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• Commented on PSA: Why there won't be a third book in the Halting State trilogy
  Do you seriously think that's an argument? Your original claim was that another vote would not occur within a generation "no matter what happens". Now you're saying it wouldn't be allowed "every time England's Tories piss you off". You could...
• Commented on PSA: Why there won't be a third book in the Halting State trilogy
  Do you have a, you know, what are those things... oh, yes, an argument for that claim? Quebec had two independence referendums (1980 and 1995, voting "no" both times). Scottish devolution failed to get enough votes in 1979 (there was...
• Commented on PSA: Why there won't be a third book in the Halting State trilogy
  An AI textbook I used in the 1970s (Charniak and Wilks, Computational Semantics) had a chapter section on "Specification and Removal of Demons". You can find the phrase used by Charniak in a conference paper here....
• Commented on PSA: Why there won't be a third book in the Halting State trilogy
  I'm not Charlie, but I'll answer anyway. Scotland will almost certainly vote "No" to independence this time (see below). I say this as one who's started canvassing for RIC (Radical Independence Campaign - a group supporting independence for a fairer,...
• Commented on PSA: Why there won't be a third book in the Halting State trilogy
  Someone is also telling non-UK immigrants (most of whom can vote as they are EU or Commonwealth citizens) that they'll be thrown out in the event of independence. They won't, of course: Scotland very much needs their labour. As an...
• Commented on PSA: Why there won't be a third book in the Halting State trilogy
  1) Nicola Sturgeon. 2) Surely you mean Malcolm Rifkind? 3) Where Labour would go, and where the SNP would go, in the (unlikely) event of a Yes vote, are closely connected, but their niches might be distinguished geographically more than...