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TACD posted:Comrades, I’ve spent almost two weeks aggressively ignoring all news and I highly recommend it. I feel confident that I’ve missed nothing important and that everything is on the same stupid trajectory it was a fortnight ago. Am I wrong? As far as I can remember! Congrats on breaking your theater addiction.
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namesake posted:Ah constitutional chaos, you're never far away from my government and my heart. The last one was about brexit according to the tories and look how that went for them  And that was without the brexit party being a thing.
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TACD posted:Comrades, I’ve spent almost two weeks aggressively ignoring all news and I highly recommend it. I feel confident that I’ve missed nothing important and that everything is on the same stupid trajectory it was a fortnight ago. Am I wrong? Yes, it’s dumber now.
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The only thing that's changed is Boris finally won a vote but it was on some dumb clean air thing that no-one was bothered about.
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TACD posted:Comrades, I’ve spent almost two weeks aggressively ignoring all news and I highly recommend it. I feel confident that I’ve missed nothing important and that everything is on the same stupid trajectory it was a fortnight ago. Am I wrong? You genuinely have not missed a single thing of any significance at all.
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Friends, I have breaking news about a certain much-vaunted government endeavour that was promised a long time ago but has been repeatedly delayed, much to the embarrassment of its government proponents. I speak of course of the great porn firewall, which is now dead, like, for real this time, not just delayed again.
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Fedule posted:Friends, I have breaking news about a certain much-vaunted government endeavour that was promised a long time ago but has been repeatedly delayed, much to the embarrassment of its government proponents. porn, block uk, ban government, bill website, delay sex
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Fedule posted:Friends, I have breaking news about a certain much-vaunted government endeavour that was promised a long time ago but has been repeatedly delayed, much to the embarrassment of its government proponents. Shocked. Shocked I am that a Boris government has dropped this.
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OwlFancier posted:That's what the lumpy bits are, that's your spirit, spirit is stored in the balls. I think I've read this manga.
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I love the thought of all the government officials just furious at the useless computer men. How hard can it be to make the online internet machines stop downloading the virtual digital filth?!?!
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Wachter posted:I love the thought of all the government officials just furious at the useless computer men. How hard can it be to make poor people stop downloading the virtual digital filth?!?! Fixed for you. They have no problem with being able to download porn, they just don't want anyone else to do it.
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It's real weird that people think computers are actually magic rather than following broadly the same rules as everything else in the world.
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Fedule posted:Friends, I have breaking news about a certain much-vaunted government endeavour that was promised a long time ago but has been repeatedly delayed, much to the embarrassment of its government proponents. "The project suffered from technical and legal issues." Yeah, like being impossible, which we knew from the start 
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Fedule posted:Friends, I have breaking news about a certain much-vaunted government endeavour that was promised a long time ago but has been repeatedly delayed, much to the embarrassment of its government proponents. Hell of a headline the Independent went with for it, huh?
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OwlFancier posted:It's real weird that people think computers are actually magic rather than following broadly the same rules as everything else in the world.
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CGI Stardust posted:The government does not historically have a good relationship with science or technology. Or maths. Or arts. I'm struggling to think of something they do have a good relationship with. That money pit from Duck Tales
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OwlFancier posted:It's real weird that people think computers are actually magic rather than following broadly the same rules as everything else in the world. In my experience, the reasoning goes: "computer programs are built to spec ∴ they can be rebuilt to my spec ∴ reprogram Microsoft Word for me". I'm sure similar things happen in all walks of life, e.g. Groverhaus. CGI Stardust posted:The government does not historically have a good relationship with science or technology. Or maths. Or arts. I'm struggling to think of something they do have a good relationship with. nonces Wachter fucked around with this message at 14:43 on Oct 16, 2019 |
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Braggart posted:"The project suffered from technical and legal issues." "what the gently caress is a VPN?"
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Jo Swindon says she's going to vote for any deal Boris brings back so long as a referendum is attached. This woman is an expert marksman for her own foot.
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Jedit posted:If only "nationalists" and "sense" belonged in the same sentence. This is kind of a dumb take, and quite tone deaf tbh, in the context of Ireland.
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Gonzo McFee posted:Jo Swindon says she's going to vote for any deal Boris brings back so long as a referendum is attached. Boris brings back a deal saying we'll have to murder every first born child, but there will be a referendum on it so Jo backs it.
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OwlFancier posted:porn, block uk, ban government, bill website, delay sex  OwlFancier posted:It's real weird that people think computers are actually magic rather than following broadly the same rules as everything else in the world. Then the big publishers just ignored them and started installing rootkits on CDs. mehall posted:This is kind of a dumb take, and quite tone deaf tbh, in the context of Ireland. 
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forkboy84 posted:Boris brings back a deal saying we'll have to murder every first born child, but there will be a referendum on it so Jo backs it. The deal narrowly wins the referendum after the fash and the press go all in on turning 2nd, 3rd borns etc against firstborns. Labour blamed.
