ThePherocity

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by ThePherocity 14y ago
Okay, fine, I'm being an asshole.
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
I read the article. The author intends to create an environment where a select few take a risk so many can gain access to the material.
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
I hope he gets hit by a truck today. I really do. There isn't, nor will there ever be an argument where the enablement of child molestation and rape is acceptable. And if there is collateral damage, then so be it. I'd rather 100 go to j
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
Since ethics isn't fixed, then what watermark do you suggest to define a universal ethics. It's like euthanasia, is it ethical for a doctor to commit murder if it's to stop terrible suffering? It was ethical to own slaves, but not ethical
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
I don't know, I'm not a patent lawyer. I'll let the experts figure it out.
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
Not only excusable, but encourageable. It's a LAW. It's maliable. If it's wrong, fix it. The reason we have them is to govern what we can and should do.
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
Of course they are, but they are paying licencing fees to use the features that they are. Otherwise they would be sued.
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
Well, absolutely, Samsung is leveraging Google's, and many companies R&D. But R&D isn't cheep, intuitive, or obvious. Blackberry decided not to copy Apple very much, still created some great phones from a product view and they died.
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
Again, that may be an act of war, but since it's not against it's own people, it's not Orwellian.
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
No, I'm not, and the reason you think I am is because you're not looking at the whole picture. Apple invests it's shareholder dollars in R&D on the promise that they will return on that investment. Apple spent years getting it right,
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
Apple is a company compelled to be greedy. It's actually the law for Apple to make as much money as possible given any legal and ethical way it can. Suing another giant tech company over legitimate patents is ethical. The system is desig
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
Don't worry America, Canada still gets screwed by all y'all.
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
You won't have much of a choice after 5 years, all new cars will be semi-autonomous. A few year after that, people will enjoy the benefits so much that, that there won't be much demand for driveable cars. It's the same story as the horse
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
Since nothing about that is totalitarian at all, I don't think the term Orwellian is correct. Having computers recognize us and authorize or authenticate is solely at the whim of the consumer. It becomes Orwellian when the government dema
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
Well, no. You can look at an LCD monitor and say "look, prior art for a tablet" but that doesn't meet the legal meaning and requirements, and nor does this for the purposes of this case. Stop making the argument about Apple vs Google. Th
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
You're creating an actual instance of that object preloaded with whatever you need rather than a mock of that item which implements a fake implementation. They're not really competing since Mocks are most useful when mocking an interface,
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
Yea, once your model gets more complex than a dozen or so objects, then something like this is awesome. I only with there was an equivalent in ASP.Net MVC which is the current bill payer. (Plant is the closest I've seen, but not quite as
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
I think in order to stay positive one must ignore reality.
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
??? This doesn't even make a tiny bit of sense.
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
I wish my girlfriend had a simple flag, I seldom understand why she's mad, and when she explains it, I just get more confused.
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
Actually, this really pisses me off. Heaven forbid that all the hard work we do as developers actually come with a reasonable compensation option... like money. I think more sites need to go pay only, I'm tired of every advertising compa
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
That's how we used to make GUIs. Miss those days.
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
The writing is on the wall though; Kinda has been for a while. I think this is why App.Net might actually get some traction. People will move when that's where all the cool features are, and none of the crappy ads. Maybe.
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
And look how that turned out... Just sayin
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
Agreed. Here is a suggestion to budding syntax creators: If 90% of the code is written by your pinky finger; stop. You're doing it wrong.
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
I'm stupid, epic fail? Nice.
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
It's funny, because for me this is it's greatest weakness. I prefer not to wonder if I'm making the wrong decision every line.
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
In most religions, it was a death sentence to leave the religion. So that couldn't possibly have had anything to do with it?
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
Religion has never filled a need. Religion is a placebo. It purports to do something, and cannot fulfill on its promise. No one, not one human needs a placebo. They NEED air to breath or they will die, they NEED shelter or they will fre
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
Purpose most certainly does not require religion. Social cohesion happens far better in the absence of religion. Finally, why would I need ritual. I loathe almost all pomp ant ritual. Regardless, you again need no religion for ritual. T

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