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by nephihaha 2mo ago
Many people do consider those colonies. However, the Falklands/Malvinas had no native population (plot twist: the French were there first). Northern Ireland's position raises questions about Scotland, Wales and the Isle of Man. I
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A lot of the ones here appear to have originated in India, which had a major regulation problem for a while (although I think the Indian government has begun to deal with it.) A lesser proportion were from countries in Africa.
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I paid for a spam call blocking service about twenty years ago. The annoying thing is not only did it fail to prevent the spam calls from abroad, when someone was trying to call me from Germany it wouldn't let the call through.
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Doesn't really matter since he thinks we're both useless eaters.
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The British papers tend to feed off AP, AFP and Reuters. The Guardian tends to specialise in opinion pieces rather than its own investigative journalism. But to be fair the Guardian's sister paper, the Observer did score an impressive
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The other fairy tale is when the workers rise up and create utopia. Infallible Marx didn't anticipate cybernetics.
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The Guardian and the Economist both have their issues. For one they represent insulated groups of people, who focus on some talking points but not others.
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> You cannot read these articles posing as human interest without following the money. Thank you for that, and look who one of their speakers is? Hardcore technocrat and transhumanist Mr. Harari! You can read his opinions about transhuma
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I recognise that quote. :) But am I right in noticing a lack of breathings? Unless the tilde indicates it. I'm not sure of the difference between the acutes and graves here. I am used to seeing only one kind of accent on ancient Greek
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I think the answer is that the past is as relevant as the future. If people here know both computer programming and classical history, I think that means they have a more rounded view of the world. (The problem in my part of the world, unfo
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by nephihaha 3mo ago
Hans Zimmer's protegé Lorne Balfe is dyslexic and started off as a drummer. Balfe probably can't read music well although he's done well for himself.
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My favourite title cards are in "Thank You for Smoking". They're all done like old fashioned cigarette packs.
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Government intervention. That will mean more taxes on people who are not rich as usual.
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This is going to be interesting. London streets are a different prospect from American ones (a lot narrower and windier in the suburbs).
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There is a grey area here of calls from businesses which the customer is signed up to, or has had previous dealings with. Many will be unsolicited but not all will be. Many of these calls are coming out of the Third World countries which ar
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by nephihaha 3mo ago
Piracy used to be common in North Africa, but more along the Mediterranean Coast where there is far more shipping. The Red Sea is also a choke point.
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Just wait til you hear about the West Papua/Irian Jaya conflict. 100K dead and counting. Barely on news anywhere.
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One of the lesser known criticisms of the recent "Odyssey' film is that parts were shot in the Western Sahara. I believe Emily Wilson herself was critical of this.
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> You have, most of it total nonsense. Best you stop before you show yourself up even more. I know far more about the early history of association football than you do, pal. I was good friends with Professor Grant Jarvie's parents f
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by nephihaha 3mo ago
A speedy thermonuclear demise would have been better than this mess. Emphasis on speedy.
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One supposed factoid I remember reading as a child in several places was that polar bears are left-handed. No idea whether this is true. If an animal is a quadruped and a herbivore, handedness is going to be of less consequence than for ani
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by nephihaha 3mo ago
I think Clive James said that, or something similar. I think his version was something like "the tragedy isn't that so many Australians are descended from convicts, but that so many are descended from the guards." The guards
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As someone else did say, there is some variation in that, but at least I know when to use it. :)
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A lot of word processors generate them automatically though.
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I hate the em and en dash claims — some of us know how to use them!
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Science is dying in the UK (short) [video](youtube.com)
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I know. I was expecting something easier on the eye. Maybe a century of being behind billboards has wrecked it. The 1906/1907 photographs look much better.
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This claim that football has always been the "people's game" is in the end sanctimonious romantic nonsense. It's been run for profit all my lifetime, and is barely unaffordable for many people. SPL clubs are not cheap fo
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by nephihaha 3mo ago
I don't live in England or follow any English football clubs. > What Mediaeval England did was never part of my argument. Maybe not yours. But what is association football today is actually the gentrified code, which was only take
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I have had personal health experiences related to them and quit them over twenty years ago before any of this hype.

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