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by derleth 14y ago
> Oswald being able to do such a shot was not very likely at best The man was a Marine. He was a trained rifleman making a shot that, for him, was close range. > he would have been firing perfect shots No. He missed once. You claim
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by derleth 14y ago
> The Zapruder film clearly shows Kennedy being hit from the front when approaching the grassy knoll. No, it doesn't. http://karws.gso.uri.edu/jfk/issues_and_evidence/zapruder_fi... > And when the official government story has a s
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by derleth 14y ago
> I do not believe JFK was killed by Oswald, for example, and I believe there are ample doubts about the official story of what happened in Dallas. Doubts like what? Do you believe foreign government agents killed him? Do you believe do
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by derleth 14y ago
Here's the LLVM code that clang-3.0-6ubuntu3 emits: define i64 @crash() nounwind uwtable readnone optsize { ret i64 undef } In machine code terms, on x86-64 this turns into a function composed entirely of the ret opcode.
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by derleth 14y ago
> You sure know your conspiracy theories. Some believe them, others collect them.
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by derleth 14y ago
> Always believing what is written in the History Books sponsored by government oversight does not mean you are being fed the truth. The alternative to this is not believing whatever Alex Jones and NaturalNews.com say. In fact, this f
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by derleth 14y ago
> Man up or shut up. This is sexist. That's why you lose.
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by derleth 14y ago
This little homily adds nothing. That's why it's getting downvoted. (It's also wrong, or over-simplified, in that all programming doesn't really fit into those little boxes.)
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by derleth 14y ago
> I'll get downvoted for speaking Only if you say stuff without bothering to back any of it up with evidence, so people can tell if you're getting your information from a real source, or Alex Jones, Natural News, and that merry band of
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by derleth 14y ago
We even have a word for it: Apprenticeship. There's more theoretical knowledge behind nursing and engineering compared to carpentry and plumbing, but, really, the idea of on-the-job training with someone who knows what they're doing watch
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by derleth 14y ago
> There was no real interface before 2000. Yes there was. This invalidates your whole post.
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by derleth 14y ago
> open source is not concerned with design or usability. Not if you define those words the way Apple has. But that's a perfectly obvious statement: Apple's way is antithetical to the whole idea of Open Source, at least to the extent of
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by derleth 14y ago
> Nobody will claim that Apple creates ugly, hard to use hardware and software. I will. The current iMac keyboard is a bad joke and the mouse is just plain strange. Why would I need a touchpad on a mouse ? The Mac GUI is atrocious. For
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by derleth 14y ago
> How is it that all of the rest of us managed to quite Facebook and continue to have a relatively vibrant social life. Because some people have different lives than you.
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by derleth 14y ago
> we shouldn't live in a world where people should be scared to be openly gay in Iran, or openly a Falun Gong member in China. Those are the things we should focus on and try and change. Right. Wonderful. How?
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by derleth 14y ago
> If you don't like it, then quit. Assuming you're socially allowed to quit Facebook.
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by derleth 14y ago
... and the person who is responsible for locking the door, and the person who is responsible for following up on reports of suspicious behavior near that door, and the person who is called out when someone finally discovers the lock must h
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by derleth 14y ago
> They don't want a fair shot against Chinese nationals with their same skill set with an order of magnitude less in wage requests! That isn't a fair shot, though. The Chinese national has an unfair advantage due to the order of magnitu
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by derleth 14y ago
> that sounds like a sweatshop to me. No, for one fundamental reason: The people in real sweatshops don't have any other realistic option. The people in the proposed complexes along the 101 would have the ability to say "screw this" and
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by derleth 14y ago
> Netscape 4 hasn't been around for nigh on ten years. So? Ten years is nothing. There's no good reason for your site to not work in it.
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by derleth 14y ago
> It is pretty interesting that most people don't take compatibility seriously. If you don't test in NS4, you don't take it seriously, either.
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by derleth 14y ago
> today’s diabetes patients are tomorrows alzheimer patients ... possibly. Or they could be tomorrow's cancer patients, or tomorrow's stroke patients, or tomorrow's jack-knifed tractor trailer across three lanes of traffic patients. All
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by derleth 14y ago
> we're not fickle when it comes to technology > Compatibility is something which people have stopped valuing, which is bad. OK, test your website in Netscape 4.
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by derleth 14y ago
I use Ubuntu, and Window Maker (my preferred desktop environment) doesn't have a desktop in the way the default Windows shell does.
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by derleth 14y ago
> Also, cell phones need fobs. And, since they already have calendar functionality, there's every reason to look at one while running and yelling "I'm late! I'm late! For a very important date!" while going into a hole in the ground, by
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by derleth 14y ago
> What about the millions of children dying of preventable diseases in the third-world? What about children serving as child soldiers? What about everyone in the world who gets assaulted? There are a never-ending parade of problems in
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by derleth 14y ago
> [Fixing the bug] was simply not possible and there were applications that relied on this behavior [so now that it's technically possible to fix it, it would break compatibility so much we actually can't fix it anyway.] I'm beginning t
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by derleth 14y ago
> History will judge us very harshly for what we have all allowed to happen in north korea. Is there any way of stopping it short of a bloody, protracted war?
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by derleth 14y ago
> an unsophisticated viewer By which you mean "99% of Facebook's user base".
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by derleth 14y ago
> If you been using both browsers for a while, you could (at least IMHO) feel the increasing slowness of FF comparing to Chrome, at lest within last 2 years. Chrome starts a lot slower for me. It seems to really hit the disk a lot more

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