Firms to raise prices due to tax and wage increases
Entirely true.
But what is more annoying is how Tories etc are trying to suggest it was not expected.
We live in a capitalistic society. Even the most left wing politician. In no way expects corporations to choose reductions in profit.
The labour may not like it. But they fully expected this to happen. When companies start to increase prices above the % amount, the wages increased. Making employees worse off over all. That is the point things can be said to have failed. Rather than all the crappy biased telegraph and times articles claiming Labour has destroyed the economy.
And if that happens. It is the companies that are to blame for their own choice to price themselves out of the market. Not tax rate or wage levels.
Elon Musk clearly needs mental health support.
Hell of late he is making trump see, sane and well-thought-out.
I assumed that was the point of think tanks.
They are all paid. So tend to exist to further corporate interests. Such interests rarely align with society as a whole.
It is basically paying smart people, to lobby the voters, as well as politicians.
Its what happens when you have a billionaire all the way up your arsehole.
Otherwise known as being a smug little shit.
Well Elon is likely the most able to help there.
Cant help but wonder how hard it would be. To convonce his Space X employees to tell him moving to mars is possible now.
""" Yep the Starship is ready. All the stuff needed for a self sufficient home is on board. And as the first there you will be King. """
He aint gonna want tobgo alone. And convincing Farrage he would be PM if he started as the kings lacky.
"Si Lord Musk. You just need to leave the ship before your serfs. We are hiring an army for you. They will follow on next ship. Then colonisers after that. But will apl the palace loaded. Only the 2 of you will fit on this one"
"Oh just ignore that countdown over the airlock. Its just a non important technical detail. "
They also didn’t intentionally starve the populace, that was a byproduct of pissing off the world.
Given they destroyed ship delivering food to the UK. Knowing the UK imported something like 50+% of all food at the time.
The UK also did much the same. Bombing rail etc.
Starving the population was an intentional side effect of trying to limit resources getting to an enemy.
So the honest answer is things were less efficient.
But starvation has been a common practice since rome. Salting the fieilds etc. And likely before then.
Honestly the Geneva convention was the first time anyone expected otherwise.
What he has the power to do.
Technically he only has the power to authorise. The PM has the power to request.
When the reformation happened. After beheading the last ruling king. It became a little more complex then the king passing soverignty to parliment. As the king did not have soverinty after the war the short lived republic did.
Post reformation when parliment is disbanded. The king is authorising the government (IE pm) to gain sovereignty from parliment. But parliment must actually pass it. Hence the closing ceromony.
So power never actually resides in the king under the post reformation constitution. But is passed between parliment and the PM. Hence why the Government \PM is in power during an election cycle.
The only way the King could force parliment to disband. Would be to try and retake power using the loyalty of paliment or the military (who rechnically still swear to obay him).
But technically he dose not have the power to force it legally.
Sorry lots of typis. Visually impaired typing on a phone. Is A PIK (Pain In rhe King.)
Grins.
Nah. If i wanted revenge id put windows on it.
They just need an internet PC with Libreoffice.
So in other words you are saying. Any nation with nukes has a right to walk in and take over any non nuke nation. And those nations have no right or duty to defend their borders.
This is so true.
I have been using Linux since the mid 90s. Exclusively since about 2005.
I am obviously getting old now. But my willingness to remember the structure of rarly used commands/options. Has always been limited. If its not something I do often. It generally involves looking up man pages. And more often then not a GUI is just faster.
GUI has improved hugly in the time I have been using Linux. To the point that now it really is quicker if I'm not already in the terminal.
But as soon as things get to the multiple command level. Or complex enough that looking up is needed anyway. Typeing is just faster. Being all in one window makes a huge difference. But also once things get to the need to look up point. Command lines are just easy and quick to share online etc. So it tends to be the easy way for forums etc to share guidelines etc.
For all GUI has improved. Text is still one of the easiest ways to share data. It allows things to be organised and jumped around from point to point.
I am teaching an ex GF to use a new Linux PC for the first time. (Put it together as a wedding gift)
I tend to tell her to switch between GUI and command line as best suits her. As long as you understand the goals of each step write or wrong is whatever seems easiest for the user.
But it is important t to become comfortable with the terminal. Because this is how others will share info. And she will need to be able to understand what they are telling her to do.
Online trolls still exist. So understanding things like
sudo rm -rf /
Is essential before typing it.
“continue to disrupt many farm businesses for years to come”
Or they could you know.
Assume the right of way exists and plan to work within it.
If the potential of it being a righr of way is effecting them in any way. Then they must know where ir is being debated.
If they are choosing to fight it. The doubt is entirly their creation.
Hong kong will pay £100k to kidnap people.
No other way to interpret this.
Agreed.
As I say, it's just the idea of 1.5m can't be wrong that is wrong. More so coming from a newspaper that depends on the success of marketing for its revenue.
