handelaar

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by handelaar 5y ago
The laws have been in place for decades and have at no point not been in full effect. The reason nobody's been prosecuted and convicted for 70 years is that nobody with half a brain commits the offence.
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by handelaar 5y ago
"Rehabilitation" usually comes after an appropriate criminal punishment being issued and received, not before. That reasonable people think that getting just twelve weeks in jail for his crimes -- which he at no point admitted --
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by handelaar 5y ago
Why, when it basically apparently doesn't run on laptops, and when it fails to start it provides no hint whatsoever about what to do next, is there no information about what to do next anywhere on the Haiku web site? Why, if your po
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by handelaar 5y ago
It's never once started on anything I own. For over a decade. The most voted-on item in its bug tracker has 9 votes on it. RiscOS (which was a wilfully-obtuse comparison on my part, but since you're digging in [edit: in fact, cr
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by handelaar 5y ago
I'm having a little philosophical discussion with myself here about whether something that can't run on an actual computer (as opposed to a VM) is in any meaningful sense an "operating system" at all. Meanwhile I can def
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by handelaar 5y ago
I think at this point I'm on the fourth consecutive laptop that this just won't ever boot on. This time, however, it just says "Haiku" on a splash screen and then stops completely. No errors, no debug message window, not
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by handelaar 5y ago
I'm just taking a moment to admire a publication which describes an OS with -- count 'em -- six different photographs of the back of the phones it ran on.
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by handelaar 5y ago
"Roughly one third of 501 students at a single university in Frankfurt, in Germany where certain publications are required by the constitution to remain prohibited, are in favour of removing controversial books from a single named libr
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by handelaar 5y ago
Its court will strike this down in toto as unlawful. About twelve years from now.
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by handelaar 5y ago
Spoiler: no they are not. EU Directive 2016/343 part 25 very clearly prohibits this kind of nonsense. Yes, the Irish state insists on pretending that EU law doesn't exist over and over and over again, but how wrong it is about tha
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by handelaar 5y ago
London doesn't have earthquakes.
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by handelaar 5y ago
In what sense am I "configuring" this when the only thing I can change on it is the switch feel?
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by handelaar 5y ago
Of course it's Fujitsu, purveyor of nearly every nonfunctional hit-and-run government IT contract in the UK and Ireland. As far as I can gather this malignancy escapes permanent legal destruction primarily by shedding all of its staf
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by handelaar 6y ago
Greenland itself, however, left the EEC in 1982.
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by handelaar 6y ago
No. This is a subtle difference but a very important one. In the US, the performance right on broadcast radio is not collected at all. The publishing rights are collected on. That's really not the same thing as "publishers take
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by handelaar 6y ago
Au contraire. This way of looking at things ignores the astonishing cost of maintaining emergency support payments to people and businesses, which are significantly more expensive than the price differential on vaccines. Ireland's spen
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by handelaar 6y ago
People who need it for work have vans , which are an amazing invention with rooves and doors and which can carry pallets. Some have a trailer instead. People who need it barely once or twice a year for home take an estate car, rent one for
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by handelaar 6y ago
I for one love it when mouthy oncologists get picked to talk about epedemiology in the Journal. Next week, tune in for a sculptor's hot take on the Mars lander.
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by handelaar 6y ago
You may have missed this but at one point Johnson was actively touting the notion of proroguing parliament indefinitely so that it could not meet and reject a plan to Brexit without any trade deal in place. And then 48 hours later, as if by
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by handelaar 6y ago
Before the changes resulting in 92 remaining in the House of Lords, hereditary members numbered over 1200. Once in a blue moon the Conservatives would mobilise basically all of them and destroy any opposition to a bill in progress
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by handelaar 6y ago
<waves> And at one point nearly neighbours in N7 if I recall ;)
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by handelaar 6y ago
Do I have to be the oldest fart in the room to just naturally assume that since Mozilla was the first popular browser to show inline images, that its homepage is the first place to look? http://home.mcom.com Last-Modified: Fri,
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by handelaar 6y ago
I'm less concerned about the kit that was removed from the Capitol and very much more concerned about all the kit that wasn't. There is no laptop, no camera, no wall socket, no light switch even, that should not now be destroyed
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by handelaar 6y ago
This is not a description of how he's being treated as a prisoner, but rather specifically as a prisoner who is being transported between a prison and a courthouse during a trial or hearing. So... somewhat disingenuous.
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by handelaar 6y ago
And for breaking the terms of his bail conditions by legging it to the Ecuadorian embassy in the first place.
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by handelaar 6y ago
Whatever your politics, we should endeavor to stop giving oxygen to rhetoric that misstates easily verifiable facts * Your comparison between Portugal's social security system and the US's includes only one source of support, but
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by handelaar 6y ago
If you actually believe it was news that the NSA is intercepting signals from and in Syria, I may have a bridge for sale you'd be interested in.
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by handelaar 6y ago
It has rather less to do with post-colonialism than it does with having a very unethical dominant church for hundreds of years, honestly. We're the only horrifically-bent country in northern Europe
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by handelaar 6y ago
And then, after that, this algorithm nonsensically applies an enormous upward or downward adjustment depending on what someone decided was the quality (read: prevalent socioeconomic status) of the school they attend.
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by handelaar 6y ago
In this case, yes it is. Low-performing students at private schools are having their estimated Cs and Ds bumped up to As. Stellar students at schools in poor areas who got As in their mock exams and have teacher-predicted As are being awar

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