bluedanieru

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by bluedanieru 14y ago
Replace the Internet with a wireless meshnet. Problem solved.
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
How about the both of you rub those brain cells together and see if you can organize a cogent point. Otherwise, piss off.
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
Does it matter? I'm not debating the principles of the Constitution here, but rather the American focus on the document rather than the principles themselves.
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
Forget about the Constitution. Rather, they should respect basic human rights and the principles of the Enlightenment. All this focus Americans put on their Constitution makes it easier for their government to become oppressive, because i
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
There has never been a better time to be a mouse.
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
>because there's not enough investment in AAA games about something other than war, cowboys, football, cars. sorry, but it's true Is that discrimination against women in gaming? It seems out of place.
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
That's not really in scope for choosing a voting system that best represents the people. But yes, point taken.
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
Yes, you bought them together, but you still bought them separately in the sense that you were not married to a particular CPU depending on the motherboard you purchased (although it can restrict your option to varying degrees, of course).
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
Whoops. Dexen got it. I mean, if you take the same set of criteria as before, less the requirement that they be a successful entrepreneur, what percentage of that larger group is married and with children? Without knowing that figure, the s
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
What percentage of people who are not successful entrepreneurs but fit the other criteria i.e. middle or upper-class background, 40 years-old on average, high academic performance, are married and with children? Is it more or less than 60%?
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
You're getting downvoted for willfully conflating two different terms in a game of semantics in order to muddy the waters in support of your argument, you arrogant little shit.
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
Because the right lessons are self-evident and if you can't see that then there isn't much point in bashing my head against a wall trying to explain that, no, the reason you failed in Afghanistan and Iraq and, for that matter, Vietnam, isn'
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
>If the overwhelming majority of the Afghan people wanted the Taliban gone, and they had U.S. support, and we didn't fuck a bunch of stuff up, then of course we could have rid Afghanistan of the Taliban. If the Afghans legitimately trus
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
Are you suggesting this in addition to the above, or as an alternative? It is not an alternative.
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
Counterpoint: New York has a thriving black market in smuggled cigarettes.
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
When people say 'impossible' there is a mutually understood subtext of 'without going absolutely off the fucking rail to make it happen'. In order to stamp out the drug trade you need to: * Render extinct-in-the-wild (or just plain extinct)
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
He does have a point though, that they may get there eventually. I don't think the cartels will disappear overnight, either. But they will see a large chuck of funding dry up, and it will then be easier to after them for their previous crim
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
The FDA would still exist, and would still have a job to do. You wouldn't be able to just sell literal poison in the supermarket alongside the oatmeal. The FDA currently classes items approved for sale into a broad number of categories: foo
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
What you describe is basically what we're doing now, to the extent we're willing to fund it. But instead of, you know, invading yet another country on the barest of pretenses, how about legalizing the drug trade, thereby depriving these car
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
>I would not tax them anymore then they are taxed allready. This is something you hear far too much, as well. "Legalize them and then tax the hell out of them." It's a good way to find ourselves right back where we started: an illegal d
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
By "drug-related crimes" are you referring to crimes of trafficking, or crimes committed while under the influence (because the perpetrator is under the influence). For the former, I don't see how it could do anything but decrease. As to th
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
Why would I want a desktop where half of the thing has poor usability and loads of bugs?
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
Because I'm not an objectivist hack. Shame on HN for all the replies you've received. Your ignorant and wrong opinions do not deserve the air of legitimacy an honest discussion provides (and to be clear the honesty, in this case, is entirel
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
I assume you mean using NZ as an experimental place with a view to then justifying expansion into the US on a larger scale, since you brought up Google specifically. As opposed to the EU or something. I don't think that would work. Look at
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
Vista got better right around the time W7 was released anyway, right? Both in terms of the OS itself as well as better support from third parties. I've always thought that W7, while a great operating system in its own right, also benefited
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
Silencers in real life aren't like what you see in the movies. They are just enough to prevent hearing loss (usually) but that's it. If you want to shoot something quietly, use a crossbow.
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
How the hell are you going to shoot the dog quietly?
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
>These toilets, known as “washlets”, have many amazing features - the most notable of which is they render toilet paper obsolete. Uh, no they don't. And if the author is using them that way, that's fucking gross. If they rendered toilet
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
So, Achilles never caught up with that tortoise, after all.
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
Yeah, and I know what they are, although I wouldn't describe generating a wallet on an offline PC and keeping it offline as 'very clever'. At any rate, after reading it again I think I confused what the parent was insinuating, so nevermind.

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