Ok, not football at all, but it matters, eventually.

[WTF11]

Keyboard warriors ?
Global internet, its language preferences & education of its importance in some of the countries economies you named.

Most commonly used online language is
English among global internet users & is the most common corporate language used by many multinational companies, including Airbus, Microsoft & Samsung who have mandated English as the "common-corporate" language, even though Mandarin is spoken by over 1.2 billion people worldwide, including across China & South Asia markets.

In most countries, English is still the primary foreign language taught in schools & my Mum finds work in interesting business translating of it's use here, there & everywhere.

Other languages that are important for her business include French which is the the official language of more than 29 countries, which provides decent translation work revenues for her in in African countries of Cote d'Ivoire, Rwanda, Mozambique, Tanzania & Democratic Republic of Congo, i'm told.

Spanish, which is spoken by around 534 million people worldwide, including over 40 million in the USA, is also heavily used during business communications today & provides a steady stream for translation work currently for many too globally.

Balance all that by looking at recently released stats fom UK's Ministry of Justice data that show 57% of adult prisoners have literacy levels below those expected of an 11 year old.

On the other hand UK Cyber crime stats show there was 7.78 million Cyber attacks on UK businesses so far in 2024 & more than 4000,000 cases of confirmed fraud via computer misuse were recorded, with 50% of UK businesses thus far experiencing such crimes regularly.

There are few skills which have a bigger impact on a persons life than being able to read, for sure.

But wow, look at what such a skill can be morphed into within today's global markets from the perspective of both sides of the law via the net - let alone the developing global language of computer data-code programmers working on different sides of the law.
Frightening incomes of profits for some via crime & huge losses for sure for victims.

The world is seeing a general increase in 'cybercrime-language' with current estimates that cybercrime will cost the world $10.5 trillion annually by 2025 !

Sorry, but what do the last couple of posts have in any context to the debate regarding the 47th President of the USA?

[Monaco_Totty]

Sorry, but what do the last couple of posts have in any context to the debate regarding the 47th President of the USA?

Tad touchy tonight or an attempt to provoke ?

I was replying to Spaldy & not extemporaneously, to give someone intetested the information to understand something regarding the global economy competition facing his country, the USA & the effects of external cyber security to global economies & its effects on populace including America & little old UK.

Of course i could have included the rise of African influence with regard to Trumps trading plans or the fact African governments have increasingly welcomed economic, diplomatic & security ties with Russia, leading Western countries to denounce what they see as Moscow’s destabilizing influence too.

But i shall refrain from comment on how Russia "actually" thinks now on the USA under Trump, despite the fact a family member with boots on the ground is living in Moscow working for French media tv there currently & who has access to news conferences including Putins comments uttered today & the Trump effect on Russian people as to the perceived effect read by some outside of that country.

Anyway, your greater knowledge no doubt would denounce all that as not being acceptable & unworthy for Spaldys attention & indeed for your own grey matter.

To coin your favoured phrase when trying to belittle me, "you let yourself down there".
So i'll throw said phrase back on you & take my unwanted recently sharpened quill elsewhere.
Good evening.

[WTF11]

Tad touchy tonight or an attempt to provoke ?

I was replying to Spaldy & not extemporaneously, to give someone intetested the information to understand something regarding the global economy competition facing his country, the USA & the effects of external cyber security to global economies & its effects on populace including America & little old UK.

Of course i could have included the rise of African influence with regard to Trumps trading plans or the fact African governments have increasingly welcomed economic, diplomatic & security ties with Russia, leading Western countries to denounce what they see as Moscow’s destabilizing influence too.

But i shall refrain from comment on how Russia "actually" thinks now on the USA under Trump, despite the fact a family member with boots on the ground is living in Moscow working for French media tv there currently & who has access to news conferences including Putins comments uttered today & the Trump effect on Russian people as to the perceived effect read by some outside of that country.

Anyway, your greater knowledge no doubt would denounce all that as not being acceptable & unworthy for Spaldys attention & indeed for your own grey matter.

To coin your favoured phrase when trying to belittle me, "you let yourself down there".
So i'll throw said phrase back on you & take my unwanted recently sharpened quill elsewhere.
Good evening.

