Census objector granted leave to challenge Census Act

igeldard · 2012-05-27T08:15:00.011498+00:00

Super interesting case. There's no doubt that there must be a right to conduct a census by the government, as historically the first census predates the generally recognised start of the English legal system in the Domesday book.

However the way the census is conducted and the balancing of other priorities mean it's going to be pretty complicated. The census must happen, but it's essentiality cannot be used as a backdoor to ask citizens whatever they want.

Really curious as to what the court will make of the private firm's involvement to be honest. I wouldn't have thought they'd do a thing, as the security issue of letting a non-EU firm carry out the work is a consideration they have repeatedly said is a matter solely for the sovereign state legislating.

jollyva · 2012-05-26T22:12:36.595240+00:00

Britain has won Eurovision every single time for the past decade.

Don't believe me?

What language are the vast majority of the acts being sung in?

VictorEagleman · 4 days

The former chief economist for Royal Dutch Shell is clearly a socialist. I'm suprised it took people this long to work it out.

TheGhostOfNoLibs · 4 days

I thought we had it on pretty good Paultard authority that what this man is describing is utterly impossible because state governments are incapable of monumentally fucking up and getting its priorities wrong?

At least, to white men I thought.

Paultards take another step down in my book. They've long dropped from libertarians to neo-confederate authoritarians. Now they're just SEP hypocrites.

coolaaron88 · 6 days

The real rock/hard place microsoft has is the fate of current phones.

WP8 can go the whole hog and make top end dual core CPUs a minimum. This would make current devices utterly unable to upgrade (even if they could in a SOC / technical sense, the user experience would be unacceptable on apps.

Or they could allow current devices an upgrade path, which would mean the OS would not perform as well as android and ios.

Either way there is a trade off. I think from a purely phone point of view keeping the current generation OS compatible is a no-brainer, as it gives people an incentive to buy the current phones and doesn't punish early adopters or sour evangelists.

On the other hand, if oodles of WinRT code is meant to be compatable with WP8, then how can code designed for the high performance tablet ARM chips scale down gracefully to the anemic WP7.5 CPUs?

Kim147 · 6 days

Youth unemployment is 22% or therabouts in the UK, so not really

Germany has good labour laws. My complaint is with over-zealous ones.

Kim147 · 6 days

That's sort of the point. With loads of red tape a business cannot move quickly enough, because even the best minded business can't hire people without a significant risk of the employee becoming an unsustainable burden.

Kim147 · 6 days

Where does it say a blanket cap? Sounds more like a removal of the blanket policy of 90 days to me.

SexWithTwins · 6 days

The road to serfdom is as ideological a book as you could hope to read. Every observation is met with ungrounded and unsustainable suggestions of almost pornographic degrees of libertarianism.

Kim147 · 6 days

Spain has 50% youth unemployment. It is a direct result of over-zealous labour laws.

Kim147 · 6 days

Oh good, let's just have someone make up work regulations on the fly. Is a company allowed to change its priorities now? What if the contracted developer is so well integrated into the company during his tenure that he is treated by everyone like part of the firm? Does he not get any of the company benefits?

Maybe it's just best to outsource.

Kim147 · 6 days

Not sure about this. If the employee was unfairly dismissed, why shouldn't the employer bear the full brunt of that cost?

It depends on the case. If the unfair dismissale was related to the process by whcih the employee was dismissed, but the decision itself was sound, why should an employer pay hundreds of thousands of pounds out?

Suppose a worker was clearly not right for a job, but the employer took a shortcut on the process to fire them. A fine, some compensation and recognition for the guy's cv is fine, but paying them what their salary would have been otherwise is ridiculous.

Reptilian_Overlords · 7 days

LMAO 'booing isn't disrespectful'.

'Assault isn't violent'

'Theft isn't criminal'

'Fraud isn't bad'

Just so long as you append if it helps Ron Paul it's permissible. Cult!

robotevil · 7 days

No one would ever go against the DR really.

What happened was that when the Reptilians ordered he be silenced, both the Bilderberg group's astroturfers and the MSM's brainwashed reserves were deployed independently of eachother. One group were socialists and the other group were every-day americans.

Thankfully FEMA stepped in and managed to help co-ordinate everyone, but for a moment all was almost lost! Why would any good thinking person oppose Liberty(TM)?

Stacks_On_Deck · 7 days

In short, a corporation is an organisation or group. Corporate personhood simply allows that group to exist and interact with other entities as a single legal entity (or person).

So, instead of a corporation of 30 people all individually having to sign a contract or sue a debtor, the corporation can as itself take the action.

It does not give a corporation all the rights of a real person and it does not mean the law in any way considers a corporation comparable to a person (though a legislature can certainly try to make it so through statute).

In all honesty the concept is so universally understood by most people (you sue or contract with a company, not its constituent employees, etc) that the main issue in explaining it is that most people don't accept the explanation because it's 'too simple' .

What needs to be understood is that when the idea of corporations (in the form of limited liability companies) with their own legal personality emerged, it was earth shakingly revolutionary.

Stacks_On_Deck · 7 days

The only entity that can decide whether to "press charges" is the government

In certain jurisdictions ~~amateur hour~~ private prosecutions are still permitted and possible.

TheQueenIsDead · 7 days

Nope. Just look on the Lumia 800 general thread on XDA. You need to download a commant prompt utility and the .cab update file.

TheQueenIsDead · 8 days

Force the latest update using the instructions on XDA and switch off all of Nokia's telemetry 'services' in the settings menu. See if that helps?

Fake_n_wake · 8 days

For my money:

Best small (3.7 inch screen) Gen 2 phone - Lumia 800
Best Large Gen 2 phone - Lumia 900
Best camera Gen 2(by far) Titan 2
Best budget Gen 2 device Lumia 710

The new Samsung focus sounds decent-ish, but nokia is far and away the manufacturer to go with on Windows Phone at the moment. The Titan 2's camera is an absolute must if you're all about the photos though.

Of course there's a pretty good idea in waiting for the June WP8 announce to see whether Microsoft is going to fuck over current Gen 2 WP7 owners and their handsets. If you're in the market for a new phone right now, a windows phone that upgrades to the next big release is worth waiting for.

Tomz120 · 8 days

You could do this in Deus Ex. At the start of the game you could kill some of the biggest bosses without a proper fight.

petoit · 8 days

Right. Each tower is a game's save file, and its length is determined by size I think. There's nowhere else for the PS2 to store the data of what games have been played and for how long, unless save files were that standardised back then.

Reptilian_Overlords · 10 days

Hopefully we will invade Iran soon and Congress will finally nationalize the internet / give gay people equal rights. I can't wait to be enslaved.

Baa.

mitchwells · 10 days

I originally thought Swann was a provincial reporter who let the Paulkorps' love for him make him keep pluggnig away so he got get some national attention.

He's not either gone full Paultard himself or stupidly still believes that covering this nonsense will get him national attention.

httpheaders · 11 days

Android costs every current manufacturer similar licensing costs to Microsoft due to various patents held.

I_SHIT_KARMA · 11 days

Give me proper skype, glassboard and a google reader app that's better than the web app and I'm happy.

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