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by panzagl 5y ago
Presumably NSA employees are not using their phones for illegal activities, so they should not be in a situation where a court will order them to unlock their phone.
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by panzagl 5y ago
I did some digging, and apparently all launches have been exempt, including Viasats https://www.lightreading.com/opticalip/viasat-presses-fcc-to... So they are looking for new regulation, based on some rather spurious
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by panzagl 5y ago
Guess I'll never know because of the Nightmare of My Snooping Browser and it's Collusion with the NYTimes Snooping Server.
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by panzagl 5y ago
Do Viasat's launches go through the same type of environmental impact study they're saying SpaceX should go through? I couldn't tell from the article whether the FCC let SpaceX skip a step (legitimately or not), or whether V
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by panzagl 5y ago
Well, the computer company he did work for isn't around anymore, so Microsoft would probably be ok passing on him.
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by panzagl 5y ago
Oddly enough rural areas have a lot of trees too, so reporting on a non-optimal setup is very valuable.
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by panzagl 5y ago
More open source devs working on Blender means fewer working on Inkscape and Gimp.
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by panzagl 5y ago
Every time someone posts a book on here someone shows up to bitch about the format and modernization- you should see the crap the 'Game Programming Patterns' guy gets.
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by panzagl 5y ago
The US military is far better at logistics than any other military. If nothing else, they have had more recent practice at larger scale and longer term deployments than any other military.
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by panzagl 5y ago
VAT?
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by panzagl 5y ago
The contract was already under protest, this decision just means another piggy will get to belly up to the trough. The main value of the JEDI contract was the validation of MS as a cloud provider- contrast that with Oracle, who was dismiss
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by panzagl 5y ago
For many people increased anxiety in general is part of the aging process.
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by panzagl 5y ago
Sounds similar to what happened to Epipens- the drug is long out of patent, but the injector/delivery system gets continual minor tweaks to stay proprietary.
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by panzagl 5y ago
I don't know if you meant it to sound this way, but this comment comes off as sympathetic to the Nazis- you're implying the concentration camp 'narrative' is not accurate, but imposed by the 'victors' (Allies).
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by panzagl 5y ago
IF you've never heard anyone complain about Tricare, you don't know anyone on it.
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by panzagl 5y ago
I dunno, when I go to Mexico I don't look at the heavily armed guards outside of a bank and go 'gee, it's a good thing there is so much violent crime here otherwise we wouldn't have these armed guards here to protect us
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by panzagl 5y ago
Mostly as a connection between sin and disease- physical sickness was seen as a reflection of spiritual sickness.
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by panzagl 5y ago
Could be, but in general Americans obsess more about health than other nations, which also can be traced back to our Puritanical heritage.
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by panzagl 5y ago
Anti-alcohol movements have been a feature of the US since the 1800s, I doubt a social historian would have difficulty drawing a line from the Puritans, to the Women's Temperance League to MADD. It's MADD's lobbying for laws
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by panzagl 5y ago
> We simply choose healthier behaviors. Hmm, I wonder where your desire to choose healthier behaviors came from...
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by panzagl 5y ago
Claymation Brian Cranston points pistol at snitches head- "You've got the wrong trousers" <Bang>
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by panzagl 5y ago
About half the state thinks so. The rest thinks being former Texans or Californians makes them a protected class.
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by panzagl 5y ago
This type of stuff was required like second semester undergrad at my school back in the late nineties, albeit with CVS instead of Git. Everything was Solaris back then- we got our first Windows lab just as I was leaving, and it was mostly
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by panzagl 5y ago
I'm too busy tilting at the 'just say use instead of utilize' windmill, but your cause is worthy.
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by panzagl 5y ago
Acting presidential went out with the Clinton administration- it was widely commented on at the time (see the commentary around him appearing on Arsenio Hall), but the media loved the cachet/ attention too much to let it get beyond the
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by panzagl 5y ago
A lot of US government boilerplate is to document authority, responsibility and jurisdiction- basically it's "Why we're qualified to spend the taxpayer's money doing this, who told us to do it, and why it's necessar
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by panzagl 5y ago
Children need consistency and reliability from their parents. It becomes even more apparent as they get older- they will not be able to take risks in their lives if they have been looking over their shoulders their whole lives trying to ad
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by panzagl 5y ago
>Any way you slice it, weekday time-with-kids for someone with a normal job is pretty crap. It's not crap for the kids, and that's all that's important.
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by panzagl 5y ago
Where was a sheet of plywood ever $8? Even a sheet of masonite has been over $8 for years...
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by panzagl 5y ago
You have an overly simplistic view of how government works.

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