To quote a quip by Brian Cantrill: "Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison. You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don’t anthropomorphize… (View Post)

It is extremely likely to be spam and vanishingly unlikely to be any kind of interaction you actually wanted. (View Post)

The difficulty with that strategy is: where are you going to get the money to throw into those communities? There's a reason that all that not-absolutely-mandatory local council stuff has been being … (View Post)

I think the problems arise when the way voters intuitively want the system to work diverges from the way the mechanics of it actually work. I think most people in practice are voting for a party and … (View Post)

The LDs may get Easy Grinstead but I wouldn't put money on them taking Tricky Grinstead... (View Post)