Stive Pesley

It has made Universities accountable for the student unions as well - that have been cancelling speakers up and down the country.  
'Under the plans, new freedom of speech and academic duties would be placed on universities and, for the first time, on student unions.
Individuals would be given a right to seek compensation through the courts if the freedom of speech duties of an institution or student union had been breached.'
I have no idea whether all universities are the same, whether Derby have their own policies or whether their policies have recently been updated - but we have all heard stories in the media recently about certain individuals having their speeches cancelled at various universities and this new legislation should help prevent this in the future.
 
It depends...
If you join a football forum and politics is banned then you know what you signed up for. 
On the other hand Twitter, Facebook, Youtube etc have grown too large and powerful however and become a worldwide public platforms, to then start enforcing their own agenda and ban people from using the platform along ideological beliefs is a dangerous path to go down.  
Capitalism is a good thing, it has pulled large parts of the world out of poverty.  But unregulated capitalism leads to massive inequality.  Twitter, Facebook, Youtube etc are great inventions but we have more than reached the time that they need to be regulated.
Anyway, this is gonna be my last post in this thread however as we're well off topic, I hope the post stays up long enough for you to read it!  Happy to carry on in PMs should you want to.

Which they are perfectly entitled to do
I think they are idiots too, and I frequently roll my eyes at the cliched loony leftwingers trying to police everything they disagree with online
But I don't let it bother me like you do. Because you're too busy supporting free speech ?
 
 
 

Ah there you go , same old stereotypical assumptions ,suppose it’s just easier that way?‍♂️

Perhaps folk who are so vehemently opposed to this extension might wish to consider writing to their MP about it? It occurs to me that this would be a more productive use of their time than spending all day, every day moaning about it on a football forum.

In other words...

 

I thought they were supposed to be some revolutionary new media outlet that wasn't afraid to broadcast unpopular opinions?
So the perpetually enraged will be expecting it to be their go-to channel for hearing what they want to hear. Not to have them point out that actually yes, the majority of the general public support extending the lockdown
?
 

I enjoyed the big caption that said "General public seem to be in favour of extending lockdown"
That must have driven their core audience straight to the keyboard in rage ?
 

Who can possibly be happy with restrictions?!?!?!?  I'm as hacked off about having to wear face masks, not being able to see my family all at one time, and not being able to nip out for a bite to eat without booking 3 days in advance as anybody else, but I'd gladly take another 4 weeks of doing so if it meant we stood a better chance of not having to do it again in 4 months time...

In his mid 40s, and lives in a reasonably modest 4 bed house in Oakwood. Doesn't strike me as a potential owner. He will just be the lawyer fronting a deal I suspect

I think BBQs on the beach will be allowed ? 
 
 

I wonder if the 4 week leak will turn into a 2 week delay, and everyone will say it's a success story because it's less than we thought it would be.

And thats all they ever have done. As long as they pay the bonds at the agreed time spread over how many years. They can keep doing it and never have to repay the whole lot in one go.
There's a lot of rubbish out there about the national debt but as long as most of it is owed to ourselves, ie the Bank of England, its no problem.
As long as it doesn't cause a big blip in inflation its never going to be a problem.
 
Just don't try it with the missus though, she'll be nagging for it back pretty quickly.
 

Yes, well done on derailing another thread. 

There is i think a distinction between digital currency transactions and a digital currency as an alternative to the $ or £.
Tech firms who are disrupting the payments industry are easily understandable and you can see the value proposition and price the business accordingly. 
What I cannot get my head around is the actual substation of a $with a bitcoin and why that action, independently of the transacting piece, should create any "value" out of thin air.
I get that currencies fluctuate against each other...purchasing power parity. The last new currency was the € and its varied versus the £ from about 1 to 1.4. But some of these cryptocurrencies are allegedly appreciating by %000s...
Now I say allegedly because maybe all the value growth is in the digitisation of the payments process and the disintermediation of the banks.
But that seems unlikely. Hence what is the reason other than pure speculative gambling for a cryptocurrency to gain "vale". Is there one? I just don't understand. 

