anonemouse

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• Commented on Normal service will be resumed eventually
  Sorry for your loss, Charlie. Glad to hear you're planning to take things a bit easy on yourself....
• Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE
  My rebuttal is less based on logic, but OTOH it has longevity in its favour....
• Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE
  Kate Hoey's still out there, lurking in the Brexit grass......
• Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE
  Small problem with unilaterally removing the deadline: "The Treaties shall cease to apply to the State in question from the date of entry into force of the withdrawal agreement or, failing that, two years after the notification referred to in...
• Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE
  AFAIK both the Irish and UK government have stated that they will not implement a hard border under any circumstances including no deal. I'll set you the same challenge I've asked everyone who's brought this talking point up with me:...
• Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE
  So your defence is that you were using Lyra's death as part of an intellectual game... to push facile "insights" about NI politics obvious to anyone who's paid a blind bit of notice, and inform us of an Alex Jones-style...
• Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE
  If you'd told us "are we going to commemorate the centennial of the last time we burnt our economy to the ground to inconvenience The Brits by doing it all again, or are we going to jump the gun?" would...
• Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE
  What's actually on the menu is that a certain mafia clan with strong ties to Boston, USA is being used and tooled up and will be used to generate enough anger (Aahah, begore, it's the boiler scandal, what a...
• Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE
  It's slightly complex: the common decency/humanity of a Fine Gael government barely exists*, but their Anglophilia might overwhelm their base "let them eat cake" stance and the common decency/humanity of the Irish people is not that of a Fine Gael...
• Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE
  1. Vote of No Confidence followed by putting a new "Government of National Unity" together with a new PM who will either ask for a further extension or cancel withdrawal 2. Pass legislation to cancel the UK's Article 50 notice...
• Commented on Upcoming events
  Platform and track replacements, sez they. Lurgan'd be a weird place to put customs controls, though?...
• Commented on Upcoming events
  Sadly the HSS service is an ex-parrot. OTOH, Ulysses sails in just over 2 km from the Point......
• Commented on Upcoming events
  I've done the reverse in well inside that time, though I've no idea how Irish immigration compares to Dublin Airport security for delay. The 747 bus will get you from the airport to the Point Square or CCD in ~35...
• Commented on Whoops Apocalypse!
  They're ranked priorities. I was expressing the hope that the most Anglophile, neoliberal party in Irish politics would care more about the Good Friday Agreement than preserving the current state of the Republic's economy. And (in a certain light) (1)...
• Commented on Whoops Apocalypse!
  I'd hope we have 2 and 3 swapped, but I have little evidence for my preferred order and given it's Fine Gael in government I'd sadly lay odds you're right. Either way, (1) demands border controls, (3) demands not accepting...
• Commented on Whoops Apocalypse!
  So given that, if Ireland refuses to put up a border with NI Have you read a quote from an Irish government official that's said that? There have been lots of we abhor, and a border would be terrible, and...
• Commented on Whoops Apocalypse!
  The army one general said would mutiny under Corbyn? This army?...
• Commented on Whoops Apocalypse!
  Eh. See, suppose you were a white supremacist. Then, maybe you'd want less immigration Go look up Nazi forced labour practices, including mass kidnapping of Polish and Soviet citizens. Or, y'know, remember US forced labour history. "White supremacist" describes both...
• Commented on Whoops Apocalypse!
  This is the DUP you're talking about, who were never going to vote down Theresa May on a confidence matter for fear of causing a Sinn Fein-supporting PM yet still wangled a billion quid for a confidence and supply arrangement....
• Commented on Whoops Apocalypse!
  Let's remeber that Churchill offered De Valera & "Eire" NI on a plate - & they turned it down, because NOTHING ELSE MATTERED but defeating the Nazis ... And WC, having enocountered NI protestant-nutters at Curragh & arms-shipments in 1913-14...
• Commented on Whoops Apocalypse!
  There'd be immediate violent rebellion with Ulster Volunteers magnitude popular support. NHS workers at the prospect of being 'managed' by the HSE, I mean....
• Commented on Whoops Apocalypse!
  Note that this plan has the classic Boris hallmarks: it's big, it's bold, ...it's illegal. Unilaterally evicting Northern Ireland is against the GFA; though, as it is a Boris plan, that's unlikely to prevent him trying....
• Commented on Whoops Apocalypse!
  My other mildly uneducated guess is that typical progressive and minority voters will hold their noses and vote for anyone Maybe (I suspect not, but anyway); are the votes of misogynistic Democrats who might vote for Trump instead of...
• Commented on Story time!
  If the described capabilities of this malware scare any government we've got much bigger problems than even I thought. I'd tentatively believe they've correctly id'ed the author because "scanning for telnet ports and attempting to login with default credentials, then...
• Commented on Story time!
  Guineas, of course, are still used to this day. (The price paid in many livestock auctions is in guineas. Nowadays a guinea is £1.05; as soon as the animal is knocked down the buyer knows they're paying X guineas, the...
• Commented on Story time!
  I need to ask: what was up with Tony Stark, the genocidal maniac who everyone thinks is a good guy because after making billions being the bad guy he repents? I refer the honourable correspondent to Andrew Carnegie of Carnegie...
• Commented on Social architecture and the house of tomorrow
  There simply is NO majority in the House for a "no deal" Christ's sake, Greg. You keep saying this. Try listening to the people telling you it's irrelevant sometime....
• Commented on Social architecture and the house of tomorrow
  To disambiguate: David, paws means these. Well, 4-way versions of same. :-)...
• Commented on The Inevitable Brexit Thread (2)
  [Assange] is charged with conspiracy to commit computer fraud and abuse, aka hacking. It's not something that can be protected the First Amendment's Free Press clause. If Assange were a bona fide reporter for the BBC or the New York...
• Commented on The Inevitable Brexit Thread (2)
  Comparing Daniel Ellsberg to Assange seems wrong; Assange published the documents. Manning was the one who exfiltrated them. And Manning has served time for doing so - and, indeed, is back in jail at least partly on a principled objection...