Joey Jo Jo Junior Shabadoo Posted September 12, 2020 Share Posted September 12, 2020 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8725069/Wolverhampton-wedding-DJ-vigilante-group-20-men-carrying-covert-Channel-patrols.html 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BawWatchin Posted September 12, 2020 Share Posted September 12, 2020 1 hour ago, Joey Jo Jo Junior Shabadoo said: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8725069/Wolverhampton-wedding-DJ-vigilante-group-20-men-carrying-covert-Channel-patrols.html Jeremy Savile 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BawWatchin Posted September 13, 2020 Share Posted September 13, 2020 14 minutes ago, MixuFruit said: Cardiff tell Westminster to f**k off re: stopping home working. https://www.ft.com/content/023a2b93-6d8e-4134-b795-841bd0766f8c Am I reading that right? They want £51.50 a month to get beyond the pay wall? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted September 13, 2020 Share Posted September 13, 2020 3 hours ago, BawWatchin said: Am I reading that right? They want £51.50 a month to get beyond the pay wall? They could charge that and it wouldn't matter. 99% of their subscribers are writing it off as a business expense. It's basically state funded media. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted September 13, 2020 Share Posted September 13, 2020 On 12/09/2020 at 16:46, MixuFruit said: Thought this was an interesting read. As usual they seem to put in examples that I've never in my life heard (who says 'aneuch' for enough?) and misattribute the marginalisation of Scots in public life to the English when it came from the likes of Kames and Hume, but I thought it was interesting in light of what we now know about Scots Wikipedia that when it was proposed to be deleted a couple of years ago, Scots speakers defended it. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/scots-language?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB Interesting but I doubt the claim about Scotland and England having the same language pre Norman Conquest. And it says the Normans didn't come to Scotland but all the Scottish nobles after that seem to have Norman names so there was definitely an influence. The lack of interest in the Wikipedia 'scandal' proved that people aren't too bothered about exact classifications. Everyone is comfortable code switching and can employ the correct vocabulary depending on the situation. Gaelic is dead to the extent that the government have to pay people to speak but people are funny and creative in Scots in everyday use and it's a handy bulwark against Americanism. Hopefully the "Yes not Aye" of our childhood is gone. Kieran Smith Boy by James Kelman explores the psychological effect of being constantly told your language is illegitimate. Kelman's use of Scottish language is far, far more credible than the roasters who seem determined to change the spelling of every word for the sake of it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted September 13, 2020 Share Posted September 13, 2020 Interesting but I doubt the claim about Scotland and England having the same language pre Norman Conquest.I read that more as alluding to the idea that there wasn’t really an English language and so proto Scots wasn’t that different from the rest of the Germanic languages that were to become English. Before Northumbria was partitioned. As an English state became more centralised there was a drive to some kind of standardisation In this reading it would be the unifying effect on England of the conquest as opposed the Norman (thus francophone) nature of it that’s important That seems to be the most reasonable interpretation but I’m strictly amateur so I may have got something wrong on the internet If so I’m sure I’ll get over it 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted September 13, 2020 Share Posted September 13, 2020 I'm just going by the fact that there are still localised genetic markers that show a population difference between Celtic Scotland and Saxon England which obviously go back to pre Norman Conquest. It seems unlikely that tenth century Scots were speaking the Olde English that is preserved in Beowolf. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted September 13, 2020 Share Posted September 13, 2020 11 minutes ago, MixuFruit said: FT readership is surprisingly balanced in terms of political leanings from polling a while back. Nearly 50% were Labour voters in 2017. They're also not doing a good job of supporting the drive to get back in the office if they're state funded media. Their coverage of the UK government in March was not fulsome praise either. They are definitely the best UK paper. I was just highlighting that they are similar to private schools and business class travel in that it's covertly subsidised. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D Angelo Barksdale Posted September 13, 2020 Share Posted September 13, 2020 The FT is basically the trade paper, the establishment reporting to the establishment. Which is why you're more likely to see kayfabe broken as they've not got unrelenting misery/racism/fear of the other to try and sell to the general public and 'sensible' columnists pretending they don't understand the most basic and obvious scams and dog whistles. