jlgreco

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by jlgreco 13y ago
> "Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people that were oppressing them." -- Assata Shakur I think there are one or two examples in recent history. The
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> Regarding "work within the framework to modify the framework" Snowden decided not to work within it and we still don't know what will happen to him. What we do know is that he got shit done. His voice has been heard
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by jlgreco 13y ago
"Citizen are involved" and "the democracy is not function as intended and/or there is a situation that can not be rectified democratically" are anything but mutually exclusive.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
That would require making the gimbals higher tech than they currently are now though. I'm wondering if you could perhaps detect it by detecting a sudden unplanned twist around one axis with an onboard accelerometer.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Part of Obama's campaign was an end to warrentless wiretaps. Now, if people were paying closer attention, then maybe they would have known better than to trust him (or indeed, any American politician), but I think it is quite a stre
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Have you ever heard of this new thing called "passengers"? They're all the rage these days.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Well in that case I don't see how that law is applicable to Glass at all, since Glass is not mounted on top of the dash.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I think in those sorts of situations, when the people are actually in a position of power over their government and thus able to effectively prosecute it, official charges are typically not bothered with. (or if they are, nobody bothers ac
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by jlgreco 13y ago
If voters are concerned with the plight of non-voters, then the plight of non-voters is by definition of concern to voters. Asking voters to be concerned with what their government does to non-voters should never be discouraged. It may b
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by jlgreco 13y ago
You are missing the "and therefore there it is unreasonable for you to be upset" leap. Pointing out that illegal things are illegal isn't really a interesting contribution to the discussion, is it? I assume that wasn'
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> Was this outside of warranty? I honestly don't know, the car was a 2002, this was in 2007. I bought it used a year before (from by father). IIRC it had 115k miles on it when I bought it. I've been able to get another 60k
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Seems like a law that would make driving with a GPS more dangerous for many people. When I use a GPS (either dedicated, or my phone), I place it in a pocket in my center console, down below my radio / AC controls. This prevents me
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Probably not a problem when there is a human flying it, but I wonder how difficult it would be to get an autopilot to recognise/deal with gimbal lock.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> The pollster probably doesn't ask a follow-up question of the form, "C'mon, really?" I suspect the answer would often be, "Yeah, not really. But the priest/minister/religion-dude/whatever says i
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Hence "terminology bankruptcy", all existing terminology debt will be erased ;)
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by jlgreco 13y ago
You are absolutely correct.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
There is a single abortion clinic in the state of Mississippi; a state with roughly the population of Wales, but six times the area. Yeah, the Catholic Church has done a number on a few European countries, but nobody here is holding up th
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> - Abortion is legal as is birth control. s/banning/attempting to ban/ There, fixed it. Do you actually doubt that happens? See Texas in recent national news with abortion. Pushback on Roe vs Wade is unceasing, they
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Impressive, though I suspect if a device survives the first few minutes (with the "disassemble and totally dry before powering back on" procedure) then there probably isn't much reason it shouldn't last much longer.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
You inadvertently gave the solution: "lunar apoapsis" , "solar apoapsis" , "earth apoapsis" . Much easier than "aposelene/apocynthion/apolune" , "aphelion" , "apogee&quo
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> 2% of all medical expenditures Who is talking about all medical expenditures? I am talking only about emergency room visits. 1) Ads for emergency rooms function as ads for hospitals in general. People in need of non-critical care w
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> my point is that they don't make up the majority of situations in healthcare And I think that you are wrong, particularly when you consider this based on dollars billed by emergency rooms, not patients seen by emergency rooms.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
They only guarantee 85.66% uptime. They need to sleep too!
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by jlgreco 13y ago
If I slice open my finger badly, I might get myself to the hospital of my choice. But if I fear I am dying in a rather immediate way, or worse, if the people who find my unconscious body think that I am dying, then there is no way in hell
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by jlgreco 13y ago
A few years ago my automatic Honda Accord had an issue where instead of kicking into 4th, it would start jumping between 3rd and 4th rapidly, about once a second. I took it back to the dealer and they claimed that the transmission control
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by jlgreco 13y ago
This seems like yet another case of unnecessarily Earth/Sol-centric terminology, much like "apogee" being Earth specific such that you have to use "apoapsis" if you want to be generic. I mean, do we really need a n
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Might kittens be different from cats in this regard? I don't really have experience with either, but I imagine kittens may be more tolerating of environment changes.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Awesome link, thanks! I love learning when stuff like this has a name.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Assuming a random distribution of quotes from the twitter stream, and assuming there isn't any control on repeats, how long can we expect to be able to recreate the movies (well, the portions with dialog) in gif form?
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by jlgreco 13y ago
All I can think of is jokes about statisticians on hunting trips: "A priest, an engineer, and a statistician go on a hunting trip. The priest sees a squirrel, shoots at it, and misses by 10' under. The engineer shoots 10'

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