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Nwallins
17y ago
Eh? If the stalk is mounted radially from the centerline of the steering wheel, you move the it in the same direction (clockwise or counter-) as the steering wheel. e.g. To turn left, you turn the steering wheel counter-clockwise and likew
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> (and I can't think of a single example of non-forked projects merging). Merb and Rails.
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When did you stop beating your wife?
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Print Link: http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health_medicine/4327...
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17y ago
It ain't simple.
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It implies that the older item is comparatively useless -- i.e. completely outclassed.
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17y ago
How about having to select the (masked) text, to take it a step further?
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17y ago
Print Link: http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/08/aig20090...
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17y ago
> Could you imagine something like that happening in Castro's Cuba, Saddam's Iraq, or Communist Russia? Also, Zimbabwe.
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Who needs a bookshelf when you've got the Street?
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17y ago
FYI, multiply by 10 to roughly convert sq.m to sq.f
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17y ago
> vote down ... in Google. Wait, what? You can vote for/against google search results?
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> My point is that the issue of free speech does not seem to be related to the probability of having poor governance. And this is coming from a person who was a pretty big believer in free speech being a guarantor of good governance. I
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> First of all, the article speaks of journalists as a homogenous group which is ridiculous since they are neither created equal nor do they act as a single group. This is not ridiculous. I think it's perfectly valid to consider the qu
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17y ago
That labor has to create value, though, right? No one would get paid to dig a hole on Monday and fill it back up on Tuesday, ad nauseum...
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17y ago
I am not saying it is indisputable, but the article did a much better job of supporting its arguments and conclusions. I did not detect any confusion. What is 'the manner in which businesses have been run over the past 20 years', why does
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17y ago
> investors have lost their place at the front of the political line. That's the shame. They were at the front of a legal, financial line. That one's place in the political line should trump the former is the cause for concern.
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> I like well formatted text that doesn't require user intervention every time I go to a new page. That's sort of the entire fucking POINT of web design. I totally agree. Unfortunately, many commercial pages present poorly-formatted t
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> makes it sound like Americans have some special individuality gene, while the Dutch are all genetically predisposed to socialism. It's called culture -- not genetics. Would you agree that there are several important distinctions betw
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> The text fills the browser window, making each line far too long to read comfortably. This is easily rectified by a single click and drag to resize the browser window to your preferred column width. I for one much prefer print links f
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> Adblock developers escalated it into some sort of weird war Some hyperbole for sure. Nothing gets around the fact that NoScript overstepped very clear and natural boundaries. If I had been the target, I would probably overreact as we
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> they still estimate themselves to be in the top quarter and they also estimate themselves to be better than those in other quarters. Isn't a top quarter member 'better' than those in the other (lower) quarters by definition?
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* But alas, such a job does not exist. * Not sure if this is truly relevant, but Dekalb County in Georgia has a CEO position. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Jones
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18y ago
Wow, that took me a while to unwind. It wasn't immediately clear to me what "I can't, and don't want to, figure out the last part" referred to. You were expressing apprehension at exploring why those particular attributes confer a high s
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Print Link -- One page, mostly text: http://www.esquire.com/print-this/honesty0707
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that's still begging the question. What is? This is the salient point: running it through the reading software at my home certainly is not illegal.
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Only because no one else pointed it out: I have the same problem, I just don't approve of 'style' No kidding, comma splicer! There are lots of personal style That's certainly one of them! and it does amazing It sure does! but there a
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18y ago
In the realm of unmeasurable and unobservable, I agree that the empirical method is impotent, and science can only conject, in a manner similar to religion.
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> It reads as if the scientist is completely and entirely committed to the rational, while cleverly mentioning that those identifying with religion clearly toss the evidence out of the window. I believe the scientific community is def
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18y ago
The "scripting" category with Perl, Python, and Ruby.
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