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  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    Sorry to be that guy, but as a fan as a kid I have to do this: The book is "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" NOT Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, which is the name of the 1971 film...
  • Commented on Strong and Stable!
    Re various electric power systems, this side of the Atlantic in the NYC area things are also a bit of a mess. There are four separate electric systems in use depending on which railway built the tracks you were on....
  • Commented on The gathering crisis
    Nile: You probably know this already, but we saw the start of this sort of thing in the US under Trump. He weaponized ICE (Immigration authorities) to a huge degree, and there were reliable anecdotal reports of random protestors being...
  • Commented on The obligatory general election discussion post
    663: Hey! By all accounts Jerry Springer was actually a very good mayor of Cinncinatti, and ironically what brought him down was so much more mild that Trump's actions......
  • Commented on The obligatory general election discussion post
    Re the discussion around Air Traffic Control, this is fairly interesting to see in the current real world. A few years ago I happened to fly from NYC to Dubai. And I was curious, given some of the countries that...
  • Commented on The obligatory general election discussion post
    Ah food! One of the things I love about food is how untraditional most "traditional" food is. Pad Thai (invented supposedly as propaganda in the 30s). Spaghetti Bolognese (Spaghetti is a roman pasta! And as a Roman-born co-worker of mine...
  • Commented on The obligatory general election discussion post
    Re 514: Even in the west you get a lot more than that. Sechauan (very popular thanks to Fuschia Dunlop plus it's Awesome and anything that uses sechuan chilis has to be great). Uighar (currently big in NYC thanks to...
  • Commented on The obligatory general election discussion post
    Re #457 I actually suspect the best examples are the Inuit. They survive quite well in a very inhospitable environment, where without technology they literally die. They are in no way a Libertarian paradise....
  • Commented on The obligatory general election discussion post
    226: (This is super off topic but I think we have reached the allowed limit?) . One of the interesting things about DTMF as defined by Ma Bell in the 60s (and I believe the UK system was based on...
  • Commented on The obligatory general election discussion post
    Re 104: Didn't realize that about Miliband but that makes sense; my only exposure to the bacon "gaffe" was after Cameron and the Pig there were jokes about him realizing just where that pork had come from :-) . As...
  • Commented on The obligatory general election discussion post
    33: Re not reporting until eveyone checks in that's mostly done in the US, they don't tend to call the presidential elections until California closes (this is where someone from Hawaii and or Alaska gets grumpy). Re more complicated voting...
  • Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE, Part 2
    One question I have for those who actually know about Northern Ireland (which I confess I know very little of, though at least I know it exists which puts me one better than the Brexiters): It seems to me that...
  • Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE, Part 2
    Michael (13): Not saying I'm against Scottish or Catalan Independence (If you had asked me 5 years ago I'd be dubious about the first because the North Sea Oil is almost gone, don't know enough to know about the second),...
  • Commented on The Inevitable Brexit Thread (1)
    Heh. I've been to Tahiti and agree 100% with that. There is definitely some...tensions lurking there. It's actually funny how many places English is the neutral language (eg, it's by far the best language to speak in the Basque)....
  • Commented on The Inevitable Brexit Thread (1)
    Re: The commonwealth will come back to us. Oh goodness yet. Speaking as an Australian, Brexit has revealed a side of the English that I really thought they had moved on from. For Oz at least, the days of rallying...
  • Commented on Someone please cancel 2019 already?
    Getting rid of direct elected senators is a common hobby horse of the Koch-brothers type. It's because it's MUCH easier to corrupt a state government than a federal one (see, eg West Virginia). With all due respect but please read...
  • Commented on Someone please cancel 2019 already?
    Re regional parties, look at where the Republican party gets elected these days. Look where they do NOT get elected. It's de-facto become a regional party (at the national level, state Republican parties tend to be more reasonable and more...
  • Commented on That sinking feeling
    Tiny nit: Pence was never Senator, he was Governor (head of the state) and previously a congressman aka House of Representatives. Doesn't change anything else you wrote being 100% accurate however (and the polls were saying he was likely to...
  • Commented on That sinking feeling
    Ok, this is getting kind of far afield, but: I just finished reading "A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East" and it claims with some evidence that...
  • Commented on That sinking feeling
    Re smuggling (and this is offtopic) but: Long tradition of that. You could buy French Wine in the UK pretty much throughout the entire Napoleonic wars for instance....
  • Commented on That sinking feeling
    So, firstly I agree with everything you say. The hubris of the Brexiteers is finally catching up with them (hint: As an Australian, I can assure you the days of Australia sending troops off to Gallipoli because King and Country...
  • Commented on Why I barely read SF these days
    The funny thing about Ancient Rome is that culturally it's probably a lot closer to today than any of the periods since then. The Medieval world had some very odd (by our standards) ideas about things like business and moneylending,...
  • Commented on Paging Agent 007
    I love the idea of Sir Clive Sinclair as engineer of mind implants. Of course, given the tendency of Sir Clive's inventions to catch fire or explode you have to wonder about the intelligence of someone who would affect it...
  • Commented on The sudden eruption of news
    That's actually one thing that I (again, neither British nor American) don't understand about Brexit. It's totally understandable that (a subset of) people in the US want to go back to the late 50s, when Ike was in the white...
  • Commented on The sudden eruption of news
    I can't possibly see the US signing a trade deal by July. The UK maybe; something can be rammed through with a "take it or leave it". On the US side a trade deal involves a huge, complicated set of...
  • Commented on The sudden eruption of news
    Re the "punish" comments: So, as a non-UK, non European (and therefore mostly neutral, accept I have a lot of friends in the UK and are sad for their future, but OTOH I'm looking forward to having some nice cheap...
  • Commented on A game of consequences
    Re creches, the Spartans solved the "can't sleep with my siblings" problem by getting them at 7 and keeping girls and boys separate, and not letting them meet until adolescence. I've seen claims that they deliberately had the girls and...
  • Commented on The paranoid style in 2016
    Looking long term, the interesting thing about all this is the wild card that is Global Warming. It's not clear that Phoenix will even be livable in 30-40 years, Miami will be under water at some point and there's going...
  • Commented on The paranoid style in 2016
    For those pointing out the west, on a more optimistic style look at Colorado. Colorado is more libertarian, but in a good way; even as someone who's probably more a traditional leftist, having lived in Colorado I'd be fine if...
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