That explains it being like the 90s. That’s Australia in general. New Zealand is more like the 70s.

Depends on what stage of life you’re at.

As a Brit… Government policy is doing a pretty good job. Everything is making running an independent site completely infeasible. They’re legislating as if the only people who run sites are big tech corporations who have money to burn on compliance.

I’m assuming the duck’s on top

They probably are. They’re trying to make sure it hasn’t leaked onto archive.is.

Well he found out about the sub-prime mortgage fiasco by looking at the public filings that nobody bothers reading. All of the companies involved are public companies that have to file accounts. He’ll be tracing what’s going on and painting himself a picture.

Not sure if it’s exactly the same kit but you can get that for £300 in the UK.

I’m not sure Hong Kong is a good example. It was returned to China from the UK in the 90s. So everything since then is “internal”.

Tibet on the other hand…

You realise avoiding the anxiety is worse than dealing with it.

Global war between who?

Russia has been shown to be a paper tiger. China wants to dominate through trade not warfare. Everybody else doesn’t really have an axe to grind. At least, not on that scale.

I see you like to party with Bernie.

I’m pretty sure it’s Fat Albert.

Why are the American religious right so fixated on the rapture? It’s a death cult sprawling across the nation like a cancer.

…and how many come back?

Strap explosives to their chests and send them to thier competitors?

Sound of Linguine

Well I think there’s a lot of financial irregularities to investigate.

regulation of investment products and cryptocurrency

…and AI, right? RIGHT!!!

My thoughts are “Why do they need one?”. It’s not like UEFI stops you doing anything.

UBIOS’s unique features over UEFI include increased support for chiplets and other heterogeneous computing use-cases, such as multi-CPU motherboards with mismatching CPUs, something UEFI struggles with or does not support. It will also better support non-x86 CPU architectures such as ARM, RISC-V, and LoongArch, the first major Chinese operating system.

[citation needed]

I would say this is about increasing the level of control of the platform, not about technological issues.

Edit: For example, here’s the RISC-V UEFI specification.

Government ministers are bound by collective responsibility and so if Milliband states something definitively it is taken as government policy. All other members of government would be expected to say the same thing.

So the weasel words here are because it’s not agreed government policy that they should leave X. I expect they haven’t discussed it. If he’s more definitive it would potentially expose a split in opinion within the government (Oh the horror!).

Understand the code words. His opinion is that they should leave. This is his way of making it a topic for discussion in the government.