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by ptaipale 9y ago
I think that we can once again be reminded that there is only one thing that is worse for poor nations than being exploited by global capitalism. It's that poor nations are not exploited by global capitalism. Then you can look up TE
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by ptaipale 9y ago
This reminds me of the crossing that two Finnish lads made in 1970 using Marino Mustang, a 4.3 m plastic motorboat, from Dakar to Guyana. The remarkable thing is that they did not have nearly enough petrol for the trip -- they left off and
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by ptaipale 9y ago
It's not about Assange. It's about rule of law. If they'd allow Assange to skip bail without effectively trying to detain him, they would create a precedent for others. In a system with rule of law, you can't make up dif
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by ptaipale 9y ago
You ignore the procedural limitations imposed by Swedish law. The law is a perfectly "good reason" for authorities to act the way they did. It is a rather common meme to accuse Swedes of not conforming to concepts of British/
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by ptaipale 9y ago
chuckle World Series of Internet. The article carefully avoids providing a link to the actual site, but it is here: http://internetatlas.org/
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Off-topic, but I think that traditionally, the longest official word in German was "Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz", the name for a law about testing and labeling of beef, now repealed. This word (
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Apparently the impacted XP and 2003 machines were accessing the same disk servers as the patient record systems. Thus an infected CAT scanner controller (or whatever) was able to destroy the patient records. That doesn't tell a story o
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by ptaipale 9y ago
The hospital really needs to move the patients out immediately if the local military starts military operations from within hospital (which is basically a war crime). Then, if the commanders force patients to stay by threat of violence to s
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Such devices absolutely should be isolated in separate networks (DMZs), and connections to outside world should be removed except for the bare minimum. That the NHS has not done this is their actual failing and negligence. It doesn't t
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We're not talking about printers. We're talking about medical equipment, such as CAT scanners, dialysis machines, radiation therapy devices, chemical analysators and the like. Stuff where the computer interface could be an aftert
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> What's the point of discussing criminality? Well, for one thing, we could try to think of ways how to catch these criminals, how to help law enforcement.
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But this definitely impacts the production, i.e. the total amount of output.
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NHS hit by major cyber attack with hackers demanding ransom(telegraph.co.uk)
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Exactly, it's something that mass usage will solve, even if the folk song will not sound just the same with "a hundred klicks, a hundred klicks, I am five hundred klicks away from home". Other languages often say just letters
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by ptaipale 9y ago
> Does anybody even know how many quart are in a cubic foot? They know it, after they do the conversion, via metric system. (OK, nowadays you can just enter "1 quart to cubic feet" in Google. And the funnier ones you get at h
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by ptaipale 9y ago
You don't really give any reason why Fahrenheit is a better scale or why inches, or why feet and miles are particularly practical units. It seems to me that people say this simply because they are used to them. You don't convert t
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No screenings for men here.
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One difference is that the U.S. system gives a lot to the people who pay a lot. Rich people have access to the most advanced cancer treatments in world, for instance. But child mortality is relatively high among poor people (which is a sham
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"First world" nowadays effectively includes much of the original "Third world" (such as Sweden, Finland, Austria, Switzerland, France, Yugoslavia or Mexico ).
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Obviously. The main difference in circumstances is indiscriminate use near farming lands and dwellings. Landmines can be used properly or improperly. If you lay them properly, map them, and clear them when not needed, they're not any m
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Someone living around minefields answers in the BBC story: "Falkland Islanders weren't enthused by the idea, to put it bluntly," says Barry Elsby, a member of the Falklands Legislative Assembly. "We would rather have le
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Ah, thanks. This makes it better. I could only think of the exploding whale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFwxH3PPWiU
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Click-bait headline from BBC. TL;DR: Penguins are not heavy enough to set off landmines left by Argentinians in Falklands War. Plenty are left, now the British government has to clear them due to Ottawa convention, and this will disrupt pen
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by ptaipale 9y ago
>Many of the really bad potential outcomes are truly within British control, such as refusing to guarantee residency to current EU residents. Hasn't the British leadership been saying all the time that they want a mutual agreement t
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by ptaipale 9y ago
If EU needs to scare its members to show how badly a leaving member would be treated, it's no longer a union of consenting, democratic members. It's not the union that I voted to join, a union that works for the benefit of member
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In fact, in almost all referendums and elections, less than half of eligible voters cast their voters for the winning decision or party. That comes pretty much by nature. Then there are elections where a majority supports the winning decisi
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I find it amazing how people can stay in denial about the Brexit vote: that it happened, and that people in Britain actually disliked EU enough to want to get out of it. That what people voted for is not their will. I'm in the remainin
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Over here (Finland, EU) there used to be standardisation that a mobile phone must be able to make an emergency call even when the phone is locked, and even when the phone's own carrier is out of coverage, or when there is no SIM card -
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Shame is not the word I'd argue is important here, even if it is a factor. But reputation matters. With governments, it's a lot about the credibility. You could say that it was wise economically for e.g. Argentina to default on it
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by ptaipale 9y ago
In "violent scolding", the violent is a figure of speech. It's not real violence. Like a particularly showy car could be colored "violently red". Still, it's not violence that anyone should step in to stop.

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