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by cmdkeen 11y ago
Really how many works from Greece and Rome are still widely read today? The Aeneid, Odyssey are as obscure as Beowulf or Canterbury Tales in terms of who actually reads them certainly if your standard is the "normally educated man&quot
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The problem is that would involve the state conceding that SWAT teams don't exercise sufficient restraint in choosing when to utilise deadly force. It very much should be heavily prosecuted but that is why it can't be attempted mu
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There are several online banks in Europe that don't have branches.
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The UK is also a slightly dodgy example because the Cooperative Bank managed to implode in spectacular fashion mainly because the board didn't have many people with any idea about finance, and their Chief Executive, who had a politcial
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And in the old sanctuary laws up until the 17th century you were immune to arrest if you reached a place of religious refuge - but would lose all your wealth and be exiled as a pilgrim. Given everyone in other countries knew what it meant w
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
The give away is the use of "high performing team" which makes me sad that they've essentially identified Tuckman's stages of group development without referencing it (because I really hope they've heard of it). For
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200 sq ft is considered small in Europe but still on a scale that IKEA has an example flat in that size. You're not going to want to live there forever as your main property, but then they might discover the concept of a pied a terre..
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You're highlighting this taken extreme levels where people are able to chop between what they are doing, which what Enron used to do to pretty disastrous effects. This reads much more about people remaining in their teams, on their pro
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I don't think University shifts you into "engineer" mode at all, you learn that when you go and do it for real in "industry". And not by doing indie projects or realistically at small start-ups. See patio11's c
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Because Visual Studio is a very powerful IDE I like using. Because I like writing statically typed code for both the server and client (props to Typescript). I grew up writing VBA and hating it. At university Java and Linux opened my eyes.
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It is also $150 a month of cloud time which will run lots of other stacks including Linux VMs if you want to run your own thing. If you want to write .Net but mitigate the Windows TCO risk write software that runs on .Net Core and is there
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
You also get a $150 a month of Azure credits for 3 years so the value of the offer is massive if you make full use of it. Given the increased openness of MS products the risk of vendor lock-in, traditionally the criticism of Bizspark, is re
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It's an islet not an island, which under UNCLOS is a really important distinction. Islands get an EEZ around them, islets don't. Rockall gets 12 nautical miles of territorial waters around it, but no EEZ. The distinction between i
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
My earlier post posited not caring, let the civil war continue, hand it over to the "nicest" Sunni group we can live with, give it to Assad - none of those outcomes involve a terror exporting aspirant state controlling territory.
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Ethics and law are two very different things. An act can be lawful and yet not good, an act can be illegal and yet good. Rosa Parks broke the law when she sat in her seat. I'm not saying that had she been an atheist she couldn't h
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The idea of believing that every word of the bible is literally true is a very modern concept. The need for interpretation, for understanding of the changing meaning of words and practices, has been accepted since the early church fathers.
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IS grew out of the vacuum of a civil war in Syria and is predicated on creating a Caliphate. They cannot physically grow if they are not able to gain ground. Their recruitment message is likely to be significantly weakened if they lose terr
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IS' successor would not be a territory holding aspirant state, it would have to be more like AQ - which we have already significantly degraded. Now there is the interesting concept of the rise of the "lone wolf" or individual
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jdright raises some good points. Which is kind of the point, no-one has come up with a good "right" way to live or act and it is often even harder without a theist grounding to decide on some pretty major points. You can clearly c
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
The Islamic State are different from AQ in that they have territorial ambitions, the clue is in the name. Their PR success is buoyed by their successes. France has the expeditionary capability to assist in driving the IS out of the territor
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Whilst I'm not the OP I'll happily give my thoughts as a not very good Anglican - who embodies the "great Anglican fudge". 1. Offended no. I'll think you're rather rude, the same as if I wrote $manifestDestiny
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
You're free to charge differently, but people are also free to not use your software. If you actually had this on your pricing page you're facing all sorts of problems. Firstly there are a lot of veterans out there, plus family me
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Yep - during a time of war people are torturing prisoners, sometimes to death. We executed people for that. People who said they thought what they were doing was justified and / or legal. I'm sorry but the CIA torturers are war cr
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'The CIA "provided inaccurate information to the White House, Congress, the Justice Department, the CIA inspector general, the media and the American public" about the "brutal" interrogation techniques it used on te
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But that's as far as he went. He's hardly been shouting from the rafters about how America should not be a country which tortures, and especially in the light of the Congressional findings re the CIA's activities I'm ama
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Except this is Obama at the peak of his hope and change moment, he'd just been comprehensively elected as an alternative to the Bush years. This was the perfect opportunity to essentially blame even more things on Bush and even cement
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And yet again the UK is not the USA, MI5 is not the FBI, Spooks is not a documentary. The FBI's handling of MLK, and the general culture of fear of Hoover in the political establishment, is an excellent example as it is all before any
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MI5 have a very long, and proud, history of distinguishing between political enmity and "subversive" activity. The history of "entryism" during the Cold War is well documented, and MI5 have declassified information about
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Alternatively we're a country which has led the way in terms of governing the activities of our intelligence services through legislation. Something which even other European countries (France specifically) are still taking the stance
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Seriously? Now you might be engaging in activities which mean you do need to engage in Defcon levels of preparation, perhaps you work in intelligence, perhaps you're a terrorist, or perhaps you're a journalist. But then you'd

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