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Comment Re:It shows monopolies have already formed (Score -1) 71

It was the megacorps that backed the woke trans agenda. Amazon, Microsoft, Google (remember James Damore's memo saying that men and women were different?)

And then a transformer shot zir way through a school of white Christian children solely for their identity and shortly thereafter Biden declared a trans holiday? ON EASTER!

Don't think this wasn't deliberate because it was. How many of you got the day off at work for this holiday?

Comment Just like Federal Reserve notes! (Score -1) 44

A private company issuing its own currency and selling it to us at a profit? Why, that's just like the Federal Reserve, which despite the name is a private company just like Apple or Microsoft. Imagine the government appointing the boards of those companies and you get the idea. Why do we need a company to sell our own money to us? Why can't the US Treasury just print it instead? JFK had the same idea and issued United States Notes. He was assassinated shortly thereafter. LBJ immediately ended the program.

United States Notes are collectors' curios today. My grandfather had some, along with rolls of silver quarters before the Fed turned them into worthless nickel-clad copper.

Comment tried it. (Score -1) 116

Editing a spreadsheet with OpenOffice. It crashed and said it didn't have permission to write to some directory in C:/user. 30 minutes of work lost. I get it, fixing bugs is boring and open source developers prioritize new features because that's what gets them their next gig. Report the bug? Tried that many times back in the day. Gets marked notabug or wontfix and I was rudely toly told off to fix it myself or hire someone to fix it. Won't get fooled again.

Comment Re:...arrival of a "fairground ride" (Score 1) 20

Actually, this is also why I stopped using Waze. Coming back from Heathrow once, I could have just taken the M4 and South Circular, but Waze claimed it would save me more than seven minutes on 25-35 minute journey, so I thought I'd give it a go. It took me through Hounslow and the back streets of Isleworth before crossing the A316 bridge in to Richmond. It ended up taking at least 15 minutes longer than the easy route and a vast amount more effort, in the dark. Much of that extra time was either reversing in to a gap between parked cars to let somebody by, or waiting for an oncoming car to do the same for me.

This has been one of my biggest frustrations with Waze for years - it has no understanding of how difficult a road is to drive. It'll happily send you off an easy, fast, well-lit motorway onto a difficult, narrow, unlit B road if it thinks it can save two minutes on a two-hour trip.

The stupid thing is that in the UK, road types already hint at how easy or hard they are to drive. Motorways (M roads) are the easiest, then A roads, then B roads. You could even go further by looking at the number of digits - single-digit routes tend to be simpler than three-digit ones. Sure, there would be exceptions (like the M25 compared to the M6), but overall it would make routing far more sensible than what Waze does now.

Comment Re:Combining different GNSS systems is also an opt (Score -1) 45

If you're dumb enough to use Beidou, your entire movement history is available to an adversary nation, China. Why not just use the /Russian one instead? GPS is the safe one, nobody is spying on you. National security spying on Americans is illegal by Act of Congress, with stiff prison terms for anyone who violates this sacred trust.

Comment Re:Millionaires are leaving the UK in droves (Score 1) 87

You don't think policies like VAT on private school fees and pushing up business taxes instead of personal ones play well with the typical Labour voter?

They're cratering in the polls anyway for a host of other reasons, and I suspect Starmer is already toast anyway for a host of other reasons (though it's significantly harder in practice for Labour to replace a leader they're not happy with than it is for the Tories), but I don't think it's unreasonable to suggest that some of these policies are being chosen because of their political alignment.

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