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No, I brought up the subject of racism to highlight the fact that you shouldn’t highlight pictures of open graves with “spades” next to them whilst implying, “hey, jump in and cover yourself over with dirt with this spade because you don’t agree with my our opinions”
  • It's clearly not a grave, because it's the wrong shape
  • I would call the tool pictured a shovel, not a spade, but you can call it a spade if you want, though not draw the inference you appear to be drawing
  • My post was intended as a reference to the well known saying "When you're in a hole, stop digging" and the fact that you have continued to dig yourself ever deeper
I'm bored with this now, TBH
 
You could just fill the form in, safe in the knowledge that the government really doesn’t give a shit about people like you. And even though you’d like to think being an active member of some backwater quasi-political forum makes you an “enemy of the state”, the reality is: you’re not important enough. Even the “top brass” HERE at Urban75 are not important enough, and for all their bluster, I’ll bet they fastidiously complete their tax returns each year. Or pay some accountant to do it for them.
Shit, and I've been a member of Urban all this time because I thought the top brass here had some kind of influence.

Gutted.
 
The picture implies “spade” would be a more appropriate username for me than “spanner”. And that I should start digging my own grave because I’ve outsmarted a few of the old-guard.
Yep. Never seen the old guard quite as comprehensively outsmarted as you have just done. What an intellect! What rapier wit! What economy of expression! You'll be a mod in no time, at this rate.
 
Yeah, I didn’t appreciate that the owner of this website has to “put up with all sorts of shit”.
Not just on the platform he created and which which he makes his living from, but “...in real life” too...unlike the rest of us, I suppose 🙄
I don't make any money from this website at all, you clueless, stupid, ignorant, unpleasant waft of trolling buffoonery.

Does anyone want this idiot to stay here?
 
I see that PeaceNews have put together some "Demilitarise the census" advice for those folk willing to engage with the census, but keen to disrupt and cost Leidos as much money as possible. Their reasoning is that they don't want to undermine the accuracy of the census by a blanket boycott but believe there is a maximum to the amount Leidos will be paid by the government, however much the census actually costs. So, if lots of people increase the cost of processing their forms, that will reduce the profit Leidos makes from this operation.

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If you are okay with filling out the census, but want to minimise Leidos’s profits , we have some suggestions below – a more detailed guide from 2011 is available on the PN website.

Our guide

You may want to try one or more of these suggestions to reduce Leidos’s profits.

1) A paper copy

This is the most important step. If you fill in the census online, that reduces costs massively, and increases Leidos’s profit. So, you should ask for a paper form.

If you don’t have access to the internet, you can phone them up on 0800 328 2021. If you do have access to the internet, you can request the paper version from the census website:

www.tinyurl.com/peacenews3584

2) Upside down

If you write in the boxes upside down, it’s unlikely that the computer will be able to process your form, and a human will have to read those pages.

3) Think outside the box

Alternatively, write some or all of your answers outside the boxes they are meant to go into.

4) Staple it

If you give the wrong answer to a question, cross it out, then write the right answer on a bit of paper and staple it to the census form. Stapling means that page can’t be put through the computer scanner.

5) That’s torn it

With one or more of the pages, you might tear the page in half and then repair it with sellotape. This probably also means it can’t be put through the scanner.

6) Solid black

This is a bit time-consuming. Every page of the form has a unique barcode so that the form can be taken to pieces and the separate pages fed into a scanner.

If you fill in all the white space of a barcode, that page will have to be processed by a human. Don’t leave little bits of line sticking out at the top or bottom!

7) Use your own

Copy the Freepost address onto an envelope without a transparent window when you send back the form. This means a human has to open the envelope to start the processing.

Notes:

Leidos was listed by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) as the 19th biggest arms and military services company in the world in 2019, with military sales of $5.3bn out of total sales of $11.1bn. www.tinyurl.com/sipri2019

Leidos won the £65m contract for ‘Census Questionnaire Management’ in 2018. www.tinyurl.com/2021-suppliers

A wholly-owned subsidiary of Leidos, Dynetics, is building a 300kW directed energy weapon and developing missile bodies for long-range hypersonic missiles, both for the US army. www.tinyurl.com/dynetics-lasers and
 
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