ricksplat

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by ricksplat 10y ago
and you're talking poorly thought out hypotheticals a "Chinese cloned app distributed through Bittorrent"? Do you mean a "competing app", in which case it's fair game. Do you mean a straight copy? You might hav
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Indeed Sir Robin of Locksley had been knighted so he was no mere rogue ...
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I have another corner case: Audio books. I was infuriated to discover when I bought one on my computer in work it was then just about impossible to transfer it to any device that I could actually want to listen to it on (without resorting t
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by ricksplat 10y ago
In the case of stealing: You deny somebody else the possibility of buying the product. In the case of cloning: You deny the progenitor the claim to its creation. In the case of downloads: You make a copy of something. Whether it equates to
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I would also suggest, that in the case of the clothing, the artist is probably not credited. Zara are claiming it as their own original work so she can't even claim copyright.
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> In a modern economy "savings" equals investment This, is a widely held misconception. A bank is no longer allowed to re-invest more than a small proportion of it's customers' savings. https://en.wikiped
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How to be a wizard programmer: 1. Write Code 2. Read Code 3. Learn how to find out things for yourself 4. Find new ways of doing things and contribute to the team 5. Try to give more than you take
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by ricksplat 10y ago
You say it yourself: Saving to use that money later. Which is an issue as economic measurements are based on what the economy is like at the present moment. If a large amount of people's capital is sitting dormant in bank accounts it c
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Indeed there is, and I'm just providing a counterbalancing opinion. As the man says "there is no silver bullet".
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Sir, I have worked with many a toxic team-mate who did nothing but wander around the office, making noise, and getting other people to do their work. Because they didn't do their work themselves they didn't have ownership of it, a
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by ricksplat 10y ago
> it's the first search result for a term they didn't happen to know > even the concept of "search for the error message" is a pattern someone needs to learn I suppose if we're talking about a graduate or
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What I would prefer, is somebody who tries to figure it out themselves, even if it takes more time ... just maybe I don't have the answers and would like somebody to give me information for a change rather than just take take take ...
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Sorry, I hope nobody minds a humorous posting (a quote from meet the parents): Dina Byrnes: I had no idea you could milk a cat! Greg Focker: Oh, you can milk just about anything with nipples. Jack Byrnes: [He reacts] I have nipples, Gr
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by ricksplat 10y ago
At least sales of Creme Eggs took a hit after their adulteration. Isn't Cadbury owned by Mendelez now?
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by ricksplat 10y ago
Too much savings is the problem, and no political will to introduce policies to get it moving again. Austerity kills spending.
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Ayn Rand's "Virtue of Selfishness" completely ignores, or fails to compare with it's vices .
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Does anybody remember Quake C?
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by ricksplat 10y ago
Sigh did you read TFA? It's not "just" a matter of establishing effects - article goes into why it's not that straightforward ... as another commenter said TDCS is like using a sledge-hammer to tune a piano. We know th
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It's pseudoscience if it's presented as "scientific fact"; science is the process by which such facts are established. Otherwise you're talking about a hypothesis.
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Replicable Falsifiable Precise Parsimonious
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Yeah but Hillary and the Petraeus are civilians no? Or at the very least not subject to military jurisdiction and standards.
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There are alternatives to allowing a situation to escalate. Firstly a well-trained police officer can manage a situation such that it doesn't escalate. Then restraint can be exercised. Admittedly these strategies are much easier in a s
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by ricksplat 10y ago
In practice police can "turn a blind eye" - there are so many silly laws that if the police went around enforcing them all without interpretation they'd never be able to get anything done (kind of like a depth-first traversal
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He was also in the military, which carries different expectations of behaviour, and a tougher system of account.
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Scotch tape is something slightly different to what I'd consider "sticky tape", which is what I'd also know as Sellotape . We have Scotch tape here as well (W. European seaboard ;) but it's a neater more refined (c
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I believe Sega also had some institutional issues. There was a documentary a while back, can't quite remember the name. Something about the corporate structure a lot of the business was based in the US while the technical knowledge was
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That's not quite true. What all your sources say, is that it is influenced by chicken feed. Specifically "the amount and type of carotenoids the chicken consumes." You can argue that it doesn't matter what chickens eat
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No, but going by the commentary, and voxpops, I can safely assume "a lot", which is what I said and meant.
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Yeah I wasn't talking about that. Was talking about those creepy paper-white eggs you get stateside.
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Have you got a source for that? First result on google indicates otherwise http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/egg-color-chart-find-out-w...

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