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Fingers, I have had professional responsibility for some hi tech. The initial development cost is serious, thr manufacturing costs expensive, especially in small production runs which a family of say 30 satellites are. The maintenance costs grow with time and the operational costs remain either...

.. You mean those emails I have been getting about millions of dollars and packages of Diamonds from Nigerian warlords are not true?... That puts a dent in my retirement planning

It may be very interesting, but does not affect the wider picture. Nero fiddling while Rome burns etc... The UK was granted ,at its request a third extension until November 1.,in order to get its house in order. Nothing has been done.

I see no difficulty in expecting those with assets to pay..

The biggest sting in the tail,as you describe,is that they were agreed in London by UK Cabinets ,and agreed by the direction of the senior UK representives and of course with MEP agreement. However the EP was less important then than now,post Lisbon,so more authority resided with the home...

The following report from todays Dail (what we benighted Irish call our Parliament), our Taoiseach (Equivalent to PM, except supported by the majority in the Dail).... Report from RTE (our equivalent of BBC) Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said it is "a terrible political miscalculation" for...

It is actually easier when you DIY.. like extracting a splinter.

And in other news.. There is a dispute between Scotland and the EU regarding access to a small rock 200 miles into the Atlantic. This flared up ,out of the blue (and white ) last week. This article from the Irish Times ... The sudden outbreak of tension between the Scottish government and...

That is what I call a high risk strategy... So who will call Mr Johnson the senna pod of British politics?.

What is a Clean Managed Exit. There is no EU Parliament.There is no EU subcommittee on Withdrawal agreements,or Future Arrangements. These will not be reconsituted until after the EU Parliament is again functional. Then there is no EU Commission ..They are in wind down mode. So with whomever...

Pity they did not include any information in that report. Hell a single laser pulse generates 50 Megawatts,mind you only for a picoSecond.

Teams of Stars. Come on Ant and Dec ,your country needs you.

The second quote of raising the taxation threshold might be viable. If the pound sinks on international markets, 60,000 might become the living wage.

Well 4500 is technically correct as 3500 is getting upwards of 4500 ,in the same optimistic view that a journey of a thousand mikes starts with a single step.

Fingers said... "Use capitalism for us. You lose big time if you **** up." Nice one ,and fair until we hit statements like "to big to fail". The rich get to walk away from the consequences of their actions,or buy immunity

Of course there are differences,but there are also similarities, what is BUPA except a version of our VHI?. Saying something is not for sale,is wonderful and very cheap. What legal barriers are in place to prevent it happening. The way these things can be accomplished is that you gently starve...

Follow back these postings. Fingers indicated that any talk of the NHS was nonsense ,and who was suggesting it. I gave him chapter and verse. Be careful about what you wish fir..... Now we in Ireland are in the throes of a health scandal regarding Cervical cancer and smear testing. Essentially...

Fingers we can both agree that selling the NHS or more plausibly privatisation or running it down would be greeted with fury by the UK's people. However it has been flagged up and last Tuesday , Mr Trump was asked a question about it, and his answer, was along the lines of in trade talks...

Whats a psuedo European?. .. Is it code for immigrants? Or Americans of European decent?

Pots and kettles methinks,or is it beams and motes ?