cmdkeen

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by cmdkeen 12y ago
It may also be diminishing returns, not all land is equal for wind turbine placement. If all the "good" spots can't generate enough for the UK's needs you might need to start using less suitable locations.
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
Or it was part of the effort to stop Syria using chemical weapons, and deny their use to rebels (imagine ISIS with them). That is literally saving thousands of lives, not your hypothetical "I can't live without the internet"
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
Espionage and intelligence are vital if you want to do anything like the current relief operation in Iraq. In Syria there was an ongoing international effort to stop the use of, and then secure, chemical weapons. You need effective intellig
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
It's not even "our rep" that's the issue. One or two people die of a horrific disease, western doctors in spacesuits show up and spray the village and tell the locals to ignore their traditional burial rituals. Then load
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
In return for providing the legal protections to both enforce contracts and protect your personally from the liability of a failed business. As a small business the value of protection you receive from the state is incalculably larger than
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
It's slightly different in Scotland further still. Here almost all estate agency is conducted by solicitors (lawyers). I've just bought a flat in Edinburgh and for a flat rate I had an experienced solicitor advising me on the proc
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
You're rather oddly equating free speech as what makes the US "the best place on earth". Which is an odd one on an article about the US having an impaired legal system, in the UK there may be more criminal sanctions against c
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
Except there are plenty of real polls, being conducted by reputable polling companies, that people actually pay attention to. GCHQ aren't manipulating Scottish independence, they have plenty of Scottish staff, it would leak and that wo
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
It's also worth pointing out that all sorts of realistic history has all sorts of random stuff being carried by combatants. Organised raiding parties that are returning will be carrying loads of valuable odds and ends. Stories abound o
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
The Law of Armed Conflict exists because you can't stop war from happening, especially if you aren't willing to fight a war yourself to stop it. It's also worth pointing out that war/conflict are not the same thing, the
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
My finger hurts. Good inspiration on how you can put something together fairly quickly. I've been playing with a medieval simulator for a while now - and this has galvanised me to get back into it. Cheers!
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
It's also worth saying that the "soft power" of a Royal Visit, not even the Queen, is immense. A visit from the US President is probably on par with a visit from the Queen in terms of soft power projection, no other head of s
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
We've fired a monarch before, it was quite the event. However the republican we replaced him with wasn't very popular, banned Christmas and his son ended up inheriting his job. Just like the Athenians found with democracy - where
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
Except one never speaks to one's fellow occupants in the first class carriage. Unless you are somehow proposing dinner dates in the buffet car. In which case you've created tindr meets top table and potentially solved the monetiza
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
It's because people live longer. When defined benefits were introduced many people died before retiring, or if they did retire lived a handful of years. Today it is perfectly possible to live longer post retirement than you spent worki
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
It mentions powered by Unity at the bottom of the page.
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
The Winter War (Soviet Union against Finland) provides a useful insight. The Russians were incompetent on the offensive, they should have crushed the Finns easily. However when the Finns took to attacking they found that individual Russian
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
The tax rates the rich pay are lower, but the overall percentage of the tax take paid by the rich is higher. The richest 1% paid 20% of total tax in 1997, 24.4% in 2007 and 29.8% now. The UK competes with many other places for where the ric
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
I've used Typelite and T4TS to generate Typescript definition files (interfaces effectively) for my C# code. I'm not sure about going further than that and exposing logic.
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
Except if the act of adjusting that distribution causes economic harm you end up with a more equal society where the poor are poorer.
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
It harms people who trade frequently. Mutual funds, and more importantly pension schemes, should be trading relatively infrequently. If your pension scheme isn't taking long term positions you need to find a new scheme as they aren&#x2
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
It isn't $300, it's "up to $50,000"[0] I've seen articles before saying online gambling websites often do pay up as the downtime isn't just lost revenue but customers going elsewhere. [0] http://www.
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
It really depends on the circles in which you move. There are parts of Scotland where Scots are practically a minority (St Andrews) and where the accent is pretty much posh English (central Edinburgh). I've lived in Scotland for 9 year
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
Except that during the early part of that period both British and American intelligence agencies had free reign untroubled by having to obey that law. Hoover's FBI did what it want, MI5 famously "burgled their way across London&qu
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
Are you a qualified assayer? You trust the other person is giving you gold, or you trust the individual who tests it. You trust the system that provides you with an understanding of the relative value of the gold you're holding so that
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
The military do this as well. The British SAS when first formed was designation "L Detachment Special Air Service" as part of a disinformation campaign to persuade the Germans there were paratroopers, and at least 11 other detachm
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
There's been a change since the late 90s away from practising barristers being MPs. It used to be that barristers would be in court in the morning, see problems with legislation, and go to Westminster in the afternoon to fix them. Now
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
There's a difference between "seeing parallels" and the UK being anywhere close to East Germany. Miranda was carrying classified files relating to UK intelligence gathering out of the country. You would have been stopped at t
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
I have several friends who are lawyers in Scotland, and they have been saying that the change the internet is going to bring to their profession is going to be massive. This seems like a very interesting step in that direction.
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
I'd actually recommend a slight variation on the C# javascript combo - Typescript instead. There are all sorts of tools coming out that allow you to generate Typescript interfaces from your C# giving you really nice compile time safety

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