Gordon Guthrie

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Just published The Foundations Of The Digital State - a report for the Scottish Government http://foundationsofthedigitalstate.com/ and blogs at digitalpolicy.substack.com Politician manqué, girl group fan, code monkey

Bank of the Seine with here we drown Algerians graffiti
Tweet by former MP Stewart McDonald pointing out that Davis might be liable for defamation by sharing his speech on social media according to parliamentary advice
Defamatory newspaper headlines
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The Forth Railway Bridge with the top wreathed in the haar
Bay City Rollers at the Usher Hall
Retro handset that plugs into a mobile phone
Screenshot of a passage in La Madonne De Sleepings where Lady Diana is so described
still from THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC, 1928 Carl Theodor Dreyer
Gloomy bedroom
List of offices in a building, one of which is Do You Respect Wood?
At seven hundred freaking degrees, fluorine starts to dissociate into monoatomic radicals, thereby losing its gentle and forgiving nature.
web page covered with ads for Brother printers from Viking
Final scene of the greatest film about alcoholism - Ice Cold In Alex, John Mills, Sylvia Simms and the rest drinking beer in a bar (before the South African traitor/spy is to be arrested and, one presumes, shot)
Why does this matter? In part I just want to park a name for the phenomenon. That way, when I see something like the Make Europe Great Again people, a movement (if you can call it that) so tragically sad that their entire idea of European, uh, greatness is predicated on mimicking the gimmicks — gimmimicking? — of an American authoritarian movement, then instead of being baffled that anyone would choose to behave that way in public I can simply think "oh, they're just retweeting the hat." It doesn't make them any less pathetic, but it does make them coherently pathetic.
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anglofuturist aesthetics beyong podcraeft
And they’ve convinced themselves that everyone who doesn’t agree with them now is fascist. Go back to pre-referendum: mainstream people in the system in Westminster hated me, thought I was crazy, stupid, wrong, but they didn’t say I was actually a fascist who should be in jail. Now, their argument about people like me is that we’re actually fascists who should be in jail and shouldn’t be allowed to actually participate in democratic politics.
My representation in AI datasets
3 jet planes hijacked into Jordan - one of them being blown up The PLO kept the tortoise fed with lettuce and gave the teenagers a ringside view of the explosions
King’s and Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer In Scots law, the Crown can choose to claim ownerless property. Where we claim and deal with property, its realised value is paid by the KLTR into the Scottish Consolidated Fund.
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Book - The Death Of Trotsky, Josh Ireland
New committees The Parliament has agreed the following committees for the current session: Climate Action Committee Criminal Justice Committee Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee Economy, Tourism and Energy Committee Education and Gaelic Committee Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee Finance and Public Administration Committee Health, Care and Sport Committee Public Audit Committee Public Petitions Committee Public Service Reform Committee Rural Affairs Committee Social Justice, Housing and Local Government Committee Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee Transport Committee
would be required to be standards compliant. New programmes of work and the 15% maintenance cost are the continuing financial basis for incrementally moving to standards compliance. The DSRO might propose programmes that require up-front capital expenditure to the government, just as the government might instruct the DSRO to do a capital programme. Those capital expenditures would be considered under normal budgetary frameworks. There are occasions when funding will be needed particularly where recovery of costs by way of fees turns out to be a barrier to uptake. An obvious example59 of this is Register of Scotland. The twin body the Digital Service Reform Office is substantially existing functions in the Digital Directorate put on a statutory footing and should be approximately cost-neutral.
