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by PJDK 9y ago
Whenever these concerns are raised I find it difficult to gather any information on what the land was before it became "pseudo-public". "insidious creep" implies that land that was previously public has become pseudo-pub
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by PJDK 9y ago
Interestingly the reason is analogue in nature. With pulse dialing a single pulse for a 1 could happen by accident quite easily (e.g. two lines knocking into each other). 999 can't happen accidentally. http://news.bbc.co.u
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by PJDK 9y ago
For all it's many faults their policy of long descriptive headlines followed by bullet point summaries is a model I wish all news sites followed! Given their success I'm not sure why more don't.
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by PJDK 9y ago
So a politically significant person should be able to leverage their celebrity and status to avoid a rape charge?
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by PJDK 9y ago
And not to mention that fear when arguing against his extradition in a UK court.
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by PJDK 9y ago
Has there been any kind of comparable instance though? Had he skipped bail by just not showing up we could compare the manhunt that happened with any other bail skipper. But his location was very publicly known - what would a reasonable go
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by PJDK 9y ago
Surely this isn't something we need to guess at, there are roads with such systems and similar roads without and those can be compared. Also I would think the majority of cars have cruise control (the last three cars I owned were all l
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by PJDK 9y ago
Don't get me wrong. I'm sure intelligence services use intelligence they gather to help their country achieve some objective - that's sort of what they're for. That's a pretty massive difference from intelligence s
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by PJDK 9y ago
Is there any evidence anything like this is happening?
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by PJDK 9y ago
British libel law was reformed in 2013 in response to a major campaign related to your complaints. As I understand it the situation is a lot better now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamation_Act_2013
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by PJDK 9y ago
Also decreases carbon emissions...
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by PJDK 10y ago
We've talked about the stand up a few times in retros. We've mixed it up a few times (we now do a task based stand up rather than a person based one) but always felt it was more valuable than not having it.
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by PJDK 10y ago
But are we not just in the world of normal warrants here? To my mind private spaces (be that my house or my hard drive) should have some protection, but it seems reasonable that that is less than my personal freedom. I have no issue with a
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by PJDK 10y ago
I'm confused by your reasoning here. If we agree that the files are definitely on the system how is it a "fishing expedition" to want to see those files for further investigation. A fishing expedition would be forcing everyo
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by PJDK 10y ago
Add to that statement a "probably...". For example WWII started with months of "phoney war" where both sides moved onto a war footing, followed by a short violent blitzkrieg. WWII is also shows powers capable of exercisi
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by PJDK 10y ago
We also have some modern examples of a tyrannical government being stood against by an armed population. Would you suggest that this is a good thing to have happened to Syria?
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by PJDK 10y ago
If someone brought along an notebook full of problems they'd experienced and how they'd solved them to an interview I was conducting I would be very impressed!
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by PJDK 10y ago
Thanks, that's an interesting article. One big question it brings up for me does this just reflect that people don't know what "the internet" is at all? Like would you get a similar result if you asked "did you use
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British Police Firearms training [video](bbc.co.uk)
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by PJDK 10y ago
>The more I think of it, the more Facebook becomes the equivalent of an operating system for the average user. You can send/receive messages, do image editing, surf the web, but you have no choice of which software to use to do thes
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by PJDK 10y ago
Have you tried VS Code ( https://code.visualstudio.com/ ) with the right plugins it might be exactly what you're after...
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by PJDK 10y ago
I'm not saying that any particular system is good or bad (and for what it's worth there are similar complaints about teaching in the UK with regards to teaching to tests). But looking at that summary it's pretty clearly inten
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by PJDK 10y ago
>I think you're mistakenly assuming the point of public school is to educate. I think it exists more so the proles have somewhere to dump their kids when they're working. The "education" happens to be incidental. No o
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by PJDK 10y ago
I hadn't thought about it this way, but yeah if some child porn lands in my inbox I'm going to want there to be a clear record of me reporting that to the police right away, no matter what the circumstances.
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by PJDK 10y ago
Depends how fit you are. Even in a marathon top athletes are maintaining ~20km/hr!
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by PJDK 10y ago
> Sports is ultimately about making the masses happy That's an interesting assertion, but it's certainly not universally true. How much sports rules should be for the people watching and how much should be for the people playin
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by PJDK 10y ago
A nice example of this can be seen in the British Museum where one of the Assyrian Statues has a board game scratched into it's base, presumably by bored guards. There's a picture of it in this article http://www.bbc.
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by PJDK 10y ago
> But even more so, who said the 1.3 billion people in China are "victims" needing our compassion? Have you asked them whether they like their government and how their country is going? From the article "We'd arranged
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by PJDK 10y ago
Do they say he said that? All the articles I read talked about confusion about what he said and mentioned the former Prime Minister of Sweden's inference he was talking about a terrorist attack. e.g. https://www.nytimes.com&
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by PJDK 10y ago
I was under the impression that "fake news" was originally referring to the phenomenon of "satire" websites that would publish click bait headlines with semi-convincing stories. "Obama signs executive order banning

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