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You state that it is a 'wide backdoor' and while it seems that you could describe this as a backdoor, to assert that it is a wide one seems .. dubious to me. Also, the fact that forced marriage exists is not enough, because it
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anyway that won't work because.. you thought you were buying that software eh? Nope, you are just licensing it.. You thought you might buy a john deere tractor? Nope.. you just licensed the right to use it. sure, you might own th
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I don't know but I'm guessing you just crimp it on. The ball has to be perfectly spherical though or else it will jam.
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11y ago
I'm guessing highcharts.com, since I had to enable scripts from there to get them to show.
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I'm not sure that it would.. the next sentence says that the shirt expands when worn and 2x more in the chest than the length.. that says to me that its not the weave, its just being stretched more in the chest direction so the length
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> Loopholes, by their very nature, are UNINTENTIONAL gaps in the law. Cynical me says "Unintentional? I don't think so.." I have read that in the UK it has been fairly common for people to work for the HMRC for a couple of
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11y ago
Actually, I don't much like this attitude. The company offers between 100 and 4500 euro to participate in trials (max earnings 4500 per year), though I don't know what they offered for this particular trial. We can wonder why peop
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If you buy quality goods, then the you will find that the designers have often paid attention to details like this. Certainly I have moved mattresses which had handles on the ends. btw I'm not saying that higher priced goods always hav
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11y ago
As a male human of questionable maturity, I'd just like to say that I am really looking forward to working with ternary digits!
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does this require a ssh server running on localhost?
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Arrr matey, it certainly would help because a) not once have I seen an 'Arrr matey' in the comments b) the article didn't mention walking the plank at all c) I don't think that we can count on lower level pirates to be c
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wikipedia says 8.5 million so basically, a bit over 100 UKP per head, per year.
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If a being does something bad to another being that it did not need to do with the knowledge that it was bad and unnecessary, then morally that is not ok. If a being does something that it needs to do in order to survive then that is morall
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11y ago
a smaller business can be more responsive than a bigger business a bigger business can be more resilient than a smaller business => any reason you can't have an account with both?
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even more so, there are a percentage of people who are of the opinion that they will not learn another interface than the Microsoft one because that is the one that they will be forced to use at work anyway. [lets not get into how wrong t
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that could be, that if want to kill yourself using tablets then you have to plan and go out and buy them in advance, whereas if you want to kill yourself using the gas oven then its simple to turn it on and put your head in. those who formu
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> Android doesn't even let you use the OS properly without account. I'm not sure what you mean by this, can you explain further? I will say, that I've had a couple of Android phones for perhaps 4-5 years now and while I in
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One of the problems with people who are in the violent gangster industry is that they are trapped there. The business which enables them to live is illegal, so its difficult to go to the police when they are forced to do things they don
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> a post on Santa’s blog said that his NON-database is, actually, a non-database – a decoy, in other words.
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what does it mean to choose your preferred route anyway, and why would you have a preference? if its because 'this route is less busy' well, thats your idea but the car should be able to tap into traffic information anyway and rou
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I think that in reality, the innocent third parties concerned about their health and life on a road such as this are stakeholders. Moreover, there may be more of them so their needs would trump the few who simply wanted to drive fast and
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An alternative viewpoint is that attempting to drive substantially faster than the slowest vehicle is extremely dangerous because of the potential speed differential. Relative velocity matters, as you know!
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Incitement to riot is no excuse for rioting, surely? Holding up a line of cars that would otherwise be driving too fast is not going to be the cause of an accident. The cause of the accident would be the driver who was driving too fast!
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> angry looks I wonder how well the self driving car copes with these. In fact, I wonder how well the self driving car copes with an overly aggressive driver cutting in front and slamming on their brakes just to piss you off. I guess it
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Interestingly, I find that on my bicycle I can trigger the sensors in roads (which in the UK seem to be marked by a line of tar, where the sensor has been cut in and sealed up) by angling my front wheel directly along the line - my belief i
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civil partnerships were also misleading, since myself and my opposite sex partner are not allowed to get one, even though we are both civilians.
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How would this not count as interfering with its operation? The article says that this could count as a federal offense, even for police officers..
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but it illustrates the problem beautifully. The thinking goes, its ok for the government to snoop on the everybody in the name of catching terrorists.. because I am not a terrorist and they won't snoop on me.
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> Community service, ten days in jail, and losing his law license. 500 hours of community service. In the US what does that mean, 3 months of picking litter by the road in an orange jumpsuit? Or does it mean that he can work for the pros
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certainly sounds like hearsay.. If I were to try and debunk this, I should question a) how prevalent are GMO peanuts b) when were GMO peanuts developed c) how long have GMO peanuts been significant as to be honest, I don't have any k
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