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by satori99 13y ago
“This is America. People do whatever the fuck they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Because they have a right to. And because they have guns and no one can fucking stop them.” ― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
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"Ira, I learned centuries back that there is no privacy in any society crowed enough to need IDs. A law guaranteeing privacy simply insures that bugs -- microphones and lenses and so forth -- are that much harder to spot." --Lazur
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IIRC it was to do with Cuban never having agreed to receive the information in confidence.
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I loved this film! It is one of the only films in recent years that i truly enjoyed. And not a single explosion or special effect!
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There was one of the atmospheric test frames just sitting in a vacant block on the outskirts of Sydney about a decade ago. I climbed all over it with a friend one night. (not my video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8tNp4bl
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Indeed. It is one of all time my favourite hard sci-fi novels.
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haha. I too, think alcohol is a drug with a poor value proposition. At least for me. The 'high' is rubbish, and the come down is painful. I am also part of a minority in this respect in my culture.
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My favourite one is Sweden. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_Solar_System
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Just remember to add Weak Reference support too. This is really the only missing feature that I want in JS.
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When I say "excuse myself" I guess I really mean from any significant conversation. I may continue to spend time with people who behave like this, but I back out of any serious discussions if they are conducted with interruptions
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I tend to agree with you. I am mobile developer and have been since the days of WAP. I used to get excited about the latest mobile tech and software, and always carried the latest device. Over the last few years my attitudes have changes co
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Ha! Straight from the horses mouth (today even!) ... "They are wrong. It is a soft 'G', pronounced 'jif'. End of story." - Steve Wilhite http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/cameras/its-pronounced-ji...
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I think his overall point is valid. I am not a Facebook user, or a heavy user of any social networks or sites, but several days ago I joined a 2nd level discussion on Reddit with a one sentence post, and wiki url, about a shipwreck that was
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A recent novel by Kim Stanley Robinson, 2132, featured an equatorial on city on Mercury, built on rails that circle the entire planet. The thermal expansion of the tracks on the day side propel the city permanently into the night side. I th
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> Although they have no products, that I'm aware of at least, that I'm using Do you know anyone who does? Every time I see their name is a headline, I am mildy suprised that they are still relevant at all.
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You raise good points, but I still think there are legitimate concerns. http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/features/fastfood-logos-...
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> I am trying to understand the claim that using a picture of Lena is somehow sexist. Probably because it was sourced from a Playboy magazine is all.
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While generally that is true about asm.js, there is nothing stopping anyone from writing asm.js code by hand. It is still just javascript and totally readable as such. For example: https://gist.github.com/calvinmetcalf/5473022
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It does make me a little sad that so many smart and talented people spend their careers making, delivering and working out how to get people to click on more ads. I don't just mean programmers. The advertising industry hires many of the mos
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He also goes further in this explanation in another work (whose name eludes me), in so far as some races deliberately seed the galaxy with humans so that when a race such as ours breaks free of their solar system, they don't get all hegemon
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This may of interest to anyone who is unfamiliar with his SciFi writing: http://www.vavatch.co.uk/books/banks/cultnote.htm Originally posted to rec.arts.sf.written on 10 Aug 1994.
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Agreed. I became a fan of his after reading just a few chapters of The Player of Games, and have since read almost everything he has ever published. He is an author of extraordinary skill.
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How many slaves, oops, I mean mistakes, do you think it takes to learn that this is a bad thing to do?
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I disagree. Not everyone has an easy relationship with computers and technology. These sort of acts have the potential to seriously disturb some people that have been forced to use the Internet to get by in modern life, but do not have a fu
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> without anything better to do or anyone to stop them, it spiralled into this Surely the basis for not being evil, is to not do bad things to other people by the command of your conscience? I understand that the majority of the offende
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Perhaps. Or maybe they are adults with a 14yo mentality. Either way it is so 'not cool' that even a 14yo should know this. They are inflicting real pain on another human being for laughs, and that is evil in my book.
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People that do this are evil.
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Impressive! Is there a reason you decided to implement a WebGL UI, instead of using HTML for the user interface elements? Is native browser compositing too slow with multiple HTML elements on top of the WebGL canvas?
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My understanding is that WebRTC includes udp-like connections between browsers directly. P2P, rather than client-server.
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I don't have a source, but the same thing was explained to me during a sea survival course. It was a requirement to be able to enter a Sydney to Hobart yacht race. This course included spending time in a very cold pool in full gear and atte

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