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by clort 1y ago
You are wrong. Microsoft was not asked to open the file format. There was an open file format already accepted as an ISO standard, so now they needed to make their product compliant with an ISO standard because companies around the world we
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by clort 1y ago
Perhaps what's new is that a mainstream organisation is posting articles where their reporters have witnessed such attacks. I've seen stuff on youtube, I've seen internet articles, I've seen thinly veiled references bu
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by clort 1y ago
tbh this is to be expected? I don't read UN reports, I expect reporters to read them and distill the information. I don't read research papers, I expect journalists to read them and present something reasonable to a layman. I don&
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by clort 1y ago
is it an urban legend, or do you have reference for that?
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by clort 1y ago
Largely a property development company, named after a geological feature "Woodbine Sand", in Texas [1] https://woodbinedevelopment.com/woodbinedevelopment.com/our-...
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by clort 1y ago
I mean, there is this Icelandic guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gu%C3%B0laugur_Fri%C3%B0%C3%BE... who actually did swim 6km in freezing waters after his vessel sank in 1984..
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by clort 1y ago
Little information there about them, but I find it kind of surprising that the suspects are even UK based..
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by clort 1y ago
If I recall (its been 25+ years and my copy is in storage), they went there to wait for other civilisations to develop . They were truly early life and there was literally nobody else and they determined that they would be waiting for mill
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by clort 1y ago
Iran doesn't have nukes.. (yet, I guess)
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by clort 1y ago
As I lived in HK back in the 1970's I'm pretty sure that was not flat nylon ribbon at all in those days, but simply strips of split bamboo or shavings from the surface of a broken pole. It would make sense to transition to nylon,
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by clort 1y ago
also a layman, but: You could build houses from bricks, timber or poured concrete that all looked the same in the end. Their internal structures and methods of construction would be different, but they would have the same form. I'm rea
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by clort 1y ago
> Wang has now given Kachouroff and DeMaster until May 5th to explain how this moronic bungling of legal practice came about. I don't really understand why this, but then I'm not the judge. They already were asked, several time
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by clort 1y ago
It will not be permanent, she can have two babies but they will remove the womb afterwards
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by clort 1y ago
As I understand it, the court ruled that specifically within the text of the 2010 Equality Act, where it says 'woman' with no qualifier, that refers only to biological females. I do not know how many such places there are, but ot
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by clort 1y ago
Its not an OS update, its a Google Play Services update .. so if they still apply you would get it I found it strange that things like 'prettier settings screens' and 'improved connection with cars and watches' would be
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by clort 1y ago
If you want to learn how to sail and actually how to sail as the person in charge, you need to be in a dinghy. Its small enough that every thing you do will affect the course and speed, you can feel every little difference and nobody else w
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by clort 1y ago
see also, "The Lives of Others" film, set in East Germany. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lives_of_Others
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by clort 1y ago
Its a bit like when you are a two-bit loser but have a private island where you can do whatever you like, and invite every celebrity you can find over to party every weekend, then start complaining that they haven't paid any of the isl
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by clort 2y ago
I bought windscreen wipers for my car recently, the previous owner was my mother and the man in the shop said 'oh, 2018 was the last time they were replaced'. So, more information seems to be available to those who know.. (and, it
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by clort 2y ago
The person driving the destruction of the government services in the USA is apparently self identified as a heavy ketamine user.
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by clort 2y ago
When you feed off decaying matter, hosting a colony of bugs which go out daily, bring back food and leave waste all around your environment sounds like a pretty good strategy when you don't have any way to move to better pastures?
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by clort 2y ago
The armour needs to be quite flexible in this area anyway as your hips and legs need to bend. they just used flaps of chainmail rather than seal you in. Look at some images.
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by clort 2y ago
Also, I don't really understand how they delivered letters letting people know that they had been fired but were struggling to rescind the letters because "we do not have a good way to get in touch with those personnel" Did t
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by clort 2y ago
That reminds me of the Microsoft of 20+ years ago, I remember reading an interview with Bill Gates where he had been frustrated with something in the new software and tried to pursue getting it fixed, but was stonewalled and diverted until
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by clort 2y ago
> I wonder if the leap between a fish and a mouse is less than the distance between a mouse and a human? No, mice are mammals just like humans. Fish were around long before mammals even existed.
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by clort 2y ago
The way I read it, this is reportage from a person who worked with the ship about things which happened some months ago. There is nothing to say this equipment was still on board. > They said no further equipment returned to the ship aft
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by clort 2y ago
it sounds like you are suggesting it might be turtles all the way down?
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by clort 2y ago
if it was dislodged, all the mass it had vacuumed up would go with it?
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by clort 2y ago
I have never a seen a Bluetooth adaptor without the capability. Currently this laptop has an "Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 8265" device which reports it can store 16 keys in the NVRAM. I have used the btkey(1) program on NetBSD to
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by clort 2y ago
many Bluetooth USB dongles have NVRAM, you can write the link key for a device (eg the keyboard or mouse) into the NVRAM and then when connecting, the dongle doesn't ask the Host computer for the key. I have used this to dual boot with

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