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by ugh 15y ago
That’s complete and utter bullshit. Stuff like that used to happen (the dark late 90s and early 2000s) but not anymore. And even during that time (which was during my childhood) I always found a cool new way to use the special pieces. I act
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by ugh 15y ago
This is not a new development. Lego has had sets loudly targeting girls (or better: stereotypes about girls) since 1991. Lego Paradisa set where sold all through the 90s. Here is the Poolside Paradiese from 1992: http://www.brickset.com/de
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by ugh 15y ago
I think with autonomous cars it’s even easier to just split liability 50:50 (or any other way) when there is doubt about the cause. That already happens now, and if there are no egos but only machines involved I’m guessing it’s even easier.
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by ugh 15y ago
Is that actually the case? In Germany you are always liable for all damage your car does, no matter whether it is caused by your own mistakes or because of a technical failure. This might not seem fair but the second piece to this puzzle is
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by ugh 15y ago
The visualization successfully captures two important aspects. That’s actually pretty damn good for a visualization, I think. It’s ok to simplify and the visualization isn’t even lying about what it is: Everyone can plainly hear that the mu
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by ugh 15y ago
I think ridicule is perfectly appropriate once the beliefs you are talking about get batshit insane. Ridicule is a powerful tool, not so much to convince those who already believe, rather to convince those thinking about believing or on the
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by ugh 15y ago
I have heard that Russia has serious engineering problems with their space program because they neglected it after the end of communism for more than one decade. They now have a lot of really old engineers who are going into retirement and
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by ugh 15y ago
I know it's not as central to their business as flash memory, but as far as I know all their music software is still being developed in Germany. (Apple bought a German software company to get pro audio tools.)
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by ugh 15y ago
Only now? I have been critical of Android's responsiveness in the past (saying that I wanted to throw every Android phone I tried at the wall after a short time) but that's definitly no longer the case with the Galaxy Nexus. I just had a ch
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by ugh 15y ago
No, you can’t. Only AAC.
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by ugh 15y ago
Oh, I was not trying to make any value judgements. I just wanted to point out one possible reason for the controversy.
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by ugh 15y ago
One problem might be that many kids know their parents' password – they mght even be the ones who created the account for their parents.
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by ugh 15y ago
You are right. I’m sorry, I put that comment in the wrong context. But the App Stores allows you to install apps on as many Macs or iOS devices you want (as long as you own or control them) and it also allows for commercial use (also by com
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by ugh 15y ago
That’s some selective quoting right there. The terms for commercial use are right under what you are quoting and virtually identical to the terms for non-commercial use. See also my other comment where I still assumed that you made a mistak
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by ugh 15y ago
You seem to be quoting the terms for the iTunes Store. The terms are confusing (because they throw all their various Stores and their different terms in one long document), so quoting the wrong part of the terms is hardly your fault. The Ma
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by ugh 15y ago
It’s not complicate compared to copyright and people understand it.
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by ugh 15y ago
I think you are generalizing a bit too much. Yes, the details are always complicated, but that’s not the problem. People do understand the broad strokes of the laws against killing people or stealing. People do not understand what the basic
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by ugh 15y ago
Exactly. Copyright used to be something that concerned companies or professional creators of content. Normal people didn’t have to deal with it. It just never happened. (I’m guessing that’s one of the reasons why copyright law is so complic
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by ugh 15y ago
… and those rules are quite often not strictly enforced. It’s usually no problem for anyone to walk right in and start reading books. As long as you behave appropriately for a library it’s no problem.
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by ugh 15y ago
Processing cycles? Really?! I think I last heard that argument in 2000. Wow, backwards luddites still going strong, eh?
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by ugh 15y ago
But was there a DMCA takedown?
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by ugh 15y ago
I’m guessing that depends on the kind of agreement Universal has with Google. Google can allow Universal to do whatever they want, there don’t have to be any takedown requests involved anywhere in this story. Maybe Universal merely broke th
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by ugh 15y ago
My point is that retail won’t be doing that much better if Amazon has to pay VAT. An example for this are countries where Amazon already has to pay VAT and retail isn’t doing that much better.
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by ugh 15y ago
Well, then you should actually use Windows 7 and report back. It’s awesome.
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by ugh 15y ago
Finding a way to start work without immediately hitting barriers was so important while writing my bachelor thesis. I now sort of whish I had known about your tip earlier, that seems easier than having to actively search for a simple way to
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by ugh 15y ago
Switching Windows 7 to the classic theme is not fleeing condescension, it’s nostalgia and has little to do with the topic at hand.
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by ugh 15y ago
Do you really think that matters? Amazon seems to be doing really well (and retailers not so much) even in countries where all retailers have to collect VAT (like Germany). Online shopping is just more convenient and gives the buyer much mo
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by ugh 15y ago
Why do people always say that like it’s a solution? The problem is too big for a single person to solve.
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by ugh 15y ago
Micro SD cards have that effect on me. You can actually buy them and they are already unbelievably small. Even crazier: My cheap $100 dumbphone came with one of those cards and I didn’t even know about it. In today’s world stuff like that i
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by ugh 15y ago
Oh, their methods are quite good most of the time. The point is much rather that we know so much about how things move that if all you wanted to do, was find out whether it’s possible to bend bullets you likely wouldn’t do an experiment but

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