Interesting Links for 21-09-2019

[andrewducker]

The one thing the Bible is clear about

(tags:Bible furniture funny )

Safari is breaking adblockers. Switch to Firefox.

(tags:advertising Apple browser )

EU rejects Boris Johnson request for Brexit deal without Irish backstop. UK responds with, frankly, gibberish

(tags:uk europe doom )

Jeremy Corbyn is the most unpopular opposition leader of past 45 years

(tags:labour OhForFucksSake )

Lib Dems set out radical agenda for tackling climate emergency

(tags:globalwarming libdem )

Thomas Cook: plans made for biggest UK peacetime repatriation

(tags:holidays epicfail business )

We are all potential victims of the con artist

(tags:fraud )

French court rules Steam's ban on reselling used games breaks European law

Presumably the same will apply to Kindle books...
(tags:law Europe games )

There were women in sport in the 19th century. And then they were eradicated from it

(tags:women sport history OhForFucksSake )

Comments

Women in sport in history

[anef]

I knew about Gertrude Bell from reading her biography, Queen of the Desert, by Georgina Howell. Clearly an extraordinary women, but perhaps not quite as exceptional as the biography made her appear.

[dewline]

2. Stopped using Safari for much of anything a couple of years back. This looks like one more reason to not reverse that decision.

4. Johnson's crew believes that Ireland is to the UK what Ukraine is to Putin's Russia, or Canada to certain incarnations of the US government: a natural part of their "rightful sphere of influence". And in both cases, none of these target nations is permitted a say in their own future on this point.

5. What the Hell is Corbyn thinking that drives this anyway?

6. Given the severity of the climate derangement crisis, I fail to see how this counts as a "radical agenda".

7. This may partly explain why the "Thomas Cook" brand was taken off the wall decor of one of my local major shopping mall's travel booking agency tenants. Something has been going sour at Thomas Cook for years, yes?

8. Yep. All too true.

9. I have no love for Valve's argument. Never been much for online gaming anyway, either.

10. Call it erasure. Call it cover-up. Either word will be accurate re: women's sports history of this sort.

Thomas Cook

[fanf]

I am getting deja vu from this headline ... hasn’t it happened before? Wp doesn’t mention anything obvious, so maybe it was a different tour operator last time...

Re: Thomas Cook

[movingfinger]

You might be thinking of Wow Air's recent (March?) bankruptcy, which stranded people because they shut down without warning.

Re: Thomas Cook

[fanf]

A good suggestion, not the one my brain was failing to remember :-) It was the “largest peace-time repatriation” phrase that was pinging my memory, from several years ago...

Re: Thomas Cook

[mair_in_grenderich]

Well, the article itself states "The previous biggest UK peacetime repatriation was in 2017 when Monarch Airlines collapsed. The CAA had to organise flights home for 110,000 customers on specially chartered planes."
Perhaps you're thinking of that?

[calimac]

EU position seems very clear: "If you want to come up with a new Irish policy in December 2020 or any other time, fine; we'll look at it then. In the meantime, we keep the backstop."

[elf]

'Bout time a court looked at digital content and said, "so... why, exactly, can't you transfer ownership from one buyer to another, just like you can with physical purchases?"

Software companies have been dodging this concept by going to subscription-only models, but I suspect it's only a matter of time before someone says a subscription should be transferable.

In the meantime: copyright law prevents unauthorized copies, but nothing in the law prevents Amazon or Steam from transfering ownership from Person A to Person B's account, and presumably the book or game would no longer open on Person A's account, so, no additional copies. The only reason you can't do this, is that publishers want to have a "One buyer = One reader/user" system.

[dreema]

Had to do some admin work on our apple portal for device registration last week. Interestingly i wasn't allowed to - Firefox is not on the list of supported browsers.

[andrewducker]

Apple are dicks.

I bet if you'd spoofed the user agent it would have worked too.

[dewline]

Well, that's disturbing for multiple reasons.

[dreema]

It seems it's been happening for a while. I've not had to log into the portal to check stuff recently, only reason i did this time is cos our security token for the mdm was away to expire.

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/9h6ogn/apple_blocking_firefox_from_accessing_their_new/

Joseph and Jesus the labourers

[amaebi]

Joseph and Jesus might have been caarpenters, but there's no reason to think they were artisans: the Koine term designates hod carriers, too.