Vivtek

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by Vivtek 13y ago
Yes, exactly that, as in arm-behind-your-back marched to the train station under guard. If they didn't like your look, anyway.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
"There are alternatives to flying". Try driving to Puerto Rico or Hawaii.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Addendum to this, by the way, after talking it over with my wife (who is herself Hungarian): Hungary is a small country. There are 10 million people here, and for five hundred years they've been subjects of one or another foreign king
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Nothing I said there doesn't apply to people anywhere in the world, and most especially including America. But I can't tell your intent with this statement - you could be ironically noting that America is in the same boat, or you
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by Vivtek 13y ago
As in Hungarian ethnic Jews telling me how sneaky Jews are. It's kind of weird.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Dude, I know Jews here who openly hate Jews. Hungarians talk a lot of bullshit.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Just a note, for anybody jumping on the Oh My God Hungary bandwagon: the people who passed this law and the people who are vocal antisemites and anti-Roma are not the same people. Fidesz is likely to lose the next election; they've rea
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Don't worry, you're safe in Budapest. What's going on with Jobbik is pretty clearly the rich fanning the flames of division in order to cement control of the economy. Although I suppose that's what most antisemitism alw
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Because he doesn't have a time machine?
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by Vivtek 13y ago
When will they admit that they killed DVDs themselves due to their fear of piracy? The more copy protection they put on them, the less likely any given DVD was likely to work. In the 90's we rented a lot of DVDs. By the time Netflix
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Especially since they're so big it's a continual temptation to force legislation to preserve what they have now. If they were smaller, so that this weren't even an option, they'd have adapted.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
What, by mentioning that there is a group of people who blow my mind, I'm being partisan? What is the matter with you? Did a liberal frighten your mother? Did I say "all conservatives" are inconsistent? No. I said there ar
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by Vivtek 13y ago
... or so they're led to believe. Good PR is 90% of any battle.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
I know there are plenty of conservatives worried about both - they're not the ones blowing my mind. Why does this have to be such a partisan thing for you ? But in answer to your second question, it's not progressive liberals who
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by Vivtek 13y ago
To make it truly effective, you'd be sending your true message steganographically encoded in otherwise unexceptional text about business matters.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
What blows my mind is the conservatives worried about the government taking their guns - but not at all worried about the government knowing they called the gun store yesterday or paid $300 there last Friday.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Indeed - I think my brain short-circuited there somehow and I took "pro" to mean "anti".
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Yeah, I think if it were going to go away it would have done so over the weekend. The fact that it didn't - that in fact major news media still had significant stories and editorials about it - means it's here to stay. Which is go
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by Vivtek 13y ago
He chose his own name intentionally? Or a time traveler visited Joseph Heller?
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Accompany one of them for an immigration hearing sometime. You'll realize how wrong you are.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
No. I told them if they gave me a subpoena I'd give them what they wanted, and they promised a couple of times that they were working on it, then I never heard from them again. Which is exactly the way I handled every other request to
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Pro-gun control? You don't remember the one with the gorillas, I think it was, advocating for gorilla control and with people complaining that the keeping of gorillas in public was a Constitutional right, and even if a few people in st
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Or each company sets up a continuous mirror. NSA has direct access to the data without (legalistically) direct access to the servers . Everybody's happy except democracy. Not that I think this is the case - I suspect your scenario
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by Vivtek 13y ago
For a while. Don't worry, Greenwald will always have plenty of slimy things to report on.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Ah. This one is actually kind of credible. But if the client was already accused of terrorism, then this monitoring was on his end, and surely covered by a specific warrant. So this isn't (presumably) the kind of massive data hoovering
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by Vivtek 13y ago
I don't see how your question follows from my post. If you intend to imply that I agree with the NSA that Germany is a US possession, then you're wrong. In the 80's I protested American occupation personally. However, it&#x27
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Speaking as a leftie, we haven't had an "our guy" since maybe Carter. If you think Obama is left-wing, I have some nice beachfront property you might be interested in. He talked a good game in 2008, though.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
I'd say it's far more likely that the border official noticed that this girl only had a return ticket a year from entry, searched her name on Facebook, and found she was lying. They're really picky about employment vs. touris
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Essen. Anyone interested in traveling the US to experience everyday life there as an intern or an au pair should be careful with their correspondence. The staff of the immigration authorities appear to be happy to read along on social netwo
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by Vivtek 13y ago
And here's the flip side of Google Translate. German doesn't react well to n-gram statistics; too many long-distance dependencies. Also translating the city of "Essen" as "Food" is hilarious.

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