I think it is that we can't do anything about a vast number of serious criminals without cessation from any appearance of such laws. I know that in isolated cases the law is bluntly ignored and treated with contempt.
That's a Daily Mail argument. The UK was a founder member of the Council of Europe in 1949, and the Euro Commission of HR looked heavily to the civil liberties traditions of the UK and others.
It is only the current crop of hard-Brexit Tories that have suddenly taken so against it. The previous 70 years, long before we even joined the EU or abolished hanging, managed to deal with criminals just fine without proposing leaving CoE
I doubt anyone who was aware of both expected leaving the EU would have any connection with the CoE and ECHR membership
If you can't stop criminals without breaking the law yourself get another job. And if you have to trample human rights to do it maybe you should be right next to those criminals, getting the same treatment.
I'm sure you would quickly have a change of heart if you were subjected to the same violations.
I continue to be harassed often daily often violently since t spent a six year sentence inprison for breach of a order that never existed, procured or forged by a social worker to remove me from being able to prevent him defrauding my elderly mother. I have been almost laughed at by judges. I was actually told to forget my right to trial by a senior judge.
I don't know the EU/EuroParl equivalents, but the UK still has a robust Judicial Review system.
I would strongly argue that the UK has a longer history of independent judiciary, both capable of standing up to misguided legislation, as well as willing and enabled to do so, with the sense of purpose, clarity and finality, which [at least apparently, or perceptively] absent features are longstanding argument behind EU cecessionism.
In 2006, the Data Retention Directive got passed. [0]
In July 2006 a legal challenge started. By 2014 the directive was ruled incompatible with the EU charter of fundamental rights. It took a while, but that's due to having to go through your own country's courts first for a referral to the ECJ.
> I would strongly argue that the UK has a longer history of independent judiciary
Yes. I could equally strongly argue that the UK has a longer history of the judiciary delivering very favourable decisions that fly in the face of basic logic and rely on the privilege of the judicial classes.
regarding your second statement, counter argument to my claimed argument:
Unfortunately I cannot disagree.
I certainly had a much longer history in mind, as well as being selective to begin with the start of the twentieth century, whereabouts the modern system of judicial thought appears to be becoming established, and largely healthy in the broad directions.
(For personal context, my father was born in 1907. Illegitimate, because his father, fearing debtor's prison caused by a profligate young business partner, shot himself, unknowing his wife, at 43, was with child, my father. Ensued flight from our locality, the social opprobrium literally excommunicating. Paperless, illegitimacy was illegitimacy, I will never know how my father, late but present, attended a good school on scholarship, the only document most people ever then could show, unavailable. He couldn't vote, until marriage and property ownership, conveyed superficial ascendancy to the class system. Outright property ownership was still necessary to vote, during his youth.
So, very generally, I think the animus of the judiciary, began to turn, during the years my father grew up. This was in wide canvas a positive effect caused by legislation. But legislation followed countless decisions that created a weight of case law leaving legislators little option but to relieve the courts of the eash of applications, and relieve parliament of increasing embarrassment the result also inadvertently of the suspension of the Houses during wartime. So then we arrive at the classical post war history of equality in the workplace and massive massively painful demographic adjustments that only died out, never were truly assuaged.
I believe that bu the nineteen sixties, the judiciary began to asset a collective sense of greater immediate responsibility. Not least a generation among them by this time ascended or even rocketing to on high, since no encumbents sat above them - although few officers, comparatively, died in the Great Ear, appetite for public service was greatly diminished by experience personal and emotional as well as utilitarian futility. If not life, then so much hope for life, was denuded from a generation whom we don't immediately suspect to be ear casualties. This, too, was (immediately post war, from 50 anyway) the time of great individualism in the Bar. Desire to speak forth, rather than sit in Review, appealed to heartbroken men. Counterintuitively, the common trenches of the first, spurred little individual cry - the nation was st home, almost all, the war a newspaper report of alien incomprehensibility. Counterintuitively, considering that total war, involving all able, promoted iconic, stereotypical, nonconformity and isolation self ideation of a supreme personal victory. My own pet take how individualism was acceptable in total war, arose from the beginning of the concept of universal sacrifice of workshops, farms and all for the effort, leading to a new search for identity. Thus"we're all in it together" did not resonate with the irony it probably should. Unfortunately, this set a dangerous precedent, of heroism and the diminution abstract, of collective costs of war, which mars our vision and sensibilities, today.
