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by mhurron 10y ago
> nobody is complaining about Google forcing them to update Android to the next version That's because it doesn't happen. You get a new version of Android when you buy a new phone.
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by mhurron 10y ago
They're not rogue agencies. They're doing exactly what they have been empowered to do. All these opinions from other parts of the government do that appear to be in conflict with that make it look like the government wants them to
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by mhurron 10y ago
What I'm saying is that those that want to spend time aren't the ones looking for a device to allow it. Those that want to arrange their schedule so they can, just like everyone does for things they want to do. Well, out side of t
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by mhurron 10y ago
> Somehow I feel that this was almost a golden age for computers. When they were still tools and not means of mass distraction. It seems we always do this. A new tool comes along and immediately evangelists and early adopters are talking
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by mhurron 10y ago
Presumably they did control the company when they started. I don't know of a time when this complaint wasn't leveled against OwnCloud.
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by mhurron 10y ago
Why would they when they were (apparently) 90% of OwnCloud in the first place. What stopped them being open in the first place?
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by mhurron 10y ago
Even in the context of software, it still means no cost. In the context of software it can also mean FOSS, but just because we're talking about software doesn't mean we suddenly lose the 'no cost' meaning.
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by mhurron 10y ago
It seems like you should be able to do that because it allows regex matching for other things, but to do profile switching, you must have shell integration installed. https://iterm2.com/documentation-automatic-profile-switch
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by mhurron 10y ago
> let alone automated profile switching. Personally, I wanted to use it for making the terminal look different (different background colour) when switching to a root shell. Then I found I would have to install the shell integration in th
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by mhurron 10y ago
> Almost 100% of the African-American population Well, no. Africans (before they were captured and sold to the Dutch slave traders) had slaves. A lot of Africans were sold into slavery by other Africans, the ones they lost tribal wars to
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by mhurron 10y ago
> it wobbles But it doesn't fall down.
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by mhurron 10y ago
> Disney should just let Square Enix handle their gamibg ventures. That's actually pretty funny, with SE also being a shadow of it's former self.
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by mhurron 10y ago
"Never attribute to malice that which can equally be explained by stupidity." Intel is a large company, with lots of engineers, both hardware and software, managers, marketers and project managers. Some really stupid decisions wil
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by mhurron 10y ago
> harshly enough to make Elon Musk cry. Which itself was probably a marketing ploy to try and portray Musk as doing things out of the kindness of his heart.
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by mhurron 10y ago
A cathedral was a projection of power of the Catholic Church (later other Churches) over the local population. A bazaar is traditionally open to anyone to come and do their thing. That is where the analogy comes from.
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by mhurron 10y ago
> Even in Canada today Drop the surprise. Canada is populated by people. People in Canada are just as assholish, racist and disgusting as people anywhere else in the world.
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by mhurron 10y ago
No, no no, when someone says that, they're telling other people to do that work.
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by mhurron 10y ago
> other than bragging rights Nationalism makes people do some stupid things.
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by mhurron 10y ago
You also further increase that risk when you extract data from the site, use that data, and then contact one of those in the the election running all before contacting the entity running the service.
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by mhurron 10y ago
I was surprised I did not see porn.
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by mhurron 10y ago
> Flowbat Thank you for that.
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by mhurron 10y ago
http://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal... "Historically, adult human infection with Zika virus has presented with mild, non-life threatening symptoms in 20% of infected patients, with 80
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by mhurron 10y ago
> I live a longtime in Rio and never had Dengue, Zika Don't be so sure about that. Most people who contract both of those don't know that they have them as the symptoms are so mild they are mistaken for a simple cold. But no, i
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by mhurron 10y ago
"No Cortana I did not want you to search for Pizza places, I wanted you to call Mum." It's still a voice search. /yes I'm a huge luddite with my phone and use only one voice command at the end of the day, but I stil
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by mhurron 10y ago
So people didn't over eat sugar until there were diabetes pills?
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by mhurron 10y ago
No, diabetes is often a byproduct of choosing to over consume sugar. Nestle didn't make them diabetic, they did that to themselves. There is no direct cause and effect, producing sugary snacks does not cause diabetes. People choose to
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by mhurron 10y ago
> if consumed in large quantities And when consumed in moderation, has no adverse affect. Poor diet is you, not a company. Nestle is simply going where the money is. If you need diabetes pills because of your poor decisions though, that
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by mhurron 10y ago
Diabetes is not always a byproduct of over consuming sugar and a company producing sugary snacks and diabetes pills does not force or even encourage over consumption of sugar. I don't see what the actual problem is.
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by mhurron 10y ago
Now that's bringing back some memories.
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by mhurron 10y ago
Ok that's it, enough internet for me today.

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