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You're not wrong springtime but sadly the countries who invested in the drug companies to do the r&d want returns, that's why they invested The UK is however the second biggest contributor to COVAC which helps distribute the vaccines to countries who can't get on the global race on their own. I still think WHO should be stepping up and managing the issue (either in Europe or the rest of the world)

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Sad thing is that this seems a game of vaccine chess being played with the residents of the EU and the UK as pawns. Absolutely not acceptable by either side and I know there is panic over procurement (the EU want to vaccinate as many as they can as do we) but for either side to restrict supply is simply unacceptable. What's the solution, I don't know maybe the EU needs to invest heavily in the factories in Belgium where the production problem lies, but even then will that be enough to vaccinate everyone who is high on the list. Strangely the Germans have made a decision, right or wrong, not to give the Oxford vaccine to the over 65s so they appear to be sacrificing some of their Pawns in the game. Let's hope history doesn't judge them for such terrible humanity decision. Overall rather than blame game being played with the EU accusing us of hogging (as a friend in southern Ireland told me yesterday) or the UK not being able to find a way to ramp up supplies (possibly with the EUs help) then it will get very very messy and the human toll won't be acceptable. Maybe WHO needs to step up 🤔

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This does highlight a bigger problem. GDPR was supposed to assist in keeping your data private by giving explicit consent on sharing, yet we see more and more personalised ads as the data the big companies have on us all is giving them an insight into our daily lives. For example Amazon (there are other online retailers) know our browsing habits, what we tend to buy and using predictive algorithms even what we don't know we want to buy. Tie that into tools like smart speakers and the internet of things and the insights they will have into us will lead to even more targeted selling. Link that to voice recognition and face recognition (ring doorbell , CCTV and so on) and the personalised adverts as you walk (as shown in the minority report) may not be so far fetched. Every decision you make on the internet can be used to build a picture of who you are, what consumer box to put you in and how to market to you. Even clicking on deny cookies can be circumnavigated as there is often a "legitimate purposes" toggle that you don't always see or disable. I agree with spring time that the outdoor space is a battle ground and whilst I don't really think it will get to be a constant wall of personalised advertising, as we remove adverts from platforms like the internet, we will see advertisers switch to other more effective mediums including street space.

Sue Not only still used by vital in some businesses as legacy systems are running on it and can't easily be converted or not worth converting COBOL is also still in use as well as some if the 4gls (forth generation languages) that emerged in the mid 80s Some people make good money supporting legacy systems 🤔

Let it all out Kid, free your mind as its put "a hex on you" You will feel a whole dos better once you can get back to basic86

SpringTime Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think the most useful are the posters above > urinals reminding us to have a prostate check up - > though these are more about publicity as opposed > to the endless spam we see everywhere else, > encouraging would-be consumers to buy tat they > don't need, but are being manipulated to want. So you're not a lady then ... or if you are "respect" on your free style peeing

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Sue A diagonal line in marker pen across the top of the punched cards helped get them back in order if you dropped them. I always laughed at things like the Italian job, or space 1999 where tape drives made a noise (they didn't in real life)

I can't wait for holographic outdoor adverts as shown in films like back to the future 2 or minority report where the adverts are tailored to each pedestrian Now that would be annoying

Dial up ? Wow that was posh. I used punch cards and mounted tapes to get a computer the size of a room to send a message to another computer (equally the same size) in the next building Them were the days when the ARPANET wasn't cluttered by trivia and malice 😱

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Seabag Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Maybe staple this to people?s heads, before you > submit them to your state euthanasia programme > > https://apple.news/AiygvXqy0T7ec_kqc7S8REQ OMG I think it maybe a case that should be shown to people who deny covid exists to help change their points of view. Sadly I don't think he will be the last person who suffers the same fate after denying it exists and it's shocking that he was so young but that should help prove that no-one is invincible

