Hi All. Just to note that if you think like IBKR is currently thinking, there is a "workaround" of sorts. Personally, I don't regard Investment Trusts as CLP's (Complex and Leveraged Products). Hence, when faced with the current situation at IBKR when I answered the experience question on that topic, I initially answered in that light. However, IBKR does regard Investment Trusts as CLP's, so when applying for CLP Trading Permissions and answering their related questions, one should frame answers is that light (in my case, >10 years experience and 26-50 trades a year). You may find, depend ..read more

stevensfo wrote: [1] Excluding Denmark: Danish isn't so much a language as a speech-impaired variant of Norwegian or Swedish, so easier to get by in English there. Interesting. The way I heard it, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian have all changed a fair bit since the ancient days when everybody in the region spoke Old Norse; and the infallible Wikipedia adds that Swedes in particular run into problems ("pronunciation, "false friends" etc) in understanding the other two spoken languages, whereas Norwegians can manage pretty much anything. English, then, has become a lingua franca for the bloc ..read more

servodude wrote: Her "edge case' is being an adult human female who happened to be born with male parts also. If it is a difficult case for strangers it seems to have been a damn sight harder for her. There have been posts in this thread literally denying her existence, or her right to be a woman; the conversation cannot start until that stops. This requires a whole lot more nuance than those drawing pictures with their fingers in the wings can manage. I haven't read anything on this thread denying your friend's existence - as I said earlier, people with DSDs are NOT trans, much as Stone ..read more

Arborbridge wrote: stevensfo wrote: [1] Excluding Denmark: Danish isn't so much a language as a speech-impaired variant of Norwegian or Swedish, so easier to get by in English there. Excluding Denmark: Danish isn't so much a language as a speech-impaired variant of Norwegian or Swedish, so easier to get by in English there. Steve I read that a French language expert recently opined that there was no such thing a English: only badly pronounced French. Nonsense, of course, but his research did highlight a number of words which the French have re-adopted thinking they are English words ..read more

chas49 wrote: That database would be unbelievably massive and costly - and most of the data in it would be of little value to anyone. Lets put some numbers in. British population, call it 70 million. Transactions per man woman and child per day, one perhaps, but call it 1,000 p.a. How many bytes per transaction. Call it 100. I make that 7 TB. That is a piddling amount of data nowadays. It is still piddling to a big organisation if you multiply it by ten or a hundred. Which is cheaper? A data feed, or a manual process for collecting individual pieces of information? Nonetheless, that data i ..read more

MrFoolish wrote: It might be nice if Israel gave some military support to Ukraine but it hasn't happened. They haven't even applied sanctions to Russia. Just like individuals you get countries which are givers and those which are takers. All ME countries, Israel included, have always been takers. Statistics: Posted by quelquod — Mon Apr 15, 2024 7:13 am ..read more

stevensfo wrote: [1] Excluding Denmark: Danish isn't so much a language as a speech-impaired variant of Norwegian or Swedish, so easier to get by in English there. Excluding Denmark: Danish isn't so much a language as a speech-impaired variant of Norwegian or Swedish, so easier to get by in English there. Steve[/quote] I read that a French language expert recently opined that there was no such thing a English: only badly pronounced French. Nonsense, of course, but his research did highlight a number of words which the French have re-adopted thinking they are English words, but they are ..read more

I was in the same boat and managed to get the DB into youinvest by first transferring to a James Hay SIPP. My advisor recommended this one. After transferring to James Hay it was a simple step to move from one SIPP to another regardless of living in a nonEEA country. Statistics: Posted by yopyop — Sun Apr 14, 2024 10:55 pm ..read more

This (the change to Newsnight) was announced last November. Details here Mark Urban is jumpimg before he's pushed it seems. Sad loss of a good journalist. Statistics: Posted by chas49 — Sun Apr 14, 2024 10:00 pm ..read more

Biological sex is what you are born as. Its very strongly bipolar. Sexual orientation is who you want have sex with. It is pretty fluid. Gender is how the world views people. Its a cultural tradition based on a million years of how biological sex used to influence societal roles. Some people want others to regard them with some, not all, of the cultural tropes of the other biological sex. Various movements want to revise or eliminate gender, as they feel the cultural traditions are inappropriate in the modern world. The challenge is how to get everyone to use the same language to refer to t ..read more