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by rsynnott 28d ago
Are you seriously saying that the US should _invade the UK_? If nothing else, I mean, see how Iran's going, now imagine that with aircraft carriers, submarines, nuclear-tipped SLBMs, and so forth. Like you're pretty much talking a
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by rsynnott 28d ago
It's not just been floated; Turkey was (and strictly speaking still is, though talks are suspended because Erdogan) an official candidate, in the accession process.
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by rsynnott 28d ago
Talks with Turkey are currently dead because the current government does not wish to continue them; realistically they won't resume until, at the earliest, Erdogan is gone.
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by rsynnott 28d ago
In 1960, 75% of Ireland's exports went to the UK, and 50% of its imports came from there. By 2000, it was 35% imports, 25% exports. Today it is 20% imports, 8% exports. There are a few things going on here, but a lot of it was EU membe
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by rsynnott 28d ago
As another of your, ah, problematic presidents once said: > "There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get
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by rsynnott 28d ago
"Single market (but food treated specially)" wouldn't be unprecedented; Switzerland was basically like this for a long time. Working Time Directive may be more of a sticking point, though Canada doesn't seem _that_ far a
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by rsynnott 28d ago
... No. Not until this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_of_Dignity
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by rsynnott 28d ago
Turkey, only a tiny part of which is geographically in Europe, is a candidate (though talks are suspended in practice until, at least, Erdogan is out of power), and Cyprus is geographically in Asia/Middle East, not Europe. The rules co
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by rsynnott 28d ago
Yep; Ireland, say, has free movement, but is not in Schengen (the border with NI would make it virtually impossible).
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by rsynnott 28d ago
Which countries are these? There's a large population of Indian immigrants in Ireland, who seem to be integrating fine and are not notably doing much tax dodging (they would largely work in high-skill PAYE jobs, where tax dodging is vi
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by rsynnott 28d ago
> Eurovision Asia _Terrible_ naming.
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by rsynnott 28d ago
Canada already has a free trade deal along the lines of the EU-Mercosur one; free movement of goods and services implies a _lot_ more than that.
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by rsynnott 28d ago
> All the roadblocks to Canadian trade with the EU today (especially around resources) are internal to Canada and have nothing at all to do with EU status. Presumably under the proposed thing Canada would largely adopt EU regulations. Th
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by rsynnott 28d ago
EEA nations (Norway, Iceland etc) have found them acceptable, and preferable to fully joining up.
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by rsynnott 28d ago
> It literally privileges people in countries outside the EU by giving them more rights than those inside. Mostly, like, the right to have, say, your own standards on chemical safety, tho. That is generally not something that most people
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by rsynnott 28d ago
Maybe, and that might actually be okay from the EC’s pov. There’s a fairly old proposal for a ‘two speed EU’; a core that accelerates towards near-federalism with a more eurosceptic periphery.
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by rsynnott 28d ago
Depends what they mean by ‘full’, really. I expect the EC would be happy enough to let them opt out of the euro, say. But maybe not the working time directive.
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by rsynnott 28d ago
Easier trade, past a certain point, basically requires regulatory alignment.
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by rsynnott 28d ago
> And because cout is guaranteed to flush anyways when the program ends, you're adding a delay for no reason. I mean... If your command line utility doesn't print anything til it's done, that is going to be, _at best_, an
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by rsynnott 29d ago
Even this one understates it; it’s missing the special customs zone with Turkey.
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by rsynnott 29d ago
The EU has also been pushing for free trade agreements, tho (the Canada one, mercosur, the abortive US one).
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by rsynnott 29d ago
Nope; haven’t seen any of this series. The streaming situation for it, at least in this country, is a bit of a mess. But it sounds from the description like a do-over of the cat lizard episode, more or less.
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by rsynnott 29d ago
It hasn't entirely evaporated, but it has certainly calmed a bit, and Oracle was maybe the most incautious large company with this stuff.
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by rsynnott 29d ago
Microsoft has _nothing_ like the debt load that Oracle does.
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by rsynnott 29d ago
Eh, I mean TNG, which is probably the best-regarded series, had its fair share of duds, and not just in the not-very-good first season. In particular, I am thinking of the episode where Data's cat turned into a lizard. > A transport
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by rsynnott 29d ago
Jaguar implemented a fairly radical change to their product line, getting rid of all their existing cars, and announcing, but not actually releasing, a new car. As a result, they do not currently sell cars (which, ah, explains the drop in s
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by rsynnott 29d ago
“This power bloc is actively trying to take our sovereignty, but conspiracy theorists say the other power bloc will do that and become a superstate, so we’d better stick with the one whose leader has literally threatened to invade us” would
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by rsynnott 29d ago
I mean, you say "even Jaguar". Jaguar has essentially been a dead brand walking for well over a decade. They're currently trying a fairly radical reorientation, which, well, hard to see it _working_, but probably beats just s
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by rsynnott 1mo ago
Less so nowadays, but it was very much a thing back in the day.
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by rsynnott 1mo ago
> No one wanted this war but we did it anyway. You know the big old orange guy in the White House? He did it. ... Like, come on now. What do you think, Israel is blackmailing him? He is unblackmailable; most of the country hates him, and

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