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by FedRegister 13y ago
British tanks since the Centurion[1] all contain kettles or boiling vessels for tea. Don't mess with their tea, even in the heat of battle! [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centurion_tank
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by FedRegister 13y ago
Yup, ESR is the embodiment of the American exceptionalism, white, male, heterosexual privilege resident in the hacker community, and the sooner that we move beyond his worldview (while still observing he is technically astute) the better.
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by FedRegister 13y ago
k9mail seems to fit the bill for what you want: https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/wiki/What-is-K-9-Mail
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by FedRegister 13y ago
I would be firing my employee involved in the beating for being such a judgmental prick.
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by FedRegister 13y ago
Everyone knows that they're doing it and agrees it should be done as a matter of policy First, many didn't know that they were doing it. Second, as an American citizen I surely don't agree that it should be doing it as a m
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by FedRegister 13y ago
Then you're a fool. Operation Northwoods[1] talked about killing American civilians on American soil. It had the backing of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the CIA, and the Secretary of Defense. So let's not think that there isn&#x2
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by FedRegister 13y ago
I had a bank that frequently double-charged me for services and threw my balance below zero. I wouldn't trust their records of what I spent for anything.
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by FedRegister 13y ago
Or I can use X11 forwarding over SSH to access GNUcash from my desktop which seems a lot safer than hoping that whatever VPS I have on the Internet is magically secure.
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by FedRegister 13y ago
Thank you for bringing up 'The Making of a Chef'. I'm a classically trained computer scientist and my fiancee is a classically trained French chef, and we've often joked about how much (at the highest end) the programmi
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by FedRegister 13y ago
The last place I want my personal finance details is in "the cloud".
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by FedRegister 13y ago
>You can minimize failure if the point of a system is not output but process. If the point of a system is process then you have the classic "the bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the bureaucracy" situation. At some
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by FedRegister 13y ago
And a crack addict wants to do crack. Sometimes people don't know what is best for them. That's why we let courts decide custody instead of the child. That said, in spite of my (probably uninformed) opinion, the courts in New Yo
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by FedRegister 13y ago
That's okay. They'll just give that poor officer paid vacation, er, suspension with pay, until the incident dies down.
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by FedRegister 13y ago
It makes sense to lay (some of the) blame at the feet of her parents because they had a choice. Everybody has a choice. Mom didn't have to smoke crack. Dad didn't have to deal drugs. Did they have the same opportunities as ric
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by FedRegister 13y ago
The children are the victims. I'm certainly not blaming them for the circumstances they were born into. I am certainly blaming the state for forcing the family back together to satisfy the "families must live together" crow
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by FedRegister 13y ago
They didn't ask for a unemployed crack addict mother and an unemployed convict father, and yet the state seems to have given them back to both the unemployed crack addict mother and unemployed convict father. They were living in diffe
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by FedRegister 13y ago
"Nearly a quarter of Dasani’s childhood has unfolded at Auburn, where she shares a 520-square-foot room with her parents and seven siblings." Okay, not to victim blame, but eight children when her parents can't even support t
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by FedRegister 13y ago
Ethics? In my science and technology? I'm sorry, I'm too busy bootstrapping my lean startup gearing up for a long runway so I can exit right before the pivot. I'm sure someone else like the EFF can figure out the ethics pa
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by FedRegister 13y ago
Yes, if that subscription came with one free (e)book from my suggestion list per month.
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by FedRegister 13y ago
Chaffing and winnowing[1], as proposed by Rivest, can handle this. It'd be interesting to use this as a trunking mechanism to bundle many conversations together. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaffing_and_winno
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by FedRegister 13y ago
Technology is only good if you know how to use it (or can find out). If you keep the underclasses poor and dumb they will never be able to afford it and won't know how to use it. This is why the digital divide is such an issue.
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by FedRegister 13y ago
So if something is intentionally misleading by the Robber Barons of Silicon Valley ("it's a meritocracy" is the 21th Century version of "there's gold in them thar' hills" - the only people getting rich are
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by FedRegister 13y ago
Yes, and had you read my GP post you'd know that everyone in the topic agrees that BoA should be litigated against for damages by the affected homeowners and the people ordering the bogus foreclosures charged criminally.
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by FedRegister 13y ago
Yet you'll still hear many people parrot the line that SV is a "meritocracy".
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by FedRegister 13y ago
Most constituents are too ignorant to know this. That's why I support repealing the 17th Amendment to the US Constitution[1]. The House of Representatives is apportioned by population, and its job is to represent the interests of the
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by FedRegister 13y ago
That's a bogus argument. A mortgage is a private agreement between you and a bank. A bank foreclosing on a property without a mortgage (as at least Bank of America is alleged to have done on several occasions) is a tort that should b
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by FedRegister 13y ago
> "Our first priority is to keep Americans safe from the threat of terrorism." bzzt! , oh, sorry, that's not the correct answer. The correct answer is set out in the oath that all US Senators take upon being sworn into o
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by FedRegister 13y ago
Well, yeah. The whole point of a text editor it to edit plain text.
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by FedRegister 13y ago
Or implement BGP advertisements based on prefix so you can filter out bullshit advertisements from bozos.
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by FedRegister 13y ago
Pitch in to archive all of their releases or a donation to Archive Team[1] to archive all of their releases. [1] http://www.archiveteam.org/

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