June 1, 2008

June 1, 2008 by yorksranter 4 comments

Indecent behaviour at a police station, TPCA 1847

This essay by Ian McEwan in the Guardian Review shows precisely why the Decent influence on British intellectual life is so damn depressing. You may think, and I would say the AaroWatch crew are guilty of this, that they are just a bunch of wankers left behind with their blogs after history moved on. But…

June 1, 2008 by yorksranter 0 comments

Does anyone need Qtek 8100 user manuals?

Because although I don’t have one any more, I just stumbled on the user manual and the Windows install CD.

June 1, 2008 by yorksranter 0 comments

People say to me just be yourself, it makes no sense to follow fashion. How could I be anybody else?

Ackerman reckons we should be impressed that he suggested a Turkish-Kurdish rapprochement two years ago. The evidence for the rapprochement is pretty good – there are meetings going on between the KRG and the Turks, under the chairmanship of (Kurdish) Iraqi president Jalal Talabani, about issues connected with all the business Turkish companies are doing…

June 1, 2008 by yorksranter 1 comment

I View the Checksum: It was Exum

Turns out Abu Muq was Andrew Exum all along. Which is interesting; I’d read and been impressed by Exum’s work on Hezbollah and Iraq, but I’d never have thought it was him, chiefly because the man behind the stylish blogger template was obviously both smart and struggling to overcome a deeply ingrained wingnut streak. There…

June 1, 2008 by yorksranter 1 comment

Chance

Where else but Northern Ireland would the government form a Consultative Group on the Past? In other news, the Kevin Myers review has achieved the rare distinction of links from ahem, reactionary ballbag hack Tim Worstall and Ken MacLeod, who reckons Al Gore would so have staffed-up from AEI and Patrick Henry College in order…

‘Free and impartial’ addiction helplines paid secret commission by rehabs | Drugs | The Guardian
They were calling up our finance department and demanding early payment. They’d want their commission for the whole length of stay upfront, even though people might drop out and want refunds,” he said. “And we were getting all these emails from the brokers with names of people, saying: ‘If this person writes to you, they […]
Let it go - by Tom Hamilton - Dividing Lines
I would gently suggest to the Conservative Party that relitigating an issue that helped to prompt a huge shift in public opinion away from them, contributing a great deal to the downfall of an election-winning Prime Minister and an eventual landslide defeat, is not the best use of the time of a new leader who […]
Qualcomm claims trial win in dispute with Arm over chip design licences
Qualcomm said it was pleased with the verdict. The jury had “vindicated Qualcomm’s right to innovate” and confirmed the products at issue in the case were protected by its existing contract with Arm, it said. Arm said would seek a retrial based on the fact that the jury was “unable to reach consensus across the […]
Foxconn quashes delay rumors: GB200 NVL72 server shipments set for 4Q24
industry sources confirm that Foxconn Technology (Hon Hai) is maintaining its original schedule. Initial shipments are set to begin in December 2024 as planned // well they've not got long
Emmanuel Macron, une certaine idée du pouvoir
Full of quotes and petites phrases but in the end it's court gossip
Arm says it’s losing $50M a year in revenue from Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite SoCs - Ars Technica
That $50 million in alleged missing revenue looks like a relatively small amount to be fighting over, given that these are both billion-dollar companies—Arm made $3.23 billion in revenue in fiscal 2024, while Qualcomm earned $39 billion in revenue. It also seems counterproductive for Arm to disrupt the business of one of its largest and […]
Former MI5 chief to lead search for new Archbishop of Canterbury
It is understood that no candidate will be able to apply for the role. Instead, they will be “invited” into the recruitment process if their name comes up for consideration.
SeekTruthFromFacts on X: "@CofESurvivor @churchofengland I totally agree that there is a massive old-school-tie/old-university-pal problem in the Church of England. But Oxford and Cambridge have Anglican chapels and chaplains that serve undergrads. Many f
Every ABC (bar Carey who was Durham) has been an oxbridge graduate for hundreds of years.
HS2 boss blames failure to control costs on rush to start work | HS2 | The Guardian
“We have to acknowledge that HS2 in its core mission to control costs has failed,” he said. “We must break the cycle.” // kind of illuminating that the core mission is not to e.g. build a railway.
Légion d’honneur, mode d’emploi
Avec l’âge vient la course aux honneurs. Cela traduit aussi la peur d’être oublié