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by mhurron 10y ago
> If she had known the answer, would that make the question any better? If anyone can answer what the 'correct' interpretation of a piece of writing is, it's the author. If they can not, well maybe the authors intent wasn&
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Imagine that, the US Government making vague, unverifiable statements to support actions against a foreign government.
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LE arose from a EFF/Mozilla effort to get encryption everywhere, an aim that obviously is close to the EFFs mission. What would be the motivation for a competitor?
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Exactly. I didn't buy a pocket computer, I bought a phone that can play music files and show a map. When I wanted a general purpose computer, I bought a general purpose computer.
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Yes not caring for your health is a stupid risk, no one can reasonably claim the dangers are unknown. Not caring for yourself can shorten your life however caring for yourself will not extend it, it simply means you are not actively trying
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> Consumers vote with their wallet Evidence shows that in the vast majority of cases (home depot, target, psn, jp morgan etc) they do no such thing. Chipotle is getting people sick, people don't like to be sick. Uber, the above ment
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'Responsibility' without any repercussions for not protecting it. Who still really believes that private companies are any better or have more responsibility to protect your data. You want to protect your data, don't give it
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Yes longevity is basically not taking stupid risks and genetic luck on your side. Exercise and eating healthy is about making the longevity you have enjoyable.
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They're abandoning it because of an obvious requirement? Did someone not realize that in a 24 hour operation that consists of physical activities, cutting hours would require more people to carry the same workload?
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Where?
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The US you describe doesn't exist. Military is acceptable work, peace corps, that's only something rich people who don't need to do real work do. Your coasts are pretty small too because outside of a few major cities, the hig
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My last round of upgrades for the wife's and my desktops was entirely motivated by upgrading to lower power parts that provided the same (or better in the case of video cards) performance. The office became noticeably cooler, it was a
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Works of Fiction? People pay lip service to letting people expand their horizons and bettering themselves right before they tell you to get back to work. Simply because I said the US is an example of one way does not mean other country is a
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> This is, for society at the very least, a "good thing". That depends on if you live in a society that believes people should be free to pursue their 'dreams' or in one that uses work as a measure of a persons worth.
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> People are reacting rather violently to 15 days is three weeks, although it isn't That depends on how it's counted, it may be counted the way you are but it also might not be. For instance, the standard holidays that you list
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> The reason that americans do not embrace these things is that, for the most part, the United States still has a very, very flat social hierarchy. No, its because they bought the red scare and everything that was said about Socialism an
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There was a myth that was well circulated 10-15? years ago (as soy products were becoming more available in the US) that said soy estrogen would turn men and boys into effeminate pansies and we'd all grow girl boobs.
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Suggesting a 'Meatless Monday' (which is the campaign) or that one or two days without meat to reduce your consumption is not imposing your view. It's actually quite the opposite, it is a compromise that understands that you
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Managers manage people. If they are working, they require other people working to do their job. Basically if they business isn't onboard with the idea of not working after hours, it won't happen and those that try to force it risk
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That's funny. Most people who are working in a place where they would be pressured to continue doing work after hours are not paid hourly. And then there is those long term contractors that are hourly but basically on a fixed number of
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> not management If management isn't also not reading mail/doing work after office hours than the whole thing falls apart.
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Obligatory XKCD https://xkcd.com/678/ Seriously though, it really is just announcements that state something is available now that people outside of a particular profession should care about.
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A lot of people do not by cars in areas where there is affordable and useful public transportation or taxis. I would say most people are buying cars in areas where a cab would be significantly more expensive. There is currently no viable al
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> porn basically came out of nowhere as a political issue fairly recently Not everyone would be counting LBJ's anti-porn commission as 'fairly recently.' Even then, it only 'came out of nowhere' if you discount l
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So the solution is to meddle more and this time 'the west' will shit unicorns and rainbows right? That's why many people don't want their government to meddle in it and why it's not 'everyone in the west's
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> Active Directory Active directory is not a separate product like the others it is very much a core part of Windows Server. Unless you think AAA parts of an OS are a separate product from the OS, AD is very much tied to Windows. You cou
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You think a course will teach someone ethics who does not have any? Or they do have ethics, but theirs are simply different than yours. Plenty of people believe assisting with government surveillance is the ethical thing to do to 'keep
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Ya because a bunch of business leaders wont just say yes to whatever business friendly ideas they can exploit. We're just getting rid of the veneer that business interests don't run the country now.
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Safari is webkit.
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Pretty sure part of the point they were conveying was the irritation with society willing to do things for 'think of the children' but not willing to extend those same things to those in basically the same situation but who are no

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