Would you waste a good engineer on court cases? I'd have thought you'd send someone who was authoritative-sounding and not working on anything important. (View Post)

Also good job by the Australians making this happen. (View Post)

IIUC it was a name for Communists who defended the Soviet Union sending in tanks to suppress the Prague Spring. (View Post)

Yes, I think ctrl-z, or maybe ctrl-z-minus-the-rebate, is kind of an easier schelling point for everyone to agree on than anything else. It's not at all obvious to me that the rest of the Eurozone wa… (View Post)

If nobody knows what you mean by the word and you'd need an entire essay or worse a George Monbiot podcast to say what you mean by the word, use a different word. (View Post)