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by rick888 16y ago
"Unlike Wikileaks, Openleaks will not publish or verify material; leaving that role to newspapers" What's the point then? If the leaks aren't verified, then they are just rumors.
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by rick888 16y ago
This still doesn't change the fact that piracy does hurt authors. The sad fact is that piracy is only getting worse. Even when you can get a song for 99 cents with no DRM or restrictions, music piracy is still rampant. I'm waiting for the
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by rick888 16y ago
it's more like an egg room, even though it still is pretty cool.
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by rick888 16y ago
I've noticed that many startups want people that are: a senior developer in new technology X, is good at Photoshop, and can design customer facing webpages. They also want to pay you well below market wages (because you should be happy to
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by rick888 16y ago
China has figured out how to successfully embrace capitalism under communistic rule. China needs democracy and freedom of speech when its citizens get pissed off enough to demand it...or there is a revolution. The vast majority of Chinese
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by rick888 16y ago
"No, the GPL requires that anything dependent on GPL code must be under a compatible license. You're free to release code under the BSD or X11 or zlib or apache (etc...) license. The author is just repeating the same tired old propaganda th
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by rick888 16y ago
"The crime may be just as bad, or worse perhaps, but it's not "stealing"." Is identity theft stealing? You are merely borrowing someone's information. The original information is never gone, only copied. I also don't know what you are get
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by rick888 16y ago
"So...because, after years of fighting, iTunes finally stood up and removed the DRM, followed by a few retailers, we're supposed to look to the record labels as our saviors? For not treating us like criminals?" People that pirate music are
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by rick888 16y ago
anybody can create something better than craigslist. It's actually a very simple design. Not everybody can get the traffic. Everyone already knows and uses craigslist. Unless you have lots of money for a marketing campaign (and even this
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by rick888 16y ago
"They are impressive pieces of collaborative work. I do not judge people buying music from iTunes, nor do I judge people that "pirate" music. Each to his/her own." I do. Because the people pirating music have pretty much destroyed the musi
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by rick888 16y ago
"Thank you - this is the most vapid thing I've seen today not written by a TSA official." Are you here all week? Do you always get this many laughs? "And you can tell the difference based on a server log...exactly how?" If you can't see th
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by rick888 16y ago
It's interesting that after all of the people in the pirate community screaming that the cost of songs are "too high" and the quality isn't "good enough" and music has too many "draconian" protection schemes like DRM that piracy is bigger t
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by rick888 16y ago
I've tried a few niche dating sites. I think a new dating site can work. However, you will always have the problem in the beginning of not having enough profiles. For a dating site to be successful, you need to have lots of startup capita
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by rick888 16y ago
It reminds me of the Joelonsoftware community. When the forums were actually active, there seemed to be another time tracking app popping up every few weeks.
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..or catching cheaters. The students that cheated obviously don't care about learning or education, so why should he?
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by rick888 16y ago
"So, the professor deliberately tempted people to look up something online, then amused himself by busting the people who did. Cute method, but it proves nothing other than "schmuck bait works"." The way I see it, the people that are actual
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by rick888 16y ago
"Yeah, as we all know no drugs ever have negative side effects while still having positive effects. But okay, I agree that high people are less likely to perform well. All that is, however, besides the point: if they don't work well, you ca
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by rick888 16y ago
"So do you consider your right as a business owner to be more important than the fundamental right to do whatever you want to your body? Seriously?" If it makes it impossible for me to fire you because you are smoking pot as a result of pro
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by rick888 16y ago
A very small amount of people actually are smoking pot for the health effects. The rest just want to get high. Why can't smokers just admit why they want it legalized? Which makes me think that there aren't really any health benefits. Th
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by rick888 16y ago
wow, a government run program out of money? What a surprise (:-O <= this is my shocked face). The problem is that they aren't running it like a corporation, because they feel they have a monopoly. As an example, a few summers ago, the
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by rick888 16y ago
"What about a drinker? what about a skydiver? Lets take it further what about a homosexual? oh no that would be wrong. OK what about a swinger (they are high risk sexual lifestyle)?" Like I said, it has the potential to affect workers. If
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by rick888 16y ago
You mean I'm consistent with my beliefs? OH THE HORROR!
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by rick888 16y ago
really? I really have to explain this? You don't remember the breach of data, the emails, and all of the universities that came out and admit that all of their claims were based on the same data? I figured everyone would know what I was t
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by rick888 16y ago
"I suspect that part of the problem is that, at least with climate deniers, is that there's no real meat to their arguments. I know a few, and most of their arguments boil down to hearsay or "denier blog X says so, and who trusts Obama/the
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by rick888 16y ago
"Which is exactly why we should not have government run healthcare. Where does it stop, should I have to pay for people that decide to take high risk carrer paths, how about high risk sports as a recreation. " I actually agree with you here
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by rick888 16y ago
If I was in California, I wouldn't have voted for it. Prop 19 made it difficult for businesses to fire people that smoke pot under "discrimination" laws. I, as a business owner should be able to fire someone if I know they are a regular p
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by rick888 16y ago
I've thought about creating a dating site in the past, but never went through with it. I think the best way to be successful with this type of site is to pick specific, niche, markets. I think you should also make it easy for people to see
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by rick888 16y ago
"It would be pretty easy to make an argument against many sects of Christianity on the same grounds (yes, really: http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/146438 ); literally thousands of people have been incited to violence by radical
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"Not to mention the main reasons Al Qaeda doesn't like us seems to be to our support of Israel and our lack of action on global warming. I'm sure they don't like the way we treat Muslims in the airport, but it doesn't seem to be a big sourc
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by rick888 16y ago
I know this. Alcoholics also aren't trying to tell the world that it cleanses your kidneys.

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