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There will be strong cyber security protections for it as well.

About as strong as a Yale lock on a wooden shed door?

Try paraphrasing this to those you’re trying to inform?

Did you ever stop to ask yourself this question: why were you born from your parents and not from some others?

You understand, of course, what I am driving at. I mean that your consent was not asked. You were simply born; you did not have a chance to select the place of your birth or to choose your parents. It was just chance.

So it happened that you were not born rich. Maybe your people are of the middle class; more likely, though, they belong to the workers, and so you are one of those millions, the masses, who have to work for a living.

The man who has money can put it into some business or industry. He invests it and lives on the profits. But you have no money. You have only your ability to work, your labor power.

There was a time when every workingman worked for himself. There were no factories then and no big industries. The laborer had his own tools and his own little workshop, and he even bought himself the raw materials he needed. He worked for himself, and he was called an artisan or craftsman.

Then came the factory and the large workshop. Little by little they crowded out the independent workman, the artisan, because he could not make things as cheaply as the factory — he could not compete with the big manufacturer. So the artisan had to give up his little workshop and go to the factory to work.

In the factories and large plants things are produced on a big scale. Such big-scale production is called industrialism. It has made the employers and manufacturers very rich, so that the lords of industry and commerce have accumulated much money, much capital. Therefore that system is called capitalism. We all live to-day in the capitalist system.

In the capitalist system the workingman cannot work for himself, as in the old days. He cannot compete with the big manufacturers. So, if you are a workman, you must find an employer. You work for him; that is, you give him your labor for so and so many hours a day or week, and he pays you for it. You sell him your labor power and he pays you wages.

In the capitalist system the whole working class sells its labor power to the employing class. The workers build factories, make machinery and tools, and produce goods. The employers keep the factories, the machinery, tools and goods for themselves as their profit. The workers get only wages.

This arrangement is called the wage system.

Learned men have figured out that the worker receives as his wage only about one-tenth of what he produces. The other nine-tenths are divided among the landlord, the manufacturer, the railroad company, the wholesaler, the jobber, and other middlemen.

It means this:

Though the workers, as a class, have built the factories, a slice of their daily labor is taken from them for the privilege of using those factories. That’s the landlord’s profit.

Though the workers have made the tools and the machinery, another slice of their daily labor is taken from them for the privilege of using those tools and machinery. That’s the manufacturer’s profit.

Though the workers built the railroads and are running them, another slice of their daily labor is taken from them for the transportation of the goods they make. That’s the railroad’s profit.

And so on, including the banker who lends the manufacturer other people’s money, the wholesaler, the jobber, and other middlemen, all of whom get their slice of the worker’s toil.

What is left then — one-tenth of the real worth of the worker’s labor — is his share, his wage.

Can you guess now why the wise Proudhon said that the possessions of the rich are stolen property? Stolen from the producer, the worker.

It seems strange, doesn’t it, that such a thing should be permitted?

Yes, indeed, it is very strange; and the strangest thing of all is that the whole world looks on and doesn’t do a thing about it. Worse yet, the workers themselves don’t do anything about it. Why, most of them think that everything is all right, and that the capitalist system is good.

It is because the workers don’t see what is happening to them. They don’t understand that they are being robbed. The rest of the world also understands very little about it, and when some honest man tries to tell them, they shout ‘anarchist!’ at him, and they shut him up or put him in prison.

from Now and After by Alexander Berkman, Chapter 2: The Wage System. Available to read for free here.

Different views on welfare and management by governments results in differences!

He said the North Yorkshire Public Safety Service - comprising North Yorkshire Police, North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service, and local health services - was gathering feedback to “help inform how these challenges are managed in the future”.

The MP said he hoped people in Wharfedale would participate so the authorities “fully understand the impact and respond appropriately”.

Free, convenient, regular, public transport, for all.

And change the penalty system. If the fine for illegal parking is £60 for everybody, that’s just a token expense for the rich but an effective punishment for the poor. Do as Finland do and link it to the driver’s wealth and suddenly all the twats in Porsches, BMWs, Audis, and Mercedes will think twice.

That’s outside the scope of a council of course but that doesn’t prevent schemes being attempted and national campaign pushes.

Plus, what village doesn’t have local farmers with tractors and pallet forks? Just put straps round the cars and lift the buggers out the way if absolutely necessary.

Odd choice of words considering the artwork’s lack of black fists…

Regardless, specifying skin colour doesn’t seem particularly wise on a poster which states to oppose racism and xenophobia.

This article doesn’t really explain why, just that it’s complicated.

That doesn’t prevent upper limits being put into place though, with scales based upon types of work, humidity, and break/water access.

