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by pascalmemories 11y ago
Much better than using Siri ! Just call the NY public library !
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by pascalmemories 11y ago
I have a friend who seems to pick up languages by osmosis. We went for a meal and were served by someone from Croatia. My friend started chatting to him (in English) and asked him for a few words in Croatian (no more than about a dozen) t
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by pascalmemories 11y ago
I wasn't suggesting anything malicious. [edit: OK, perhaps I should have suggested someone's name had to go on the allocation record and DWP would look most benign. My recollection is the allocation was once listed as being NHS
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by pascalmemories 11y ago
Department of Work & Pensions. Ho Ho Ho ! No-one seriously believes the DWP uses a /8. The whole UK Gov can use the block for internal purposes as it was allocated at a time before RFC1918 was a thing and everyone worked on the
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by pascalmemories 11y ago
Start by reducing your opinion of Quebec where this case took place. It has a legal system inspired more by French law than by the English law used in other provinces. French law permits such things as prosecution of libel of dead people w
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by pascalmemories 11y ago
One BBC UK version is http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-radio-and-tv-15384480 but that is not the same content but looks like the same device. The nonsense is that it is trivial to bypass such location filtering. Don&#x2
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by pascalmemories 11y ago
> Religions provide relief through the Afterlife That perspective is normally a Christian influenced one. Not all religions offer an Afterlife (and in some, the one offered is just another repeat in a different form based on how well yo
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by pascalmemories 11y ago
Sadly, the RBS debacle led only to knighthoods, bail-outs and taxpayer money being spent on bonuses so they could "retain world-class talent". Apparently, firing their asses would have been a Bad Thing due to their stellar perfor
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by pascalmemories 11y ago
Sadly, "collaboratively re-envision the quantum paradigm on an ongoing basis" only had vision turned to "bullshit". I'd have though "paradigm" was way more likely than "vision" to score as use
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by pascalmemories 11y ago
Around 768 bytes. The golden days of tight code and amazing minds pulling together cool code that set the framework for floating point on 'home' computers. A great reference point and piece of history. edit: I see from the link
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by pascalmemories 11y ago
Although that sounds like a Freakonomics type explanation, it seems pretty unlikely that smoking and drinking rates would not already have been assessed and excluded. These are two pretty big factors at the top of the list when examining l
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by pascalmemories 11y ago
> For profit-prisons are an opportunistic reaction Are you sure about that ? 2,000 incarcerated children would disagree. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/mar/07/juvenille-judge...
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by pascalmemories 11y ago
They apparently even stop them using a payphone in prison in case they launch nuclear missiles by whistling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Mitnick#Arrest.2C_convic...
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by pascalmemories 11y ago
Indeed stupid. But in the US, parole officers see their role to add additional punishment through threats and inserting petty and vindictive 'rules' into the lives of released prisoners in order to reinforce their authority and ex
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by pascalmemories 12y ago
You still need to pay for drugs in Canada but they are generally cheaper than in the US. However, go to the real home of 'socialist medicine' [who thought up that name?] in Europe or the UK, you pay a fixed price (8 pounds in Engl
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by pascalmemories 12y ago
I was a huge fan of Pascal and still have fond memories - I'd still argue it is a good starting point for teaching programming principles. It's easy to pick faults in any language {Y} and compare it against {X} which is way bette