alacombe

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by alacombe 6y ago
> Why does EVERYTHING have sugar in it? Taste, mainly, because all the fat has been removed.
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by alacombe 6y ago
> I think you're missing the fact that illegalization is pushing these substances and their users into the black market These laws generally come from the local community, not the token "evil" <insert-color-of-choice&gt
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by alacombe 6y ago
France trial are not "jury of your peer" trial. If I'm not mistaken, only the "Cour d'assises" has jurors. "Being judged by your peer" is not an enshrined Right in Europe.
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by alacombe 6y ago
Replace the work "violent racists" with "kulaks".
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by alacombe 6y ago
> ..., largely at the request of the right Operation Choke-Point was actually an Obama era policy.
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by alacombe 6y ago
> We wouldn't have modern civilization without IP law. Disney focused copyright laws have nothing to do with the development of modern civilization. There is plenty of case where overly tight licensing has proven detrimental to a te
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by alacombe 6y ago
Depends what Canada, cities are full of thin-skinned pussies, country side folks are ballsy as can be, even the women.
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by alacombe 6y ago
Do you mean Bernie-bro Joe Rogan is "alt-right" ?
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by alacombe 6y ago
"Don't be evil" - It's been forgotten about a long time ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_evil
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by alacombe 6y ago
How much cash did the Clinton Foundation receive from foreign donors ?
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by alacombe 6y ago
The problem in Europe is a cultural problem, SWE are seen as factory workers, only with managerial position being seen as "successful" ones.
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by alacombe 6y ago
The Obama AG killed Aaron Swartz.
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by alacombe 6y ago
> This country has never accepted calls for violent overthrow of our democratic system as "freedom of expression" This is literally how the US were born, cf. The Declaration of Independance. I'm fairly certain King George
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by alacombe 6y ago
> Parler was providing material support to terrorists So is Twitter, by having Iranian leaders account left alone.
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by alacombe 6y ago
> As a buisness owner i may refuse some one/entitiy service, it is how the free market works. Can a business in the US refuse you service if you're gay / black ? Same argument applies.
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by alacombe 6y ago
> Except Twitter and Youtube routinely moderate their content. Counter argument : twitter letting "Hang Mike Pence" trends.
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by alacombe 6y ago
> AR15, a widely trafficked gun forum Given the amount of time it's been openly operating, if there was anything done related to gun trafficking, the ATF would have shut it down long ago. Just because a site has a LEGAL private sale
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by alacombe 6y ago
> I don't see how it's relevant. Instead of looking at the neighbor's mess, clean up your own mess first. Fact is most of the former "free" (as in Liberty) world has been setting up the perfect legal building blo
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by alacombe 6y ago
Don't make it about consumers then. Though, I'm fairly certain shareholders and Board members are the first to blame in this mess, by pushing/forcing the company to release an unfinished/unpolished game.
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by alacombe 6y ago
> ... creeping towards authoritarianism Because all the shit going on in the US isn't ?
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by alacombe 6y ago
It's just a freaking game, for heaven's sake... By the same standard, Peter Jackson deceived me and stole 9h of my life with the turd which is "The Hobbit".
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iPhone 7 with dead NAND netbooting unmodified Ubuntu 20.04(reddit.com)
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by alacombe 6y ago
... as long as there is no confusion possible for the end-user.
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by alacombe 6y ago
> It cannot be emphasized enough how much the recent USB specifications are dropping the ball. This outcome was pretty obvious, it's literally in the name of the damn thing: UNIVERSAL Serial Bus. The only way to achive that is to
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by alacombe 6y ago
You can't blame the lack of "enforcement" to be the cause of the ills created by bad standards. I'm fairly certain that 2 official certified USB-3 cables can brick devices even though the physical form factor is the same
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by alacombe 6y ago
> I'm honestly curious - where is the line drawn between a service being used to do "questionable" things and it being removed? Whether or not it's "right leaning".
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by alacombe 6y ago
> Wikileaks does, however, keeps tons of information about its internal operations secret... It shouldn't... as long as its action, as whistleblowers, shouldn't be prosecutable either. ps: I do think that both Manning AND Snowd
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by alacombe 6y ago
I've not been sworn to serve The People.
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by alacombe 6y ago
> The entire idea of a representative democracy is we elect people to act for us. How do you keep elected representatives accountable then ? Their words alone is not worth the storage space it's being recorded on...
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by alacombe 6y ago
Why would it be of the interest of any US citizen for elected officials to have any "secret" ? Full transparency should be paramount.

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