antipaganda

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by antipaganda 17y ago
It's not what you're given, it's what you do with what you've got. http://www.mysongbook.de/msb/songs/w/whatyoud.html
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by antipaganda 17y ago
If I learned what you were trying to teach me, I would be happy... afterwards. Being happy during the course is not required.
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by antipaganda 17y ago
I'm shocked that none of you have seen the real problem here. It was right there at the end of the article - this is a small percentage of the market we're talking about here, 1% in Africa, similarly small numbers in the rest of the third w
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by antipaganda 17y ago
Or indeed gravitic monopoles.
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by antipaganda 17y ago
New Zealand not environmentally progressive? Oh come on. Who else spends so much money to protect a stupid parrot that lives on the ground and can't fight?
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by antipaganda 17y ago
Cellphones are making a MAJOR impact on the lives of billions of people in the third world right now, and no-one's mentioned them so far. They were invented recently, and disruptive technologies and cultural artifacts based on cheap mobiles
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by antipaganda 17y ago
People like my grandmother who were adopted, and thus didn't know their family history, can now get a genetic analysis done to see if they are more likely to get breast cancer, or any of a host of other ailments. Can't get much more practic
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by antipaganda 17y ago
If the satellite is geosynchronous, the shadow is moving at over a thousand km/h.
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by antipaganda 17y ago
Giant Hello Kitty robots which shoot heart-shaped laser beams from their eyes. And yes, in Japan that is considered a practical spinoff.
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by antipaganda 17y ago
But why the fuck would you want to blow down a windmill? Apart from the visuals and the twanging as the blades hit the ground.
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by antipaganda 17y ago
Who has the model now? And who was engaging in dualism? :D
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by antipaganda 17y ago
Why is price-unification good? Price-competition is better for consumers.
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by antipaganda 17y ago
I think you misunderstand the nature of stemming; the point is that each and every user's inbox would have to be processed individually, and apparently Google doesn't think the overhead is worth the results.
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by antipaganda 17y ago
Holy mother of #$%#. This is one of those "Skynet" (or, to be less alarmist, "Data") moments I've been seeing with increasing frequency over the last few years. The first was Big Dog. This level of dexterity is just incredible. But the spee
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by antipaganda 17y ago
While I agree with you to an extent, Neal Stephenson also gets panned for writing long-winded stuff, like Anathem or the Baroque Trilogy. I just view it as dense brain-food, but some people get turned off.
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by antipaganda 17y ago
No,seriously; there are a TON of people online who hate ads and NEVER click on them. Ever. So we use AdBlock.
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by antipaganda 17y ago
Immortality. With that we can solve lots of other problems. Efficiency, see?
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by antipaganda 17y ago
I think we have ourselves a READER.
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by antipaganda 17y ago
What makes you think we're not a nation of criminals? We're just really GOOD criminals, so no-one's caught us yet.
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by antipaganda 17y ago
Yeah, sorry, but Angels and Demons wasn't real.
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by antipaganda 17y ago
Giving indulgence money to rich bishops, to allow them to eat, drink, and bugger the choirboys, is ethically different to compensating for your high-consumption lifestyle by giving poverty-stricken subsistence farmers fresh water and their
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by antipaganda 17y ago
Could be worse, mate. Could be Thailand!
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by antipaganda 17y ago
Mainstream US media does not usually report on the huge number of people who get detained by Public Security in China; as you say, it's a totalitarian government and these things happen. However, this man is very important to China, even th