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The UK Government has officially gone bonkers

Otto Von Herunterhängen

Otto Von Herunterhängen

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UK government suggests deleting files to save water

Happily I did implement a Face Palm Icon, unfortunately it's a reaction not a smiley.

Now to put this in perspective, the stupid suggestion was put at the bottom of a communication about the drought issue, particularly this part:

HOW TO SAVE WATER AT HOME​

  • Install a rain butt to collect rainwater to use in the garden.
  • Fix a leaking toilet – leaky loos can waste 200-400 litres a day.
  • Use water from the kitchen to water your plants.
  • Avoid watering your lawn – brown grass will grow back healthy.
  • Turn off the taps when brushing teeth or shaving.
  • Take shorter showers.
  • Delete old emails and pictures as data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems.

Which is a list of other items some of which are good, some of which are equally stupid as the last one. Fixing leaking toilets or water leaks in general is a good idea for saving water.

But deleting old emails and pictures will change nothing - storing data doesn't take energy, a disk spins at the same rate no matter what the file configuration is on it, and deleting things requires more energy than leaving them there.

But the fact that someone decided to add that to an official document sort of demonstrates how stupid bureaucracies can get. As if we weren't getting daily reminders. Hey, UK government, how much water is being used by your stupid adult site ID laws?
 
You want to live here, i have been in constant battles with our local Council for decades, the amount and way they waste our tax money is a joke, but the Govt is just as bad with the dumb crap they come up with, and has nothing to do with them, for Water leaks etc we have Water companies dealing with this, by the way, making billions a year, as we have leaks everywhere and dirty sewage going into rivers, canals etc oh yes Britain one of the most corrupt countries on the planet
 
Lynortis said:
I have heard something about a new party in the UK, do they have a chance?
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We have two new parties, both intending to shake up the old system. Don't know how far they will get.

The first is the Reform Party under Nigel Farage (who originally lead the 'UK Independence Party', since disbanded as they acheived their aims of Brexit. He is certainly shaking things up, and is very good at pointing out the faults and weaknesses of the two main parties (at first the Tories but now he has Labour in his sights. At the last general election he completely split and destroyed the Tory vote).

The other new party which is just getting onto its feet in the past few months in the one lead by Jeremy Corbyn, who used to lead the Old Labour Party until he got kicked off of it for being too Left-Wing, and also for his friendship with the strange David Livingstone, who was himself booted off for being a Fascist-Communist (Yes, really!).
Jeremy Corbyn together with a few die-hard left-wingers from the old Labour party who have since resigned or been forced out, has promised a return to the old, traditional Maoist-Fabian policies...

www.bbc.co.uk

Jeremy Corbyn's new party needs a name and it's trickier than you might think

The ex-Labour leader wants supporters to come up with a name for his new party.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
 
I need to learn more about UK politics, especially considering your policies are starting to have a clear and obvious affect on the US. I remember Nigel Farage and Jeremy Corbyn back when I was paying more attention. I know more about Nigel Farage and Jeremy Corbyn than I do about the Tories and Keir Starmer.
 
I used to be a Reform party member till they got rid of the best guy they had, because Nigel Farage didn't want to be second best, but thou the polls show Reform ahead at the moment, when it come to the vote in four years Islam will take over for good and that will be the end of the UK for ever, then it will be the US next, but i will be dead and gone by then.
 
Well maybe we ill have a General Election before then, or at least Keir Starmer will be gone. Because they've had 685,000 signatures on a petition they now have to debate it in Parliament, which of course will turn into a debate on the confidence of Keir Starmer and what he's done so far in charge (or, rather, not done!). And believe you me Labour will kick him out just as quickly as the Tories kicked out Boris if their many MP's believe they may not get in next time and thus loose their seats!
 
MCDesigns said:
and make sure you are not carrying cash on you in the UK
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I'd have to point out that in the US the Police don't argue with you if you are carrying too much money, they just confiscate it under civil forfeiture laws, no crime required. And yes, we need to get rid of those laws too. And you have to prove to the state that you were not committing a crime to get it back. Good luck.
 
Here you go. Proof that kiddies are using VPN's to get around the new UK Online Safety laws. Us adults who don't know how to get & use the VPN's are really suffering as we can not prove our ID beyond all reasonable doubt, but the kiddies are simply side-stepping the law and accessing more and more 'adult' sites...

www.bbc.co.uk

Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told

The children's commissioner for England tells the BBC virtual private networks are a "loophole that needs closing.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
 
I think everybody knew that this never was about protecting children. Targeting VPN is just the next logical step.
 
xj900uk said:
Here you go. Proof that kiddies are using VPN's to get around the new UK Online Safety laws. Us adults who don't know how to get & use the VPN's are really suffering as we can not prove our ID beyond all reasonable doubt, but the kiddies are simply side-stepping the law and accessing more and more 'adult' sites...

www.bbc.co.uk

Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told

The children's commissioner for England tells the BBC virtual private networks are a "loophole that needs closing.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
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The report also found more children are stumbling across pornography accidentally, with some of the 16 to 21-year-olds surveyed saying they had viewed it "aged six or younger".

If they were using a VPN they did NOT stumble across porn "accidentally"

In any case if the UK were serious about the age problem, and had more than thin gruel for brains, they would demand that ISP accounts in the UK have ages attached at the account level, and that each individual accessing the Internet have their own account. Requiring the ISP to transmit the age with an HTTP request would then be possible, and sites could check that without invading anybody's privacy. Same thing for Public WiFi.

Schools with ISP accounts would simply have an age under 18 for the account so any viewing from a school would exclude adult content.

Then they would only have the issue of somebody hijacking someone else's account.
 
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