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by dvtv75 9y ago
Many years ago, I went to meet a friend at a cafe and show him this game I'd just bought. Pulled the laptop out and it was incredible just how fast I felt like that. Besides which, the noise levels would drive me nuts. I have difficu
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by dvtv75 9y ago
> If it's bad, you also collect as much documentation proving that they're a bad actor, and that you did no wrong. (....) But you need to protect yourself. This, a thousand times this! In my last job, we had a media license tha
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by dvtv75 9y ago
Didn't he just use his status and prestige to buy his way into New Zealand citizenship? (This is a rhetorical question, the answer is "It would seem so.")
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by dvtv75 9y ago
It'd make a great political statement (or prank) in that case.
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by dvtv75 9y ago
I saw that a few times in New Zealand, too. I think I've seen TV shows lose scenes and lines for more ads, as well. What really got me was back when the Battlestar Galactica pilot screened on TV. I was very keen to see it, and heard
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by dvtv75 9y ago
Imagine this: you're on your way home, it's a cold and wet winter night, you're dashing from the bus stop to your home and you want a hot cup when you get home. Just trigger the kettle to fill and boil enough for you with th
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by dvtv75 9y ago
To me, it's not really the control of activities that will be transferred away, it's the information that people can glean from (for example) the usage logs which can be used to build a significant profile about your movements. Fo
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by dvtv75 9y ago
I can listen to music and work, sometimes I get so focused that I don't even realize there is music, but I usually more effectively in silence. I hate background chitchat beyond a certain level, and when the people talking have to get
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by dvtv75 9y ago
Just thinking "I can do this!" doesn't mean it is so. Not every idea is a practical one, and even if it is, it's not always appropriate to pursue for various reasons. Something that can help is introspection: write down
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by dvtv75 9y ago
Nice work Rocket Labs! I was quite disappointed when the launch was aborted because of that "rogue vessel." I've read a suggestion that it was an angry local doing their best to disrupt things. I really hope it wasn't
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by dvtv75 9y ago
I'm sold! I'll go in and refuse my pay check because my employer offers me high quality products that even I can purchase. I can't, because I won't have the money to purchase them, but they are "in business to make
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by dvtv75 9y ago
My partner's mother was a little girl during World War 2, and told me that she remembers being at school with her gas mask nearby at all times. She told me how a bomb fell near her house in Dorking blew out all the windows, while anot
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by dvtv75 9y ago
Last year, I was walking near a sports ground a couple of miles from where I live. Someone came up and started talking to me about something extremely odd, and I wondered what was going on. I thought to myself, "Am I dreaming?"
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by dvtv75 9y ago
I believe it's a little worse in New Zealand. When I go home, I get about 15 minutes in the sun before I start burning. My father used to work with some Nigerian engineers who said that the sun stings a lot more in Australia and New Z
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by dvtv75 9y ago
I was rather hoping that someone would list some low power options. When I look into building my own, I usually end up looking at what is basically a PC, with typical PC power draw.
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by dvtv75 9y ago
Wikipedia sugggests that the bulk of SWAT deployments are to serve search warrants. This suggests to me that they're not acting at "great personal risk, in order to save civilian lives," and instead that they're acting
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by dvtv75 9y ago
You had to go there, didn't you? You just had to say it. When we're all dead in a week, I'm blaming you.
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by dvtv75 9y ago
A relative of mine works in IT for a non-US hospital. (Avoiding naming it because of backlash potential, both for him and myself.) When he started there, as bottom level IT support, he had access to everything. Admin passwords, doctor&#x2
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by dvtv75 9y ago
Not in the US, but these have happened to me in my last three jobs (mostly in Dunedin, New Zealand): * steal from their employees by not paying them when they quit * intimidating employees into not reporting wages under the minimum * refusi
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by dvtv75 9y ago
I had a battery powered one that randomly triggered in the small hours. I'm very sensitive to loud high-pitched sounds, so I woke up with a fright that must have aged me 20 years. Tore that thing off the ceiling, nearly pulling a chu
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by dvtv75 9y ago
What was the Triangle massacre? I can't find much about it.
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by dvtv75 9y ago
And the women who think this way, too? A male friend-of-a-friend was raped by a woman, when he was in his late teens (he was older than the age of consent) more than 20 years ago. He went to the police station to complain. Walked in, said
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by dvtv75 9y ago
"Imagine trying to explain to a kid that this one computer is actually a bunch of computers and why that is cool vs. having a bunch of flashing lights visually showing the work being done in a way that they have never experienced befor
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by dvtv75 9y ago
Well, it made me smile.
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by dvtv75 9y ago
You're only turning 30? You've got plenty of time, don't sweat it. The reality is that 30 isn't old. 40 isn't old, either. 60? When I was a kid, a 60 year old looked like an 80 year old does today. You don&#x27
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by dvtv75 9y ago
Many years ago, in New Zealand, the flatmate of a friend of mine told me much the same: if you're questioned by the police, you can't just stop talking and claim your right to silence. You gave that up by answering questions.
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by dvtv75 9y ago
I think his point was that democracy is the responsibility of the people being governed, so if you don't like it then it becomes your responsibility to do something about it. (Although I could be mis-interpreting.)
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by dvtv75 9y ago
My admittedly very limited understanding of memory is that you are right: we each have a base level of memory which we can't improve upon. There are factors that influence your memory, such as stress and anxiety, injury, distraction, f
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by dvtv75 9y ago
I once saw a rather disturbing photo in a National Geographic magazine, of a small monkey being cooked. I believe it was in Indonesia. Really can't remember the specifics, though, it could have been anywhere.
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by dvtv75 9y ago
This is something I'm quite pleased about - I'm really enjoying Discovery, because it's not the same as Enterprise and Voyager were. (Can't stand Voyager, I stopped watching when I saw the pattern in how it was going to

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