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Commented on "Tomorrow belongs to me"
160+ comments into the thread, and I have to stop reading. My piss-poor mood is interfering with my ability to follow an argument and sort wheat from chaff. I lived and worked in London for 8 years, returning to Canada...
Commented on Some news about the Hugo voters packet
Got it. No editor toasting of any kind, Tim can put his socks back on. And perhaps I'll wait until after the Hugos are award before penning an angry missive to Orbit's CEO. I'll look a right muppet if Mr....
Commented on Some news about the Hugo voters packet
Ah, groblek provides a suitable candidate for toasting. Thank you....
Commented on Some news about the Hugo voters packet
If not the editors involved, then who? I appreciate that they have responsibility without authority in this case, and would object to extremity-toasting based on the "I was only following orders" defense. However, they do have the ear (to a...
Commented on Some news about the Hugo voters packet
With due respect, I'm inclined to ignore the "do not pester our editors" injunction. It seems incredibly short-sighted to withold ebook distribution to prize committees. Surely some feet need to be held to the fire, and are not editor's lower...
Commented on Neptune's Brood: an excerpt
Okay, okay - Mermaid Boobies is now officially on the stack to read. After I've re-read Use of Weapons and Inversions, of course....

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CharlesW commented on "Tomorrow belongs to me"
Facts: He has an E grade for 2 A levels. He started a course in Trade Union Studies at North London Polytechnic but left after disagreeing with his tutors about the curriculum. I don't see how you can describe that as anything other than a poor education record for the current leader of the opposition....
Dirk Bruere commented on "Tomorrow belongs to me"
TLDR: I had myself driven from the hospital direct to the polling station to vote "Leave". As I have said before, if the EU Parliament were a real parliament instead of a rubber stamp for the unelected Commission (the only body that can make EU law) I would have voted Remain. Prognosis? A welcome fall in the £ which is long overdue, Theresa May as PM (as I said here months ago) and nothing much happens for years. How to fix the EU? Give the Commission's powers to the EU Parliament...
Dirk Bruere commented on "Tomorrow belongs to me"
Corbyn's problem is that he was not ruthless enough early on. He should have cleaned out the Blairite traitors the moment the first one reached for a knife to stab him in the back....
JulesLt commented on "Tomorrow belongs to me"
411 I'll bite. Because I'm not attached to the notion of Westminster sovereignty. We have had universal suffrage for less than 100 years, and it's been less than 100 years since Westminster had tanks and howitzers on the streets of Glasgow, less than 200 since Peterloo and John Frost Square, 30 since Orgreave, and what's happened in our former mining and steel towns has been every bit as bad as the EU treatment of Greece. Secondly - because we are heading towards a world where larger agreements that nation state level are required - ie climate change or sea pollution...
Alon commented on "Tomorrow belongs to me"
That is quite likely to be a folk etymology. Rosten's work has been called ‘at best casual and eclectic’ by the people who actually work in this sort of stuff (for starters, the usual word for ‘circle’ in Yiddish is קרײַז krayz). The OED finds an origin in the surname suffix -ki more likely, even if it's quite noncommital about it....

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Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
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