I can't fairly stud my comment with case examples, because without a thorough survey and definitions chosen after thorough triage, I will crudely sculpt citations and findings from insignificance into fractured lay icons, else omit the most emotionally charged decisions for completely over sensitive reasons; I should make a complete hash of tracing the notable cases in isograph landscaping for beneficial study of the landscape formed by the nation's elements in fullest force.
It is altogether too easy to speak of exceptional counsel the oratory and the skills of summary, and never know when you are reviewing the true seismic shifts of history.
But I will - I have been in undercurrent throughout my comment - guiding by the hidden valley of my argument, the reader of my thoughts towards my perception that the judiciary took a conscientious active role, forcibly I think, from the time of first post rationing government. So much was in flux, I don't think of party politics before about 1965. This is totally arbitrary on my part, no different from opening a dictionary close enough to the first letter of the sought word, to be convenient.
I offer a single reason behind judicial activism, as relatively speaking certain rulings arguably might be considered: cold war and specifically the outlawing of the Communist Party Of Great Britain. I think the acquittal of Jeremy Thorpe, for example, was intended to relieve others of the the danger of blackmail.
company failure survivors are not automatically the most reliable and neutral witnesses, of course. I was just reading the self evaluation reports of some top traders at Goldman Sachs in 2007. I am not disparaging individuals, merely to assess failure you need proximity and neutrality. I filled that gap with research and technical writing staff on rotation and with management prospects. Co appointments of sales and research worked out well because the research co manager's experience interested them around the company resulting in a lookout and balance to customer focus partners, no inherent conflict of interest or territory, and the value of watching out for one another was the payoff. I pulled a similar arrangement together between program managers and lead developers, to get a short path between realism for delivery and the product performance. Someone narrowly focused on sequential tasks with someone who multi tasks and I guess this was somewhat inspired by Isiah Berlin'sHedgehog and the Fox.
has there ever been any earnest blog or reporting in failed startups?
because I was driven to start my own company by a formative experience of being day by day taught whst was falling apart by my new friend who had started a year before me, coming from a major accountancy to switch to a sales role where he certainly made the best financial decision of his lice about then... I was giftedblow by blow analyses of the way rumours and signs would work their way through the quarterly public filibfs until the final audit couldn't be fiddled, but conveniently ibtra company trabsfer pricing eas holding up the booked revenue, but given away by a miscrepancy in Advance Corporation Tax the subsidiary had negoriated downwards in anticipation and need to preserve cash. (ACT in the UK was 35% iirc payable in advance on the Inland Revenue estimated income for your following year. This was a major reason why so many new companies failed at 18 months, when new registrations had to file. Naturally much more involved than that but that's a reasonable actual narrative that was in force into 1984, when our company shares first caught the shirt selling attention.)
No surprise that I started out heavy on finance brainpower. And sold to the private sale limit, short dated high yield puttable (by us) convertible notes against a collateral pool of sales revenues. Crude engineering, but it prevented wild guesswork to value equity we badly needed to not be all over the chart and troubling a knowledgeable staff who were deferring commissions for equity that we could afford because of the larger debt financing and the fact we had tgat secured only on buv corporate receivables and not the company itself, and we had no problems servicing the notes because we weren't paying sales at high gross commissions, a major cashflow enhancement and the equity compensation for sales worked out a ib dbyive nearly yoo successful.
