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by barking 11y ago
I agree with you completely and because I was interested in what happened I went to wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Porter It's an interesting story
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by barking 11y ago
In the 17th century one of the nicknames some English people had for Ireland was Wolfland. The century following the Cromwellian conquest saw a bounty-led drive to exterminate wolves with the last one being killed in 1786. https:/&#x2
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by barking 11y ago
If you could explain to the people of an earlier time all our modern conveniences and how many hours we work and how little physical effort goes into almost every job, it would probably sound just like that to them.
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by barking 11y ago
You don't need insurance or a burglary, you need insurance for a disaster that is unlikely to ever happen such as the building burning down. And having a mindset like this means you can get insurance cheaper by having exclusions and a
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by barking 11y ago
I've used union quite a bit but never realised intersect and except existed until now
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by barking 11y ago
Main priority of the website seems to be to get your email address rather rather than to inform.
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by barking 11y ago
Do you remember, Cyberia! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberia,_London
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by barking 11y ago
Crows are interesting creatures. Liked this story from not long ago too. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-31604026
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by barking 11y ago
Summary: Probably not illegal because "Japan, it seems, prefers organised crime to the disorganised alternative."
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by barking 11y ago
Where I once worked we were obliged by law to keep a huge range of medications in a dedicated emergency kit. In the years I was there none were ever used or needed. The drugs ranged from salbutamol to adrenaline to glucagon, steroids, table
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by barking 11y ago
FWIW I heard a liver specialist on the radio earlier this year say that all alcohol consumption is damaging, the less of it you consume the less damage it does to you and that's it. He said that as an admitted social drinker himself.
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by barking 11y ago
hi, I should have posted a link, here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF8ZVB-v3IM
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by barking 11y ago
If it perceived unfairness I'd imagine that VW would lobby the German government. And it turns out, amazingly often, that the EU discovers that what's in Germany's interest is in its interest too! We could end up with the EU
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by barking 11y ago
I listened to an interview with Joel Spolsky from 2011. He made some interesting points about this. If you have 3 people you have 3 lines of one to one communications. If you have 4 developers you have 6 lines and it starts getting difficul
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by barking 11y ago
Like how evolution is supposed to work then. Mutations are the 'ideas' and natural selection decides if they're worthwhile or not.
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by barking 11y ago
When you look at the book reviews on amazon it really looks like amazon doesn't care about integrity in the review system. For example if you search for 'learn java', there's a total joke of a book at the top with torren
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by barking 11y ago
SAA = South Atlantic Anomaly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Atlantic_Anomaly I'd never heard of it before
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Dowding System(en.wikipedia.org)
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by barking 11y ago
The video is constantly buffering for me, wish it was on youtube
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by barking 11y ago
I feel validated!
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by barking 11y ago
I am pretty certain I've heard Williamson referred to as the 'mole' of edge hill rather than the 'king' as this story says
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by barking 11y ago
Completely unscientifically I think that the French look slim by comparison with Americans. Not so the British though.
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by barking 11y ago
"I got back to Udemy and said I would check out the guide in detail, I pointed out the spelling mistake and mentioned that it makes me wary that their may be typos in the code." Their, their, tsk, tsk!
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by barking 11y ago
The public sector is the only sector that is still strongly unionised while also being the sector with least necessity for it
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by barking 11y ago
As I'm sure you know, it wasn't just globalisation, Margaret Thatcher's intention was to spancel the unions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_labour_law_in_the_U...
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by barking 11y ago
And (in the UK at least) the demise of unions has seen the earnings ratio of company bosses to employees rise to levels not seen since the 19th or early 20th century
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by barking 11y ago
>"So I sat down with Laura and explained the situation—and said that in light of her spectacular service, we would give her a spectacular severance package." A whole lot about that article and this quote in particular smells li
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by barking 11y ago
>Entrapment is when you're coerced into committing a crime you otherwise wouldn't have commit. Coerced is the wrong word, induced is the correct one, and that's what happened here.
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by barking 11y ago
If cleverly designed almost anyone could be entrapped for something.
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by barking 11y ago
They have no evidence the guy actually aided a criminal yet he's facing jail. Is America the only first world country where such an extraordinary thing is possible?

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