cynoclast

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by cynoclast 15y ago
Just standard propaganda. Pro-Life, PATRIOT Act, "enhanced interrogation"...
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by cynoclast 15y ago
Attorney/client privilege is meaningless outside a courtroom, legally, and practically.
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by cynoclast 15y ago
If they're bribing government officials, they're my enemy. Regardless of what they do with the information obtained.
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by cynoclast 15y ago
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cathartic
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by cynoclast 15y ago
You shouldn't try to validate an email address by any means other than sending mail to it. If it works, it's valid.
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by cynoclast 15y ago
But unions exist to counter the grossly disproportionate amount of power that an employer has especially in a depression like this one, where unemployment drives down the cost of labor.
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by cynoclast 15y ago
Except when the best of the best want to go from Apple to Google, specifically. And can't. It's not just about salaries, it's about prohibiting professional growth. And I would be very surprised if it didn't keep salaries down.
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by cynoclast 16y ago
I believe they're compensated in real tangible ways for doing the work of wealthy people. That is a more severe and pernicious problem than most people realize.
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by cynoclast 16y ago
This is incredibly alarming! Censorship and information control of the highest order. Those things have no purpose but oppression.
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by cynoclast 16y ago
Required to read? Sure. Own? No.
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by cynoclast 16y ago
And that some common knowledge only appears to be.
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by cynoclast 16y ago
Agreed. Allow a lot of customization and freedom, but don't allow them to break the basic contract of civility and the neighborliness of not having sound play on a page, or a ton of animated garbage that slows everything down and no organiz
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by cynoclast 16y ago
Dumbest CAPTCHA ever. It's a math problem - which computers are great at - in highly readable text; which they're pretty good at. I expect someone talented could break it in an automated fashion in a day or less. I don't know why they don'
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by cynoclast 16y ago
Same here, or was... Just quit thinking about it and at least try something. I've accomplished so much more since I started doing that. If you wait around till the perfect idea with the perfect opportunity you're going to be so late to the
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by cynoclast 16y ago
In any given locale, there are usually only 1-3 choices of ISP. Two is most common, so they can give illusion of competition, without having to coordinate with too many "competitors".
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by cynoclast 16y ago
Why are people still blaming Apple in this? It's the recording industry that is the root of the problem. Apple is very, very late to the game in terms of trying to own ideas and sell über-cheap copies of information like physical products.
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by cynoclast 16y ago
You should first ask yourself if you really need an email address. And see if you can get away with not having one. Requiring that the user have an email on file is not as necessary a requirement as a lot of people seem to think. It seems
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by cynoclast 16y ago
What you're talking about is having "flipped the bozo bit" on everyone that sucks. Didn't know if you were familiar with the concept, but you should be. :)
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by cynoclast 16y ago
Very related post/discussion I made (no link karma for it, as if reddit karma were worth anything): http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/f1l79/instead_of... tl;dr: For fuck's sake, nail the responsibility to the CEO. If they don'
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by cynoclast 16y ago
>It's what there is no particular person to whom blame can obviously be assigned where the problem we're discussing comes to pass. Actually, it's rather easy. The CEO collects the biggest paycheck, nail the responsibility to them. Gre
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by cynoclast 16y ago
>Technically corporations can be convicted of criminal offenses just like regular people can, but the penalties don't make much sense. They end up just getting fines, since it's difficult to send the corporation itself to jail. Why is t
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by cynoclast 16y ago
DRM = functionally indistinguishable from broken