Vivtek

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by Vivtek 13y ago
I've always had the same problem. I don't need a purpose - I am alive. Here I am! Why does life need a meaning beyond just being life? It's to the point that I wonder whether I'm normal, really. Everybody else seems so
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by Vivtek 13y ago
There is a word for a friend-with-benefits for hire, and it's illegal in many places. For good reason.
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The main site (www) - I call that social, probably because I'm a dinosaur. But you've got a kind of ... well, curation thing going, and a personal contact locally. It's not just ads.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Aha! This describes nearly everywhere I've ever lived and worked! The brilliance of working exclusively online is that you can live in places like this - you take your work with you. I would never have gotten to know Ponce, Puerto Ric
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Yeah, the adrenaline of sheer terror can motivate you to amazing things for a while...
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Hey, cool! That would give me a great excuse to go into town! My email is in my profile, so let's definitely hook up. Neat venture you have there, by the way - social reservations, I like it! I just did the Craigslist thing in Budapest
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by Vivtek 13y ago
The school my daughter just graduated from is a great example. She had stories similar to yours - she captained the science team to a state win for the first time in a decade and it wasn't even announced. Golf? Sure, that's import
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by Vivtek 13y ago
It's because the new guy was a competent professional and realized the point of a school is to educate. That's a lucky strike for your school and not a general rule. Most school administrators wouldn't have had that foresig
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by Vivtek 13y ago
It's not the reference to philosophy and the classics I meant - it's actually the decline of academics in general in favor of Reality College, and it's not new. I regard the specific mention of philosophy and the classics as
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Well, we kind of have that planned. You don't have to be super rich, just have to know your places pretty well and buy smart, maybe something that needs a little work. We bought a house in Richmond, Indiana (more or less where I&#x27
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by Vivtek 13y ago
College sports undeniably have their benefits, creating university pride and an identity that no philosophy or classics program will ever match. Right there is the failure of the American experiment.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Oh man, yeah, decision fatigue. I've been a freelancer (web work and later technical translation) since 1996 and we've moved, kids and dog and all, from Indiana to Puerto Rico to Budapest, at will - and the one thing that makes it
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by Vivtek 13y ago
I've seen it quoted that if Americans could accept a 1946 standard of living, we could have a 2.6-hour workday - as it is, some of that 5.4 hours goes to extra cars and televisions, and most of it goes to bolster the income of the suff
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by Vivtek 13y ago
True enough - but I don't have to make it rigorous with an RFID chip, do I?
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Really? By identifying Greenwald as an activist and a "blogger" (which is shorthand for "amateur") and not identifying him as a journalist, Reuters most definitely is making a tacit statement of his role in society, wh
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by Vivtek 13y ago
I'll go one further on your first paragraph: I'm pretty sure I don't want something implanted in my arm that lets Google identify me . Passwords may have insecurity - but they also permit anonymity. I think people haven&#x27
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Oh, nice rhetoric. But yes, I am in fact saying that by classifying Greenwald as less than a full journalist (an activist, a blogger - anything but a professional who earns his living as a credentialed journalist), Reuters is tacitly suppor
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by Vivtek 13y ago
And for those not following along, Greenwald moved from Salon to the Guardian last year. As a journalist.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
I like how Reuters shies away from acknowledging Greenwald is a journalist . Apparently reporting on the US government makes you an activist these days.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Well, "protecting US crypto" pretty much seems restricted to "protecting official government US crypto", not just the unwashed masses.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Given that the display is happening from Google's server , then clearly there is absolutely no way for that to work without Google opening the file! It's richly bizarre that people have just today started to think about this proc
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by Vivtek 13y ago
We have the same sort of law, of course. It's illegal to sell yourself into slavery, illegal to sell human parts even if they're yours, illegal to grow and sell marijuana to your neighbor (um, well, that one's changing). So c
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by Vivtek 13y ago
And yet we are perfectly willing to accept the deaths of thousands of people in 2014 in exchange for keeping our current speed limits. Americans are profoundly unable to judge any question that contains the word "terrorism" ration
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Why is that even a question? Of course it's legal. It's in the terms of using their service in the first place. Nobody's forcing anybody to use Gmail, after all.
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So if I'm reading this right, they don't post pictures , but they made sure her name was easily Googleable? My name is Michael Roberts. Go ahead. Try to find out who I am from Google. I mean, sure, throw in my username here and y
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by Vivtek 13y ago
And did that invasion change anything? Were the Taliban or al Qaeda eliminated by that invasion? Did you notice that the exact same justification was used to attack neighboring Iraq? Sorry, but I happen to have lived through that year and t
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by Vivtek 13y ago
The frustrating thing to me is that this article simply shows that a medieval peasant got more vacation time than I do - but doesn't say anything at all about why , even though it's in the title.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Yeah, but asylum recipients (asylees?) don't get to choose where they are settled. You could end up in Oberunterschwabenhafen and not be allowed to leave the village. Germany is a bad choice for asylum - I mean, it's great that
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Yeah - re-entering the US is feeling more and more like entering an armed compound. I distinctly don't like it.
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Air travel still worked while it was regulated.

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