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by jqm 11y ago
Most Syrians supported Assad. Also, many of the militant revolutionaries were imported from other countries and supported/trained by foreign powers including the gulf states. Now we have ISIS which is simply an extension of that progra
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by jqm 11y ago
Maybe if the great powers weren't so busy playing geo-political chess by proxy there wouldn't be so many refugees. Syria was fairly stable before the west decided Assad should go. Syria was fairly stable before the west destabiliz
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by jqm 11y ago
I don't think we can be. Sadly.
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by jqm 11y ago
My musical tastes have changed with age. I don't care for hostile or aggressive music I liked years ago. Also, music isn't the important cultural marker it was in youth. I listen to whatever sounds good and I'm in the mood fo
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by jqm 11y ago
Couldn't recognize emotions because they wouldn't stop talking long enough?
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by jqm 11y ago
Reason #1 you should hire computer science majors: The author is one.
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by jqm 11y ago
So.. mostly use SELinux and UEFI? This is NOT the advice I wanted to hear. Maybe I needed to hear it, but both of these things (last I tried them) were a giant messy pain in the rear end. And from what little I understand, both have parties
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by jqm 11y ago
http://www.speedtrap.org/
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by jqm 11y ago
It all depends.. I was a landscaper in Phoenix AZ for a few years. Over the summer. We usually got to work ~5:00 AM and went home about 1:30-2 but it was still extremely hot (regularly 113F or 45C) . I regularly drank over a gallon and half
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by jqm 11y ago
"Nothing about Linux on the desktop "works fine". It's horrible." Strongly disagree. I have no trouble getting around in KDE, Cinnamon, Mate, XFCE or i3. They are all just fine.
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by jqm 11y ago
Interesting. I read sometime back that MS was going to disable changing the hosts file. I guess that was just rumor?
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by jqm 11y ago
I've never thought "I left that job too early." I have often thought I left too late. Yep. Me too. Thanks for distilling something I have often thought.
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by jqm 11y ago
Hmmm... believe I'd actually rather be a lawyer than be in a clown suit surrounded by bratty spoiled germy kids.... Guess it takes all kinds.
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by jqm 11y ago
That's addressed in the article but it isn't on the map.
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by jqm 11y ago
Well, technically the contracts may not be affected by actual bullets so.....
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by jqm 11y ago
Hmm... sounds interesting. Can we use it to achieve geo-political domination through control of energy resources?
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by jqm 11y ago
To that point, if it is indeed true that fossil fuels are heating the planet (most likely), it would be nearly impossible to "tax" (i.e. collect the real external costs of the activity) enough. What is the number you put on rising
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by jqm 11y ago
Meh... it'll probably just be replace by rule by corruption and deception. Force is probably cleaner given the choice.
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by jqm 11y ago
"modern Greeks and Turks have still not regained the average height of their distant ancestors..." Given that "Turks" proper are a Central Asian people and not the original inhabitants of Turkey I have to wonder exactly
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by jqm 11y ago
I like it. Really good. The only point, I might not consider lists being mutable nor global values vs values returned from a function intermediate topics. Those are beginner topics I think.. one would have a hard time using the language alm
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by jqm 11y ago
Christian teachings that man needs to be joined to a church in order to be whole may have less to do with what a man really needs and more to do with what leaders of churches think they need.... On separate (but related) note: I understand
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by jqm 11y ago
"He who would keep clean among men, must know how to wash himself even with dirty water. "
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by jqm 11y ago
Although preferring solitude, I have found that long periods put me at competitive disadvantage socially. I start forgetting how to make small talk and engage in all the social grease. I once believed it didn't matter and the time save
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by jqm 11y ago
I'd like my body and brain from around 28 back. In my particular case at 21, I don't think they hadn't quite finished growing up yet.
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by jqm 11y ago
If we could convince the suspects to repeatedly drive by the same officer and dog n number of times so they could be pulled over and a trial run, that might just work.
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by jqm 11y ago
"demonstrate positive energy in purifying cyberspace" I think I'm going to have that put on t-shirt.
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by jqm 11y ago
If poster is also author I may just be wrong. Maybe they can do web programming. But the story just smells "funny" for some reason. I guess because I've met people like I'm referring to in parent comment. People who have
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by jqm 11y ago
To me it sounds like someone "good with computers" but doesn't really know how to program. All that stuff about "commodore 64" and "garage startup" sounds a bit like a smokescreen. OK, you liked playing ar
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by jqm 11y ago
I'm not down voting you and I don't have any friends on here to do so. I don't know why you are getting greyed out. I looked back through your comment history. Mostly reasonable comments with a couple of sort of unfounded acc
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by jqm 11y ago
One would have to really stretch to get the lazy implication. America is different. That's factual. America does (or did) have a culture of hard work and innovation. I'm proud of this and don't make any attempt to hide that.

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