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by aes256 14y ago
It's fair to say I'm no expert on cultivating cannabis! I think the idea more generally (can't remember where I heard this, think it was one of the many documentaries focussing on dispensaries) was just that those growing 'street' weed aim
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by aes256 14y ago
My understanding is that it takes longer to grow CBD-rich indica strains than THC-rich sativa strains, and thus most 'street' cannabis is the latter kind. It gets you 'high' but is devoid of any significant medical benefits, and may in fact
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by aes256 14y ago
Get drunk, go to McDonalds. Bit of peer pressure. "Dude, try the Big Meth!" Congratulations, you are now addicted to meth.
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by aes256 14y ago
Heck, even if you're a couple of sixty-somethings who grow marijuana and donate large amounts of the profits to charity, you're still going to jail in the UK: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/10/19/british-couple-jailed-fo...
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by aes256 14y ago
This is about recreational, not medicinal use. Edit: Don't know why this is being downvoted. Medicinal and recreational use are separate issues, with separate arguments for and against each. To call cannabis prohibition "an attack on scienc
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by aes256 14y ago
> I'm surprised to learn the machines are not RAM upgradeable. That's a major negative. Between that, the glued-in batteries, the on-board storage, and the lack of an optical drive (i.e. a slot for a second hard drive), I'm really put o
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by aes256 14y ago
This is one of many reasons I am still wary of VMs and 'cloud' computing more generally. There's something about running your services on the same physical hardware as a bunch of other, potentially malicious, parties that just gives me the
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by aes256 14y ago
Is there really a need for a 24 hour laptop? A laptop that doesn't need charging throughout the day, sure, but I don't think charging a laptop overnight is a significant inconvenience for most people?
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by aes256 14y ago
My initial thought was "Wow, they really ripped off Facebook. How can they get away with this?" Then I remembered...
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by aes256 14y ago
This user (@mikko) has one of his tweets 'withheld' and the content of the tweet is changed to the withheld notice, but his followers can't work out whether the note is from Twitter or @mikko himself. I appreciate text has its uses as a low
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by aes256 14y ago
In many cases this is true, but the thrust of the article is that enthusiasts are able to make more efficient use of the resources available than entry-level users. Certainly one aspect of that is enthusiasts having the good sense to either
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by aes256 14y ago
> Tactically, if a stranger begins staring at me or targeting me in some odd way I consider them a threat to my life. Are you serious?
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by aes256 14y ago
Beyond any notion of it being a protest against the concept of a surveillance society, it's actually quite an interesting social experiment. The responses are fascinating. A lot of people quick to anger. Many more people who have some — I'm
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by aes256 14y ago
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say this is a brilliant, fascinating, and (from the one clip I've seen) well executed social experiment. This is similar to a strategy often employed by Scientology against their critics. Just go out a
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by aes256 14y ago
> This protest, I can get behind. The equivalence is much greater and they've targeted the people doing the surveillance. I don't see anything wrong with this practice? It's just parking enforcement. In my area, whenever a parking warde
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by aes256 14y ago
I'm a fairly strong privacy advocate, but even I don't think this particular kind of legislation is being implemented with malicious intent. It does serve a purpose, helping bring an awful lot of people to justice. By that I don't mean peop
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by aes256 14y ago
Head outside the major cities (London, Birmingham, Manchester, etc.) and these kind of vehicles are exceptionally rare.
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by aes256 14y ago
The fact that their livelihood depends on other people consuming the content they create in specific ways (i.e. remunerating them in the process) does not give them the right to limit the ways in which other people can consume said content.
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by aes256 14y ago
> If I could copy someone's birdhouse, and they could still keep it, why should they even bother putting time into making the birdhouse in the first place if the whole point was to make money off of it? In that case, there's no incentiv
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by aes256 14y ago
> But the only thing obligating them to do so in an absolute sense is copyright, and the moral compass of great swaths of the general public seems to have evolved quite decisively beyond it, and as problematic as that is for the current
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by aes256 14y ago
> This whole thing is turning into a PR disaster for Apple... Some variation on the Streisand Effect. Hardly a PR disaster. 99% of Apple customers don't have a clue this is even going on.
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by aes256 14y ago
At present I'm of the view that simply having a Facebook account, without actively contributing content, provides me with most of the benefits without any significant costs. What's more, I've started to notice a lot of my friends adopting
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by aes256 14y ago
The author goes into a fair amount of detail about the process, but that detail is ultimately useless to most people, because the overriding advice is "Don't try this at home, get an electrician to do it for you" Their main concern is clear
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by aes256 14y ago
I see your point, but you seem to be forgetting things like refrigerators, freezers, air conditioning units, etc. Granted you can survive without these devices, but it may be thoroughly unpleasant, result in an awful lot of spoilt food, a
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by aes256 14y ago
It's not quite that simple. Facebook has changed the way many people interact. Delete your Facebook and you will almost inevitably miss out. You will miss event invitations — "Oh, I sent out an invitation to everyone on Facebook, did you no
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by aes256 14y ago
> Seriously - I have no idea why there hasn't been a mass rejection of the flying experiences in the USA. One reason: Cost
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ITunes 11 delayed into November in order to "get it right"(news.cnet.com)
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by aes256 14y ago
I'm guessing a complete evacuation of the building would have been required regardless, which makes things a little trickier. Would they be able — or would it be advisable — to leave the fuel pumping, generators running and all operations u
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by aes256 14y ago
I can't believe it's still a viable business model. Granted they provide convenience and the ability for customers to use products in store before purchase, but I can't believe people still pay the price premium. I've only stepped foot in t
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by aes256 14y ago
Dixons is just one brand of Dixons Retail (formerly DSG International) which also owns Currys, PC World, etc. They rebranded all their high street stores to Currys.digital, and although store numbers have been declining, they are still a re

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