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Oberleutnant posted:Rather pleased that we managed to run out the EuroPol menace in under a week. We have defended the people's republic of UKMT, and now march to socialist victory over all of D&D! They'll soon be back. And in greater numbers.
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Guavanaut posted:I can't see that working in the current climate, and I definitely can't see it working within the custom ROM communities. Most of them would just close shop if placed in that situation, like what probably happened with Lavabit. Most smartphones run two OSes - the regular one (Android/iOS) and another one which is an RTOS running the baseband processor (does all the low level talking to phone networks). Usually they talk to each other using the good old Hayes command set like in your 2400 baud modem from 1985  The RTOS is closed-source, proprietary and unmoddable, can sniff all of your network traffic (and probably RAM, flash etc depending on the implementation), and you can bet the manufacturers can put backdoors in it if they're not doing so already.
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Renaissance Robot posted:I... what? They might be bought by Those People (i.e. people who aren't old and haven't owned their house since the 1970s), you see.
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Mar 2, 2016 19:25
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tooterfish posted:I didn't ask about sports, I asked about Rugby. Rugby was compulsory at my school for the first two years. I switched to swimming as soon as I could, but it is a thing that happens. (And I did take a rugby ball to the face and was knocked unconscious for a few seconds at one point, so, y'know, dain bramage is an actual risk)
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Mar 3, 2016 12:55
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OwlFancier posted:Yeah but it wasn't Canada that told the king to do one, that was the thirteen colonies. Americans also masturbate to the Royal Family. Albeit in about the same way they do the Kardassians.
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Cerebral Bore posted:Being proud of murdering millions of civilians is one way of tackling the issue, I suppose. Amritsar, the Malayan Emergency, the unpleasantness in Cyprus and a variety of others passed him by I suppose.
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Mar 4, 2016 13:51
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Renaissance Robot posted:What are your thoughts on villains who are shameless (non-British) racist stereotypes but have British accents anyway, eg Ming the Merciless? At least we're smart villains, with a sense of style that makes American women go weak at the knees. Unlike mindless-thug-Russians or whatever.
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Guavanaut posted:I had a history teacher who tried to downplay the concentration camps in South Africa as not that bad during something about WWII camps. Other than that I think it's mostly "all these cool guys volunteered to help us out during the world wars." Well if you're comparing them to the literal Nazi extermination camps then no, they weren't quite that bad. Still pretty bad mind you. Edit: We did the Amritsar massacre in GCSE history. It wasn't a big feature of history at school or anything, but in so far as it came up at all we were taught the Empire was a not-good thing.
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Mar 4, 2016 15:18
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Ddraig posted:Without historical responsibility we pretty much come into a situation where We've Always Been at War With <x> Um, not really. Actual professional historians are very much not in the habit of saying 'ooh this happened back then and it's a bit similar to current events so this is what we should do now'.
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Mar 4, 2016 16:15
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Oberleutnant posted:"How Have We Coped Without Biscuits?" is a more popular story on the BBC lol Ah, but which is the Correct biscuit? (I vote for Jammy Dodgers seeing as they are Red at their heart)
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Mar 6, 2016 21:02
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Phoon posted:I'm going to a ladywood meeting next week but I think it's just branch - it was such a huge hassle to join the party here, I needed three copies of ID that I don't think many young people will have eg paper bills, a council tax bill within three months (when birmingham city council only typically sends out one bill a year). I managed to scrape together some stuff that technically didn't fit the criteria (plus I wrote a short letter to go with them) but a friend of mine has been trying to join for three months or so without success ...that seems a bit hosed up. All I had to do was join up online and I automatically got my party card in the post and put on the Oxford and Abingdon mailing lists. It shouldn't be harder to join Labour than it is to actually vote!
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Mar 7, 2016 12:05
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Guavanaut posted:'Negro' replaced 'colored' as the preferred and polite word for Americans of African descent back when 'black' was considered offensive and derogatory and 'African' was considered to imply foreignness. And the euphemism treadmill keeps on rolling. The historical term 'Colored' and 'people of color' aren't the same thing, though (the latter also includes Asians, Indians, hispanic people, etc).
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Mar 7, 2016 12:10
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Tesseraction posted:The EU's probably going to collapse anyway. If the Turkey of the 90s didn't get into the EU, when it was a reasonably functional secular democracy but still a bit too brown and Muslim for e.g. France, it sure isn't going to now, don't worry.
