razakel

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by razakel 5mo ago
Over a decade ago, on the website of a cable news network named after vermin, you could watch an uncensored video of terrorists setting someone on fire.
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by razakel 6mo ago
The original idea was this: >I almost want to put some of these faces next to pictures of farm animals and have people vote on which is more attractive.
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by razakel 6mo ago
This is what happens when you make education a business. You end up testing credit score instead of aptitude.
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by razakel 6mo ago
>Prohibition regarding alcohol was not accepted by almost every demographic strata. It's very difficult to ban something when even the police do it. I'm guessing that the number of cops who like a drink is somewhere around &quo
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by razakel 6mo ago
They've been banned since 1997, though Lithuania has withdrawn and Estonia, Latvia, Poland and Finland plan to.
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by razakel 6mo ago
It may be worth looking into getting him a phone that only allows trusted numbers to call him. But regarding scammers, asking "is your mother proud that she raised a thief?" really annoys them. One of them threatened to come ove
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by razakel 6mo ago
An interesting one is .uk, because the UK's country code is actually GB (the ccTLD is delegated, but unused). And that's before we get into the really weird not-a-proper-country ones like .im or .pn.
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by razakel 6mo ago
Normal travel insurance doesn't cover high-risk activities like mountaineering. You have to buy a specialist policy.
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by razakel 6mo ago
Was the hospital affiliated with a religious order?
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by razakel 6mo ago
I'd take Dun & Bradstreet seriously if: - They didn't sell your data to spammers, and - Their website actually worked
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by razakel 6mo ago
The coup has already happened.
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by razakel 6mo ago
Maybe it looks like you're trying to trick the meter into running backwards?
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by razakel 7mo ago
Endocrinology wouldn't be an entire specialism of medicine if things were that simple.
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by razakel 7mo ago
Apparently upgrading the SSD can be done, but it's a weird form factor and you need another Mac to restore it.
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by razakel 7mo ago
Federal law says you can't. The PLCAA passed in 2005.
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by razakel 7mo ago
I gave up when it wanted a Dun and Bradstreet number (whoever they are) and the website to get one didn't work.
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by razakel 7mo ago
One thing the UK did was to ban gambling companies from accepting credit cards.
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by razakel 7mo ago
The BMJ publishes an annual Christmas joke paper. For example, "The survival time of chocolates on hospital wards: covert observational study".
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by razakel 7mo ago
And those who are actually curious will look into what it's doing under the hood. Everyone has to start somewhere.
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by razakel 9mo ago
The BBC made a docudrama, Micro Men, with Alexander Armstrong as Clive Sinclair and Martin Freeman as Chris Curry. Sophie Wilson cameos when they have a fight.
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by razakel 9mo ago
He was the first person in Europe to buy a Mac. Stephen Fry was the second.
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by razakel 9mo ago
>you rarely see in the UK And when you do, the establishment resorts to skullduggery and smears them. "The life-long anti-racism campaigner is somehow a racist because he didn't act on the report we deliberately hid from him!&q
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by razakel 9mo ago
Authoritarianism isn't the same thing as fascism.
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by razakel 9mo ago
Has anyone actually given a good explanation as to why TLS Client Auth is being removed?
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by razakel 9mo ago
As the article says, it's based on Schongauer's The Temptation of St. Anthony. There's even a version by Salvador Dali.
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by razakel 9mo ago
Maybe, just maybe, parents could use the parental controls that are widely available for free?
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by razakel 9mo ago
Of course they are. Had to block anything at work coming from one certain company because it wasn't respecting robots.txt and the bill was just getting silly.
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by razakel 9mo ago
They've still got QNX.
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by razakel 9mo ago
Why wouldn't it work? The oligarchs would certainly be a bit upset if they lost their yachts, mansions, sports teams, and everywhere else they keep their wealth away from Putin.
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by razakel 9mo ago
And yet there's opposition to teaching it in schools! "I love the poorly educated" - Some Guy

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