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Follow the entire string of my reasoning. A US Court has required Microsoft to release the content of a eMail held on an Irish server. Microsoft are resisting this on on number of grounds, including EU privacy laws and lack of jurisdiction of USA law.

... if only they were! Academic institutions, no less than other places are still prone to following fashion. The topics which get funded research, the acceptable versus unacceptable conversations occur in all the common rooms . Academics follow bandwagons also. The only saving grace is that in...

Sorry Woosh but that's evasion. There is a current discussion in the US that will make it illegal to have unbreakable encryption, without also providing to specific authorities the decryption key. There is no definitive ruling on this as yet., But one of the defences is their fourth...

... Does the fat lunatic have blond floppy hair?

.. and if and when you direct by court order, the officers of the company to supply the encryption key, on pain of imprisonment?. That test case with Microsoft and an email held on an Irish server for a European citizen is before the courts. There is similar posturing with the FBI and Apple...

.. any thing which is encrypted, can be retrieved, it just takes time....or a court order...

.. I would not be happy with any company headquartered in the USA having any access to my data. Not wanting to link this thread with Brexit, but it is inevitable... The EU has a conflicting view to the USA on data rights. The USA chooses to believe , by their legislation, and practices in...

Interesting thread.. flecc arguing from the particular to the general, zathlan arguing from the general to the particular. A pleasant juxposition! . . I would suggest that that a local driveway, at a minimum, is a requirement for having a car, whether petroleum or electric. On road parking...

Endemic corruption is part of the human condition. The churches call it sin , and it's been ongoing for millennia since whenever any human societies were formed. Nothing to do with whether it's a socialist, communist, right wing, left wing, capitalist, monarchy or anything else. The only hope...

.. it's also my humble opinion . I also have a hub bike as well as the more expensive Bosch central drive, and it , the central drive , is much more natural. The hub one is fine but not in the same league.

Read the OPs original post, ... Speed is not a prerequisite. Using the Bosch central drive on a Dutch style bike and with thin tyres, but wearing a very large open and flapping anorak, for added aerodynamics, achieving 15 mph is easily achievable for maybe two hours .... I can confirm. And I...

.. this is a cycling forum..and who was it that advised the unemployed to get on their bikes...

Your question was as to how a remainer would or should respond and that is what I provided. There are enough hooks here for the Brexit supporter to ask questions about. Now I cannot accept such vague terms as "majority " , or" vast majority ", when referring to the British people in this...

The answer is equally straight forward. "You can, but there's a two year waiting que, before getting out the door." Then one pauses for 1 second and says" but....if you do that you lose all the benefits, all the goodwill and are seen as a rogue state., Someone who welches on agreements" .. and...

The logic for owning a car in a large city.. like London escapes me, particularly as the public transport network is very extensive. The arguement for car rental, for those special trips to the supermarkets or the hospital is more sound., Although home delivery also makes sense. There care those...

I know about them... The world leaders in that field Openhydro are local to us. My college and engineering departments I was in educated a number of their middle technucal management .

I find it difficult to differ from dv8 by who has much more experience, but for the kind of activity you have in mind, ... Not much different than what I do, I am suggesting a central crank drive. More expensive certainly, but a better experience. I am also suggesting one of the Dutch style...

The chunky tyres on UK bikes is part of the ethos of mountain biking. In other countries the attitude is smoother tyres for urban use and knobby ones for off road. .. the standard tyres , as on bikes decades ago are fine and more comfortable in any event..

According to your minister Davis, as reported in the news today , Ireland has had a change of government recently, and there has not been opportunities to meet with the new crew and Ireland is committed to a border free arrangement... That is actually three untruths in a single sentence. 1. The...

EVs are heavily encouraged at present with no congestion charges, with grant aid and in my country, reduced road tax and rebate on vehicle registration tax... Which is very high, as we have no employment in car manufacture to support. Economists call this "priming the pump" , and inevitably...