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Renaissance Robot posted:What the gently caress, that sounds great, how on earth did this nearly happen? Surely pretty much by definition if the 'state is saving' by making changes to pensions, the people saving up those pensions are going to be in aggregate worse off (because the state is giving them less money). I mean, it's also true any change could be more/less regressive, too, but we all know which way that one goes with Tories.
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Mar 8, 2016 14:31
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StoneOfShame posted:Making meth is in principle a piece of piss but its also really easy to blow yourself up if you dont know exactly what you're doing. I know a guy who did I never got any so dont know if it was decent, he was a moron so i suspect not. Also hard to do discreetly unless, for example, you can put your lab into an RV and drive it into the middle of a giant desert (of which we're a bit short over here). (did your friend have a slightly nebbishy-looking middle aged friend with a cool hat by any chance?)
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Jose posted:Is there any reason relaxing sunday trading laws is bad because its annoying not being able to go to morrisons at 6pm on a sunday Not for the consumer, no. The issue is more employees feeling forced to work all weekend I guess (and also, given there's currently an exemption for small shops, it gives them a little bit of protection from the likes of Tesco). Historically, of course, it's because the employees (and you) should be spending Sunday in church 
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Mar 9, 2016 16:21
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Tesseraction posted:Never had 'em myself. But while reading it makes me double-take, it's not a naughty word per se. It's funny to point Americans at Mr Brains' Faggots and watch the reaction. (I've had them. Not bad. Surprisingly un-offaly)
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Payndz posted:They don't. If not for immigration (a couple of years aside, over 50% of the UK's annual population growth since the late 90s has been from immigrants, according to the ONS), the already pitiful economic growth figures since 2010 would have been in constant recession. Hence lots of big talk but zero action on controlling it. There's been plenty of action in the last decade or so in making non-EU immigration harder actually (as my American fiancee currently applying to do just that could tell you). Massive fee hikes, cracking down on student visas, etc. There's been zero action to reduce EU immigration only because we are forbidden by EU law to do that (hence UKIP and the leave-the-EU crowd).
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Mar 10, 2016 11:29
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Halman posted:He kind of seems like an idiot based on this speech but I really want your next PM to have the same name as Howard Stark's butler. It has gravitas. More so than Trump, certainly (which, by the way, is slang for a fart round here).
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Mar 11, 2016 11:40
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LemonDrizzle posted:Someone needs to take the acid away from Little Timmy, it's not doing him any good at all: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/mar/11/tim-farron-lib-dems-government-decade?CMP=twt_a-politics_b-gdnukpolitics Hes going to go back to his constituency and prepare for government.
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LemonDrizzle posted:Ausländer raus! My fiancee and I are sorting out our immigration paperwork for her (based on marriage) and between the cost to apply itself, various other fees and 500 quid's worth of NHS surcharge it's going to cost us about two grand. That's going up by several hundred more in about a week. Amd that's good for about 2 1/2 years before you get to apply (and pay) again for ILR itself. Fortunately as a software engineer in the Southeast I make enough money we're not hit by the gently caress-off-if-you're-poor requirement that the UK citizen make over about 19 grand a year.
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thespaceinvader posted:I'm assuming it's because one way or another he feels that's the way the wind is blowing, either within the corridors of power, nationally, or both. Or someone's blackmailing him. Ive heard he expects Out to lose but would like those people on his side come the leadership election.
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Venmoch posted:I think to this date, I've had to pay a rough combined total of £7000-£8000 in UKBA fees as well as Lawyer Fees in order to keep my wife in the UK. And that's for the initial Fiancée Visa, The Marriage Visa (Which was declined by the UKBA and is a whole other post.), Given we have an appointment for the 'we just got married so please don't deport my wife when her student visa runs out plz' in about a month, I would love to see this post 
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DesperateDan posted:I am too much of an old fogey to have much of an interest anymore, but the dealers in the flats opposite are the worst I have seen in ten years of living here- least the last lot had the decency to stop customers shouting up orders to the third floor flat they worked out of, and ran a system where the money and drugs were never together at the same time. Current lot would be busted entirely with just a few days policework, barksdale crew they ain't. Maybe they only watched Season 2.
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Pesmerga posted:So, anyone read the story about the Blairs and their £27 million property portfolio? I'm so shocked that Tony ''Tory' Blair is an ALAB.
