Posts by David Hood
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Legal Beagle: Now it's up to you, in reply to Raymond A Francis,
What that tends to mean is that the bits of the system you knew you didn't like are being balanced out by the bits that you didn't know you did like (I would also note there is a difference in the nature of "second choice" between a close second and a distant second).
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Legal Beagle: Now it's up to you, in reply to Sacha,
Sacha, my thinking around the results location was, textflow-wise, it is much easier for people using assistive technology like text-to-speech if the results section followed (in some fashion) the voting sections.
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Hard News: Steve, 1999, in reply to Rich Lock,
My daughter fires up the Elite clone Oolite a few times a year to go privateering
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Upon leaving this thread a few hours ago, I didn't think it would mutate into a culture wars thread. I thought it would mutate into the Rugby World Cup PR crisis of the day thread (today's being the Webb Ellis Trophy replica story).
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Now being reported "Telecom scraps no sex RWC campaign"
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From much earlier in the thread, the reference for "socks over shoes" is this ignoble prize winning article from Preventive and Social Medicine at Otago University.
Competing interests: None known. In particular, none of the authors has financial links with sock manufacturers and none of us own sheep.
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Hard News: Is that it?, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
…can the workhouse be far behind?
I'm sure there would be efficiencies of scale if the rent-managers clients accommodations were optimized into the rent-managers facilities.
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Hard News: Media7: A new censor -- and a…, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
don’t the censors do a regular survey of community values and adjust how they apply their rules depending on the results
A bit like qantas
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Hard News: London's Burning, in reply to Sacha,
wouldn’t you rather have tables?
With a mono tag
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(Actually, I don't think tables are such a good idea, because of the limited horizontal space. For tables of figures, monospace would be a functional replacement) -
When it comes to sharp animals, I wouldn't be worried about porcupines. It's the giant rats with poisonous mohawks I would be worried about.