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M2Ys4U

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    Comment #49259736

    >and likewise England play international rugby, including against Wales and Scotland. Except when they play as part of the British & Irish Lions!

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    Comment #49259620

    Style Assist is mainly for articles written by journalists that are employed by third-party news organisations (who own the UK's local news outlets) but are subsidised by the BBC -…

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    Comment #48890693

    >There's even some talk of a potential Loony-Bin alliance. Nah, never going to happen. There's history between Binface and the Loonies... and they're a lot more right-wing than peo…

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    Comment #48890662

    >Ultimately, whether he would be allowed to write "Count Binface" as his name on the registration documents would depend on what the Electoral Commission decides. I had a look last…

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    Comment #48890626

    >If he goes into the parliament building without his costume, it would be a bit awkward if, say, they were required to address him by his Count Binface alias. Members of Parliament…

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    Comment #48830343

    It wouldn't be the first time a novelty candidate has won an election. H'Angus the Monkey[0] won the Hartlepool mayoral election in 2002 and the man in the costume served three ter…

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    Comment #48474643

    >Only applies to EU citizens' personal data That's not true. The GDPR applies to the personal data of anyone physically in the EU , to the extent that the data are processed[0] whi…

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    Comment #48425222

    Mid-thirties Brit here. I've never owned a credit card, neither has my partner. All of our card transactions are with a debit card. I've never needed instant-access debt so it's no…

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    Comment #48378203

    >judgment vs. judgement In British English "judgment" without the 'e' is generally only used for talking about judicial rulings, whereas most other uses of the word contain the 'e'…

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    Comment #48327731

    >We'll see. It's not like police unions are making life better for citizens. The police aren't allowed to join a union

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    Comment #48323432

    The author is a former civil servant. I think it's safe to assume he knows that writing to his MP is an option...

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    Comment #48207894

    For people in the UK, Prospect has a Tech Workers branch: https://prospect.org.uk/tech-workers/ Prospect is my union (although I'm a member of a BECTU branch rather than the Tech W…

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    Comment #48205697

    BTW this is the financial services company,[0] not the taxi company.[1] I had never even heard of the former until now so I was quite confused until I realised it was an American f…

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    Comment #48012442

    The regulation does cover everything that uses batteries.

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    Comment #47742387

    >You're all angry at the wrong people. No. We're not. Perhaps we should be angry at both , but we definitely should be angry at you. Spam is bad. If your business can't survive wit…

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    Comment #47513108

    Yes, but there are a lot of gullible investors out there so calling themselves that will jack up the value of their shares.

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    Comment #47333565

    >(Does base 4 have a name?) Quaternary

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    Comment #47046401

    Submission URL should probably be changed to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2... as the current link is to a draft of this article

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    Comment #46723044

    >We don't have landmass to facilitate the output waste in the UK Yes, we do. It really doesn't make that much space to store the waste. The biggest problem is people being irration…

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    Comment #46717857

    >The first point already exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societas_Europaea SEs are public companies, and must have at least €120k in capital during formation. The proposed EU…

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    Comment #46717768

    The last time pan-European private companies (SPEs) were seriously proposed (2008) opposition from the German government blocked the proposals, the idea limped along until finally …

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    Comment #46704647

    >The ultimate aim is to create a new truly European company structure. We call it EU Inc., with a single and simple set of rules that will apply seamlessly all over our Union. I ho…