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by m0nty 18y ago
I agree that recent events have caused people to look for alternative fuel sources, but there's no guarantee we'll end up with clean alternative fuel sources. That should be made a priority. Biofuels, for example, have clearly been a disa
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by m0nty 18y ago
Hmmm, let's leave global warming aside for a few moments and consider the other reasons to stop polluting: * We're running out of oil. * Oil costs too much. * The oil we do have comes from unstable parts of the world with political regimes
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by m0nty 18y ago
I gotta say it: the guy was a f-cking murderer and yet you guys are arguing about whether he got a fair trial, even after he led the cops to the strangled, decomposing corpse. And then complaining about the sheer brass neck of a journo wh
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by m0nty 18y ago
"Don't ask me why they do that." Because the BBC is funded by a mandatory licence fee (TV tax) and so it must appear even-handed and balanced. If they're not, people complain that "I pay my licence fee but the BBC is mocking my deeply-held
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by m0nty 18y ago
"But isn't there something a bit creepy about all this?" No. There's something creepy about a culture which seems to believe you should only befriend people your own age, and that anything more than 15% either way makes you a pervert. I do
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by m0nty 18y ago
"Make the assumption ... it seems like a logical conclusion" For me, that sums up the problem with this kind of thing. Assumptions don't lead to logical conclusions, but "meta-assumptions" which have grown out of your original one. You can'
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by m0nty 18y ago
"Being an atheist implies some degree of faith." As someone smarter than me once put it: "It's not that I believe in no gods, it's just that I don't believe in gods." Christians and other believers have this most extra-ordinary theory: th
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by m0nty 18y ago
"Surely on a site chock full of web developers a little CSS never killed anyone!" Unlike, for example, not using CSS which kills a fairy every time you use a deprecated tag! OMFG!!!
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by m0nty 18y ago
Sigh ... to be as brief as possible: I come from a Linux background where programs like mysqldump make it stupid easy to move a database from one place to another. Would that it were so easy with MS SQL Server 2000. I asked an MS-savvy coll
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by m0nty 18y ago
"it was the open architecture of the Microsoft-based PC that spurred massive creativity" IBM-based, shurely? I mean, it ran MS software, but if they'd been in the hardware business they'd probably have done what Apple did, and produced a cl
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by m0nty 18y ago
"You couldn't take a photograph of a tourist attraction ever again without worrying that some marketing crap would be pushed into your camera." Ooooh! Look! Those guys from Coke f*cked up all my photos. Guess I'd better go and buy lots of C
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by m0nty 18y ago
"years after these sites have become the leading destinations on the Web, I still don't get it. I don't have that visceral, gut understanding of the attraction and benefits of these services" Same thing here; I just don't get it. But my the
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by m0nty 18y ago
"Like I said: you're wrong." Mostly I'm running terminal - X just lets me get more characters on the screen than using a plain old tty. In truth, I don't use it for much other than that, and it's a pain having to type in "sudo" and my passw
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by m0nty 18y ago
I like that :) I was trying to work out how to switch off the warning I get when I log in to Gnome: "You're logging in as a privileged user. That's bad!" To which I always mutter, "yes, I've been doing it for 15 years and nobody died yet."
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by m0nty 18y ago
"Give the bar a chance. I was leery at first but now I love it." I thought (after I posted) that it might turn out to be like tabbed browsing, which I first thought would be OK-ish but (like everyone else) I can't live without it now. I jus
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by m0nty 18y ago
My only misgiving about this is the so-called "Awesome Bar" in Firefox 3, which introduces a lot of visual clutter for only marginal benefits. Fine. Maybe you do know best. But I'd like to be able to switch it off (because I just don't li
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by m0nty 18y ago
"The 8GB 3G iPhone will cost just £99 on a new £30 per month tariff and the existing £35 per month tariff. Consumers choosing either the £45 or £75 per month tariffs will get the 8GB 3G iPhone for free." That's much better than the previous
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by m0nty 18y ago
"Who knows, maybe it's not that far off?" I have a more-or-less open mind, but I can see significant problems. I mean, how many times have we been told that some big new thing is just "five years away" and yet it never arrives? I suspect a
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by m0nty 18y ago
So someone offers to upload your brain into a computer and you go along with it? "In other words," said Benji, steering his curious little vehicle right over to Arthur, "there's a good chance that the structure of the question is encoded in
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Despite the economic downturn ... student entrepreneurship is in rude health(blogs.telegraph.co.uk)
1 points by m0nty 18y ago|0 comments
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by m0nty 18y ago
I would use it. Nice implementation too. Maybe you could let people set start and end points using clicks on the Google map?
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by m0nty 18y ago
> Voted ‘most likely to succeed,’ when I should have been voted ‘most likely to help ABC develop killer products.’ You'll sound like an utter nob if you write like that. I once received a resumé titled "Steely-blue-eyed contract killer"
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by m0nty 18y ago
"and is basing his opinions on snippets that he's read elsewhere on the net" It's worse than that. Much, much worse. He's basing his opinions on "common sense".
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by m0nty 18y ago
"Internet providers have realized that the only way to not lose massive amounts of customers over [Internet balkanization] is to make sure there are no alternatives" Or compete by offering full access for a low price, a bit like right now.
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by m0nty 18y ago
I disagree. It's not about co-operating to build a monolithic system, it's about each niche-player dominating that niche. Etsy is a good example: I've sold several items (stained glass) there, but trying to do the same on eBay was a waste o
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by m0nty 18y ago
Also followed by a depressant effect which can last for days. So overall, alcohol only "works" in the short term, after which it's all downhill.
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by m0nty 18y ago
I had a tough time sleeping last year, mainly caused by anxiety about work, and the onset of mild asthma which caused me to wheeze as I fell asleep. The wheezing would wake me up, and the anxiety would keep me awake. Incidentally, it took m
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by m0nty 18y ago
"On the Internet, nobody know if you're a dog. So we fixed that problem." Seriously, if I included a pic, it would be of someone else. It's better for everyone like that, trust me.
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by m0nty 18y ago
I suppose email "undo" is a useful feature. Not sure -- maybe it's one of those great ideas which looks a bit lame at first. Gmail handles outgoing attachments really well. If you type text like "here's the file I promised" or "I've attache
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by m0nty 18y ago
Surely the ability to take back a sent document is only useful if everyone else agrees to play by the rules? The moment I cut-and-paste the doc, or find some way to download it, you're right back where you were before.

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