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  • Ba'al Zevul (Thin Red Line)

    Re the AEI, Mary – you didn’t know? Now google ALEC (and see threads passim re Fox-Werritty)

  • Habbabkuk (La vita è bella) !

    Mary

    “There was a clear implication by you that I receive free prescriptions in yet more of your stupid remarks. You would probably like a list if there was one but there isn’t.

    I and my late husband paid NI contributions to the Exchequer over many years in the expectation that the NHS would provide care and treatment, free at the point of need.”
    ____________________

    It was hardly an implication, more of a fact. You are over 60 (you’ve told us that yourself) and therefore you are exempted from paying prescription charges (you yourself kindly supplied a list of the exemptions).

    The narrow point I was making was to question whether it is reasonable to exempt people(including the over-60s) from prescription charges if they are well able to pay the modest charge (about £6?) otherwise levied.

    The broader point would be that it could also be argued that most people (I do not say everyone, obviously) could well afford to pay either a small monthly charge as suggested by Lord X or alternatively pay a small charge at the point of delivery for all kinds of healthcare services as and when recourse is made to them. This is the system used in continental countries.

    As to Mary’s point that she and her late husband paid N.I. contributions (which, of course, do not go exclusively towards the cost of healthcare) during their working lives is not really germane to the discussion. Continental systems – which are not US-style systems, by the way – are funded through a combination of (1) (general)social security contributions, (2) in some countries, contributions to compulsory schemes often called “mutuelles” (these are non-profit making institutions) and (3)a charge to the patient at the point of delivery of the various services. So the idea of doing something similar in the UK is hardly off-the-wall.

    On the more general point of affordability, no-one – least of all I – would attempt to claim that there are not people whose financial situation is so precarious that even a small charge for visiting a GP (for example) would cause hardship of an unacceptable kind. But, surely, provision should and would be made for such situations. It is however important to remember that the great majority of people are well able to afford such minor charges: it is enough to examine for a moment current patterns of expenditure – the 1000 and 1 items of froth on which people spend (too much of)their disposable income – to see the truth of this. The cost of foregoing three Starbucks caffé lattes would pay the monthly charge suggested by Lord X, and the price difference between an adequate smartphone and the latest “must-have” model would pay for a whole year’s worth of such a charge. Which is a long-winded way, I suppose, of suggesting that a certain prioritisation of expenditure would be entirely feasible.

    All for now on this.

  • ESLO

    @Goss

    “ESLO (or whoever) you called me a low-life. I did not call George Robertson a paedophile. There is a big difference! I doubt you are capable of seeing the difference.”

    I never said you did what I said was

    “Don’t think that by changing George Robertson’s name to Robinson that you are excluded from a potential libel action – though you may be by being a worthless low life who Lord Robertson doesn’t think is worth the bother.”

    What you said was

    “A Node the Guardian report is the tamest I’ve read about George Robinson and his association with the alleged paedophile ring run by Hamilton – having his child removed from a club!”

    You made an insinuation, your sort rarely have the courage to say things directly. Perhaps you might also wish to explain what you were inferring by the use of the exclamation mark.

  • Ba'al Zevul (Thin Red Line)

    Inmarsat…it’s just about plausible that measuring the delay times between the arrival of a timestamped signal at two satellites could give a picture of the aircraft track. Last I heard, Inmarsat runs three equispaced, geostationary, equatorial satellites, and the coverage of two of them overlaps effectively in the eastern Indian Ocean area. However, the final transmission was probably beyond the coverage of the one over Africa (EMEA).

    This was not their original claim, however, as reported in the MSM. The MSM don’t always get technology right, either, so an element of doubt there.

    But I don’t think that’s the whole story, and I think their reticence probably has to do with input from military sources. The current MSM (handout) map of the search area indicates that this is the seventh version of the model coming from God knows where; the expensive search for debris in an ocean full of debris, and quite a way away from the modelled track, suggests also that minimal credence was attached to the model.

    Still, good luck to them. It’s 3000 metres deep where they’re looking. I note Trowbridge H Ford has absented himself from the discussion, anyway. That’s a plus…

  • Ben-Scot NON-collaborator

    Immarsat is infrared capable, Ba’al. The twaddling about Doppler is more misdirection. Doppler is only a factor in the VISIBLE band of light.

  • Habbabkuk (La vita è bella) !

    Conspiracies : Ben rushes in where Trowbridge fears to tread…..LOL

  • John Goss

    “your sort rarely have the courage to say things directly.”

    Your sort rarely have the courage to write anything under their own name (though they use other socks). Stop addressing me unless you can do so politely. Otherwise I’ll introduce a ESLOBREAK.

  • A Node

    John Goss,
    Judging by the escalating number of troll hours spent on you, you must be doing something right.
    Please keep on doing it.

  • Ben-Scot NON-collaborator

    Well, they can put a flashlight up my arse to see what I had for dinner, but they can’t find a 777.

    LOL.

  • AlcAnon/Squonk

    Ben,

    The Doppler analysis appears valid to me. Inmarsat has released some technical information on the frequency shifts they recorded and the modelling they used and this has been discussed on various technical forums. The maths and the physics all looks good.

