually pay the bills. Carers do a grindingly dif… (View Post)
ASICs aren't nearly as prevalent in defence applications as they used to be, FPGAs have mostly taken over that segment now. An off-the-shelf FPGA with a $5000 sticker price that can be updated in the… (View Post)