mogrim

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by mogrim 13y ago
> socially it's ok to talk to strangers but also ok if you don't want to I'm guessing you don't live in London, and if you ever visit, please don't start talking to the rest of the passengers. :)
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by mogrim 13y ago
I found the complete lack of horses more bizarre - I'm surprise just how motorised everything already was.
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by mogrim 13y ago
> I disagree. I'm sure education and lifestyle was important in shaping Orwell's world-view, but I believe that he was inspired by the Nazi Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union and not by the Spanish civil war or his schoolin
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by mogrim 13y ago
> Or you know, we could vote those people out of office. We keep bashing those clueless politicians but we did put them here in the first place. We don't even have the excuse of dictatorship. Yeah, but do you really think Labour wou
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by mogrim 13y ago
I think you're overestimating how hard athletes push the boundary of what they're capable of during training: professional athletes are very careful not to overtrain, as that inevitably leads to injury. That said, I'm not sur
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by mogrim 13y ago
Athletes don't push themselves to extremes during training - I remember reading about the training schedule of a pro cyclist (Cavendish IIRC), and it was a lot lighter than my usual day. He was getting up early, doing a couple of hours
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by mogrim 13y ago
Boeing are certainly regarded as a 100% US company in Europe.
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by mogrim 13y ago
Never heard of the tent before, interesting - but why doesn't it cover the floor? I was assuming it was some kind of faraday cage, but the lack of floor covering is a bit weird...
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by mogrim 13y ago
Not sure about external testing, but it's not a single "censorship infrastructure", all the operators have their own, proprietary filters. (Which is, of course, worse: your website may be visible to BT clients, but not to O2
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by mogrim 13y ago
Amusingly the interstitial ads are served from the Amazon cloud :)
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by mogrim 13y ago
> It's hard to imagine a time when reading and (basic, not necessarily creative) writing were separate skills, and that having the one did not necessarily imply having the other. We've changed a bit since printing happened. I&#
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by mogrim 13y ago
Alternatively, NATO provides legal and moral support to the centuries old concept of buffer states - the US provides military support to stop the spread of communism, which is left unchecked would have reached the US isolated in a hostile w
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by mogrim 13y ago
> Appealing to the Constitution isn't really a valid line of argument, though. Fully agree - because it's only valid in the USA. Assuming libertarianism has some value outside of the States, the fact that the Constitution (and
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by mogrim 13y ago
Other incentives are available. Public pressure, for example.
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by mogrim 13y ago
Doesn't work in practice, though - you end up with schools "teaching to the tests", to the detriment of other unscored qualities. The obvious solution: more tests, and more bureaucracy. By the time you've got enough test
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by mogrim 13y ago
> The crucial bit is that the public had almost no way of knowing if a game was even playable before buying. I don't agree: computer games magazines were huge back then, I remember reading and re-reading the reviews at school with m
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by mogrim 13y ago
My eldest was identical - gender neutral toys when she was small, a yellow-painted bedroom, no particular bias for or against pink (she had some pink clothes, but not all), then... Bam! Pink! She turned 4 or 5 (I forget) and suddenly her li
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by mogrim 13y ago
Can confirm it also exists in Spain and England.
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by mogrim 13y ago
Even in the UK the truth is a valid defense against a libel case. The main difference is that the burden of proof is put on the alleged libeller, who has to prove s/he hasn't committed libel, rather than on the person who has supp
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by mogrim 13y ago
The canonical example of DM hypocrisy is its stand "for decency" while filling its pages with image after image of semi-dressed celebrities: http://cdn.recombu.com/digital/images/news/M10326/133
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by mogrim 13y ago
I seem to remember reading somewhere that Stroustrup (the inventor of C++) also uses a proportional font. I've tried it a few times, but generally end up using a monospace font due to laziness - I update the software and can't be
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by mogrim 13y ago
Certainly they're fighting terrorism, but the fact they're spying on EU allies suggests that commercial espionage may also play a part.
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by mogrim 13y ago
Like when you eat too many kittens, hate that.
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by mogrim 13y ago
I disagree that there was ever a lack of sense of design - apart perhaps from the humble PC. Home audio and VCRs were black because it was "cool", not because the designers couldn't be bothered. Even in the world of computing
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by mogrim 13y ago
idiolect - now there's a word that sums up the language used in most comments on the internet :)
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by mogrim 13y ago
That's pretty much country dependent, local legislation on data protection varies. (And even then AFAIK is limited to sensitive data, such as race/religion/banking, not the password to some website...)
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by mogrim 13y ago
As another Spanish based worker, a little earlier would be better - at 7, say, something to read over breakfast. But that's a very minor complaint!
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by mogrim 13y ago
Spain requires 15 working days notice for example, although if you leave on good terms there's usually a certain amount of flexibility.
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by mogrim 13y ago
Not sure if it's exactly what you're looking for, but "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" is quite an entertaining look at English (mainly British) grammar.
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by mogrim 13y ago
I appreciate that there's a difference in marketing, and McDs isn't actively suggesting you should eat there everyday (unlike Soylent), but take a look at this page: http://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en/food&#x

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