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by alan_cx 13y ago
Yeah, it is surprising. Must be a reason for it. Clearly he's lost most if not all of his money, but Im sure he has some public appeal which would be dangerous for Putin. Or maybe he just agreed to come to Europe, buy a football club a
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Hmmm, no. One of the elements of being a successful human being is being a convincing liar. "Does my bum look big in this"? "Hi, wow you look great...." And so on. Humans lie. If they didn't, they'd be in cons
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Well, yes. Otherwise, why bother? Put it this way, if you or I hacked say, I dunno... NASA, looking for proof of , oh random subject... aliens... Would it be a defence to say, "I was just looking, I did no harm. I didn't use any d
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by alan_cx 13y ago
UNICEF help people who can't help themselves. There for they are leftie liberal socialists and a great threat to the American way...
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by alan_cx 13y ago
"Do you have a source for that?" Yeah, I get the reason for asking that, but as a question, its rather devalued these days as far as the US and its TLA's are concerned. Given the disturbing unrestrained scope of US spying its
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by alan_cx 13y ago
By allowing these companies to be one step ahead of any EU action.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
I'd love to see a Switzerland of data, but these days Switzerland isnt able to hide money any more, under pressure from, well, guess who...
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by alan_cx 13y ago
I would go with that if it were opt in. But deliberately, its not. Have to ask why, and what that implies. The whole point is to humiliate people who want access to porn. It has nothing what so ever to do with protecting children. The UK go
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by alan_cx 13y ago
One opt out I've seen requires a credit card. One might not have one. Before you ask, me. I have an internet connection, but no credit cards. Not all ISP cover all of the UK. You also assume that the person wanting to bypass the ISP fi
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by alan_cx 13y ago
I think it is always a huge mistake to assume people mean the literal meaning of words they use. Im not even sure people using such words in a sort of banter (Im sure I could have chosen a better word there...) environment even think of the
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by alan_cx 13y ago
BT have bought rights to football, where racism, sexism, homophobia and violence are rife, despite what apologists try to have us believe. But that's fine. And thats just the UK. In Europe, football is too often associated with far rig
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Why is thanking in advance not an expression of professional confidence in the person you are emailing? And there for a huge compliment?
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by alan_cx 13y ago
As far a web stuff is concerned, I wouldn't call anything other than pure HTML minimalist. Maybe I'd suggest a table is a minimalist framework. But judging by the other comments, Im the weirdo. Which is fair enough.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
"He wasted valuable city resources on an experiment the outcome of which he should have predicted, being a criminal attorney in Roxbury." No. He used city resources to audit a city activity buy running an experiment to prove a hyp
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Not unless these superbugs are online. BTW, as your karma should show you, HN has no sense of humor.
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British scientists 'print' eye cells in world first(independent.co.uk)
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Wont that increase sales volumes, resulting in prices going down? Wont that help the poor? Its this actually a result of that in the first place? Rich people bought lots of expensive pads, volumes go up, production gets cheaper, and so on.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Interesting to me that US tech firms are more bothered about US international reputation that the government. Anyway, I have said a few times these tech companies should step up to the plate and it looks like they are. Good. People might cr
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Classic government compartmentalization. No one out side the US gov had a clue how big the scheme was and how big or small their part was in it. Now they know. Not suspect, but know .
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by alan_cx 13y ago
For me, end of any ideas that the moon landings were faked, is faking it such that the monitoring Soviets would have been fooled, or that the Soviets knew it was faked and kept quiet. The USSR would have absolutely monitored everything they
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by alan_cx 13y ago
"I am an American patriot." If anything scares me, its that. I know what he has written straight afterwards, but it still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Its all very well the author trying to define the word to s
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by alan_cx 13y ago
1) Are US taxes half EU taxes then? 2) "Middle class", do you mean working classes? 3) Why do so many people think its a choice between the two, socialism and capitalism? What people want is a sensible compromise where both system
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Always wondered; if there is a god, is stuff like this a demonstration of his contempt for humanity or proof that he does indeed have a sense of humor? Anyway, thanks for posting, it was hilarious.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Hmmmmmmm, perhaps, but I'd suggest that: Stupidity is negligence. Negligence is selfish. That makes it malicious. Its willful which ever way one chose to spin it. IMHO, such phrases are not much different to ones like "what do you
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by alan_cx 13y ago
No, not really. Its certain areas where there are broad band black spots. Your post implies is a UK thing. On top of that, the idea is to get it done, as opposed to mucking around waiting for "innovation", which was happening to
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by alan_cx 13y ago
"This is a very common viewpoint among technical people, sadly" Really? The usual image is that techie geek types lap up scifi and fantasy, which when done properly are all about the human condition.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Well worth looking at the rest of the site. Loads of great projects worth a look at.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Ah, I used to work as at a place that used a load of old PCs for training. Often some would refuse to boot. The solution was a sharp slap on the side of the case. I guess these PCs knew they were naughty.... ;)
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Mean while, they Tories have rolled back legal aid, which means the poor cant get decent lawyers any more. Non Brits might be amused to know that this Tory government wanted to out source poor people's legal representation to a haulage
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by alan_cx 13y ago
So if I put a gun to your head, and you give me money, you haven't been forced to, right? Are you PG? No? Then who are you to decide when a discussion ends round here?

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