talmand

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by talmand 9y ago
I think bigger, what percentage of workers in all industries throughout the world are covert government agents of one form or another. Not just US on top of that. I'm willing to bet it's much higher than one would think.
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by talmand 9y ago
I remember there was an effort to get related tech sites and blogs to reference MDN over W3Schools to attempt to get it higher in the search results.
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by talmand 9y ago
Sure, you can do that. Serve a JS file that happens to create the HTML on the fly that someone had to code beforehand. Serving just a JS file that outputs HTML is still using markup.
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by talmand 9y ago
Possibly makes it easier for them to defend their delusions and deceptions as well.
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by talmand 9y ago
Would not a discussion over Obama's possible involvement in the problem possibly bring such a thing to light? Is "he might have been blackmailed" a reason for everybody else to not discuss something?
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by talmand 9y ago
So, since the experience is bad it invalidates the information provided? Most information from the government comes to us in the form of simple documents, I guess we ignore that information as well?
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by talmand 9y ago
Except now we'll have two executive branches with even more power that will secretly agree to work together against the other branches.
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by talmand 9y ago
At least a sternly worded letter that'll go in their folder at the minimum.
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by talmand 9y ago
Maybe because the title and bulk of the article directly attributes the problems discussed to Obama and his administration? That the ability to abuse such things was made easier during his term? The problem may be bigger than any one person
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by talmand 9y ago
That's strange, I still use markup every day in the current year. To add to the strangeness, every website I inspect with browser tools shows me it has HTML. Are all websites from the 90's?
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by talmand 9y ago
I'm willing to bet some, if not most, of the worst leaders in history were highly educated. Being educated doesn't make you a good person.
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by talmand 9y ago
Yes, it's a tough one. I consider many different ways of possibly dealing with it. I start with the notion that no matter how well a system is designed, it will eventually fall apart and requires a reboot. Sometimes actions prolong the
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by talmand 9y ago
I don't fully agree with everything you say, but it's close enough along the lines of what I'm saying that I can't disagree with it either. It's a complicated thing with a huge gray area surrounding it, there's
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by talmand 9y ago
It would be difficult to nail down, simply because it's not a across the board change that happened overnight. There have been various encroachments on our liberty and property rights over decades. Simple examples: police confiscating
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by talmand 9y ago
Please note that Fincher disowned the movie and walked away due to his claim of studio interference. He wasn't involved in the final production of the film. I haven't seen it in a while but I believe Fincher's name is not in
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by talmand 9y ago
Depends on the item in question; sometimes mere possession of an item, even if obtained legally, can be illegal.
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by talmand 9y ago
Why start at 2.5%? Let's go ahead and get down that slippery slope to start taking people's money at around a 90% rate.
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by talmand 9y ago
>> In the the states, I feel there is still the idea of property as a basis for freedom. This doesn't exist in the US anymore, maybe for a long time. People think it does, but it does not. >> "Negative freedom" -
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by talmand 9y ago
Why stop with right to Internet? Why don't we just stop this silly game and declare that everyone has a right to anything that they could possibly want? Someone creates a technology in the future that may help people's lives in so
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by talmand 9y ago
Much of what I read in the article about what he wrote reminds me heavily of Alien: Resurrection.
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by talmand 9y ago
I feel the same way about cars. I mean, I admit I don't maintain my car properly nor drive it correctly, but the fact it keeps breaking down on me proves that cars suck in general.
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by talmand 9y ago
There are negatives in creating a situation where people that normally would talk to you without you jumping through hoops stop talking to you willingly and require you to jump through hoops. Especially when the eventual new prosecutor wond
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by talmand 9y ago
Never mind the fact calling an undocumented API within your app could lead to really bad things for the user.
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by talmand 9y ago
Even your mac will say 10 if you get to speak out Mac OS X. But I have had many a people insist it was not pronounced as Mac OS 10, but as Mac OS X. I could understand the confusion.
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by talmand 9y ago
My manager is over three teams. Each team has around ten developers. We all can't be promoted to manager "if" he leaves.
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by talmand 9y ago
Yes indeed. There are many. I would even guestimate that most of them are honest.
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by talmand 9y ago
I have no problem with this as long as the company is being honest with what they're doing and why.
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by talmand 9y ago
If you use your main card at a major retail store it has just as much chance of being involved in a hacking incident as the online card.
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by talmand 10y ago
I played the first Zelda as a kid. I'm playing the latest Zelda as an adult that has three children. I'm talking over thirty years of video game playing. It is one of the best games I have ever played.
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by talmand 10y ago
>> they just have different strengths and weaknesses and you need to match the best person to the job No need to say more.

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