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Won't the slugs be incapacitated by the salt?...
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You sound genuinely nutty.
Of course, you're correct that Labour's primary purpose is to change things so that most people are doing ok, not just the richer and less vulnerable in our society. We're currently so incredibly far from that, it's very unlikely to happen in my lifetime or yours,...
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Even simpler, depending on your tech ability, you should be able to boot the laptop from a thumb drive with Linux installed and either directly access the hard drive in place or change the password. This won't help if the hard drive is encrypted though.
Google "access locked windows...
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My home desktop came from AliExpress, it's a N100 with 16Gb RAM and 500Gb SSD, about the area of a beer mat and 3-4 cm tall, almost completely silent. It cost me just over £100 and came with Win10 installed. There are loads of similar models on AliExpress, the great thing is that you can attach it...
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Isn't that just another way to say they're talking out of their @rse?...
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The telling part is "graduates under 64 years old", i.e. people who graduated since 1980. It's estimated that 15-17 million people graduated in the UK in those 45 years, and there are around 17.7 million graduates in the UK (some of whom will be older than 64).
If we take the...
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Until the client starts wondering why they're paying £2x for a contractor who only appears to be providing £1x of value (because that's their rate).
Keeping an eye on commission rates is definitely worth doing....
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