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901.
by rmc 10y ago
Don't forget "talking to the press about illegal government survellance programmes". Edward Snowden knows all about illegal US speech.
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by rmc 10y ago
It's interesting that many who advocate a "free speech über alles" approach have a curious exemption for property rights. They claim the right of Facebook/Twitter/reddit/etc. as privacy companies to control the
903.
by rmc 10y ago
> In the rich world, the cronies don't belong to any one family, country, or business. I dunno, I'd say a lot of them in the UK went to Eton.
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by rmc 10y ago
> in some cantons the franchise was only extended to women on February 7th, 1971 It's worse than that. One small place didn't extend it till 1990.
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by rmc 10y ago
You mean the place where all the corrupt money from the rest of the world is kept?
906.
by rmc 10y ago
Firstly, remember that "socialism" is a dirty word in US politics, but not in EU politics. The UK Labour party does claim[1] to be a socialist party. Their homepage[2] has a link to "affiliated socialist societies". Howe
907.
by rmc 10y ago
Plenty of non-USA countries are concerned with the amount of each group in other groups. Ireland gives political parties less money if there aren't at least 40% female candidates.
908.
by rmc 10y ago
Pretty sure you'll be able to insert adverts into what a bot says.
909.
by rmc 10y ago
Is this actually a thing in USA? Where you need a lawyer to do your taxes? Cause I'm in the EU, and this never happens.
910.
by rmc 10y ago
OTOH doctors are literally working with life and death scenarios.
911.
by rmc 10y ago
Many countries have legally required mandatory periodic tests of vehicles. If your car doesn't pass, you can't drive it.
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by rmc 10y ago
Another theory for the decline was the it was mostly women, and smart women, who were working as shorthand writers. As women's lib progressed, those women had much better job oppertunities, and left the field.
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by rmc 10y ago
@idlewords has a few examples here: http://idlewords.com/talks/haunted_by_data.htm e.g. A gay Russian who opens a LiveJournal account in 2004. Before LJ is bought by a russian company and russia becomes more homophobic
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by rmc 10y ago
> does not trigger any copyright claims by OWS even if doing so involved reading the GPLd version. I'm pretty sure having GPLed code open, reading it and writing some new software counts as a "derived work", and the GPL
915.
by rmc 10y ago
Didn't WhatsApp Web require the phone to be on, before they got encryption?
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by rmc 10y ago
Actually, if you upload something publically to github you give them permission to serve it publically, and to allow other people to read it and fork it. It's part of the Github T&Cs
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by rmc 10y ago
Pedantically you're probably correct. However the OSI term is basically what people mean when they say "Open Source" now. Much like many countries have a mile, if you started using Roman miles in England or the USA people wou
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by rmc 10y ago
> The projects without license can in theory be considered open source (the source is published after all) That is not what "Open Source" means. > but legally, the copyright is still owned by the authors In Open Source&#
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by rmc 10y ago
Couldn't you have said that Apple pre-Jobs, or pre-iPhone?
920.
by rmc 10y ago
> incorporated in Ireland or engage in other "legal" forms of tax dodgery? Ireland has a low corporate tax rate, and a slightly compliant Data Protection regime. But the UK is, IMO, a much bigger tax haven than Ireland. All t
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by rmc 10y ago
Because they make money and it takes a while to get caught.
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by rmc 10y ago
"You need to get approval for a $1,000 purchase, but you can scheduled a 1 hour meeting with 20 people without approval"
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by rmc 10y ago
When Mount Everest was first measured, it came in at 29,000 feet. But they released the figure of 29,002 feet, to prevent people thinking that it was just an estimate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Everest#Discove
924.
by rmc 10y ago
If you "add this apt repository" then the programme will be installed via apt & dpkg. Hence you know: * It will not overwrite any files that are owned by another package. * If/When you update it later and the programme ha
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by rmc 10y ago
> someone with Doctor Professor in their title Or Doctor Doctor Professor
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by rmc 10y ago
"US Military Introduce Childbomber McChildbombface" for a drone http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2016/04/18/us-military-intr...
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by rmc 11y ago
So if they're willing to send people to Brazil once, why not again?
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by rmc 11y ago
> Facebook isn't for free expression That is literally the opposite of what Zuck, the founder and CEO of Facebook said in this article: "the idea that everyone in Brazil can be denied the freedom to communicate the way they w
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by rmc 11y ago
> Facebook can do whatever it want and people are free to chose to use it service or not. Brazilians had no choice on this case. Fair enough. In which case Zuck should stop all the talk about "[denying] the freedom to communicate
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by rmc 11y ago
Facebook/WhatsApp is trying to have it both ways. Either it's a for profit private company (and it can do things like that), or it's an important communication medium for a democracy (and access should be open). When it comes

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