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  Is (4) actually different to (1) or simply an expansion of (1)?...
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  I'd deliberately not commented, and I know this is not the case, but I originally thought that The Family Trade and The Hidden Family (2004-5) showed distinct influences from Nine Princes in Amber and The Guns of Avalon....
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  Agreed; IME the thing to avoid is arguing with the NRA that "being a gun owner" does not require you to also be part of the "well-regulated militia"....
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  Halting State (and Rule 34) are near future police procedurals set in Edinburgh, Scotland where OGH lives. Some of the commentariat on his blog also live in Edinburgh. Now prove that I am a human being and not an AI...
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  In which context I have beta read comic fantasy for a friend. My comment on one scene where a character was supposed to circle a rock 3 times, and wanted to do so clockwise, and the other character in the...
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  Well, I've bought and read them, and have not read anything by Madonna....
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  In which context, O'Reilly are one of the few publishers I have spent my money (not just my employer's) on books from....
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  Para 1 - I have chronic renal failure and spend 3 mornings a week on haemodialysis. The unit is a teaching unit, and student nurses on 1 to 3 month placements, and trainee dialysis nurses (qualified as a nurse, but...
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  That makes "more sense", at least enough that I can see that it's "how you remember the wiring convention"....
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  None of which means anything more than every 3rd house was on the same one of blue phase, red phase or yellow phase. It still doesn't rectify the 3 phase input to direct current, which is what you keep implying....
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  OK Greg, enlighten us (pun intended). How does one phase, say yellow (or red or blue, your choice) of a 3 phase supply become DC without being fed through a rectifier?...
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  358 - A nurse who did bother about "what's wrong with her patient?", and indeed then argued with a doctor and won is one of the reasons why I'm able to write this post. The answer to WWWHP was "sepsis"...
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  274 - Are you basically saying "prove this assertion is not true?" 293 - That also presumes that the difficulty of the questions is roughly constant year on year. One of the papers I did, the year I did it,...
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  Also 225 point 1 - According to this Wikipedia, Cruella Braverman is a UK citizen, so surely not eligible to be US VP?...
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  As Greg says in #59; also published (UK) in "Before the Golden Age", edited by Isaac Asimov. Also also referenced indirectly in the film {Brazil}(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_(1985_film) )....
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  forcing drivers to take their eyes off the road to mess with the air conditioning or radio Absol-fucking-lutely, in spades. And, unlike Charlie, I am an enthusiastic driver....
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  1516 - So our experiences actually differ mostly in that you read "something on the intertubes" that I didn't then? 1517 - s/close/loose for the statement I read....
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  1502 - Every component except the 4-gang extension lead (for mains power only) was Apple branded. We had the budget, so why not? 1507 Para 8 - I had one small project that would work with a 386SX20 CPU, but...
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  I may have misremembered the year, but that doesn't affect the story beyond when it happened. We had an Apple Mac with a SCSI2 interface. One day it refused to boot, and an Apple technician was called. His solution was...
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  azure dentition - snark at blue tooth....
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  1418 - "Very nice SCSI2 peripheral" is an oxymoron, and has been one since at least 1990CE, possibly earlier. I can explain further. 1431 - At least for now, restore sanity by replacing "goggles" with "duckduckgo". 1438 - Agreed "I...
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  J suffix was used in 1970-71; Dad had a 1970 VW Type 1. Of course, this was before number plate recognition systems were even thought of, never mind completely invented. Q prefix was used for reshells (yes, that means a...
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  There's no place like localhost. There's no place like localhost. There's no place like localhost. There's no place like localhost. There's no place like localhost....
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  Put 2 spacebars (%20) at the line end before using CRLF. Like this....
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  I wasn't aware of this activity by Spurt Ingurlundshire; so there are probabky significant minorities that it has completely passed by....
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  Para 8 - Loch Long (56.733643, -2.658821) runs North - South rather than East - West, oh yes and it's a sea loch, not an inland lake....
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  Also 805 - Gaza. 31.526556, 34.430705 is the only "port" I can find in Gaza. Co-ordinates if you know of anything better for bulk carriers. Scotland - Really nasty in a few small areas on the East coast, for example...
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  Never read "The Dozy Do Experiment" ;-) or whatever it's called....
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  I think someone had seen "Smokey and the Bandit" a few times too many! ;-)...
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  IFF has an off switch, so that you can turn it off when landing, and turn it on and set a code before crossing the threshold for your take-off run. In this context, I've worked analysing data from ATC radars,...