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This very much relates to Apple and their case against the UK Government surrounding the Government wanting unrestricted access to your iCloud data.
Cameras everywhere, just not in your cloud storage…….yet.
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It’s national get a hard on over ‘Our NHS’ time again……
My daughter 50-50 chance of survival when she was 12 and had major surgery would not be here 28 years later if it were not for staff of all nationalities
- I remember vividly an Italian nurse who was terrified she would be thrown out of the country due to Brexit.
Here's hoping that the idiots on this thread don't need treatment as they would just have to refuse it from 'forriners' wouldn't they otherwise they would be steaming hypocrites
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A Labour MP shows just how economically and financially illiterate they are.
She is right though. You don’t have to but what do have to do is pay towards an education system they don’t use.
Note to all the pearl-clutching Tories out in force today…
You don’t HAVE to send your kids to private school. We have universal education provision in this country.
If you *choose* to do so, the rest of us shouldn’t pay for you to have a tax break for the privilege.
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And another example of how 1 man has created wealth, on the factory floor.
Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day.
400 of them are now worth over $100 million.
These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries.
Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000.
Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous."
The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before.
Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.
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Probably the best explanation I’ve seen on this.
No, you don't get it.
He does not have $1 trillion sitting in cash, it is 99% stock in his companies.
To make that wealth liquid would mean selling all that stock which would swiftly destroy *both* the companies (Tesla, SpaceX, others) and the wealth. If he sold it all, he'd end up with maybe $100b max, several hundred thousand people would be out of work, the companies ruined and many of their suppliers also ruined.
Okay, but now Elon has $100b in cash, and can "solve the world's problems".
$100b divided by the world's 8 billion people is $12
If you were in charge, several of the most innovative industrial companies in the world would be destroyed, hundreds of thousands out of work, and space would again close to human civilization for another generation.
But everyone on earth could have one nice meal and you could revel in your altruism.
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MP that does fuck all takes time away from doing fuck all.
Following my doctor’s advice, I am taking some time away from work for health reasons.
My office will be functioning as usual and my staff are there to support all my constituents who need help, so please don't hesitate to get in touch.
See my full statement below.
ALT Taking a leave of absence I've worked in politics for over a decade: as a Councillor, for an MEP, as the Co-Leader of the Green Party, and now it is a privilege to serve as the MP for Bristol Central. Over the last few years, I have been struggling with persistent health issues, and I have been trying to manage these alongside the long hours and significant responsibility my work entails. It has become clear that this is not an effective strategy and that doing so is inhibiting my ability to recover. Having taken advice from my doctor, I will be taking several weeks off in order to try to get back to full health. I want to be open about the fact that what I am suffering from is burnout – and the mental and physical symptoms that arise from it. Burnout is a condition that does not tend to get better on its own. If left unmanaged, it can worsen and increase your risk of long-term health problems. This is something that I know will be familiar to many people in all walks of life.
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She’s right. A polite request would have sufficed.
Come on Carole teapawt.org/hawkins_carole/status/…
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