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maxheadroom
7y ago
> ...and the woods that do remain are typically private property. I've heard that in the states you can own a piece of property but have "no right" to get to it, as it's surrounded by other pieces of private property
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7y ago
> The internet is making online discourse more and more important, perhaps online discourse is already more important than oral discourse. It's an Eternal September[0] problem, though, in the fact that any discourse has effectively
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7y ago
> Same reason men serving in the military or working abroad or on oil rigs or in long-haul trucking have children? I don't see how those two situations equate. One is an impossibility, due to circumstance (e.g.: on the battlefield)
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7y ago
> That domestic labour ought to be recognized as real labour, and as such, be paid. Who would do the paying in this scenario? The children? Aren't they (the children) ultimately the beneficiaries of the aforementioned labour - in t
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7y ago
> I’d rather be earning a large dollar amount (doing something I enjoy) than child-rearing, even if I had to hire a nanny. Just not something I’m interested in doing full time, and life is too short to do things you don’t want to do if y
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7y ago
> I hope you understand that when you suggest intentional pressure to divide a country you're essentially asking for war. Where is this assumption coming from that I am suggesting international pressure to divide a country? To stop
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7y ago
> We have a separate foundational document devoted entirely to that right. If you're referring to the Declaration of Independence, that is a legal document[0] that doesn't enshrine rights - even if we're to posit that it
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7y ago
> ...where a fair number of the population, especially in the northeast and northern regions, are extremely poor... People in Recife[0] are poor? O.k., maybe a single city isn't fair. How about Pernambuco[1]? Something like 31% of
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7y ago
> Why go through such an extreme measure in dealing with other countries' natural resources, while internal environmental problems are not properly addressed. Eu não posso entender: Your proposed solution is that Brasil should carr
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7y ago
> ...but what’s wrong with increasing the police force/improving non-technological techniques/etc.? You mean actual work ? We can't be having any of that! Plus, think of the <insert some banally unimportant reason her
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7y ago
> This is why many Americans won’t give their guns away. . ...but the way the U.S. laws are written, it's quite illegal to take up arms against or try to depose/overthrow the United States Government - no matter how totalitaria
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7y ago
> Yeah, why are we charging so many innocent people with crimes? Votes. Prosecutors/Judges/etc. (depending on jurisdictions in the states) in the states are all about votes based on " being tough on crime ". They dep
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7y ago
TL;DR - Someone made a mask of their exact face that you can wear[0]. The article[1] goes into some other things that you could do but doesn't elucidate any more on those things (which, IMHO, is pretty underwhelming). [0] - https:&#
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maxheadroom
7y ago
This entirely depends on if the employer is willing to initiate the application for the permit for you to fulfil the role. See the authority on this here (in English for obvious reasons)[0]. Edit: "Authority on this" as in Migrati
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7y ago
På riktigt! :)
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7y ago
> What makes you think someone who can "work in tech or medicine" is somehow EU immigration eligible? Most of the more restrictive EU countries (e.g.: UK, Ireland, etc.) have barriers to getting immigration stamps, which the m
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7y ago
> So the issue is that no other country in the world will take them? Even if we assume that’s true, that’s reason enough to be grateful. ...but you're ignoring the principle that people are flippantly telling them, " If you do
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7y ago
...but isn't the answer to the question, " Can the polygraph be used to coerce false confessions from innocent people? " also quite a resounding, " yes "[0]? Glossing over or attempting to detract from the grossly n
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7y ago
Keep in mind, however, that this is not reciprocal: The Federal government can lie to you with impunity.
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7y ago
What is the difference (if any) between companies who nefariously, vehemently, and willfully track users and stalkers (who we classify as criminals) chasing after their obsessions? Why is it legal for the business? Aren't the end-goals
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7y ago
It's already baking[0,1], so I'm not sure why they include "about to" in the title. [0] - https://archive.fo/CrVBV [1] - https://archive.fo/UfS4A
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7y ago
> Hanging out near war zones and sanctioned countries significantly increases the chance that you're committing financial crimes... Citizens of Ukraine are just "hanging out" in Ukraine? We're still talking about Ukr
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7y ago
> They would be doing that to prevent money laundering, trying to stop people going to sanctioned places and transferring money around for the locals at a hefty profit. (in other words, not the opposite of the intent of the law) Did the
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7y ago
> Humans are emotional and social beings, and we do not (nor should we want to) live in a society in which the proceedings of law, when found to be appropriate to remedy some social offense, become the only permitted form of public expre
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7y ago
> ...isn't something society should shrug off and forgive simply because "people aren't perfect." ...but isn't the recourse that society has agreed-upon the very same lawsuit that is going on? Is this not adequa
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7y ago
I suspect that if we could figure out how Edward Leedskalnin did it[0], we could probably piece-together if Stonehenge was done the same way. [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_Castle#History
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7y ago
None of the Belfast[0] codes are returning as valid; same for the rest of NI. [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BT_postcode_area#Coverage
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7y ago
> The cable companies are a natural monopoly, just like electricity providers et al. It doesn't make sense for two companies to lay two separate sets of cable in the ground. With all due-respect, electricity companies haven't
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7y ago
> ...but what could prevent this sort of thing? If it's on Windows, probably the digital signature[0] of the installer bundle will flag for invalid/unknown signature. For nix you could verify checksums but for Apple, if it&#x
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7y ago
This comment makes no sense because the Fourth doesn't apply to data/information that you've surrendered to the DMV and that the DMV owns. Precisely from the same Wiki article that you linked: " ...courts have found that
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