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That's interesting JohnL So by defying the odds to reach 65 the odds change to say that you will possibly live longer than expected as most things that would kill you before mid sixties are behind you. There possible is truth in that theory. Cat, I spoke with friends in India recently and their view is that covid is a rich man's disease as the poor don't live in crowded cities and tend to die younger so the remaining "stock" outside of big cities are more hardy so more likely to be able to overcome the effects. On the down side they did say that the true number of deaths in India May never be known as outside of big cities they aren't always recorded as covid deaths. It's an interesting concept and if right could our high mortality rates be down to something as simple as the western world not letting the elderly or weak die naturally by extending their lives with medication and treatment ? That's something that I expect will come out in the future when different population studies are done. (DR this is not an endorsement of your Interpretation of my earlier discussion as "state sponsored genocide")

TheCat Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Phew...glad you're back....I was worried I might > actually have to do some work today..... I thought it was you who broke it when you coughed up a furball onto the server ... 😽

Interestingly Croydon has agreed to remove the LTN in Crystal Palace https://democracy.croydon.gov.uk/ieDecisionDetails.aspx?ID=595 This may happen by Feb 12th and there are questions still over the use of ANPR schemes to control traffic however the decision was based on resident pressure and consultation feedback. Does this imply hope for Southwark doing the right thing and running consultations and listening to the results ?

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diable rouge Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Well, I certainly wouldn't advocate what you said, > instead I think education is the key, but as KK > has pointed out, you will always get a hardcore > that won't have the vaccine for whatever reason, > I'm afraid that goes with the territory of a > modern, functioning democracy. > The question is what level of take-up is required > to make the anti-vaxxers irrelevant/redundant? Do > we actually need 100% take-up? > We already have a high percentage of people who > are happy to have the vaccine compared to a lot of > other countries, from memory in the low 80's, and > I'd expect that to go higher. > Also, what are the conditions that cause a virus > to mutate? > I'm sorry, you making me PM doesn't give me > special powers to answer that, but I read > somewhere that one reason could be the heavy viral > loads that built-up when the schools and > universities went back , which if the case could > mean it's unlikely that the anti-vaxxers would > cause a mutation themselves as they are a > dispersed grouping, what with them tapping away on > their keyboards all day and night in their > 'command centre'. > Regardless, I'd listen to the science and follow > it, something this Gov has failed to do, most > notably prior to this deadly third wave. > And as an aside, there's no point the UK having a > successful vaccine take-up if other countries > don't, it needs to be a global effort, so 'vaccine > nationalism' can fook right off. > > So, vote DR for a brighter, happier future, and > more importantly the banning of Spartacus' corny > jokes... Now we're having a debate Good question concerning what percentage of people need to be vaccinated, I don't have an answer to that as I'm not doing the scientific research, I guess it needs to be low enough to halt transmission and stop mutations / variants that could negate the vaccine. Education is good but if we get a (say) 30% refusal then education alone may non be enough. The "branding" of those that refused was designed to open a discussion on how do you manage a higher take up and not my preferred option. The mutation caused by viral loads is possibly correct but as this one started in deepest darkest Kent then my thoughts are that it wasn't to do with schools / universities going back but it's spread may well have been speeded up by the return from university over Christmas. It's interesting that we do about 48% of the world's genome sequencing so identified the new variant but there is no guarantee this variant started here so could have travelled from somewhere else (theory only) and if that's the case then the whole schools / university's debate is muted and the fact it's a government failure would have to be called into question. Whilst anti Vaxers May be low in number, if (say) it's predominantly in certain communities then there may be large numbers of people in small areas where mutations could occur one theory is that the mutation started with one person who was unsuccessfully treated for covid but it mutated and if that's the case then even small numbers of unvaccinated people could present a risk. Totally agree about a global programme and as we are one off lead supporters of covax (second biggest funder) then we're doing a lot to make that happen We also created one of the vaccines which wouldn't have happened without our scientific investments over the years and recent government investment I sometimes feel that people knock the government for making mistakes but miss things that they get right. Yes mistakes have been made but would a different PM have got everything right ? Would there be questions about decisions made by Jezza or Teresa or David if things had gone differently over the years ? I suspect they would also have made mistakes. Would you really like to be PM? It's a thankless job and the pressures must be horrendous. Thank you for a proper debate, it's all I ask for (apart from my own comedy show of course)

diable rouge Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Keep plugging away Spartacus, as I said before, > you're now embarrassing yourself... God loves a Trier DR and you are trying so hard to convince yourself ...