I donât recall these people crossing my radar, so off to the article I wentâŚ
Fuck me.
Does too much money turn people into sociopaths, or are we living in a system where sociopaths will naturally rise to the top?
As usual Private Eye was all over the story
While also praising the work of other journos
In other arsehole news
âBy April, it was clear that his model would not be pursued due to clinical viability and functionality. Nevertheless, Lord Agnew, a minister, warned the government chief commercial officer, Gareth Rhys Williams, in the following terms: âWeâre going to have to handle Dyson carefully. I suspect weâll have to buy a few machines, get them into hospitals so that he can then market internationally, being able to say that they are being used in UK hospitals. We both need to accept that it will be a bigger decision than we can both make. Remember, he got a personal call from the PM. This canât be ignoredâ.â
I donât like siding with Apple or âUS lawmakersâ, but in this case I have to.
âSecure encryption, but with a back-doorâ is an oxymoron.
Unfortunately, the actual morons in our government appear incapable of understanding this.
And I hate how successive UK governments have tried to push this and similar legislation through using the emotionally-charged scare-tactic âBut think of the CHILDREN!â
As has been proven over and over again, any backdoor for anything inevitably ends up in the hands of those you were trying to âprotectâ us from.
Worse, do these idiots honestly believe that criminalising the use of effective end-to-end encryption will prevent criminals from using it?
Fair play to Apple for removing this protection for UK users. Theyâve effectively chosen to demonstrate what happens when you compromise encryption.
All of a sudden, those innocent bathtime photos become widely available to exactly those people you donât want having access to them, and they proceed to alter them for their own purposes, then share them privately via effectively encrypted channels.
For people who are supposedly some of the best and brightest in our country, our intelligence agencies can be monumentally stupid.
Oh, they know exactly what this means. They just think that them having access to everyoneâs data is more important than any security flaws.
Itâs not (just) stupid, itâs lazy. They want everything handed to them on a silver platter.
Australia, 2017:
To which Turnbull replied: âThe laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia.â
Turnbull is not the stupidest PM of the last 20 years, not by a long shot.
With Liz Truss up there, it would be hard to compete.
Reform UK is staffed by oddballs and enigmas, but none odder or more enigmatic than George Cottrell.
âPosh Georgeâ, as he is nicknamed, has been described as Nigel Farageâs âright-hand manâ, an aristocratic private banker who works closely with the party leader. A recent article described the 31-year-old as âever-present, well-connected and willing to spend large amounts of moneyâ.
What exactly Cottrell does for the party is a mystery. âThere is one rule: donât ask what George does,â said a staffer quoted in The Spectator. Cottrellâs role is unofficial, reportedly connected to fundraising. His mother, who dated a young King Charles, is one of Reformâs biggest donors, and last year gave ÂŁ500,000 to the party.
This is the calibre of people that the Farageists are fielding as candidates.
I want to read that as âPhalangistsâ.