S Copinger

S Copinger

  • Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE
    Forget any "new deal" strategy suggestions; Bojo & Co want a no deal. That gives them the greatest financial return ("disaster capitalism"). Everything is aimed at getting over the line of falling out of the EU, which happens automatically if...
  • Commented on Social architecture and the house of tomorrow
    First question might be urban or rural housing. Urban development is highly constrained by what is already there, and the trends are going to be to improve the living environment of increasingly dense population. Attaching vertical gardens to modernist buildings...
  • Commented on Canned Monkeys Don't Ship Well, the Remix Version
    If we are thinking about STL travel to other stars, what about really, really slow travel. You start off building some O'Neill habitats in the inner solar system. First one is quite near Earth as we learn how to make...
  • Commented on GDPR compliance notice
    Name and email are both personal data under GDPR. If you are never going to deal with anyone in the EU, you can completely ignore it. If you are going to be passing personal data to or from anyone in...
  • Commented on GDPR compliance notice
    Just a reminder that purely an IP address, without additional details (like any of name, email, postal address etc.) is not personal data. It's only if you have other data that together with the IP address would identify someone that...
  • Commented on Cthulhu Counterfactual
    Minimalism is a livestyle of confidence. What one chooses to possess is of high quality and one only needs a few items permanently around because if you need anything else you know that you can obtain and use it when...
  • Commented on Test Case
    "acts or omissions which any moral code would censure cannot, in a practical world, be treated so as to give a right to every person injured by them to demand relief. In this way rules of law arise which limit...
  • Commented on Test Case
    Law hat on... In the original scenario, there are two sides to consider, civil and criminal. Civil is easy. The event happened in England so English tort law will apply (Lugano convention). The taxi firm gets sued and has to...
  • Commented on The Nakamoto Variations
    Satoshi Nakamoto is a consortium of corporations, primarily from the IT production and electricity generation sectors, which aims to secretly undermine national governments leading to corporatist rule, using a scheme which will destabilise national currencies while simultaneously increasing their own...
  • Commented on The Nakamoto Variations
    Squirrel Girl uses a time machine which malfunctions transporting her into a parallel timeline in which there are no mutant superheroes. She requires to (a) get hold of a lot of expensive materials to fix the time machine to let...
  • Commented on Dude, you broke the future!
    'First off, we do not know that any of the other "people" we observe also have such an "I", or even exist, ....' -- Ah, nope ....We do know that the 'other' people have an 'I' via consensus reality which...
  • Commented on Dude, you broke the future!
    This comes back to the conscious "I" which exists in ones head being only part of the whole mental system. Various mental processes are going on constantly, and that "I" only becomes aware of them when they pop up the...
  • Commented on Unforeseen Consequences and that 1929 vibe
    That's the second time someone's said we don't have no-win-no-fee here. Is "here", then, specifically Scotland? Because I've seen a shedload of adverts for no-win-no-fee solicitors in England over the years. Yes, I specified Scotland. In Scotland there are limited...
  • Commented on Unforeseen Consequences and that 1929 vibe
    To clarify/expand that answer somewhat (referring to Scotland only here): As a matter of law you can sue for damages for "loss of society" for a family member being killed, but generally this is only against businesses which are responsible...
  • Commented on Unforeseen Consequences and that 1929 vibe
    Ordinary money is stuff that a government promises to accept as a payoff so that it won't steal your property. Because of this it has value to people other than the government. No offence intended, but that sentence is heavily...
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: The Nightmare Stacks
    Such a compilation work wouldn't actually need OGH to be main editor, just read over the manuscripts to apply any Word of God vetos/amendments. No need to even check minor continuity errors, since "unreliable narrators" is part of the canon...
  • Commented on Catching Up
    I seriously cannot see the current arrangement lasting until 2019. As to the 1922 Committee, in order to stab someone in the back, one first needs to get behind them......
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: The Nightmare Stacks
    IIRC until the 1830s you could only legally marry in a Church of England Church. Except for viewers in Scotland of course, where church weddings merely fell within one of the 3 legally recognised methods of marriage: exchange of words...
  • Commented on Bad Writer Dad?
    A toddler in the office is a bit more problematic though. Been there, done that. If you are high up enough in the business to set the rules (or those in charge are willing to make family friendly policies) from...
  • Commented on The World of Tomorrow
    But what happens if phage therapy comes back (mostly abandoned with the discovery of antibiotics) with the added tool of genetic modification? The big problem with finding new antibiotics was the high cost of development against the financial returns they...
  • Commented on Rejection Letter
    Though noting in that case the Scots still go independent... Also, we should crowdfund for OGH to write a Dr Who episode. A script would probably not be cost effective for him withour such additional incentive, but I'd pay good...
  • Commented on The sudden eruption of news
    Dim green light also works. My preferred torch these days for night-time rural walking has a block of strontium aluminate crystals in front of a black light. Flashing the black light for a few seconds (re)charges the crystals which give...
  • Commented on Random excuses
    While Sir A.P. Herbert wrote some wonderful "legal" works, I would be somewhat hesitant in generally quoting them in support of any legal position. Though I completely concur about the plague of "something must be done, and this is...
  • Commented on Random excuses
    Re 58,60 & 63 The classic distinction between Common Law (systems) and Civil Law (systems) is that Civilian systems start with general principles (based mostly on Roman Law), then work downward to more specific rules within that principle and further...
  • Commented on Popcorn Time
    Though if said frail mother-in-law is also willing to relocate, care costs in Scotland considerably lower that in England at present - only need to pay for accomodation, not care. Whether that would continue to be the case in the...
  • Commented on Popcorn Time
    a) some credible suggestions on how to make Brexit work (it's clear that it's happening anyway, so let's see someone trying constructively to soften the blow) Maybe like the suggestions made by the Scottish Government in their Brexit document? HTML...
  • Commented on Popcorn Time
    It does seem likely that some of the other EU member states would want to make things awkward for Scotland, namely Spain since they really really don't want to encourage their own separatists to try a similar plan. That's a...
  • Commented on The internet of decay
    OK, so here's your exam question from Database Design 101: I've got this schema already as part of a directory system. Omitting various fields irrelevant to current exercise- Table "Persons", fields PersonUID (unique), NaturalPerson (boolean), DateofBirth, DateofDeath, Meta Table "PersonNames",...
  • Commented on The internet of decay
    Which is why physically embedding hardware in architecture is a bad idea. Fortunately, most buildings aren't going to have that, because it is (a) expensive, and(b) not matching typical construction arrangements. Sure the fancy offices custom built for a tech...
  • Commented on The internet of decay
    Not USB standard. Well there's no particular reason not to use the USB hardware standard on the data device side, so long the car receiving specs are designed for security. Having a funny hardware port will give no actual security...
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