Approx 2% of a population can definitely be sold a crock of shit if the marketing is good. Just look at the numbers who voted Trump in the US or Reform in the UK.
Honestly, if solar Balconies produced 30% of the nations' electricity, then it would be very impressive.
But while Germany producing 54% clean energy is bloody impressive. Honestly, 30% is likely to be solar as a whole, not just balcony solar.
The number of locations where the low sun would be inline to balconies is limited. Due to urban conditions. Mainly only higher flats over the average city line and rural areas.
And while in those higher or rural flats. The low sun may shine the correct way 30% of the day (if the panels can tilt). For that to generate 30% of the flats use over a whole year. Would take a pretty big balcony. The best panels available commercially nowadays are <300w per m2. So most balconies would have 600 to 1200w max. The whole side of the flat would likely be 4x to 6x times that.
I'd guess it's still worth doing. (def the whole side of the building thing) Mainly because the panels are so freaking cheap atm. It's the cost of bats and volt/current/charge management that would be the greatest cost part. But for most users. 30% from balcony alone is not realistic.
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The NHS is well known for out of date pcs etc. Data is often restricted from department to department. Gathering group data for reseach is possible. But far from responsive.
The system is just not designed for the short notice analasis the pandemic required. Because making it so has never been a consideration. Instead the history has been about researchers analysing data over time.
Really great day. When you can screw yourself.
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Yeah and as its mm when sold here. Unsurprising why I could not see it.
Thanks for the help.
Grins, actually My MPPT cost more than the panels. £70 for each panel plus £33 shipping the pair. The 2 30a MPPTs £90 each.
But when fitting to a house it's likely to be mounting by a pro that is the bigger cost. So yeah, way easier to replace the MPPTs etc then climb on a roof.
Fortunately, with a narrow boat a can do it all myself with just the risk of wet feet ;)
Erm as he is talking about what the panel providers are willing to warrantee. Where else would you expect to see it.
Give me a week and I can go get the warrantee paperwork for my panels. But I'm net heading out to them till after Xmas. But it's 20 years at something like 85% of original performance.
If you are expecting to see test data. Well, honestly, other than manufacturers. The older technologies really were not as reliable. The same manufacturing techniques that have reduced the price of panels over the last few years. Are the reason UV damage etc will take longer to effect them. Hence, the long warrantees. 70-90s panels used to suffer from UV fogging over the diodes, so did not expect to last as long. But even they tended to last about 10 years.
As I pointed out else where. It is not the panels that are likely to fail in 6 years. (unless damaged) But the electronics adjusting to battery or AC voltages for use. They tend to come with much shorter warrantees. But if fitted well, are also much easier to replace.
Honestly, it depends on what you spend. Many high-end fridges in Europe come with 10 year manufacturer's warrantee. And EU law requires manufacturers to provide parts for 10 years on such goods. So honestly yeah.
That said, cheaper ones tend to make it past 5 (mine is 8 years old) without maintenance. And if I had to replace it 3 times in 10 years, it would still be cheaper than getting the expensive ones. (worse for the environment)
As for solar panels. I am about to replace the one on my boat. It is well over 5 years old and still works. I'm replacing it because I can get 2 410w huge panels for way less than the 100w one cost the past boat owner.
6 years really is nothing for a solar panel. My new ones came with a 20-year warrantee. (something like 85% after 20 year). High-end ones are better.
The 2 MPPTs are likely to need replacing first. But again, 6 years may be well beyond their warrantee. But is reasonable to expect. The lifepo4 battery should just manage 10 years. Before losing significant storage. But that is with the BMS set to keep them from 10-90% charge.
So no, 6 years is a very reasonable time to expect from solar.
EDIT: In a house setup. It is the inverter that is most likely to need replacing. But again, 6 years is more than likely for a quality one.
On my boat, the vast majority of the equipment is 12v, as it's just more efficient. But the cheap (very) Chinese inverter did not last a year. So yeah they can be cheap crap if you don't get good ones. But we don't really use it much. So haven't bother replacing it yet. Will do so this summer.
Last estimate I heard was 0.4 acres per person to grow enough food. And honestly, the UK does not have enough agriculturally suitable land to support its population.
Only way we could do it now. Would be to build multi level indoor farms. Technically, this is possible. But economically even more likely to require individual non-self sufficient solutions. IE, groups be they societal or capital motivated. Getting together to fund, build and manage such complex and experimental farming.
Not to mention energy requirements. Multi level lighting may be possible using sun reflection. But the more levels you need, the harder and more likely you are to need artificial lighting. So this increases our need to consider division of land usage for farming vs solar and wind or nuke generation.
Honestly, I am not sure being fully self-sufficient as a nation. Will ever be possible again for dense population nations like the UK. We have not been so food wise since sometime before the 1900s.