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rlongstaff

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About rlongstaff

We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams

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    Comment #16177737

    The review comments on Amazon tell you everything you need to know.

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    Comment #15627032

    Surprised the article made no mention of the EV Rieu translation published by Penguin Books. I would have thought that was one of the, if not 'the', most well known one.

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    Comment #14239097

    This is the correct link to the report: http://daccess-ods.un.org/access.nsf/Get?Open&DS=A/HRC/34/51... The UN has a bizarre and archaic document management system that it is diffi…

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    Comment #14018469

    Minor correction: Google was summoned to appear before a committee of the UK Parliament, not the Government. A link to the meeting: http://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/ecd59f92-64…

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    Comment #11595236

    This has been done so many times already. One example is Coffitivity: https://coffitivity.com/

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    Comment #11315477

    Although the idea of a 'United Democracies' or whatever it gets called sounds appealing, it has many flaws. One of which you highlighted regarding what constitutes a democracy - so…

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    Comment #10801179

    After disabling my adblocker to visit the site I was greeted with an auto-play video (with sound) that took up half the page. This is not what I would term 'ad light'.

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    Comment #10697318

    Hmm. Somewhat biased presentation in the article with use of the words "the latest in a growing number of competition investigations targeting American technology companies." Gives…

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    Comment #10611509

    The equivalent for the UK: http://gridwatch.templar.co.uk/

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    Comment #10569515

    I've just installed it from the Ubuntu 15.10 Software Centre (v3.0.1-2).

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    Comment #10011891

    Who decides that and is it true or fair? If the CEO earns 25x the average employee salary would it be clear that they add 25x more value to the company than any other employee?

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    Comment #9987572

    ... but what percentage of current C code is C11. More importantly, how much new code is written according to C11?

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    Comment #9907848

    Don't suppose anyone has an equivalent for Linux?

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    Comment #9382862

    Get searching: http://ec.europa.eu/competition/elojade/isef/index.cfm I think you'll find the overwhelming majority are European companies.

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    Comment #8081638

    Maybe the site should use something like http://www.pingtest.net/

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    Comment #8058446

    It would be interesting to see how much traffic localhost.com gets too :)

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    Comment #7927631

    Indeed. I think whenever 'hacked sites' stories are posted here, the poster should include a screenshot given that the site will likely be fixed very quickly.

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    Comment #7694181

    I have visited the USA a dozen or so times over the past decade and, as well as having a great number of friends there, I've found the people really friendly and welcoming. The onl…

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    Comment #7655975

    I wonder how many climate-changer denier politicans will attempt to legislate to prevent Metro-North from considering climate change in their future planning - the same way NC did …

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    Comment #7616939

    Another solution is to put the URL into Google Translate, set the 'To' language to English and the 'From' language to something like Arabic or Chinese so nothing on the page will a…

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    Comment #7504306

    > * There was almost zero bullshit reality TV manufactured drama The bit in the article that astounded me was where he talked about sections of the contract everyone was expected t…

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    Comment #7431887

    I'm shocked I tell you - I had no idea such things went on!

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    Comment #7249484

    Both the font size and colour scheme on that page hurt my eyes.

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    Comment #7176708

    The GiraDora manually powered washing machine was announced a couple of years ago - I don't know what happened to it, e.g. did it never get funding? http://inhabitat.com/human-powe…

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    Comment #7161484

    Looks good, and seems simple to get going. Two comments: - I set the background image but it didn't appear (the dialog box for that seems to have no 'OK' or 'Save' button) - It wou…