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For many, mainly tech-related, solution sells, the buyer nowadays starts to gain from the moment they receive delivery. In ye olde days, the huge Day One costs meant long and often arduous justification debates. Using internal rates of return graphs and discounted cash flow tables. Hoping to prove the time

At a recent London summit, awash with a staggering twenty trillion dollars worth of potential spenders; > Boris Johnson pledged to turn the UK into the “Qatar of hydrogen” – riffing on his previous vow for it to be the “Saudi Arabia of wind” as it shifts from fossil fuels to renewable

> “a phenomenon for which a cell infected by a virus becomes resistant toward a second outcoming infection by a superinfectant virus” That’s the first result returned for the phrase ‘viral interference’ the day of blogging here. Aka ‘superinfection resistance’ it’s a concept gaining coverage. As right now the

[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/09/16/will-speaking-chatbot-help-sort-consumer-complaints-computer/] A UK ‘consumer champion’ survey [sub’n req’d [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/09/16/will-speaking-chatbot-help-sort-consumer-complaints-computer/] ] uncovered the misjudged rise of the retail ‘chatbot’. Store chains mistakenly thinking such auto-tech is the new ‘customer service’. Yet buyer

Britain’s Brutalist buildings flagbearer, Owen Luder, died recently aged 93. Obituaries focused on the generally reviled over-powering concrete monstrosities the architect imposed on townscapes across the land. For all their ribbon-cutting day glamour of the future, they certainly did not age well. Consigning him to membership of The Rubble

[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer-affairs/midlifers-have-become-sitting-ducks-fraudsters/] As the piece these bullets above are from then caveats; “Not all of these tips work for all investment scams”. Before detailing ever more worrying developments by such despicable, cunning criminals. Let’s go beyond the typical, ‘if it sounds too good

The UK’s political calendar has long had a three-week window built in for the various annual party conferences. The arrival of the Autumn equinox heralding a shindig of speeches, fringe events and chance to thank the door-knocking grassroots faithful. Convention has it that the ruling party gets to go

[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/doomsday-covid-models-badly-wrong/] I have blogged many times down the years about the scourge of following forecasts as fact. It has proven itself a disease which afflicts many a great Proposal with an unnecessarily yet fiendish insurmountable barrier. One main way of getting around the

Or hendiatris+1. One step beyond a tricolon. A rhetorical scheme [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isocolon] with four elements. In the oratory of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, he chose this as the way to ensure headlines followed his recent address to the Youth COP26 conference; > Coal Cars Cash

> The Alpha Nu Chi variant. Been with us for 27 years. — Hannes de Jager (@Toskaan) September 3, 2021 [https://twitter.com/Toskaan/status/1433808017586335747?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] Given the translating pronunciation, maybe an adaptation might be even better; Alpha Nu Cigma. What is surely unarguable, is the rampant corruption,