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by derleth 13y ago
I use Window Maker. I've been using it pretty much exclusively since 8.x or so, and I used it before I used Ubuntu, going back to before Ubuntu even existed. It hasn't changed, and it doesn't look like it's ever going to
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by derleth 13y ago
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/ Really, that's my answer. Win32 is Raymond Chen Land, Fear and Loathing With Backwards Compatibility. SimCity relied on internal details of how the kernel managed memory s
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by derleth 13y ago
Just think: A life without the damage wrought by modern antibiotics, dentistry, surgery, and preventative medicine! Where if you get sick with something that a week's worth of pills would clear right up, you're gonna die in pain!
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by derleth 13y ago
When is the last time any of those books were banned in the USA? (I chose a country where I know Mein Kampf is available to purchase and legal to possess.)
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by derleth 13y ago
> banned book weeks The problem here is that it isn't 'banned' books, it's 'banned and challenged ' books, which means 'any book anyone has complained about', which means Harry Potter qualifies. Y
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by derleth 13y ago
> (e)glibc and friends are fairly critical since they are the one exposing kernel features. By default. Unlike in Windows (from what I understand), in Unix-like OSes (Linux, the BSDs, probably others) it's entirely possible for user
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by derleth 13y ago
If you think this is bullying, you've never been bullied.
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Species were going extinct long before humans. The biosphere adapted just fine. Humans aren't magically bad, and what we do isn't automatically terrible for everything. It's possible for us to understand what we're doing
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by derleth 13y ago
Once again, I feel that I'm the only one who knows it's possible to run non-Unity UIs on Ubuntu. Window Maker. It works. I run it. Have for years. I can't be the only one, because it's still right there in the repos.
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by derleth 13y ago
Actually, there would be little to no downside to eradicating mosquitoes: http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/full/466432a.html
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by derleth 13y ago
> Unsurprisingly, companies that have millions of lines of code have to take extra precautions. Which is why they drive to work in a Model T and rely on an IBM 7090 for their backroom stuff, correct? Being cautious is the opposite of usi
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by derleth 13y ago
Whether it's right or wrong is independent of where it comes from.
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Right, like how there's nothing innovative in automobiles now; they're all still on four wheels and controlled with a steering wheel and pedals. I mean, come on!
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by derleth 13y ago
And you have nothing to say about the content, then?
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by derleth 13y ago
If effective communication isn't part of a professor's job description, what is?
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by derleth 13y ago
> There's got to be some way to get them to understand their there and they're in less time than is usually taken. You can learn this in any course which involves writing. It doesn't need to be the focus to be present. &gt
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by derleth 13y ago
> So, what parts of high school do you want to throw out? Most of the traditional English courses, on the grounds that they're nearly always taught badly and have become jokes even in otherwise good schools. Replace them with sectio
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by derleth 13y ago
'Eluding' is a verb which means 'evading', so I don't know why it would be used here. 'Alluding' means 'making oblique reference to', which seems to convey the intended meaning.
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by derleth 13y ago
> I don't like your take because it refuses to take that deeper dive into the mathematical Monad, despite alluring to it. Mathematics is quite alluring, but the word most people would use there is 'alluding'.
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by derleth 13y ago
> Right, but good plumbers don't usually get the respect of a bad philosopher. Good physicists don't usually get the respect of bad philosophers, and vice-versa. This isn't really a problem you can solve using the universi
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by derleth 13y ago
> Or the axiom of choice: "the product of a collection of non-empty sets is non-empty." What a surprise. Right. Since it's obvious, the Banach-Tarski "Paradox" must be a trivial corollary and intuitively obvious,
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by derleth 13y ago
> brown rice tastes bad To you, maybe. I prefer it, mainly because it has a taste, especially compared to white rice. Also, trying to live on white rice can lead to beriberi because white rice, shorn of the husk, bran, and germ, is vit
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by derleth 13y ago
Desert Bus is precisely what it's advertised to be. It's the gaming equivalent of anti-humor, or something so audaciously contrary to expectations it derives value from its very audacity. It therefore succeeds in living up to Penn
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by derleth 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism Just to show the meaning has changed, which people are sometimes loath to admit. My point is that equating 'Fascist corporatism' to what you define 'corporatism&#
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by derleth 13y ago
In your mind, has Communism ever been responsible for bad things happening? Could I prove to you, even in theory, that Communism has bad outcomes? What kind of evidence would I need?
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by derleth 13y ago
Your condescension means you didn't read my cite or engage me honestly at all. And I even picked out the easy-to-read citation, too.
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by derleth 13y ago
Yes, it was. It's dishonest to claim that your system has never been tried when it has been tried and failed. You can go down the list of things the Communist Manifesto proposed and see that the USSR did all of them: http://
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by derleth 13y ago
> the name "Trollaxor" Given the kinds of names people take when they expect to be taken seriously, how much of a clue can this one really be?
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by derleth 13y ago
This is because you don't know what's out there. Damn Small Linux runs in 16MB of RAM and provides a GUI by default: http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ tomsrtbt runs in less, but provides no GUI and very little docume
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by derleth 13y ago
True. For what it's worth, Wikipedia has project pages explicitly addressing this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Systemic_bias http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Count

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