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  • austinsguitar - Thursday, October 10, 2019 - link

    you know the sad thing is, brexit and usa corporations should be a ZERO issue. But turns out the eu has a big hand in how usa corps trade with the uk. Which is morally wrong. Intel and other companies doing this are pigs.
  • austinsguitar - Thursday, October 10, 2019 - link

    All i am saying is that the usa needs to be the uk's fall back after brexit. We need to help our friends and uk is our friend right?
  • hbsource - Thursday, October 10, 2019 - link

    There are no friends in international relations. Just interests.
  • jabber - Thursday, October 10, 2019 - link

    Yeah the US doesn't give a damn about the UK, hasn't for decades. The US is just looking to carve up the UK after Brexit. After all another 65 million to charge over the odds for healthcare etc.
  • cpupro - Thursday, October 17, 2019 - link

    >>Yeah the US doesn't give a damn about the UK, hasn't for decades.<<

    Funny, because USA is founded by British (English) people.
  • GreenReaper - Thursday, October 10, 2019 - link

    Not when you let your citizens run ours over and skip off back home with diplomatic immunity.
  • kjboughton - Thursday, October 10, 2019 - link

    You're right Dr. Ian: I was just about to launch into another massive encoding session using my demonstrably over-powered dual Haswell-EP system when I stopped to think... yeah... what about Brexit?

    Is this it then? This is the end? This is how Anandtech has chosen to go?
  • Urufu - Thursday, October 10, 2019 - link

    You mean getting a point of view from an important technology market? Digging in a little deeper to something that's normally glossed over ? Trying to educate the ignorant that a market outside the USA exists?

    Well no I hope they keep reviewing the bottom end of SSD's I wouldn't buy with your money and calling it news. Or maybe they could do a Fudo style report and say nothing for a half a page. Let me know what works for you, I'll change the internet to suit your tastes.
  • Lord of the Bored - Thursday, October 10, 2019 - link

    It is an article about the UK market, and at this point in time it is impossible to discuss the british market without also asking "what about brexit?". The departure from the EU is probably the single biggest thing affecting the UK market right now, even if no one's sure how things are going to shake out. You can't just pretend it isn't a thing at all.
  • GreenReaper - Thursday, October 10, 2019 - link

    Brexit matters here like no other topic right now. The EU is our biggest trading partner and our relationship with it touches on diverse walks of life, sometimes in unexpected manners.

    Just today I wrote a story about a UK furry convention that's delayed opening its registration for next year due to Brexit - specifically, because it's caused complications with its payment providers. Back in 2017, Brexit was the topic of a two-minute comedy segment in the con's puppetry show. Well, not many are laughing now. (OK, so maybe we're laughing a *bit*; we're big on black humour.)
  • Notmyusualid - Friday, October 11, 2019 - link

    @ GreenReaper - DEMOCRACY matters like no other topic right now. Our political farce of a system is being exposed for the true non-democratic entity that it really is.

    Remainiacs have given us 3yrs of delay, lies, and obfuscation.

    My voting card said stay, or leave. Nothing else.

    If you want a second referendum, fine, but first you must follow the rules, and implement the democratic decision to fully-leave the EUSSR.
  • Death666Angel - Friday, October 11, 2019 - link

    "My voting card said stay, or leave. Nothing else." Yes, and all the "Leave" campaigners made sure to let you know that they are for a no-deal Brexit, giving you all the necessary and true facts about what exactly your vote would entail, did they?
  • Notmyusualid - Friday, October 11, 2019 - link

    It was a binary decision, leave, remain.

    Leave won, and it is time to cut our ties with the EU.

    Simple. No get on with it.
  • Ian Cutress - Friday, October 11, 2019 - link

    The vote was both non-binding and advisory. Even Farage said that a 52:48 vote in the other direction would have be an unclear result and he would have demanded a second vote. Somehow it goes the other way, and the rest of the UK isn't afforded a similar option.

    Then there's the fact that Scotland, Northern Ireland, London, and Manchester all voted to remain. Summing up all the UK cities, and overall they voted remain. Trying to continue down that route is surely going to look into breaking up the Union.

    Then there's the fact that enough people have entered the voting age and enough people have left this earthy realm that would today swing the vote the other way.

    Then there's the fact that the UK had a vote 25 years ago to join the EU. Why doesn't the government uphold that vote?

    The minute the UK leaves, deal or no deal, there will be a big surge to rejoin. The UK will have to renegotiate its terms with the EU, and join based on terms similar to the recent EU entrants, rather than the favorable terms the UK has now. The knock-on effect is that if will most affect a lot of people entering the workforce, and do next-to-nothing for those leaving it.
  • Notmyusualid - Friday, October 11, 2019 - link

    Our gov: 'We will implement the result of your decision."

    Enough for me. keep waffling.
  • Ian Cutress - Friday, October 11, 2019 - link

    The referendum act implemented by the government literally said that the vote was non-binding.

