June 24, 2016 at 2:19 pm
TomThomson (6/24/2016)
Ed Wagner (6/22/2016)
jasona.work (6/22/2016)
TomThomson (6/22/2016)
jasona.work (6/22/2016)
/me leans back, marveling at what happens when you toss a crystal into a supersaturated solution...Sounds like the next couple weeks / months are going to be interesting, regardless of the outcome of the vote.
Also sounds like the same things are true all over...
* Politicians aren't worth their weight in garbage
* Voters (in general) are id10ts and will vote for whoever yells loudest / promises them what they think they want
* Water is wet
:hehe:
You got the third one wrong :hehe:. Water is only wet when it's warm enough - try it at -40 degrees and see if it's wet or not.
Geez, next you're going to tell me that depending on the garbage, it might be worth less than a politician...
:hehe:
That means the politician's value would be greater than the garbage. 😉
Surely not? Usually a politician is worth more at -40 degrees than at higher temperatures (not always, as he might be wearing adequate protective clothing and heating aparatus, or at higher temperatures he might be unable to speak for one reason or another) but even at -40
he (or she)it is usually not as valuable ashis (or her)its weight in garbage.
FTFY 😀
June 24, 2016 at 2:19 pm
Beatrix Kiddo (6/24/2016)
Ed Wagner (6/24/2016)
[I've heard it's a matter of the older people knowing the history of the UK and not wanting to be ruled by Europe, while the younger people are fine with it. What do you think?
I missed this before. I would say it's more likely older people being racist/xenophobic than anything else. Their generation had it so good- UNDER EUROPE- and now they've sold the rest of us down the river. This is very, very bad.
I think that's not it. Several surveys have indicated that it's level of education that has the closest correlation with way of intending to vote on this one. not age. Of course age could turn up as a consequence of the level of educatin thing, since the young people today tend to have had more education than the old people.
But in reality, I think it's charisma of the campaigners, not age, not education, and certainly not whether Britain would be better in or out. And Boris has the sort of charisma that allows him to lie obviously, blatantly and disgracefully, but still have people believe him.
Tom
June 24, 2016 at 2:35 pm
Luis Cazares (6/24/2016)
I'm sorry, is there any country that can give me good news? It seems that Mexico, US and UK are full of negative news and I'm getting grumpy and sarcastic (more than usual).
Maybe there are two countries who can give you some good (or at least less bad) news. Scotland had a vast majority of remain votes (and every single district count had a remain majority, so the whole country is together). Sine the independence referendum a short time ago was fought with the "anti" brigade claiming that the only way Scotland could remain in the EU was by remaining in the UK, it's now extremely likey that their will be a new independence referendum and that may lead to Scotland outside the UK but inside the EU. Of course the referendum won't happen if the Scottish government can't arrive at a situation where they are sure the EU will let them in as a separate nation, but that seems unlikely.
And Ireland might at last be united as a single nation once again as a result of a similar backlash of a democratic majority being deprived of the continued EU membership they voted for in this referendum.
Leaving "the United Kingdom of England and Wales" to do its own thing outside the EU.
It might happen; it might not happen. If it does I might leave England and return to Scotland, if it doesn't I'll just have to pray that Spain will allow me to be a registered resident for another 4 years after the EU-UK divorce is finalised, because if it does I'll be able to ask for nationality there, in the EU, and ignore this English anti-EU nonsense.
Tom
June 24, 2016 at 3:00 pm
Scotland had a vast majority of remain votes (and every single district count had a remain majority, so the whole country is together). Sine the independence referendum a short time ago was fought with the "anti" brigade claiming that the only way Scotland could remain in the EU was by remaining in the UK, it's now extremely likey that their will be a new independence referendum and that may lead to Scotland outside the UK but inside the EU. Of course the referendum won't happen if the Scottish government can't arrive at a situation where they are sure the EU will let them in as a separate nation, but that seems unlikely.
My wife was born in Edinburgh and we'll be legging it up the M6 as fast as we can with her passport stuck to the inside of the windscreen if Scotland remain in the EU one way or the other.
