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  Yeah, I was just amused by the combination of the implication that "blab all you can now so you can't be done for it later" was a valid strategy, with your happening to have phrased it in a manner so...
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  "And Congress has passed a law stating nothing he said in his testimony before Congress could be used against him later in a court." Roffle. "It may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you...
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  Er... have one guess? Which brings us neatly back to the original topic (and the previous one, come to that). A bunch of investments have suddenly become worthless as people discover that the operators of the devices had overlooked the...
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  Royal descendants' vitality status - especially of those in the closest line to the throne - is tracked and documented with the same scrupulous precision as that of families of genetically-experimental organisms in a lab, but unlike the lab results,...
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  "some of the terms come across like it's the patient's fault, i.e., 'resilience' - 'C'mon you're just not trying hard enough!' Yeah, sure." Can't please 'em all, though... to me "resilience" is a metaphorical reference to a material property, one...
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  Interesting that they are apparently anticipating not only Scottish independence, but a Scottish republic....
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  "Reach out to your local mosque" I doubt his arms will be long enough....
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  "Would the New Management series stand on its own feet as a film/TV adaptation without the rest of the Laundryverse behind it." My gut feeling is that it probably would. Two examples that spring to mind are Lord of the...
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  I see, thanks....
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  "...the dominant media. The amount of overt hate speech against Islam and Muslims from those is sickening" I hate walking past the newspaper racks in shops. All that pointless hatred and white supremacism being blasted out in a wall of...
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  "We got fed up and switched to a year round magnet" A who which what where? If that's been autocorrected I have not a clue what the original was....
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  That sounds not dissimilar to the kind of thing I remember enduring over here, only more ineptly done and starting from an earlier age. Our equivalents of that Amelia Bedelia PDF did at least quote a passage of reasonable length...
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  "the past 2 years' drop in SNP membership and national polling of support for independence." Ug. If I was Scottish I reckon I'd be becoming more supportive rather than less. Have people in Scotland been looking at the clusterfuck the...
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  You were lucky... I read the whole thing, looking for the qualities everyone raves about. I got to the end still looking, and genuinely wondering if there were somehow two versions of it and I'd got hold of the wrong...
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  Hermann Melville is possibly the worst writer I have ever read. It takes a special kind of badness to write an epic of high adventure in which even what would be the most thrilling and exciting scenes in any other...
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  You have to use %29 for any ) characters that are part of the URL. Like this [Like this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Blake's_7_episodes#Series_4_(1981%29)...
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  Final para: surely that is just kids' natural preference for something with a bit more zip to it than watching adults having the same kind of boring and incomprehensible conversations that their parents and parents' friends have over their heads....
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  Yes, it's a heck of a statement about the condition of the working class in England that so many guys could not only expect it to be better than their normal living conditions, but continue to think so when they...
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  I remember some book from when I was a nipper on the "gang of child detectives" theme. They intercepted a communication from whatever gang of desperate criminals they were chasing this week, worked out that the code it was in...
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  "...the scaling has gone from millions of dollar-equivalents and dozens of soldiers dead and hundreds crippled/wounded over towards billions-thousands-tens-of-thousands. [snip] There's been an incremental series of upgrades flowing from US-EU-UK which are never enough to end the war immediately..." Which...
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  "thus they have to fulfill causality and so use their incredible lifespan to figure out time travel, which they do so they can travel back an complete the loop." I'm seeing that you could get something pretty grim out of...
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  "So, all our commanders were stupid bullies ... & by extension the Central Powers were not ... err ... they lost." No, that's two unwarranted jumps to conclusions :) It's undoubtedly true that the plans and calculations of the high...
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  "Overall, more deaths among the military as well as civilians were caused by famine and disease than by weapons." It says that in the PDF, but it doesn't expand it beyond that bald statement, and I can't find what kind...
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  Yes, there are similar things available for marking out construction sites and so on. The thing about tank ones is they're intended to be able to see through smoke and other particulates on a battlefield, so they use a much...
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  I think there will almost certainly be other parts of the reactor system which can never be overhauled because they're too radioactive, which are designed to last some amount of time related to how long the fuel was expected to...
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  "Who buys these stolen rangefinders, and why?" People who like fucking about with lasers? Some types have a lovely little Q-switched YAG laser in them which is both an ideal size for fucking about with and seems to be about...
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  It's pretty indefensible to try and argue that it wasn't, given how often the high command cited "wearing out" the German army both as a prime reason for proposing some action, and then as a major part of the value...
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  There was a corker of an example of that in China... someone hired a hitman to bump someone off, the hitman subcontracted it to another hitman, and so on. After five iterations they closed the graph. There was a photo...
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  I've been waiting all along for someone to point out that eco-protesters disrupting airports by fucking around with toy aircraft near the perimeter is something that has already happened, and been in the national news, and I'm pretty sure had...
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  "There was a very large element of "this didn't work last time, so let's do it again, only on a large scale"." That impression was probably a good part of what got me interested in WW1 originally - wondering how...