For example:

• 45°C is too hot in all circumstances
• 40°C is too hot at x% humidity
• 35°C is too hot at y% humidity
• 38°C is too hot at z% humidity if manual labour but okay for office work
• Any work above 30°C can be refused if water and 5m breaks every 30m aren’t provided

But that bring us to the real reason for why, productivity may be affected and that would hurt the pockets of the wealthy.

He told me he was giving me to the count of 10 to leave the area

Moses was then Tasered… …while he was approximately 6ft (1.8m) in the air, causing him to fall to the ground.

As a result, he fractured three vertebrae in his spine, and suffered other injuries to his chest, back, hands and right shoulder.

Nottinghamshire Police stated McClintock "concluded it was necessary to discharge his Taser in order to prevent the claimant’s escape and safely detain him".

So first they wanted him to leave, then when he chose to leave (due to their physical threat), they decided to prevent him from leaving. And then to safely detain him they tasered him while at the top of a fence.

ACAB

A better world is possible: https://novaramedia.com/about/how-we-are-funded/

Is there an American equivalent to Novara?

Please don’t associate my kind with that genocide supporting war criminal!

'Member when the Labour party was socialist?

'Member when the Labour party stood for something?

'Member when even the Blairites pretended to be left wing?

The video appeared to show one of the brothers on the floor, being kicked in the face by Marsden while on the ground, as onlookers shouted for him to stop.

Marsden, who was suspended after the incident, maintained he had used reasonable force and that he had not intended to stamp on or kick Amaaz, but was instead trying to stop him grabbing the wire of his police radio and using it against him. The Crown Prosecution Service said in December that year that no police officer would face charges over the incident, leading to Greater Manchester police lifting Marsden’s suspension.

ACAB

An entirely separate party with no affiliation with each other. Should we discuss the Republican party while talking about Reform? It’s no different.

And who you’re alluding to does have the right to be an MSP as was laid out in the Scottish Elections Franchise and Representation Act.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2020/6/contents

I think partly because what sane person wants to be a candidate?

To open their lives up to intense public scrutiny. To have deleted 13 year old tweets brought up. Particularly so if you’re opposed to those with vast amounts of power and wealth with majority control over the country’s press, who will have no qualms distorting facts to make a hatchet job on you. Every fart, sneeze, and little wrongdoing by Greens is inflated into a massive moral issue compared with what Reform candidates just seem to shrug off. The press don’t question Reform’s morality in anywhere near the same manner.

You’ve got to be a special kind of person to want that instead of leading a private life.

To then spend your days sparring with narcissistic bigots in opposing parties.

Yeah, no wonder the talent pool is poor. Still better than openly and proudly bigoted, corrupt, fascist, or narcissistic people though. Imperfect Green candidates at least stand for and are pushing for a better world, unlike Reform who want to drag us into 1930s Germany.

https://thetolkien.forum/wiki/Barrow-Blades

I believe it was his ties to senior figures in the USA that was the main issue… But sure, shitebags live everywhere I guess.

We’re going to have a great couple of years becoming Mediterranean while the south boils, and then it’s going to very suddenly all fall apart when the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation collapses. And then we’ll freeze forevermore! Yippee!

What’s the point? It’s not like any parties ever stick to their manifestos anyway.

Their options aren’t limited, because they command a huge majority. That’s all that matters, not some made up feels of legitimacy and mandate by the press.

We don’t vote for a leader, we vote for constituency MPs. If the leader changes, that doesn’t affect the mandate that the MPs were given. They secede that mandate to their party and leadership but people understand that when they vote (or should).

If Labour actually care about electoral reform they should get it done now while they command a huge majority. They then need not fret about Reform in No. 10 because we’ll have proportional representation to keep the worst of the worst out.

Enemy state acts like an enemy? Wow! Who would’ve thought?!

But we’re definitely not doing the same to them though, certainly not! What incentive would there be for the British state to penetrate Russian infrastructure?

No,no,no, this is a fair fight where the bad guy does all the bad things and we’re the victims who have never done anything wrong, ever.

Forget that public infrastructure is falling apart because of years of neglect, private companies getting their grubby hands into it (e.g. Microsoft computers throughout public organisations), or even whole sections of it being sold off to the highest private bidder (e.g. water, mail, and rail). It’s the Russians at fault for our poor infrastructure!

You can’t expect us, GCHQ, the agency tasked with securing that infrastructure, to actually do anything to prevent outside influences from degrading the quality of that infrastructure! How else are Microsoft, Palantir, and Cisco meant to make their vast profits and give us our kickbacks if we stop them and instead built computer infrastructure in-house?

It’s not like we’re a highly developed technologically advanced country with huge swathes of expertise in both computer hardware and software that’s been at the cutting edge of technological advancement or anything. How can you expect little old us to compare with the big scary Russians?