Ok first. When have I EVER suggested that you have "let yourself down " on any subject, any time, ever? If you can't (And I suspect you won't), then i expect.an apology.

Secondly. Just what have any of my responses to your increasingly "diverse" comments here to do with cyber security, or.the impact of imteractioms with Russia and African destabilization?

You been taking stuff Sweetcheeks?

[WTF11]

Tad touchy tonight or an attempt to provoke ?

I was replying to Spaldy & not extemporaneously, to give someone intetested the information to understand something regarding the global economy competition facing his country, the USA & the effects of external cyber security to global economies & its effects on populace including America & little old UK.

Of course i could have included the rise of African influence with regard to Trumps trading plans or the fact African governments have increasingly welcomed economic, diplomatic & security ties with Russia, leading Western countries to denounce what they see as Moscow’s destabilizing influence too.

But i shall refrain from comment on how Russia "actually" thinks now on the USA under Trump, despite the fact a family member with boots on the ground is living in Moscow working for French media tv there currently & who has access to news conferences including Putins comments uttered today & the Trump effect on Russian people as to the perceived effect read by some outside of that country.

Anyway, your greater knowledge no doubt would denounce all that as not being acceptable & unworthy for Spaldys attention & indeed for your own grey matter.

To coin your favoured phrase when trying to belittle me, "you let yourself down there".
So i'll throw said phrase back on you & take my unwanted recently sharpened quill elsewhere.
Good evening.

And the fact.you have a family member working in Moscow is supposed to engender sympathy, understanding, empathy even? Go to the Ukraine fromtline where doctors, teachers, streetsweepers, nurses and so many other "normal" people have been drawn into conflict not of their making but who felt compelled to resist. THEN get alll pilosophical.

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

Careful, if you bash those keys any harder you may do yourself an injury.

MT sure the rest of us understood what you were trying to say.

[MrsORichSenior_]

Careful, if you bash those keys any harder you may do yourself an injury.

MT sure the rest of us understood what you were trying to say.

American & UK politics have not been great since the 1970s...... maybe down to the philosophy of Thatcher & Reagan that they left.

Thatcher's policies were associated with substantial increases in socioeconomic and health inequalities....... these issues were actively marginalized and ignored by her governments.

If you graph productivity growth in the USA and increased income for workers in the USA for a 100 years....... then the two lines in the graph grow together up until about 1980 when Reagan was elected and thereafter productivity continues to rise but worker wages stil stay pretty flat.

The Ronald Reagan method of shrinking the government was to pay private companies more than it cost the government to do many of the things federal government used to do.... ....... this resulted in lots of talent leaving the federal government and going to those companies.......... because private companies are not actually known for honest business practices the federal government wasted lots of money for cr@p........ leading to an additional cost of hiring federal workers who were experts in the field to oversee the projects and call out companies for being dishonest........ nothing changed really since regarding.........

Possibly an outsiders view from me that anyone is welcome to correct........ as I have an open mind regarding global politics due to clients who engage me...... but in all honesty there are to many clowns in governments today offering nothing conceptually new apart from pseudo personalities.

Football & Politics not a great mix on footie forums....... as Dutch Police will testify today after violence against fans in Amsterdam...... nuff said !

MOT

[WTF11]

The covid virus almost stopped the world.
But a computer virus will definitely stop it.

Those who are older, and if fit, will know how to work and live without a computer. They stand a chance.
The rest are gone.

Agreed, and FWIW I'm reasonably fit and definitely "older" so maybe I'll be around a while longer (I know that will delight certain contributors!&#128521

[BelfastAndy]

Agreed, and FWIW I'm reasonably fit and definitely "older" so maybe I'll be around a while longer (I know that will delight certain contributors!&#128521

Don't threaten us! Lol

[WTF11]

So, we get Robert F Kennedy Jr nominated as health secretary with zero previous experience in that field, and a chap who is under investigation for child *** trafficking as Attorney General. Only in America.

We have our "issues, but nevertheless I hope you transatlantic dudes are proud of your "democracy".

[WTF11]

And a Republican Senate and House will resist the insanity? I think not. The lunatics have quite clearly taken control of the asylum. Heaven help us all.