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by bcook 9y ago
Please clarify what the right/wrong post is and why it is right/wrong.
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by bcook 9y ago
Indeed. Since I quit smoking I miss the inarguable excuse (not just to others but myself as well) that smoking offered to leave a party, go outside, stare into the night's stars and just relax while pondering the universe and my own in
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by bcook 9y ago
There's likely something on your phone that some government agency could find useful, whether or not you consider it sensitive.
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by bcook 9y ago
I hope not because my doctor prescribes me with a "30 day" supply, as wrote on the prescription, which he tells me to use over 3 months. Either way, the unknowns about potential felonies scares me...
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by bcook 9y ago
According to my research, in America it's mostly an unknown (unenforced or depends on the state's sometimes conflicting verdicts) whether having a drug in your system means you are in possession of said drug. There are other laws
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by bcook 9y ago
I always assumed that the expiration date was partly legal, in the way that you only have 1 year within which you can legally have the drug in your system. I mean, if I am prescribed oxycontin, can I legally have the drug in my system for t
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by bcook 9y ago
Thank you. I expected that my addition of "exactly" would help, but honestly, my post was rather lazy.
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by bcook 9y ago
Why, exactly?
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by bcook 9y ago
I'm no historian but isn't the sky always falling according to some highly respected sources? I mean, yeah, let's always work towards fixing problems but is the end really near? Edit: I'm unsure why the parent comment is
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by bcook 9y ago
In agreement with the other replies, I enjoy your writing. I mean, your experience isn't super-interesting but you describe it almost poetically.
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by bcook 9y ago
As someone who spent ~10 years in construction (log homes mostly), only newbies and weekend warriors seem to have this mentality. Yeah, always do quality work, but unless you are an artist, you've gotta get shit done quickly. I've
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by bcook 9y ago
Aren't there better ways than protesting to affect change?
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by bcook 9y ago
Perhaps he's referring the the bits sent out from the codec rather than the bits received by the codec?
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by bcook 9y ago
Plausible deniability? Shifting blame? I'm just playing Devil's advocate here.
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by bcook 9y ago
No. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumables https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durable_good
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by bcook 9y ago
I find MST3K (and RiffTrax) to be some of the best background noise while I'm working or relaxing.
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by bcook 9y ago
>Once content has reached my computer, it is mine to do with as I wish and consume as I wish. Is it that simple? Morally and ignorantly I agree but I'm not so sure the law and more sophisticated understandings of morality agree. I m
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by bcook 10y ago
>I thought people learned this sort of thing in grade school. Along with tact and general respect for others?
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by bcook 10y ago
Similarly, I run a very barebones Openbox Arch Linux install on my ancient 2Ghz Turion 64 laptop and I recently booted Windows XP on it and I was blown away by how fluid & responsive the entire system was compared to my much newer Linux
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by bcook 10y ago
What's the price difference between industrial beef and the beef from your friend's farm?
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by bcook 10y ago
>If you feel differently, you should probably ask yourself what information you are missing That's something that should be applied almost universally. :)
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by bcook 10y ago
I saw this pic of an old playground and it's pretty damn alarming: http://dallaslibrary2.org/dallashistory/photogallery/images/... Though, I spent my youth playing unsupervised in the Appalachian woods,
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by bcook 10y ago
I dunno. My ~3 year old neice has her own aging, hand-me-down iPad that she mistreats like it was any other $5 toy and it's been going strong for maybe 2 years.
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by bcook 10y ago
As another comment notes, Debian packages the kernel, tooling, base, etc.
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by bcook 10y ago
I've been doing alternate day fasting (eat for 16 hours, fast for 32) for about 4 or 5 months. I've lost 32 pounds so far, ~225 to ~193. I am shooting for 175 ("normal" BMI) and/or being able to comfortably fit into
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by bcook 10y ago
I think that would only apply to bytes (ex: kilo- vs kibi-) notation, not bits.
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by bcook 10y ago
...fictionally. Snowden's revelations made those fictions a reality.
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by bcook 10y ago
Use /s or include a pic of your sarcastic facial expression next time...
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by bcook 10y ago
Success != contentedness, which seems to be your underlying goal.
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by bcook 10y ago
fq_codel is on it's way (though, it's implemented in dummynet/"limiters" rather than ALTQ): http://caia.swin.edu.au/freebsd/aqm/ pfSense already has codel, which can be used with FAIRQ.

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