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by deciplex 11y ago
> I thought people locked up at gitmo are terrorists who wanted to kill people. If only there were some kind of open forum, or even a closed forum where the records of same are made public, where the government could present evidence i
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by deciplex 11y ago
Well, they already say within WU itself that KB3035583 is to resolve "important issues in Windows" which is a lie. But lying about what the update does on their page for the update at microsoft.com is somehow a stretch?
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by deciplex 11y ago
> Is this seriously the America that exists today? Uh, yeah? I mean, no shit it is. This isn't much farther over the line than the shit that went down in response to the WTC attacks. Where have you been?
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by deciplex 11y ago
Yes. Pretty much this. You do need some updates though, and Microsoft hardly does a good job of describing what each update does from WU itself, so hope you like looking up each individual update on the MS website. Eventually they'll j
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by deciplex 11y ago
You can only hide it for as long as they don't refresh that update. Once they make a change to KB3035583 it won't be hidden anymore and, if they make it important at the same time, guess what's going to happen? I've &quo
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by deciplex 11y ago
The only problem with that is that Windows 10 is, from a privacy perspective, a downgrade from 7 and 8. Many people are not fond of the UI changes, either, and of course Windows Store is just utter shit, as well.
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by deciplex 11y ago
That will work until they make KB3035583 "Important" again. Basically, the way they're going, it's only a matter of time before Win 7 & 8 basically don't work anymore.
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by deciplex 11y ago
Here's one: https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-51053 Basically they tried to make some improvements to carts in general, fucked that up, then "reverted" that change and since then powered carts don't
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by deciplex 11y ago
> As I understand it, Minecraft will be reimplemented soon anyways? That would explain why the extant Java version is riddled with years-old bugs and no hope of getting them fixed while they charge full speed ahead with additions to Th
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by deciplex 11y ago
> My impression was that you were implying that having a gun in the house makes you significantly more likely to be the victim of an accidental shooting, which while technically true, really isn't worth worrying about compared to,
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by deciplex 11y ago
Maybe you're having trouble reconciling them because they are irreconcilable. It sounds to me like you're awfully close to a "decide what I want first and rationalize it later" style of pondering, or perhaps have crossed
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by deciplex 11y ago
It's almost like, oh I don't know, a balance of consumer and business interests and input would lead to more acceptable outcomes for everyone, when drawing up policy, as opposed to shutting one side out of the discussion completel
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by deciplex 11y ago
Most lawmakers worldwide have shitty ideas on most topics.
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by deciplex 11y ago
It's such a bizarre thing to say that I reckon they assume no one will take it at face value. Obviously, while you may underperform on six hours of sleep, with no sleep you will eventually die. They aren't equivalent.
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by deciplex 11y ago
AlphaGov
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by deciplex 11y ago
> The mission creep is similar to how anti-terrorist laws are used for drug enforcement. So, totally legal, then.
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by deciplex 11y ago
You're better off trying to figure out how long we have until it gets a lot worse.
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by deciplex 11y ago
> Thinking about it a bit further, however, I'd counter that piping up in every thread about government spending with, "But NAP!" would actually be the trollish behavior. Well, yes it would be, and you're starting t
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by deciplex 11y ago
> Are you suggesting that I support drone strikes against civilians? If not, I'd ask you to retract that as an argument against my position. You don't have to support drone strikes, you just need to withhold your indignatio
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by deciplex 11y ago
Yes, certainly. And OP said corporation or inventor . As long as we're doing capitalism, we ought to have a way for people to make a living off of knowledge work and the arts. Not selling physical artifacts of knowledge work, or makin
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by deciplex 11y ago
Most of them are terrible in one way (at least) or another, though.
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by deciplex 11y ago
> Except the corporation or inventor(s) making money off of it, I can't think of anything significant. But, that alone is significant enough to justify most intellectual property: patents, copyright, etc. But, it's not nearly
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by deciplex 11y ago
By way of comparison, NYC is 53/47 in favor of females, and it is famously difficult for women to find men in NYC. That ratio is way more off-balance than you might think.
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by deciplex 11y ago
Yeah, no chief or despot or king or prime minister ever took a nation or tribe to war with the explicit goal of reducing the number of young men in the population. However, when you have a bunch of extra young men looking for something to d
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by deciplex 11y ago
You know that it was precisely the sort of meddling you're talking about that got us into this mess with Iran in the first place, right? So at best, we broke even.
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by deciplex 11y ago
$ value for who? I'm not sure if a policy of "globalist capitalism if that works for us, force if it doesn't" is a good policy (from a purely self-interested perspective) even for the entity that implements it. I'm
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by deciplex 11y ago
I don't think we should have a death penalty, so I don't agree with the parent either. However, pretty much all the data we have on the efficacy of the death penalty relates to one crime, murder, and even then it's under a na
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by deciplex 11y ago
I can, but I can't hold where my eyes converge when I do.
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by deciplex 11y ago
Progressives should be worried about what will happen to the Democratic party after this election, though. It's probably going to become the new home of neoconservatives by the end of this decade (if not already), and who knows what ot
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by deciplex 11y ago
> I'm not going to try to explain Trump's success. No one can, except maybe Trump. FWIW his success is not really hard to explain, but to do so would likely derail this thread into LEO.

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