muraiki

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by muraiki 15y ago
Start your own competing service then. Seriously. Then you'll understand why things are the way anigbrowl explains. The one "divorced from reality" is you. There is significant cost associated with PayPal's operation. Their management of al
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He threatened to veto it because it threatened his power. The Obama administration claimed that the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists Act of 2001 already gave him the authority to detain citizens, and that the origi
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by muraiki 15y ago
You should try the King's Bounty series. Actually, I think that the HOMM series was based off of the original King's Bounty game. King's Bounty was remade and updated, and it's quite fun -- and challenging. It's different from HOMM in that
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And in the US, you have the choice to read things besides "commercially controlled mass media," or even to start your own newspaper if you'd like! If people ignore protests, whose fault is that? The government or the people? And you know, t
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Anonymous targets indefinite detention bill(tgdaily.com)
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I actually felt pain in my head. Real pain, not virtual. :)
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Wow, that's horrible. I wasn't aware of that. I use them for hosting but I use Google Apps for email. I'm sorry for making a bad recommendation.
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I've used Dreamhost for years. They really work for their customers. Over time you accumulate points that you can use to vote for new features (which I just realized, I have never done... so I should have a decent amount by now!)
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The submission of this from a day or two ago linked to a blog that was a bit of a sketchy source, so it ended up going dead. The ACLU article is better and clarifies that this does indeed apply to Americans: Don’t be confused by anyone clai
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Thanks for posting this. I know that Alex Jones can blow things out of proportion... but still, the ACLU writeup seems to be pretty strongly worded and argues essentially the same thing as this article. Is there something we're missing?
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When money printing can be translated into wages (such as raising the minimum wage), then this sets the stage for consumer price inflation. When the CPI goes up, people demand higher wages, etc. This is why in the US we probably* don't need
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by muraiki 15y ago
If we consider the end product to be "the hole that is dug," then its value is composed of all the labor that went into it. However, we have to consider 2 additional things: 1. Marx says that this must be the "socially necessary" labor; tha
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by muraiki 15y ago
Crashed Firefox 7.0.1 on OS X 10.6.8 with an NVIDIA GeForce 7300GT card
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The Buddha is saying not to follow something on the basis of externals, but rather on one's own self testing. That the Buddha arrived at the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path through such testing is of importance. If we return to the
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by muraiki 15y ago
What you've said is just an instance of skilfull means. Ultimately, the followers of other religions (or no religion) will suffer rebirth in Samsara and continue to experience suffering. To the degree that they walk the eightfold path via t
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by muraiki 15y ago
It's of note that the Dalai Lama said that homosexuality "is generally considered sexual misconduct" for Buddhists. http://www.quietmountain.org/links/teachings/gayrites.htm Something that complicates this discussion is that there are man
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So if Buddhism does not assert that it is the One True Path, what's the Fourth Noble Truth? In America, Buddhism tends to be portrayed in this sort of light: basically, that Buddhism makes no exclusivist truth claims. But for a Mahayana Bud
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I'm trying to go through the longer book (on Qi, which has been updated for the most part for Shen) but I'm having a difficult time reading it because every page is saved as a JPG! Magnifying the text just makes it more unreadable... is thi
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by muraiki 15y ago
Ok, I just saw the link someone posted to "This Binary Universe." I stand corrected: you can make some pretty amazing music this way. :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve8WaGmyhfI
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Generative / algorithmic music is its own world. I'm a musician too and I can't imagine being very expressive (and musical) with this compared to my shakuhachi or doumbek. I have a hard time imagining how this could be used in live improvis
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by muraiki 15y ago
While I don't know what such a diet means for hypertension, it sounds pretty poor in terms of nutritional value. You might have less malaise if you ate more fruits and vegetables, and weren't sending your blood sugar on a roller coaster wit
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by muraiki 15y ago
Yes, but this game isn't just about random workplace suicides. It's about workplace suicides in the context of manufacturing phones. It's about the specific plant that manufactures these phones. That context is important to understanding th
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I think that's the point. This app wasn't made to make people feel good and have a fun time playing a game. It's to alert them to the consequences of their economic decisions. By making a game of the sad reality of overworked factory worker
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Another significant element in the rise of global food prices is the devaluation of the USD. The US exports considerable amounts of wheat, and as more money is printed this inflation increases the cost of US wheat for importing nations. Fur
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Yes, PPIP did begin. What I didn't realize is that a lot of this profit came from derivatives, not sales of the assets themselves. The actual program size was $40 billion, which is still a good amount of money but less than the original $1
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The real bailout? PPIP? Oh yes, here's how it worked: 1) Bank owns asset of dubious value, classifies it as "Level 3 Assets" which allows it to value it using an undisclosed method that has no correlation with the reality of a burst housing