jlgreco

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by jlgreco 13y ago
Right, I'm getting that, but what exactly is the fear? Can you give me a specific scenario?
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by jlgreco 13y ago
These are all still localized problems, with local solutions (or that are in need of local solutions). Speaking about water shortages on larger scales seems to ignore the reality of how water supplies work.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
What exactly is the fear here, they are going to accidentally hit a different car? Not really a big deal, considering during normal chases they accidentally hit other cars... with their car . Is the fear that they are going to sticky inn
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I imagine that in practice two or more would be fired in a single chase, just to be safe. Even so, pretty cheap.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> the fights over water are already starting and are going to get bigger and nastier over the next few decades What do you mean by this? Cities in North America tend to be on rivers, and isolated poor location choices (Las Vegas, Phoe
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by jlgreco 13y ago
That seems roughly right for large-ish oak trees, the sort of forest I spent my childhood running around in. Of course there are hundreds of different sorts of forests.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> "The lots being sold to Hantz Woodlands are in an area bounded by Van Dyke on the west, St. Jean on the east, Mack on the north, and Jefferson on the south. Although the Indian Village district lies within that area, no lots in I
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> This isn't to say that I'm not happy for them; I just don't want to find myself in the same situation I'm not arguing against this happening, I am happy they are improving their city. All I'm saying is tha
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Turning 1,500 lots of urban decay in Detroit into forest is more like putting a band-aid on a gangrenous limb. 1,500 lots is only the size of the blighted land that is going to forest, a mere fraction of all the blighted land in Detroit. E
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> "planting 15,000 trees, and mowing regularly." I guess the idea behind the mowing is that you want to prevent the weeds from choking out the saplings? Otherwise "mowing" and "forest" seem kind of mutual
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Doing this is sort of like getting a robotic limb. I mean sure, a cybernetic arm may be really cool and futuristic... but it means your real arm got chopped off. They are carving this thing out of blighted urban decay. An urban forest ma
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Artistically vibrant societies have always remixed, and always will. We live in a society that values what Disney has done; we live in a society that has traditionally valued remixing.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> the "artists who let people torrent their songs will crush the RIAA" argument. What? I have absolutely no idea what this is suppose to mean and/or refer to. The second section of my comment is pointing out that Disney
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by jlgreco 13y ago
If remixing Disney signals some abysmal state of society, what does that say about Disney? DJs should be free to remix pop songs as they like and everything is gravy, but if a DJ dares remix another DJ's work then suddenly we are a poo
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Are you so sure? Disney would have had far less material to lift.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Passing on such an abstract concept, generation to generation, with safeguards against rogue cousins coming in out of the woodwork? I wonder what the world would look like today if this Intellectual Property Feudalism were implemented cent
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Without law, is fear of a violent reprisal the only thing that would 'keep you in line'? There are countless opportunities for me every day to engage in risk free petty theft, yet I don't. Why don't I? It isn't fe
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Is this continued use restricted to corporations, or is continued use by the estate or descendants sufficient? Would Tolkien need to form a corporation to handle the rights to his works in order to pass control of those works on to his c
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Anarchists typically have a concept of "possession" (as opposed to "property", a concept that comparatively fewer anarchists support), if that is what you are asking. "Possession", as a concept used by anarchis
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> My original guess for the barge-building in Portland was a ocean-based prison facility for the government to use for interrogations. Not a bad guess at all, since it really does look like a modern prison ship: http://en.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I don't think we should necessarily expect children to be able to cope with the range of social situations that we expect adults to handle.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Well I mean, I don't think many people are bothered by Girl Scouts focusing on girls. Perhaps that is because Boy Scouts also exists, but back in this domain there is always the developing Hacker Scouts, which is inclusive.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I've climbed snow-covered mountain roads (more like trails really. unpaved roads in a state park) in upstate New York in a Honda Accord plenty of times (friend has a rather remote cabin...). Some people do legitimately have a need f
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Absolutely; hence "if Fukushima were Chernobyl" . I don't mean to suggest that Japan should build a sarcophagus; I only mean to give an idea of the sort of timescale for significant engineering tasks that the Soviets were wo
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> USSR as bad as it was it took responsibility for the Charnobyl catastrophe. There was Army and the Government involvement on all levels to clear it up from day 0. In Japan years after the incident the Government is still finger pointi
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by jlgreco 13y ago
That would cause any particular user to leak what user on the site they were. In other words, if I connect with https to lavabit normally, anyone watching my connection knows I went to lavabit, but don't know what account I am associa
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> That assumes divorce is a bad thing. Ideally, it wouldn't be. In practice, I doubt many people enjoy it.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
He seems to be implying that, from his past experiences, a certain degree of mesh between their relative financial security and personal aspirations is a prerequisite for lasting "enjoys each other's company". You may as well
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Well I don't think anybody here is saying that he is a relationship role-model... only that he did do it.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Society is more accepting of men who join street gangs (rather than corporations). However, I think correcting that imbalance by focusing on how society treats women in gangs, rather than how society treats men in gangs, would be a mistake

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