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by ucee054 13y ago
I don't need to lie about what you wrote, you are doing that yourself. Firstly, you come out with this stuff whenever an even tangentially related topic comes up on HN. So you are not making an observation about political science, you are e
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by ucee054 13y ago
For the last time in the 80s it did not work like you are implying. During the "War on Terror" an old man and anti-Nazi RAF veteran was arrested under "anti-terror" laws for holding an anti-Blair placard at a demonstration. During the IRA y
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by ucee054 13y ago
How can it be "a bit" unparalleled ? Is that like being "a little bit" pregnant?
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by ucee054 13y ago
Your parallel is off. Ireland itself was the "war" zone, which would be analogous to the US black sites in Afghanistan. You don't want the comparison. And civil liberties in the mainland were nowhere near as bad as this stupid war on terror
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by ucee054 13y ago
By the way, I grew up in London in the 80s. The IRA were bombing Britain all the time. There are still no trash cans in the London subway system today; they were taken out because the IRA might leave bombs in them. The IRA even hit Downing
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by ucee054 13y ago
And no, Al Qaeda is not some James-Bond baddy organization with hundreds of millions in finances, you pulled that out of your ass. Al Qaeda is a common name used by lots of different little local terrorist groups to make themselves seem men
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by ucee054 13y ago
No you idiot. I was replying to rmc when he said Breivik was a lone nut job. I gave another example of McVeigh, who was definitely not a lone nut job, and pointed out that the same rule applies. And so the McVeigh example invalidates rmc'
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by ucee054 13y ago
No, there are two categories. There is a (A) regular prisoner, that the normal legal rules apply to, including for terrorists. Then there is (B) prisoner-of-war, which is for if there is a state of war and said person is a soldier in an ene
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by ucee054 13y ago
You assert Breivik was a single crazy but you ignore the fact that his kahanist buddies in outfits like the JDL are well funded organized groups. You also ignore that in terms of the domestic terror threat, according to the FBI organized je
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by ucee054 13y ago
This individual is not the issue. Guantanamo Bay is the issue. That facility is in use in order to circumvent the law in treatment of prisoners period. It was located in Cuba in order to not be on US soil, because the Bush administration th
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by ucee054 13y ago
No, you don't have a right to claim that he is guilty of anything until it is proven beyond reasonable doubt. The Geneva convention is irrelevant to that. Whether or not US Forces say he's guilty does not make him guilty in reality. The
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by ucee054 13y ago
Breivik was a zionist nut job, there are many others out there that fit that classification, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Defense_League . Similarly, Tim McVeigh was a militia nut job, there are many others like him out there, s
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by ucee054 13y ago
this guy is far from innocent If you have reliable evidence then put him on trial or else shut up.
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by ucee054 13y ago
The USGov are not applying the POW rules to the Guantanamo prisoners otherwise they'd have more legal protections. That's why the Bushies had to dream up the "enemy combatant" legal limbo in order to be able to abuse the prisoners like this
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by ucee054 13y ago
Yeah it's for their own good , the same way Bradley Manning had to be naked in his cell for his own good . Yeah right </sarcasm>.
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by ucee054 13y ago
Yes, you are wrong. Refugee status was invented for such people.
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by ucee054 13y ago
A better way? Easy: what Norway did after Breivik. If a country is aping the Israelis, it's failed as a democracy.
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by ucee054 14y ago
You assume I was referring to undergrad class? In my experience most lectures are closer to 1 hour than 3. For BS, MS, even PhD. Do I understand you correctly that MBA classes are particularly freakishly timetabled?
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by ucee054 14y ago
Or how about the student can sit through the whole class to sample it? That's what I did. I got to sample pretty much everything. And I didn't need to traipse out to another subject after 30 minutes - I could just go to the next full lectur
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by ucee054 14y ago
But if you've already got SQL Server for the SSAS, would you go through the bother of installing Postgres? I think that's Microsoft's advantage in the database market: their system has all the tools out-of-the-box. And the licensing's reall
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by ucee054 14y ago
most companies do not have the resources to greenfield a separate project Well no, sometimes they have the resources but don't want to spend them, then they end up spending more overall because they botch the replacement.
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by ucee054 14y ago
Speed. You can periodically build a read-only cube that has pre-computed answers to any number that any pivot-table could read from that star schema. Then, when the multinational supermarket CEO queries for his company's total profit by pro
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by ucee054 14y ago
I thought Mondrian doesn't do OLAP cubes, it fakes them by just converting the OLAP queries into SQL queries and hitting the database with SQL directly? Am I mistaken?
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by ucee054 14y ago
Out of interest, how would you do OLAP on Postgres? (MSSQL comes bundled with an OLAP server...)
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by ucee054 14y ago
If the player character is deciding what loot to pick up from a horde or in a shop trading, there will be lots of inventory logic being fired. Ideally, you want to calculate all the changes, and then write to disk. In practice, you don't kn
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by ucee054 14y ago
You need to watch Idiocracy
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by ucee054 14y ago
Acquisition has been studied in the business schools, though not specifically in the context of tech companies (as far as I know). The deal is often overpriced based on "synergy" between the companies that does not exist. But the deal happe
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by ucee054 14y ago
No, merit is deserving to live tomorrow when conditions change . Your peacock with the giant butt-feathers from the other post is not meritorious but lucky that the butt-feather-eating predator hasn't shown up yet . And your peahen that
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by ucee054 14y ago
If that were true, then it should be possible to have a wealthy country without letting people become rich. It's not. Yeah, 'cause every beggar or migrant worker (that make up most of the population) in the petro-sheikhdoms, is secretly a
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by ucee054 14y ago
Israelis

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