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BBantamzen replied to the thread The cost of the welfare state - challenges posed and solutions.That's a very twee aspiration. Just one question, whose paying for millions of people living the life of leisure? I'm going to wager...
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BBantamzen replied to the thread The cost of the welfare state - challenges posed and solutions.'A' human yes, at least for now. But not many humans, and not necessarily forever. The more we teach the models, and the more...
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BBantamzen replied to the thread The cost of the welfare state - challenges posed and solutions.Funnily enough this was alluded to up thread, with the suggestion that we start to have more people working parks & public loos. As...
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BBantamzen replied to the thread The cost of the welfare state - challenges posed and solutions.AI is moving at a pace probably unapparelled in industry. What was little more than a useless gimmick just a few months ago, is rapidly...
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BBantamzen replied to the thread The cost of the welfare state - challenges posed and solutions.Frankly given the state of youth unemployment as things are, pushing back the retirement age would be insanity. But so would shunting...
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BBantamzen replied to the thread The cost of the welfare state - challenges posed and solutions.Hmm, so you're proposing to make Retirement Pension (RP) means tested? In all honesty it's not the worst idea in the world going...
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BBantamzen replied to the thread Getting passengers to spread out along the platform.I agree. And even though formations can be all sorts of sizes, it shouldn't be impossible to work out from the length of the unit which...
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BBantamzen replied to the thread Reform UK discussion.That is all of the Reform majorities in Parliament as things stand.
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BBantamzen replied to the thread BBC - are they worried?!.I think the writing has been on the wall for some time, I can see the BBC heading to a subscription model inside of 5 years. And once...
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BBantamzen replied to the thread Reform UK discussion.Is the correct answer. I've thought this for some time about Farage, and everything that's happened recently just cements the feeling...
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BBantamzen replied to the thread Report of fire in Totley Tunnel (15/08).I got caught up with this at the back end of the disruption. Firstly the Calder Valley service to Manchester from Bradford (starting at...
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BBantamzen replied to the thread Thoughts on the Trump presidency.I'm sure I've heard / read something, somewhere, from former staffers that Trump basically doesn't have many briefings with CIA / NSA...
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BBantamzen replied to the thread Thoughts on the Trump presidency.I'd be amazed if the former was the case. After all on arrival in the UK, Trump moved snuck back onboard the 747, and presumably no-one...
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BBantamzen replied to the thread Thoughts on the Trump presidency.Yeah I know he arrived on the Qatari one, but it was indicated at the time that he swapped to one of the official ones as the former...
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BBantamzen replied to the thread Climate adaptation challenges facing a railway built for a very different world?.Long term that simply isn't going to be economically viable. Even the odd day every year of shutting down large parts of the network can...