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by prvc 5y ago
Certainly, but is there some other penalty for what might be construed as contemptuous and disreputable behavior?
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by prvc 5y ago
Is such a battery of arguments permissible in legal contexts, e.g. in a criminal defense?
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by prvc 5y ago
>I liked DDG because it respected the user. Is there any evidence that they actually fulfilled their promises?
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by prvc 5y ago
>we don’t collect or share any of your personal information Their lawyers must have a very specific definition of "share" in mind, since they are definitely exposing that information via how their ad system functions.
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by prvc 5y ago
If only the designers at Apple had access to devices that could perform numerical computations...
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by prvc 5y ago
Does this work for accessing radio shows which are restricted to U.K. IPs?
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by prvc 5y ago
Very nice! I do hope he releases the document source to allow for collaborative correcting and improving.
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by prvc 5y ago
You can get it down another 10% again, or so if you dig straight through.
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by prvc 5y ago
What is the legal theory under which they are asserting ownership of such videos? Could this be avoided by excluding all footage of in-game cutscenes?
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by prvc 5y ago
He may have written that specific provision, if I recall correctly, all the same though...
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by prvc 5y ago
They sued Carmack.
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by prvc 5y ago
Does this violate the original DOOM license, which prohibits selling modifications?
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by prvc 5y ago
Beware of this technique. "Speak with authority to attract followers."
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by prvc 5y ago
>What a strangely beautiful bit of absurdism in a children’s book! I doubt that very many in the book's audience have been able to appreciate it as such. Instead, it seems prone to plant in the listener the seed of imprecise logocen
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by prvc 5y ago
This is exaggerated language, but the described traits are certainly inconvenient, unpleasant, and unnecessarily time consuming for the user.
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by prvc 5y ago
The Office theme is off, somehow. Also, Word 97 has a much nicer, cleaner layout than 95 (assuming Clippy has been totally disabled, of course). Not sure if the icons are any different, though. https://upload.wikimedia.org/w
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by prvc 5y ago
Both a more efficient use of screen space (at least, compared to the default themes of XFCE, crucially, but also KDE, GNOME, and others), and an aesthetically better visual design. I am surprised to have just written this latter observation
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by prvc 5y ago
Perhaps that information doesn't need to be preserved. There also doesn't seem to be a way to modify this behavior.
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by prvc 5y ago
Is that legal?
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by prvc 5y ago
They have really failed to maintain the quality of their articles as they have grown.
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by prvc 5y ago
That's a great point, BASIC 2.0 has very few useful commands for graphics and sound, but these could be added, tailored to the particular platform of a given port. Add a means of "compiling", or exporting, and you get a nice
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by prvc 5y ago
>So you think the workers who stuck their necks out to file these complaints -- going back as early as 2012, mind you -- have done so to spite Musk for being a thorn in the side of ... "various hegemonic cultural narratives and poli
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by prvc 5y ago
Musk and Tesla are thorns in the sides of various hegemonic cultural narratives and political agendas.
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by prvc 5y ago
Relatedly, what one might call "climate policy proponents" tend to hate and criticize Musk and Tesla above all others, which is strange considering the tremendous positive impact he has enacted precisely in reducing carbon depende
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by prvc 5y ago
Of course they don't, but perhaps they ought to allow it, or even to make it easy to do.
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by prvc 5y ago
This project was publicly funded. However, I cannot find any downloadable version of this database.
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by prvc 5y ago
What is the point of doing this instead of writing a clone?
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by prvc 5y ago
>He also wasn't positioning himself out as some super intellectual. He self-identified as being simply a, "dark poet". The latter is more pretentious, in my view.
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by prvc 5y ago
>On October 1st, the comedian Bill Hicks, after doing his twelfth gig on the David Letterman show, became the first comedy act to be censored at CBS’s Ed Sullivan Theatre, where Letterman is now in residence, and where Elvis Presley was
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by prvc 5y ago
I don't know why this strategy wasn't the default option in the first place for emulators for the past couple of decades, when typical display resolutions have been greater than 2x emulated pixel field resolutions in each dimensio

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