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by bbarnett 5y ago
Sure there is. Storing, and sharing lossless images. I find it amusing that you (and others) presume why some did a thing. Their motivations. If you want something stored for historical reasons, shared by media, news, archive.org, png pre
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by bbarnett 5y ago
Or leaked once, when your phone number appeared on a phone, with an evil app installed.
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by bbarnett 5y ago
There will be a licensing agreement, of course. (Napoleon Dynamite 'Gawd!')
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by bbarnett 5y ago
From my perspective, conversation doesn't stay rigidly locked onto one specific case. And, your comment appears (to me) more general, as you just say conmen... But anyhow, no biggie. Have a good one.
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by bbarnett 5y ago
My point is that a con artist isn't just a guy on the street, but can exude professionalism and officiousness. My reference to a ponzi scheme is certainly in "con artist" turf, as is kickstarters and vapourware peddlers. I do
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by bbarnett 5y ago
Cons take many forms, and a conman doesn't have to be a single dude. IMO, Google cons people daily, delivering one thing, after promising another. EG, we don't track, then being caught tracking. But larger cons happen all the tim
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by bbarnett 5y ago
What predates what, does not imply causation though. Without the FLQ, and moderate Quebeckers seeing lunatics and murderers, trying to usurpe democratic process, with extreme acts of violence, maybe things may have indeed been different. Bu
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by bbarnett 5y ago
Thanks for mentioning this. It is an older video, so google set it to private. (I recall a story here, where google did so for silly reasons...) Anyhow, should be viewable now.
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by bbarnett 5y ago
I'll add a little more here; context. Were the muslims trying to break 1/5th of the landmass of the US, and 40% of the population, by for force, without vote? Was there evidence those muslims were part of the group which caused 9&
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by bbarnett 5y ago
The difference is, a province in a democratic nation, so democratic that we have allowed votes on separation over the years, yet we had terrorists deciding they're going to split a province, without vote, without democracy, by violence
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by bbarnett 5y ago
To give a bit more clarity.... Canada is not a police heavy state. And you get a premier, and mayor, saying the police cannot be trusted. You cannot deploy troops domestically for police action in Canada, without the war measures act. What
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by bbarnett 5y ago
I think you both need to read a bit more, and also, listen to released (more than 50 years, such recordings must be released) recordings of private meetings at the time. While no PM is perfect, when the Premier of Quebec phones the PM, and
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by bbarnett 5y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYl_d7dc-EY If you watch, the older crow is making large vertical head movements, and if you really crank the volume, you can hear part of the sound it is making. The rest isn't in a hea
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by bbarnett 5y ago
Maybe they don't prefer loss and compression? We all have our (often disagreeing) preferences...
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by bbarnett 5y ago
Quick for core stuff, perhaps. Crows can vocalize ultrasonic sounds, like many other creatures can. They have been known to use these sounds, especially during the rain, to find grubs underground. I have personally observed an elder crow,
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by bbarnett 5y ago
It's August, maybe the dupe checker guy is on vacation.
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by bbarnett 5y ago
Yes, but... An option like this, after the lawyers get at it, will be 14 pages long. "We can change this at any time", "except by court order", "no guarantee", "not liable", and on and on and on...
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by bbarnett 5y ago
Cue the lost in space movie with beans, instead of potatoes...
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by bbarnett 5y ago
Except in rust. There is no way to write buggy code in rust.
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by bbarnett 5y ago
Hmm. True, but I suppose if he wasn't there, the nazis might have reclaimed the ark post-death of their team, learned, and done something different? And maybe the woman he was tied up with would be dead... But yeah, I get it. Never he
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by bbarnett 5y ago
I think there's more nuance here, for example, Microsoft never succeeded in disrupting anyone but itself. Others were major market movers and shakers.
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by bbarnett 5y ago
Microsoft wasn't historically an "internet company". They were an OS only, non-internet company, compared to the rest. When the acronym was created, it was still that way. Even now, they make most of their butter from OS ins
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by bbarnett 5y ago
To be fair, they probably figured it was impossible, due to LA traffic.
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by bbarnett 5y ago
It is also worth noting that there would be significant public push back if there was a true degradation in the curriculum. Not so sure on that one. I agree some would push back, certainly. I feel it is fewer every year, with parents no
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by bbarnett 5y ago
My feelings are actually fairly close here. But I feel I must be critical, and loudly, else firefox may disappear. It is criticism born from love.
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by bbarnett 5y ago
Computing UIs initially changed for two reasons. The first? Newer display technology and processing power, allowed for more complex menus, decision trees, and visual effects/feedback. The second? Computing was new, and we were still
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by bbarnett 5y ago
Maybe your province isn't too bad yet, but these things tend to spread: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-sc... With no advanced/honours tract, you have two choices. Subjects
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by bbarnett 5y ago
What's happened in Canada, is that curriculum is designed to teach to the weakest student in a subject. This is thought of as being fair, of helping, for of course everyone is intellectually equal. Thus, those who can accel, are denied
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by bbarnett 5y ago
Why would they? It's local, thus, not saleable information.
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by bbarnett 5y ago
To be fair, Samsung is a bloated hell of their own spyware, with endless phone homes for the keyboard, and all their apps. Google endlessly spies on everyone. I really don't think anyone could be worse, than a big corp.

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