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by pfortuny 4y ago
Yes, but in the meantime you risk losing your phone line for at least some days (“if you do not pay…”) and that is a risk that nobody wants to assume nowadays (for good reasons).
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by pfortuny 4y ago
You are being downvoted because your sentence is self-contradictory. One does not “sell” a license agreement, one “enters into it with a third party”. Wether it is digital or not.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Yep, but that does not turn grey into green. This is just politics redacting facts... because they want the votes. These "neo-green policits" could perfectly say "we are green but we acknowledge but we need grey energy for a
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by pfortuny 4y ago
They cannot be killed but their aim is to abandon Earth, and they only need Aragorn to liberate them after they have fulfilled their oath. Not that Aragorn has true power over them. He has only the power to set them free, and they obey beca
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by pfortuny 4y ago
More or less as in the film BUT they were eager to leave the Earth, and they only needed to heed their oath. They do so in a side battle (near Osgiliath IIRC) and, immediately, Aragorn sets them free. But they are not “an army at the ser ic
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Well, because having a child, a descendant is so much more than “procreating”. And, apart from that, your “ I'm less interested in parents trying to rationalize what deep down they know was a bad decision, the perpetual "oh but I&
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Thomas Mann’s “Joseph and his brothers”, a tetralogy on the biblical (old testament) Joseph. I am in the fourth reading.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
There are people who alternate. Married couples, friends, whatever. Happens a lot.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
I am by no means a musician. This friend brought me his guitar pedal because he could not fix it (got stuck somehow and he had not read the manual properly, that’s it). After “fixing” it, he showed me how he used it (I had never seen one in
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Yes, that is so cheeky… We are going to put pressure so that we do not have to pay any severance because they will leave “willingly”. Good luck with keeping just the good people with that technique.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Never underestimate the power of a bored bureaucrat under pressure to keep his job.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Exactly. Work, work, work, and then let the mind wander on its own and… Somehow eventually it dawns on you.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Thanks for the link. Pretty impressive.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Yes. I thought I had an idea of what Aristotle was about. I had STUDIED several courses on Philosophy. Then I read him. The Nicomachean Ethics. Man, did he blow my mind. Same with Aquinas and Nietzsche. You cannot tik-tok a book. You cannot
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by pfortuny 4y ago
The burden of proof on such a sweeping statement is clearly on you…
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by pfortuny 4y ago
But the EU does not govern any country, so it is not comparable at all, and has no civil servants apart from at its offices. It is not a federation, like the US. The EU only governs itself, not its countries. It is not a country.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Not so,fast. Look at fiscal law and its enforcement first and then tell me. I live there, too.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Just a link I found: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/28/european-commi...
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Yep: the operative word being “because”, absent in all the OP’s sentences.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
You are entitled to that opinion as others are to the very huge gray intermediates AND the total opposite. Why not?
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by pfortuny 4y ago
It is curious how all of this is also shown in St. John of the Cross’s writings (Ascent of Mount Carmel, and his poetry). I guess any true spiritual “way” must acknowledge the need for detachment together with the need for attachment, contr
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by pfortuny 4y ago
In emacs with pdf-tools it seems you can enable a minor mode: pdf-view-auto-slice-minor-mode which does the trick. Just learned it. EDIT: could try it. Exactly as intended. Will be of great help (I can now have a complete latex page in view
623.
by pfortuny 4y ago
Well, Brother had never done this to date. That is the real shocker.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Yes, sorry.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
But that is because the ancients were more than human. Notice that it is a hobbit who destroys the ring of power, nobody else could, be he dwarf, elf, wizard, whatever. Not even Aragorn! Not so depressing if you look at it this way.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
The achievements cannot be tainted. Kolmogorov complexity is (I hope) untainted. Also, Hilbert’s problems are not untainted (and he never flew Nazi Germany!).
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by pfortuny 4y ago
As a teacher myself, I have made a bunch of videos for my classes which cover all the material in my courses [1]. I tend to cover a single concept/a single exercise in each. This makes the videos bearable. They are not “videos of lectu
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Yeah, right. But we have known since always that one does not take serious life decisions in a storm.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Crippling and -quite seriously- anti-climate… Good job, Merkel etc.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
“George: Why would I want to know that? Jerry: I don't know. But with Datasette, you could easily find out. George: Really? That sounds kind of useful.” Another instance of the lack of memory. Why would I want? Kind of useful… Not that

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