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted September 13, 2020 Share Posted September 13, 2020 3 hours ago, Henderson to deliver ..... said: The FT is basically the trade paper, the establishment reporting to the establishment. Which is why you're more likely to see kayfabe broken as they've not got unrelenting misery/racism/fear of the other to try and sell to the general public and 'sensible' columnists pretending they don't understand the most basic and obvious scams and dog whistles. It's not a coincidence that you often read some of the clearest Marxist analysis in there given it's unvarnished and speaking largely to and among the business classes. Funny that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted September 13, 2020 Share Posted September 13, 2020 (edited) 26 minutes ago, NotThePars said: It's not a coincidence that you often read some of the clearest Marxist analysis in there given it's unvarnished and speaking largely to and among the business classes. Funny that. Being ancient I can testify that as far back as the Seventies it was the only paper printing the Union side of things in industrial disputes, the bosses need to know what's going on without the spin. If I remember right Jimmy Reid had a column. Edited September 13, 2020 by welshbairn 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted September 13, 2020 Share Posted September 13, 2020 (edited) 20 minutes ago, welshbairn said: Being ancient I can testify that as far back as the Seventies it was the only paper printing the Union side of things in industrial disputes, the bosses need to know what's going on without the spin. If I remember right Jimmy Reid had a column. Tom Mills writes in his book about the BBC that there was a conscious shift in the corporation during the 80s moving away from printing the reaction from the unions towards finance. I think the FT is the only paper that understands that a non-harmonious* relationship between the workers and the bosses is going to file the country into the bin eventually. *nonfunctioning at this point Spoiler Here's a few quotes if you're interested: “In 1991, Nick Jones, the BBC labour correspondent from 1978 to 1988, lamented that Labour correspondents once held prominent positions in the journalist hierarchy of most news organisations. Now they find they are being displaced by city analysts who, in their striped shirts, can be seen regularly on television making pronouncements which frequently go unchecked and unchallenged. Union affairs rarely impinge on the work of the new generation of business reporters. Even when major industrial developments involve substantial job losses, the implications are invariably assessed by specialists and advisers employed by stockbrokers, banks and city finance houses.” “The division of labour within the BBC was such that business and economics journalists generally did not consider trade unions to fall within their remit, while labour and industrial correspondents found little or no demand for their skills and expertise among programme editors.” “This sudden departure of ‘old lag correspondents’ consolidated a shift in news values that can be traced to the end of the miners’ strike, privatisation, Big Bang and the arrival of John Birt as deputy director general in 1987. A certain social democratic paradigm that had been institutionalised in BBC business and economics reporting had been displaced. ‘I think the way in which the news stories in particular were framed’, Richard Tait comments, ‘changed from on the one hand the union says that and on the other hand the management say that, to a rather different series of considerations.’ Another interviewee remarks, ‘We maybe previously would have thought of labour and business as being two areas … And then it became business and economics.” Edited September 13, 2020 by NotThePars 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted September 13, 2020 Share Posted September 13, 2020 6 minutes ago, NotThePars said: Tom Mills writes in his book about the BBC that there was a conscious shift in the corporation during the 80s moving away from printing the reaction from the unions towards finance. I think the FT is the only paper that understands that a non-harmonious* relationship between the workers and the bosses is going to file the country into the bin eventually. *nonfunctioning at this point I don't remember the BBC or any of the mass media ever putting the workers case in main news items. Though you would get some of it in mini documentary form in the likes of Panorama and World in Action. Maybe they thought the proles would be watching the soaps. I'm not sure if Thatcher killed off Thames TV because of the Gibraltar IRA killings programme or from a worry that World in Action was getting more popular than Terry and June. