jupiter2

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by jupiter2 10y ago
Thanks for a well thought out response that adds value to the discussion. Some of the other responses irked me because of how little thought was given to these harsh realities and I responded in kind. Don't be put off if you read those
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by jupiter2 10y ago
It was you who generalized about ALL drugs. I responded to that in the same general way. Then, despite my temperate and reasonable response (open to discussion about psychedelics, not psychoactives), you proceeded to create a strawman and b
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by jupiter2 10y ago
Which ones do you recommend? Heroine, cocaine? What type of amphetamines? Maybe crack? How about inhalants? Let me know how this works out for you.
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by jupiter2 10y ago
> it's unfair to attribute the destructive negative effects you're describing to the drugs themselves. I can't believe some of the responses. I have to ask you too, have you any real-world experience with addicts? Have you
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by jupiter2 10y ago
You're comparing water to heroine, cocaine, amphetamines, crack, inhalants and others? This is a joke, right? Have you any experience with addicts at all or is all of this coming from an Ivory Tower, safe from the real world?
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by jupiter2 10y ago
> war on drugs has been a huge disservice to humanity in so many ways. ... All for what? Some sense of moral purity? I was, and still remain to a great deal, very anti-drug. Unless there's a system to manage it effectively, people
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by jupiter2 10y ago
Late response: I'm having a hard time understanding your reasoning here. A less generic comparison is Apple. Apple builds it's own devices and supports them. If I buy an ASUS Tablet, I'm not expecting them to provide security
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by jupiter2 10y ago
> I always end up with 5: use, study, share, modify, share modifications I wish the author had expanded the four freedoms (for clarity) instead of trying to condense it. I just don't think it effectively targets the different limita
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by jupiter2 10y ago
This is great news. I can understand wanting to keep this as simple as possible but... if you decide to add any features: 1. Transparent Background (and) 2. Choice of character color (to integrate better with a webpage's color scheme,
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by jupiter2 10y ago
I appreciate the effort by Michael Pietroforte - this is a tremendous resource for Windows users concerned about privacy. I hope that the work here is kept up-to-date. I have nothing but bad things to say about Microsoft and Windows 10 but
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by jupiter2 10y ago
> Either way, it's a nice project with a good execution! I agree. Very quick too. I tried it with some ascii art and it makes the overall image a bit thinner, though:( (not handling spaces correctly) Image: https://sli.mg
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by jupiter2 10y ago
> Americans handed the U.S. presidency to a racist, xenophobic, authoritarian, climate-science-denying, misogynistic, revenge-obsessed ego-maniac Ah yes... the scripted narrative continues. George Soros, the global terrorist, must be pro
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by jupiter2 10y ago
This article is essentially blogspam: author uses phone for various random tasks throughout the day and still has loads of battery left. Having said that and as the owner of the AscendMate2, part of my purchasing decision was based on this,
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by jupiter2 10y ago
> Or possibly the effect of having a user base in the billions. How do you adequately support that? The same way Amazon does? How about banks, airlines and other similar. I understand that there's little motivation for some online s
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by jupiter2 10y ago
As a non-amigan but a huge fan of alternate OSes, I am constantly impressed by the enthusiasm and energy you guys still have for this system. It's contagious in a non-annoying way. I upvote interesting Amigan stuff whenever I come acro
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by jupiter2 10y ago
> naming&shaming businesses who have effectively done nothing wrong. Aren't they actively running malware as a result of their own laziness not to upgrade their Magento [1] Site? This malware is being used to steal customer c
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by jupiter2 10y ago
One of the links I visit, when I want to relax is: https://archive.org/details/computermagazines So happy when I discovered they had a few DAK Catalogs. So many pleasant memories and a few orders too! That guy could re
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by jupiter2 10y ago
(Cynical response) Increasingly: governments, big business and/or a combination of those two. It's getting difficult to tell them apart.
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by jupiter2 10y ago
> having in mind all of these projects that Mozilla killed lately I actually got angry when I saw it was from Mozilla. It's gotten to the point that supporting their projects seems like a waste of time. It's the old... " f
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by jupiter2 10y ago
> based on whats trending on the web Kardashians?
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by jupiter2 10y ago
I misread this as Soleau: http://www.soleau.com/dosgame.html
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by jupiter2 10y ago
> Facebook is signaling to the broader advertising and publishing world that the future lies in fewer ads, more respect for consumer privacy and more deference to a user’s preferences. Facebook has no respect for consumer privacy and lit
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by jupiter2 10y ago
Sidenote2: When collecting an email address, please let me know what you intend to do with it - in transparent detail.
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by jupiter2 10y ago
Huge Marvel fan, love Kirby's work. Very difficult article to digest...
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by jupiter2 10y ago
It won't make a difference. Your data has been shared[1] ("Facebook and the other companies in the Facebook family also may use information from us") and will be shared more aggressively as time passes. Facebook bought WhatsA
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by jupiter2 10y ago
It's always more complicated for the powerful manipulators of our society. And... businesses are people until they're not.
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by jupiter2 10y ago
> Assuming the original version even runs anymore, you should fire it up and see how it compares to a modern web browser. It doesn't do too well: http://oldweb.today/
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by jupiter2 10y ago
For some reason, I find it gratifying that this operation has been in business (more or less) for 32 years. I can feel a strong sense of pride in the application he's built and still seeing it out there. Whatever few orders he gets is
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by jupiter2 10y ago
> `lsof` and `ps` have the most dense man pages I have ever tried to plow through That's why I was so happy to stumble across pstree the other day. Even the man page is excellent! Every now and again, I'll come across a util
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by jupiter2 10y ago
> employee with the lowest seniority, but worked 6 years there, that's hardly believable That was my gut reaction too. It's essentially a call center. Also, I have a hard time believing that the type of person/manager that

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