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Gonzo McFee posted:Jo Swindon says she's going to vote for any deal Boris brings back so long as a referendum is attached. Citation pls, I have a lib dem
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Comrade Fakename posted:Is there any actual proof of the latter? I was under the impression that the Tories won the most overall votes (at least a plurality) at the last election. So, sorry everyone. Fake news on that second part. Gonzo McFee posted:Jo Swindon says she's going to vote for any deal Boris brings back so long as a referendum is attached. Boris immediately announces a ref between his deal and no deal. Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 15:01 on Oct 16, 2019 |
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Comrade Fakename posted:
Ronya is being very polite when he says: ronya posted:? I don't know where Bobby has pulled this particular hot take from, but it's not true. FPTP is a bad system and rewards parties for a particular type of geographic spread (compare the SNP vs Lib Dem votes:seats ratio for instance), but Gerrymandering of the American sort in terms of constituencies isn't really a thing here. As far as I'm aware, no one has serious party-political objections to the work of Boundary Commissions that review the constituencies
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Are the Lib Dems going to back this poo poo if it has a referendum attached? I'll laugh like a loving drain if they do, the useless pile of shits.
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Can you even legally get into trouble for breaking book DRM? If it's only for your own personal use. E: Or photocopying library books, say. Not that I would ever do such a thing. Also isn't memorising a form of copying? Maybe we should all have invasive brain surgery to be allowed to read books. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 15:13 on Oct 16, 2019 |
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sebzilla posted:Are the Lib Dems going to back this poo poo if it has a referendum attached? *still fails anyway*
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Tesseraction posted:*still fails anyway* That would be the best of all possible worlds tbh
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Sanford posted:Citation pls, I have a lib dem https://twitter.com/demarionunn/status/1184469443470073862
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Niric posted:Is there any actual proof of the latter? I was under the impression that the Tories won the most overall votes (at least a plurality) at the last election. Ronya is being very polite when he says: I don't know where Bobby has pulled this particular hot take from, but it's not true. FPTP is a bad system and rewards parties for a particular type of geographic spread (compare the SNP vs Lib Dem votes:seats ratio for instance), but Gerrymandering of the American sort in terms of constituencies isn't really a thing here. As far as I'm aware, no one has serious party-political objections to the work of Boundary Commissions that review the constituencies [/quote] There are some issues around the fact that they can be told which metrics to use for constituencies by the governing party. The Tories told them to go by registered voters, IIRC, instead of eligible voters, when drawing up the new (and not implemented) boundaries, which favours the Tories. But yeah, the boundary comission itself appears to be fair, and works within the guidelines it is set to.
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Private Speech posted:Can you even legally get into trouble for breaking book DRM? Photocopying parts of a library book for academic use (review, criticism, research) would probably be considered fair use, depending on the amount copied. Also a library is allowed to create a digital copy with no additional cost if it's to cater for a disability. But ebooks at libraries are copy limited, they can only lend out so many copies at one time, which is hilariously dumb. One interesting case is that copying a book by hand is generally always exempt. But like, a giant pain. Private Speech posted:Also isn't memorising a form of copying? Maybe we should all have invasive brain surgery to be allowed to read books.
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Ugh just realised that Jo Swindon's twitter avi is from a loving TED talk Just worthless on every level.
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Guavanaut posted:UK law is (shockingly) a loving mess for this. Generally format shifting (scanning in a book that you own and keeping the book) is one of those things that is technically breaking copyright but would never be chased up. Re copying by hand: wonder if that also applies to retyped by hand - I have some ebooks acquired when living abroad which are re-types not scans or 'cracked' kindles or whatever.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Ok, having had a brief look around, I seem to have overestimated the effect of gerrymandering on the UK system, probably based on how big an effect it is reputed to have on the US system. A storming majority was not a probability even based on exit polls, and I don't have the maths or statistical training to guess at what impact, if any, it would have had on the UK system. conventionally it is held that LAB tends to benefit from the current boundary-drawing system, at least over the past couple of decades. The traditional LAB strongholds of the deindustrializing towns tend to shrink in constituency population, even as the national population rises. Since boundary reviews are based on past census results, the lag in updating constituency boundaries tends to award LAB more seats, maybe five to thirty depending.
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https://twitter.com/JamesEFoster/status/1184371714454708225 This is a loving car crash
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Guavanaut posted:One interesting case is that copying a book by hand is generally always exempt. But like, a giant pain. Those drat monks pirating classic works caused the dark ages IMO. They ruined the vellum industry!
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/JamesEFoster/status/1184371714454708225 yeah just whatever, slap it in there and lets vote!!! honestly this all kinda looks like people have been saying, the Lib dems want an election but they don't actually want to fight it on brexit, because they're aiming for Tory seats. So they just want brexit out of the way, no matter what the cost, and they don't care if people vote for a terrible deal because that's something they can blame on the tories when it comes to a GE campaign. Being pro-Remain is just a way to signal boost themselves in the meantime
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