Except I don't see how that applies in this case. Stay or leave -- it's not the bank's call. But if politicians are putting leaving the EU on the table, even as an empty gesture, then naturally the bank has to start thinking about contingency plans. That's just common sense, even if you think the very idea of leaving the EU is mad.

It's also common sense to keep that on the DL to prevent misguided overreaction to what is after all still a hypothetical scenario. The Bank of England a central bank and so people must be constantly scrutinizing it hoping to glean inside information on future monetary policy. That's to say nothing of having to deal with the conspiracy theory nutters.

And that's why we can't have nice things: because that's the best you can do when you see someone in need.

If you can carry a DNR in your pocket and it's considered practicable, then you can carry a list of persons permitted to contact you in a medical emergency on the same basis.

Even if homosexuality were a disease, I still wouldn't trust the CDC to tell me what percentage of the population had it. And it isn't one.

The majority of them do, yes. That's fine for them to do. Some of them don't. It's not fine for the majority to force them to do so. It's not fine for the parents to force them to do so. They may be ignorant and out of control tiny little humans, but many adult humans are also ignorant and out of control and we still let them dress how they want and in most states and countries, even fuck who they want given consensuality.

OK nutter, but reduce the argument to a reasonable one — you should be able to designate someone to come see you in the hospital whether you're married or related or not — and we return to there being absolutely no valid reason to not permit you to define the small pool of people who are permitted to see you if you are in the hospital. Speaking for myself, I vehemently do not want my mother permitted into my hospital room for any reason.

Not only various other variations of this (my first PC in particular only had 448kB of RAM, and only 64kB of that was on the mainboard) but my first computer that ran Linux was a 386DX25 with 8MB of RAM and a 120MB disk. And while I threw it away recently, I used to have an iOpener with some kind of rinkydink Linux with an ancient browser on it in just 32MB of disk. ISTR it having 16MB RAM. If anyone would like the wizztronics adapter, I have one here along with a low-profile cooler that fits inside the iOpener's case and is probably worth more than either the machine or the adapter board.

Yeah, if you insist on just dragging the slower members of your team, you're going to have to work pretty hard. If you helped them become more like you, then they would do better at pulling their own weight. And it's clear that just dragging them isn't going to make that happen, at least not quickly. Sure, they may eventually become resentful, but who wants to wait? Maybe there's a better way.

I got four model 135s for free and gave them away to another Tivoli employee (at the time) for the same price. I wonder if they ever got used or if they hit the scrap heap. They were cool but they were too big. If they were PS/2 sized I might still have them

yES!! if the TYPICAL voter does not understand why the vote is secure the method fails. this is virtually the turing rest for any proposed schema.

Someone needs to write one of those form letters we have for why someones proposal to end spam will fail for all these stupid people who think the problem is crytography.

Because there might have been other things going on behind the scenes that are yet to come to light? Perhaps this filing is just the latest action in a series, most of which happened in private between the parties? Not everyone launches into a lawsuit without trying other redress first - especially if contract cases are likely to be thrown out if lesser mediations have been skipped in the first place.

I'm Dutch, by the way... But the stuff that works against us often works equally against the Brits. And I am not talking about Europe making rules about the size of flowerpots, such things should be seen in the same light as setting up an EU patent office, and is in the interest of people in the business of making and selling flowerpots (and other stuff). No, the EU isn't all bad, that's why I called it a benign dictatorship. That's the problem: the EU is turning into something that is not "for the people" but for itself, i.e. the people running it. Most persons in power in the EU are appointed rather than elected, and there is very little (if any) direct democratic oversight. It's not about the EU being too big or imposing too much red tape, but about it becoming a goal unto itself instead of a means to an end, and being controlled by a cabal of bureaucrats rather than by the people.

There are enough examples of bad EU policies to be had, in monetary policy alone. Greece being dragged into the euro, for example. Experts warned against exactly the sort of things now going on. France and Germany repeatedly getting (i.e. giving each other) a pass on not meeting budgetary requirements during good times, then cracking down hard on smaller countries with similar issues during bad times. When we joined the euro, we got short-changed by about 10%, as pointed out by experts and later even by the minister of finance in charge at the time. Joining the euro was not a bad plan, but think about what it means if a minister of finance is willing to push through such a measure under such conditions. Our national governments, who are supposed to look out for our interests, are largely so blinded by their rosy vision of a united Europe that they are willing to make insane (and often unnecessary) sacrifices to make it happen.

That's what being a child is. When you grow up, you realize that if you just do whatever you want, there are eventually consequences. We create the world we live in. Time to grow up, and act like it.

Ahh, rocket launcher. No wonder. Anyway their download link doesn't work, but you led me to the filename, so https://www.quaddicted.com/fil...