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by gramie 3y ago
An odd thing: Canadians can enter the Turks & Caicos islands (a British Overseas Territory) without a passport. I know that because my partner discovered that her passport had expired, the night before our trip. It took some time at the
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by gramie 3y ago
They would have had to choose at 20, not 18 (in Japan, 20 is the age of majority). Also, no one comes after you to choose. Perhaps when you renew your passport, but I do know some Japanese people who just never filled out the paperwork to s
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by gramie 3y ago
This would have made things easy for us in 1997, when we were deciding on a boy's name that would be recognizable in English and Japanese. In the end, we settled on a variation of "Ken", which is the one recommended by this s
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by gramie 3y ago
You could also use B4A ( https://www.b4x.com/b4a.html ), which compiles BASIC into Java bytecode and has an interface builder -- as well as versions available for iOS, Arduino, and desktop Java. Only the iOS one requires a pa
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by gramie 3y ago
I graduated from engineering school more than 30 years ago, and learned how to apply calculus without understanding why it worked. This book helped me to finally understand.
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by gramie 3y ago
You can buy the original series 1-7 games at Fanatical for about $1: https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/leisure-suit-larry-retro... and then the most recent two for another $1: https://www.fanatical.co
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by gramie 3y ago
This website looks like possibly the worst way to read George Orwell (or anyone else). Links to individual chapters, text in a narrow (and non-adjustable) column, a search function that doesn't work... Just buy the book, or borrow it f
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by gramie 3y ago
Season 2 of Millennium ranks up there with my favourite television ever. Season 1 was mostly "Serial killer of the week" episodes, and Season 3 was clearly the studio trying to make TV as they understood it, and ruining everything
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by gramie 3y ago
The history of that is interesting. Italians from Sicily emigrated to the U.S. in 1880-1920. Many brought their mafia ties and traditions with them. When the allies liberated Sicily in WWII, many of those Italian-Americans acted as interpre
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by gramie 3y ago
I know someone who was able to send his children to medical school in a foreign country, when they weren't accepted into schools in our country. He was able to pay ~$500,000 in tuition, plus all the living expenses, etc. Now they have
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by gramie 3y ago
I'm sure that they made tidy profits for the executives involved, though.
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by gramie 3y ago
And, of course, there is no way for everybody to pull themselves up. You have to hope that you are one of the lucky few, while the rest are ground up and spat out by the machine.
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by gramie 3y ago
The content is just a whole bunch of JPG files that have been XORed with 239. If you XOR them with 239 again, you get the original JPG images. If you do a Google search, you should be able to find several programs/scripts that will do
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by gramie 3y ago
I was speaking in terms of almost every kind of print journalism struggling and, usually failing to adapt their business model. It has been going on for a couple of decades now.
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by gramie 3y ago
The problem is that musicians (except, again, from the top-tier ones) aren't making money from live shows either. Tours are being cancelled because they end up costing the artists money.
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by gramie 3y ago
> the tech-savvy ones will find a way That doesn't sound like good design to me.
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by gramie 3y ago
One of the greatest deals I ever got (in my mind) was buying the entire set of National Geographic magazines on DVD disc for about $15. More than 100 years of articles! Too bad that they have gone the way of the dodo, but the writing has be
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by gramie 3y ago
Yes, but the dialog doesn't tell you what to do if you do want to run the code. Why would I think that clicking "Open" in the popup menu would do anything different from double-clicking? Also, an individual Microsoft Store
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by gramie 3y ago
My son had an electronic kit in our apartment. I made a tennis ball riser for him, which seems to have helped with noise. Here's an example (although I used pool noodles as well): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcPE_lT
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by gramie 3y ago
I think you mean Isaac Asimov: “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by
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by gramie 3y ago
One of my previous (Android) phones had a red light that would blink if there was a missed call or message. I found it extremely convenient.
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by gramie 3y ago
The "colleague" was one of his students. Apparently the kids had lots of interactions with American GIs who were stationed in the area, and picked up code words from conversations they heard. When their headmaster, who created the
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by gramie 3y ago
I find Amazon really irritating for that. I do a search for a very specific thing, and a ton of results always come back, often having nothing to do with my search request. And sponsored results both at the top and scattered through the res
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by gramie 3y ago
I learned Japanese by going there to work as an English teacher in 1993. I learned Sesotho by going there (Lesotho) to work as a volunteer teacher in 1988. I learned French in school and doing French immersion courses in Quebec in 1980&#x2F
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by gramie 3y ago
Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Communism is the reverse.
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by gramie 3y ago
You do want to see it, you maybe just don't know it yet!
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by gramie 3y ago
I speak English natively, and have learned French, German, Sesotho and Japanese with a mixture of books and immersion. Obviously immersion is the best way. I used Duolingo to help me learn Spanish, and I was struck by how artificial it is.
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by gramie 3y ago
I stand corrected. The website has not been updated, but their FaceBook page indicates that the computers are out, but the C64 is sold out at least in North America.
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by gramie 3y ago
The Commodore 64 looks like vaporware. The newest update says "Coming December 2019". The A500 Mini has release dates in 2022.
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by gramie 3y ago
I would suspect that Japanese kei cars would not pass the safety requirements. Road speeds really are much slower over there. IIRC, the warning alarm on my kei car in the 90s would go off if I exceeded 90 km/h (about 55 mph).

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