On Wednesday, September 20, 2023 at 1:50:46 AM UTC+10, John Larkin wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:03:44 +0100, "Commander Kinsey"
> <C...@nospam.com> wrote:
>
> >If an American company with an American server doesn't obey EU cookie/GDPR/privacy laws, what's the EU gonna do? They can't get someone into trouble for breaking a law which only exists in another country surely? All they could do is block the website in the EU. If all companies refused to obey the legislation, the EU would have to block thousands of sites, then their population would see sense and get the law overturned. Or.... all sites outside the EU could simply check the IP address, and if the user is in the EU, display an alternate page complaining about the stupid law and saying we refuse to deal with Europeans. For goodness sake, fight back against stupidity!
> I was working with a group in Oxford and I asked them if our
> tomographic atom probe machine would have to be tested for CE
> compliance. They all laughed out loud.
>
> "You don't understand. CE means Can't Enforce."
>
> They buy CE stickers in bulk.
>
> Is there a Firefox addon that automatically answers the stupid cookie
> consent question?
>
> Oxford is a wonderful, magical place.

If you want science, go to Cambridge. When my wife was an academic there she had to field questions from Brian Josephson (who wasn't exactly what you'd hope for in a science Nobel prize winner).
Max Perutz was better value (and got his for Chemistry), but we didn't move in that social circle.

Oxford is artier. They may go in for magic. J K Rowling did want to go to Oxford and it's images do show up in the Harry Potter books. Oxford certainly had better restaurants.

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Bill Sloman, Sydney