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• whitroth commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas" (Part 2)
  Are you trying to tell me that someone distributing swords to appoint a ruler isn't British history?...
• whitroth commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas" (Part 2)
  Perhaps not, but that's what they lean to, if they move away from Christianity....
• whitroth commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas" (Part 2)
  Or "English" history, if you want to include William and his heirs.... Q: who was the last British king? A: Harald....
• Charlie Stross commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas" (Part 2)
  New blog topic now up (as the comment thread on this one is getting kinda cumbersome). COMMENTS HERE NOW CLOSED...
• David L commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas" (Part 2)
  Actually, transliterating between comparable languages is easy for any competent programmer in the target language who also knows enough of the source language to read the basic instructions and use a reference manual. Where I've seen the ships crash on the rocks was when older systems were written with DECIMAL and DECIMAL FLOAT and the new one were done with float binary or float 4 bits. Let the rounding errors begin. Accounting types get strange looks on their faces when the totals from month to month don't match. Even if only off by a $.01...