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 Discussion on answer by Separatrix: S…

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Moo
Feb 22, 2023 15:56
@Kyralessa you are most welcome. In fact, Vernon and Petunia would have basically been forced to do something about Harrys eyesight, as he would have been tested at some point in school - they periodically did healthcare checks, including weight, height (ie for developmental tracking purposes), eyesight and hearing. This was how my own shortsightedness was discovered. The school would then have expected to see it resolved, so the Dursleys would have had to do something or get into trouble - the fact that Harrys glasses were broken shows no unnecessary trips tho!
Moo
Feb 22, 2023 15:56
The first Harry Potter book was published 25 years ago, during the late 1990s - and definitely before glasses really took off as a fashion thing in their own right (I know, I had glasses growing up and they were very much viewed negatively). Harry would have had access to NHS funding for his glasses during that period, which meant that his glasses were very much functional with little thought to looking good - and I cant see Vernon or Petunia spending any money at all to get anything but the basic NHS frames. When the book was released, JKRs views of glasses were spot on IMHO.
 

 Discussion on answer by Juhasz: Has t…

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Moo
Dec 24, 2022 09:05
@jwenting no idea where you live, but in every country where Ive lived the fire brigade assists in most things - Ive never lived in the US. Car accident that needs someone removing from the car? Yup, they do that. Got a leaking milk truck and the milk cant enter the local water system? Yup, fire brigade. Need an obese patient removed from a block of flats and they are too big for the elevator? Yup. Mountain Rescue needs assistance? Fire Brigade is there. Etc etc etc. Their scope is a lot wider than any other emergency service…
Moo
Dec 24, 2022 09:05
@quarague one would hope that the number of firefighters or their budget is not directly proportional to just the incidences of fires - in pretty much every country, the fire brigade (or local equivalent) is called out for most things involving a physical rescue - extrication from a car, assisting a patient from a difficult location etc. The fire brigade really tend to be the catch all emergency service who happens to also fight fires 🙂 (which they do very well).
 

 Discussion on question by Reshma Kraj…

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Moo
Sep 16, 2022 22:10
@ReshmaKrajan that almost certainly wont stand as a reasonable tie because you are taking your mother away from her caring duties for almost 6 months, so shes not needed for that care in the eyes of anyone reviewing this application.
Moo
Sep 16, 2022 22:10
@ReshmaKrajan well, the fact that you have property, in your name, in India and yet you … arent living in India, kinda shows the issue doesnt it. You do not have a strong case at all - which is a valid outcome, unfortunately.
Moo
Sep 16, 2022 22:10
@ReshmaKrajan the problem is, neither of those two things are ties - gold can be trivially sold, cars can be trivially sold or abandoned. You need to make a case to the immigration officer as to why your parents will return to India and then back that case up with evidence - so, why will your parents return to India after nearly 6 months in the UK? That 6 month period also demonstrates poor ties with India - your parents being able to step out of their lives in India for 6 months shows that theres nothing really important there for them to miss. How do you explain that?
 

 Discussion on question by Veljko: Gre…

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Moo
Sep 6, 2022 15:29
@Kyralessa whether a violation of the GDPR has happened here depends on a lot of information we simply do not have, but everyone in this comment thread that is either stating “its illegal” or “its legal” is coming from an uninformed position. If you want an answer on the legality, ask the question over in Law - but be prepared to give. Alot more info. Its entirely possible this can be 100% legal and valid under the GDPR - yes, a picture was taken with a phone, but you dont know if it was taken with an employer issued phone or a particular app. It could be entirely in line with the GDPR.
 

 Discussion on answer by Hilmar: What …

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Moo
Aug 17, 2022 04:00
@kevinarpe dont fall into the trap of assuming that healthcare costs arent equally as ruinously expensive in other countries if your healthcare isnt covered by other means. For example, a foreign traveller to the UK who attends A&E with a heart attack would be on the hook for upwards of $30,000 easily. A visit to A&E for even a minor issue may cost $1000.
 

 Discussion on question by Fiksdal: Is…

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Moo
Jul 6, 2022 19:48
@Harper-ReinstateMonica also farmers in the UK are switching from producing crops for human consumption to crops for animal consumption solely on the basis that its both cheaper and animal-orientated crops are hardier. Crops grown for human consumption requires more fertiliser and better weather for a profitable yield, and farmers cant afford the fertiliser any more…. So the likelihood is that if the farmers werent growing animal feed they would be bankrupt instead in the current financial climate.
 

 Discussion on answer by Harper - Rein…

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Moo
Jul 5, 2022 13:44
@EdBeal realise that the world is in a shortage situation right now, prices are artificially high - I picked up both my washer and dryer for considerably less than $800 5 years ago, both going as good as the day they were bought, expecting another 10 years out of them easily. They arent even a well known brand.
Moo
Jul 5, 2022 13:44
@EdBeal yup, I got the conversion right. Happy with my numbers.
Moo
Jul 5, 2022 13:44
@GeorgeAnderson Im reading your comment and actually shaking my head as to how Americans think the rest of the world has it - my washer cost me about $200USD, is cold water fill, and I use one of two main cycles on it: 30 minute daily wash or 2 hour heavy wash. Works fine. My dryer is a non-venting electric condenser, and dries a 8kg load in 50 minutes. I can do all my normal laundry in under 90 minutes. And this is what I would consider normal.
 

