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by drcube 14y ago
Why don't they just put a cell radio in the DS? Then parents can call their kids home right in the middle of their video game. I think the idea of "mobile phones" as a thing is going to pass. They're all just computers that happen to be abl
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by drcube 14y ago
I had a little trouble finding a non-Windows laptop last time I bought one (summer 2012), but it wasn't impossible. If these guys are making most of their money from customization or support, why not resell System 76 laptops? Otherwise, buy
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by drcube 14y ago
Unless you amend the Constitution. Good luck! EDIT: Another option is for the courts to decide that freedom was guaranteed in the Constitution all along. But courts are unpredictable so again, good luck!
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by drcube 14y ago
Been there, done that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Hills_84001 From the wiki article: '[T]he scientific consensus is that "morphology alone cannot be used unambiguously as a tool for primitive life detection."' But let me know whe
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by drcube 14y ago
I don't know about Hong Kong, but not in the States. Time is a luxury.
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by drcube 14y ago
Anonymity has always been easier than it is now. Before sophisticated record keeping, you were anonymous to any stranger or new acquaintance. Moving to a new town was an opportunity to become a new person. Anything you published could be ps
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by drcube 14y ago
Change. Users hate change, period. Unless you were psychic and managed to change it in exactly and only the ways they were thinking of.
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by drcube 14y ago
Yeah, but correlation isn't causation. Maybe unsuccessful people on average will be unsuccessful in school and the successful people on average will be successful in school. While school itself has no actual impact on success. I'm not sayin
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by drcube 14y ago
Nuclear. Well, you could say the supernova that created our radioactive heavy elements billions of years ago were once "suns". But that power didn't come from our sun.
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by drcube 14y ago
Actually, I think privacy concerns could be alleviated by something like this. It's just so much information, getting anything useful is like taking a sip from a fire hose. Imagine your hypothetical break in is in downtown Manhattan. Do you
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by drcube 14y ago
"Real" farmers are giant conglomerates like Conagra. What people think of as farmers though are usually just employees or contractors. And those people are fine. The big agricultural corporations like it when people conflate the two.
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by drcube 14y ago
Anonymous speech must be stopped! Because we all know how our country was almost ruined by those pseudonymous bastards, Ms. Silence Dogood and Poor Richard Saunders[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_franklin
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by drcube 14y ago
Actually, I see this quite often at shops all over. One posted the full name and amount of unpaid bills on their very large outdoor sign. Others post pictures of bounced checks. If the mechanic is the shop owner, he can do what he wants wit
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by drcube 14y ago
I'm in Illinois, but the St. Louis area, not Chicagoland.
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by drcube 14y ago
Everything the US Federal government publishes is public domain. People erroneously believe that also applies to state and municipal governments, too. I know I did until recently.
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by drcube 14y ago
The OP.
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by drcube 14y ago
No, but it highlights the hypocrisy of the largest anti-sharing organization. Movie studios and record labels are also generally lousy to the talent they make their money off of. Treating creators like shit while outwardly pretending to car
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by drcube 14y ago
The arguments against the evils of sharing copyrighted works with your friends online. The arguments for ridiculous "life of the author plus a century" copyright terms. Disney is a huge purveyor of these bogus arguments, all while stiffin
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by drcube 14y ago
Those aren't users. The owner of the plane is the user. They use it to get paying customers. If American Airlines had to ship broken planes back to the Apple factory for service and repairs, that would be a problem.
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by drcube 14y ago
I'd be a lot more sympathetic if the domain was actively used and somehow a clerical error made them lose it. However, according to gus_massa in another comment, this was always just a parked domain. Why should someone return (or sell back
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by drcube 14y ago
This isn't the outrage. The AUMF, which fairly elected US legislators enacted, and this white paper simply attempts to interpret, is. What's it been, 11 years now? We've always been at war with Oceania.
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by drcube 14y ago
"...as long as they’re going to steal it, we want them to steal ours" - Bill Gates [1] Yep, that's exactly what victims of theft feel. When my car was stolen last year, I thought "Well it could be worse, they could have stolen someone else'
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by drcube 14y ago
Hasn't the largest increase in tuition costs come from paying so many new administrators? Let's start there before we start cutting lectures and class time.
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by drcube 14y ago
>I don't know if it really matters to the average user to have root on their system; for technical people it certainly implies "true ownership" of the whole stack on the device. The average user will find it very convenient when their t
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by drcube 14y ago
Pretty sure there's a Google property with the same cloud + gears loading animation. Blogger, or Tumblr or Blogspot or one of those.
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by drcube 14y ago
Not quite, because people are still monkeys. :) I'd say we lost our British accent when we stopped being British.
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by drcube 14y ago
> Finding a job at the end should be one of the last reasons you consider attending. I agree with this if you're rich, or else qualify for a free education like a scholarship or the GI Bill. But for most people, college is a significant
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by drcube 14y ago
Not if the reason people get those degrees is to get better jobs. If the proportion of degree holders is the same across all jobs, why should someone pay tens of thousands in tuition, plus the opportunity cost in lost wages, for that degree
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by drcube 14y ago
Police are not there to protect you. Their job is to bring perpetrators to justice. If they are nearby, they may or may not attempt to stop a crime in progress, but they are not required to do so, and that does nothing to stop personal assa
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by drcube 14y ago
You're right that children shouldn't have to work. But in the situations where they do anyway , it serves them better to fix the underlying problem -- poverty -- than to fire them and send them right back to the conditions they tried to

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