[SystemSafety] Off Topic

[Dick Selwood]

This is not off-topic, but important for the future of the things that 
matter in many areas

Deceleration of interest - I have used my postal vote to remain

Listening to the leave people leaves me, alongside Peter seriously 
worried (we who have not lived abroad for a long time don't get 
emotional enough to say "scared shitless")

What makes me upset (= seriously angry) is that we have not taken 
advantage of programs that give Euro finding ( = our money back again) 
in technology within Horizon 2020 and other programmes and not have been 
efficient (= have screwed up badly) in administering other EU programs 
like farm support.

I am older than Peter but we are both part of the first generation that 
has grown up without some major European powers being at war with each 
other - for hundreds of years

The EU is imperfect  but all the Eurocrats I have spoken to are serious 
people who are trying to achieve good things in Europe.

Even so- better inside the tent and pissing out than outside the tent 
and pissing in

Dick Selwood



On 22/06/2016 20:06, Peter Bernard Ladkin wrote:
> Actually, not so off topic as it may seem. Lots of what we do depends on pan-European cooperation,
> from air traffic services to standards for self-driving and electric vehicles, commercial aircraft,
> and rail.
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> Er, let's forget the fine words and pretend decorum - I am scared shitless. I'm nearly 65 and this
> is the biggest crisis I have ever experienced in two decades in the UK, two in the US and two in
> Germany. (If I were 10 years older, as some of my distinguished colleagues and friends are, it would
> have been WWII.)
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> I can't vote. If you can, please, please do, and take all your friends with you to the polling station.
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> https://abnormaldistribution.org/index.php/2016/06/22/brexitbremain/
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> PBL
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