I guess either he's genuinely seen as a threat by the current leadership, or he's a handy punching bag for them. Either way I feel the antisemitism explanation is just as lacking in evidence as any other.
I've worked with a number of utilities here in the UK and they are pioneering in their use of technology, to the extent that in one example a power company
had reached the limits of a particular piece of software that I was supporting, and thus the US creator of the software was forced to patch it - it was originally built for the US market and US networks are smaller, and so when the whole of a UK country was thrown at it it puked. Another example was a multivariate GIS analysis that combined historic weather data with soil type, slope, tree height, type and distance from powerline etc to estimate risk to power supplies from trees falling onto power lines as a consequence of extreme weather events. Yet another example is route planning for national grid interconnects, including analyses of potential sea bed routes based on hydrographic data. There's so much stuff going on in the background that you only become aware of if you have a reason to.
Quite. Moreover and with apologies to Marx, where is this 10x coming from? The simple fact is that it's the fruit of other people's labour that is being appropriated.
OK, but look at the context - out of nowhere we have obvious diversity at all costs propaganda. I'm watching the BBC's Christmas trailer now which involves a brown skinned single father and his daughter. This in no way represents the average in the UK in fact the UK is almost 90% white - so what message is the BBC trying to send? Am I one of the bad guys to recognise the colour of the skin? Because you can bet that whoever came up with the idea certainly had race at the front of their minds. Is the UK really so racist that we deserve to be subjected to this type of manipulation? Is it beyond the realms of possibility that the people behind this agitprop are in fact the very same nefarious forces you mention?
Wow, liberal fascism distilled, pretty much a call to arms for the destruction of individual cultures and global imposition of wrongthink. South Park's Death Camp of Tolerance comes to mind. I await the introduction of the reeducation gulags.
Edit: I'm just amazed that people cannot see this guy is blantantly arguing for the exact thing he claims to despise:
'Meanwhile, give the right-of-way to people driving cars with the “Mean people suck” bumper sticker, and remind everyone that we’re in this together against Lord Voldemort and House Slytherin.'
He goes on at length about why us and them is bad and then LITERALLY ARGUES FOR an us and them attitude :|
For a grad level position I'd argue it's just about acceptable - outside of the big tech companies UK salaries aren't that amazing, and it could probably be a nice stepping stone onto something bigger and better. Usual story in SE UK though - on that salary it would likely be a long and dull road of saving hard even to afford a shoebox, and patriotism doesn't pay the bills.
I selected PostgreSQL for a geo project recently. Still haven't got my head around tuning, but apart from that I've found it great to use. I use psycopg2 to connect from Python. No nasty surprises in use, and found that all my pidgin SQL translated easily. Also worth knowing that ogr2ogr supports PostgreSQL and is an awesome tool.
Some obvious discrepancies around permitted speech on this topic. Say you like traditional British values and think they are being undermined by immigration: "Racist! Xenophobe! There are no traditional British values anymore! Go back to the Daily Mail little Englander!"
Point out that Israel or Japan have immigration policy that are highly exclusive: wind blowing, tumbleweed..
This reminds of a trend I read about a while back where the rewards accrue to an increasingly small number of high profile people in a field while the majority just get poorer.
Stop avoiding the question: do you honestly believe there was not FUD from the remain side? I suggested you google brexit scaremongering to enlighten yourself. Did you do that? You are obviously a troll :)
'First Round Capital reports that its investments in companies with a female founder have posted 63 percent better returns than men-only firms.' so what? Correlation does not imply causation. Also it might be that female founded firms are less risky, and so less likely to generate mega returns. Or it could be the opposite. Point is we don't know and the stat is useless on its own.
'This man naturally assumed that he knew more about it than I did. It was his ingrained view of women — a view that’s costing all of us.'. This is nothing more than an assertion.
Finally I think only the most naïve or faux-naïve would be surprised to find that Wall Street contains some pretty serious/insane characters. Isn't that kind of the nature of the beast? I bet there are plenty of men that have to deal with terrible behaviour also. That's not to excuse any of this behaviour, but I'm sure the idea that if you are a man you are guaranteed an easy ascent to the upper reaches is risible.
Do you honestly believe there was no FUD from the remain side? If so you are obviously a troll or out of touch with reality. There literally hundreds of hits if you google brexit scaremongering or similar that reference scare tactics both within and outside of the UK, but no doubt you will refuse to accept that that proves anything either, so I wish you well with getting back in touch with the real world.
OK so disregard the Treasury then if it makes you happy - my general point stands, despite your effort to split hairs - there was massive concerted lies and deceit from leave, and subsequent 'despite Brexit' stories from the BBC etc in their attempt to distract from the egg on their faces. Care to address the leave FUD directly? I suspect you've exhausted your rhetorical armoury by now.
Majority of what? The FUD? In another post I've given a series of links showing some of the crap that was flung around by the remain campaign, of which there was plenty. Bob Geldof on the Thames hurling abuse at Nigel Garage? That was a pretty sight. Eddie Izzard slagging off leave on Question Time didn't look too good either.
And if we are on the topic of lies and deceit let's consider the ongoing campaign to undermine the democratic decision of the British people, quisling puppet Gina Miller, war mongerer Blair et al. Lovely bunch of people. It wouldn't surprise me if the £350m was deliberately planted to give remoaners a weapon to undermine the result.
'How bad could it get? Morgan Stanley warns British stocks could lose nearly 20 percent in a Brexit win scenario. Bank of America Merrill Lynch believes U.S. stocks could lose upwards of 7 percent. Citigroup sees European stocks down 20 percent. Deutsche Bank sees 10 percent downside risk.'
'Unemployment would rocket. Tumbleweed would billow through deserted high streets. Share prices would crash. The government would struggle to find buyers for UK bonds. Financial markets would be in meltdown. Britain would be plunged instantly into another deep recession.
Remember all that? ..It hasn’t worked out that way. ..it is obvious that the sky has not fallen in as a result of the referendum, and those who said it would look a bit silly.'
Somehow I doubt you would be so scrupulous in asking for sources for generally known facts if they were not so inconvenient for your position. I'm also interested to know in what world you think 'immediate and profound economic shock' does not correspond with a stock market crash.
No, you are the one playing semantics. The consensus is that Merkel forced mass immigration on the rest of the EU. Look how well that went down in recent elections in Germany - she barely escaped and only after an unprecedented intervention by the president.
Personally I'm on the side of Poland in resisting the globalism-at-all-costs push. One could just as easily describe the 'accept mass immigration and fuck your population's feelings' attitude of the EU as a form of fascism.