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811.
by jemmyw 3y ago
When I was a kid and this game and Tie Fighter were around I got a joystick with 100 buttons/controls on it.
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by jemmyw 3y ago
Our speed limits are actually similar for similar designed roads in urban areas, 50km, 70km, 80km and 100km. A lot of the road network is 100km national speed limit, and you wouldn't typically drive that fast on US roads of a similar d
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by jemmyw 3y ago
I don't think religion is the major factor there. Losing religion is lagging behind these social changes. I mean, anecdotally, I'm not religious and my wife is fiercely anti-religions and we have 3 kids and she doesn't work.
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by jemmyw 3y ago
Have you been to other countries? American speeding seemed pretty sedate. I recall driving a bit too fast around some country roads in CA and people would pull over and let me past. That would never happen here, and I'd also be the slo
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by jemmyw 3y ago
Do atheists destroy women? Or do you mean women no longer filling some role you think they should because of what your religion prescribes?
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by jemmyw 3y ago
> These are the type of failures you wouldn't see 20 years ago I've been wondering about this. Is there an increase in failure rate or are we just reporting on issues that were not reported on before because this plane model is
817.
by jemmyw 3y ago
I don't really know what this means, I'm not American. I would say that all these people are more right of centre if liberal means left wing.
818.
by jemmyw 3y ago
I totally agree with this stance. Among my peer group a couple of folks own a second property they rent out and the "if we didn't where would our tenant live?" vibe is bizarre. They'd live in a house, maybe even being ab
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by jemmyw 3y ago
We do know what happened though. Boeing used an insider to pass information about their competitors bids and then gave them a high paying job with a large sign on bonus. They got the contract killed because they knew they could work up a fu
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by jemmyw 3y ago
Reading more around it, Northrop Grumman won the initial contract with an Airbus model and Boeing complained, got the proposal rewritten in their favour. They had an official who passed them info and got a highly inflated contract written,
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by jemmyw 3y ago
In an all out nuclear exchange nobody was going to win
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by jemmyw 3y ago
Funny this subject came up on yesterday's BBC QI show. I liked the poetic description of consciousness not as the driver of thought but as a compass needle that points the way the thoughts were going anyway. I've not believed in f
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by jemmyw 3y ago
Urgh AirPods are really annoying, I'm not a fan of their propagation. I would say 50% of folks I work with use them for video calls now. They have some cut in behaviour so you miss the first part of what those people say every time the
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by jemmyw 3y ago
I bought a large corner sofa in the US in 2013 for 4k from a store in Santa Rosa. Still using it, have moved it to Europe and then New Zealand and it has put up with 3 kids and a multitude of cats. At some point we'll get it re-upholst
825.
by jemmyw 3y ago
I'm going to guess that within hamas you have people who commit violence and people who provide community services, and these aren't the same people. If you want to provide for your community then the ruling organisation might be
826.
by jemmyw 3y ago
According to Masimo, Apple never put a deal on the table. They had one meeting and then poached their employees.
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by jemmyw 3y ago
No I don't believe so. Inequality is a metric that you can apply to any system. A communist system could have high inequality if it rewarded some skills with a big imbalance. Capitalism as an economic system doesn't really say muc
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by jemmyw 3y ago
Surely if a connection erodes it is either still connected and working or not connected and not working? It wouldn't get slower.
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by jemmyw 3y ago
Every time we get an article about EVs we get commenters here who just like to list the pitfalls, every time, over and over. It's pretty boring. No-body is forcing anyone to buy an EV (yet), so each of us can decide on the merits. I wo
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by jemmyw 3y ago
I've done a few long road trips and 2 hours is about the max my kids would go anyway between breaks. Not that I've done it in an EV.
831.
by jemmyw 3y ago
... did you miss the /s for sarcasm on the post you replied to? That's exactly the comments point.
832.
by jemmyw 3y ago
If I understand what I read recently about movie budgets, for big films like these they need to make roughly double that headline budget to break even. The budget does not include distribution and marketing. So even Lightyear was actually a
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by jemmyw 3y ago
I moved away from the UK in 2007 and I understand there have been quite significant changes to the high street in general over there since then. I live in NZ now and the malls around here are integrated like I described. They're also q
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by jemmyw 3y ago
It's pretty insane. How is the US going to get back to having a functional government? One side or the other needs to win a significant majority or the two sides need to start working together. I can't really see either happening.
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by jemmyw 3y ago
One notable difference I think with many malls in Europe and other countries, compared to America, is that they tend to be integrated with the surrounding town/shopping area. They are less likely to be a standalone place you drive to.
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by jemmyw 3y ago
Genocide has a very specific meaning and you don't have to kill a single person to be committing it. Whether that applies to Israel in Gaza I couldn't say as IANAL. I would hazard no. However, it might be yes - they are levelling
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by jemmyw 3y ago
> The GPU featured an AGP interface (an ancient competitor to PCIe) Man that makes me feel old. AGP was the new thing the last time I built a PC before switching to laptops. 22 years doesn't seem to warrant the word ancient.
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by jemmyw 3y ago
> Much of what Bezmenov said checks out and many of his predictions have come to pass Just rationalisation. Society and culture is messy anyway so you could prove a bunch of predictions without them having any meaning. But I would say he
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by jemmyw 3y ago
Yes absolutely. It didn't need to be, they could have found another CEO with an engineering background. Now it's too late, Mozilla has been "captured", the board is under the control of the person it is responsible for p
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by jemmyw 3y ago
Are you saying that you'd rather live a very basic life with no work? That's the compromise I offered - a life of basic amenities without the system hassling you, and if you want more than that then you'd need to start workin

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