mahmud

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by mahmud 13y ago
Folks, this is trollaxor; a funny, colorful troll from Slashdot. It's exquisite satire, but not for polite company. YHBT.
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by mahmud 13y ago
Turning a mental illness into a sub-culture so society doesn't have to deal with it. Very nice.
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by mahmud 13y ago
It will be a very long one. I have been idle for the last 2 hours.
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by mahmud 13y ago
Ugh! I cringed reading that. We wear blue jeans, drink Coke & eat McDonalds. We favor American companies (hands down) when we make purchases Well, thanks, but as an American I'd rather if people didn't have this subservient
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by mahmud 13y ago
Sarcasm. I even used the ~ sarcasm terminator from usenet.
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by mahmud 13y ago
Unless the guy is a Russian "businessman", then he lost nothing.
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by mahmud 13y ago
Reddit astroturfed their own site with fake users. These guys are 1) astroturfing other people's sites, 2) practicing unethetical tactics by down-voting links to competing websites with automated bots.
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by mahmud 13y ago
> The elected UK Government would rather be a member of the US than the EU.
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by mahmud 13y ago
Nope, it's just GOP media, GOP executive branch, GOP congress that are behind the largest crackdown on whistle-blowers in U.S. history~
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by mahmud 13y ago
He forgot the "fr" before that "agility".
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by mahmud 13y ago
And not just any federal employees: spooks. Gotta milk that James Bond cachet, I guess ;-)
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by mahmud 13y ago
Not necessarily "on the run"; there are people who have had enough of the modern lifestyle and decided they want something different for themselves.
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by mahmud 13y ago
Have to disagree on many counts. Though not the visa-receipt thing, that was brilliant ;-) 1) Chinese public transport is subject to random stops and searches. Everyone has to show identification. 2) The Chinese borders with Vietnam and Lao
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by mahmud 13y ago
This would be a bad idea, tacically and economically. In a protest, at least in the U.S., you can take measures to protect your identity and not carry any documentation, along with the ability to flee on foot in any direction. You also have
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by mahmud 13y ago
$30 is too much. I stayed there for $7-$10. Hint: negotiate in languages other than English, yes, tens of languages are spoken in that building, with "hoteliers" from every continent.
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by mahmud 13y ago
Forests are not gone "forever". They reclaim land as soon as foot traffic dies. I am from Mogadisho, Somalia, and none of my old neighborhood is recognizable today: it's all jungles. Trees swallowed a quarter of the old city, and another
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by mahmud 13y ago
Totally useless for devices without a mouse. Touch-screen devices don't have pointer movement events.
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by mahmud 13y ago
RFC vocabulary, and indeed, the entire format is perfect for writing specifications. And software people have become good at reading them. So it's common to see it outside IETF standards and docs.
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by mahmud 13y ago
Good to hear that. I love Shenzhen, not as cultured as many other Chinese cities, but it was fun.
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by mahmud 13y ago
I never speculated on the reasons, just that I wasn't allowed in.
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by mahmud 13y ago
Are you ethnic Chinese? There are entire parts of Boa'An that you will be told not to venture into. I have had taxis refuse to take me there, I thought it had to do with the SEZ red/green class restrictions, but we were once told to turn ar
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by mahmud 13y ago
The article is talking about Hua Qiang Bei, hardly the whole city of ShenZhen. It's what you might call a mall, surrounded by a modest shopping district. That's like witnessing other parts of Shenzhen and concluding it's all about hipster k
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by mahmud 13y ago
Tech Shop , there is very little software industry there. It's an industrial town, and there are/were parts of it that are off limits to foreigners. Sure, you can source parts to every gadget and machine you would want to build in Hua Qiang
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by mahmud 13y ago
Good on ya! Hope more DC startups would get off the government teat.
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by mahmud 13y ago
What an awesome response.
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by mahmud 13y ago
Quite the startling fallacy there, even if disguised in symbols.
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by mahmud 13y ago
That's the one! Cheers.
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by mahmud 14y ago
I overlooked that minor requirement. Sorry.
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by mahmud 14y ago
There is a Star Trek Voyager episode where three humanoids on a planet survived a natural disaster that destroyed their planet by going into stasis and having their brains stimulated by a computer simulation for over 19 years. In that time,
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by mahmud 14y ago
CLOS goes back to 1986 :-) http://common-lisp.net/

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