 Discussion on answer by ThreePhaseEel…

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Moo
Jul 4, 2022 17:34
@FreshCodemonger define “forever”… My condenser dryer can dry a 8kg load in about 50 minutes, to iron dry standard.
 

 Discussion on question by Harshil Sha…

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Moo
Jun 28, 2022 20:10
@HarshilSharma so what happened after that, did you have to wait in the international lounge or what?
Moo
Jun 28, 2022 20:10
@HarshilSharma was the interaction with the immigration officer in London or Delhi? Or in other words, did the airline fly you to London on the off chance, you were refused entry for the hotel and detained by UK immigration? If so, yes you were refused at the border and the airline is in trouble…
 

 Discussion on answer by littleadv: Wh…

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Moo
Jun 22, 2022 21:51
@JonathanReez after living through two years of people getting frustrated at QR codes when signing into places as part of covid tracking, I disagree that they are “superior”. Far too many devices have issues reading them.
Moo
Jun 22, 2022 21:51
@JonathanReez why QR codes?!? Better things already exist. Good to know the chin-n-pin situation has improved in the US tho.
Moo
Jun 22, 2022 21:51
Hopefully the situation has improved in the past 5 years, I had a hell of a time getting places to accept my chip and pin card in 2017.
 

 Discussion on question by Julie: Is t…

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Moo
Apr 23, 2022 08:22
@Julie regarding the tax issue, it doesnt matter that you lived off savings, you may have obligations to file what is essentially a zero income self assessment anyway - you need to look into that. gov.uk/tax-foreign-income/residence
 

 Discussion on question by Jake: How t…

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Moo
Apr 21, 2022 10:02
@Jake because they are government officials who are responsible for permitting or denying entry of persons into countries - its their job to catch and deny undesirables, who are sometimes dangerous people who you definitely do not want to give entry into a country. And a 15 minute delay is not an undue or even unreasonable one, by any standard - its fairly reasonable. Go sit at Heathrow or the US border sometime for 4 hours while you are processed. As other people have said, the connection was tight to begin with and any number of delays could have caused the same issue.
 

 Discussion on answer by Jorge Córdoba…

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Moo
Feb 12, 2022 05:00
I think the only thing to add to this answer is “to any honest developer, this is what we call ‘Tuesday’”.
 

 Discussion on answer by DJClayworth: …

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Moo
Feb 2, 2022 19:36
@jcaron has the contract been cancelled by the seller, or is an agent (Delta) of the seller (Expedia) saying they cannot perform? Thus Expedia need to be contacted - which the OP doesnt even seem to have done
 

 Discussion on question by Tom: What i…

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Moo
Dec 9, 2021 17:00
The criteria is simple - reproducability in multiple double blind experiments with lots of candidates. The same way normal medical treatments are proven.
 

 Discussion on question by Mozibur Ull…

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Moo
Oct 17, 2021 16:25
@MoziburUllah now that I know your ulterior motive, I support the closing of this question.
Moo
Oct 17, 2021 16:25
@MoziburUllah Congratulations, you have cherry picked one to support your argument - now, what about all the rest, and what about the expertise that AZ brought, as well as all the proprietary approaches and technologies they may have used?
Moo
Oct 17, 2021 16:25
@MoziburUllah if the government wants the patents they should be doing all the work, top to bottom, and then we wouldnt have this issue in the first place.
Moo
Oct 17, 2021 16:25
@MoziburUllah “Big Pharma”. You seem to think that every company is the same, and all the patents are held by large multinationals that can afford you to come in and rip them off to the tune of hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars.
Moo
Oct 17, 2021 16:25
@MoziburUllah and there we have it, your real motivation in asking this question. I knew we would get there at some point. Im glad its out in the open and we can get rid of the pretense.
Moo
Oct 17, 2021 16:25
@MoziburUllah how does any of that relate to what I commented? If patents get taken away, then companies simply wont bother investing in that area in future - theres nothing illegal about that, and you cant force companies to invest in areas that you will then force into the public domain. If the WTO, WHO and governments want to do that, then they have ample public resource to carry out research and development themselves, rather than take it from patent owners. You “fix” this pandemic at the cost of private investment in the next.
Moo
Oct 17, 2021 16:25
@MoziburUllah my point is especially valid if you consider that in the case of mRNA vaccines there may be a tonne of tangential patents which would also have to be opened for the pandemic vaccine to be viable for others to manufacturer - you are basically slashing a companies viability and IP portfolio, just because it produced a useful vaccine, so next time they wont bother and their IP is safe.
Moo
Oct 17, 2021 16:25
@MoziburUllah yeah, vaccines might be “globally accessible” this time round, but next time? Companies will go “sod that, not spending the time or money on R&D for preventative vaccines because they just get taken off us for free, we will stick to treatments thanks”.
Moo
Oct 17, 2021 16:25
The correct approach here is not suspending the patents, but the governments or the WHO compulsorily purchasing them at market rate and then making them fully open. That way they can also release any documentation required to adtually implement the patents - without that documentation and documented knowledge, the vaccines cant be implemented from the patent documentation alone.
 

