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by nasredin 9y ago
If an alien civilization doesn't love puns, then I really don't want to meet them. The world is already a shitty place. Earth doesn't need to add more species that don't understand or love puns.
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by nasredin 9y ago
>an open platform that respects user freedom, backed by a team that truly has the users' best interests in mind. Until they begin introducing useless features no one has asked for, redesigning the interface - I'm sorry - "
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by nasredin 9y ago
The "smartphone" was still in its infancy back then. Today the technology is mature enough, so it's more about the (small) gimmicks like fingerprint scanners.
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by nasredin 9y ago
Why do people have to compare body counts of communist and fascist systems. Yes, I know many if not most people underestimate/do not know the "cost" in lives of Soviet and Chinese communism, but it just seems... wrong to comp
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by nasredin 9y ago
That plan better have an up-to-date phone number for Mr Freeman. Thinking about this, sending a celebrity rather than a politician/religious/military is probably a good idea.
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by nasredin 9y ago
I think US would be the country for "first contact", then Russia. Most of our planet is water. US has the biggest/best Navy & intelligence systems. And also pretty aggressive spirit. Russia has 1/6 (IIRC) of our plan
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by nasredin 9y ago
A strong coffee (e.g. via a Moka pot) should send you to the bathroom too.
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by nasredin 9y ago
>That's a neat idea, how would you confirm identity, though? I am surprised there is not a Bitcoin-inspired "solution" to the problem of fake reviews.
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by nasredin 9y ago
That's why you should always save your writings and post it on your blog, etc. Keep it in 3 places: review site, your blog, local storage (and backups). I am still pissed about the IMDB Forums. There was a music recommendation thread t
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by nasredin 9y ago
Wouldn't perfumes be much more juicy targets for counterfeiters? Or do the perfume companies actually try to protect their brands? Shampoos are probably $10 a bottle while peefumes are at least 5 times that. (Also you can buy Alberto b
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by nasredin 9y ago
>Who's to say 3rd party merchants aren't reselling the fake Alibaba ones on Amazon for tidy profits? Hmmm. Have you looked at Amazon? A lot - or most IMHO - of the products ARE Chinese (So you get the famous "Made in China
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by nasredin 9y ago
Are you sure it's not because of "this one weird trick..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_weird_trick_advertisements
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by nasredin 9y ago
Insightful post. I so wanted you to end it with... But... "it's all in the game."
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by nasredin 9y ago
Not a collision but I always find the "Whiskey on the Rocks" grounding amusing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_S-363
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by nasredin 9y ago
This reminds me of Kursk, the Russian sub. Specifically the third-world government fumbling the response to the missing submarine. Considering the USN had two deadly above-surface collisions recently it is either a miracle or speaks to the
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by nasredin 9y ago
Paint.NET requires... .NET. Allow me to help you... FastStone Capture AKA FSCapture It is the BEST screenshot capture program (I literally have tried them all) It also includes an image editor that I've used thousands of times. It is s
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by nasredin 9y ago
Spent a lot of time on this, so: NoScript ("allow first-party scripts" and block everything in "Embeddings" tab) + FlashBlock seem to be the only way to block all autoplaying crap in Firefox for me . You can also
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by nasredin 9y ago
You can do click-to-play HTML5 videos with NoScript. Can't do that with UMatrix. FYI you can actually use both NoScript and UMatrix at the same time.
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by nasredin 9y ago
...so a crippled version of TreeStyleTabs. JS-based (crippled IMHO) vertical tabs are also in Chrome. Why would someone switch from Chrome to Firefox to use a crippled extension? I hope I am wrong but I don't think Firefox will be able
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by nasredin 9y ago
Poe's Law applies here (at least for me). It is so sad we live at a time when one doesn't know if this is sarcasm or a genuine sentiment.
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by nasredin 9y ago
You can't really take out defense spending, because defense and healthcare are pretty much the federal budget. If you want to change things you gonna have to look at defense and healthcare. I can't remember the last time I'
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by nasredin 9y ago
"Papaya" apart from being a delicious fruit is also slang for "pussy" - not the cute furry kind - in many Spanish-speaking countries. So if a voluptuous Colombian woman offers you some papayas, then yes, "you must a
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by nasredin 9y ago
Probably misspelled, from memory: Litvienko (Polonium) Politovskaya (Journalist) Nemtsov (Politician) And no, you do not need to leave a note (IMHO) since the fact that Russian government murders its critics is common knowledge.
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by nasredin 9y ago
If you want to do bussiness in Russia you will have to deal with organized crime and or the government which is very often the same people.
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by nasredin 9y ago
--- The system uses precision broadcasting and targets emergency or weather alerts on a street-by-street basis. The system could allow broadcasters to wake up a receiver to broadcast emergency alerts. The alerts could include maps, storm tr
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by nasredin 9y ago
TLDR: Financial and medical fields have a lot of rich people because of regulatory capture (i.e. no or little competition because they make the rules).
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by nasredin 9y ago
Thanks Google, but... There's plenty of public roads in my hometown that still don't have Street View. Speaking of mapping, I find that Microsoft's 45 degree satellite (aircraft?) imagery is much more useful than straight dow
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by nasredin 9y ago
One party controls all the branches of US government. The fact that they have trouble passing these "protect the children" type laws QUICKLY leaves me in awe of the resilience of the American political system.
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by nasredin 9y ago
Yes. People have a very negative view of MAD. But when you stop and think about it, MAD kept the world safe for 60+ years. It's a bit paradoxical that the most powerful bomb and the doctorine named after the word "insanity" a
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by nasredin 9y ago
Thank you our furry cosmonauts for pioneering a new frontier for us shitty ungrateful humans.

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