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by fluxquanta 10y ago
My argument in the meeting was that our company has over 15,000 clients who are businesses themselves, and maybe 100 of them don't have internet access. Most of these clients intentionally keep their computers disconnected because &q
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by fluxquanta 10y ago
Wow, are you me? Every morning we have a company wide meeting where capturing more market share is a recurring theme. And immediately after that meeting yesterday in a developers only meeting, an inordinately large amount of time was spent
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by fluxquanta 10y ago
I'm absolutely with you. The weather's finally warming up, so I spent most of this past weekend doing maintenance on my motorcycle for the riding season. In a couple of decades will riding a motorcycle on public roads even be an o
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by fluxquanta 11y ago
Market forces will prevail, absolutely, but in my opinion the biggest factor in criticizing comedy should be one question: is it funny? One problem is, or so I hear, that people aren't even listening long enough to make that determinat
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by fluxquanta 11y ago
At least I will say that my feelings here are consistent -- those examples you provided are also unacceptable.
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by fluxquanta 11y ago
With Jeselnik it's all about the delivery and the persona he has. You're right, though -- it's classic misdirection which can be a bit cliche.
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by fluxquanta 11y ago
I was speaking more to the comedy club setting, in which case yes, I would absolutely attempt to silence a heckler (and have). In no other public performance is it acceptable to cause a ruckus because you don't agree with what the perf
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by fluxquanta 11y ago
>The last special he made, he bombed so hard I just stopped following him. It's just hard to find things funny when absolutely no one else is smirking... I thought it was his best yet, but you touched on a good point: If his (or any
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by fluxquanta 11y ago
Check out Kurt Metzger.
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by fluxquanta 11y ago
This ties in with the other article that was posted here about over-sensitivity[0]. I follow stand-up comedy pretty closely, and so many comedians seem to be facing more and more verbal (and sometimes physical) push back from jokes that are
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by fluxquanta 11y ago
>But a lot of break-ups wouldn't be that hard to do, such as separating NYC from upstate NY. Ideologically NYC should be separate from Upstate New York -- I certainly agree as a liberal minded person living upstate. However, it&#x27
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by fluxquanta 11y ago
>I really think this country would be better off if CA and TX were not allowed representation in the Senate (and I say this as a Texan). Removing national government representation would be more antithetical to democracy than anything th
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by fluxquanta 11y ago
To illustrate how well known he is outside of the US (specifically in Japan), a rather humorous video[0] that I saw on reddit a couple weeks ago: [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2JhvkzgVGc&feature=youtu.be...
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by fluxquanta 11y ago
>unless the ticket itself puts a restriction on recordation They almost always do (at least in my experience), it's just rarely enforced.
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by fluxquanta 11y ago
My local NPR affiliate (ncpr.org) is, by far, the best local news source available to me, and I give to them twice per year. Beyond the 5 minute NPR news breaks, however, I'm not too concerned with the national coverage.
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by fluxquanta 11y ago
Right, I was just illustrating that your hypothetical had a recent, concrete example.
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by fluxquanta 11y ago
>If, somehow, a DMV employee was publicly and proudly making people they don't like go to the back of the line, and they had powerful people aligned with them, there would be some outrage. What about a county clerk refusing to sign
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by fluxquanta 11y ago
My best language story is growing up in rural New York state helping my father install satellite television systems. One time when I was about 16 or 17 I was sent to do an installation at a dairy farm; specifically in the small trailer near
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by fluxquanta 11y ago
There's a television commercial[0] currently airing for Quicken Loan's "Rocket Mortgage" product that is literally saying this and it bugs me every time I see it. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlRm6
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by fluxquanta 11y ago
>but doesn't include A-list movie stars, for example Surely you aren't still talking about Horace and Pete. Aside from Louis C.K. himself being one of the top comedians (among other things) in America, Horace and Pete starred A
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by fluxquanta 11y ago
>(Yes, you can sell the film as an MP4 from your own website. But the problem is that people won't buy it because that's not how the public are used to getting their films. At a film festival I recently attended, a very respect
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by fluxquanta 11y ago
Ah, okay. I'm about an hour south of Ottawa, actually. Not quite as bad as up in Edmonton, I'm sure, but I can relate to the winter darkness. Between November and March I'm lucky if I get a cold 15 minutes of sunshine on my d
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by fluxquanta 11y ago
Right, I tend to agree, but as I noted in my response to asteadman, the weather hasn't been kind to going out and finding interesting shots outside yet, and my little one bedroom apartment has been getting a bit stale. I've taken
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by fluxquanta 11y ago
Just finished that book last night, actually. And perhaps I was being a little over dramatic with the "collecting dust" bit. I've used the camera everyday since I've gotten it, if not just to drill the features and how t
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by fluxquanta 11y ago
I find these comments interesting, because I'm on the other end of the spectrum when it comes to photography -- I'm just now getting into it more than just casual phone photos. My father was a professional photographer back in the
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by fluxquanta 11y ago
Pricing must be based on where you're located, because the lowest tier (all I need) is only $30 here. The biggest benefit for me is that when the NBA season's done I will just click a button and stop paying, then click another but
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by fluxquanta 11y ago
People do opt in. People outside of the tech game don't think of these as making themselves more vulnerable -- they only see convenience (or just blindly click yes to anything). I had a Twitter app (Tweetcaster?) that had a "sho
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by fluxquanta 11y ago
Streaming TV is only getting better. I only watch TV for basketball, and when the grey-market streaming service I was using for NBA games got shut down, I wanted to at least be able to see the nationally televised (ESPN and TNT) games witho
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by fluxquanta 11y ago
It's 2016 -- forget the Whitepages. Most people publicly update all of this information everyday, multiple times per day, through their social media accounts.
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by fluxquanta 11y ago
I'm an upstate (real upstate, north of Syracuse) resident. People hear "New York" and think "ooh, city!" but there are swathes of very rural, very poor areas that can barely keep up with basic maintenance. Case in p

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