JohnL

Yes - you can guess I hate it - but I hated it when servers stopped being located in a back room of every office in the early 2000s :)

Telecoms, call centers - 3 years ago the managers of these were saying how do you move to the cloud -now that's all been done. Companies save on corporate rental - they didn't think about the support industries like hospitality.

jimlad48 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > So in other words you think we can tax the living > daylights out of the online high street and thats > all thats needed? Thats a very 'optimistic' > approach that will end in tears. > > If you want a world class NHS then you need to > open the economy up - every day you delay is > making it harder and harder to recover from this > self-inflicted disaster. I'm not supplying answers - just suggesting that things have changed and they won't change back. Our IT teams spent the last few years moving things to the cloud - it was just coincidence that just as we got to the point we could work remotely we had to work remotely. I assume (as is usually the case) other companies are doing exactly the same (by the way this isn't brilliant for me as a legacy network guy - but I'll be retired in 10 years)

jimlad48 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Its all well and good saying we need to pay more > taxes for COVID, but where is the tax revenue > coming from? I took flak for this on this very > forum back in April making this point. > > We can lock down for as long as we like, but if we > destroy private industry in the process, we won't > have the means to fund an NHS that we want in the > medium term. Private industry needs to be given as > much ability as possible to work, because without > it, the tax revenues won't exist. Silicon Valley and it's high tech mates as well as companies like Peloton are doing very well thank you. We all use them rather than walking to Top Shop to buy a hat but how do you tax them Oh yes - and many of us can work from home because work has been shifted from workplaces to places like Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure.

There were anti-lockdown protestors around London today - not sure if any were around ED.

And this is the movement plan page that does state an aim of reducing car ownership but not by how much (unless I can't find it) https://www.southwark.gov.uk/planning-and-building-control/planning-policy-and-transport-policy/transport-policy/policy-and-guidance-documents/movement-plan

I think the Southwark plan is the below - note petrol and diesel not all. "Adopt a local target to halve petrol and diesel road journeys by 2025, and by 90% by 2030" Recommendation 8 http://moderngov.southwark.gov.uk/documents/s91690/Cabinet%20response%202nd%20Review%20of%20the%20Climate%20Emergency%20Strategy.pdf So some (or much) of that gets replaced by Electric

FairTgirl Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > That's the million dollar question isn't it... > whose idea is all of this tinkering with closing > roads into DV spending the Tfl funds (tax payer > money) that could be better spent with some decent > public transport and cycling infrastructure work > for the whole area. > > Guys and St Thomas's are funding some of it. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/17/london-hospital-trust-to-pay-250k-to-install-ltn-for-public-health-benefits And that links to further funding from Grant Shapps "The UK government is to push ahead with a new wave of traffic reduction schemes to help more people walk and cycle, telling councils that while they must properly consult on new projects, they should also not be derailed by a minority of noisy opponents." "Announcing the new ?175m tranche of money, part of wider plans to adapt travel to the impact of coronavirus, Grant Shapps, the transport secretary, pointed to polling which shows significant support for such measures across England." https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/nov/13/local-councils-advised-to-push-ahead-with-traffic-reduction-schemes of course we host COP26 next year and want to show BREXIT as a success environmentally.

Actually if anything Biden is Nixon :) without the dodginess and shadow of course,

Effra Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The odds are that Biden will be a single term > President also because he does project clear > policy objectives. He is a classic middle-road > politician who will be a weak appeaser. He's > another Jimmy Carter. If he can't get the red > necks working and happy again, it could all get > messy. They are all armed and angry. Actually he's not Jimmy Carter - he's very experiences at how to work in the American system having done it for 40 years. He might be too old for a second term - but never say never.

If you watched the Panorama program on leaseholders (deserves it's own thread) you'll possibly be charged using an S20 by the freeholder and insurance won't cover it.

Damn ... wrong account LOL (I'm just being sarky and don't know if there are two accounts or not)

Nationally, deaths are back up above 600 but cases are falling and falling more obviously in London https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/london-coronavirus-cases-latest-figures-tier-2-b79014.html I will be alone again this XMas (and I don't mind) but why can't people use tech - telepresence is almost as good as being there - and you get to keep some privacy :)

There's a trial of rented ones in London starting in the spring - still illegal on public roads/pavements at present https://www.energylivenews.com/2020/11/19/london-to-host-uks-largest-e-scooter-trial/ Maybe knowing there's a trial coming up people aren't being stopped - but there will be no valid insurance if they're illegal.

Headline Tony Blair: 'I express more sorrow, regret and apology than you can ever believe' Column below Tony Blair has rejected the Chilcot inquiry?s criticisms of his decision to lead Britain to war in Iraq in 2003, but expressed ?sorrow, regret and apology? for some mistakes he made in planning the conflict. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jul/06/tony-blair-deliberately-exaggerated-threat-from-iraq-chilcot-report-war-inquiry

Trump was temporary as dictated by democracy :) The US is obviously a better place to live than many nations .. but that doesn't mean it shouldn't try and be better under Biden.

This was an X-File apparently (but no the ED version) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum

I think England allows you to do so - but worth checking for insurance as well (an illegal journey might not be insured and the article below doesn't list exercise - it's also November 2020). https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/drivers-warned-insurance-invalid-non-22974841 The government site says "11. Travel to spend time or exercise outdoors - this should be done locally wherever possible, but you can travel to do so if necessary (for example, to access an open space)" But what if an open space is closer to you - typical wibble wobble :) https://www.gov.uk/guidance/new-national-restrictions-from-5-november

Reported this morning that younger people feel loneliness more during the lockdown. Is this because as you get older you have strategies to deal with being alone ?

Rockets Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There is certainly a wave of pro-LTN propoganda > being pushed at the moment - there must be the > realisation that the pressure is mounting so they > have to push some of the usual hyperbole.... We pledged to reduce carbon emissions etc. etc. and now Biden is going to hold us to it. Do you notice "Build Back Better" isn't just a British or US slogan - it's everywhere across the globe. Either it was to good a slogan to discard or there is a global plan (as there should be)

Anyway Boris seems chipper enough - almost as if he's glad to self isolate for a while

Boris has gone back into isolation in No10 now it seems after not wearing a mask when meeting an MP (Kay Burley said "Oh Dear" when Hancock suggested they don't wear masks in No10). Who's going to be the leader without Cummings and Cain. Maybe Allegra Stratton and Carrie Symonds will run the show - they seemed to be the opposition to Cain and Cummings laddish culture..

jimlad48 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Did you observe any laws being broken? > > Are there any byelaws preventing this person being > there? > > Did you call the police at the time? > If you're single and male you do notice there are things you are expected not to do in todays world It's not against the law just frowned upon and most people don't want to be the object of gossip even anonymously and don't want to make people feel threatened in any way either. Some people don't pick up on these rules for various reasons.

I expect they test your temperature with one of temperature guns before going in.

Rashford has to invest his money somewhere I guess (unless he's going to store it under the mattress or give it all away) Check your pension funds by the way - mine seems to be big american tech companies. Is that really much better ?