smallblacksun

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by smallblacksun 15y ago
or "messed"?
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by smallblacksun 15y ago
Actually, you can refer to a female deer as a "cow" (though "doe" is more common).
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by smallblacksun 15y ago
>Legal details aside, my question was more about whether it's morally right to sentence someone to eighteen years for the crimes described in the article? Posting child porn and death threats? Yeah, that's worth 18 years.
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by smallblacksun 15y ago
The NBAPA has had a Rookie Transition program which deals in large part with money management for the last 25 years. The NFLPA has a similar Rookie Symposium.
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by smallblacksun 15y ago
The best part is how he doesn't say that the programmer will get equity, but that if they hit it big, he will be the first employee.
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by smallblacksun 15y ago
California is claiming that by having affiliates who are physically located in California , Amazon does have a physical presence in the state. If Amazon ignores it (and doesn't cancel the affiliate program in California, as they have sai
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by smallblacksun 15y ago
Or they don't trust that DigitalOne (or some employees of DigitalOne) aren't collaborating with their target.
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by smallblacksun 15y ago
His argument is basically that all governments can become corrupted, so we should have no government. The first part of his argument is obviously true, but is far from sufficient justification for his conclusion. It completely ignores all
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by smallblacksun 15y ago
>unless they think someone at the colo is going to tip off the owners, That is exactly what they are worried about happening.
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by smallblacksun 15y ago
At least he has the decency to admit that pageviews are more important to him than integrity.
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by smallblacksun 15y ago
>but our conversations with the developers of the drivers in question make us confident that they’re as committed as us and Microsoft to a robust and secure experience for our shared users ATI and NVidia have never cared about driver st
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by smallblacksun 15y ago
On reddit that stat is inflated by each click taking so long to load. When I use reddit, I literally spend 30-40% of my time waiting for pages to load.
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by smallblacksun 15y ago
The title claims that it is a year of the moon, but the description says that the images are from 2011 - which isn't over yet. So is this a year of the moon, or six months?
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by smallblacksun 15y ago
If the US distributed these in Iran, the government there would probably consider anyone using them a US agent and arrest them.
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by smallblacksun 15y ago
It is illegal to gamble in the physical world in most of the US (with some very conspicuous exceptions - horse racing, Indian tribe-run casinos and state-run lotteries).
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by smallblacksun 15y ago
Few M1s have been destroyed or badly damaged by insurgents in Iraq. Their use has declined since the invasion not because they are too vulnerable, but because they are less useful without enemy tanks to engage and using them against infant
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by smallblacksun 15y ago
The problem was that until WWII-era bombers, airplanes couldn't deliver ordnance with enough accuracy to actually hit enemy ships reliably.
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by smallblacksun 15y ago
An actual IBM-PC could reliably be rebooted using the keyboard controller (as mentioned in the article). The issues come with IBM-PC "compatible" machines. I'm sure commodore would have the same problem if anyone had bothered to clone the
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by smallblacksun 15y ago
Lawyers are the same way. They either charge normal rates or work pro-bono. They almost never work for a reduced rate.
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by smallblacksun 15y ago
As linked in another reply, the law deals with coins "of gold or silver or other metal".
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by smallblacksun 16y ago
"// "Polynomial-time" means it returns "yes" in polynomial time when // the answer should be "yes", and runs forever when it is "no"." That's an odd definition of polynomial time.
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by smallblacksun 16y ago
Plus alimony for the rest of their life?
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by smallblacksun 16y ago
Stereotypes exist for a reason.
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by smallblacksun 16y ago
>And gas is cheap enough (relative to the rest of the world) that it's cost effective to rely on trucks and airplanes to move merchandise. The US has one of the largest, most used freight rail systems in the world (both overall and per
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by smallblacksun 16y ago
Conveniently, the USAF also has a lot of anti-radiation missiles that are very good at eliminating jamming sources.
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by smallblacksun 16y ago
One time pads are not useful in many cases, but they have been used: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad#Historical_uses
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by smallblacksun 16y ago
That looks nothing like any military logo I've ever seen. Is there some logo in particular it reminds you of?
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by smallblacksun 16y ago
Both Windows and OSX come with built in backup software, but no one can force the user to use them.
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by smallblacksun 16y ago
Google also has a whole team of people whose only job is to stop attacks.
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by smallblacksun 16y ago
I agree with most of your point, but have to quibble with the assertion that computers are not "better" at chess. Deep Blue was able to beat arguably the greatest chess player ever. Computer chess programs today are far stronger than Deep

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