    Also Inmarsat do use a “Software Defined Radio” (SDR) implementation to downlink and then record the received RF at the satellite. The comment in the Telegraph is wrong on that point.

    Commercial aircraft satellite comms do some Doppler corrections themselves but this particular 777 had an older model satellite terminal which actually made it easier for Inmarsat.

    Police speed guns use the Doppler effect with reflected radio waves to work out how fast your car is going. It’s well understood.

  • fred

    “Well, they can put a flashlight up my arse to see what I had for dinner, but they can’t find a 777.”

    I don’t think it’s likely to have been there anyway.

  • Ben-Scot NON-collaborator

    “I don’t think it’s likely to have been there anyway.”

    The trap was set for others, but I should have known. 🙂

  • doug scorgie

    Ben-Scot NON-collaborator
    9 Apr, 2014 – 3:58 pm

    “Immarsat is infrared capable, Ba’al. The twaddling about Doppler is more misdirection. Doppler is only a factor in the VISIBLE band of light.”

    Sorry Ben Doppler is a factor in all electromagnetic waves and even sound.

  • AlcAnon/Squonk

    Glenn,

    I wouldn’t worry about this blog being vulnerable as it is set up incorrectly for https and you can’t get a secure connection to the blog in the first place.

    If you got to https://craigmurray.org.uk/ (and accept the security certificate warning) you will get the message

    “Welcome to craigmurray.org.uk
    To change this page, upload a new index.html to your private_html folder”

    As the blog operates totally unencrypted even for Craig’s access and moderators then it should be assumed that Craig’s password and those of the mods are in the possession of multiple agencies but they wouldn’t need the heartbleed bug for that

    It used to be possible to access this blog via https but that has been broken since the server problems several months ago.

  • A Node

    Listening to 5 Live radio just now, a report about Greece being allowed to borrow money again. The tenor of the report is that this is a cause for celebration, the purse strings are loosened, Greece is being rewarded for sticking to its austerity measures.

    Why did Greece get into trouble? Because it couldn’t repay its debts.
    Has its economy recovered? No, it’s in tatters.
    Unemployment? 28%.
    Ability to repay this new debt? Zero.
    Likelihood that Greece will fall deeper under the control of bankers? Certain.
    By what logic is it good for Greece that it is borrowing more money? Banking logic.

  • AlcAnon/Squonk

    By the way as of last night people were actually using the bug to download user email passwords direct from then unpatched Yahoo email servers

    http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/04/critical-crypto-bug-exposes-yahoo-mail-passwords-russian-roulette-style/

    For an idea of the type of information that remains available to anyone who knows how to use open source tools like this one, just consider Yahoo Mail, the world’s most widely used Web mail service. The images below were recovered by Mark Loman, a malware and security researcher with no privileged access to Yahoo Mail servers. The plaintext passwords appearing in them have been obscured to protect the Yahoo Mail users they belong to, a courtesy not everyone exploiting this vulnerability is likely to offer. To retrieve them, Loman sent a series of requests to servers running Yahoo Mail at precisely the same time as the credentials just happened to be stored—Russian roulette-style—in Yahoo memory.

    https://www.schneier.com/

    Catastrophic” is the right word. On the scale of 1 to 10, this is an 11.

  • Ben-Scot NON-collaborator

    “When signals from a ground-based VLF transmitter travel through the magnetosphere and arrive at a low-altitude satellite in the conjugate hemisphere, they may undergo a spectral distortion due to Doppler shift by the satellite velocity. The paper presents a VLF ray tracing study of published VLF Doppler data samples. It is shown that the density structure of the plasmasphere leaves its imprint or signature in the observed Doppler shift pattern. Large positive and negative Doppler shifts (about 100 Hz) are reproduced by a strong decreasing electron density gradient interacting with the magnetic field curvature gradient between L roughly 2 and L roughly 3. VLF Doppler signatures can detect whether short-scale gradients dominate the density structure or merely perturb the long-scale gradient. The ray path calculations also allow one to map the signals observed by the satellite back to their excitation point in the lower ionosphere and thus estimate the effective transmitter coverage in the excitation hemisphere.’

    http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1976JGR….81.3327E

  • AlcAnon/Squonk

    Ben,

    That paper is about VLF radio effects and isn’t directly relevant to this case. Inmarsat uses frequencies in the Gigahertz range. VLF is in the Hertz to Kilohertz range.

  • Mary

    A Node 5.06pm I expect you heard that the IMF, a member of the triumvirate that brought down the Greek people and others bordering the Mediterranean to penury, gave a gold star to Gideon and Agent Cameron yesterday. Gideon was seen in Brazil crowing and as pleased as punch.

    IMF upgrades UK growth for 2nd time this year

    8 Apr 2014

    The International Monetary Fund (IMF) upped its forecast for U.K. growth on Tuesday to 2.9 percent this year—its second upgrade to the country’s outlook in 2014.
    http://www.cnbc.com/id/101563398

    YCNMIU.

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