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Yesterday, 11:00

malvolio replied to a thread Re-employment as a contractor following redundancy in Accounting / Legal

So, being a good businessman, the OP should be approaching the end client since he has experience and history with them, and ignoring their old...

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22nd January 2021, 14:38

malvolio replied to a thread Personal Car Damaged at Work in Accounting / Legal

Still don't see the relevance of where and why and what the vehicle was doing when the damage was done to a personal vehicle insured personally... ...

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21st January 2021, 11:06

malvolio replied to a thread Business expenses from IR35 income in Accounting / Legal

These are pretty basic questions, you know, and some very basic gaps in your knowledge... However: 1. There are no expenses inside IR35. 2....

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20th January 2021, 11:47

malvolio replied to a thread ALLEGATION: 1st dose of Pfizer vaccine not AS effective AS FIRST THOUGHT in General

It's a naturally produced (albeit under lab conditions) strand of Messenger RNA, which is how the template for a protein gets from the DNA in the...

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20th January 2021, 10:20

malvolio replied to a thread ALLEGATION: 1st dose of Pfizer vaccine not AS effective AS FIRST THOUGHT in General

The vaccine doesn't stop you getting the virus, it stops you getting ill as a result of getting the virus. HTH. BIDI.

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19th January 2021, 18:45

malvolio replied to a thread SC Clearance doom? in Business / Contracts

As I keep pointing out, clearance is a risk assessment for a specific role (or set of roles) or an organisation. Different sites may not accept the...

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18th January 2021, 19:11

malvolio replied to a thread Any views on potential increases to Corp Tax? in Accounting / Legal

Hugely unlikely. You're a pensioner in South London with a fixed income of around £15k a year and a house worth £1m (and there are tens of thousands...

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18th January 2021, 16:13

malvolio replied to a thread HELP! Extension Day Rate Negotiation! in Business / Contracts

Actually more to do with the naivety of Human Remains and the way agencies sell themselves. Pick one at random and read their website. They all have...

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17th January 2021, 18:53

malvolio replied to a thread Police National Computer in General

Well yes, very true. That would work really well with a national police database covering everything from ANPR records to anti-terrorism intelligence.

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17th January 2021, 18:09

malvolio replied to a thread Police National Computer in General

To be fair, I didn't say I was doing this last week - more like 15 years ago. Moore's Law applies... And the PND (not the PNC, that's gone) is a...

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17th January 2021, 17:08

malvolio replied to a thread Police National Computer in General

No he doesn't. Some of us play with major datacentres, rather than mickey mouse office systems This was a black box array running as a dedicated,...

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17th January 2021, 15:35

malvolio replied to a thread HELP! Extension Day Rate Negotiation! in Business / Contracts

Doesn't change the fact that you clearly do not understand a £27bn a year business. So don't lecture those that do.

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17th January 2021, 15:04

malvolio replied to a thread Nigel Farage warns Democrats: If you 'martyr' Donald Trump what follows 'could be ver in General

It pretty much was and had been tested several times over recent years (G W Bush was the latest) until a delusional sitting president decided to...

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17th January 2021, 14:49

malvolio replied to a thread HELP! Extension Day Rate Negotiation! in Business / Contracts

How many more times do we have to point out that the agent isn't skimming anything, you are. they found the business, they got you the gig. If you...

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17th January 2021, 14:24

malvolio replied to a thread Police National Computer in General

PNC wants an archive. The one I worked with had got 3Tb of PNC number plates stored in the first year... However, the problem with this incident,...

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17th January 2021, 14:19

malvolio replied to a thread HELP! Extension Day Rate Negotiation! in Business / Contracts

Quite a lot of them aren't, including those who claim to be! :laugh

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17th January 2021, 12:20

malvolio replied to a thread Someone is looking for "directors" in General

They have been asking for a couple of weeks now. Sadly they seem to have missed out anything about what IPSE is actually there to do, so they will...

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17th January 2021, 12:17

malvolio replied to a thread Police National Computer in General

You think? Ask your DaaS provider to recover a file created a month ago... Agreed, absolutely. And I've known a five nines datacentre go down...

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16th January 2021, 23:39

malvolio replied to a thread Police National Computer in General

It's not a database, it's a federated group of databases spread over multiple server farms. All you have to do is delete one of the ones that holds...

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16th January 2021, 17:29

malvolio replied to a thread HELP! Extension Day Rate Negotiation! in Business / Contracts

Because other people in a similar position may read it who may believe they are outside IR35. Hence the qualification on my post. Happy now?

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16th January 2021, 16:02

malvolio replied to a thread HELP! Extension Day Rate Negotiation! in Business / Contracts

Ignore what's coming, the question in the client's mind will be "Has this guy added value to the job we're already paying him to do to the best of...

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16th January 2021, 14:02

malvolio replied to a thread Barnier orders UK to obey EU rules in Brexit

I knew I shouldn't have bought that cheap keyboard off E8ay... :igmc:

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16th January 2021, 13:43

malvolio replied to a thread Barnier orders UK to obey EU rules in Brexit

I don't, but never mind that. Fisheries is a bit of a mess, I agree, but (a) it was always going to be one given who owns the quotas and (b) it's a...

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16th January 2021, 13:38

malvolio replied to a thread Delivering an entire project in Business / Contracts

Spoken like a true coder.... :wink

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16th January 2021, 11:40

malvolio replied to a thread What age do you plan to semi-retire? in Business / Contracts

That happened about 30 years ago...

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