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mariodiana
12y ago
s/should/shouldn't/ (Sorry for the typo.)
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12y ago
I'm currently reading Glenn Greenwald's new book, NO PLACE TO HIDE, and I have to say that a person should take much comfort in the fact that Fastmail is in Australia rather than the U.S. Australia is a member country in what the
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13y ago
The thing about the 3-D printed ones though is that it seems like it would be easier to design and manufacture more 1-offs, customized to the needs and abilities of the user; whereas the more traditional prosthetic device will be designed,
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mariodiana
13y ago
More evidence that we are in an investment bubble. Nineteen-ninety-nine called -- wait and see.
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13y ago
From the essay: "Despite the problems described above, most of us remain safe. Prosecutors have limited resource [...]" This reminds me of the issue with warrants and GPS tracking devices on cars. Police have argued that attaching
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mariodiana
13y ago
You ought to go look up what "militia" meant at the time the Constitution was written: its composition and rationale.
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mariodiana
13y ago
The bill itself is in violation of the First Amendment, as it makes a distinction between who is and who isn't a "journalist." The Supreme Court ruled on this a long time ago: > The liberty of the press is not confined to
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13y ago
Citing Steve Jobs to defend slideshows only makes the case for what's wrong with slide shows. Jobs' slideshows were only ever a supplement to his presentation. If you removed the slideshows, the presentation would suffer somewhat
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13y ago
If you were at all familiar with her works, I think you would realize that the "Bailout King" and his colleagues would be counted among the villains of her novels -- the "looters."
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13y ago
I came here to say basically the same thing, so I'm going to chime in in support of what you're saying. If I'm a marketer and I send an email with a link to the image, and Google caches it in order to resend it for their own
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13y ago
I don't mean to spoil the holidays with cynicism, but doesn't this seem more like a publicity stunt to get Amazon even more in the minds of Christmas shoppers than anything else? It would seem ludicrous if a UPS or FedEx truck wer
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13y ago
I remember hearing this at the time, but it's mentioned on her Wikipedia page as well. The brother of Nichelle Nicholas ("Uhura," as I'm sure you know) was a member of the cult and took part in the mass suicide. http:&#