In terms of other good news, England thrashed Sri Lanka by ten wickets this evening.
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June 24, 2016 at 3:04 pm
Sean Lange (6/24/2016)
Ugh....just needing to share this unbelievably ridiculous mess I just stumbled across.
create view [dbo].[getNewID] as select newid() as new_id;
Really? A view to get a guid???
But wait...it gets even better.
ALTER function [dbo].[GUID_CREATE]() RETURNS UNIQUEIDENTIFIER
AS
BEGIN
RETURN (select new_id from getNewID);
END;
With that I shall end my Friday and start my week of vacation. See y'all after July 4th.
I've before now done a view that returns GETDATE and one that returns RAND(CHECKSUM(NEWID())), both so that I could use those functions in a UDF.
Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability
June 24, 2016 at 4:00 pm
If it isn't one thing it is another. Not getting any good news today.
Just prayers for the family for wisdom and guidance.
Thanks.
June 24, 2016 at 4:15 pm
Luis Cazares (6/24/2016)
I'm sorry, is there any country that can give me good news? It seems that Mexico, US and UK are full of negative news and I'm getting grumpy and sarcastic (more than usual).
June 25, 2016 at 2:47 pm
BWFC (6/24/2016)
My wife was born in Edinburgh and we'll be legging it up the M6 as fast as we can with her passport stuck to the inside of the windscreen if Scotland remain in the EU one way or the other.
Have you seen https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/131215 ?
Tom
June 26, 2016 at 2:42 am
TomThomson (6/25/2016)
BWFC (6/24/2016)
My wife was born in Edinburgh and we'll be legging it up the M6 as fast as we can with her passport stuck to the inside of the windscreen if Scotland remain in the EU one way or the other.
Have you seen https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/131215 ?
Just checked, now 2,955,453 signatures and increasing by the rate of 50-100 a second.
😎
June 26, 2016 at 4:14 am
Eirikur Eiriksson (6/26/2016)
TomThomson (6/25/2016)
BWFC (6/24/2016)
My wife was born in Edinburgh and we'll be legging it up the M6 as fast as we can with her passport stuck to the inside of the windscreen if Scotland remain in the EU one way or the other.
Have you seen https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/131215 ?
Just checked, now 2,955,453 signatures and increasing by the rate of 50-100 a second.
😎
I like the sentiment, but I don't think there is any realistic chance of this having any effect. The votes have been counted; the results are in. Accept it and move on.
(Also, this would define a new type of democracy - one where we take votes and decide by majority outcome, unless we don't like the majority outcoime in whcih case we simply do over the vote. Rinse and repeat until we finally get the desired outcome).
Note for the record that I am personally very pro European, and that I am severely disappointed by the outcome of the UK vote.
However, I am also pro democracy. Not because it's a good system -it's not, it sucks. But because all other systems are even worse.
This does, however, reinforce my belief that referendums are not a good way to make decisions. Too many voters have a below-average intelligence, and too many smart people know how to take advantage of that.
June 26, 2016 at 8:04 am
TomThomson (6/25/2016)
BWFC (6/24/2016)
My wife was born in Edinburgh and we'll be legging it up the M6 as fast as we can with her passport stuck to the inside of the windscreen if Scotland remain in the EU one way or the other.
Have you seen https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/131215 ?
well if anything has good come out of this for me......then I have at least learnt a little more about JSON (data available on the site)
will have to download 2016.....but in the meantime, took some code from here https://www.simple-talk.com/sql/t-sql-programming/consuming-json-strings-in-sql-server/....
not sure about the result...split the family and we are still debating 🙂
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June 26, 2016 at 8:55 am
Hugo Kornelis (6/26/2016)
I like the sentiment, but I don't think there is any realistic chance of this having any effect. The votes have been counted; the results are in. Accept it and move on.(Also, this would define a new type of democracy - one where we take votes and decide by majority outcome, unless we don't like the majority outcoime in whcih case we simply do over the vote. Rinse and repeat until we finally get the desired outcome)
It's not a new type of democracy, it's rather old. It's actually a good deal less undemocratic that what was done at least once before with a referendum in Britain.
