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by Veen 5y ago
Why is that disgusting? No one forces those women watch TV without a license.
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by Veen 5y ago
The result of lots of people "boycotting" the BBC is that it won't be funded and will end up being sold like Channel 4. Many in the current government would love to break up and sell off the BBC. I agree that the Beeb is larg
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by Veen 5y ago
That show was certainly an eye-opener for 12-year-old me.
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by Veen 5y ago
> in the UK you have to pay a TV license You have to only if you watch broadcast TV, live TV, or use iPlayer. If you're not doing any of those things, then not paying isn't really a boycott. On the other hand, if you are doing
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by Veen 5y ago
We must watch different programs on the BBC. I see BBC presenters and journalists criticizing the government every day.
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by Veen 5y ago
People can have different perspectives on the same events. One can genuinely believe an apology is deserved, while the other genuinely believes it is not.
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by Veen 5y ago
Jung, surely?
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by Veen 5y ago
Lack of incentives and resources (i.e. they don't give a shit, and if they did they have something else to spend the money on).
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by Veen 5y ago
His readers (not audience) paid to buy the books he had written. They didn't pay him to write books in the future. I really don't understand this bizarre "fandom" idea that a writer owes his readers something beyond what
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by Veen 5y ago
They did, but the cursus publicus was inherited from the Western Empire. It's δημόσιος δρόμος in Greek.
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by Veen 5y ago
That’s not what cherry-picking means. The previous comment made a claim. I gave a what I considered a valid counter example undermining that claim. That’s an entirely reasonable response. Somewhat ironically, that Wikipedia article is che
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by Veen 5y ago
Nonsense. There are no end of examples of Muslim anti-semitism before the foundation of Israel. Just one example, the Grand Mufti of Palestine, Haj Amin al-Husseini, was a strong supporter of Hitler who frequently repeated the blood libel i
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by Veen 5y ago
Those Sinn Fein MPs also happened to occupy leadership positions in the IRA, a proscribed terrorist organisation responsible for assassinating several MPs, launching mortar attacks against Downing Street, blowing up a hotel the PM was stayi
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by Veen 5y ago
The missing feature I find most irritating is the lack of sophisticated paragraph and character style options. Normal text plus a bunch of headings isn't sufficient for the sort of documents I need to write.
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by Veen 5y ago
An interesting fact I learned recently: Xi Jinping is huge Goethe fan. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n11/edward-luttwak/goeth...
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by Veen 5y ago
Wouldn’t have changed anything, except perhaps May would have been removed sooner and Johnson would have been made leader to fight and win the 2017 GE. There’s no way the Tories could have ignored the referendum results.
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by Veen 5y ago
And the FBI gave those attackers a pass, did it?
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by Veen 5y ago
All that may be true, but this research is about how old existing democracies are, not about which countries have a tradition of democracy that precedes the existence of the current democratic state.
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by Veen 5y ago
The British Empire and the United Kingdom are not the same entity. The UK was a parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy that ruled a non-democratic empire.
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by Veen 5y ago
This habit is sometimes called "elegant variation". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elegant_variation
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by Veen 5y ago
Fewer than 200 people died of Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the UK in the last 30 years. You're talking shite.
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by Veen 5y ago
Henry VIII founded the Royal Mail in 1516. Charles I wasn't born until 1600.
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by Veen 5y ago
Do you think developers should have any responsibility for the quality of their code? In this thread, I see a lot of developers who like to think of themselves as "software engineers" trying to evade responsibility in a way that
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by Veen 5y ago
I use Keyboard Maestro for similar grunt work on the Mac. It's quite powerful.
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by Veen 5y ago
It's not that the question is unanswerable, but that there are competing conceptions of what fiction is. For some writers, what's in the book is all there is. The characters don't have a life outside of the book. Nothing happ
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by Veen 5y ago
He created the world to tell the story; he didn't tell the story to create the world. The story is primary, and if a detail is irrelevant to the story, why invent it? Some writers do it the other way around: they invent a world and the
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by Veen 5y ago
> The New York Times is the only legacy media company to successfully pivot into digital, and pivot properly at that. I'm more familiar with the UK media market, where quite a few legacy media publications have pivoted into digital
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by Veen 5y ago
Yes, it's a one-way street. Edits and revisions have to be done in Word, unfortunately. What makes it worse is that most people don't know how to use Word properly either, so you end up with documents with multiple fonts, text in
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by Veen 5y ago
As a copywriter and technical writer who has to deliver content in docx files with custom styles for each client, Pandoc is a life saver. I can write in Markdown and run a script that outputs a (more or less) correctly formatted docx file a
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by Veen 5y ago
Yes, it's not like the groups traditionally considered marginalized are underrepresented in popular music. What are they going to spend that $100 million on? Anglican bell-ringers and Appalachian skiffle groups?

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