Greg. Tingey

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• Commented on Crib Sheet: The Atrocity Archive(s)
  Charlie @ 17 ... but 280 personnel were taken into the "Special Operations Branch" of MI6. (from Wiki) .. Hence the origin of the Laundry, OK, yes/no?...
• Commented on Crib sheet: Singularity Sky
  brucecohenpdx @ 150 As Zelazny described a temporal fugue battle in "Creatures of Light and Darkness" I've read that SO many times & I'm still having problems - it's a little-kmown masterpiece! Err.. the allocation & abrogation/acquisition/annullment (I'm on an...
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  PM @ 10 The Ministry of Magic of course! Sorry about that - no I'm not, errr .... Note that the Artists' Rifles are involved ( I know an ex-member .. & they are, err, 23 SAS TA ?? )...
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  ieronim @ 103 Almost nobody of the historical Silver Age poets survived even to see the World War II, and most of them died/disappeared young. VERY illuminating. Makes (especially the classic film of) "Doctor Zhivago" so much more understandable. Thanks...
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  Charlie @ 81 Ah, you've given the foreigners the SIMPLE version, just for starters!...
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  @ 16 Even madder (if possible) than Enver Pasha (Mentioned by J Buchan, amog others) ... look him up, too .......
• Commented on Crib sheet: Singularity Sky
  heteromeles @ 128 One can also posit additional spatial dimensions within which alternative histories are located. Yes, and "filling up" is emphatically not a problem, since it is a subset of Hilbert's Hotel (!) However, you have just re-invented H....
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  @ 93-95 At least with MicroShaft you KNOW they are an "Evil Corporation bent on World Domination" (TM)... Whereas, Apple .. err let's not go there right now, shall we? trottelreiner @ 101 Like getting rid of tetraethyl lead in...
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  j k @ 28 Been done The High Crusade by Poul Anderson in (Very Silly) mode. Or even as far back as War of the Worlds, where Earth's microscopic life eats the Martians .... ATT @ 34 Correction: and the...
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  Charlie @ 9 Not quite Sweep the enemy's decks (& gun-ports) with overwhelming fire, then close & board over the decks. The ultimate example being (of course) the then Commodore Horatio Nelson @ the battle of St Vincent ... boarding...
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  AND ... thge very first C Stross novel I found & read was .... "Singularity Sky, found & purchased from a small bookshop about where the Grassmarket changes to West Port - in 2003. Um. Incidentally, I always though there...
• Commented on A message from our UK sponsors (again)
  anonemouse @ 21 Broken Link - can't get it to open? I'm interested, because I have the other/opposite problem - a supplier point-blank refusing to accept/abide by the "Sale of Goods Act" on faulty/non-working kit....
• Commented on Books I've written
  m @ 84 IIRC "I am curious - yellow" was a supposedly soft-porn film made in the early '70's. I think there was another one, too: "I am curious - blue" Ah, found it: 1967 Still-image links probably NSFW are...
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  Charlie @ 33 Contrariwise, A tiny remark or note can get automatically-processed in to a novel as a by-line, or maybe something larger. Example I happen to know of: The stains under Mo's nails, from playing her violin "Jonathan Hoag...
• Commented on Grand Guignol Tropes
  One could always try this all-time classic I suppose?...
• Commented on Changing my mind on nuclear disarmament
  @ 409 Specifically: Thyssen, with a side-order from Krupp....
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  @ 91 Indeed. Or the ongoing current murder trial ... where a small girl was either murdered, or run ov a car-driver & the body disposed of, almost certainly by dismemberment, & no pieces have been found, at all, other...
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  Charlie ... never mind reading it, try listem/watching him on You Tube from historical recordings. Really, truly deeply scary ........
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  @ 395 onwards Yes. Their convenient puppet-stooge got away from them & had a life of his own! Alan Bullock's "Hitler & Stalin: Parallel Lives" is very clear on this. The period between Jan-feb 1933 & June-July 1934 is very...
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  Cahth3iK And, err … HOW, precisely do you get the IJN to surrender or even “honourably cease futile resistance” so that they could be tried ….given what we know now, never mind the more limited information at the time? They...
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  @ 323 & 324 Churchill, famously said that "Jaw-Jaw is better than War-War". However, IF a war had started, then you had better FIGHT it ... Remember he had seen war, including in the trenches, so calling him a "warmoinger"...
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  danield.william @ 52 small, Parisian, Gothic theater No comprede senor? Uh?...
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  cahth3iK @ 270 I also suggest you look up the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem (finally left Berlin in February 1945 IIRC) & his connections in both directions .... And, having personally encountered Hizd-ul-tahrir (before they were banned) I can tell...
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  decicco.barry @ 228 Really? Women’s place is church/children/kitchen – check Kill all the jews – check Our pure new way is better than decadent Western modernism – check We want plenty of living space (Lebensraum) (this time around it’s everything...
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  JPR @16 Of course with (effectively) only one exception, all of the Ranununculacea (Buttercups) are poisonous, the exception being the seeds of Nigella sp . As for Digitalis, I thought that was well-known, which reminds me, it would appear that...
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  How did it come to this, Raymomd wondered, looking carefully both ways, before crossing the Cromwell Road. But not because of the traffic, but of whom he knew would be watching, especially here, outside the temple of the born-again baby...
• Commented on Changing my mind on nuclear disarmament
  Trottelreiner @ 174 Wahabi/Salafist islamicism is almost identical to Nazism in many respects ... which should answer your question? Arnold @ 182 Wasn't there a Hitchcock film, with sets designed by Salvador Dali on that theme? Ah: - Spellbound cahth3iK...
• Commented on Changing my mind on nuclear disarmament
  moschops @ 151 Exactly This is where 20 megatons on Tel Aviv or any nuke on Seoul becomes scary ... You then have to devise/have ready in place .. a ralistic response that, at the same time, does not start...
• Commented on PSA: Ignore the news
  Talking of "Ignoring" the news .. How about deliberately suppressing the news, complete with secret courts & secret trails & gagging orders on the convictions. Right here in Britain Started by Blair (of course) but still in effect, under Camoron....
• Commented on Changing my mind on nuclear disarmament
  Strummist @ 77 Farm Hall at Huntingdon/Godmanchester … a very attractive building – can be seen from the old main road! Charlie @ 88 Agreed – irrationality is inefficient It can still get an awful lot of people killed &...