but really while reverse engineering of opaque balance sheets is interesting, I find more ready clues in the organisation behaviour,if i can get a close feel of a company. I really must dug out my old notes, we applied the similar analysis for evaluating the strength of the sakes for competing but indirect rivals we could do business for where we had clients or domain knowledge advantage. Understanding the coherency of a small company is essential to make a credit assessment. I was raised by a great depression era banker father, who, decades before credit scoring, cyt mortgages to families by beubg a kind of nisey home inspector, attuned to a myruad vkues to the steadiness of the their home life. I can never forget his telling me how he ratted out a nasty wife beater, the pantry and stoop was just too scrubbed. He figured she was under pressure to make sure that house looked good to get the deal. Pop was having nibe of that ruse. He guessed right tvat the husband was deadbeat putting on his wife every last chore a man would normally do, chopping firewood even. Turned out the husband was in debt from gambling. This was enough to force him to agree a divorce, back when a husband could put up some nasty fight against almost any reason why he was no good. This was a company town and my pop got the house re let to the wife and sent her her husband's alimony, who they put on some truck crew to get him gone. I wish I had recorded his stories, he was 94 in 2001 when he passed, and had seen i still reckon all the most significant economic mobes in the century. I tried out telesales to see if you can find clues like pop did. Thrbs out you can. I don't mean high pressure tricks. I mean the proportion of business lost by reps not tuning in to the customer and heeding buying signals, is the difference between living and thriving without any kind of pressure that could pass on to aby customer.
Biggest mistake I see almost every time?
Not bringing enough strength to sales. Hire more don't arm twist more. Call back more. Get dedicated researchers for customer leads and customer needs. Get a Bloomberg terminal, the news and business research is indispensable and ridiculous value everything's included you can think of. (plus being reachable at Bloomberg's domain doesn't harm your impression to investors and banks. I used to have to buy annual Gales Information b directories at five thousand dollars a copy.. the Bloomberg is stacks of those... Oh, hire a female sales manager. And get her a really good secretary. Ask any woman to report what she sees amiss on any sales floor and you are about to learn a lot. She needs a secretary to help process all that I don't mean any condescension whatsoever, this is a critical role, few women like confrontation, so give her a assistant able to write up her analyses. Make this open save clearly sensitive to employment statue stuff. I tracked who read what abd correlated with sales figures and got a targeted research team under our manager. Nobody even thought about why their lead folders just kept up delivering the prospects ready to buy. Come bonus time our manager could point to directly knowing how much each rep sold more with her oversight and support, before handing out the biggest checks yet. From concern if she might be losing authority to being worshipped by men she enriched, never a question she was a sales Goddess and without lifting a phone or making a pitch, but she had every little detail and everyone's back. Just like the programmer who needs a bigger workstation to be in his zone more, leading by providing is the easiest and most enduring way I know. When i was just me instead of selling solo I advertised for a salesman offering guaranteed full time research assistant. me. Cost less salary because more sales done.
if course, once you get serious about learning from failure, you aqui hire failing companies. You claim it's for some IP and goodwill but really your just want all the internal emails to study. This is a great pity for the academic learning of business, but I know no better advice to pursue if you can. Having tax loss offsets to protect your own revenue, is the financial engineering side this is active trading. There's a assortment of ways to make swaps of shares held in the bust company by departed or departing staff, which can make you a gift of a golden hello incentive to get the people you want to return. I feel like I'm giving my life secrets aeay because i had to learn for myself, but this is routine stuff in bigger companies. In my domain, acting like a multinational was just the prerequisite for being able to offer a competitive price. It's not insanely expensive. A confident young qualified accountant given a research assistant and a private library budget is as good as the most prestigious consultants, in my experience. Consider the ages of Investment banking teams and top accounting firms consultants and compare the backup they get. Just as it costs, well in the early nineties a bond salesman cost about half a million dollars to support, the support is all important. If you can get to your destination with the right information, buy it for whose career will be transformed by the opportunity to use their equally capable minds. I am always despite having long experience to the contrary, surprised how little"information age" firms spend on information. The first information i purchase is up to date tax manuals. Find out what you don't need to pay or can reclaim as first duty of every monthly rules release.
