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961.
by cafard 3y ago
By the way, John Le Carré was British, not American. No doubt there are dumb passages in American novels about Russia, but I don't see why we should take the blame for John Le Carré.
962.
by cafard 3y ago
So that if I wish to pay cash for shipping it's because I'm a leech and/or a sheep? I haven't used the machines since they went credit card only.
963.
by cafard 3y ago
There was an investigation some years ago, done by the American professor Mark von Hagen, which thoroughly documented Duranty's lies. As I recall, the NY Times offered to give the Pulitzer back, but the Pulitzer committee said that the
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by cafard 3y ago
The influence consisted of money, arms, and troops, for the most part. They learned some rhetoric from the French, but I don't think that the cultural influence was at all deep.
965.
by cafard 3y ago
What does this have to do with the article?
966.
by cafard 3y ago
Between 1500 and 1845, James I and II had reigned over Scotland, England, and Ireland, Samuel Johnson had published his dictionary, and the United States had formed a "more perfect union". The changes in orthography had taken plac
967.
by cafard 3y ago
I had heard of the California case, but never seen the layout. It is odd that the U and J should be sent to the outskirts based on the practice of early English printers: the earliest English printers had worked a good three hundred years b
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by cafard 3y ago
It looks to me something like Alma-Tadema's work.
969.
by cafard 3y ago
Wasn't Nagasaki a secondary target, chosen because the first was clouded over?
970.
by cafard 3y ago
What part of Europe? Don't most of the Tory leadership in the UK come from the same few schools? What is the status of the grands écoles in France?
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by cafard 3y ago
It really depends on the level of security clearance, I think. I had a secret clearance years ago, and never heard from friends or acquaintances that anyone had asked about me.
972.
by cafard 3y ago
Have you filled up your car at BP lately?
973.
by cafard 3y ago
When I was at about 20, the comptroller at my employer told me that you can make mistakes on big important things and people may not notice, but errors in petty cash will always be noticed.
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by cafard 3y ago
Apart from anything else, do you really want to be around burning pallets? Who knows what kind of chemicals have been used on them? I used to see pallets set out free for the taking, and never ever considered using them in a fireplace.
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by cafard 3y ago
Actually, the tinted windows worry me because I don't know whether the drivers do see me. Vanishingly few drivers would deliberately run over a pedestrian, but plenty are distracted or otherwise inattentive.
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by cafard 3y ago
It is somehow unGermanic that the "click here" for the second half should be broken.
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by cafard 3y ago
I had been losing sleep over that... Not quite fifty years ago, a girlfriend who then was more "liberal" than I was, gave me the board game "Anti-Monopoly" as a birthday present. I had arrived at a stage of disliking boa
978.
by cafard 3y ago
The Japanese looked to flood the US market with cheap ICE cars. They gained a lot of ground, but the US market is not wholly theirs. The Chinese should look into the history of all that.
979.
by cafard 3y ago
That sounds optimistic. I write as someone who wish that people in my book club wouldn't pick books they haven't read.
980.
by cafard 3y ago
Some years ago, I had a miserable couple of days when an internal DNS server quit working. Eventually I traced it to a corrupted cache file. Once that was deleted, life returned to normal. Though unpleasant, it was an enlightening experienc
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by cafard 3y ago
Are they placed at a level where dogs could practically use them to mark territory?
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by cafard 3y ago
"Who cared enough to save [etc]?" Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't O'Connor die of natural causes?
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by cafard 3y ago
The upper classes weren't riding Greyhound fifty or sixty years ago. College students would, yes. Some college students would book a $130 one-month pass and travel a lot. But in general, would you prefer to fly from one coast to anothe
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by cafard 3y ago
Back before 9/11, I worked with a techie, a good kid who was a careless driver and racked up traffic tickets. He worked and I supposed lived in Washington, DC. With relatives in the District, Maryland, and Virginia, he had no trouble a
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by cafard 3y ago
Very moving.
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by cafard 3y ago
Quite. Hard to read the headline and not remember General McNair.
987.
by cafard 3y ago
And the movie and TV industries wanted in on videotape back then. I remember reading a piece by one of the then big lobby shops, arguing that VHS tapes should be a tax, the income to be distributed to the studios.
988.
by cafard 3y ago
How easy are psychos to spot (in real time, not hindsight)?
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by cafard 3y ago
I did some years ago install Linux on a Chromebook. I didn't do much of anything with it, but then I didn't do much of anything with the Chromebook at all.
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by cafard 3y ago
I believe that the states regulate notaries in the US. One in my neighborhood charges $5/document.

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