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Your second sentence signals a slide into a dangerous mindset pushed by the MAGA lobby. Weapons and other support are certainly not regarded as "toys" by Ukrainians who are subjected to horrific daily (and nightly) bombardments fr
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You don't necessarily need an expensive lawyer to take on a contesting party. Some years back, I challenged a property developer over a right of way issue. I had no legal experience, so I went to my local university's law library
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1y ago
Deep fried Mars bar is like a dessert group unto itself!
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1y ago
No. If the enemy insists on "playing", there should be a tit-for-tat response. This is a fundamental result from game theory, and an empirical conclusion if one peruses Russia's history with its neighbors.
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Well, it's more complex than that... Definitely, the government of Serbia supported (or at the very least, ignored) Serb paramilitaries, which were infamous for carrying out "ethnic cleansing". On the Croatian side, right-win
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1y ago
*poring over Lawyers also tend to pore a lot, so it's worth getting the word right! ;-)
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Our expert team of astrologers works tirelessly... Is that true? It's impressive that the page loads quickly, but looking beyond that, at the content itself, it needs to be a lot more convincing that this is indeed an astrology sit
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1y ago
“So, the first inhabitants in this land would have been encountering the giant beaver.” ...and killing them. It's curious how megafauna extinctions coincide with human arrival... Native Americans, Australian Aborigines, and other &qu
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1y ago
Very nice - I used a similar technique with SVG elliptical arcs to display Moon phases!
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1y ago
Perhaps even rarer was the DraCo by MacroSystem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DraCo It was an Amiga clone based on the 4000T, omitted some of the Amiga chipset, and was targeted at non-linear video editing. It was bas
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I have a 4000T in an Eagle case. This version: https://amigaland.de/eagle-4000te It provided a lot more space for peripherals, and (for the time) looked better than the stock A4000T (in my opinion).
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1y ago
You should provide the source: Commander William Adama of Battlestar Galactica, speaking to President Laura Roslin: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sz2QN8_VvoM
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I released my game for free on the App Store. 1.5 years of effort - for free? Well, it's a calling card that I can flaunt whenever needed. So far, it's helped me land two jobs, and I can confidently leverage it in future too. I ne
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I've had the same journey, and opted instead for a Sigma Foveon camera. Comparisons and advantages: https://www.photigy.com/school/sigma-foveon-sensor-review-dp... For black and white photography, the best high-en
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It could have been stopped at the outset if our leaders had any wisdom and courage. And it could have been prevented if our former leaders had any ethics and knowledge of history. It's a failure of politics and leadership, at all lev
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And the Amiga was faster than the Mac when emulating a Mac. I know this first hand, because I got my first email address with CompuServe, running their software under emulation, while using my Amiga's dial-up modem. (I had to sneak
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Only some spires of bright green grass Transparently in sunshine quivering. -- Emily Brontë, August 1837
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Czechia His website: https://danyk.cz/index_en.html
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> I root for Horse Laws and grow sad when a state bucks them. Another cute one!
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Echoes of "Sinister Barrier" by Eric Frank Russell, a famous 1940s SF novel ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinister_Barrier ). If scientists begin dying mysteriously, these researchers might be onto something!
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Like it or not, the BBC is the world's oldest public broadcaster; a pioneer in many ways. For the UK, there's a huge amount of prestige in that. Naturally, the BBC as an entity needs to preserve British values. Conservatism and po
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I second the recommendation: even if you don't have a Twitter/X account, find some way to watch Mick Gordon's session! I find it hysterically funny, but at the same time, it really shows what this synth is capable of. Excelle
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1y ago
There's also the MobiScribe Wave ( https://mobiscribe.com/ ), a color e-ink Android tablet, with frontlighting, and excellent battery life. On standby, it lasts for weeks . I have it hooked up to my Bluetooth keyboard.
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That reform needs to be a lot more substantial. What I read in the article is an account of corruption on a staggering scale, permeating the democratic foundations of the US.
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> I don’t know…the actual inspirations for Indiana Jones, like Allan Quatermain from H. Rider Haggard's novels, "King Solomon's Mines", and the real life Roy Chapman Andrews, who led expeditions to Mongolia and China
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This is a useful and comprehensive guide: https://www.eff.org/wp/digital-privacy-us-border-2017
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"Fuck around, find out"
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Malcolm Nance on Twitter/X ( https://x.com/MalcolmNance/status/1905724835764044045 ): "How will this happen? 1) A Battalion of marines, 10th Mountain & a mass of US Air Force Security Police are “quie
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In some UK schools, this was the basis for a mathematics investigation for 11 year olds. Do the task for various numbers of frogs, records the results, and try to find a rule - then make a prediction for a certain number, and test it! A gre
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Tau replacing pi? Sure, just start using it. Publish with it. If we want better, we have to make it happen!
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