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by derleth 13y ago
> It is in the very nature of the mindless beast that is the DOJ to try to escape from its cage; it is the job of the judge to ensure that the cage door is never left open by enforcing the rules. And this cuts to the heart of the adver
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by derleth 13y ago
> older folks have something solely by the virtue of being old? Not always, no. Sometimes, old people are just plain stupid. Not necessarily bigoted, hateful, and mean, all of which can be explained if not forgiven, but stupid . Age on
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by derleth 13y ago
> Yet here the author claims that believing something can be morally wrong even if it is a true belief? This is entirely consonant with deontological ethics, as I understand it. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-deontological/
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by derleth 13y ago
> Who calls it the "psychiatric bible" other than well-biased Scientologists who want to replace it with their own "religious technology"? A number of people, actually: http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2012/12/18/dail...
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by derleth 13y ago
> just "Unix/Linux" or even better, "Unix/Linux/BSD". Or just "Unix", because there is no functional difference between the OSes that legally get to call themselves "Unix" and those that don't which derives solely from their rights to a
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by derleth 13y ago
'They', even in the singular.
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by derleth 13y ago
> used the male pronoun because that is the correct grammatical structure when the gender is unknown. According to the prestige dialect, yes. Not according to most of the more common dialects of English.
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by derleth 13y ago
> Apparently you need "real research" before claiming it's more efficient to put the vowels on the home row rather than scattering them everywhere. Yes, you do, or how do you know you're not fooling yourself? Or do you believe in n-rays
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by derleth 13y ago
What's the advantage of Norton Ghost over rsync?
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by derleth 13y ago
> There isn't a country with enough police to protect everyone from physical harm caused by others at nearly all times (statistically speaking)? Note the last two words (in parentheses). That's the point being made: There aren't enough
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by derleth 13y ago
> No, but at the very least I expect them to be legally bound to respond(in any way) to a 911 call, and not be able to just tell people to fuck off. Then we're talking past each other. That isn't what the Supreme Court decisions were ab
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by derleth 13y ago
If it is ambiguous, there is no answer. There must be an answer. Therefore, it cannot be ambiguous. The answer given is the only one it is possible to give. Therefore, it must be the correct one. The context isn't so much "third grade" as
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by derleth 13y ago
And the main use of Python is scaring fogey programmers?
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by derleth 13y ago
Can you imagine how many police we'd need if there were an obligation to protect everyone at all times? There isn't a country on Earth with police forces that large.
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by derleth 13y ago
> You pay the fire department in advance (so they can pay for the upkeep of their machines), and if you don't, they have no obligation to put out your flaming house. Two problems: 1. If not enough people pay for a fire brigade, the fire
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by derleth 13y ago
> what is a time complexity for finding a next item (according to a key) to a given one in a hash table? Problem ill-stated as posed: Does not specify if the 'next' key is hashed, or even what 'next' means in this context.
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by derleth 13y ago
I can't turn the knobs at all most of the time. I'm using a mouse on a laptop; maybe this only really works on a tablet or phone?
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by derleth 13y ago
> Patches that add options are rejected 99% of the time. Ah, yes, the "You're holding it wrong" mindset in action.
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by derleth 13y ago
Original Web browsers were capable of using Gopher in a graphical way; in fact, being cross-protocol like that was a big deal in the early days, back when a lot of Universities had substantial amounts of information on Gopher servers and in
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by derleth 13y ago
> Linux distributions are not even UNIX, just UNIX compatible. Depends on how you define "UNIX". If you define it as "Derived from the V6 codebase", then I'm pretty sure a number of the OSes you mentioned don't qualify. If you define it
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by derleth 13y ago
> The goal of regulation is regulation. If you believe that, go breathe the air in Beijing.
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by derleth 13y ago
Yes, because the only solution to state regulation failing to meet every single one of its goals is to end all regulation of everything, everywhere.
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by derleth 13y ago
How many of those closed-source Unix variants run the applications Linux users are familiar with?
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by derleth 13y ago
Am I the only one here who is amazingly creeped out by the very idea of putting anything directly on their own eyeball?
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by derleth 13y ago
Just so everyone knows, this person is a troll.
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by derleth 13y ago
> I recently won a competition, which is great and all, but I always wonder in the back of my mind if I won it because I was the only woman in the competition. And you suffer this now, in your generation, so maybe the next generation wi
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by derleth 13y ago
So you expect us to believe you without citation? And you haven't given any specific examples for anything in all your verbiage. Frankly you sound like you're trolling.
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by derleth 13y ago
The fact you're the only one here making your extreme claims is strong evidence in my favor unless you think you're that much better than everyone else here.
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by derleth 13y ago
> Don't miss the .png at the end that has the entire source code You mean I have to type it in by hand?
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by derleth 13y ago
Absolutely none of this is true and reflects your bias more than anything else. Anyone with a passing familiarity with Wikipedia would know it to be false. Your lack of knowledge is apparent and your opinions are of no value.

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