Arizhel

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by Arizhel 9y ago
>Whether you're an animal rights activist or not, the fact of the matter is EVERYONE thinks it's wrong to abuse animals. That's not true. There's plenty of people who think animal cruelty and abuse is just fine. The
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by Arizhel 9y ago
Your kid will likely never know many other forms of entertainment: circus sideshows that objectify people with extreme deformities (circuses haven't had these in ages), for instance. Or Wild Bill's western shows. Or ancient Roma
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by Arizhel 9y ago
I'm just pointing out that it's disingenuous for employers to whine about a lack of employees, while simultaneously not giving them proper raises (they have the money, because they offer it to new hires) and not providing any kind
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by Arizhel 9y ago
Then the employers better get busy raising salaries now, right? This situation has been created by the employers. They've held salaries down, they've refused to give raises at all (which is why everyone changes jobs every few yea
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by Arizhel 9y ago
This idea is pointless. A "code of ethics" is useless unless you have a way of enforcing it, because different people have entirely different ethical standards. IoT manufacturers do not care about security, they only care about
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by Arizhel 9y ago
>I think we also need better mental models of how to deal with life and stress. No, we need totally different lifestyles that are more compatible with our biology. The way our society functions is incompatible with our biology, and we&#
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by Arizhel 9y ago
If you want to buy some shitty portable music player that can't handle proper open-source file formats, that's your choice. I've had a bunch of devices from all sorts of other, better manufacturers that ALL supported Oggs. B
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by Arizhel 9y ago
I see all the barking dog-lovers are out in force modding me down.
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by Arizhel 9y ago
If all English speakers also spoke Loglan, except for the tiny portion of the population that's over 100 years old, then your analogy would make sense.
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by Arizhel 9y ago
It wasn't occasional dog barking, it was constant, going on for hours. Add to that one neighbor who had a stupid pit bull that got out a lot, and bit two people. On top of that, at one place I had neighbors across the street who had so
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by Arizhel 9y ago
What are you talking about? Every time I've lived in a suburb, I've had neighbors with incessantly barking dogs. Suburbs have been some of the noisiest places I've ever been between all the stupid dogs, the constant noise o
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by Arizhel 9y ago
The only way it's not superior is compatibility with ancient electronics, just like I said before. What's the problem? Why should I care about playing my music on 15-year-old hardware? I don't have any such hardware any mo
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by Arizhel 9y ago
Your description of "several small towns pushed together" basically describes much of northern New Jersey. I used to live there. It was not safe for cycling. The place really was a bunch of small towns, that all ended up grow
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by Arizhel 9y ago
They could build SkyTran. It's perfectly suited for the Bay Area. The tech companies together could easily invest in it and bring it to fruition; the fundamental technology is already developed. The other thing they can do is what Go
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by Arizhel 9y ago
If you're going to ban anything that's basically a tabloid these days, doesn't that mean there won't be any news sites left?
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by Arizhel 9y ago
Wrong on the CD-Rs: I've seen them fail before, due simply to age. It happens with the cheap ones; the "archival quality" ones really do seem to be much better, but I have some ~15 year old cheapies that are dead. You can e
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by Arizhel 9y ago
Ogg Vorbis is superior in every way, and I really don't care about ancient electronics, so I'm perfectly happy encoding all my music into .ogg since all my devices, including my car, are compatible with it.
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by Arizhel 9y ago
I'm getting downvoted because this site is full of Microsoft sycophants. It happens every time I say anything about Microsoft here. I'll get a few upvotes from people like yourself who agree with me on issues like the one here,
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by Arizhel 9y ago
No, it was made by the guy we know as Jesus, when he was still young and hadn't figured out yet that he doesn't age.
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by Arizhel 9y ago
>Should everyone have the right to read Harry Potter without paying Rowling a dime? If they get a library card at their local library, they can do just that. Are you in favor of banning libraries?
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by Arizhel 9y ago
You should try watching "The Running Man" from 1987, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. At the time, it was a somewhat silly dystopian movie, extremely loosely based on some Stephen King story, with a really unique cast including Je
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by Arizhel 9y ago
Because about half the time the response is extremely uncivil, so people are afraid to try the civil approach. So people do just as you say: treat humans like humans. Since humans are largely evil, that results in the behavior we see.
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by Arizhel 9y ago
I've got a question about databases: why don't they use raw disk partitions instead of files? If you think about it, a modern disk filesystem is really a form of database (but not the relational kind): various kinds of data (filen
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by Arizhel 9y ago
How many of these customers have actually bitched out their vendors for not porting their software to non-MS OSes? None? Sorry, I have no sympathy. Look for alternatives, or roll your own. Or find a new line of business altogether. Whin
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by Arizhel 9y ago
You should try visiting some rural/small-town Walmarts. They're actually quite nice. The ones in urban areas I've been to look like war zones: stuff scattered all over, shelves half-bare, everything dirty, etc. The ones I&
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by Arizhel 9y ago
That was the researchers' fault for using Windows as the platform for all this work. They should have known better.
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by Arizhel 9y ago
The victim is to blame. Microsoft's behaviors are well-known, so victims are to blame if they continue to use Microsoft platforms. CFD computation does not in any way require a Microsoft OS.
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by Arizhel 9y ago
>My PC is not a toy, and is owned by me, not by you. * Don't reboot it without my consent * Don't install/run advertising without my consent * Don't install/run spyware without my consent * Don't keep interr
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by Arizhel 9y ago
>Additionally, Microsoft abused the update system to download an entire, multi-GB OS (Windows 10) on systems running on Windows 8, "just in case they will want to upgrade". This was very expensive for people on metered bandwidt
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by Arizhel 9y ago
I disagree about the CIA analogy, because having your DNA collected really doesn't harm you or affect you significantly, though it is a privacy violation. Here's a better analogy: suppose you were pushed to get a vaccination, but

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