jlgreco

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by jlgreco 13y ago
My point, in this case, is that your analogy is shit. My point in other places in this discussion is that I suspect "Al Queada" is more like "Anonymous". There are people who self-identify as "Anonymous", and
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by jlgreco 13y ago
There are probably some people with a legitimate claim to the brand, but I suspect that at this point most of them are dead and that "Al Quaeda" is more like "Aspirin" than "Kleenex" . Yeah, anything calle
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by jlgreco 13y ago
It's a game where getting into a fender bender with a cop car often results in hundreds of blown up cars, numerous car-jackings, and several crashed helicopters an hour or two later, but only if your character is involved.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
The Casino , not the gambler, counts on a constant stream of money coming in with the occasional large chunk of money going out. Insurance companies operate the same.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Sure, people from North Dakota tend to carry ID cards identifying themselves as "members" of North Dakota, and tend to decorate their vehicles to signal their membership as well. You can search somebody and generally reasonably de
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by jlgreco 13y ago
That is exactly what I suspect is going on. Feel like hacking something? Do it, then call yourself "Anonymous" to make sure you get attention for it. Have a new 'hacker group' and want something to give yourselves some
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Having the common modern hobby of wasting my time watching random videos on the internet, I've naturally come across dozens of helmet cam videos taken and uploaded by American and British solders in Iraq and Afghanistan. They are usual
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by jlgreco 13y ago
The KGB is no more, now there is the FSB. Whether or not that means anything in practice, I cannot say.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I wonder if state apologists on Russian web forums say the same thing whenever Alexander Litvinenko is brought up. EDIT: To expand on this now that I'm not mobile: This notion of the "style" of security agencies might be what
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by jlgreco 13y ago
"slightly less egregious Whole Foods" is a great way of putting it, though like Whole Foods, I find food from them does not last before spoiling as long as I would like.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Libel suits (or threats of them) where there isn't actually something that most reasonable people would consider libel is the tactic of snakes. It is nothing more than a specific case of SLAPP. Furthermore, I would loosely file &qu
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Seriously, people voice suspicions about corruption and bribery on the internet thousands of times every day . Rather specific suspicions about specific people, which is a lot more than what the ancestor post did. How many /r&#x2
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> So far disagreeing with you = [...] what 'guilty' parties do to silence their critics. I don't think that is a fair assessment of the above claim. The claim is that threats of libel suits are what guilty parties do to
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by jlgreco 13y ago
What could they actually do, other than frown? Ban people who shop there several times a day? Seems like a shitty business move. If I understand correctly, Trader Joes is using a rather flimsy trademark claim against Pirate Joes, but that
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> I'm interested in why you'd be so keen to move there. I don't think it is something that can be explained. Either it is something that you get, or it just isn't.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
It seems that sometimes flight control audio cuts when that happens, sometimes it doesn't.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
If the food wasn't great, then somewhere so gross wouldn't stay in business very long. All of my favourite places to eat or drink are hardly cleanrooms. If I were elderly or had a weakened immune system, that would probably conce
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I don't know why you are getting frustrated with him, he just (correctly, as far as I can tell) interpreted the above comment for you.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I wonder if any LUG attendee has ever hesitated to give somebody else a Debian disc for fear of that happening. I suspect not.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> And, libre doesn't imply "free as in pizza" to me. Probably because it is not suppose to....
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by jlgreco 13y ago
It seems to be missing "Roy G. IV" . Sunlight is "white light", meaning that all the colors in the visible segment of the spectrum are well represented. Green is the most represented though: http://www.handm
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I'd guess that there is a distinct possibility that they work because people are told that they work.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> This very article says it's acceptable to rebase a public feature branch. # optional: feel free to rebase within your feature branch at will. # ok to rebase after pushing if your team can handle it! It says th
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by jlgreco 13y ago
"Corey Ladd had prior drug convictions and his sentencing mentioned him as a "multiple offender,"" Slightly OT, but this article is a good example of why I respect Al Jazeera. The first section of the second sentence
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I think the trick is just moderation. I go through about a single pack of cigarettes a year, typically only smoking during stressful or intense periods, typically over periods of time shorter than weekends. Seems to work out fine.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Except that conversation was actually a monologue which you haven't actually performed publicly yet. Rebasing private branches is like editing a speech before you give it: just common sense. If you restructured the "I Have a Dre
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Time is relative and history is only what has been observed. You only rebase code that has not been seen by others, so the code that was rebased was never history at all, as far as anybody else is concerned. I don't think anybody ever
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> Do you really think that the mouse which was invented in the 60s (mother of all demos) is the pinnacle of technology regarding input? The joystick was invented in 1908, but it is still in fighter jets today, isn't it? Who gives
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I find it very difficult to get the sort of control that I want with my thumbs.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Bizarrely, Linux seems to support much of the trackpoint/trackpad stuff on thinkpads better than Windows does. I use to not be able to configure the trackpad how I wanted on Windows, but the Synaptics driver for Linux gave me plenty o

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