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by throwaway210222 5y ago
Ukraine already has 15 reactors generating about half of its electricity. (Including one famous one). Ukraine receives most of its nuclear services and nuclear fuel from Russia, but is reducing this dependence by buying fuel from Westinghou
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> Laughs in 'rest of the developed world'. Don't be a dick. > Free education and free healthcare more than pay for themselves… I didn't say they didn't. But they do require someone to pay for it. And those som
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
- Free healthcare - Free high quality education There is no free anything. Perhaps if you called it 'free-at-the-point-of-use-but-definately-paid-for-by-someone-else' it would clarify why such nice things are difficult to achiev
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
Yeah, but then again most Western news organisations call Xi the President of China. [Hint: the Chinese language has a word for President - which they use for Biden, Macron, etc. They don't use it for Xi].
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
Surely Ukraine just needs to allow EDF to build few nuclear power stations on long term agreements to end their dependence on Russian heating oil?
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
s/Mr. Xi/Dr. Xi/
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> In general anything to force drivers to drive slower But never, ever force the handful of car manufacturers to electronically limit the top speed of their products? Note: for the top-end German marques, this is just a configuration fil
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
That's only because they couldn't care less what you or I say most almost all of the time. Instead, democratic governments (especially violence-shy Western ones) use the Official Secrets Act [or local equivalent] to prevent the pe
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
Probably because most are too dumb to pass it. Before you down-vote: ask what their high school STEM grades are?
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
Dunn's Law of Information "What you don't know, you don't know - and you can't make it up". Attributed to former Raytheon vice president Bruce Dunn. http://www.linux-ha.org/wiki/Dunn%27s_La
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> I presume this is considered newsworthy because it’s an indirect repudiation of trumpist stances on covid Or - just perhaps - news about somewhere else on earth is newsworthy in its own right?
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
Pray tell, how exactly do your checks and balances protect you from a government: - with secret FISA courts whose cases and rulings are unknown - that will imprison recipients from even saying they got a security letter - threaten to impr
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> (if someone will buy the school a building to get you into your college of choice). If this was really widespread surely the campuses would have (literally) thousands of donated buildings?
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> I don't quite connect this to your affirmation that "its not normal work." Really? You cannot get there? Ok: If its normal work, then you - like what happened twice in Germany in my OP - are going to have to deal at some
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
Vegatarianism isn't a job when I last checked, so no - its not the same thing.
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
This question has an answer. If sex work is just like any other job, then many, if not most Western welfare societies demand that an unemployed person takes any job in their skill-set. So you end up demanding women go back to the prosti
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> As is often stated, the freedom of speech is not the freedom of consequences. The problem with such a trite comment is that is is just as true in North Korea. You are complete Free™ to say what you like about Supreme Leader Grand Marsh
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> Well..if there were laws to enforce a higher minimum wage… So why don't you argue to make the minimum wage $10 million a year? Then everyone is rich. Hell, I wonder why the Sudan hasn't thought of that. There is surely an upp
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> how will we keep the owners of all that capital and production from wringing out the lower 90%? Tax machines like you tax employees.
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
Don't be so glib. Where I live, we have private fire departments because the government one's are not maintained and the ambulances are being used as taxis. Socialism + corruption (and that the only kind we get) is way worse than
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
Can you be specific? E.g. precisely what patent, design patent, trademark, or copyright is stopping the entire of Africa from designing and building an indigenous diesel tractor?
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
This only works if the employers don't see it coming. In many countries (like mine) organised labour has a wage negotiation-followed-by-industry-wide-strike season. Every year, come rain or shine. Industry has long responded by: a) ad
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
>> Adults need to be careful in life. > No, they don't. Atheists like me can go to Saudi Arabia (or Uganda) and say and do as we like without pause for the consequences (unreasonable as they may be) to myself and the people th
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
Because - and focus now - I came to learn something. I even said so in my OP.
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> punish producers but this person isn’t a producer. Er, then who made it? Hint, when a common law document says "…the production of…" it means exactly that; they use "… and/or distribution of…" to capture the
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
If HN had to discuss every daft, wrong rule in every country that offended our progressive, post-national sentiments, we would never have time to discuss compilers. And that would be a crime itself.
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
No more than a) barman sells beer to 20 year sold in USA (1), b) someone leaks a photo of it, c) the authorities find out, d) the twit gets charged. Hence my question: "What am I missing?" It fits a pretty simple pattern: "so
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
Sorry, what am I missing? 1. its illegal to produce pornographic material in Uganda* 2. she produced pornographic material (of herself) 3. it came to light (its always a risk) 4. she has been charged. If you play silly games… * I don't
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> and what justification he has for using the name Because he's a free man ? And free men get to choose their words. All by themselves. I do it all the time. You should have a go at it.
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> Imagine how an Orthodox Jewish rabbi would feel… You don't have to imagine, the Vulcan salute was lifted (granted by a Jewish actor) straight out of an orthodox ceremony into a very secular film franchise. 50 odd years later, mos

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