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oiuygtfrtghyju
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oiuygtfrtghyju
16y ago
>but turns into a feel-good hippie tract about love being nice towards the end Only in the Sequel, and sequels are never as good as the original (except the Godfather). Nice to know that their God speaks C16 English as well.
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16y ago
Yes the worst 'offenders' are the Boy Scouts, Army, Veterans associations and Fire Depts. See USCODE Section 175(k), Chapter 1, Title 4
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oiuygtfrtghyju
16y ago
<waves hand> These are not the TPS reports you are looking for .....
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oiuygtfrtghyju
16y ago
> hyper-small cars The new mini isn't hyper small. The original mini cooper had a 2m wheel base and weighed around 600kg. The new 'mini' has a 2.5m wheelbase and weighs twice as much. Cars tend to put on weight in middle age. The cleare
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oiuygtfrtghyju
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The Torah? Well - they started it! Edit: Apparently the good reverend was also promising to burn copies of the Talmud (presumably burning the Torah would remove all those useful passages about gays)
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oiuygtfrtghyju
16y ago
Airbags are of no real use if you are wearing a seatbelt. Cars have got bigger because everybody wants one of those nice safe SUVs with the special rollover feature. My 1989 Citroen AX 1.3L diesel used to do >60mpg commuting and a facto
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16y ago
I think plex only lets you share your iTunes with other iStuff and only if the iDRM approves. VLC lets you share iWhateverTheHellYouWant from iWhateverMachine with iWhateverOS to iWhereverYouWant.
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No he is saying that there is a slight flaw in the logic that: 1, An educated population is good for society. 2, Education happens by going to university 3, People that don't want to study hard and become doctors/engineers/scientists can go
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16y ago
Traditionally one then invades Poland - but this may not be an option for Greece.
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16y ago
VLC can do client-server streaming from another copy of VLC. So your desktop machine can stream your dvd/avi/mp3 collection to the iPad
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oiuygtfrtghyju
16y ago
> doesn't have the reputation that a top tier school has Thats the problem: The deal isn't go to university and learn stuff. The deal is go to university and you will get a better job, the extra salary you make will pay back the tuition
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Google don't want to be in the phone market - they want to be in the selling ads on search market. Their worry was a closed iPhone with an Apple only browser might go to an Apple/ATT only search page with Apple/ATT ads - or they might simpl
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16y ago
Not necessarily - on windows they can install all the crapware they want without Windows being OpenSource. Now imagine you bought your new crapware loaded PC but weren't allowed admin access. And weren't allowed on 'their' internet if you d
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Also physically a bit tricky. You would have to announce it in advance, to allow time for the new currency to be produced - in which time everybody would hoard euros. Then everyone waits for the new currency to fall like a stone, so nobody
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Bankruptcy can happen for a country. Happy exporting something to Somalia and getting a Somali currency bank check as payment - No? It's trickier to go bankrupt if your country use somebody else's money. Would you sell to Greece and accept
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Would you like to have Napoleon/Wellington's thoughts of Waterloo minute-by-minute during the battle. Or only memoirs written 20-years later?
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What about writing about the history of histography? Would that be histography-histography or histography-histography-histography?
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So ? - it's wiki, edit it.
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mec.ca online store has something like this. You rate the fit on several sliding scales (too long/too short etc) then buyers can estimate = I should buy brand X a size larger/smaller.
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oiuygtfrtghyju
16y ago
Sorry not American - didn't realize army didn't include marines.
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16y ago
Isn't it time to go after the real enemy? Corning make almost all the glass that transmits all this digital pornography around the world. Isn't it time somebody acted to stop these monsters profiting from the evil trade in dense wavelength
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16y ago
So abandon actual inches and just do small/medium/large. But then just like Pizza went from SML -> L/XL/XXL without physically changing then clothes will do the opposite. S/M/L will become "Normal/Small/Thin" -> "Thin/looking good/p
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I had a similar experience - I interned at a government organisation that only recruited at Oxford/Cambridge because they wanted "only the best". But it was such a crap place to work they their actual hires were from 3rd rate institutions.
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Would you rather be judged on your ability to write some sample code in the interview. Or on the more traditional, quality of suit, firmness of handshake, where you went to school and ability to answer "what are your greatest weaknesses" ty
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According to http://www.armyg1.army.mil/HR/docs/demographics/FY05%20Army%... Army: White 63.9%, Black 19.0%, Hispanic 10.3%, Asian 3.8% USA: White 75%, Black 12%, Hispanic 15%, Asian 4% So hispanic is underrepresented in the army a
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On the other hand this is a data point. Knowing that the stuff you like with fish is called "sashimi" and the rice stuff is called "sushi" is a good indicator that you are asian. Just like knowing that different types of cheese should actua
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Isn't subtle vandalism what's commonly known as 'history' ?
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But if nobody hears them - do they make a sound?
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There is a correlation between GPA and working hard. Yes there are awesome programmers who have terrible GPAs because they dropped out of high school to found their own company, or who refused to do any non-programming subjects since kinder
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That's why he needs the fancy Manhattan office, business class flights for interns and catered lunches. He is competing for programmers with grad school (cool projects no money), google (cool projects good pay) and wall st (cool projects* a
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