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by houseabsolute 16y ago
When men are in general an oppressed group, you can call me and I will be excited about questions like this.
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
All depends on whether what's come out so far is enough to convince a judge to issue subpoenas.
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
Haven't you heard of executive dating services? ;)
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
Seems unlikely that this case is going to set a precedent that redefines fair use in a jurisdiction that will be useful to you. Best not to copy whole articles in that case. (That said, it is idiotic that you can sue someone for a copy of a
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
> But $10/month per user probably wouldn't be enough revenue to match facebook's high valuation. What, five billion a month would not be enough? Of course, no one is going to pay for Facebook, mostly because some people aren't going to
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
I'm aware of these concepts, but they don't defeat my objection. The question is still open whether Facebook is in that region or in the "grow by a factor of ten in the next year" region. Hard to predict the answer to that question.
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
> They'd have to double their revenue stream every single year to make it worth buying at that price within some reasonable payoff-time like 5 years. That's not so ridiculous for an internet company dominant in a developing space. Minec
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
Only in the sense that any psychological issue stemming from abuse is self-inflicted.
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
OK, I see your point, and I think it is a fine one. Not very practical because of immigration policies and whatnot, but definitely of an idealism that I can subscribe to.
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
Unproductive labor (poor education, lack of human capital), few natural resources, zany state economic policies. These are my guesses.
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
I'm not trying to offend with this comment, but I surely will regardless. Those states that had those low numbers tend to be the ones where people on the whole would not choose to live unless they had a specific reason to do so. A job, for
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
Maybe so. He deleted his comment, which leads me to believe he at least as some capability for shame. Anyway, it'll be nice to have that written down, though, so I can refer my non-troll conservative friends to it when the idiocy builds up.
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
It always fascinates me that any given action by a business, when seen through various cultural lenses, may appear sinister which to me is of the most innocuous variety. Working for Google, these differences in perception affect my daily li
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
> Wake me up when "education" is something other than scripts delivered to teachers by bureaucrats and specialists who haven't ever felt what it's like to actually teach. Is it really like that nowadays? I have heard this said before, b
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
While it may be true that Europeans are taxed more heavily than Americans, that does not necessarily mean that Americans being taxed more heavily is a good thing to happen. Your argument seems to boil down to, "You think that frying pan is
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
> That's not petty either. I don't really expect you to see it any other way. You too are part of the advantaged White race, and it's far easier to turn a blind eye to the advantages you receive over Black or Latino people than to recog
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
> Any other ethnic group would be up in arms That is because the other ethnic groups are not the dominant ones in society, and are typically disadvantaged on the whole because of their race. My personal view as a White person is that I
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
We shouldn't. There's enough evil in the world already, and this man losing his job is not likely to make things better.
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
> Please tell me where things went wrong. Among other things, you've failed to demonstrate that Obama believes Capitalism is inherently exploitative. Even if you'd managed that, you'd still need to prove that he also supports the other
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
As much as I sometimes differ with Obama's policies, you do not seem to understand what Marxism is at all and would do well to read up on it before trying to say who is or isn't a Marxist. You can start here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
Hopefully he will keep his job if he is good at it. No sense wasting that education when lawyers can learn good practice from him, even if his politics suck. You are basically advocating employer censoring of employees' private political op
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
Drinking is very good, and not all office romance is sexual harassment, although it's true the article's examples are . . . unfortunate. I think the article's message is a sound one: Googlers talk about how much they love the ball pits, but
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
I grew up in the '90s and early '00s. I really doubt that it is or ever will be a significant social disadvantage to only be allowed access to video games on the weekend.
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
In my family, the rule was no video games at all Sunday night through Thursday night. A little draconian perhaps, but it solved this problem.
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
Fine, paid for the cake to be baked, or bought it from whoever baked it, or financed the baking in return for some percent interest in the resulting cake's profits, if we must be technical. But this type of objection really, seriously doe
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
There's something bigger that stands out about this whole episode to me. It's not just that they never stood a chance. It's that if they were smart enough to build an even half-way functional engine, they should have been able to see from l
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
It doesn't compute to me that a feature you call a deal-breaker can be found in a device you already own, but ok.
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
Since that's not among the features of Google TV, why not just say FutureTV instead? Or indeed TiVo or your DirectTV set-top box? I'm sure this was not your intention but you might be unfairly giving the impression that GoogleTV is anti-use
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
Must be some kind of miscommunication . . . I doubt either are lying about their perception of the situation.
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
> we don't modify it away from the native resolution ... 480x360 or 192x144 The iPhone 4's camera is 1280 × 720 though . . .?

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