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by milesf 13y ago
The assault was evil enough, but the vilification of Justine in the comments by some makes my blood boil. The best antidote to fight darkness is to bring it out into the light. Thank you, Justine, for your ongoing courage to speak out. I ca
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Because it needs to be said(blogjustine.wordpress.com)
393 points by milesf 13y ago|612 comments
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by milesf 13y ago
Ah. LibreOffice's Drawing program opened it. Thanks :)
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by milesf 13y ago
The output file is .aek but I can't figure out what to do with it. My Google-fu is failing me this evening. How do you view the output?
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by milesf 13y ago
It's less than a 1/2 hour drive between the two destinations. Not exactly an epic Oregon trail journey :) http://bit.ly/1eYm99v
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by milesf 13y ago
Fitting that it was published on September 11th, 2013. A dozen years after the attacks on the World Trade Centers, it's clear that the terrorists won. The USA cannot be called the "land of the free, home of the brave" anymore
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by milesf 13y ago
You may be right. As I said at the top it was just my humble opinion. I still stand by the statement that execution is vastly more important than ideas. Besides, I gave up rooting against Microsoft years ago. I just don't care about an
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by milesf 13y ago
I know Gates was/is in favour of stack ranking, but I don't think it was in use during his term as CEO. Ultimately the answer doesn't matter to me. The company has always been a bully, both in the marketplace and internally t
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by milesf 13y ago
FTA: "Ballmer's Microsoft wasn't lacking for ideas; it was lacking execution." Derek Sivers said it best "To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millio
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by milesf 13y ago
Gotta say I'm really impressed with the Humble Bundles. I buy most of them, and still can't believe how cheap they are, assuming you get in early. Their "unlock more products by paying more than the average" is sheer gen
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by milesf 13y ago
GOD: Thou shall not lie TSA: But the US Government says it's perfectly okay to lie! Besides, we killed you decades ago. GOD: Sorry, but I'm still the Boss whether you believe in me or not, and I'm not changing my mind on this
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The TSA Is Legally Allowed to Lie to Us(schneier.com)
2 points by milesf 13y ago|1 comments
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by milesf 13y ago
So what if he's smart? As if smart has anything to do with being honest and moral. Give me honesty and integrity over IQ points any day.
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by milesf 13y ago
Great idea :)
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by milesf 13y ago
I owe Richard Stallman one big huge apology. I'm truly grateful for Free Software (free as in freedom. You know, that thing the USA used to stand for) because it seems to be the only alternative right now. Microsoft and Apple can never
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by milesf 13y ago
So a has-been has been acquired by another has-been. Together they will unseat the Apple/Google juggernaut by beating IOS/Android. No, I don't believe it either.
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by milesf 13y ago
I've switched from Google and Chrome to DDG and Firefox. Very happy with the switch. I've started recommending to my non-techie relatives to switch as well. We've seen this sort of thing before. I've gone from no search
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by milesf 13y ago
Where's my flying car?!? I was promised a flying car and I want it right now!
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by milesf 13y ago
I don't really care who Microsoft's next CEO is. I know I probably ought to care, but they caused me so much grief and misery in the 90's that I switched to Linux and then a Mac. What I'd like to see is some young 20-som
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by milesf 13y ago
Great advice, but not a new idea: "Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of oth
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by milesf 13y ago
There's a simple hack for parents who really want to spend quality time with their kids. Focus on quantity instead. Parents who spend a lot of time with their kids by accident will have quality time with them. Think of the most meaning
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by milesf 13y ago
Here's the only page you need to get wealthy through investing: http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/01/24/are-index-funds... tldr: buy indexed funds
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by milesf 13y ago
What horrible advice. Be yourself, and learn to be friends with women. If you want to marry just one lady for the rest of your life, you're going to have to be "just friends" with every other woman on the planet anyway. And r
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by milesf 13y ago
When I was 16, my parents were idiots. I'm 44 now, and they sure have smartened up a lot :D
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by milesf 13y ago
I'm 44 now, and I know without any doubt whatsoever that my 16 year old self wouldn't listen to anything I had to say. But you're smarter than I [am|was], so my advice to you is don't listen to others who don't buil
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by milesf 13y ago
Did anyone else read that as "Kickstarter for killing patients"? :) I need to read slower.
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by milesf 13y ago
Let's not whine about this. We all know the press, politicians, military and corporations are all in cahoots with each other. Let's figure out a way to solve the problem, the same way SOPA was defeated, by swaying public opinion w
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by milesf 13y ago
This story has a whiff of being fake, but that being said I'm glad I switched my whole family over to DuckDuckGo & Firefox. The mental overhead of "am I being watched" by Google/Microsoft/Apple/Facebook is
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by milesf 13y ago
Provocative title, but in the end no message. Reminds me of watching the series "Lost", where the expectation was set from the beginning that there was a logical, rational explanation for the whole thing. In the end they producers
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Oliver Stone on NSA Spying [video](youtube.com)
3 points by milesf 13y ago|1 comments

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