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Nation’s Churchgoers Brace for Flood of Pokémon GO Sermons(babylonbee.com)
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by mordant 10y ago
>They are fully democratic and focus on producing empowered self directed citizens who understand how to share limited resources and cooperate. The more pertinent question is whether the citizens they produce can read and write, know how
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by mordant 10y ago
It's interesting that the most likely explanation, that these CEOs are simply virtue-signaling to their bureaucratic masters in order to win favorable regulatory treatment, wasn't on the survey.
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by mordant 10y ago
I believe that the apotheosis of human achievement was likely around 1974 or thereabouts. The rest is just incrementalism which is more than cancelled out by serious backsliding all the way around.
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by mordant 10y ago
Correct on all counts. Turning those remaining Saturn Vs into lawn ornaments was criminal.
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by mordant 10y ago
You got that precisely backwards, heh. During the X-Prize launches, I observed that what Burt Rutan had done was to build himself an X-15, and then build himself a B-52 to launch it.
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by mordant 10y ago
Why would anyone run Linux on a gaming laptop , given that this would pretty much preclude playing any actual games ?
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by mordant 10y ago
Jury nullification is a powerful tool for reining in prosecutorial overreach, and for correcting perceived injustice in corner-cases (pun intended). This is about the only topic on which I agree with Justice Sotomayor.
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by mordant 10y ago
Does it come pre-trojanned for your convenience, like their laptops?
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by mordant 10y ago
I speak two languages in addition to English, and can (mostly) read and write a third. English is far more expressive than the other languages with which I'm familiar.
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by mordant 10y ago
I wholeheartedly agree. I'm an expat, and it bothers me to no end when I encounter thermostats which can only be adjusted in whole degrees Celsius - I end up being either too cold or too hot. Given its origins in Revolutionary France,
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by mordant 10y ago
Mori Arinori, the first Japanese ambassador to the United States (and later, Minister of Education), proposed abolishing the Japanese language in favor of English.
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by mordant 10y ago
Modern Bluetooth headphones, like my Sennheiser Momentum 2.0 Wireless ones, pair and connect to multiple devices at the same time. And should I exhaust their (measured, actual) 22-hour battery life, they can be used in wired mode, as well.
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by mordant 10y ago
Actually, the biggest obstacle to Martian colonization is the fact that Mars doesn't have a magnetosphere.
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by mordant 10y ago
The NYT are in favor of 'diversity', as long as it's 'diversity' as practiced by white Western liberals. Otherwise, it's all 'misogyny', or 'racism', or 'homophobia', or what-have-
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by mordant 10y ago
Wrong. Barratry and maintenance have been frowned upon for centuries for good reason. Relaxing restrictions against them was a big mistake, IMHO.
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by mordant 10y ago
I despise Gawker. But I despise barratry and maintenance even more, and believe that relaxing restrictions against them is a major failure of modern American jurisprudence.
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by mordant 10y ago
I'm pretty sure that I'm living in a simulation. The rest of you are just NPCs. ;>
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by mordant 10y ago
The elephant in the room is Bluetooth - Bluetooth 5.0 spec is coming out this week, I think. And there are the codecs like AptX, etc. I'm shocked at how good the sound quality is on my Sennheiser Momentum 2.0 Bluetooth headphones. If
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by mordant 10y ago
This entire thing is absurd, childish, and evil, all at the same time. If anyone believes that Jacob Appelbaum raped or sexually assaulted her, she should file criminal charges, and possibly a lawsuit. All the rest of this is 'we don&#
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by mordant 10y ago
Agree.
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by mordant 10y ago
Those of us with on-the-ground experience in India and without a vested interest in trying to whitewash the business and governmental environment there know it to be true.
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by mordant 10y ago
This is wrong. Even if the 3-4 stories currently on the site are 100% true (they all read as if they were written by the same person; perhaps the same editorial voice?), they don't appear to constitute rape, or even sexual assault. Bo
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by mordant 10y ago
An iPad Mini 4 with either of these two keyboard cases fits handily into pants/shorts with cargo-style pockets: http://www.zagg.com/us/en_us/keyboards/ipad-mini-4-keyboard/... http://www.