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Comment Re: Finally (Score 2) 233

When you say "Argentina", what do you mean precisely? It's had a lot of militaristic dictatorships followed by at least nominal democracy, but I assume you're referring to the most recent one. However, the Falklands war was more a symptom of the collapse than the cause, and didn't lead to an invasion of territory controlled by Argentina before the outbreak of war. I can't understand why you consider it a "clear example". I'd put it in a third category: militaristic dictatorships which collapse involuntarily under domestic popular pressure. Salazar's Portugal would also go in that category, whereas post-Franco Spain is a missing example from your second category.

Comment Re:cool and all but.... (Score 1) 56

Programming isn't coding. Programming is the activity of making programs: coding is expressing data in the form expected by a process. While it's true that programs are data, coding is a pretty small part of programming and a much larger part of certain data entry jobs. (To take an extreme example, there are jobs advertised which primarily consist of coding medical records in HL7).

Comment Not London, but... (Score 2) 100

I grew up in a village with four pubs for about 3000 people. My parents have moved, so I haven't been back for about 15 years, but it was down to one pub then. I think a big factor was the bypass, which also killed off the local antique shops. Back in the day people driving through the village might stop to browse the shops and have lunch: now they barely realise it's there.

Comment Re:No money, no friends (Score 2) 100

It is. And the sport is named after a public* school which is named after its town.

* I.e. fee-paying. In England the term predates the existence of state schools by centuries, and denotes a school to which anyone with money could send their son, in distinction with private schools which might be one master teaching the children of one family.

Comment Re:Make it fair (Score 1) 87

Unfortunately the only perjury possible in a take-down notice is for not actually being an authorized agent of the copyright holder

Of a copyright holder. Maybe things have improved, but it used to be that you couldn't upload a recording of your own performance of classical music by a long-dead composer without getting takedown notices relating to other, commercial, recordings of the same work.

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