EarlKing

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by EarlKing 4y ago
...which is a real headscratcher because it was great.
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by EarlKing 4y ago
No, their argument was that they shouldn't do anything about it because the two times they did it wound up causing every tinpot dictatorship to show up on their doorstep and demand they do the same for people that hadn't done anyt
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by EarlKing 4y ago
Be sure... to drink... your ovaltine?
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by EarlKing 4y ago
Possibly you're thinking of Begin: A Tactical Starship Simulation[1]?? That, however, was not real-time at all but turn-based, since it was a direct descendant of the old mainframe Trek game. [1] https://www.mobygames.com&#x
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by EarlKing 4y ago
Sir, may I humbly suggest that you vastly underestimate the weight of a fully loaded freighter? There's a reason airships do not, have not, and probably will not ever replace ocean-going vessels... nor will helicopters or cargo planes.
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by EarlKing 4y ago
You think that condemning them is the right way to go, rather than being nonjudgemental? The former will make them shut up. The latter will get them to open up and hang themselves with their own words, as he's proven time and again.
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by EarlKing 4y ago
If he challenged them then they wouldn't open up. This isn't Jerry Springer. Instead of demanding he do the thing you want to do, maybe you should be doing that after the fact. If someone goes on his show and admits to doing horre
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by EarlKing 4y ago
Better take: Joe Rogan has an uncanny ability to make people think he's just a bro asking questions and uses that to get people to admit to truly horrendous behavior, free of judgement, for his profit and your shock. Seriously, what do
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by EarlKing 4y ago
> In 1984 (of all years), the US Department of Justice finally broke up AT&T in half a dozen corporations, after a 10 year legal battle. Yet a decades later, we're back to only three large providers doing essentially what AT&amp
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by EarlKing 4y ago
Families kept in touch prior to that with little things called Email and Phone Calls and Snail Mail. Ad-driven networks were never necessary.
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by EarlKing 4y ago
The OSI thinks otherwise: > 6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor > The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being
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by EarlKing 4y ago
What they would prefer is that you continue to offer up your unpaid labor that they can then use to build fortunes upon. It is no accident that businesses are happy to encourage "open source" so long as that means "make us st
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by EarlKing 4y ago
There is no net positive impact from social networking services, or indeed any other medium powered by advertising where the operators thereof have realized that hatred can be monetized. People have always disagreed with one another and cla
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by EarlKing 4y ago
You are conflating object and subject... the thing and its perception. Good can exist even as we disagree over its definition. Some people are simply right, and some are simply wrong. We are not gods.
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by EarlKing 4y ago
....or they're just using the correct labels from Von Luschan's chromatic scale.
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by EarlKing 4y ago
What? You didn't entitle your post JBUG? What a wasted opportunity for a good pun.
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by EarlKing 4y ago
I'll be sure to inform Chris Chan. .......I'll see myself out.
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by EarlKing 4y ago
Japan is a rather stubborn outlier, but even they still make an effort to learn. There's no getting around the fact that English is the language of science and commerce such that many people choose to learn it even if it's not the
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by EarlKing 4y ago
Huh. Well today I learned. I always thought it was just plain open access.
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by EarlKing 4y ago
Well this is a first for me. I don't think I've ever seen a paper published to PNAS that wasn't open access.
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by EarlKing 4y ago
BrainEx: When it absolutely, positively has to be BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAINS
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by EarlKing 4y ago
Insufficient poofy 80s hair in that statement.
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by EarlKing 4y ago
Given the Bob Ross story earlier today I was expecting happy little programs. I'm disappointed.
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by EarlKing 4y ago
> Pickleball Stop trying to make Fetch happen, Gretchen. Its not gonna happen.
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by EarlKing 4y ago
For those of you working at companies with "unlimited" vacation time... pay close attention. :D
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by EarlKing 4y ago
"Speaking of things controversial, is it true that there is a marijuana problem here in Vietnam?" "No, it's not a problem. Everybody has it."
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by EarlKing 4y ago
No, my argument is that GNU failed by being generally broken and unusable for the vast majority of people such that they won't use it.
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by EarlKing 4y ago
You know precisely that Linux and FreeBSD both depend upon GNU utilities. ("GNU/Linux refers to a GNU userland coupled with Linux") Don't be obtuse. If Emacs works for you then that's great, but if you are at all in
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by EarlKing 4y ago
Did he? This is a part of the story I've never heard. Got any stories / links?
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by EarlKing 4y ago
Maybe it's just me, but it feels like Xanadu was always vaporware for a very important reason: It never had a specification concrete enough to implement because its chief architect always came off like a schizophrenic. I can't be

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