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This would be unnecessary in the city I live in. All commercial and public broadcasters already provide real-time internet streams of their channels in addition to catch-up libraries for missed programs. The only exception being some live s
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Both novels are set in the same world, with The Diamond Age being some time after Snowcrash. They even share characters, though it's not immediately obvious.
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Jackie Chan, in addition to being a world famous film star, is also an Honorary Professor of Tourism and a teaching member of the faculty at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. I know this because he shares an office there with someone I know
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The 1936 Spotlight Golf Machine(abc.net.au)
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Honestly the hardest part I have encountered so far has been learning the lingo. So much of what I was reading early on went over my head because i didn't fully understand the terminology and I don't really have an electronics bac
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I decided to try my hand at hardware design. Just for fun, not profit. I expected to make modest progress because it has always seemed like some sort of dark art to me. I spent a small amount of money on some Chinese FPGA boards and I have
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> That you haven't heard of her probably says more about you than it does about her Sure. It says I'm out-of-touch -- and doubly so when it comes to whomever Time Magazine thinks is influential.
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I consider myself a reasonably well-read person. I read often and fast so I manage to get through a decent number of books, mostly novels, each year. I don't stick to any particular genres and can sensibly discuss anything from Shakesp
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"After all, as one of the most famous writers in the world today, you are a legitimate subject for inquiry, whether you welcome it or not." Either I am completely out of touch, or this statement is not true. It&
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We will never know if that is actually what occurred as all of these cases were prosecuted behind closed doors. No Australian embassy officials were permitted to assist or even observe court proceedings. Needless to say, this is not the w
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China has been doing this for a long time already to Australian business people. Several Australian Mining and Casino executives and employees have been imprisoned for considerable time by China's opaque justice system. https:/&#
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Surely it must be. In my country, our recently former Prime Minister was known to regularly catch trains while going about his government business. Sometimes with a cabinet minister. Sometime on his own. And rarely, if ever, with a visible
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I do this too. I scan the first paragraph or two and if I decide it is worth reading, I hit the reader button. I really couldn't care less about modern web design -- Just show me the text.
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Another person was bitten in the same bay today; https://www.news.com.au/national/queensland/shark-attack-nea...
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For Christs sake Julian, just clean your room. It doesn't take that long, and there will plenty of time to overthrow The World Order later.
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I am 45 and I still can't stand anything written by Jane Austen.
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I have never heard of this book before, but the description made me think of the Robert Heinlein novel 'Job: A Comedy of Justice'. Especially the line "The final joke of the book is that maybe Satan is not the bad guy after a
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That was my first thought also... "We have specially trained staff members who give students additional information about our sponsors while they enjoy their coffee." What's not to enjoy about a fresh cup of coffee, payed for
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The problems were easily foreseeable, and they did it anyway. Anyone who accepts this as "listening the users", and addressing the issues will likely get burned again in the future. Google is a advertising company. Their customers
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It could also lead to crimes like Blackmail becoming extinct. It would be hard to hold incriminating recordings of anyone over them if near-perfect audio and video synthesis was common. Especially for public figures with lots training data
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Cook was also the first European to prove that NZ was in fact two separate islands.
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Aussie here, who is this Cook guy? /s I recently had a short conversation with an American high school exchange student in Sydney who was annoyed about how much we are taught about Captain Cook and his voyages in Australian schools. I
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Instead of cramming all functionality into one textbox, Firefox gives you the option of having a separate address and search text fields. It can set so that the address box only searches local tabs, history and bookmarks for suggestions, wh
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For me it was Carl Sagan's The Demon Haunted World. I was not especially religious, or especially anything until that book convinced me that skepticism was a useful default setting.
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> A golden opportunity for the entrepreneur to monetize once the pattern becomes obvious! ...which leads to inevitable over-commercialization. Then the cool kids abandon it to start new secret communities. A golden opportunity for the en
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It is especially disappointing when all the good bits from an entire film are all in the trailer.
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You have watched it enough to get annoyed by it? I saw part of an episode once, and I thought it was a program for children.
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Syd-Mel air route is the 2nd busiest in the world, with @55,000 flights/yr. https://www.statista.com/chart/12598/the-worlds-busiest-air-...
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My first programming experience was using Logo on an Atari 800 as a 6 or 7 year old, and I instantly grasped the concept of a giving commands to a turtle with a pen. It was as game-like as most entertainment software of its time, but it sub
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I recently bought a USB serial cable online to play around with this sort of thing, and promptly saw a blue-screen in windows 10 for the first time I can remember. It turned out I had unknowingly bought a fake Prolific cable and the (non-fa

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