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by jboles 10y ago
Solitaire/Minesweeper. One of the original purposes of including them with Windows was to familiarise users with mouse techniques.
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by jboles 10y ago
Exactly. Republicans do not have a problem with single women per se, only unchecked promiscuity out of wedlock.
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by jboles 10y ago
> Who cares. Looks like someone hit a nerve there. Downvoted.
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by jboles 10y ago
Not correct: "In effect, Australia fought two wars between 1939 and 1945[2] – one against Germany and Italy as part of the British Commonwealth's war effort and the other against Japan in alliance with the United States and Britai
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by jboles 10y ago
Sadly, not a new thing and not just US universities. Ghostwriting scandal that hit a bunch of Australian universities about 18 months ago: http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/students-enlist-mym... "Aust
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ATMr... it's Uber for ATMs from your smartphone
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by jboles 10y ago
I don't foresee such a future. Previously the barrier to entry by Uber, Lyft, etc. was government regulation. With those entrants the market is effectively deregulated. Short of the taxi cartel joining forces with the Uber drivers, Ube
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by jboles 10y ago
Those are what are known as 'kooks'
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by jboles 10y ago
I'd definitely consider one if it was available. My current board is an Original Apex 34 [0] which though not as flexy as the Loaded is a great size for zooming around the city, hopping on/off trains buses etc [0] http:/&#x2
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by jboles 10y ago
I think the weight is due to having 4 much smaller diameter wheels, which means the torque moment of force and motor size is much smaller
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by jboles 10y ago
Yeah, gotta pay to play but skateboarding is fairly cheap as far as hobbies go (if you can stay out of hospital !)
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by jboles 10y ago
I suspect it is also a cultural (American) thing. I'm 31 and these people are an embarrassment to my generation.
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by jboles 10y ago
Sure it's easier to start off with one if you've never ridden a skateboard before but you will want to learn those things if you want to: (1) still be able to ride it when the battery is dead (2) not hurt yourself if the brakes fa
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by jboles 10y ago
The main issue with this style of brake is dissipating the huge amount of energy generated from a person riding down a long steep grade, in braking components that need to remain small and lightweight.
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by jboles 10y ago
The sense of selfish entitlement shown by these people is simply staggering.
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by jboles 10y ago
Don't ride faster than you can run until you can slow yourself down without any braking device
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by jboles 10y ago
You already have a friction brake when riding a long board, it's your foot (with a shoe on it)
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by jboles 10y ago
Every good rule has an exception. Also it can definitely be about looks or the person, as opposed to behaviour. Really comes down to how shallow the alleged-victim is.
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by jboles 10y ago
Besides being paranoid/insecure, it is placing responsibility for your own negative emotions on, in this example, an innocuous stranger. Only you are responsible for your own happiness. There's also attractiveness as an input fact
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by jboles 10y ago
Not really. Renaming the username-part of the user's home folder has all kinds of data loss potential (apps not being able to find documents, documents linked to each other etc.). Therefore Windows takes the perfectly appropriate appro
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by jboles 10y ago
yea, open page, lag, see that it is facebook's usual bloat, task manager, kill firefox.exe process.
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by jboles 10y ago
Same issue with Australia. Too much of the economy involves digging up rocks and flipping houses.
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by jboles 11y ago
The whole point of the article is that this is the early warning sign.
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by jboles 11y ago
There is nowhere to regenerate the energy to (no battery, and no overhead line to feed the energy to where it can power other trains). Instead, diesel-electric locomotives have dynamic braking. The motors are reconnected as generators as is
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End of the on-demand dream(smh.com.au)
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by jboles 11y ago
There have been a few British tourists over the years that have tried to visit Sydney NSW (New South Wales) and ended up in Sydney NS (Nova Scotia), perhaps because some computer system incorrectly truncated the state abbreviation to US&#x2
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by jboles 11y ago
Hmm. I hope they don't do anything with FastMail.fm. This was a company whose email product I was so impressed with that I still pay $15 a year for email. Edit: looks like Fastmail bought themselves back from Opera anyway. https:&#x2F