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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

It's entirely possible that Russia don't actually have any functional nuclear weapons anymore but I agree I don't think we can risk it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

You're better off with a lawyer than without one. I used to work in a court, (not in any particular legal sense, I reset passwords).

There was always somebody who came in with that attitude and decided to represent themselves often times when they were guilty as sin. A lawyer was never going to be able to get them off a charge, but maybe they would have been able to get a reduced sentence. Representing yourself is never a good idea because you don't actually know the law, no one does, that's why lawyers are so expensive.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

As far as I understand it judges don't despair lawyers the bar association does. That requires a tribunal and the entire thing takes forever.

So these lawyers may actually end up getting disbarred but as with all things legal, it will take 500 times longer than any reasonable person thinks it should.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Look at him. He can barely speak English. Looks like a chav

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I don't know, your wall idea seems pretty good.

I'm certain that a lot of the problems in this country stems from the fact that everything is in London. In the US you've got loads of major cities other than the capital, this forces politicians to actually be aware of local problems (not that it's working very well right now).

In the UK everything's in London. In the US if a major show happens you assume it's going to be in New York or LA, not Washington.

So we're doing the wall thing and then we're moving government out of the capital, let's see how interested they are in improving the economy and social housing when they're forced to do everything from Bradford or Middlesbrough.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah because we need loads of fascists in the world. It's bad enough with the lot we've got.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

I'm sure Farage would have been better off. Not sure the country would have been.

Reform really can't keep quiet about their Nazi tendencies can they, they are all too thick to shut up.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Which was what was done with the weather mod. Mojang didn't like it because what people really want for weather mod is hurricanes, mojang don't like anything too destructive like that which you can kind of understand, you can't really do a normal playthrough with it on.

It makes it a totally different game.

But I don't think anyone really cared and I don't think it's had a particularly adverse effect on the mod developer, they've got plenty of backers I doubt there's any interest in suing mojang over it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

It still fluctuates a lot. If they were going to accept bitcoin I as a game developer would want them to get it into something a bit harder almost instantly. I don't want it staying in bitcoin here it can lose its value, for no reason at all, at the drop of a hat. Under the current system steam tend to hold on to money until the end of the month and then pay you, that wouldn't work with bitcoin.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's an odd one because it wasn't even a word in common usage until about 50 years ago, so I don't understand where the Americans got their attitude from since it appears to have been entirely self-generated.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's the same in the UK. The politicians bitch and moan about it but they're not actually going to do anything about VPN because that would be far too complicated to work out and enforce, and it would force them to admit that the law doesn't work, and they don't want to draw attention to that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

As I said the equipment is pretty big, like the size of a small refrigerator, so it's going to need to get reduced quite extensively before it's really used in anything like that.

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