robertony

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by robertony 5y ago
Modern mov files are just mp4 containers.
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by robertony 5y ago
> Forgive me since I’m American, but wasn’t getting rid of foreigners taking jobs one of the selling points of Brexit? That's what the media like to repeat, but I would suggest that you ignore them and take a broader view. Reality i
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by robertony 6y ago
Not really... You have to log out of one account, then login to the other; but then you need to use 2fa; but now 2fa is mad about something and making you jump through hoops while people are getting angry you aren't showing up as sched
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by robertony 7y ago
I'm still using ICQ...
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by robertony 7y ago
Destiny 2 is free on Steam, no gold needed.
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by robertony 7y ago
Could you explain to me what is innovative about Google offering you fields to enter your social details on your Stadia profile for AIM, MSN, YIM, etc... And could you explain why they won't put fields for Google Talk, Google Wave, Buz
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by robertony 7y ago
That would be fine under GDPR actually.
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by robertony 7y ago
From what I'm aware, the military doesn't use IRC? IRC was inspired from BITNET, which was used by the DoD briefly and not the military as a whole? Military networks are encrypted at the network layer? User authentication is enfor
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by robertony 7y ago
It is intentional.
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by robertony 7y ago
My NHS trust doesn't even use Spine 2. That would require reliable Internet.
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by robertony 7y ago
You're probably outside the security sphere, but H1 is already taken seriously. There is no per-requisit for them to do so to be taken seriously as you state.
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by robertony 7y ago
If I compare cyclists in London (and, there are a lot) to pretty much anywhere in the Netherlands. In the Netherlands, the cyclists are far better behaved. I don't have to worry for my life walking on a pavement that in the next moment
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by robertony 8y ago
Yes, but not in Germany.
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by robertony 8y ago
> The "bonus" you get is actually paid by higher prices on the stuff people buy. In the EU, we pay VAT on practically everything, so, US prices are still cheaper with credit cards etc.
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by robertony 8y ago
You can dispute, but the big difference between credit card and debit card is that on credit card, each transaction is insured through the merchant fee. Mastercard and Visa's rules also specific require the card lender to repay a dispu
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by robertony 8y ago
I have to agree with your sentiment here. A vote to leave the EU didn't mean leave the ECHR. To add to your point further, the Good Friday agreement (which brought some peace in Northern Ireland) actually is supposed to bind the UK to
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by robertony 8y ago
> I've said that some things are done on EU level, which does not need to be repeated across the various countries within the EU. The examples provided on your link are Galileo, business investment and huamnitarian crises, terrorism
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by robertony 8y ago
Can you please provide sources for how EU centeralized government is more efficient with it's money than decenteralized systems used in places like the Netherlands and the UK?
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by robertony 8y ago
> Greece was at risk of that for a while. Greece actually campaigned for it and the EU imposed more austerity instead.
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by robertony 8y ago
> And it is right to be, particularly in the case human rights. The European Convention on Human Rights is not an EU institution. The EU has had problems causing conflict with it, such as with the European Arrest Warrant. > When the
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by robertony 8y ago
Do you think it's in .eu's benefit to do this? I ask because across Europe Union there is a rise in euroscepticism and right-wing parties right now. If I was a non-UK but EU business, I may even consider moving off .eu sooner rath
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by robertony 8y ago
I suspect that this will be rather damaging for the .eu TLD. If I were in a country that has a rise in Euroscepticism, right-wing parties while in the EU (which is pretty much most of them now); I wouldn't feel confident in getting a .
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by robertony 8y ago
Sorry, I should have phrased that better. When I said "reduced economic activity in the EU", I mean as a whole. This is an over simplfiication, but imagine a situation where everything is 20% more expensive than the normal asking
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by robertony 8y ago
> the EU has more free trade deals than the UK will ever negotiate on its own. It doesn't really matter how many trade deals or what the trade deals are when VAT, import fees are applied in such a way to equalize the costs of exter
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by robertony 8y ago
> One would think that the EU would be in a better position to get better deals than a single country. The EU has a history of being really slow at negotiating trade deals unfortunately. Further, the EU enforces VAT fees and implements p
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by robertony 8y ago
The "leavers" you talk to are pretty different from the leavers I talk to.
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by robertony 8y ago
The Brexit promise was to leave the EU and open better trading options with the rest of the world. Outside of the EU, there is no issue reducing VAT, customs fees etc. In fact, WTO rules even allow more competitive options between countries
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by robertony 8y ago
Some "leavers" just want to trade with the rest of the world with flexibility and not be bound to the EU. It's a hard argument to make that the EU is better when "leavers" compare the economic growth of the EU, whic
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by robertony 8y ago
> If the EU is that bad, why aren't other countries holding referendums and leaving the EU? I think you're wilfully ignoring what has been happening in Ireland, Greece, France and Italy in recent years.
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by robertony 8y ago
> Because XBL centralized the online gaming experience Gamespy and Steam's multiplayer system already did that for free. > a lot of benefits were realized including centralizing your multiplayer experience (community and content)

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