I hope this wasn't too off the wall but I have been able to trap myself in a horrible mess before, by only thinking about how software production management needs to work, and neglecting the corporate stuff. Frankly, sakes and tax run as tight as is possible is a frighteningly sharp edge to carry to the marketplace. I hope I have been helpful somehow in my ramblings.
if mild trauma is basically daily occurrence its not trauma in my book
I don't want to relate highlights of my traumatic experiences, but i have only gotten past the shock stage on one event, five years afterwards. This is the breakdown my comment above references. I will throw this one here in case of need, but I have always been told I am, surprisingly to me a good listener. If you're experiencing the repercussions if shocks in your life interfering with work and hurting you or your stability, worrying family, and think i may be able to even just be a link to unburden and offer, only based on my understanding of you, but informed by three decades of start-up life i'm certain was caused by heightened worry and need for combatting challenges and securing my emotional life around work, I have time if someone needs, quite a bit next few weeks
I should only say that obvious fair caution applies, I'm just a random on the Internet, albeit i can point you to the usual profiles and personal references who will pick up and not ignore your call. So if you think you could benefit from this individual's often extreme perspectives I've been becalming and leaening from all my life, (and won't dream of introducing as distractions from your needs) I am pretty much available to reach most hours around the clock for the time being, as i hop around to try and pitch a new gig I'm shift working and so definitely awake in your time zone inside the next twenty four hours. I understand existential angst about PL philosophies of a new tech lead you can't abide by as equally as collateralisation of a structured debt financing of a early stage too nearly pre revenue... I kinda been (knocked!) around the block maybe can help save you a lap or two. I hope this isn't taken badly here im unsure about this sort of comment on HN, but i figured is a article that might attract somebody exhausted and even desperate for hope around the corner. That's why I clicked, despite i have been assiduously fine tuning my own life models lately, rather than scrabbling for anything I can hold on to.
edited typos, little cleanup i rushed the comment from my reaction/ thought, sorry for earlier messy text.
I am doubtful of the study methods but not my field I will have to read again, I am commenting because I endure complete days stuck in miasma recollection of decades past thst was obliterated from my memory until further trauma unlocked it. I believe there's something to the headline conclusion, from my own experience. When i am not knocked to bits by the assailing memories, I find increasingly i can modify my way of thinking and experiencing daily existence (life is a abstract i think i glimpse like a mitafe, occasionally) and i have not only found this a profound new agility, but become increasingly adept at appreciating the people i meet who also have experienced varying degrees of trauma, whom I fibd I can get myself on a wavelength with almost now with minimal or no consciouss effort. Although inevitably some people will unburden the most excruciatingly self serving nastiness, I have found that people are open to me who i wouldn't before have been able to get a conversation with wherein the they are personally able to communicate insights and i can hold in pattern and positively nidge and steer back to where theydigressed due to the upsets subject of their talk, with no notable friction which existed distinctly.. this change, the latest of years of considerable cognitive adjustments i have been through, happened since a breakdown just two weeks ago. For my anecdotal life, therefore, I am willing to give this some credence.
I got the similar result, the thing thing my brain fancied earlier doesn't seem so great after the dopamine falls away.
But, I found that if I persisted with trying to create or refine the earlier idea, very often there was something good to be found, not always directly related. I might just be seeing a different part of the application code from a new perspective by trying to write a new feature using the same libraries, and go in and get a gain where they're used elsewhere.
I can't understand such long sleeping, becauseI found the very fact of being interested in learning something new or solving a problem, keeps me alert and awake, literally a adrenaline rush.
my company name is the result of a hangover, not a discernable moment between inspiration and telling my associate who sadly didn't come along because he was emigrating to Malaysia.
But I found hangovers equally assistive to quiet linear, procedural tasks, specifically reeling in telephone sales closes. I would say there's a combination of narrowed creativity, to talk around any already understood but surmountable objections, and the step by step almost rote procedure of confirming the customer's interests and the concessions where you have applied any, terms, and the okay, this is what I need you to do to deliver you x today.
Admittedly sometimes I found a excess of creativity arising from gallows humour, particularly if my customer happened to be likewise hungover - I would tease my favourite customers that they were getting my call in the morning, regardless of whether they signed by the end of a junket we held the night or weekend before. Colleagues kept immense Outlook calendars of sporting fixtures and rolled a feed individually for the latest on their customer's team affiliations.
I'm curious how many people on HN have been in corporate sales ever. Personally, I really enjoyed the experience. But I wasn't stuck with it, I was seconded to make sure that technical arguments actually were supported by the operations and development guys. I reckon if sales functions could level with the experience of the dev/ops teans, prior to calling, close ratios would be up all around. That's what my job was, basically.
