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by cmdkeen 10y ago
Devon Air Ambulance used to tell a story, possibly apocryphal, about a callout to the middle of Dartmoor. In the course of treating a woman they had to cut off her cashmere top. After the incident they received a demand from the woman to pa
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
Law is also the sort of degree that is full of potentially triggering discussion. Law is also the sort of career in which you can't just opt out of the discussion. There are plenty of wider discussions to be had about this whole thing.
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Career politicians, special interests and tons of money got comprehensively spanked in the Republic Primary process. Trump is an even worse choice - but he demonstrated that it is possible to beat the machine. Sanders came very close to doi
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We actually didn't. There are occasional periods where technology or general progress outstrips the state's historical ability to monitor what is going on. International communications were traditionally so small in number that it
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
The article explicitly calls out their lack of product development as hindering the process. The example given is of a feature they've been discussing for 5 years(!) where it would favour displaying replies made by individuals the orig
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
Except Twitter don't want that either - as evidenced by their unannounced censoring of certain AMA sessions, and panicked deletions of trolls of famous celebrities. It turns out that they are just another company driven by commercial d
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
Whilst that may be the case that isn't anything close to what the article is talking about. Discussion about content v context automated filtering, and training filters for specific AMAs with Obama and Jenner demonstrate that there is
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
From TFA: "She deleted the tweet and posted the image to Instagram where she doesn't get abuse" So Instagram clearly does something differently, and from the perspective of at least one person, better.
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Traditions and pretty parades make for exceptional soft power opportunities, something the UK punches far above its weight in. Getting a visit from the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge was probably the one force that could outshine a visit fro
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
Except stability can be used to breed stability. France being on the Fifth Republic makes it considerably easier to argue for a Sixth Republic, and with Marine Le Pen doing rather well in the polls that isn't necessarily a good idea. T
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You might have "the option" to go to college as in you can theoretically apply, and perhaps the college may even favourably look on your admission. However when your school doesn't know that, doesn't have a history of se
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
Given Erol Incedal, prosecuted in one of the few actual "secret trials", was found not guilty I'd say that suggests a pretty decent basis for believing the system isn't rigged. I'd even go so far as to say that secr
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
You mean the cases we know about due to the independent judiciary and that have led to massive systemic change? You're not going to find a terror suspect being interviewed by the police without a lawyer present and the whole thing bein
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The suggestion is that "lone lunatics" don't wake up one day and decide to commit murder without there being any warning signs in advance. Even people who aren't in a cell are likely to exhibit changes in character, asso
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
I don't use them all but the Oracle database I currently work in has ~8000 tables across 80 schemas. Don't ask about impact analysis or change control.
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
This is the UK system - generally a 1/3 discount is the maximum you can get for an early guilty plea which reduces the further through the process you get. There are plea agreements though much rarer and the judiciary are not fans and
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
In UK terms the large number of trials of would be terrorists would suggest that our agencies are working rather well. To what extent it is domestic versus overseas, human verus signals agencies, their co-operation and foreign partners we d
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
It reminds me of the pre-crash stories about corporate lawyers and then investment banking working mad work weeks. The difference at least in the case of SV that more people seem to enjoy their work.
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
The England rugby team do a lot of work with the military and other organisations to look at how to develop leadership. After a win they spend a long time analysing how they played and what they, individually and collectively, could have do
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
The consequences for Scotland leaving the UK are an order of magnitude worse, and that is if they were guaranteed admission to the EU on a roughly similar basis to to the UK's current status. In reality they would probably have to adop
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Yep but you can't retrospectively apply a different standard because the result you didn't like happened. Getting such a standard applied in the beginning would also have been tricky given recent precedent (the AV and Scottish ref
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Which is what Greece, Italy etc would be doing if they weren't in the Euro. Germany wouldn't devalue as that involves increasing money supply which would drive inflation, the German post war banking system is built to have a massi
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
Really? In terms of security NATO is a far, far bigger player than the EU will ever be. The EU may have played a part in Ukraine in terms of encouraging it to look West which annoyed Russia - but the EU is not really offering much in the wa
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
Specifically the Euro (rather than the EU) stops the German currency from appreciating massively and making their exports more expensive. That has been a massive boost to the German economy over the years.
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Nations that conduct deterrence patrols on SSBNs have built up many decades of experience in terms of sealing up individuals for months at a time, operating in an unforgiving environment and being self reliant for that period. There's
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The deployment of forces in theatre close to a potential aggressor is a deliberate strategic process designed to ensure that the alliance will get involved politically. That is why units have been sent to the Baltic states recently. The Ame
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I did a double take at that. My heart skipped a beat thinking I could maybe suggest porting some old Oracle stuff over to Postgres. A quick Google shattered my dreams. Damn you article.
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I agree to an extent and in my current project have been making heavy use of PL/SQL to handle a lot of data logic having come off a project that tried to use Entity Framework to achieve the same thing. PL/SQL, for all its problems
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Even non anonymous crowds contain destructive assholes - see plenty of anecdotes and write-ups of businesses. Identification however lets traditional social mechanisms handle the issues to the extent they are able to handle them in real lif
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Scots law is more useful than the law of England and Wales in regard to common law offences as due to the long period with no separate Parliament it didn't go through the same process that England did of statute law replacing common la

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