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by sentenza 13y ago
> Most movies / tv shows are already currently available digitally or without DRM (Netflix, Hulu, Apple, Amazon, etc). NO. NO. NO. Where did you get this information? It might be that the US of A is nearing such a state of affairs,
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by sentenza 13y ago
The virus argument is to online life as the terrorist argument is to offline life. Everybody useds it as a cover to get at you for their own purposes. Recently, our glorious government here in Germany decided that there should be a new, sec
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by sentenza 13y ago
While I agree with you that not being in bookstores is no dealbreaker any more, I'd like to add that the way things are going is not really satisfying. What if the book/media market, in its natural state, converges towards one big
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by sentenza 13y ago
I find it to be one of the most horrible misconceptions about life that you have to be securely "settled" before having kids. Many older new parents (aruound 35-40) I observe struggle a lot more than we (30) do with raising small
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by sentenza 13y ago
I'd still recommend PlayOnLinux for him (or rather for you to install on his laptop), since POL takes care of a lot of things for you, among which there are the different versions of Wine. Game only works on a particular version of Win
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by sentenza 13y ago
It's not even like there is anyting suspicious about having a bunch of runways close to his regular routes on his simulator to practice on. I'd almost expect something like this from a pilot that takes his trade seriously. After a
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by sentenza 13y ago
There's a whole load of games from GOG that you can already play on linux, be it throuhg the PlayOnLinux project or by using Dosbox. However, there are a lot of games where it feels like they should work on linux, but they just don&#x2
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by sentenza 13y ago
The UK vehemently opposed the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, in the end opting out of it, so UK ex-citizens can't even sue against their state disowning them.
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They're going to be 'disrupted'? I'm not sure whether or not AirBNB should ever have come thus far. They're essentially offloading all the unpleasantness and liabilities of the hotel business on random schmucks that
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by sentenza 13y ago
I've taken my time to ponder this because there really is a problem with getting this point across. I do not know of any other language where two letter combinations are connotated this heavily. Sure, there are some that are mildly wei
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by sentenza 13y ago
Yes, I know that. Just recently I talked with a friend about just that unfortunate naming decision by NextStep. I also didn't want to directly critique the site owner. I just thought it might make sense to draw some awareness to the is
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by sentenza 13y ago
Given the name of the site, I'd like to add an off-topic remark on culturally sensitive naming. Your site is named nshipster, which is fine, unless it will become the name of a product which you would ever want to market in Germany. In
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by sentenza 13y ago
They explained the algorithm in a recent episode of Logbuch Netzpolitik [1]. They weighted all MEPs according to their current stance on the issue, so you're more likely to get the contact info of an opponent of net neutrality than a p
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by sentenza 13y ago
Huh? If your manager dislikes you, consciously or subconsciously, you are screwed. I didn't know that was controversial. This is how humans work, regardless of whether we like it or not. It doesn't mean, however, that it is imposs
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by sentenza 13y ago
Göbbels committed suicide with his wife and his five little children. There are photographs publically available of their semi-burnt bodies. Why wouldn't he also have escaped if the other asshole got out? ERROR> Conspiracy denied.
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by sentenza 13y ago
For all of those who speak German, there's an old episode of CRE [1] in which Tim talks to Hans Bernhard and lizvlx from Austria. They were involved with the project and elaborate a bit about its motivations. [1] http://cre.
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by sentenza 13y ago
What annoys me most about the war on Bittorrent is that it comes at such a tremendous cost. There used to be a time when you could find all kinds of _rare_ data in the Bittorrent swarm. Now, between all the banning, blocking, slowing down a
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by sentenza 13y ago
I've given this some thought. Sadly, it seems the most logical conclusion is just that I'm no Da Vinci or Bacon. :)
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by sentenza 13y ago
Again, it might very well be that my observations are specific to myself and my body/brain. What I'd like to add to my previous post is that the effect appears when I do both things under heavy load. Especially the language learni
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by sentenza 13y ago
I think the training you child recieves is an interesting combination and I don't want to criticize you on that. What I want to add are some observations I've made in the past about myself and others around me (so purely anecdotal
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by sentenza 13y ago
This is absolutely irresponsible. I've read somewhere that the Chinese are very critical of how the investigation has been handled by Malaysian officials because it basically seems to be a mess. Given the state of the investigation, it
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by sentenza 13y ago
Certainly. This explains it all. But more seriously, don't worry. If you are on any list, it's one for activists and the like. At least, whenever you have problems crossing a border or experience "curious behavior" of yo
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by sentenza 13y ago
I think this is one of the major weaknesses of our economies. Should there ever come to be a "hot cyberwar" with one nation-state firing off all they've got against the infrastructure of another, then a lot of the security-by
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by sentenza 13y ago
He also didn't invest in Enron, though. Just saying.
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by sentenza 13y ago
I concede that the point you make is right. However... DO NOT create computer games about the Holocaust. Even if well-intended, this would be incredibly tasteless. One can certainly debate whether or not games about WW2 are problematic, but
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Congratulations! You are now part of a list of historical events in television history. It is the list of TV stations that drop things because of a worldview which, in retrospect, is totally fucked up. I'm afraid, though, that you are
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Admittedly, I don't know enough about the number of spy satellites out there. My assumption was that at this point, everything is being watched, because if they could they would and who is to say they can't. In thinking so, I migh
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by sentenza 13y ago
I'd like to add that from the perspective of the EU, and I'd say also from the perspective of most citizens, it is irrelevant which charger standard is better. In the bigger picture, it is much more important that there be only on
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Why do they have to make one of the biggest asshats in the room the superflagger? Between them and the music industry, there won't be much Youtube left for UKians to watch. That is, assuming they really only block it inside the UK. The
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by sentenza 13y ago
But then it is also on the video footage collected by various spy satellites. If anything remotely looking like a plane this size had landed there in the correct timeframe, there'd be police/military personel kicking in doors down

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