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Yes, I couldn't have said it better. Plus the thing is that I went on the retreats to escape Christmas. So I'd go for a week or two, the first day would be everyone yapping (almost…

It used to annoy me because I went on these retreats at Christmas. (Not a fan of Christmas.) Then they started going silent which was the thing I least wanted at that time of year.…

It is possible to "spoof" numbers in the UK. I've seen it. Calls from outside the UK masquerading as UK numbers. They tend to use London numbers which is the main giveaway.

In the UK, a lot of the calls were coming from India and vsrious countries in Africa. I think India has cleaned up its act, but it's prevalent elsewhere. The callers pretend to be …

I've done silent retreats as well, but I'm not a big fan. I live on my own and get plenty of silence that way. Being around other silent people was an odd experience, sort of like …

>Taxi Drivers: The mean age at death is approximately 67.8 years. Where? What country/ies?

That is the eventual plan I suspect. It will be claimed to be non-partisan, blah blah.

Whatever one thinks of tobacco, it goes to show that overcharging for items creates a new market. The Australian government wanted to address a health issue and ended up funding or…

I'm working on a guidebook. Not putting it online to get scraped!

I've always thought asteroids could be used as automated "weather stations" with probes not just as mission targets in themselves. These could be updated or maintained occasionally…

Many people do consider those colonies. However, the Falklands/Malvinas had no native population (plot twist: the French were there first). Northern Ireland's position raises quest…

A lot of the ones here appear to have originated in India, which had a major regulation problem for a while (although I think the Indian government has begun to deal with it.) A le…

I paid for a spam call blocking service about twenty years ago. The annoying thing is not only did it fail to prevent the spam calls from abroad, when someone was trying to call me…

Doesn't really matter since he thinks we're both useless eaters.

The British papers tend to feed off AP, AFP and Reuters. The Guardian tends to specialise in opinion pieces rather than its own investigative journalism. But to be fair the Guardia…

The other fairy tale is when the workers rise up and create utopia. Infallible Marx didn't anticipate cybernetics.

The Guardian and the Economist both have their issues. For one they represent insulated groups of people, who focus on some talking points but not others.

> You cannot read these articles posing as human interest without following the money. Thank you for that, and look who one of their speakers is? Hardcore technocrat and transhuman…

I recognise that quote. :) But am I right in noticing a lack of breathings? Unless the tilde indicates it. I'm not sure of the difference between the acutes and graves here. I am u…

I think the answer is that the past is as relevant as the future. If people here know both computer programming and classical history, I think that means they have a more rounded v…

Hans Zimmer's protegé Lorne Balfe is dyslexic and started off as a drummer. Balfe probably can't read music well although he's done well for himself.

My favourite title cards are in "Thank You for Smoking". They're all done like old fashioned cigarette packs.

Government intervention. That will mean more taxes on people who are not rich as usual.

This is going to be interesting. London streets are a different prospect from American ones (a lot narrower and windier in the suburbs).