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  • Commented on A nation of slaves
    Osborne is a multi-millionaire trust-fund kid, a graduate of Eton College and Oxford St Paul's School and Oxford, please. My alma mater has enough regrettable alumni in the public eye without you blaming us for that ghastly oik as well....
  • Commented on A nation of slaves
    One of the most basic and more robust Operations Research results can be summarized as "you can have success, OR you have have control, you can't have both if the job's large enough you couldn't just do it yourself". Which...
  • Commented on CMAP: "Why do you use Microsoft Word?"
    It seems to me that LibreOffice isn't much of a win from OGH's perspective anyway. It doesn't involve paying the Redmond tax and the document format is (AFAICT) stable, but it still suffers from a Word-like confusing interface and styles/formatting-codes...
  • Commented on Making history personal
    Slept in: almost certainly the original scholars' house buildings at Eton College (1440), where I boarded for three years. My Oxford college was a bit older, at 1379, but I don't think I ever slept in any of the original...
  • Commented on The next moves in the Spooks v. News cold war
    AIUI the inferiority of Soviet doctrine may have been exaggerated: link 1, link 2....
  • Commented on The next moves in the Spooks v. News cold war
    NSA would be failing its mission if it didn't develop those capabilities - seriously, was anyone here surprised? I wasn't surprised, but I am disappointed that you see nothing wrong with the NSA's actions. This suggests that, contrary to what...
  • Commented on Monarchy versus the Panopticon
    Or perhaps "specialist Danish-language royal-watching tabloids exist, but they cover royalties of many nations and bemoan how little space they're able to devote to the home team."...
  • Commented on Monarchy versus the Panopticon
    I read that as "Danish Royal-watching tabloids still exist, but they're specialist magazines filed next to Total Carp, What Tattoo? and Linux Format; mainstream news organisations rarely report royal news". Any Danes able to comment?...
  • Commented on Monarchy versus the Panopticon
    There are very specific rules about what US intelligence agencies can collect on "US persons", which is a legal construct that includes US corporations. And they take these regulations VERY seriously. Indeed - by subcontracting said intelligence-collection to GCHQ, and...
  • Commented on Monarchy versus the Panopticon
    On the contrary, William is a Flight Lieutenant in the RAF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_William,_Duke_of_Cambridge#Royal_Air_Force_service I think it's probably the Marines' turn, though given what happened last time they may be let off......
  • Commented on Monarchy versus the Panopticon
    Though mostly done for the best of reasons, I consider [boarding school] a form of child abuse. I'm sorry you had what sounds like a bad time at school, but I'd like to offer my own experience as a contrast....
  • Commented on Monarchy versus the Panopticon
    No, the Georges all came after the Union of the Crowns, so they have the same numbering on both sides of the border. Marys have the same numbering by coincidence, as both countries had exactly one Mary beforehand; Scotland has...
  • Commented on Monarchy versus the Panopticon
    If he kept his name, he'd be Charles III in both Scotland and England: the crowns were unified in the reign of Charles I's father James (James I of England, and James VI of Scotland)....
  • Commented on Monarchy versus the Panopticon
    The current Liz is Elizabeth I in Scotland, where OGH resides :-)...
  • Commented on Monarchy versus the Panopticon
    How many people will have cosmetic surgery so they look just like Prince Offspring?...
  • Commented on Monarchy versus the Panopticon
    Basically the preferred solution of the rich to panopticons is to retreat to Gated communities, or for the properly rich, nicely moated islands. Combining this with OGH's thought I can see one possible response to that problem: restrict his dating...
  • Commented on Monarchy versus the Panopticon
    I quite like the idea of an elected but largely ceremonial head of state, like Ireland and Hungary have....
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: 419/Rule 34
    This sounds like flow to me....
  • Commented on Monarchy versus the Panopticon
    Minor nit: Eton (like most public schools) takes entrants at 13, so he'd be starting in 2026. I was there in the mid-Nineties, overlapping with William for a couple of years; having armed police on the streets was a bit...
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: 419/Rule 34
    I've played enough IF that I immediately grokked the reason for Halting State being written in the second person. I assumed Rule 34 was in the second person for the same reason, and finally twigged the real reason towards the...
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Glasshouse
    I'm not aware of gothic industrial psytrance being A Thing, but a search on SoundCloud turns up a few hits. This thread from a psytrance forum might also be of interest....
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Glasshouse
    Similarly, I doubt I'll ever see United States Calvary, the long-awaited final novel in Kim Newman's Demon Download cycle :-( Scott Sanford @146: "Apparently [dubstep has] derivative styles already." Er, yeah, you could say that... check out the sidebar of...
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Glasshouse
    Add me to the list of people whose favourite of your novels is Glasshouse and who would love to see the sequel. My theory about the slow sales is that the blurb for the book is awful: every time I...
  • Commented on Holding pattern
    Get well soon, Charlie! This is totally off-topic, but I recently wrote a blog post about Scottish independence, and some preconditions an argument for it would have to satisfy to convince me (to do with North Sea oil, EU accession...
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