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by berntb 14y ago
Get used to it. Pro-US attitudes should be more prevalent in all of Asia the more aggressive China becomes, since the local countries will need the help. (Yes, there is some irony to be found here...)
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by berntb 14y ago
I have toyed with the idea of a chording keyboard. Either as an App or as a cover for an iPhone/Android. (Probably a thousand other people have had this idea, too. So the chording addition probably has been tried -- and don't work well.) I'
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by berntb 14y ago
Thanks for information. I should have checked the APIs myself, but I couldn't dream the problem was that full keyboard state information didn't get through to apps. I guess it serves me right for using/loving a closed platform... :-( :-)
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by berntb 14y ago
Use SSH (and AWS, or something). I agree on the big screen. (I checked the iPad SSH clients this spring, they seemed to be able to handle vim but not Emacs. Time to check again, I guess. WTF -- terminal emulators that don't let much of key
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by berntb 14y ago
Google something like: laser remove orbital debris I don't know how old this idea is, but I think I saw some discussion on sci.space.tech a long while ago. (Yes, my hair is getting gray.) Edit: After reading a bit myself ( http://spie.org/x
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by berntb 14y ago
Is this why the "Perl is dead" trolling is disappearing? The Python people are busy with other things... :-)
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by berntb 14y ago
A large factor is that dictatorships need external enemies. They have the jews and the US in the Middle East... How large? I have no clue. Do you -- really? >>what would happen if a film came along and really rubbed in the humiliati
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by berntb 14y ago
I see you gave up defending thousands of times less criticism of brutal dictators and nazi racist hatred propaganda. (See previous examples if you want to touch that.) There are afaik papers that discuss different evolutionary strategies fo
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by berntb 14y ago
Re Israel: I have a hard time to take seriously excuses like "we have harder demands on democracies" together with no criticism of state supported Nazi race hatred . It is just ridiculously large double standards. A couple of more examples
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by berntb 14y ago
Google something like: Microsoft makes more from Android than windows phone 7 (It has been a repeated news story the last year.)
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by berntb 14y ago
>> Yes, we do hold Israel to a higher standard than its neighbours When I compare the volume of criticism from the left, I have to ask: How many thousands times more criticism is reasonable? For much, much less? Compare with e.g. Su
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by berntb 14y ago
>>I think chalking up [Apple's] success to "innovation" is missing the point I didn't chalk anything up to anything. I noted that you were smoking something strange -- probably found at a marketing department -- when you wrote that
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by berntb 14y ago
>>the ipad's secret was not innovation but polish [which is no more innovative than selling products cheap to earn money on content, Amazon Kindle style] Uhm, no one on the planet knew how to build an affordable pad that would be in
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by berntb 14y ago
Thanks for the answer. You have nothing to add re Israel's existence? As I wrote: Why no indignation AT ALL over the coldly planned destruction of Palestinian lives in the camps of Libanon, Syria, etc?! All other cases in WW I/II have been
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by berntb 14y ago
A few days too late, sigh. If I had time then, I would have written this... I really think the hypothesis "We hate everything the US do and all their close friends" fits better as an explanation for the left's double standards. (Even withou
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by berntb 14y ago
Another comment, two days later... I will assume you're not a troll and try to educate you. To rehash: You deny all the documentation for widespread antisemitism in the Muslim world - like schoolbooks(!), TV programs, other official media,
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by berntb 14y ago
The down votes here are interesting. I don't argue an extreme position, imho? No one has attempted to argue against my point about active terror threats imply high voter pressure for security. But maybe the problem is that I'm Swedish. Trad
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by berntb 14y ago
Wow, it is scary when intelligence organisations start to infiltrate political organisations... an even worse variant of regulatory capture. But that was during the cold war, 40 years ago. The levels of paranoia increased after 9/11, but ha
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by berntb 14y ago
Terrorism is quite easy in today's world. By definition terror scares people, hence a strong voter pressure to stop it. This results in a Big Brother society. The number of stopped terror attacks in the West over the last decade is quite la
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by berntb 14y ago
It would surprise me if intelligence organisations didn't make databases like this. I assume the CIA could get the user information from Apple, with or without Apple's consent. I have no real problem if the UDID:s of my iPad/iPhone/iPod a
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by berntb 14y ago
You ignored my single point in the short GP comment. I wrote: "39% of the Muslim immigrants support antisemitism in a poll because the Swedes are Nazis and taught them?! " You didn't retract that, you just wrote lots of other text (and att
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by berntb 14y ago
I seriously expected you to say something like "Ah, I hadn't checked the dictionaries and repeated what I read in article X". I wanted to find out what X was. :-( >>Examining word usage is an obvious starting point. >>It's c
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by berntb 14y ago
Astract: You're a total troll and/or a dishonest propagandist. It was fun to see your conspiracy theory dismissing the example I quoted from Wikipedia: >>Sweden was a Nazi Germany ally. 39% of the Muslim immigrants support antisemit
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by berntb 14y ago
You wrote orginally: >> did you know that in the 19th century (and before), when Jews were persecuted in Europe, Russia and such, they lived mighty fine alongside muslim populations in muslim countries? Wikipedia gave in 30 seconds
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by berntb 14y ago
Thanks for discussing this. I have too little time now, sadly. >>Dictators do use [hate propaganda against external enemies], but it works because the population supports it. The people really do hate Israel and the Jews. True afaik
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by berntb 14y ago
Seriously, you repeatedly contradict already given Wikipedia links. Go discuss a subject you have less emotional connections to. >> I _lived and worked_ in some muslim countries. They could not care less for this stuff. From the pag
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by berntb 14y ago
You seem to deny that antisemitism hate propaganda is prevalent in the Muslim world? This is well documented. Start with e.g.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_the_Arab_world#... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_Antisem
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by berntb 14y ago
Oh my god. :-) Off the top of my head... 1. As far as I can tell, this antisemitism thing is mainly from dictators that need an external enemy to hate. (A universal phenomenon in those countries -- and yes, using external enemies is not uni
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by berntb 14y ago
Are you really claiming that left wing idealists accept racist hate propaganda -- as long as it is from a billion of people that seems "weaker" than five millions of people? (I am not arguing, I have no better explanation for this craziness
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by berntb 14y ago
>>Muslims living in the Middle East aren't antiSemitic (unless they hate themselves). The word "antisemite" was created by an antisemite for just that specific meaning. See "gay" and other words that change their meaning. http://en

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