Vivtek

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by Vivtek 13y ago
a lack of local tech talent that can build viable alternatives to the US cloud services. It is amazing to me that someone could say this with a straight face.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Well, if Telekom is on the case, the US has nothing to fear.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
You remind me of the guys I knew at Eli Lilly. Those unfortunate enough to end up in technically oriented departments are warned not to learn too much - it will limit their career to learn about things instead of making relationships . I
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by Vivtek 13y ago
It never helped much for health care; I'm not betting the farm on it helping for surveillance. The people in charge already have theirs. They don't really care about America's global economic competitiveness because their b
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by Vivtek 13y ago
This reminds me of Masha the Bear, in Misha i Masha (my own transliteration, can you tell?). That image of the old guy who lives out in the woods and can fix anything seems really Russian (also very American, actually). I want to be that gu
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by Vivtek 13y ago
I suppose if you want to be a cog in a machine instead of a human being, this is a reasonable position to take. Time you "waste" is time the overworked IT department doesn't have to, in a company that's not too big to fu
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Or, you know, they could have and enforce data access rules to limit data access.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
I thought France disavowed that involvement? Wasn't it just Austria bloviating, or was it hasty ass-covering by France?
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Old news in a new context is tantamount to fresh.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Huh. I hadn't thought to be accused of manufacturing a dispute, and I note that you seem to have done just fine responding. I suppose my point was that there is an underlying cause here, of encroaching authoritarianism in American juri
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Whether it goes to trial or not, whether the evidence is untainted or not, the primary problem with the war on drugs is the extrajudicial punishment system that is seizure of property on mere suspicion. Giving the DEA tips is paramount to
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Yes. There is a really strong reason why the Germans remember that privacy is important. We should listen to them.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
This story doesn't mention the FBI at all, man. It mentions six plainclothes guys in three black SUVs who've obviously had some tactical training, and leaves it at that. The point being that America has become a country where six
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by Vivtek 13y ago
The cops in question were apparently local members of a Joint Terrorism Task Force. They get these tips from "the government", check them out, the people are once again not terrorists, and they then talk to them freely like normal
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by Vivtek 13y ago
The stated policy under the Bush Administration is that if there was even a 1% chance that a lead might be legitimate, then the government should pursue it with all available resources. The use of resources shows that we're serious - s
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Drip, drip, drip...
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Neither of which has a dynamically generated price, and thus neither of which would be subject to this patent.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Can't deny the man can talk - and can identify a damn good speechwriter when he finds one.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Change I'm forced to believe in.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
It's almost as though form-over-content and superstimuli combined with an easy-cash mentality aren't compatible with long-term profitability! What is this world coming to!
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by Vivtek 13y ago
But none of their friends. More enemies means more federal funds doled out to Halliburton!
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Well, you've certainly made a great point there, swordswinger12!
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Oh. Your parents and grandparents aren't Americans, then? Look, if you hang with the hipsters who "consume" better media, then sure, you won't have any clue what the vast majority of the public cares about. It's not
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Tens of thousands caring out of a population of 350 million is 0.03% of the population. That's kinda tepid. But should Paula Deen have been fired from Food Network? Crisis of epic proportions!
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by Vivtek 13y ago
There's a good point, the cultural one. No, I really mind how excited children can get about everything - it's the first time for them! Their highs are incredibly high, and their lows are incredibly low, partly because they have n
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Well, to be fair, anywhere the Habsburgs ruled is like this because that's the way their empire worked. You could only get rich by exploiting others or engaging in corruption - or be born into it because your ancestors did that.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
That McD's in Belgrade is actually the place this American first tried a Big Mac. It was pretty good. The trend of demanding more work for less money is hardly restricted to Yugoslavia, though - it's crippled America, for one thi
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by Vivtek 13y ago
(Also, the guy in the picture is probably not depressed due to nihilism, but because he forgot to put a dropcloth down before painting - I know I've cursed myself for that one before.)
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Gifted children are intense? Has the author ever actually been around children? They're all intense. That's the nature of children! Of course, they may simply all be gifted until they're hammered into their little social b
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Then I find it dismaying that they know of it but intentionally refrained from mentioning it in the online edition. More dismaying, honestly, as they are specifically championing a panopticon solution to crime here and saying that increase

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