I bought some on clearance about a decade ago, my wife thought I was crazy buying 20 bulbs, I gave 1/4 of them away and I’ve still not run out.

It does to a degree, but also the US would likely call China/Russia beforehand and let them know it’s happening - assuming they go with ICBMs. US also has tactical nukes which are dropped from aircraft the outcry would obviously be huge, but I don’t see it triggering MAD.

There doesn’t really seem to much being shown here. They’ve not secretly come and arrested him quietly questioned him and released him and from the photos it doesn’t look like he’s been told “don’t worry it’s a dog and pony show, we’re just going through”

How far that stretches, we’ll have to see, I doubt he’ll see a cell but let’s give them some time to see how things develop.

Kind of a half decent use for them if you think about it, they’re probably quite good on etiquette and come with a certain cachet regardless of what we may think.

It’s likely all they have sufficient evidence to charge him with in their jurisdiction.

I’ll disagree, personally I’d have bought a Mondeo over a VAG wagon in a heartbeat if they still made them. I got talking to a salesman at my local dealership and the sentiment is basically “no-one really understands what they’re doing, they’ve stopped making all the cars that sold well”

Who’s getting employed to do nothing? What are you basing this on?

Define need. Companies will happily cut staff they need to save costs. Staff that remain then get the workload dumped upon them. Now everyone is running around half-assing everything at peak stress to try and keep the ship afloat, doing jobs they’re not good at and don’t enjoy poorly because someone didn’t understand someone else’s contribution.

I’m not really trying to argue the point on the level of achievement - that will always be subjective. More to address the point on why local heroes don’t get above OBE and to raise the absurdity of the dual use of peerages.

I think we should, to a degree, separate peerages from KBE/CBE/MBE/OBE/BM - they’re not political and there are (so far as I know) specific criteria that need to be met to achieve the various levels (for instance someone doing something locally will by definition never get anything higher than an OBE, because a CBE requires significant achievement at a regional or national level).

Peerages are a bit weird, senior politicians/lawyers/academics etc getting appointments makes sense because they’re the upper legislative house and to a degree we want some level of political nous in the parliamentary body. However they’re also given to the likes of Andrew Lloyd Webber presumably as a reward for his achievements, which may or may not be deserved, but also mean he can be shipped in if required to vote on legislation.

Separation of “honours like” and “legislative like” peerages would be a good idea.

Has he?

Tbh I don’t think anyone ever thought Mandleson was good, his nickname was The Prince of Darkness.

I used to wear a maple leaf bandana and claimed to be a member of the Canadian Liberation Army as a joke, turns out I was predicting the future.

At a guess, because tpb don’t host pirated material.

Yeah, fuck that smug bastard off living his best life travelling round the world taking photos after extracting a ton of money from Rupert Murdoch.

Your list is compromised primarily of P2P networks and a DHT?

Older methods still best methods.

I felt like we were brothers for the entire first sentence, then you had to ruin it.

I’m aware, sometimes they also provide funding for FOSS projects. Funding seems to be the option FFmpeg would prefer based on the title (though I’ve not explicitly seen a quote that says this).

If it’s a specialty codebase written entirely in assembly, as this seems to be, sometimes it just makes sense to pay someone else to do it rather than spending 3x as long getting someone in house to do because the expertise isn’t there. Or just put a bounty on it, another common way to provide funding in FOSS.

If Google said, look we know we send a lot of bug reports, here’s 50MM a year, go hire a team of dedicated developers to deal with our nonsense, we don’t have the expertise in house to train them on this codebase. I doubt anyone would be complaining.

Nothing wrong with fixing bugs even if they are obscure if you have the time and resources.

In what way am I giving anyone an out? Are we both talking about the Indian Creek/Surfside thing? If we are the whole shit storm is over the fact the billionaires don’t want to pay have a link..