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Ad with secret anti-abuse message only visible to children(wimp.com)
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Sorry isn't just what the loser says(codebyjeff.com)
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by jmadsen 13y ago
The things that make the most money are the things that money has built the best marketing for. People pay for things they want out of the choices they are aware of. "Analysts" - politicians, Joe College, HN posters - tend to use
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by jmadsen 13y ago
Just out of interest - related idea from over two years ago: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16503341
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by jmadsen 13y ago
That would be perfectly acceptable IMHO. The point is to not force her into giving out this type of information, rather than restricting what she WANTS to say. Most forms I see these days either leave it off, or make it free form. This arti
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by jmadsen 13y ago
Have no idea. That's something my host is doing, for reasons they know. I've never had more than 120 hits in a day before this post, so not aware of any policies they may have with regards to this. I doubt I'm banning "t
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by jmadsen 13y ago
I'm not sure what issue you are having, but there is no captcha on my site & there do not appear to be any issues viewing it
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The End of Mrs. and Miss(codebyjeff.com)
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by jmadsen 13y ago
true - many people assume small, common words come from German, until they see how much closer the (especially spoken) Danish words are. Place with the google translate pronunciation button for some simple sentences for a while - you'l
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by jmadsen 13y ago
thank you!
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by jmadsen 13y ago
"PayPal does not currently support Donation Payments from buyers in JP. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause." Sigh Someday the govt & banks will catch up with the 21st century. If someone can put a little extra
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by jmadsen 13y ago
This would be true. They would have to work on the assumption that someone was inside, watching them, so they could plan an attack. I would think this would be standard operating procedure, regardless of the reason they were there
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by jmadsen 13y ago
"this was over stolen property" That (slightly misquoted) statement is the crux of the matter; the level of response, from situations like this, to pepper-spraying college students sitting on the ground, has spiraled out of contro
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A Cleaner WordPress User Object(codebyjeff.com)
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by jmadsen 13y ago
Ditto. The 10% or so I found to be "true" would probably be considered polite manners anywhere else in the world. Important to note the author does not seem to have ever set foot in Japan (unless that is hidden somewhere outside o
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New Betaray Crystal Ball Harvests Light From The Sun, Moon and Clouds(inhabitat.com)
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by jmadsen 13y ago
Why not? It's not an attack on him personally, but ...why not? Read the rest of his posts. He clearly has a very high level of English, and can state his ideas and opinions clearly. Yet he fell into the same shit-English trap that his
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by jmadsen 13y ago
It's not something we are "upset" about, and considering the level of English you used throughout the rest of your post and response, I'm not sure "not a native" is a valid excuse. I suspect if you aren't
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by jmadsen 13y ago
"My friends and I" not "me and my friends" Yes, call me a Grammar Nazi Troll, but I see a shocking amount of this most fundamental error all over forums where otherwise intelligent, educated people discuss things. You so
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by jmadsen 13y ago
No, that wasn't my point - simply stating that any technology comes with its own issues, so dismissing a tech because it has issues is silly. We accept the perils of driving cars, we'll reach a point of acceptance with drones
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by jmadsen 13y ago
I think this is fascinating, both for what the world will look like a few years down the road, as well as for all the questions that need to be answered. A few random thoughts: 1) "Safety questions" - drones won't fly drunk,
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by jmadsen 13y ago
Pneumatic tubes, with a drop pad on the roof
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Japanese Engineers Devise Plan To Use The Moon For A Solar Power Plant(the9billion.com)
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Dan Carlin interviews William Binney(ec.libsyn.com)
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by jmadsen 13y ago
My first thoughts on reading this: 1) Looks like (perhaps) one step short of where we all said it was going - "collect what we can now, never knowing when & how we might need to use it against someone later" 2) Wouldn't i
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by jmadsen 13y ago
"Seems like the real prize is setting a precedent to be used in other cases" That was my initial thought, especially from the point of view of comments above about it being difficult for small companies to afford a suit. Not a law
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by jmadsen 13y ago
Look at forums for your language/software, or sites like Stackoverflow, is one suggestion: search out the type of work/problems you are having, see who seems knowledgeable. Contact some of them directly if possible, asking a simpl
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by jmadsen 13y ago
Yes, ironic isn't it? The mainstream media reports something like this, the normally imaginative HN crowd has no response other than, "Meh. No big thing" rather than applying its usual microscope. Not meaning to troll, but I
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by jmadsen 13y ago
The problem remains that we have a prison system that serves to punish, not rehabilitate. If you take a defective part & try to fix its deficiencies, it has a better chance of fitting back into the machine it was intended for. If you to
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by jmadsen 13y ago
I think at the root of this is a very prevalent attitude among a many people in America toward "not letting people get away with things" I don't think you can look at this in a vacuum - you need to see these punishments as si

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