GHFigs

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by GHFigs 16y ago
Looking at things objectively isn't "partisan stuff". Objectively, any information revealed about an informant puts that informant at greater risk of exposure. You can argue the trade-off all you like, but to ignore what you're trading aw
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by GHFigs 16y ago
And if he doesn't?
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by GHFigs 16y ago
the fact that the government was kicking him out of the military for being gay If that is a fact, is there a source? "An Army spokesman, Lt. Col. Eric Bloom, said Manning, who entered the Army as a private in October 2007, was demoted las
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by GHFigs 16y ago
I'm confused and disappointed by this comment. I can't decide if what I wrote was that unclear or if you're just flaming me, as I didn't say anything about sovereignty, anything about law not having foundation in force, or anything about de
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by GHFigs 16y ago
The means of mass reproduction (e.g. the printing press) have not existed for nearly so long as you seem to think.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
Would you respect intellectual property on the wheel or the hand axe in a stone age setting ? In such a setting there was no notion of "property" at all beyond brute force. Eventually it was discovered that greater things can be accomplis
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by GHFigs 16y ago
you have this website that you control ...and suddenly you've taken on about a million problems that are tangential to the problem of keeping in touch with people.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
Netbook makers are getting too good a deal on Windows to switch back to shipping flavors of Linux, at least for the US market. There is far more demand for "cheap Windows laptop" than just "cheapest laptop", if that makes sense. That said,
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by GHFigs 16y ago
General Taguba's report showed that a man was forced to have sex with a teenage boy. It did not. Please do not mistake me for someone unwilling or unable to do my own research, or someone interested in being lied to. This will be my fina
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by GHFigs 16y ago
...there was the report by Major General Taguba which included in it the fact that a man was forced to rape his son while under U.S. custody. There is no such finding in the Taguba Report. One can hide behind the fact that it was Iraqis
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by GHFigs 16y ago
documents about the U.S. torturing people Do you have a specific example of this? Every instance I have seen or heard about refers to the actions of Iraqi security forces. hasn't had any adverse affect on the support for the war. It's pr
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by GHFigs 16y ago
4 of the top 20 super computers in the world, and another 2 in the top 100[1], are operated by the US National Nuclear Security Administration. What do they do? " One of the primary missions of NNSA is to maintain and enhance the safety, se
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by GHFigs 16y ago
You could do it in a weekend.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
save the community a shitload of work Even in the parallel universe in which Microsoft has this obligation it is fulfilled many times over by making the product in the first place.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
"People should stop asking me to follow them now."
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by GHFigs 16y ago
farmville, mobster games, etc etc which are all flash. Both Farmville (60+ million users) and Mafia Wars (45+ million users) have been ported to iOS.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
A font file is not just a compilation of vector shapes. It is essentially a small (but potentially complex) program describing their proper rasterization under different conditions. Just copying the shapes as rendered at a certain size by a
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by GHFigs 16y ago
Give Opera a chance. It's feels light/fast enough that I use it happily every day on a laptop almost a decade old and the keyboard shortcuts are fully configurable.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
I don't know who this Jobs character is, but he obviously doesn't know many of the 24 principles of maximum productivity or the 37 ways to unleash creative potential. He should probably spend more time reading articles about how to zen-up
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by GHFigs 16y ago
It still doesn't know that I'm a dog.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
"Furthermore, the important books in my library are the unread books."
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by GHFigs 16y ago
Is this high school? Yes. Though Tumblr and 4chan both have older users, the ones that participate in this kind of thing "seriously" are generally of that cliquish high school mindset and narrow worldview characteristic of but not limited
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by GHFigs 16y ago
It's not obvious from the title, but this is about Instagram. And worth the read, especially if you don't "get" Instagram. This stood out as generalizable, though: I still regularly use [X], but that usage pales in comparison to how [Y] ha
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by GHFigs 16y ago
Unless I'm missing something You are. Instagr.am is itself a social network and at least as much about looking at photos as sharing them. Where sharing is concerned, it's aimed at sharing across multiple sites at once, and quickly. The fi
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by GHFigs 16y ago
A bit of humility maybe? Why? If you think your product is the best, say so. If you think your product is revolutionary, say so. If you think your product is magical, say so. If you think your product is defining the future, say so. The o
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by GHFigs 16y ago
Source?
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by GHFigs 16y ago
7" is a world different than 3.5-4.0" This is why I think the author came frustratingly close to having a good point. If 7" is so different, then shouldn't applications be different? Shouldn't there be more applications making use of th
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by GHFigs 16y ago
Wikipedia seems to say that Sony buys more than Apple The table on the Samsung page lists companies by fracton of Samsung's total sales, not just flash memory. Nor, for that matter, does Apple only buy flash memory from Samsung.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
You obviously didn't play enough Missile Command as a kid.

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