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunning1874 Posted September 13, 2020 Share Posted September 13, 2020 5 hours ago, Detournement said: Interesting but I doubt the claim about Scotland and England having the same language pre Norman Conquest. And it says the Normans didn't come to Scotland but all the Scottish nobles after that seem to have Norman names so there was definitely an influence. The lack of interest in the Wikipedia 'scandal' proved that people aren't too bothered about exact classifications. Everyone is comfortable code switching and can employ the correct vocabulary depending on the situation. Gaelic is dead to the extent that the government have to pay people to speak but people are funny and creative in Scots in everyday use and it's a handy bulwark against Americanism. Hopefully the "Yes not Aye" of our childhood is gone. Kieran Smith Boy by James Kelman explores the psychological effect of being constantly told your language is illegitimate. Kelman's use of Scottish language is far, far more credible than the roasters who seem determined to change the spelling of every word for the sake of it. Over to Tom Leonard, for obvious reasons. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invergowrie arab Posted September 13, 2020 Share Posted September 13, 2020 5 hours ago, Detournement said: I'm just going by the fact that there are still localised genetic markers that show a population difference between Celtic Scotland and Saxon England which obviously go back to pre Norman Conquest. It seems unlikely that tenth century Scots were speaking the Olde English that is preserved in Beowolf. The only people speaking any Germanic language in the 10th century in modern day Scotland would have been the Norse settlers or Northumbrians in Berwickshire/Roxburghshire. Even Edinburgh was still Gaelic in those days It's not until David I do you start to see the spread of "Scots" (a hugely unhelpful term in this time period) being spread through the establishment of royal burghs 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNU_Linux Posted September 14, 2020 Share Posted September 14, 2020 Cambridge based ARM sold to Nvidia for $40 billion by it's owners SoftBank. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54142567UK-based computer chip designer ARM Holdings is being sold to the American graphics chip specialist Nvidia.The deal values ARM at $40bn (£31.2bn), four years after it was bought by Japanese conglomerate Softbank for $32bn.ARM's technology is at the heart of most smartphones, among many other devices.Nvidia has promised to keep the business based in the UK, to hire more staff, and to retain ARM's brand.It added that the deal would create "the premier computing company for the age of artificial intelligence" (AI)."ARM will remain headquartered in Cambridge," said Nvidia's chief executive Jensen Huang."We will expand on this great site and build a world-class AI research facility, supporting developments in healthcare, life sciences, robotics, self-driving cars and other fields."A senior government source told the BBC that there would not be a move to block the sale, but that conditions could be imposed on the takeover.Softbank made commitments to secure jobs and keep ARM's headquarters in the UK until September next year."So far, when you read the announcement coming from Nvidia they said they will honour that Softbank has made at the time," said Sonja Laud, chief investment officer at Legal & General Investment Management."But with the expiry about to happen and obviously the Brexit negotiations under way it will be very interesting to see how this develops in the future."This appears to address concerns that British jobs would be lost and decision-making shifted to the US. Last week, the Labour Party had urged the government to intervene.But two of ARM's co-founders have raised other issues about the takeover.Hermann Hauser and Tudor Brown had suggested ARM should remain "neutral", rather than be owned by a company like Nvidia, which produces its own processors.The concern is that there would be a conflict of interest since ARM's clients would become dependent on a business with which many also compete for sales.Moreover, the two co-founders also claimed that once ARM was owned by an American firm, Washington could try to block Chinese companies from using its knowhow as part of a wider trade clash between the countries."If ARM becomes a US subsidiary of a US company, it falls under the Cfius [Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States] regulations," Mr Hauser told BBC Radio 4's Today programme."