cannonedhamster

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by cannonedhamster 7y ago
Median income in the US is much lower than 97k. It's around 65k. Median net worth is about 68k. Mean is slightly higher because the top .001 makes so much more than everyone else. It's definitely higher than zero. Not sure where y
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by cannonedhamster 7y ago
Meat in the US is highly processed. It generally receives colorants, shaping, or processing depending upon the meat and where you buy it from. Deli meats for example are shaped loaves of meat for easier cutting and different flavorings. A b
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by cannonedhamster 7y ago
Use by date, at least in the US, is a completely arbitrary date assigned by the producer as to the date after which peak taste is no longer guaranteed. It has nothing to do with spoilage.
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by cannonedhamster 7y ago
Apples and bananas definitely should not be kept in an enclosed space as the gases will cause faster ripening. When apples are stored professionally they are stored in a nitrogen environment with CO2 scrubbers which can make them last for m
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by cannonedhamster 7y ago
Being put into a prison without a bed and separating a mother from her child for a wrong turn seems like it's criminal, not civil. Civil would be being asked to show up to court, not being imprisoned.
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by cannonedhamster 7y ago
Me personally I'm not against the idea of copyright but the length of copyright has completely perverted the purpose. I do generally create for the public domain, but when you can lock up parts of culture you're stealing from the
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by cannonedhamster 7y ago
Yeah I can see that. It's definitely a personal taste thing. I'm just glad that many people have so many different things to enjoy.
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by cannonedhamster 7y ago
Do you have a link for paperless? I've been looking for years for something like this.
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by cannonedhamster 7y ago
Plex automatically backs up me entire families photos to my RAIDed server with a Backblaze off-site backup that's been tested. It's also useful for audio books, and having access to my media when I travel abroad and things like Hu
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by cannonedhamster 7y ago
There's tons of people who use BitTorrent legally. Some companies use it on their servers to keep them in sync.
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by cannonedhamster 7y ago
Listen here, just because you bought a piece of plastic doesn't mean you own what's on the piece of plastic. It's like a car, just because you bought a car doesn't mean you own the steering wheel it the seats.... Oh wait
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by cannonedhamster 7y ago
US copyright laws have been proliferated around the world. Copyright was originally intended to be a limited-time monopoly which allowed consumers the ability to trust creators and creators the ability to share without worry that their id
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by cannonedhamster 7y ago
I might be in the minority but I liked the Dune movie. It introduced the universe, how it worked, had a solid cast. The movie is clearly one from the 80s with it's dedication to atmosphere.
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by cannonedhamster 7y ago
There are numerous studies that show that cars nowadays are dramatically more reliable, both in when and how they fail. There are always going to be maintenance parts but I really can't imagine that cameras are getting loose wires. Bes
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by cannonedhamster 7y ago
We can barely get people to clean the snow off their cars before driving on highways. Not sure the tech is the real problem with snow rain, and other weather.
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by cannonedhamster 7y ago
If you haven't checked out Spiderweb Software games it's worth at least a glance. The graphics aren't really anything but serviceable, but the stories have tons of depth and replayability.
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by cannonedhamster 7y ago
Did not realize that PFE was Chinese. Thanks for the heads up. Sorry to see you go STO.
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by cannonedhamster 7y ago
I'd say that since roughly 30% of the population has protested that's a large percentage of the population. You're citing statistics from 3 years ago. Most of the country supports either staying their own self governing entit
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by cannonedhamster 7y ago
Companies just suckle up to the public teat when they make a bad business decision and it's always the employees that take it in the shorts. The executives get paid big bucks for making decisions but bear no responsibility for the re
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by cannonedhamster 7y ago
Just because the discussions exist doesn't mean they should. Everyone feels their particular ideology is the one targeted. It's why Fox News can claim to be an underdog despite being the number 1 news station in the US. It's
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by cannonedhamster 7y ago
Short answer no. No business is sustainable without startup money from somewhere. The problem is the wealthy have so much money and there's not enough money at the ground level to buy the new products so without dumping money into craz
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by cannonedhamster 7y ago
As my former startup now subsidiary is being forced to abandon working products for inferior ones in the name of "enterprise" or some box checking version of "security" I also agree that this notion of enterprise softwar
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by cannonedhamster 7y ago
No what he's complaining about is that the ad network laden DNS server provided by the company had a longer TTL than what was provided which lead to numerous complaints. I've actually seen this happen before with Google DNS where
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by cannonedhamster 7y ago
Including cable internet we're paying around $107/mo for 4 services. For cable and internet it would be nearly $300/mo when all the taxes and fees. Not sure it's not a deal to cut cable. We might add sports for another $
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by cannonedhamster 7y ago
Try it on Windows. Or in an unsupported device. Or anywhere they don't want you to see it. You own nothing with digital. It's a long term rental. Also try passing it along when you die.
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by cannonedhamster 7y ago
There's a few products or there that do just this. Not a lot, but one or two.
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by cannonedhamster 7y ago
It only shows ads on programs that aren't theirs which is even now nefarious.
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by cannonedhamster 7y ago
The comments about fake news how colleges stifle free speech are typical Conservative dog whistles in the United States. This article could be construed as being right leaning however I don't think that's the intent of the author.
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by cannonedhamster 7y ago
Since when have we had free speech in the west? If anything we're more free than ever ever been. Being anti-Christian would get you barred during the founders time, being pro-communism during the cold war got government attention and b
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by cannonedhamster 7y ago
What purpose does distributing information on explosives provide other than creating knowledge of how to create explosives something which most people don't have an actual need to know how to do, regardless of how trivially way it is t

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