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I'm well aware of the irony embodied by my profession being in conflict with my politics. But it's also allowed me to travel the world, meet my wife, interact with other cultures, and come face to face with the aftermath of war in Iraq - against which, if you remember, I was vehemently opposed...

I vaguely recall you did once, back on AOA, but I'm not concerned enough to bother hunting for a link. But yes, I do on a fairly regular basis. Not necessarily for the reasons you think. Anyway, you may be disappointed by the boys' opinions - remember, the lads are still very young, and haven't...

Quoted from: Something new and horrible Why? Because I work in the oil industry? I think someone like Greta was inevitable. A great many issues are only resolved when one polarising individual stands up and says, "enough, no more!" I have great respect for her fortitude, for picking her fight...

Quite an effective one, as it turns out, despite shagger Johnson's attempts to steer it towards fascism. The Queen is the Head of State, and thus has complete power to enact laws, start and stop Parliament, go to war, the whole lot. But... she has exactly zero power to exercise personal...

This makes me happy: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/24/pelosi-impeachment-inquiry-trump-ukraine And so does this:

OLED has a fantastic colour gamut and dynamic range. Unless you buy one of the top-spec ones, they'll be dim, though, and you'll have to keep your room fairly dark to be able to see them clearly.

OK, I'm pretty sure none of us will be completely correct on this one, so let's shelve that particular discussion ;) As far as I can tell, your system is complicated by the fact that you're a federation of 50 states. In case anyone needed reminding, that's 50 separate, sovereign nations with...

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There's a certain amount of soul searching going on amongst the European social democracies for the right way to manage unemployment and social support. There have been trials of a "universal basic income," which would be payable to every citizen, and ensure that nobody was ever left without...

It'll be interesting to see how they deal with this, and how complete their solution will be. Is Apple completely removing 32bit executable support from its kernel, or just the libraries?

This is effectively part 2 - I was running out of space for asterisks. The punitive aspect of the benefits system is unnecessary. It plays well in the press to go after "benefit cheats" but actually, benefit fraud adds up to only a percent or so of the total benefits spend per year. The...

I post on other forums than this one, including a UK-based financial website. Not one of those testosterone-fuelled sites full of braggarts and acronyms, but a much more human one discussing simple things like shopping and housing and pensions*. One of the subforums is dedicated to people who...

Did you install DirectPlay in Wine as well?

What we voted for can and will be voted against used against us. FTFY :p At times I struggle with these various comments about "the rich" as if they're somehow an external problem. I've already pointed out that on an absolute scale, absolutely every one of us on these boards is fantastically...

Was this installed from the original CD, or from a GoG digital download? That unhandled page fault looks suspiciously like Wine is struggling with antique copy-protection.

I have school-age children. I'm somewhat horrified by how little the schools are teaching them, so I'm trying to fill in the gaps as best as I can. If that means I still have to write the occasional "Hello, world!", so be it. :(

If you think that's weird, travel restrictions used to be imposed to stop the local population leaving, rather than to prevent foreigners arriving. When all work was labour-intensive, availability of workers was the limiting factor and so lords would try to encourage people to settle in their...

You're not wrong, however, it being open source doesn't help here. Chromium is the open source project that underlies Google Chrome. For each Chromium release, Google then adds its proprietary bits to make a corresponding Chrome release. Other Chromium-based projects (e.g. Brave, Falkon and...

Chromium uses the same extensions engine as Chrome, and so has the same vulnerability. If you want to know what they're doing, just look in them. Chrome extensions are a collection of javascript, css, json and html files - i.e. web pages. Now, you can do a lot with javascript, and it can be...

Problem is with having a fridge magnet saying "Worst POTUS Ever" is that it's missing the words "... so far." There's always room for a worse one. The concept of borders and border controls, and effect of freedom of movement is a funny thing. Playing with the World Factbook and other sources...