westicle

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by westicle 14y ago
Presumably by "all" you mean everyone except the poster who specifically asked for this post? I agree the post is hardly relevant to the discussion, but for some reason the user posting actual content gets downvoted to oblivion while the us
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by westicle 14y ago
A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?
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by westicle 14y ago
Something Australian gamers have been waiting a long time for. Interestingly, for years the government spin was "We can't allow people to sell R-rated games... think of the children!" Now all of a sudden the political winds have changed, an
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Australian gamers finally get R18+ classification(theage.com.au)
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by westicle 14y ago
As an Australian vegetarian I can recommend "marmite" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmite) as a good source of B12. It is perhaps ironic that marmite is also loaded with sodium. So... if we take this article at face value it's win/win!
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by westicle 14y ago
At the risk of being slightly off-topic, I had a recent personal experience with a groupon clone (lets call it deals dot com dot au, or "the site" for the sake of this story) which might be of interest. I purchased four service-based "deals
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by westicle 14y ago
If the majority of children being born are minorities, then logically all children being born are minorities. Mind bending!
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by westicle 14y ago
I feel a no true scotsman coming on, but are those people actually cool? Or are they just posers? I read the advice not as "spend time with people who have a well engineered social image" but "spend time with people who are genuinely more i
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by westicle 14y ago
This may be a case of the exception proving the rule but... "The enemy's gate is down" is fairly quotable and has appeared both in http://xkcd.com/241/ and in HPMOR (Chapter 33 from memory...)
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by westicle 14y ago
Although nothing preventing Google from releasing a statement saying they decided not to buy Groupon. If the story is true, it seems very strange that they wouldn't set the record straight (obviously without breaching any confidences or dis
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by westicle 14y ago
I'm going to assume kangaroos have psychokinetic powers and are secretly plotting to take over the world. I have not heard any evidence for anything else. Surely it is up to you to disprove my theory if you don't think it is correct.
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by westicle 14y ago
Clever lobbyists. Even they can see that prosecuting a 92 year old veteran for supporting troops would hasten the end of a dying industry. Pure politics.
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by westicle 14y ago
Without wanting to sidetrack the thread from the real issue of CISPA, I have to take issue with the quality of reporting. "Many have found the bill to be troublesome, given that, in their estimation, its language was too broad to be safe. A
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by westicle 14y ago
What about personal responsibility? The answer to "society hasn't provided me with a convenient way to get around without a significant risk of killing someone" is not "oh wells! bad luck pedestrians!" Where it comes to a situation where th
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by westicle 14y ago
Very interesting story - hard to comprehend how frustrating it must be having lived somewhere most of your life without being formally "accepted". "I can speak out against the government, if need be, without fear of being prosecuted, impris
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by westicle 15y ago
A sworn affidavit is made under penalty of perjury. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affidavit A bit more administrative hassle, but the concept should be sound.
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by westicle 15y ago
Because of the billions of other google users that might want to access .au domains. If google won't index it, you can bet Bing will capitalise.
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by westicle 15y ago
I didn't downvote, but does overlaying italics on a quote really contribute much to the discussion? I concede that the GP's multiple basic English errors don't reflect too well on the supposed benefits of an ivy-league education though.
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by westicle 15y ago
Out of interest - why do you consider it more unethical to spy on people from one arbitrary geographical area as opposed to people from another? What if they agree not to spy on anyone from Utah and only spy on those suspicious people from
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by westicle 15y ago
There is a common law defence (known as the "proudman and dayman defence") which can be summarised as having an honest an reasonable belief in a state of FACTS which, if true, would make the act legal. Note that ignorance of the law is no d
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by westicle 15y ago
Depends on the reasons they have for being vegetarian I suspect.
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by westicle 15y ago
I've never understood why coffee is considered such a draw-card. The local church embroidery group offers free coffee but i'm still not a regular attendee. Give me a library that has beer on tap any day.
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by westicle 15y ago
Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, teach a man to fish for himself and he'll have fish for the rest of his life. There is a time and a place for asking questions, and if you regularly need to ask questions to which you can easily fi
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by westicle 15y ago
Even if it does not promote the progress of science or the useful arts? On what basis then should it be copyrightable?
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by westicle 15y ago
The mentioned article provides some figures: http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/12/28/the-perils-of-drunk-w...
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by westicle 15y ago
Dotcom is being extradited for, inter alia, copyright crimes. While reading the article, did anyone else wonder whether Ars got the permission of the rightsholders to the images hosted on kimble.com? Maybe Kim should commence proceedings to
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by westicle 15y ago
Pretty un-pc in english as well. Historically mong is an abbreviation of mongoloid, as in mongoloidism. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_syndrome )
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by westicle 15y ago
This type of comment is unlikely to be popular here, but I can't help but cringe when I read articles that disregard or make light of suffering in the name of progress. If I blogged about how I had started feeding my children a "diet design
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by westicle 15y ago
Whenever I read about Darwin I'm impressed by his commitment to a pretty disruptive idea in the face of substantial criticism. Also interesting that he (over)worked himself to the detriment of his health and relationships but left behind a
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by westicle 15y ago
This can backfire. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_dismissal

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