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I was able to find it a few months back by poking around on archive.org
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Dat lutefisk tho
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These viruses can encrypt connected storage too, so your backups better not be all on a network drive or external hard drive. I believe they can encrypt Dropbox folders, not sure about Crashplan or similar services.
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My wife's computer was hit by this virus so I had to become knowledgeable about it. The files are not "corrupted" but rather encrypted. The virus makes an encrypted copy of important files then deletes the original. But on so
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Which then got the rug pulled out from under by Gödel
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That's what 2048 is for!
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> with a once comforting illusion of crisp, clean certainty rapidly giving way to a panicked feeling of sinking into shifting quicksand. Sounds like he is describing the intellectual development of Bertrand Russell, who spent ten years p
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To a shady bank in Latvia, no less. This goes to show that if you dress something up the right way you can sell it to anyone. In Spanish we say "even though the monkey dresses up in silk, it's still a monkey." But people are
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In Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance the author stated that his son suffered from stomach aches and was told it was a sign of possible mental illness. This was back in the 70s, but could there be a connection?
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> Chinese > voted Might be the first time I've ever seen those two words together in a sentence.
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Speaking of "cherished hypothesis", this guy's is that he is a good enough presenter to do justice to this material. Should've done A-B testing with a pro and gone with him.
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At least one school--The Highland School in West Virginia--also boards students. So Summerhill is not the "only boarding school of its type in the world."
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It's interesting that the default service for user-produced video online (YouTube) sorted itself out far earlier than the default for audio. Maybe they are hoping for a Google acquisition to solve all their problems?
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I've read reports that if you don't filter coffee through paper it can raise cholesterol. As a person with high numbers I've been using Hamilton Beech's Scoop to get a Keurig functionality from regular coffee.
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>advising criminals on how to avoid law enforcement is obviously illegal and carries prison sentences. Please see: 1st Amendment to the US Constitution.
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Haha, I had a similar experience when I lived in Central America. I came in crying to dinner with my host family because my girlfriend Alejandra had broken up with me. The mom of the family said, no problem, just memorize this poem: "
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If I could have done this when I was a teacher, I would probably still be one.
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That's interesting, please go on.
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"We've even got the children blinking in unison...(blink)...I love that sound!" - Principal Skinner
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Also much of the work of David Hume http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hume#Causation
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...but when they came to the letters, “This invention, O king,” said Theuth, “will make the Egyptians wiser and will improve their memories; for it is an elixir of memory and wisdom that I have discovered.” But Thamus replied, “Most ingenio
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Would be nice to see some references for all these unconventional statements
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Now try the Hunan dialect where they pronounce h as f and (stressed) n as l. Yes, they pronounce their province "Fulan"
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Didn't you hear what the king told the boogie men? "You got to let that raga drop"
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Good old P-nas
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Rodents Of Unusual Size? I don't think they exist...
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Everyone laughed when Beijing proposed the Qinghai-Tibet railway too. It would have to be built 1,200 miles over seasonal permafrost and the workers would have to wear special suits and breathing apparatus. It has been running since 2006.
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- Sent from my iPad
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13y ago
Reminds me of um... http://www.theonion.com/articles/developmentally-disabled-bu...
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Ark of the Covenant?
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