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by tdavis 17y ago
So because it is difficult and fraught with past failure, we shouldn't do it? I don't really see how anybody could pose a logical argument for allowing a terrorist government to control a country. We already completely dropped the ball on A
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This viewpoint is very analogous to the Big Co. obsession with quarterly numbers. How many companies have screwed themselves by failing to look past next month's bottom line? Having a highly strategic location like Afghanistan controlled by
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More feasible than flybys? Certainly. Good enough for now? It will be, when my friends stop getting blown up.
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by tdavis 17y ago
Snipt.net is the one I use and it keeps me coming back because it allows me to have my own personal snippets (which can be either public or private). Perhaps you should let people register and do the same (or "flag this revision for me" if
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by tdavis 17y ago
The problem is hardly solved. * Each jammer is different and caters to a specific type of detonator, or group of detonators. * Effective ranges aren't large enough. * Lack of proper training for soldiers means most have no idea if the jammi
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by tdavis 17y ago
I'm the same way (and I used to hate morning). I'm not sure if it's a product of it being quieter in the early morning when I first wake up (as opposed to at noon), the fact that recently I've been alone in the "office" for most of the da
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by tdavis 17y ago
Summary: Back in my day, we had to walk up hill both ways, in the snow to have an affair.
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by tdavis 17y ago
Well, you could have tried. I don't see how one could express disagreement regarding the education of people, such that they realize we are not all-powerful being destined to control every aspect of the Universe.
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I wouldn't call it "great"; the writing was rather pedestrian. Another inspiring story, nonetheless! All I really have at this point is, "must be nice".
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@flamewhale fuck you retard... are you a 4chan member? The irony is delicious!
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Big armies can also instill good values, teach useful skills, help pay for education, show you the world (parts of it anyway), and provide some pretty unique perspective on things (like war). I pretty much feel that military service should
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by tdavis 17y ago
It truly has become tiring. I already pay $96/mo for what amounts to a data plan, considering I almost never talk on the phone. And now they want another $55/mo to give me the luxury of maybe getting my money's worth (in some Universe)? E
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by tdavis 17y ago
I don't know if you'd want the kind of publicity I'd be selling; each email would start with "Dear lazy buffoon" and only go downhill from there ;)
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At first I thought they were trying to be ironic. But they keep it at such a level that I think they're being serious. In which case, I'd definitely run.
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by tdavis 17y ago
I have no idea why I would "surely" mean that. Is "32-bit RGBA PNG" a synonym for "24-bit PNG with Alpha Transparency"? If so, I suppose I could have been more explicit, though I've never once seen such images referred to as that.
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by tdavis 17y ago
CSS sprites are stupid. So stupid, in fact, that I refuse to use them. It wouldn't be such a big deal, I suppose, if IE6 supported proper transparency. But as it stands, I still cannot, in 2009 , safely use a 24-bit PNG for my CSS sprite
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by tdavis 17y ago
Agreed; I would definitely get rid of that part. Zen isn't so much about crushing others. I feel like it should be a requirement to study a philosophy before using it to promote a product. Edit: Signed up; looked around; certainly appears t
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by tdavis 17y ago
It is astonishing how few people I take seriously anymore, precisely because of this. Most blog posts I read now seem to have a blatant typo in the first paragraph, if not first sentence. It's profoundly irritating. If I can read my drafts
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by tdavis 17y ago
My favorite method to prevent brute force attacks is to disable password-based logins all together.
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by tdavis 17y ago
I'd say about 95% of the tweets I receive annoy me. Anything automated (I just did X at Y.com), location information (I don't give a fuck where you are right now), requests for RT, unnecessary high volume from a specific user... Basically,
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by tdavis 17y ago
Here's mine: Double it, add another unit up. So, two days becomes four days + 1 week = 11 days. I've found this (depressingly) accurate over a large sample size. The only problem is, for each new task, I refuse to accept that such a "ridicu
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by tdavis 17y ago
How convenient this comic now exists to help me laugh at all these sorts of ridiculous thought processes: http://xkcd.com/605/ Sadly, there are lots of people who probably think exactly like that, and in a serious fashion.
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Perhaps when your entire community has only been around for a few years it is natural for it to suffer from drastic nearsightedness? Even if every major ASF project currently "sucks" (which is debatable, but whatever, I'll concede it), you
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Same, plus two Windows VMs for IE testing (not nearly used every day, thank god)
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by tdavis 17y ago
The tech industry is really passive-aggressive. Angry diatribes, pizza theft, blog posts... if some guy dumped beer all over my laptop on purpose I'd just put him on the floor, like a normal person. Limewire profits from other people sharin
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by tdavis 17y ago
I had a love/hate relationship with Vimperator. I loved using it, but it kept crashing Firefox, so I could not longer use it, which made me hate it.
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The irony is he tries to make a Zen point by saying "people are doing X too often" or "people are doing X wrong" which is entirely impossible, of course, because people can't do anything "too often" or "wrong". They're already doing precise
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by tdavis 17y ago
Heh, you're missing the point. There is no difference between "the dishes" and "really living". To suggest otherwise would be to suggest you don't control everything the dishes are and aren't. Which would be silly.
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by tdavis 17y ago
You say it's all a matter of perspective, yet you worry about "amounting to something"? You look forward and "hope" for a better reality? These are contradictory notions. When you "hope for a better reality" you suggest that reality is some
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Consultant spam. Apparently a "Web 2.0 Page" is also known as a "blog".

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