GJim

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by GJim 9mo ago
Which in engineering, is ridiculous. We've all met many brilliant engineers with the social skills of a lettuce. The idea they cannot get a raise in salary unless promoted to management is just daft. It appears the problem is many mana
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> people use their goddamn fireplaces too much and it’s kinda impossible to get fresh air in winter evenings Not a problem with a properly designed HEATAS approved wood burning stove and properly seasoned beach wood. Being daft enough to
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> The only places where a 4-way stop has room to make a roundabout are places where there is not enough traffic for it to matter either way. You have clearly never heard of a mini-roundabout. They just work. https://thumbsnap.
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by GJim 9mo ago
> park their car in the middle of an ICE operation and then attempt to drive off after being told to stop? > run around spitting and kicking out lights on an ICE vehicle? Do you seriously believe pulling a gun and killing somebody i
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by GJim 9mo ago
> Freedom Bowels No. That's sausage skin. Propper Haggis casing is made using the sheep's stomach.
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by GJim 9mo ago
> This Daily Mail article The Daily Mail really isn't a reputable news source.
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Hard disagree. By not participating, you are choosing not to care, despite the evident danger this may bring (and has brought).
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I think you will find people are investing. And working.
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"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice".
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> Especially not online services without (automatic) export options GDPR gives the right to data portability. https://gdpr-info.eu/art-20-gdpr/ Any _legitimate_ organisation following the GDPR will allow export of y
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> pound-in-the-ass prison Care to explain your use of this term?
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> cat toilet..... iOS app....data I'd like to think this is a satire of the Internet of Shit^H^H^H^H Things. But I doubt it.
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In the UK, you are handed a ballot paper in the voting room by an official immediately before you go to the polling booth; the ballot paper has an official mark on it, meaning no pre-printed or duplicate ballot papers are possible. This mak
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by GJim 9mo ago
> "That's quite good" Ummmm...... I'll say it is "not bad" . For me to say something is "quite good" it would have to make me cream myself.
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> That Red Dwarf pilot was actually fine except for the bizarre choice of making Lister a hunk I doubt the character of Ace Rimmer [what a guy!] would have translated at all .
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by GJim 9mo ago
> Scottish humor is even more grimly fatalist than English. Typified by Rab C Nesbitt. "An alcoholic Glaswegian who seeks unemployment as a lifestyle choice". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rab_C._Nesbitt
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by GJim 9mo ago
Poor trolling attempt. 2/10 Must try harder.
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Different use cases with different requirements.
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Filming or recording in a ballot booth is very illegal in Blighty. (Granted, nobody is going to see you do it in a private booth with the curtain pulled across).
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Baking and voting have a completely different set of requirements and security risks. To suggest a direct comparison is idiotic.
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by GJim 9mo ago
> Then my refusal to vote should be counted. Then spoil your paper. Spoiling your paper shows that you got off your arse and voted to say "I don't want any of these people". (See the number of spoilt votes in the UK Police
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by GJim 9mo ago
> Where I live we vote by mail The problem with this, like internet voting, is that you can be coerced. e.g. a family member or your boss can tell you who to vote for and force you to submit that vote. Whereas a polling both is utterly p
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by GJim 9mo ago
Many individual monasteries have been cohesive, stable, wealthy and relatively secure societies for a millennia. Any group strongly united by a common goal (in this particular case, their religious order) can do surprisingly well.
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by GJim 9mo ago
> We also use Pints in pubs And so we should. A British pint is 568 ml. We will switch to smaller metric 500 ml 'half-litre' beers over my dead body. All other imperial measurements can bugger off to the history books where the
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by GJim 9mo ago
> I don't think that the people downvoting you are necessarily other US citizens. ....... sleeper agent bots come out to try to shift discussion Interesting point. I (very likely) stand corrected.
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> The US military spent $4T-$6T in Iraq and Afghanistan, losing ~7k soldiers and ~52k wounded Denmark and the UK (to mention just two countries) also lost men fighting alongside America in Iraq and Afghanistan. Look how they are being re
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"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice".
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> The US is more stable than the powers of Europe ....... You're confusing Trump's mouth with how the US political system actually functions. Eh? If the US political system was stable and fit for purpose, the US would have got
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Your comment is proving my point! (Proprietary networks are a mess, and ordinary debit/credit card payments for EV charging are far from universal)
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> jumping through phone app hoops The very idea you effectively need a mobile phone to charge your car is mind boggling. The mess of proprietary charging networks and registrations is needless complexity that puts people off hiring (and

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