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Post by IFISAcava on Feb 13, 2024 22:48:46 GMT
Labour party is doing anything possible to win power. There is no conviction at all. And I'm getting fed up of people conflating negative comments about the extreme right wing government in Israel with anti-Semitism. You sound surprised.
But why does the conflict in Gaza get so much publicity, when there are far worse conflicts around the globe. For example:
- 1.5m people displaced in Gaza is front page news, but over 6m displaced in the Sudan civil war doesn't get a mention
- 30,000 people killed in Gaza is front page news, but 20 times as many have died in the Syrian conflict.
Would people complain about Gaza so much if it was another arab country attacking them?
We know they wouldn't because when Assad/Syria attacked and then laid siege to Palestinians in Yarmouk there was silence. Somehow it is OK for Arabs to attack and besiege Palestinians, but as soon as Israel does it (or, in the case of 7/10, even before Israel retaliated) protests erupt. www.theguardian.com/news/2015/mar/05/how-yarmouk-refugee-camp-became-worst-place-syria
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Post by IFISAcava on Feb 13, 2024 10:17:24 GMT
Thanks for that. Do I need to provide the time/date or any reference number or parties ? case reference: FS-2019-000004
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Post by IFISAcava on Feb 12, 2024 21:26:11 GMT
If I wanted to view the hearing from the internet "public gallery" presumably view a video link, how would I do that ? email the day before and they should send you a link. Remember to keep you video and mike off though - judges get really grumpy!
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Post by IFISAcava on Feb 12, 2024 15:36:49 GMT
It is understood that the judgment will be handed down on Friday Feb 23rd in a remote hearing. Mousey , do you know if one can get access to this particular session? Presumably its the same email as before? chancery.mastersappointments@justice.gov.uk
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Post by IFISAcava on Feb 12, 2024 15:19:05 GMT
Its not, but I wasn't commenting on that. The point was that extrapolation from "not knowing what a hectogram is" to saying that means imperial is easier than metric is a false extrapolation. Probably very few of us know what a hectogram is without looking it up, because it's not a prefix in common day to day usage. Its usage is entirely optional and it would be more typical to omit it, frankly. But at least if used it is consistent wherever it is used: you could use hectogram, hectokilgram or hecto tonnes. Or hecto metres. On the other hand, ask normal people under I guess about 70 how many barleycorns there are in an inch, yards in a chain, chains in a furlong, or even something simpler as feet in a mile and they'll most likely look at you blankly. And they would not be able to work it out from first principles. Likewise pounds in a hundredweight (pro-tip: its not 100), or in a ton, or hundredweight in a ton. Virtually none of the imperial system of weights and measures can be derived from first principles because it doesn't use a consistent base system. So hecto might well be obscure, but that is just because its not commonly used. It doesn't mean the metric system is obscure or lacks clarity vs imperial. I have a strong science background, but given my dotage I now have to go and look up the prefixes for many of the 10 -x order of magnitudes. But that doesn't mean they are not logical or are inconsistent. As to "we all know what a foot is because of shoe size". Hopefully you aren't doing any DIY on that basis, unless you happen to have a shoe size of 13 + 0.04". Or should I say a size 13 + 1 barleycorn + 146 and 2/3 thous. Or if you prefer a size 13 + 480 thous. FWIW, for measurements for the purposes of doing things like DIY, system (inches) designed to be divisible by powers of 2 is attractive, IMHO. But heh, I'm also of an age when working in both is sort of second nature. I shan't lie and say I had never heard of a "barleycorn" but actually seems a lot more user-friendly name than a centimetre which presumably performs a similar function. Actually though when I looked it up it says its still the basis of shoe sizes. Be honest too, are you really using EU shoe sizes now? I know I'm "an 11" and that is presumably 11 barleycorns ..... As to "we all know what a foot is because of shoe size". Hopefully you aren't doing any DIY on that basis, unless you happen to have a shoe size of 13 + 0.04". Or should I say a size 13 + 1 barleycorn + 146 and 2/3 thous. Or if you prefer a size 13 + 480 thous.Regarding this, I say we know a foot is around a foot because we have 2 of them. NOT that it is exactly the size of your foot. On the other hand is a decimetre 10 metres or a tenth of a metre? Oh, we've already had that but I think you see my point about meaningful names. Absolutely always use EU sizes. What's more of a problem is that a) one shop's 42 is different from another's 42, b) there aren't enough half sizes any more (as some one who is 42.5) and c) the US shoe size system pretends to be recognisable but isn't. Not that anyone not on a US salary can afford anything in the US anymore.
