steanne

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451.
by steanne 12y ago
debian is switching to systemd. the only big holdout i've heard of besides slackware is gentoo.
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by steanne 12y ago
apple has specifically advertised the iphone as fitting in a pocket. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxtyxCAxGNE
453.
by steanne 12y ago
i did read it. ...and several other of her books. good stories, but that's all.
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by steanne 12y ago
their crusade is going less well than you fear: i'd never heard of it until this thread.
455.
by steanne 12y ago
not only stupid from an illegal point of view and from an offending-his-own-employees point of view, but if his talk convinces many other companies to do the same thing, he loses that competitive advantage.
456.
by steanne 12y ago
that seems like a hard thing to prove in individual cases (without some sort of collusion).
457.
by steanne 12y ago
oh, I understand that. ...but saying it's due to the hate crime law is not the same thing as using that law as an excuse. My point is that it's being misused, not denying that it happens.
458.
by steanne 12y ago
hate crime laws don't apply to every attack upon someone of a different color. they only apply if the attack is BECAUSE of the victim's color. if you're attacking the other guy because he goosed your sister, it's not a
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by steanne 12y ago
owners often have outside financing they have to spend on the project or lose. they'll use that money to upgrade something else. ideally it would mean something to boost their standing in the community, like more public art or bike r
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by steanne 12y ago
i work for a big cm and our use of airplane photography has plummeted in the last few years: not because of drones (yet), but because google earth is good enough for a good portion of our needs.
461.
by steanne 12y ago
erm.. northern ireland?
462.
by steanne 12y ago
i learned of hn through the shared posts on newblur, which means there's at least two of us using it.
463.
by steanne 12y ago
path please? i cannae find it.
464.
by steanne 12y ago
https://www.respectnetwork.com/ doesn't have much traction yet.
465.
by steanne 12y ago
original link: http://humoncomics.com/mother-gaia the image you posted has a footer atribution that has nothing to do with the comic.
466.
by steanne 12y ago
i spent my early years in a little mountainous valley in virginia where, each week, the mother of the family across they way would take her eggs to the local post office/general store, sell her eggs for the week, and then buy eggs. sh
467.
by steanne 12y ago
this is why i browse with js disabled by default. i can enable what i need, but that's a small percentage of what's out there.
468.
by steanne 12y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8065207 ?
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by steanne 12y ago
it may already be too late for your city. often when cable companies wire up a town, they offer free access to gov and school buildings in return for exclusive development rights. no one can compete with them, including the town itself.
470.
by steanne 12y ago
that word predates card's usage; i think it was le guin. ..but yes, i do the same thing every time there's a heading that mentions it.
471.
by steanne 12y ago
i worry that this is only applicable to one map projection. (the map is not the territory.)
472.
by steanne 12y ago
hackysack? theremin?
473.
by steanne 12y ago
"The City of Philadelphia is offering a new tax relief program for homeowners called the Homestead Exemption, which will reduce the taxable assessed value used for calculation of homeowners’ Real Estate Tax bills by $30,000 (exemption
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by steanne 12y ago
Subject: Important Announcement about SpamCop Email Service Changes - Action Required Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2014 21:46:21 -0400 (EDT) From: SpamCop Email <questions@spamcop.net> To: undisclosed-recipients:; First of all, thank you for usi
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476.
by steanne 12y ago
there's nothing stopping him and any other rich person he can convince to make that kind of contribution to the public debt right now. https://www.pay.gov/public/form/start/23779454/
477.
by steanne 12y ago
... and a few more mentioned here: http://www.republicreport.org/2012/marijuana-lobby-illegal/
478.
by steanne 12y ago
if they live. http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/nov/22/moritz-erhar...
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by steanne 12y ago
the free software foundation lists exactly one laptop that gets their 'respects your freedom' cert. http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/respects-your-fr...
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by steanne 12y ago
there's a bunch of sources nowadays. http://linuxpreloaded.com/

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