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by pmachinery 6y ago
> It sounds like you didn't want to pay the price that the seller wanted, but instead of simply refusing to buy you tried to go around and try to abuse the reporting system Or perhaps they simply know Ebay's policy on the matte
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by pmachinery 6y ago
What Russia does is nothing new; they're just applying abroad - simply, via the internet, and with the witting or unwitting help of useful idiots in target countries - what they did at home. "...what Surkov has done, is to import
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by pmachinery 6y ago
" Three Felonies A Day - How the Feds Target The Innocent is the story of how citizens from all walks of life - doctors, accountants, businessmen,political activists, and others - have found themselves the targets of federal prosecuti
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by pmachinery 6y ago
> If murderers should be disenfranchised then why not jaywalkers? Presumably they are, if they're incarcerated. I don't see why the crime of the person should matter. What do people think they're going to vote for, a rape
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by pmachinery 6y ago
> There seems to be some unwritten rule that you're only allowed to say good things about people when they die. It seems to always happen in forums, as here, where some people complain that it's somehow 'too soon' to
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by pmachinery 6y ago
Come on. I already posted a link showing that hospitals are not a special case, remember? That's so obvious to not merit discussion.
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by pmachinery 6y ago
Perhaps you should remember your own argument, or at least decide what it is, before continuing with the condescending attitude. First it was terrorism because it's deliberate; now it's terrorism because it creates confusion, deat
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by pmachinery 6y ago
How is it "arguably terrorism" and not extortion?
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by pmachinery 6y ago
> Attacking a hospital is a war crime, Strictly speaking, if people we don't like attack a hospital it's a war crime; if we do it, it's an accident. > so how is it not terrorism? Murdering civilians during a war is a wa
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by pmachinery 6y ago
From one of the links you said they should read: "Haqqani - one of bin Laden's closest associates in the 1980s - received direct cash payments from CIA agents, without the mediation of the ISI. "This independent source of fu
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by pmachinery 6y ago
Without a war with the USSR they could (continue to) be supplied by the USSR.
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by pmachinery 6y ago
> United States dropped two nuclear bombs on Japan and most it's citizens don't/didn't feel bad about it. The US didn't drop nuclear bombs on Japan just because the people there are Japanese. > Why do you thin
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by pmachinery 6y ago
In that circumstance it wouldn't even be a footnote; nobody would even hear of it, except perhaps as a "conspiracy theory".
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by pmachinery 6y ago
It's a video underneath the article, about Trump's rise to power. To be honest I didn't notice it either (I'm quite pleased I now have such a blind spot for videos) until Trump supporters started complaining about it her
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by pmachinery 6y ago
Interesting article, but it's strange that Indiana Jones in Wenceslas Square and the game where you have to burn books to "emit the light of progress" (!) are website conversions that bear no resemblance to a ZX Spectrum ga
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by pmachinery 6y ago
"nobody is forcing you to use Bitcoin"
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by pmachinery 6y ago
It's not interesting though, except to the handful of people who did it, it's even more boring now than it was at the time. The main consequence of that flooding, disrupting and destroying of newsgroups is people moved on to the s
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by pmachinery 6y ago
X-No-Archive: yes was for Dejanews, and subsequently Google, and worked, at least in terms of what they publicly displayed on their site. For about the past 20 years you don't need an archive though, with some Usenet service providers
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by pmachinery 6y ago
> It's really sad to see them fade into oblivion. I agree, if only for one you didn't mention, Yahoo Games, which I have some fond memories of. I didn't use the other Yahoo stuff much, but it's a shame, and quite stra
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by pmachinery 6y ago
The above post is the best answer to what is Usenet; understand it from using it. For anyone who doesn't want to sign up to try it, there's also: news.aioe.org https://www.aioe.org
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by pmachinery 6y ago
You should definitely get rid of whatever is being used currently. The first group I randomly clicked (alt.alien.visitors) was censoring the word "public" (and "sucks" and "pipe"), multiple times in the same po
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by pmachinery 6y ago
It has nothing to do with "hating on the USA", it has to do with knowing the US acts in its own interests only, not those of other countries. (Why wouldn't it?) The US Constitution means as much to people in other countries a
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by pmachinery 6y ago
Intentionally obtuse is pretending that Nazi Party members in West German institutions simply concerns random citizens who filled out a membership form between 1933-1945, because it was good for their career/life. We both know the issu
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by pmachinery 6y ago
> Okay, right now, remove the USA from their global role. Who do you want to fill the void? Remember that sudden power vacuums allow bad actors to fill in (ISIS being the most modern example of such). He already said/implied, an int
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by pmachinery 6y ago
Okay since you want to pretend you don't understand my point: if around 40 members of the embryonic BND came from the SS, even by the head of the BND's own admission[0] in 1953, does that mean "the BND killed millions of peop
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by pmachinery 6y ago
Living in denial and refusing to accept (historical) facts because you don't happen to like them is really not healthy. "It's one of the country's worst-kept secrets. Yet questions still surround the presence of former
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by pmachinery 6y ago
I think it's just a throwaway joke about/against D&D itself (for being (at least perceived as) predominantly male, as you said) rather than any kind of serious comment made at the expense of women.
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by pmachinery 6y ago
Huge swathes of post-war German police, judiciary, political personnel were Nazi Party members[0], but we don't attribute crimes carried out in the Third Reich to West (or East) Germany or its institutions. If you want to pretend the K
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by pmachinery 6y ago
That link doesn't mention the KGB, the deaths and executions it refers to (largely of Communist Party and Red Army personnel) occurred before the KGB even existed, and nothing like what is described happened during the KGB era (1954-19
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by pmachinery 6y ago
Thanks for explaining some more. So it's basically an attempt to standardize group naming, to address a fairly specific use case (as with my previous comments, that's not a criticism, just how I'm trying to understand it) of

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