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by chr15p 9y ago
The Natural History is great, but can be horribly full during school holidays. But if you cant get in just around the corner is the Science Museum which is also excellent. Especially relevant for this audience is its Information Age gallery
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by chr15p 9y ago
No that was the treaty that ended the Risc/Cisc wars
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by chr15p 10y ago
>To be frank, I think it's because those who are highly educated often believe they know what's better for a person than the person does; economically & politically speaking. At a general level is that not the point of educ
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by chr15p 11y ago
25k is a decent civil servant salary well above the minimum starting pay. The only "senior civil servants" earning anything like that are the 2 or 3 at the very very top of the civil service on first name terms with the prime mini
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by chr15p 11y ago
I was about to laugh at you for not realising that Netflix's House Of Cards is actually a remake of a BBC series from 1990, but on reflection that probably adds to your point. Many British films of the 1950's and 60's (also b
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by chr15p 11y ago
If you've not seen "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" the film is well worth it, although if you can get hold of the BBC TV series of that and "Smiley's People" . To me Alec Guinness just is George Smiley, far mor
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by chr15p 11y ago
Its a possibility certainly but its also possible that the cause of death is not yet know, and wont be until an autopsy is carried. Given other people are talking about other erratic behaviour over the last few days then an aggressive brain
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by chr15p 11y ago
Its paid for by the Crown (via its administrative arm, the UK government) so its the property of the Crown.
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by chr15p 11y ago
The truth is that 99.99% of the billion plus Muslims in the world go for the non-violent path, and 0.01% go for violence so you implication that Islam is a religion of violence so your interpretation of the "true nature" of Islam
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by chr15p 11y ago
> The elephant in the room that many refuse to address is that terrorism exists anywhere Islam does, there are insurgencies in nearly every country where Muslims are a sizeable minority. I think there's a significant danger of seein
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by chr15p 11y ago
Because they see their friends, family, neighbours etc live their entire lives in social and economic deprivation and want to help them maybe?
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by chr15p 11y ago
Red Hat has a history of buying closed source software and releasing it as Open Source (KVM, Gluster, Cloudforms etc) so I would expect Tower to be open sourced. Assuming Ansible have the rights to all the code of course and dont license it
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by chr15p 11y ago
Its not a fork of Puppet, Satellite ships with its own copy of Puppet (3.6 iirc) which it integrates to provide the configuration management side of the product but its stock un-modified puppet. In fact the puppet side of Satellite is buil
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by chr15p 11y ago
(I dont know much about Kissinger so putting him aside) I think you misunderstand the purpose of the prize. Its not about "these are saintly people who have never hurt a fly" nor is it "here are organizations whose politics w
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by chr15p 11y ago
Depends on the single event that led to their victory but you could easily argue that the British Empire would have been better off if it had never gone to war with Germany in 1939. Its a war that basically bankrupted Britain, caused the co
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by chr15p 11y ago
That's really awesome! Although the nitpicker in me has to point out that the film is heavily edited to fit the dialogue (there's a shot at about 3'25" where you can see them bombing a paper cross pinned to the cliff whi
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by chr15p 12y ago
Quantity and time, some of these dumps have well over 10,000 tonnes (the largest point looks to have 200,000 tonnes). Loading them on ships and scuttling them out in the ocean is quick, the alternative is having them all sitting around in w
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by chr15p 12y ago
The ones around Britain and the North sea look close to shore but mostly seem to be tens of miles out at depths of 1600ft or more (the ones between Denmark and Norway are 2100ft+) so the chances of people kids swimming near them or even pul
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by chr15p 12y ago
It very much depends on who's performing and what they're performing. When I used to go we'd start queuing maybe an hour before the doors opened but we were normally fairly near the front. The one time we struggled to get in
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by chr15p 12y ago
Serious question: in what ways would you want systemd commands to be composable? I'm struggling to think of a use case for being able to pipe a service name into systemctl (or "service" for that matter) and its output is reas
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by chr15p 12y ago
One of the major reasons for the cancellation of the space program was Britain was at the same time developing Concorde (with the French). There was only enough money for one of them and it was decided concorde was more likely to be commerc
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by chr15p 13y ago
yes, if piping cat into grep into awk into grep again is a Jedi like trick its no wonder the Republic collapsed. You could condense the first three stages: cat /var/log/nginx-access.log | grep "GET" | awk -F&#x
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by chr15p 13y ago
It struck me that the two women and a child at the Cenotaph at about 2'20" were quite possibly remembering husbands and fathers killed in the First World War (9 years earlier). Yes a wonderful piece of film.
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by chr15p 13y ago
You're seeing the article as being about the US, but if you see the (modern) US as (1914) Britain, then its other countries warmongering that can draw you in (1914 Britain didn't care at all about a war in the Balkans, but once Be
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by chr15p 13y ago
I'm currently watching the commemorations from London live on BBC1, and the ambassadors from the various countries of the ex-British empire countries (including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, South Africa, various Caribbean cou
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by chr15p 13y ago
>> terrorist organizations reflexively reject compromise proposals offering significant policy concessions by the target government1; > This is just game theory. You have the game "Chicken" I think it's often more su
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by chr15p 13y ago
Given he's speaking in general terms about terrorist groups and not specifically Al Qaeda I dont think I see your point. Al Qaeda's activities in Afgahanistan dont tell us a lot about the motivations of the various incarnations of
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by chr15p 13y ago
If I remember the story correctly Stallman saw the new features of the Symbolics software, re-coded them and handed them to Lisp Machines Inc. So I guess your thesis is that by allowing LMI to maintain feature parity, that fragmented the ma
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by chr15p 13y ago
> He should really justify why he is doing this.. Why? If he wants to work on mod_python and make it support python3 why shouldn't he? > I don't want my python code running within the Apache process. Good for you but no ones
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by chr15p 13y ago
I think the article is pretty misleading given that the British carried out their first nuclear bomb test in 1952 and the French in 1960, it was pretty obvious already that other countries could build a bomb. Reading the original report the

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