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Which reminds me of Fabian Pascal, probably somewhere drinking heavily to forget the current state of the DB industry.

Not entirely, this Mr Fabian was one of the world's most famous policemen in the middle of the 20th century.

Naturally he was surrounded by leftist academics and apparently ‘encountered Fabian thinking’ in particular.

Orwell was trained at Eton college, and was a member of the Fabian society.

True, but behind these tube sites stays [1] Fabian Thylmann and his [2] company.

For me, any record will need Fabian Cancellara's participation to be legit.

The US has no tradition of something like Fabian Socialism.

If we consider what Fabian Socialism meant in England maybe.

For an older example, look to Roman general Fabius Maximus (from which the Fabian Society took its name) who used a new tactic [1], consisting of attrition, to defeat his enemies.

Now, at the risk of going off the deep end a bit, I would like to introduce HN readers to the origins of Orwell's Fabian society: The British East India Company.

Robert "Fabian of the Yard" Fabian was the former chief detective of the (London) Metropolitan Police murder squad, based at Scotland Yard.

See also James Michener's "Caribbean", with its treatment of Rotten Boroughs, the more progressive of the Fabian Socialists and the like.

In the comments in this forum you'll see the "Relational databases can't work with tree-structured data" canard hauled out, as if this exact problem hadn't been addressed numerous times in the database literature (Joe Celko, Fabian Pascal, Chris Date, etc.).

Its hard for teachers to be blamed for the state of poor education when they're not allowed to be responsible for it - when they have standards pushed upon them by fabian government kafka-lovin' "employees" who have never taught anyone a thing in their lives.

There were others with a much bigger hand in it than me (Fabian Jakobs and Julian Viereck come to mind instantly).

Same here Fabian:) Shoot me an email - jonathan@alternativemedia.com.au and let's chat.

(Others might argue that Keynes, as an all-but-by-name Fabian, was thus inclined in the first place and didn't need prompting.) This is the real risk: when the interests of people close to government start influencing government actions, not necessarily outright or implicitly, but with the same effect on the stakeholders (the governed).