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Firing isn't illegal. Not so. There is an absolute requirement for them to notify before firing 100+ people. That isn't a negotiating point. It is statute.

I entirely understood. My point was quite simply that they cannot ignore the law in both the EU and the UK. The ships don't, in general, go out of territorial waters on cross-channel routes.

This afternoon we went to a beach to say goodbye to our next-door neighbour. He died in December, and we have been waiting for our own health issues to reduce, and the weather to be pleasant. Put his ashes into a small hollow we dug out, then covered with sand. Made some markings in the sand...

Just the other day, Raab was going on about reducing the enormous list of criminal cases awaiting hearings. They could certainly put this at the end of the list. There just might be another reason, though, which is to undermine any possibility of an appeal for his current offences being heard...

If UK law is not applicable, then EU law must be. You can't say that no law applies because they cross an international border.

They are required to give more than a few hours of notice to the Redundancy Payments Service. 45 days for 100+ I can't see anything as complex as an investigation being required: Did RPS get notice? No. Did P&O sack more than 100 workers? Yes...

They can't even tell the truth when the lie was bound to be found out within hours, at most, days. Sources at the DfT said it was made aware of the impending mass sackings and suspension of ferry services on Wednesday night. Boris Johnson’s official spokesperson had said on Thursday: “We...

Penis & Orifice.

I have done. But not at present. Indeed, I'd like to run a Windows VM on a Mac. But there are barriers to doing so on Apple Silicon. I did run a Windows VM under Parallels, which worked extremely well. But licence/support and cost issues all ganged up to make it not currently viable other...

My only spinning drives are ones that have not been replaced in years. One 3.5" and a few physically small external drives. I stuck to Windows 2000 for years after XP came out. In my view, it was a very solid and usable platform. But I do not prefer 7. And certainly hated all the 8 releases...

My current working processes and kit mean that I have next to nothing to lose if a machine breaks. Regular backups. All real data in the cloud. Two similar enough machines to be able to start on one and swap to the other. Loss of an SSD, if compounded by lack of a backup, would only be a...

I have - but not for a bike. I use one on bag I carry with me a lot of the time. It works pretty much as described by Apple. I did one day walk out of a café without my bag - and got alerted, went back and got it as a waiter was taking it to the office (as they should). But it does rely on...

The government is incompetent. They can't even work out a way of restricting second jobs for MPs. Plans to cap UK MPs’ earnings from second jobs dropped Exclusive: ministers tell Commons standards committee that a ceiling on such earnings would be ‘impractical’

So this is a Switchblade - apparently on its way to Ukraine: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/100-us-switchblade-drones-heading-ukraine/story?id=83490886

Had loads of problems with some top end Lenovo laptops. Specifically when used with Lenovo USB-C docks. Had to completely wipe and re-install using a special download of the installer. Even then kept having issues.

True. Parallels did an amazing job of getting Windows to work. I installed it to run a sophisticated and specialist bit of software and Corel Draw. They ran very well even on my base model Mac mini. But there is no version of Windows for which you can buy a licence. That matters because they can...

I have had no end of problems with machines, especially laptops, where there is simply no real possibility of keeping them working. Often drivers not available for any reasonably up to date OS. Especially from companies like Sony who left the market.

No longer available for Mac, I believe.

Tantamount to Johnson saying: "I am a complete idiot and was unable to do my job as Foreign Secretary, PM (or Mayor, for that matter), and my history as a so-called journalist simply underlines this."

My reply wasn't meant to be judgemental of those who do. But I have never really liked them. I'd be more likely to use a flight simulator or something of that general type than the majority of games - at least, the majority of ones that need fancy hardware.