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XMNN posted:i think theyre amaerican Cheese and onion. A delicacy unknown to our benighted colonial brethren! (Granted, so is pickle)
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TinTower posted:Always relevant explanation of metadata from the EFF: Good thing we don't have a Golden Gate Bridge, privatised health service, NRA, senators, congress or Planned Parenthood! (yet)
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LemonDrizzle posted:
Also that's over two years, right? So even at the 700 quid level that's about 30 a month. Not insignificant, but not really very much to someone who's on 50k in the first place.
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hookerbot 5000 posted:Depressingly it's just made me remember how close to 40 I am. Being 38 and born in April I am literally just squeaking in being able to save with that if I choose to (I assume it starts from April 1st...)
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Oberleutnant posted:Another boy, Henry Goffney, aged 17, said he had received 31 strokes on his bare back for failing to spell the word 'armour' correctly Well maybe he shouldn't have been an American.
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Tesseraction posted:I'd forgotten he existed and now I read he was a giant piece of poo poo. Condolences to his family but cripes what an arsebag. He's one of those guys who threatened to leave the country every time Labour might win an election. Even in 1997 when notorious Communist and hater of rich people Tony Blair was the prospective PM. Edit: Speaking of someone who grew up in Coventry, it was 'rejuvenation' 50s style, of course. Yay concrete 
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tooterfish posted:Still better than tapwater, apparently! Cite? I thought it was generally thought to be ok, within reason at least.
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Zeppelin Insanity posted:I don't get giving a miniscule tax cut to the very richest. What rich person is going to give a quarter of a poo poo about 250 pounds yearly? Scrooge McDuck might, but real (very rich) people wouldn't even notice. The 'very richest' here is people on like 50k a year isn't it? Which is, like, middle management or experienced professional in London and the Southeast, not 'Russian oligarch with his own yacht'. 250 quid isn't a huge amount at that level but it's not pocket change either.
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Gonzo McFee posted:My hope is that being on the losing side of the EU referendum will damage his chances, although there's every chance it does the opposite. He's been a loving awful Mayor of London by most accounts whenever he wasn't being a lazy prick. Not within the Tory party it wont.
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nopantsjack posted:This is hilarious Trump is a member of the donor class. Saurus is a British emigrant to the US. (How long have you been there now out of curiosity, Saurus?)
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Mister Adequate posted:Aside from the "credible and true" statement can someone fill me in on what the actual supposed problem here is? It's not like powerful people being nonces is some kind of impossibility in this country, so they launched an investigation, decided there wasn't enough evidence to bring a prosecution, and have ended the investigation. Isn't that, like, the textbook definition of what is meant to happen when the cops hear allegations of criminal activity? I guess the credibility and truth of the accusations. It sounds like one guy made the accusations about a whole bunch of famous people, an MP bigged them up hugely and there was a massive media circus and there ended up being no corroboration whatsoever. Like, I don't think it shouldn't have been investigated, but it should have been investigated a lot more quietly. Not to mention if there had been anything to it all the publicity would have been a huge warning to those involved to flee/destroy any evidence they could.
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kustomkarkommando posted:VAT, Excise and most indirect taxes could still be collected as they don't expire annually and would continue as is - Income and corporation are the two big ones that require annual renewal. Maybe the government could go back to ship money! 
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LemonDrizzle posted:There's a lot about Lansbury that should be disowned (e: and was aggressively and unequivocally disowned by Attlee). Advocating total national disarmament in the 1930s was basically the equivalent of saying "hey, let's all cut our own throats!" Advocating it in 1931 is a whole other kettle of fish than 1938, though. It certainly wouldn't have been my position back then, even pre-Hitler, but it's not quite as dumb a position as later history makes it look. Kind of like advocating unilateral nuclear disarmament today perhaps 
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forkboy84 posted:Today in 1857 Mangal Pandey of the 34th Regiment, Bengal Native Infantry mutinies against the East India Company, leading to the start of the Sepoy Rebellion. Which directly lead to the end of the EIC's rule in India. And its nationalisation by the British government instead. Nationalisation is good right?
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LemonDrizzle posted:I'd consider steelmaking to be worth protecting simply because of the whole guns/butter thing: domestic steelmaking capability is quite useful if/when the poo poo hits the fan. Only in the event of a protracted war. In the modern world, any war where we would seriously need that production capacity probably ends up with instant sunshine over London within days.
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