A note on costs This report doesn’t recommend any capital spend with minor exceptions.58 The recommendations fall into one of the following five categories: • do what we currently do, but in a different sequence • do what we currently do, but in a different part of the organisation • do what we currently do, but under different rules • do what we currently do, but more consistently • do what we currently do, but with greater velocity Approximately 15% of all engineering effort on live systems is not feature work, it is maintenance. In addition new programmes of work that arise in the course of government 58 The 3 exceptions are firstly the R&D programme (6 programmes of 3-5 FTEs of duration 6 months over 3 years). Secondly paying wages for Research Fellowships. Finally the running costs of the Digital Services Scrutiny & Audit Committee. These costs will be of the same order as the Scottish Commission on Social Security - which is budgeting £450,000 for 2024-2025
charge back mechanisms in place for financial audit. INSTITUTIONAL BASIS This will be a statutory body and it will sit under a parliamentary committee. Its introduction will involve an adjustment and rearrangement of committees of the Scottish Parliament and a consequential set of adjustments in Standing Orders. Legislation Required 2 - putting the DSS&AC on a statutory basis 106 DEVELOPMENT The iterative development of the two institutions, the DSRO and the DSS&AC, and the finalisation of the parliamentary committee structure that sits over them, will be dealt with in detail in the implementation section.
under its own recognisance As an audit body it will have the power to compel. Key officials of the DSRO and individuals in major digital programmes will have a personal line of accountability to it. This is discussed in Recommendation 16 - changes to lines of responsibility in the civil service. The DSS&AC is not a purely technical body - it must consider technical infrastructure in the round and in addition to technical specialists its members will include: • social scientists • ethicists • legal experts This body has similarities to the Scottish Commission for Social Security which is a triage and filter point for Social Security secondary legislation. However that body oversees functional matters of social security - this body is entirely concerned with non-functional & infrastructural matters. The relationship of parliament to the supervision of functional requirements will be addressed in more detail in Recommendation 11 a review of legislative processes for major digital programme. This body works alongside the Audit Commission and there is a legitimate debate to had about the hard audit functions like the execution of usability and accessibility audits. These hard audits are a powerful tool because of the hygienic nature of the tests. In order for a system to have good usability and accessibility written onto their surface affect, a whole host of earlier and harder to measure stages must be of high quality, including: • design • programme management and resource allocation • testing and assurance It might be more appropriate to get Audit Scotland to extend their remit and capabilities slightly and have these audits done by them using the existing
dation 10 - create a Digital Services Scrutiny & Audit Commission DESCRIPTION The DSS&AC is the supervisory body of the DSRO. It will sit under a parliamentary committee in the same way the Scottish Commission on Social Security sits under the Social Justice and Social Security Committee. At this stage it is not clear what that committee would be - the final committee arrangements will become clear as the implementation plan progresses. Options are canvassed in Working Paper 0.3 The locus of change. The DSS&AC has two core functions as its name suggests, it will act as: • an audit body • compliance with standards • implementation of best practices • correct major project initiation and start up • commission and execution of surface audits: • usability • compliance with accessibility • the public operations of the DSRO and its relationship with both the internal technical communities and external jurisdictions • a scrutiny body • supporting its parent parliamentary committee, and any other appropriate functional/bill committee in scrutinising appropriate aspects of primary legislation • acting as a triage and filter point for secondary legislation for both its parent committee and the Delegated Powers & Law Reform Committee • reviewing standards and guidance that have been issued by the DSRO
jar of sour grapes
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It must have been class if Peter Murrell got your name in the SNP secret Santa
Final you of Ice Cold In Alex
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Bottle of red wine called Cunto
The Irish Republican Brotherhood 1914-1924 by Joh O'Beirne Ranelagh
Election flyer for Helen Ogbu
Dead bugs on the windscreen
empty cinema, code on the screen
Only 1 qualification - proficiency in English
old HQ of the DDR state newspaper - now offices in Alexanderplatz, Berlin - used to get banjoed on the roof of a Friday
Book cover: The Red Brigades, The Terrorists Who Brouhbt Italy To Its Knees, John Foot
Ghastly fish tits mermaid statue
view of Calton Hill and Scotland's Disgrace
street from a top floor window at dawn
lots of girl group LPs laid out
cover of La Madone de Sleepings by Maurice Dekobra showing an elegant lady and a posh car
Charlie Chaplin eating boots
Joe Meek LP
Wencke Myhre on a very grand gold and white rotary phone
French gal group
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Nancy Sinatra looking a lot like Frank
very skeezy Italian cover with a pretty goofy gorl in a yellow bikini
Rita Pavone obviously
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