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901.
by lurk2 2y ago
They did not lose control of a protest. The Indians were not permitted to assemble. When it was discovered that an assembly was meeting, the British entered the square where the assembly occurred and massacred those present.
902.
by lurk2 2y ago
> asserting max statutory damages is something every attorney does at the outset otherwise they'd be waiving that recovery Meaning that they could not have asked for a lower amount without waiving their rights to all statutory dam
903.
by lurk2 2y ago
There was obviously value extraction taking place in these areas. The question is if this extraction had meaningful impacts on the trajectory of the imperialists or that of their subjects. Decolonialists would have you believe that Britain
904.
by lurk2 2y ago
> Us filling beaches in developing countries with ships slated to be scrapped by people who work with plasma cutters while barefoot is not charity of any sort. Why are "we" responsible for occupational health and safety in Indi
905.
by lurk2 2y ago
Is air quality a problem in the city where you grew up?
906.
by lurk2 2y ago
> Lost control Dyer gave explicit orders to fire into the crowd.
907.
by lurk2 2y ago
I was surprised that I had never heard of this, but as I investigated further I found the citations were sparse. All of the posts I could find about the topic on Reddit, for example, pointed back to Richard Sugg. Here's an excerpt from
908.
by lurk2 2y ago
> Before the British colonised India, it was one of the richest countries in the world. When it left, it was one of the poorest. I've never seen any convincing evidence that it was one of the richest countries in the world. What are
909.
by lurk2 2y ago
> But the past three decades, wars between states have become blissfully rare, as states rarely invade their neighbors and seek to conquer their territory. This has had far more to do with the collapse of the Soviet Union. It hand-waives
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by lurk2 2y ago
> I think most of the indigenous people of the places that they colonised experienced it as being _fairly_ nefarious! The Maori were eating each other before the British arrived - that's not hyperbole, they practised cannibalism. Up
911.
by lurk2 2y ago
Craigslist was like this too back when I used it. I never understood why they didn't ban the users who were doing it as it made certain categories too difficult to bother browsing.
912.
by lurk2 2y ago
> That's very different from saying you shouldn't help people in a famine. I never claimed that it said that. > Also the KJV version is a pretty inaccurate translation It's the version I am familiar with and thus the ve
913.
by lurk2 2y ago
> So british has nothing to do with the famine ? You could feasibly make the argument that they exacerbated the Bengal famine. I don't think the scholarship supporting this argument is very good, but you could make the argument. As
914.
by lurk2 2y ago
> Doing what? Blaming the British for their misfortunes. You'll find the articles yourself if you read about this subject. They're also fond of claiming that they were deindustrialized by the British, that British industrial de
915.
by lurk2 2y ago
This has also been my experience.
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by lurk2 2y ago
> Unsurprisingly, I don't think the Irish or Bengal famines were mentioned. In fact the whole British imperial project was largely glossed over. But lots of coverge of the Romans, Vikings, Normans, the black death and the two World
917.
by lurk2 2y ago
The sentiment goes back as far as the Bible: 6 Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.
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by lurk2 2y ago
Blaming the British for the famines in India is like blaming Democrats for the forest fires in California; it only has an air of respectability about it because Brahmins have been doing it for 200 years.
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by lurk2 2y ago
This also ostensibly occurred in New York in the 1970s, but the key thing to understand is that there is a significant historiographical tradition which views the Irish famine as a negligent (or intentional) genocide on the part of the Brit
920.
by lurk2 2y ago
Maybe the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York will convince you where Weird Al could not: > Defendants face a potential award of over a billion dollars in statutory damages alone. If Plaintiffs were able to
921.
by lurk2 2y ago
DRM might have been a bad example, but it is one I've seen before. Another story I see here often is that a developer had an independent studio. The studio develops a game or an application. As the game or application ages, the develop
922.
by lurk2 2y ago
> How were those punitive as opposed to not? Should they have not sued at all and just let the infringers continue? In Arista Records LLC v. Lime Group LLC, they tried to sue for more money than existed on earth. I'm not saying they
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by lurk2 2y ago
> What people in this thread are saying is that they won't regret nor remember it, and whatever comfort you're taking from thinking "in the end, after everything is ruined, they'll realize I was right" is cheap a
924.
by lurk2 2y ago
I think his point is that the damages they are seeking are basically punitive, not related to actual losses that they have suffered. I doubt anyone is losing too much sleep over this issue, but the approach the record labels are taking seem
925.
by lurk2 2y ago
Some incredibly shallow takes in this thread, most of which seem to be coming from people who didn't even read the article. The quote in context: > "They're going to regret it," Seubert predicted. "Not financiall
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by lurk2 2y ago
But ultimately being allocated by the parents who select the school their child will attend, right? I guess there are probably some parents whose taxes don't cover the cost of their child's education, but that seems more like an a
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by lurk2 2y ago
I'm missing something: It's a charter school. If Gauna feels that these payments have been made at the expense of her son, why would she keep him enrolled there? Is the whole point of a charter school system not that you can vote
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by lurk2 2y ago
> By the late 2020s, office jobs in developed countries will be primarily about overseeing AI systems—and even that "oversight" will be largely performative. The constant in all of these articles is that the writer invariably d
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by lurk2 2y ago
Even when Google was good I can't really recall ever browsing beyond 100 results unless I was looking for a post in a forum, so I don't know that this is really a knock against them given that their value proposition is that you p
930.
by lurk2 2y ago
> Using a non-chromium browser is actually the only thing we can do nowadays to promote an open web. Orion is closed source.

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