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  • Commented on The Ferguson Question
    The UK armed forces are citizens, with the exception of the Ghurkas who are citizens of Nepal. I think the US armed forces are a citizen army, as well. Nicolo had a few pointed remarks on the subject of armies...
  • Commented on So ...
    Um, congratulations. Richly deserved....
  • Commented on The Rhesus Chart: Chapter One
    Got my copy. Waterstones....
  • Commented on The Rhesus Chart: Chapter One
    So, on a forum for doctors working mainly in the NHS.... "The excerpt is the end of the first chapter[0] of Charles Stross' new novel, out in a few days, a Le Carre/Deighton/supernatural/Bond thriller. People who like that sort of...
  • Commented on The prospects of the Space and Freedom Party reconsidered in light of the crisis of 21st century capitalism
    Why is Mississippi famously 50th in everything? The cynic would answer "Because the people who run/control it want it that way." WHich may be very similar to inequality but is a little more direct as to mecahnism....
  • Commented on Because people keep asking me ...
    Google has to be told these things, how better....
  • Commented on Dear Google, am I pregnant?
    I think the blood group argument may be hyperbole, or orthogonal. Events may well depend on what blood transfusion someone had some time ago, however they do not depend on the record of that, they depend on the measurable effect...
  • Commented on Why I want Bitcoin to die in a fire
    If one did computation in a building requiring heating, and if the power was nuclear, then it might be a reasonable way to keep warm at low carbon cost. As to the rest, I'm still not sure bit coin is...
  • Commented on The cult of justice
    Our Tories usually more so, and from here it looks that way for Republicans in some of the North American states. I think most of us regard law as pragmatic. I tend to think of the Church of England as...
  • Commented on The revolution will not be hand-stitched
    Hospitals: adjacent district general hospitals (say Exeter and Taunton) may have only one laundry, with transport between. If transport becomes more expensive this may revert. Shoes: I'd expect something more like computer controlled cutting for shoes than spray....
  • Commented on Making history personal
    I've been in Maeshowe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_Orkney#Maeshowe in Orkney (and Skara Brae) so 3000BC or so. Unlike the Vikings who sheltered there and left runic grafiti I was not sheltering from the weather, nor did I sleep there. I've spent considerable time...
  • Commented on Spook Century
    One alarming thing about the Manchester Police story is as reported that they are searching for a way in which the components could be used as part of a weapon, claiming that if so, they would be illegal. This would...
  • Commented on Upcoming appearance: Frankfurt Book Fair
    Books need power. If you want to read them at night. The power could be chemical, but better not really....
  • Commented on Snowden leaks: the real take-home
    In the current British Medical Journal: Perceived job insecurity as a risk factor for incident coronary heart disease: systematic review and meta-analysis http://www.bmj.com/content/347/bmj.f4746/rr/657465 "This meta-analysis found a moderate association between job insecurity and an increase in coronary heart disease incidence....
  • Commented on Who ordered *that*?
    Burning oil to get oil out of shale seems daft. I can imagine sense in generating hydrocarbon fuel and feedstock by using nuclear power to produce the steam and process heat though....
  • Commented on Who ordered *that*?
    Yes. Worrying....
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Saturn's Children
    Carbon compounds can be pretty strong. Even the generation zero ones we are built of have a good ratio of strength to mass and so on....
  • Commented on His Master's Voice
    Invisible. Debian; Stable; Iceweasel. I enjoyed the books greatly....
  • Commented on A Bad Dream
    National Ruling Party, or Multinational Ruling Party?...
  • Commented on We interrupt this broadcast ...
    I have it. So far, pleased....
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Glasshouse
    Curious Yellow was rather good, as is its serialisation. I like the book....
  • Commented on The Northern Wild: How to Save New York?
    James Blish's idea has merit....
  • Commented on "Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying" — Iain Banks, 1954-2013
    The State of the Art. A novella in a collection by that name. It holds a mirror to us, and eases one into The Culture....
  • Commented on Brief clarification
    Good beer in KL (a few years ago at an Open Source meeting) and with no reason to think that will have changed. Enjoy....
  • Commented on "We're going to need book covers. Lots of book covers!"
    I'm looking forward to the content. Any of the covers will do fine, thanks....
  • Commented on Happy Christmas! Here is a flame war in a can
    If you have an armed response unit then they need to be let out for a walk. Otherwise they'll get bored and excitable....
  • Commented on Understanding Reader Reviews
    I didn't like Appleseed. I find Clute's critical pieces useful and interesting. I agree with this piece....
  • Commented on Things that keep me awake at night #1: The end of telephony
    Lat century I wrote a piece for a GP newspaper about anonymous call rejection. http://www.defoam.net/writing/acr1.htm (Since the server is being replaced, here is a Google cache link to it http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ZKcz1if1hFwJ:http://www.defoam.net/writing/acr1.htm%2Bmidgley+caller+telephone&hl=en&safe=off&gs_l=heirloom-serp.3...17662.25518.0.25763.31.28.0.0.0.2.100.1489.27j1.28.0...0.0...1c.1.-oMhUh733P8&ct=clnk ) Bear in mind that some organisations might have many...
  • Commented on In case you were wondering ...
    I imagine an articulated novel is hard to reverse....
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