 Discussion on question by JonathanRee…

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Moo
Oct 11, 2021 06:16
as I said before - politics. Thats the reason for ADIZ. "We are watching you." Theres a specific reason the ADIZ that Taiwan publishes covers so much of Chinese airspace and sod all in the other direction, and its politics.

It has nothing to do with what you can actually cover - whether it be more or less. Its just an area you are interested in known what goes on in. Thats it. Its not an area you can defend, and its not the necessarily the limit of your abilities. Its you saying to specific people "we are watching you".
Moo
Oct 11, 2021 01:55
Further to my above, you want to know whats happening beyond your actual border so you can intercept the approaching traffic at the moment it violates your airspace, not dozens or hundreds of kilometres into it.... So by necessity that requires you to know whats going on beyond your airspace.
Moo
Oct 11, 2021 00:55
ADIZ can be as simple as having radar covering the area.
Moo
Oct 11, 2021 00:55
well, no, actually, it doesn't end there - the ADIZ is the "air defence _identification_ zone", it doesnt actually have to correspond with anything active on the part of the country that establishes the ADIZ area - it can be as simple as "we know all activity that is going on in this area, we can identify commercial and general aviation traffic, we can track military traffic which originates within this area from known bases, and we are also aware of anything we can't identify as commercial, general or known military traffic".
Moo
Oct 10, 2021 21:42
@JonathanReez The "median line" shown on those diagrams is actually the Chinese airspace limit - Taiwan cant intercept aircraft past this line because that would be an actual invasion of Chinese airspace, something much serious than what is being discussed here.
Moo
Oct 10, 2021 00:49
@JonathanReez because its something to shout at China about, nothing more and nothing less. Dont discount the value of political ammunition in this.
Moo
Oct 10, 2021 00:49
@JonathanReez they are however complaining about Chinese aircraft flying closer to Chinese islands than Taiwan….
Moo
Oct 10, 2021 00:49
@JonathanReez how convenient…. No ones updated it for modern media in 70 years? I doubt that.
Moo
Oct 10, 2021 00:49
Have you seen the Taiwanese ADIZ? It covers a huge swathe of mainland China - why would China agree to that?
 

 Discussion on answer by Tetsujin: Why…

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Moo
Oct 4, 2021 04:06
@AaronF add to that the cock up they made in Bristol I think it was, when they switched the numbering system for the area code they also added a digit to all local numbers as well, so local number XXXXXX became YXXXXXX - except they did this when changing the area code, so most people lumped it in with the area code rather than the local number.... cue confusion when the old local numbers stopped working after a grace period without the new digit.
 

 Discussion on question by SomOne Else…

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Moo
Sep 29, 2021 17:21
@jamesqf spending on installing sewerage and treatment systems accomplishes very little? I am going to have to hugely disagree there, and so is most of civilisation…
Moo
Sep 29, 2021 17:21
@jamesqf I think peoples questions are orientated around the expenditure of billions of dollars a year on a space program when both poor sanitation and poverty still kill huge numbers in India every year... A space program does nothing in those areas.
 

 Discussion on answer by Moo: Why are …

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Moo
Sep 24, 2021 08:44
@Acccumulation it is an absurd conclusion - "NZ bans X, so that must mean anything even tangentially related to X is also banned". Thats a perfect example of the saying.
Moo
Sep 24, 2021 08:44
@Brilliand no, its got nothing to do with NZs "line of reasoning" and everything to do with the assumptions made to reach the argument presented by the OP. NZs stance is not absurd, but the reasoning used to extend NZs stance reach the argument made by the OP was absurd.
Moo
Sep 24, 2021 08:44
@jamesqf again, you are missing the point. No one thinks the US will launch a nuclear strike against anyone, but they have plenty of nuclear weapons anyway, and a SSBN fleet they renew on a regular basis. Same for the UK. Same for Russia. Same for China.
Moo
Sep 24, 2021 08:44
@JonathanReez which can be tracked and targeted using stealth bombers, cruise missiles and other first strike weapons - the point of SSBNs is that they are mobile, quiet and can hide, while still being intercontinental-class weapon carriers. And nuclear winter isnt the expected outcome, its "enough" damage to the enemy to deter them from attacking you - there are 12 warheads onboard each Chinese SSBN, are 12 destroyed US cities a good trade off for the US to launch a first strike against China?
Moo
Sep 24, 2021 08:44
@IanKemp that might be so, but it doesnt change the point of my responses - you want the attack boats to be very quiet so they can loiter and then follow their targets from port, and picking up any submarine while at sea is a non-trivial exercise. The advantage here is to the attack boats being nuclear powered, for the quietness and the endurance aspects.