    All of my other points are still valid, even if you don't care to address them.
  • BushLin - Tuesday, October 15, 2019 - link

    After more than 3 years since the vote concluded, I'm bored of hearing the same tired and desperate arguments - "yeah but... what about... the 16 year olds" and "what about... the 'things we know now'" (aka the things which you've since found to re-enforce your pre-existing opinion).

    In an adult society the counter to these arguments shouldn't need to go any further than "we voted to leave".

    You can make your arguments in 40 years at the next referendum.

    In an adult society the counter to these arguments shouldn't need to go any further than "we voted to leave".

    You can make your arguments in 40 years at the next referendum.
  • Sorcery - Saturday, October 26, 2019 - link

    I am a fan of yours Ian, but think you may have spent too much time away from the UK. Brexit is big here, it's eaten up almost all public discourse. Just because some very small countries within the UK union want to remain does not disqualify leaving, remember 52% voted to leave and only 48% to remain. I am looking forward to a UK USA free trade agreement when we stop paying 5% tariffs on IT equipment.
  • Ian Cutress - Tuesday, January 14, 2020 - link

    Too much time away? I live in London.
  • Death666Angel - Friday, October 11, 2019 - link

    And it's great to hear to talk about democracy when hundreds of thousands of UK citizens were denied a vote in the EU referendum.
  • Notmyusualid - Friday, October 11, 2019 - link

    And even is this were true, 17,410,742 votes to leave and 16,141,241 to remain, a margin of 1,269,501 votes.

    So 'hundreds of thousands', even if true, does not equal 1,269,501, or greater.
  • Ian Cutress - Friday, October 11, 2019 - link

    Enough people aged 15-17 at the time of the vote have entered voting age, and enough people have left this existence, that the vote would be different today. It's about 500k deaths a year, and 700k people reach voting age a year. Account for a 60/40 split, and that's 720k a year, or 2.16m in three years. Assume a turnout 60%, then 1.3 million.

    Time for another vote, eh?
  • Notmyusualid - Friday, October 11, 2019 - link

    @ remainiac - SURE, time for another vote, I'm all for that.

    But FIRST they must implement the result of the first vote.

    That is how democracy works.
  • Ian Cutress - Friday, October 11, 2019 - link

    No, it's not. The referendum was a non-binding vote.

    We also had a vote 25 years ago to be a part of the single market. Why don't you honour that vote?
  • Tilmitt - Friday, October 11, 2019 - link

    That vote was already honoured (and it was 44 years ago, not 25). The UK entered the EEC (which is completely different to the superstate EU that the people were not consulted on), there was no 3 years of obstruction and obfuscation in parliament. The people signed up to a trade deal, not the monstrosity that currently exists. There should have been a referrendum on the Maastrict Treaty, and it would've lost.
  • kitfit1 - Saturday, October 12, 2019 - link

    Oh dear, Ian you need to have put a bit more time into history studies when you were younger.
    The vote you are referring to was in 1975, 44 years ago. I was 17 at the time, so couldn't vote. Although it was then, and still is now touted as a vote to join the EU, it absolutely was not. The Heath government had already signed up the UK and joined the EU in 1973. The vote then was exactly the same as the Brexit vote, remain or leave and just like the Brexit vote it was not legally binding.
  • Notmyusualid - Tuesday, October 15, 2019 - link

    His math seems as bad as his history;

    "This is your decision. The government will implement what you decide."
  • bigvlada - Saturday, October 12, 2019 - link

    I am always amazed how certain people in UK compare EU to the Warsaw Pact. If you actually lived in that time in Eastern Europe you wouldn't make that comparison.

    I thought the people of Yugoslavia made the gravest mistake possible when they chose civil war instead of joining the then upcoming EU. The English are trying their hardest to outdo us.

    The haughtiness will be the downfall of the kingdom. Hope the breakup will be less bloody than ours.
  • jabber - Monday, October 14, 2019 - link

    Sorry about that. Unfortunately, in the UK Mental health care has been cut back for years and years and there are a lot of people living with multiple delusions and some bizarre idea they want to go back to 1955.
  • Notmyusualid - Tuesday, October 15, 2019 - link

    Yeah, imagine wanting your country wanting to rule itself. What an odd notion.
  • Notmyusualid - Tuesday, October 15, 2019 - link

    EDIT TOOL PLEASE
  • maximumGPU - Monday, October 14, 2019 - link

    all credibility (and hints of intelligence) goes out the window the moment you say "EUSSR"
  • Notmyusualid - Tuesday, October 15, 2019 - link

    PROUD to own that statement from you.
  • B3an - Friday, October 11, 2019 - link

    "Normally their role is if what would happen if there's an earthquake, or things like that"

    "that department will have a weather person, the earthquake person, the volcano person"

    Yes, the UK is famously known for it's earthquakes, volcanoes and natural disasters.

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