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throwawayknecht
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throwawayknecht
9y ago
You're so wrong about this that an organization representing 36,000 Canadian lawyers took the time to write a letter explaining you're wrong. http://www.cba.org/CMSPages/GetFile.aspx?guid=be34d5a4-8850-...
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9y ago
> not NYT-standards behavior. Are you kidding? Spin the bit about the border-crossing fixer into a homily about capitalism, italicize a list of the meats you ate, and you've got a Friedman column.
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9y ago
> Jordan Peterson - a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto who ended up as the focal point of a discussion on the use of 'gender-neutral' pronouns due to his refusal to use what he described as politically-motiv
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throwawayknecht
9y ago
There was no evidence.
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throwawayknecht
9y ago
BIOS and firmware viruses have been explored for a long time. That alone is not "BadBIOS" which was a claim about an novel C&C (or if you're extremely paranoid, infection) mechanism using the PC speaker, and an unrealisti
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throwawayknecht
9y ago
Intel ME was widely known of before BadBIOS. BadBIOS is still nonsense.
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throwawayknecht
9y ago
The norms of what administrations do changes over time in part because what administrations need to do change over time. It's obviously not helpful to contrast George Washington's executive behavior with George Bush's. In par
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9y ago
It's definitive that Thiel put Harder on retainer with a mandate to find people interested in suing Gawker. When the Bollea case proved promising, that got further support. Regardless of whether Ayyadurai's cases got more support
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9y ago
> is there anyone who supports his claim other than him and his family? Is there anyone on his side? The law firm backing him is the one that seems to have been founded / bankrolled by Peter Thiel primarily for the purpose of suing
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9y ago
Reward card providers put cookie-matching code on their sites. If you log into to "check your points" or whatever, they send your reward ID to DMPs which you may already have cookies for, and those cookies in turn tie back to your
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9y ago
> increasing racism against Jews This is true. > Men usually wear a baseball-cap over the Kippah in public But this is right-wing bullshit. The rise in anti-Semitic crimes is used by Pegida to stir up fear of refugees, Muslims, and Is
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9y ago
The concrete claim by the parent is "nearly all of the racist scenarios were fabricated out of whole cloth." It's not a "discussion of what really happened," it's a flat-out attempt to minimize well-documented
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9y ago
Most if not all of the discriminatory events in the film happened, just not in the same order or to exactly the same people. The major scenes that were made up whole-cloth were the ones with white people being anti-racist. You're twist
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Aside from the obvious answer that the current US president is one of the most openly racist in the past 40 years, there's a strong indication that white presidents fail to award black achievement, especially by women. Otherwise she wo
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Trump pardoned someone who bragged about his self-described "concentration camps" and policing practices targeting people of Latin American descent, then bragged about how he wasn't going to listen to judges who told him to
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9y ago
> Why stop at a nice looking HQ, why not create Castalia? Castalia was an isolationist academy where young men spent all their time studying glass toys they falsely believed modeled all art and history, while the rest of the world slowly