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Post by IFISAcava on Feb 12, 2024 15:14:00 GMT
My screws are also metric but both are sold in equal measure how many years after "decimalisation" ? Do you buy 586ml of milk ? What about quoting distances on the roads? In fact as far as I know every single sign still uses imperial including yards.After many, many decades pounds and ounces seem to be on the way out but I've still seen markets using them as the primary measure. I wasn't suggesting I don't. My comment about "always use metric" was in the context of measurement of length in DIY. However, as we are on the subject, I actually rarely use the idea of "a pint of milk", and if I do its only because they are allowed to be sold with that nominal measure (as it was "too big a leap" to switch to metric, apparently). The reality though is I think in terms of buying "a litre" of milk (my normal size) regardless of whether I am actually buying a litre or 1.1xx. I think this is because my concept of "a pint of milk" is probably intrinsically linked with glass bottles of the stuff. And the brand I normally buy is tetra pak style anyway and IS a litre, not 2 pints. I currently have both forms of packaging in my fridge - so one which is 2 pints, but which has the metric volume equally prominent, and one actual litre). In my head, pints are reserved for beer. And that is, I think, as it should be 100% agree - pints are for beer and beer only. Milk is small, medium or large, and the difference between pint/500ml, 2 pint/1000 ml and 4 pint/ 2000 ml is irrelevant. In any case, a pint/500 ml is usually too small a container for supermarket bought milk for most people's purposes (and much more expensive per ml in every supermarket/corner shop). As for distance, anything less than a kilometre/mile will always be in metric (literally no one talks about inches, feet and yards except figuratively in my experience, barring a few elderly folk), above a kilometre/mile I agree people usually talk miles, but actually km is probably in about equal usage nowadays where I am, often due to people running/walking/cycling and using various apps and/or having lived elsewhere. And I HATE it that the Google maps lady uses feet and yards in the UK, as it means nothing to me - I have to convert feet back into metres to make sense. Most people also know their weight and (usually) height in metric too - I have to convert to metric when someone tells me a weight in stone/lbs. Again figuratively "I've put a few pounds on" but when asked how much it's "2 kilos". None of this of course applies to North Americans who are a law unto themselves . Attachments:
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Post by IFISAcava on Feb 5, 2024 19:40:46 GMT
The "a form of cancer" rather than "cancer" is also what makes me think leukaemia/lymphoma/myeloma more likely. Anyway, all will become clear, and I wish him well with his "regular treatments" - don't think they've said if radiotherapy or chemotherapy.
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Post by IFISAcava on Feb 5, 2024 19:35:29 GMT
I suppose something might have come up on an ultrasound.
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Post by IFISAcava on Feb 5, 2024 19:33:23 GMT
they'd probably operate on that, which I think we'd have been told about.
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Post by IFISAcava on Feb 5, 2024 19:32:28 GMT
I know its not prostate, but unless they were doing the procedure in a very unconventional way the search area is limited. Your prostate is located just below your bladder and it wraps around the uretha. If you have an enlarged prostate then it squeezes on the uretha and can make urinating difficult.
As far as I know there are a variety of treatments used to remove the bits of the prostate that are causing the problem, and they all involve inserting a variety of implements up the uretha. I don't know how this procedure could have uncovered something else (thought you needed a biopsy to confirm the presence of cancer).
it won't. They almost certainly didn't find it while doing the prostate op, and the fact that there is no surgery planned also rules out a lot of types of cancer (or means whatever the poor chap has is very advanced and non-operable - but that doesn't come across from the press releases, albeit that I have no idea how and when they'd break that news if it were the case).
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Post by IFISAcava on Feb 5, 2024 19:20:47 GMT
I know its not prostate, but unless they were doing the procedure in a very unconventional way the search area is limited. Well, they do blood tests, and various forms of blood cancer (aka leukaemia) are very common in this age group...
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Post by IFISAcava on Jan 30, 2024 12:04:11 GMT
Hi all,
I've invested in two p2p platforms (Moneything and Collatoral) via my ltd company, what's the best way to transfer the loans to my personal name so that if I do need to close the ltd I would still be entitled to the repayments?
Any advice would be reallly appreciated.
Thanks
not sure you can - but happy to be corrected.
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Post by IFISAcava on Dec 25, 2023 11:16:50 GMT
Amongst all the other silliness, I almost forgot the decision in Wales to give the vote to children. Don't forget the party list only system at the next Senedd election Whilst I greatly approve of a proportional system, the closed list system is the least good of the proportional systems. Not sure what was too wrong with the old additional member system.
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Post by IFISAcava on Dec 4, 2023 16:51:12 GMT
An email arrived yesterday with the news that we can now trade properties that are up for sale 'providing one can find a buyer'. Better than nothing I suppose.
There is money to be made on properties left on this platform if you're willing to spend a few hours of DD. All the necessary data is there, it's just a question of balancing the discounts available against how long you think it will take to sell the remaining units in each property i.e. cash drag. And after the last unit is exchanged there is another 2 month delay while the SPV accounts are formalized.
I'm not putting any new money in or selling at large discounts.
The problem is the discounts are against valuations that have proven very unreliable.
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Post by IFISAcava on Dec 4, 2023 16:50:01 GMT
Consultants having secretaries?! If only... my sister is one, indeed she's the senior secretary in a team of them one of the lucky few.
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