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"> Finally, all the HRA really did was stop Law Lords making rulings they knew were going to be successfully appealed to the ECHR If Convention rights could be disregarded by the Law Lords prior to the Human Rights Act, surely they weren't enforceable at national level as required by Article 13?" - Robin Green

"You're thinking of the European Council. No, seriously." - Robin Green

"Oh great, the "journalist" interviewed here, Webster Tarpley, has worked with the certainly "mentally deficient" and more than that, certifiably crazy, Lyndon LaRouche organisation. Instant credibility loss." - Robin Green

"Most plane crashes don't involve deliberately ramming into buildings at high speed." - Robin Green

"I really hope you are making fun of the parent post, and not being serious." - Robin Green

"> One thing I do not get: why would someone with riches sacrifice his son who in the current judicial system in the USA will never see freedom again? Because no-one would ever suspect him of something so implausible?" - Robin Green

"How else do you propose we deal with companies that are too big to fail, other than the government breaking them up?" - Robin Green

"What's the cost-benefit of this technology?" - Robin Green

"Er... as the original poster said: > > > couldn't we get 24/7 power by simply storing it, like in batteries or pumping water?" - Robin Green

"For emacs org-mode fans, there's also going to be [support in org-mode for linking to emails in notmuch](http://www.mail-archive.com/emacs-o...)." - Robin Green

"It depends on the type of pleasure. I do visit reddit every day but I don't go sightseeing very often." - Robin Green

"That's an apples and oranges comparison. Biographical information about a specific person is subject to BLP guidelines and defamation law; information about conspiracy theories is not." - Robin Green

"I'm not sure that the world would be better off without Nick Griffin. He might be replaced as party leader with someone more effective at stirring up race hatred." - Robin Green

"They should be called the "American Freedom to Break Contracts and Force the Other Party to Uphold Their Side of the Bargain Anyway Alliance"." - Robin Green

"Perhaps you'd like to propose suitable criteria by which this theory could be excluded from this article... preferably one that is already contained within Wikipedia's guidelines." - Robin Green

"Why would the CIA be interested in hiring Obama at that point in his career?" - Robin Green

"> I must read each & every label and not trust them as a gate keeper for me. Indeed, it's a bad idea to trust any chain, no matter how good its reputation." - Robin Green

"This seems to me to be a rather too forced attempt to map the realities of cancer onto pre-existing socialist and leftist rhetorical tropes (something which you might expect from a member of the Socialist Workers Party), but it makes some good points I think." - Robin Green

"In their avatar form the humans can never really die, anyway (at least, that's what I surmised, since there was a line, something like "Did we lose the avatar?") So only when the military general/corporal actually found and aimed at the portacabin-type-thing was the protagonist really in mortal danger." - Robin Green

"In their avatar form the humans can never really die, anyway (at least, that's what I surmised, since there was a line, something like "Did we lose the avatar?") So only when the military general/corporal actually found and aimed at the portacabin-type-thing was the protagonist really in mortal danger." - Robin Green

"Greg Egan is a famous sci-fi author. Just in case you didn't know." - Robin Green

"The functional style of programming isn't suitable for everything under the sun - imperative style programming still has its place. But the important thing about functional programming is that it's closer to math, so that in many cases, it makes it easier to prove code correct. If you want to prove imperative style code correct you end up having to effectively translate it into single-assignment (i.e. functional) style anyway - so why not just program in functional style in the first place, if that's where you're going? Of course this is a very idealistic or ahead-of-its-time argument, because to a good first approximation *no-one* proves their code correct these days. But I believe that formal verification is the future, at least in some domains." - Robin Green

"Nice troll. The value of functional programming does not lie in being able to do cool recursive or combinatory solutions to toy problems, of course. That argument is like saying "Every imperative programming article in like the history of ever has had 'hello world' examples to show how easy it is to do hello world in the author's favourite language, but no 10,000 line examples to show how imperative programming can scale up to tasks of real and actual value without becoming hard to reason about. Conclusion: imperative programming is bullshit." Which would be equally fallacious and false." - Robin Green

"Just as deciding what cases to test (test that the setter method and getter method for a property mirror each other? You don't usually need to do that) is a cost-benefit decision, so is deciding when to start testing at all. Maybe at the start of the project, when you're refactoring and redesigning and even messing with the requirements a lot, the cost of all those tests and maintaining them just slows you down too much." - Robin Green

"Lib Dems now, for Proportional Representation for Westminster, for Greens later - that's what I say. Except in Brighton Pavilion, apparently." - Robin Green

"Lib Dems now, for Proportional Representation for Westminster, for Greens later - that's what I say. Except in Brighton Pavilion, apparently." - Robin Green

"A lot of useful improvements. Thanks, Agda team!" - Robin Green

"Agreeing that we need to take action is a step forward from the denialist approach of Bush and the Republicans, but it's still too little, too late. What China is proposing to do is very little - a law to avoid wasting existing renewable capacity (which is a no-brainer) and a vague claim that they will aim for lower "carbon intensity". But if they are serious about cutting carbon emissions, why not commit to "price in" emissions into their economy, with carbon taxes or a cap and trade scheme?" - Robin Green

"Conquerors think like conquerors. Well, duh. So what? I am not of that mindset - why should I be?" - Robin Green

"Obviously stories can be a metaphor for one thing for one viewer/reader/listener, and something else entirely for another. What makes you think your metaphor is more predominant than others that might be seen in this movie?" - Robin Green

"> Since then the Cypriot government has unabashedly used its EU veto to complicate the Union's ties with Turkey I have to say, regardless of the rights and wrongs of this, this is excellent. Turkey's human rights record is awful, and it should not be allowed to join the EU at this time." - Robin Green

"Go away, you don't belong on reddit." - Robin Green