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by pmyteh 5y ago
These are highly specialised pieces of technical equipment with a tiny potential market. The use case isn't fixed unattended public installations to be used by untrained randoms, but ad-hoc use by trained users like cave rescue teams a
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I agree that it's mostly interests rather than electoral politics, though there's a certain amount of the latter as well (and Israel have invested heavily in public diplomacy programmes to try to keep their stock high in that rega
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The former. The pope was also burned in effigy alongside or in place of Guy Fawkes: a celebration of the defeat of the plot and the continuation of the protestant succession to the crown.
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Yeah, maybe. There's a reason different jurisdictions go different ways on this. You could also argue that the true owner could have thwarted the fraud by more careful identity management, and the purchaser (in hiring a solicitor to en
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Gerrymandering and disproportionality are separate issues: the former implies the latter, but the First Past The Post voting system (where the winner is the person with the plurality of votes in a given district, irrespective of magnitude)
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Criminal law in England and Wales is between the Crown (represented by a prosecutor, often but not always an arm of the state) and the alleged criminal. So the question 'who is the technical victim' isn't usually very interes
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I suspect they'd rather you claimed against the fraudster or a solicitor, with the compensation fund as a backstop. If that is the case, it could be neither: just that most people get recompensed elsewhere.
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No, the courts wouldn't. A genuine innocent purchaser, properly registered at the Land Registry, has good title. (Note: not the fraudster - their downstream victim). The original victim's options for recompense are the scammer, th
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I suspect the average PC called out to an argument between two seemingly innocent parties about ownership is going to want to get as far away from it as possible...
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I had to turn up in person to a solicitor's office with ID (and my face) for a recent house purchase (in England), so that's at least not universal.
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That's right, I think. The property can be recovered from the fraudster, but not from an innocent subsequent purchaser. There is at least some form of compensation scheme by the Land Registry. And 'selling on behalf of someone w
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I don't know about the US, but S.K. Baker’s 'Rail Atlas: Great Britain & Ireland' is excellent and regularly updated for this side of the pond.
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I definitely think there's an impedance mismatch between centrist politicians, who believe in Median Voter Theorem[0], a modest policy offer, and a very specific kind of competence; and various kinds of populist disruptive challengers
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A major difficulty is that understanding one part of a complex system does not necessarily lead to testable predictions about the system as a whole. Take elections, for example: we have really good models for voter behaviour under different
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For prediction? No. For understanding (some of) the dynamics of what is going on? Hopefully. That's what much of our discipline is actually aimed at. (Source: am political scientist)
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> It seems like the most obviously stupid idea in the world to say that whether an action is legal in your game depends on whether the player was thinking good thoughts or evil thoughts when he took it. It can actually be worse than this
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They do, though it's not cheating as such if you're not doing it knowingly. The more general problem is one of 'unauthorised information', and it's not entirely avoidable. Sometimes a position requires an unexpected
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You're right that the rules are only modestly complicated: although they do run to dozens of pages most of the complexities are in trying to unpick and rectify situations where something has gone wrong (unauthorised information being
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I mean, it isn't? If DC voted Republican then they'd be totally in favour of making it a state. It's not a secret that is the reason why DC statehood has no traction in Congress. You can make a case for retrocession, but the
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I mean, maybe? Bremen, Hamburg, and Berlin are Länder (the German equivalent of states). You could certainly make an argument for, say, NYC being its own state; it'd be bigger than Delaware. But a lot of these things are historical acc
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DC doesn't want to be part of Maryland (they like being independent and feel that Maryland's concerns are not theirs) and Maryland doesn't want DC (they feel it would move the centre of gravity of the state even further towar
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I mean, it's almost identical to the old Judicial Committee of the House of Lords, but with different hats. They've always done a fair amount of development of the common law. The court under Baroness Hale was maybe a little more
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The SC didn't rule that the obstruction of the highway offence didn't apply in cases of protest. The question is whether the exception in the Act applies: “if a person, without lawful authority or excuse, in any way wilfully obstr
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The beer context still applies in other more metric countries too. The 250ml glass is known as the 'demi' in French, meaning half a (metricated) pint.
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Milk is both. Reusable delivered glass bottles are pints. Small supermarket plastic bottles are 568ml (1pt). Larger ones are either 1136ml (2pt) or 1l. Big ones are 2l and 3l.
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It's not (at least currently) legal to sell whisky in a pub in ounces. Until the 80s(?) it was sold in fractions of a gill: 1/6, 1/5, or 1/4. It's now sold in millilitres, usually either 25ml or 35ml. It's at t
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People over a certain age do, and that age tends to be different for different units. I'm 40, and 'natively' think in miles; both litres and pints (but not gallons or fluid ounces); kilos (except personal weight in stones);
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It's not uncommon for avowedly anti-union employers to have union contracts outside the US. When Walmart owned the British supermarket ASDA, for example, the GMB union was recognised. Companies seem quite adept at keeping their adaptat
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These are the major concerns of the academic field known as 'public administration'. Running government services is easier than a private sector business in some senses (e.g. not subject to market fluctuations) and harder in other
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> So I guess the NYT would be responsible for articles they generate but I suppose they would get a pass for anything they re-publish (like from a wire service). Exactly. Though, interestingly, the second part of your statement is only t

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