A couple of decades ago when Scotland voted with a majority much greater than 51.9% for independence the government of the day declared that it was too big a change to be undetaken when fewer that 40% of the eligible voters had voted for it. It seems to me that this referendum was about an equally importnt decision, and my mathematics thell me that 51.9% of a 72% turnout is signicifcantly less than 40%. No repeat referendum - just a refusal to implement the majority decision. So a new vote seems a lot more reasonable than what was done then.
Tom
June 26, 2016 at 10:50 am
Hugo Kornelis (6/26/2016)
I like the sentiment, but I don't think there is any realistic chance of this having any effect. The votes have been counted; the results are in. Accept it and move on.(Also, this would define a new type of democracy - one where we take votes and decide by majority outcome, unless we don't like the majority outcoime in whcih case we simply do over the vote. Rinse and repeat until we finally get the desired outcome).
The referendum wasn't legally binding, just an advisory, since the result was announced one side has come out and admitted that some of their promises were outright lies (not truth from a certain point of view, complete falsehood) and there's no actual hard plans on either side for how to exit the EU. I won't be surprised to see Article 50 not being triggered any time soon, if ever.
Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability
June 27, 2016 at 1:38 am
GilaMonster (6/26/2016)
Hugo Kornelis (6/26/2016)
I like the sentiment, but I don't think there is any realistic chance of this having any effect. The votes have been counted; the results are in. Accept it and move on.(Also, this would define a new type of democracy - one where we take votes and decide by majority outcome, unless we don't like the majority outcoime in whcih case we simply do over the vote. Rinse and repeat until we finally get the desired outcome).
The referendum wasn't legally binding, just an advisory, since the result was announced one side has come out and admitted that some of their promises were outright lies (not truth from a certain point of view, complete falsehood) and there's no actual hard plans on either side for how to exit the EU. I won't be surprised to see Article 50 not being triggered any time soon, if ever.
It appears that the Leave campaign is starting to try and put a bit of distance between them and actually, you know, leaving. Mr Johnson has already said cooperation is to 'intensify'; almost like some kind of union perhaps. One might think that they didn't expect to win and have no form of plan whatsoever.
It's also been pointed out that any pro-Leave Conservative who takes over from David Cameron is effectively signing their own political death warrant. They will have the choice of a) taking the UK out of the EU with all the catastrophic economic damage that will cause or b) not taking the UK out and being seen to turn their back on the will of the electorate. Whether this electorate is still split 52% leave 48% remain*, after the Leave campaign have admitted to the lies you mentioned above, is another story.
*Of course, 52% leave 48% remain means unfinished business in some circles.
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June 27, 2016 at 2:24 am
Hugo Kornelis (6/26/2016)
Eirikur Eiriksson (6/26/2016)
TomThomson (6/25/2016)
BWFC (6/24/2016)
My wife was born in Edinburgh and we'll be legging it up the M6 as fast as we can with her passport stuck to the inside of the windscreen if Scotland remain in the EU one way or the other.
Have you seen https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/131215 ?
Just checked, now 2,955,453 signatures and increasing by the rate of 50-100 a second.
😎
I like the sentiment, but I don't think there is any realistic chance of this having any effect. The votes have been counted; the results are in. Accept it and move on.
That petition was set up by a pro-"Brexit"er, who was worried that the Leavers might not win. He's now complaining that his thing has been hijacked...
(Also, this would define a new type of democracy - one where we take votes and decide by majority outcome, unless we don't like the majority outcoime in whcih case we simply do over the vote. Rinse and repeat until we finally get the desired outcome).
Oh, that would never happen. Oh, wait. It did. Denmark, Ireland, Greece, and others have all ignored referendum results in the short-term, using them as an advisory to make changes that were more acceptable.
Thomas Rushton
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