Let me get this right.
App that circumvents gambling regulations,
Using crypto,
Gets manipulated by amateurs doing HFT?

Yeah, cry me a fucking river.

That was the official account belonging to the actual fucking White House.

Not just some fruitcake like MTG or Bobo, the people who are supposed to represent the entire US government. Let that sink in. The people that are supposed to be sober, truthful and respectful are quite literally shit-posting.

Ask the lobsters.

If I were her I'd be following Johnson around, bible in hand. Find out when he's due to talk to reporters or appear on TV. I'd hold my nose and follow him all the way to the Fox "News" studio if I had to.

I haven't read the US constitution from start to end but I'm pretty sure there's nothing about supermajorities in there.

Don't think I'm being sympathetic but Trump probably hurts every minute of every day. He gives every impression of being a man with a gaping hole inside him that can never be filled.

We had a similar situation in the UK before the last election. The Conservatives would often blame Labour for "blocking" their legislation. They had a double-digit majority; Labour couldn't block one of their bills if they wanted to.

They're refunding tickets for cancelled flights? Do they want a bloody medal?!

Don't forget the discharge petition. How many more signatures does it need again?

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

My mid-2015 came with 16GB RAM and a 512GB SSD.
The current model still comes with 16GB/512GB.

Now, the extra RAM I don't need but an upgrade to 1TB costs £200. How much extra did you pay for 8TB? I only ask because with the new model, which starts at £2,500, costs an extra £2,400 for 8TB storage.

I prefer Mac portables, but I'd be a damned liar if I didn't say that they're still screwing us on storage.

Easy, you just use synthetic diamond for the substrate. /s

True, but you have to admit that it's a more catchy title than Twocking.

That depends on how long you've been employed there. Currently an employee has limited rights if they're sacked during the first 102 weeks of employment (yes, some rights kick in at 1 year + 51 weeks, don't ask me why). During a formal probationary period - usually six months - UK employment law is, basically, the same as US "at-will" employment. The current Labour government are in the process of removing the two year restriction for some claims for unfair dismissal, and also banning the practice of "fire and re-hire*". Earlier entitlement to sick pay and a curtailment of zero-hours contracts are also being introduced, but those aren't relevant here.

"Harder" is of course relative. An employer can seldom just say "you're sacked". Well, not legally anyway. If on the other hand they have a clear policy on what counts as gross misconduct and they keep half-decent records of any warnings given or instances of lesser misconduct it's not that hard to sack an employee and have the decision held up in a tribunal, which brings us to...

They are powerful but businesses don't necessarily hate them because tribunals don't actually handle as many cases as one might think. On average it takes a tribunal two years to hear a claim put before them - thanks, Austerity! - so many former employees don't bother unless they feel their treatment was especially egregious.

Overall, compared to the US, we have very strong workers' rights in the UK, but we also have a similar divide between large and small companies. Someone working in a family-owned café has the same rights as a person working in a multinational restaurant chain but actually exercising those rights in practice won't be the same for both. The latter may have much deeper pockets but they're also far more likely to have their ducks in a row viz. employment law. The public sector takes this to the extreme; some people joke that it's impossible for a civil servant to be sacked. It's not true, but public sector employers and large corporations both generally take care to document everything, which makes sacking an employee much more difficult but also less likely to be found unlawful by a tribunal.

If anyone reading has a genuine interest in UK employment law take a look at LBC's "The Legal Hour" on Youtube. It's a radio call-in show hosted by a barrister and they often take calls on employment issues.

* As the name suggests, this is where a company sacks a large number of staff then offers to re-hire them at significantly reduced pay while hoping that most will refuse, so that the company can hire foreign workers on the cheap. This came about because a ferry company called P&O did just that; it's easier to hire cheap, foreign workers when you're a ferry company.

No, not in my experience. Doubtless there are some edge cases where an application will bug out but generally Windows doesn't update system files until after you hit restart.