slapfrog

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by slapfrog 5y ago
Well he also told people to give Caesar what Caesar was owed. You can justify virtually any belief by picking different parts out of those books. Dunking on self-described Christians by trying to identify the "true" Christian b
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by slapfrog 5y ago
> It is a religion, with many denominations. The whole of it defies neat categorization. People who self-describe as Christians can't even universally agree which texts are authentic and holy and which are heretical frauds. The
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by slapfrog 5y ago
The whole of Revelations is certainly odd, but that doesn't stop a whole lot of people from finding some interpretation of it they can believe in. That some people might interpret it to be a warning against biometrics doesn't str
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by slapfrog 5y ago
To test it as you suggest, you'd have to build the full containment building, which are built as domes. That dome structure should lend itself to exploiting concrete's compressive strength and minimize tensile forces. They are a
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by slapfrog 5y ago
https://www.imdb.com/interfaces/ > Subsets of IMDb data are available for access to customers for personal and non-commercial use. You can hold local copies of this data, and it is subject to our terms and conditio
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by slapfrog 5y ago
Or the elderly would wander off on their own to die, after they perceived themselves to be a burden.
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by slapfrog 5y ago
This video shows an F-4 Phantom being slammed into a concrete wall using a rocket sled: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4wDqSnBJ-k At about 2 minutes in they show the aftermath. The plane is just gone , while the wall
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by slapfrog 5y ago
> Lots of people were sending white powder to official addresses. It turned out that anthrax came from a government lab, and was supposedly sent by a single rogue employee... though doubts linger. There were some hoaxes and bogus scare
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by slapfrog 5y ago
I would hope so. On the other hand, if 9 of 10 people on your team opt to leave the state and you're the one who conspicuously doesn't, maybe your choice will be perceived differently. I would hate to find myself in that sort of
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by slapfrog 5y ago
If a salesforce employee opts to stay in Texas, I wonder if that will be taken as an expression of support for the law and negatively impact their career. Edit: I didn't expect this comment to be controversial, and I'm not sure wh
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by slapfrog 5y ago
Possession is 9/10th of the law? They already have them, making it easy for them to keep them.
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by slapfrog 5y ago
It's a dry climate and aluminum doesn't just rot. It would obviously take some money and work to bring planes out of mothballs, and probably in some cases unrepairable damage would be discovered, but I would expect most of the pl
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by slapfrog 5y ago
I'm pointing out a false dichotomy, why do we have to "pick our poison"? Can you explain why I should pick one? I don't want to take any poison. I want free speech and I want universal healthcare. I don't want
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by slapfrog 5y ago
Lots of industries/companies are required law to maintain records of what they do. If such requirements were imposed on media companies, it could be done by archiving source material and using nondestructive editing software that save
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by slapfrog 5y ago
Why do you think either necessarily requires the other, in either circumstance?
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by slapfrog 5y ago
I suggest you read the article you linked carefully. Follow the links to the articles of each of the constituent programs, and read those articles carefully with a critical eye. Pay particular attention to the number of interceptors tho
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by slapfrog 5y ago
Calling the whole computer "the CPU" was very common in the 90s. I believe the author of the article deliberately misused the term to invoke 90s vibes and moods. Edit: Also common at the time was calling monitors "the comput
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by slapfrog 5y ago
> If a cop asks you to stop and the only thing that makes you stop is the threat of violence I would seriously rethink who I am and my values. People who deliberately speed don't accept speeding tickets out of civic duty. If yo
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by slapfrog 5y ago
> Even moderately successful YouTubers rely on sponsorship and because there's competition for creators between platforms The fact that you call them "Youtubers" , identifying them using the trademark of one particular
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by slapfrog 5y ago
> Spam is something nobody wants. Spam is something the recipient doesn't want. What is or isn't spam is subjectively determined by each individual recipient. If spam were strictly determined by what nobody wants, requ
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by slapfrog 5y ago
Even if I were to assume that all police officers are perfectly honest and reasonable, virtually anybody who is choosing to break the law would also choose to not voluntarily subject themselves to the consequences. Nobody chooses to s
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by slapfrog 5y ago
> Not that you might wake up tomorrow to a towed car, a summons nailed to your door and a jail term? Both enforced through the implicit threat of violence... What happens if I ignore a court summons? Eventually the cops will find me an
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by slapfrog 5y ago
If people thought the reward for talking to a firefighter was a hundred dollar fine, they wouldn't be so willing to casually chat with firefighters either.
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by slapfrog 5y ago
If I choose to drive 80mph in a 60mph zone, I am also going to choose not to voluntarily stop to receive a fine for it. I don't believe the average European is any different. The implicit threat of violence in Europe might be more te
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by slapfrog 5y ago
Dorner himself doesn't get much sympathy (he murdered people who weren't police, despite having grievance with the police.) But the exact circumstances of his death are probably worthy of examination, since it seems the police opt
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by slapfrog 5y ago
If there were no implicit threat of violence, I (and most other people I think) would never stop for a cop in the first place, let alone utter a word to one.
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by slapfrog 5y ago
The last time I read your account of this incident, you left this part out: "I was yelling at him quite a bit" I can certainly sympathize with that reaction, most traffic stops are chickenshit and to be interrupted with that non
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by slapfrog 5y ago
It won't be over until we stop caring, accept the risk, and move on with our statistically slightly shorter lives.
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by slapfrog 5y ago
Why stop there? Instead of getting pesky warrants to search apartments, the government could just contract the landlord to do the search for them. After all, the landlord owns the property and ownership trumps every other consideration i
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by slapfrog 5y ago
Chasing photorealism in games seems misguided to me; you have to spend much more money on artists. And at the end of the day, photorealism won't make a bad game into a good game; so that money is better spent on other aspects of th

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