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by dsplittgerber 15y ago
So sad to see this as the top comment. This has been dealth with at length - it's just not the way the modern (media) world works anymore. Honestly, no one would even care if there were the greatest intel of all time, the most incriminating
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Senate Votes To Let Military Detain Americans Indefinitely(huffingtonpost.com)
6 points by dsplittgerber 15y ago|2 comments
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by dsplittgerber 15y ago
This is not complex at all. As long as new legislation concerning formerly unregulated areas of life is as easily introduced as today, and politics having as close a connection with money as it has, this is just not going to end, ever. Good
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by dsplittgerber 15y ago
There is no difference between US political parties as far as being in favor of regulating areas of society and life is concerned.
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by dsplittgerber 15y ago
Not to be overly political, but: This is what you get when you support a modern liberal state. It's always going to over-extend and over-regulate, because that's just the way the bureaucracy works - it's preserving itself by always finding
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by dsplittgerber 15y ago
Not trying to provoke you and yes, it'd be easier that way - just trying to make a point. But you are, apparently, not really convinced. Otherwise you'd see what's at stake here and a ten-second google search wouldn't stop you from donating
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by dsplittgerber 15y ago
I don't agree at all. First, what exactly are "UK profits" supposed to be? Say Apple has a net margin of 20 % on every iPhone sold. It's designed in California by Americans (most surely several non-native Americans among them), manufactured
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by dsplittgerber 15y ago
Does anyone know if your bookmarks and annotations stay saved on your Kindle even after returning the ebook? It's all I really care about after having finished a book - saving my bookmarks/annotations for future reference.
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by dsplittgerber 15y ago
Geez, the point is that he is really fighting and going all-the-way for his company. A lot of guys would have stopped on the original "No". A lot of guys would have left after having sat in the lobby for a few hours. A lot of guys would hav
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by dsplittgerber 15y ago
Please tell me you read that article and didn't find it odd how extremely one-sided and positive it was. Also, it happens all the time. And with a publishing machine as big as the NYT, it's bound to happen there as well. Remember Jayson Bla
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by dsplittgerber 15y ago
Just a quick clarification: this ban is not about patents, at all. It is only based on a registered "design patent" (Geschmacksmuster), which is wholly different from regular patents and protects specifically the aesthetics of a product (de
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by dsplittgerber 15y ago
There is a clear difference between "go big or go home" and "pump it & dump it". I am astonished people don't seem to see the difference.
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by dsplittgerber 15y ago
Anonymous is the best that could ever happen for proponents of a crackdown on freedom (through/via/on the internet). No one knows who's behind it, so no one will stand up for them, no one will complain if they get harassed and all the blaim
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by dsplittgerber 15y ago
Because there was no incentive yet, obviously. Owning stuff on your harddrive is of not much use when you're constantly on the move and want to have easy access to your music and have less and less use for a stationary pc anyway. For many p
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by dsplittgerber 15y ago
We don't know yet, but one probably will never "own" your iTunes Cloud data the same way you own your music now, I concede that. Still, you'll have access to all your pirated music as long as you keep paying 30 bucks a year. It's actually a
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by dsplittgerber 15y ago
A little arbitrage idea: How about going on an illegal downloading-binge and getting every album one possibly could ever like from the past, I don't know, 30 years? Then when you've got your several thousand albums, you go legalize it all
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by dsplittgerber 15y ago
I accidentally clicked twice and two identical comments were created. I deleted one. Alas, the other seems to have gone rougue as well.
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by dsplittgerber 15y ago
Cue for dozens of Fortune, Newsweek et al articles proclaiming the new bubble. If everyone's so confident in their assertion, go short that stock. Groupon will grow like hell until there are finally no new deals to lure with left and the 'e
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by dsplittgerber 15y ago
It's really interesting. When you read 'In the Plex' - which is superb and totally awesome -, there are several instances where you get the sense that Googlers are living in a kind of perfect bubble, shielding them from the kind of problems
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The Guantanamo Files(wikileaks.ch)
262 points by dsplittgerber 15y ago|56 comments
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11 Arrested in Crackdown on Online Gambling - US seeking to recover $3 billion(nytimes.com)
9 points by dsplittgerber 15y ago|2 comments
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by dsplittgerber 16y ago
Back in the times of Geocities, everyone's site was unique(ly ugly). Today, everyone's facebook page looks exactly the same. Geez, and you wonder why rate-of-use will probably decline over time? Facebook et al. will not be the end of connec
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by dsplittgerber 16y ago
Looks like spam.
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The Freight Train That Is Android(abovethecrowd.com)
34 points by dsplittgerber 16y ago|1 comments
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by dsplittgerber 16y ago
Potential market for people willing to shell over $40 for a game? Potential market for people willing to try on a whim that bird game the whole office has been talking about? Serious gamers will probably always stick with the most advanced
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by dsplittgerber 16y ago
Why is it $15 for a smartphone subscription, but $27.99 for a Kindle subscription that some days even doesn't include all the articles from print?
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by dsplittgerber 16y ago
Apparently, it's this: http://bankofamericasuck.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/boa1...
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by dsplittgerber 16y ago
I think opinions may differ regarding whether or not that's criminal activity. See argument here: http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/g3hgw/bank_of_amer... The guy who leaked this information is a former employee of BofA. Since his
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by dsplittgerber 16y ago
You don't know his name, and you've never seen his face. But this year, as America leaves Iraq for good after eight years of war, we also leave behind a man believed by our military and intelligence agencies to be the best terrorist hunter
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The Hunter Becomes The Hunted(esquire.com)
2 points by dsplittgerber 16y ago|1 comments

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