You have to have a Facebook account  (the quest is cheap for a reason they want to farm all your personal information / VR activity  and you have to agree to it on sign up) and if for any reason the account is blocked , VR headset stops working , in terms of VR experience it is very much a marmite product  , the most popular games seem to be rail shooters and party games , there are some gems out there (RPG's and quality First Person Shooters) but not many (its  still a new medium) , the problem is the  human facter i.e. the IPD (inter Polar Distance)   if your pupils don't match the perceived human norm i.e. 64mm apart  visually things go down hill very quickly (to be fair 62 mm - 68 mm will do) images become blurry and text is unreadable , the Oculus Quest 2 has 3 settings and if you eyes don't match one of those 3 you are going to be frustrated , I have quite a wide IPD and my only solution would be to get the Steam VR headset (Valve) which has a broader range but is super expensive 

Should we talk about the ecological impact of the way crypto mining works? The huge carbon footprint - bitcoin mining consumes more energy than a medium sized European country. And it's getting higher all the time
Only the human race could be stupid enough, in a era of dwindling resources, to design a new currency system that eats through the remaining resources at an exponential rate
 

It’s more about the blockchain technology.. the crypto currencies are mainly an asset of worth, allow u to operate on those networks and allow it to be represented as a tradable commodity 
It’s a big misconception 
take an example 
the ethereum network allows people to operate smart contracts and apps to run off the network 
one some people may be familiar with is the game Sorare that’s a digital football trading card game that runs on the ethereum network 
On the football theme as it’s closer to home for many of us here there’s a token called chillies.. not sure what network or blockchain it’s on but it’s a token that a host of top clubs have bought into
i can’t be bothered to explain how it works but if u google it it’s effectively like a little mini share issue if u will
fans can hold the tokens In their club, it can be used for season ticket discounts, match day experience rewards and prize draws
it can and they hope it can go a lot lot further 
one club allowed their token holder fans to pick the side for a pre season friendly !!!! Lol
can imagine that here … would be carnage 

Like to say to all 
believers or none believers 
It’s an interesting premise and point of discussion and enjoy hearing everyone’s views 
 

You've also got to take in to account that around 20% of all BTC have been lost of the years as well so the theoretical cap for BTC really would be around 16m that would circulate making the currency even more rarer.

Unsurprisingly, this doesn't appear to be quite as honest as it might be. Not like these big companies to come up with ways to legally lie their way to bigger profits! Incidentally, I also signed up to a 100% renewable power provider - it was more expensive but I thought I was doing a good thing. Then I got an email a year later saying that they had ceased trading and I was being auto-switched to EDF
https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-7507443/How-check-100-renewable-electricity-really-green.html
 
I think the word allegedly is definitely doing the heavy lifting there ?  Again difficult to prove otherwise though, but interesting that all the major power companies are now mining bitcoin with their excess energy. I don't doubt that there is acknowledgement of crypto needing to be more efficient. Is it Ethereum that is trying to change the way it mines to use less power?
But anyway - the point is that as BTC gets nearer the 21m limit it takes more and more power to mine the coins and we end up with yet another system that favours the "already rich" who can afford the largest computing power, and craps on the little people who kinda mighta needed that electricity to heat their homes and cook their tea
Yeah that's the only sane way to approach these things - in that way it's exactly the same as gambling.
Interesting that they aren't regulated but are insured instead. In the world of crypto where prices can have insane swings, they are insured against you losing your wallet, but not if your wallet suddenly becomes worth buttons because the bubble bursts!

You say always like it's a regular thing ?

My electricity company seem v proud in telling me every invoice I get that 100% of my electricity needs come from renewable sources 
to add … allegedly 70% of mined Bitcoin comes from renewable sources 
but your point is totally valid 

Incorrect 
people pay fees and commission to borrow money to leverage trades 
in order to do this they use decentralised platforms that allow a form of peer to peer lending 
the fees distributed between the platform and the customers that stake the money 
there is risk involved as this is all done on smart contracts 
the platforms … or more reputable ones are insured for millions … they are not regulated and IMO I consider it money I might probably won’t  see if it went bad .. so limit my exposure 
Risk to reward etc 

It's a ponzi scheme - mugs give them their money and they use that to buy crypto. The scheme only works while crypto is rising at silly rates and can generate the promised interest. So it relies on more and more people "investing" with them 
Don't go near it. "No brainer" is about right
Not regulated, and a total lack of transparency about who they are
 
 

Yes - appreciate the nuance was "no earlier than" but in the dumbed-down media era, you know people just saw the date and words "all restrictions lifted" and that's why so many are kicking off at the prospect of it being put back 2 weeks
Exactly - that statement was ridiculous "it's about data not dates" and then proceeded to real off a series of dates
The whole thing should have been based on data. Certain conditions met = restrictions gradually lifted