Aceticon

"What have the Romans ever done for us?"

Showing Britain for the Fascist shithole it's been turned into.

They threw paint at some military aircraft, which is a far cry from "destroying".

They didn't blew up anything or even significantly damage it, they did just enough to be considered "damage" per that insanely broad law, kinda like in Britain somebody talking loud during a demonstration is enough to be considered "disturbing the public order" giving the coppers a legal excuse to arrest people participating in that demonstration.

No idea were you pulled that "destroying" from.

Yeah, the first kind is more common when you're a beginner hobbyist and are just starting to learn to solder just using a run of the mill soldering iron and soldering wire, whilst the second kind at the very least requires some experience soldering and a steady hand - as even the largest surface mount components are smaller the Through Hold equivalents and generally one doesn't use the largest - or some special equipment (a soldering over and solder paste - which a paste for of solder which, unlike solder wire, spoils with time if unused).

However you can make way smaller circuits with the second kind (even if using the bigger surface mount components, though with the smaller ones the different is insane and some things are only really possible in practice to make with the smaller surface mount components) plus many integrated circuits only come in surface mount versions.

Also the second kind can be wholly and easilly assembled by machines (in fact the really small surface mount components are near impossible for humans to properly place), which is why if you open an electronic device nowadays you'll see it's almost or even entirelly made up of surface mounted components.

Mind you, nowadays even a hobbyist can just design a circuit with surface mount components and have the whole thing assembled by shops which will do small runs (like just 10 units) all of which pretty cheaply of you use one of the Chinese companies that do those things.

Can't really tell for sure from the picture but it looks like the purest shit (at worse 5%, possibly even 2%) rather than the run of the mill 10% stuff.

I'm actually shocked as hell that the EU company which is probably one of the biggest targets for state-sponsored industrial espionage had anything at all hosted outside the EU (or, in fact, in any cloud system other than an in-house one).

Personally I had lost all hope on those fuckers as soon as I saw how they went after Corbyn.

Then again I was just an EU immigrant in the UK and left after the Leave Referendum because that was the last drop for me and I lost all hope for the UK as a country (I kept following UK subjects for a while, hence actually caring about the whole Corbyn thing, but that slowly tailed of after a few years)

In the years since periodically some news or other comes out of the UK that just confirms my decision to leave Britain as one of the best in my life.

PS: Also, full disclosure, I was a Greenparty member back in Britain, so I was always significantly left of New Labour and didn't have a good opinion of them. Mind you, they still exceeded my expectations ... on the downside.

The politicians who wrestled back control of the Labour party through a campaign of smears with the help of Israeli-linked Jewish groups and who, immediately after that started at purge of any with dissenting opinions from that party, had more than demonstrated their love for Machiavelism, even before rising to Government purely on the back of the First Past The Post system and Reform splitting the far-right vote thus costing the Tories lots of seats.

Also, as others pointed out, this faction of Labour has long had an autoritarian streak, both in terms of the insane civil surveillance infrastructure they built last time they were in Government (as exposed by the Snowden Revelations) and their relentless weakening of privacy and even pretty basic legal rights.

This is really not surprising: the goose stepping into Fascism in the UK has started a while ago, it's just that it's a posh kind of Fascism wrapped in layers of deceit and disguised as "Rule Of Law", unlike in places like for example Hungary were it was closer to the more traditional "strong-man with an iron-fist" Fascist image.

Judging by what has come out regarding UK personalities and the Epstein files, they're looking for whistleblowers who would denounce the pedos they have amongst their elites.

Curve is a UK company.

Having worked in the Financial Industry in London, I wouldn't trust any UK financial solution provider (including payment processors) any more than a US one since Financial Regulation in both is a joke, both governments are in thrall to Finance and both governments are, for supposed Democracies, insanely high on civil society surveillance having things like secret information courts that can just issue secret bulk surveillance orders.

The UK might be in the European Continent, but for somebody based on the EU they provide no more rights than the US.

If one is based in the EU, it's overall safer to stick to EU based companies where one actually has some right and companies doing fishy things towards EU citizens run real risks of being heavily punished for it.

Same here.

Whilst I don't necessarily think Steam are doing it because of being good guys (I just think it makes good business sense for them to move gamers away from Windows), that doesn't mater for the outcomes for gamers, what maters is that what they're doing helps us all out to escape the ever tightening clutches of Microsoft which nowadays is basically an Evil Tech Corp.

Religious gamers should be praying really hard to their Deity/Pantheon for Gabe not to have a traffic accident and exercise a lot and eat healthy food so as not to have a heart attack, because after he dies many if not most of the games you "licensed" from Steam via a button in their app which says "Buy" might simply disappear from your account with some shitty excuse and you'll have no effective recourse unless you have a couple of millions of dollars to sue them for it in whatever court their EULA says you have to sue them on.