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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    . Perhaps the judge was correct. .. I have a few comments and questions. Has any of this money made its way to NI ? Has there been a vote in your parliament allocating this money? On what grounds has this money been offered?... There have been contradictions on this thread about it. Judges...
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    HMRC gives £700 million IT contract to Amazon.

    A state body, the UK revenue, to whom you are required to give truthful information, on pain of imprisonment, chooses to put that information , whether encrypted or not on machinery owned and controlled by a foreign power. That foreign company , under pain of imprisonment by its own...
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    HMRC gives £700 million IT contract to Amazon.

    The attached , may give some additional clarity as to whome your personal email data belongs . It all relates to the same case... And granted it is only one side of the arguement, but the proponent is a heavy weight...
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    Fascism returns to Spain

    That statement has been made a number of times but it may be more illusionary. 20% of the population and 25% of the GNP is not overwhelming.
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    Fascism returns to Spain

    In respect of the U.N. it does not mediate between disputes between a region and a state. This is precisely the game which the secessionsts in Catalan want outside agencies to adopt. Were they to do so they would de facto be supporting the claim for independence. The actions of the...
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    Fascism returns to Spain

    Very little in what you have written do I disagree with. The only point of clarification is that constitution can and do get changed. CHANGES to a constitution are a called amendments. constitutions are not scripture only suited for study and interpretation.. . That is the role of the judges...
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    HMRC gives £700 million IT contract to Amazon.

    Woosh your counterargument are becoming more and more bizarre. The only sentence in this last one I can agree with is that it can start a trade war. That is why the stakes are so high and the case gets to the supreme court
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    Fascism returns to Spain

    Tom the EU came down very clearly on the side of international law. What other position could they have adopted? You either have international law or you have chaos, and might is right. Sending in riot police on the day of the vote was crass, and undiplomatic but the central government has a...
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    Fascism returns to Spain

    The P P represents the democratic wishes of its membership.. I suppose. The PP has a strength in parliament \senate broadly in line with its democratic mandate. So it is open to the Catalan nationists ( I hate to use that term) to convince sufficient voters in the rest of the federation called...
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    Fascism returns to Spain

    I disagree, even if 100% of the catalan people had voted for independence a few weeks ago, it should come no difference. They have previously signed up to a consitution, and must be prepared to work within that consitution or work to have the consitution changed. That would have meant engaging...
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    Fascism returns to Spain

    I disagree. The UN declaration is very laudable . But the people of Spain including the people of Catalonia are free. They freely accepted a consitution more recently than many countries .. They must work within it. Or they must change this consitution.
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    The "death" of the car, (as we know it)

    I am one of those who could avail. I have a drive, we currently have 3 cars parked, mine, my wife's, and our sons. We could get rid of at least one of the 2 diesel cars, now.. but . Up to two months ago I had a a four hour motorway journey on a weekly basis. My visits to France involve 129...
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    HMRC gives £700 million IT contract to Amazon.

    No no no .. this is not hypothetical, it is fact.. The context is little different... . If. Amazon, a US corporation, receives a request for Mr Wooshes income and expenditure, because there is an assumption that he was drug dealing, or supporting Breton freedom fighters, and the US FBI...
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    Phishing Scams.. Share your best ones..

    .. are you buying or selling??
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    HMRC gives £700 million IT contract to Amazon.

    Woosh, come on now... The UK is not explicitly included, but the case is about the right of the US government, specially the department of justice, to compel US corporations, to supply data from servers not present in the US on foot of a US warrant. Many soverign states and the EU have...
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    HMRC gives £700 million IT contract to Amazon.

    ... You therefore have not yet had the opportunity to read that link? It is not an imaginary issue if it needs to be judged on by the US Supreme Court. What is at stake is 1. Whether there is a future for international cloud computing 2. Extra territorial jurisdiction by the US In my opinion...
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    HMRC gives £700 million IT contract to Amazon.

    Sorry for some reason it down loaded the wrong Wikipedia to you . please Google search against microsoft case USA Ireland and it will lead to the Microsoft v USA case to be heard at the us supreme court this session.
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    HMRC gives £700 million IT contract to Amazon.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._United_States
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    HMRC gives £700 million IT contract to Amazon.

    Now you will understand that data flows between data farms for security and backup purposes, so why would you or I assume that the information is only located in a specific geographical location?.