[That] means that if hundreds of UK companies that incorporate ARM's [technology] in their products, want to sell it, and export it to anywhere in the world including China - which is a major market - the decision on whether they will be allowed to export it will be made in the White House and not in Downing Street."He added that he believed the pledge to retain and increase the number of UK jobs was "meaningless" unless UK ministers stepped in to make it legally enforceable.But ARM's chief executive played down the threat of export bans."It isn't to do with the ownership of the company, it's all to do with analysis of the product itself," Simon Segars told the BBC."The majority of our products are designed in the UK or outside the US, and the majority of our products don't fall under much of the US export control set of rules."Mr Huang added that ARM had "some of the finest computer scientists in the world" in Cambridge and he intended to both retain them and attract others to what would become Nvidia's largest site in Europe.ARM creates computer chip designs that others then customise to their own ends. It also develops instruction sets, which define how software controls processors.It is based in Cambridge but also has offices across the world, including a joint venture in Shenzhen, China.Hundreds of companies license its innovations including Apple, Samsung, Huawei and Qualcomm. To date, ARM says 180 billion chips have been made based on its solutions.When Softbank acquired ARM, it promised to keep the company's headquarters in the UK and to increase the number of local jobs, which it did.Softbank's founder Masayoshi Son described the firm as being a "crystal ball" that would help him predict where tech was heading. But losses on other investments, including the office rental company WeWork, prompted a rethink.California-headquartered Nvidia overtook Intel to become the world's most valuable chipmaker in July.Until now, it has specialised in high-end graphics processing units (GPUs). These are commonly used by gamers to deliver more detailed visuals, as well as by professionals for tasks including scientific research, machine learning, and cryptocurrency "mining".Nvidia is also one of ARM's clients, using its designs to create its line-up of Tegra central processing units (CPUs).Under the terms of the deal, Nvidia will pay Softbank $21.5bn in its own stock and $12bn in cash. It will follow with up to a further $5bn in cash or stock if certain targets are met.Nvidia will also issue $1.5bn in equity to ARM's employees.Mr Huang has already said that one of the changes he wants to make is to accelerate development of ARM's designs for CPUs used in computer servers - a rapidly growing sector.Amazon is among companies that are already betting on the tech.But experts say one risk Nvidia faces is that the takeover could encourage ARM's wider client list to shift focus to a rival type of chip technology, which lags behind in terms of adoption but has the benefit of not being controlled by one company."ARM is facing growing competition from RISC-V, an open-source architecture," wrote CCS Insight's Geoff Blaber in a recent research note."If its partners believed that ARM's integrity and independence was compromised, it would accelerate the growth of RISC-V and in the process devalue ARM."Mr Blaber also suggested regulators might block the deal."This process will take months if not years with a high chance of failure," he told the BBC.Mr Huang has said that he expects it to take more than a year to "educate" regulators and answer all their questions, but said he had "every confidence" they would ultimately approve the investment.It's a deal which the man who founded ARM says is a disaster.And many in the UK's technology industry will agree with Hermann Hauser.He opposed the 2016 sale of the chip designer to Softbank but accepted that the Japanese firm stood by its guarantees to boost employment and research in Cambridge.But a takeover by Nvidia, one of the many firms that licences ARM's designs, appears to pose a threat to its business model - why will its hundreds of other customers now have faith that they will have equal access to its technology?In recent days leading figures in the Cambridge technology sector have lobbied Downing Street, calling for ministers to intervene to bring ARM back under UK ownership. There have been signs that the government is considering a more active industrial policy.Dominic Cummings, who has talked of the need for the UK to have a trillion dollar tech company, is leading the drive for a more interventionist approach.Now, with Hermann Hauser and others warning that this deal will make Britain a US vassal state, the government is under pressure to step in and ensure that control over vital home-grown technology is not lost to a foreign power. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DublinMagyar Posted September 14, 2020 Share Posted September 14, 2020 Swinson has a new gig https://mobile.twitter.com/joswinson/status/1305448517138341888 Laughable 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 9 minutes ago, MixuFruit said: Haha https://mobile.twitter.com/O_lloyd/status/1305961151898030089 Fucking hell 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GiGi Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 18 minutes ago, MixuFruit said: Haha https://mobile.twitter.com/O_lloyd/status/1305961151898030089 There's yer union in action. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 Fantastic news, archaic nonsensehttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-54174794 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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