PhileasNietzche

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by PhileasNietzche 3y ago
They're not stealing anything. People should read the legal contracts they sign or to which they otherwise agree. Streaming services typically include a clause about the right to remove content for any reason and regardless of who has
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by PhileasNietzche 3y ago
Unfortunately, this is not the case with physical media that contains licensed material. IF a case were pursued, you would likely pay whatever penalty without any real contest (like 99% of criminals who attempt an insanity plea).
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by PhileasNietzche 3y ago
It's billed as a gaming laptop, but I'd say that the ROG Flow X13 fits the bill as well as any 13" laptop could in 2023.
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by PhileasNietzche 3y ago
"The Boy and the Heron" couldn't be considered inflammatory to Western audiences plagued by guilt as opposed to presenting them with a question loosely meaning, "how do you live with yourself?".
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by PhileasNietzche 4y ago
To the luck point, there are plenty of places in the head and neck where an injury won't kill a person. The consequences of the wound to his brain might never be apparent to anyone other than those close to him.
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by PhileasNietzche 4y ago
The very basics of storytelling. By definition, you need to be following the "very vague" definition here. Don't read too much into it and don't overthink it, because it's the opposite of what the author (a stellar
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by PhileasNietzche 4y ago
I'm glad I'm not some mook like Sousa was, contributing to the nationalism of a country like the United States of America while harboring the futile wish that evolution would just stop with my preferences.
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by PhileasNietzche 4y ago
Yes. It's so terrible what cinema did to music. Why can't we have a symphony in every theater? Oh wait. It probably has a bit to do with the ridiculous waste of space, not having nearly enough trained musicians to meet the demand
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by PhileasNietzche 4y ago
No. They don't. Florida and Texas are both cheaper and don't typically get remotely as cold as much of the mainland. There could be so many reasons for this, but it was basically just another excuse for a deluded, self-entitled US
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by PhileasNietzche 4y ago
Yes. Let us put the scientific accuracy of a scientific research paper to the side and focus on the difficulty of a nine-letter acronym. "Couldn't they have come up with something simpler, since the healing of soft-tissue injuries
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by PhileasNietzche 4y ago
>Sony doesn't produce phones, but remote controls. Their software is nice clean, but their camera is pretty bad, might as well buy Zenfone 8 if you don't mind camera. I imagine few who have used one would ever be able to say th
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by PhileasNietzche 4y ago
There's nothing outstanding about repeatedly handing out thousands of dollars to every taxpayer and increasing unemployment because all the gig economy workers were upset that there was no more gig economy for a few weeks. Just like ev
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by PhileasNietzche 4y ago
You're the head of an organization. We'll call it one of the most complex and wide-reaching organisation in the world. You have multiple organisations under your umbrella responsible for evaluating and handling threats to your org
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by PhileasNietzche 4y ago
Because the leader of your government at the time was in lockstep with the US?
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by PhileasNietzche 4y ago
Point? They're just using their knowledge base to excuse the OP's complaint with the typical and weak argument that "everybody does it" while assuming there was some insinuation or belief that oil barons are the only peo
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by PhileasNietzche 4y ago
Lest we forget how Joseph Stalin's military treated Russians who refused to fight (poorly armed and equipped, no less). Just like many of the sportspeople who aren't in the country, even those who have left since the invasion, the
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by PhileasNietzche 4y ago
Yes, yes. Calling out the Russians for amassing 100k troops on the border of a single bordering nation was such an egregious escalation. If I was Putin and didn't plan on invading, what leaders up to half a world away were saying about
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by PhileasNietzche 4y ago
I stand corrected. The 2017 XPS 17 retailed at only about $200 cheaper than the 2012 Air (with inflation, I'm being generous with the rounding.
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by PhileasNietzche 4y ago
https://www.pcmag.com/picks/the-best-laptops?test_uuid=06r4M... The XPS isn't a great example of the best PC hardware, but it IS a pretty good example of the best laptop performance one can get for the price of an
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by PhileasNietzche 4y ago
Absolutely. Nothing (that is $600+ cheaper) compares to the Apple touchpad (at least to my knowledge).